Look up to the sky As a kid I often felt overwhelmed when looking at the stars. I could feel overwhelmed about how insignificant I was. That I didn’t matter. That all of us mankind didn’t matter. That all of us would be
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The Dutch national weather service published a very simple visual that underlines temperatures are rising. A colored bar code of average temperature per year, from 1901 to 2019. Climate bar code of The Netherlands, each bar representing average temperature in 1 year, starting
I woke up to a lot of missed calls from my brothers this morning. My father was taken to hospital. He has a weak heart and this morning, while sleeping, something triggered his heart to beat the wrong way and subsequently things got worse. He passed out. Then the ICD, implanted last year
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)I agree, it's definitely harder to contact people without Twitter. However, in the last year I didn't need to contact anyone (people as well as businesses) who had just an account on Twitter. And I think redacted information on WHOIS isn't a problem, because at least in Germany (where I live) an “...
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)🎉🎂 Happy 3rd birthday #Webmention! https://indieweb.org/Webmention @W3C Recommendation published 2017-01-12 with a still live robust test suite, Webmention has more interoperable implementations than any other federated peer-to-peer social web protocol, API, or standard, and continues growing ...
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)When I joined the Indieweb community in 2014, the first work I did was thinking about how to improve displaying webmentions. The specification was being developed and there were a lot of ideas floating around. The specification for Webmentions became a W3C recommendation three years ago, on January ...
bləʊk ʧeɪn Noun: any technology which attracts clueless men User Stories are great! A simplified snippet to help you understand the problem you're facing. There are, of course, a vanishingly small number of genuine use-cases for the Blockchain. So cryptobores have to resort to ever more baroque ...
Privacy for kids for free-thinking adults
Justin Myles Holmes (NuCypher)When discussions by or about young children take place in the clear, collected and indexed by Google and Facebook (and worse), we invite devastating attacks against their future ability to live as free thinking adults.
Very murican but his arguments look legit to me:
https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryption/
Hat tip @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
Hypolite Petovan (blog.mrpetovan.com)Project Hospital, released in 2018, finally tackles the herculean task to succeed to Theme Hospital in the niche genre of video game hospital management simulation. The secret? Going their own way instead of copying the original.
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)Although I unsubscribed from all YouTube channels and removed the app from my phone, I now try to consume videos in a more controlled way. I now subscribe to channels using my feed reader Miniflux. It seems like each YouTube channel has a channel ID, consisting of a random string, and an optional us...