social.cloudless.world

Watch this delightful talk on the importance of actually measuring the energy use of your code (and systems), recently held by @bert_hubert!

https://youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?si=VzsDXahTg8a9zv0g&t=286

Is it possible that there are millions becoming men without a country? Men who are increasingly removed from the sources of power? Men who have fewer and fewer ideas available to them, and fewer and fewer ways of expressing themselves meaningfully and effectively? Might the frustration thus engendered be one of the causes of the increasing use of violence as a form of statement?

– Neil Postman, Teaching As A Subversive Activity (1969)

Seems like every other domain registrar has been bought up by equity funds the last few years.

I need recommendations for trusworthy registrars that has proven that they do not want to sell out and that offers the .no TLD.

Bonus points if it is a Norwegian company, but I have kind of given up and am willing to setle for an European registrar.

@briar I read about the limitations of iOS that have hindered development of an iOS app, but is there hope now that the AltStore is a thing?

https://altstore.io/

I have gotten requests from my family to find ways of communicating if SHTF, but many if them have iPhones 😐

YES! @w3c has resolved to adopt the proposal for native CSS Mixins/Functions! A big thanks to @mia and everyone involved, I'm looking forward to the day when I can ditch the utility classes littering my markup!

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment-1939628591

@P_Kallioniemi hey, I can't read your threads on X/Twitter for some reason, it would make me really happy if you published your threads here too, so it would be possible to share links that are open and accessible for all, not just for X-users!

Did you know that ~20% of Denmarks total electricity production is consumed by datacenters? The same is true for Ireland.

I didn't know. Know we know. Isn't that kinda insane?

Oh, and these datacenters also consume millions of liters of water every day. Like hundreds of millions of liters.

This is the price we pay for the surveillance capitalists to surveil us. Gmail isn't free.

When you give your child a phone, you're not just giving them access to the internet and the whole world. You're giving the internet and the whole world access to your child.

Quote by youtube user "goodluck2522", under episode 2121 of #JRE with Jonatahn Haidt

Technofeudalism. Rentseeking. Exploitation. Varoufakis putts Surveillance Capitalism into perspective in this Wired article. @pluralistic calls it "cloud capital".

The world is toiling on the land of Meta and Google, trapped in their walled gardens, increasing their bottom line, one like, post and search at a time.

Braking free can be inconvenient, but when people start to realize the gravity of the situation, they might just take some action. I have seen it happening more and more lately, and not only among the techies!

Anyway, does #Varoufakis have an account in the fediverse? I could not find it 🙃

«One of the darkest possibilities facing us right now is that our phones may be like trojan horses invited into realms we may want protected from commodification.»

The War on Informality by Brett Scott
https://www.asomo.co/p/the-war-on-informality