📍East of England
❤️ Interested in films, current affairs, innovation in renewables, technology + data including governance, software design and random amusing observations.
🏢 Infra/network design, solution design + programming, SAAS.
✅ Open standards, interoperability, open source software.
| Gen | X |
The fantastic bouncing bass strings of Peter Buck here in Driver 8 by R.E.M., starting around 1'40", partner sublimely with Michael Stipe's vocal. Deserves better than a phone speaker!
12:57 a shrewd reader looked up the East Anglia bylines home page and made history for us. Congratulations to that unknown seeker after wisdom -- our millionth reader!
-- Anna Damski on how we got here, and what could be in citizen journalism for you
It's Friday, Friday, gonna post Thunderbird for Android updates on Friday! 🎤 📱
Our September monthly report highlights recent developments, including account setup improvements, pesky bug fixes, and of course, our community contributions. And for an extra Friday feel, there's a bonus Canadian vacay pic! 🇨🇦📸
Once in a while someone says to me “are you on Instagram” and I reply yes, but I am seldom there.
And then log in.
And am repulsed by it all over again.
My feed is so full of ads and irrelevant stuff the algorithm promotes, and pretty much *no* interesting content from people I follow.
We are so incredibly fortunate to have the long threads of the amazing Cory Doctorow @pluralistic here on Mastodon.
Today, what you might not have considered about that cool internet connected thing you just got... They can turn it off, aka "brick you" anytime they want.
Attached: 1 image If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with #IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23931463/ifttt-amazon-alexa-applets-ending-support-integration-automation If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/26/hit-with-a-brick/#graceful-failure 1/
East Anglia Bylines
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Jon Worth
Mastodon Migration
Rockabilly