SDS Server – Obsessed with the whole vibe of this indie web host from Strike Design Studio. “This internet box, hardware, or server and the site(s) stored within are physically hosted in my living room on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Yunohost.” Via Polina Lobanova
Author: Max
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The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means of Computation
by Cory Doctorow
buy from Verso Books
From the Publisher:
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech
When the tech platforms promised a future of “connection,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it’s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.
We can – we must – dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users to leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.
Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet. -
How It Is
How It Is – Sarah Thankam Matthews on authoritarianism, paying attention to the current moment, and the importance of reaching out to your representatives. “Without intervention our institutions will hollow out so that when we turn to them to catch us—in times of economic need, natural disaster, health vulnerability—more and more of us will fall through the cracks and into the depths of the American underclass.”
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Dither It!
Dither It! – A web application for creating dithered images, a way to reduce image file sizes that looks ~cool~.
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KidPix
KidPix.app – Vikrum Nijjar created a version of the 1989 drawing application Kid Pix that can be used in a browser window. Bringing back a lot of memories. Via The Verge
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Infinite Mac
Infinite Mac – A website that allows you to run any version of Mac OS from your web browser. Had some fun playing around with Sim City Classic and Claris Works.
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Soft Tech
Soft Tech – A poem/manifesto by Helena Jaramillo. “what if technology gave you space and time to think slowly, deeply, talk calmly, softly”
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An ‘Architectural Dream World’ Filled With Hundreds of Dollhouses
An ‘Architectural Dream World’ Filled With Hundreds of Dollhouses — I was so thrilled to see a space in my hometown of Buffalo, NY featured recently in T Magazine. Did not know about Dennis Maher’s work or his home and am so thrilled it exists. Excited to visit Assembly House, a museum/studio/trade workshop, on my next visit home.
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How does true reciprocity work?
How does true reciprocity work? – An interview with Fritz Haeg of Salmon Creek Farm on communal living and gardening as a radical act. From Dark Properties