Mastodawn

heurekus Feb 22

Bruce Sterling @bruces Feb 22

*For what it is, it's pretty good. It probably needs a sequel that goes a thousand years into the future.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

heurekus Feb 3

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Feb 2

Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added. Unified chargers, free roaming, travel, study and work everywhere in the EU, simple bank transfers with SEPA and Wero. EU makes life better. It' definitely not GoodEnough™ in all parts.Work remains to be done. And that's worth doing!

Originally from a Facebook post by the EU Commission, ALT text added by me.

#ThanksEU

heurekus Feb 1

leyrer Jan 31

The Cosmic Odometer calculates how far you've traveled through space just by being alive. Even if you've never left Earth, you've orbited the sun, rotated with the planet, and embarked on both solar and galactic travel — all while sitting on your couch.
https://cosmic-odometer.vercel.app/

Cosmic Odometer

Calculate how far you have traveled through the universe since you were born.

heurekus Jan 13

ThinkPad-Museum Jan 13

Finally ordered the book "The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer" by Steve Hamm. It's dedicated to the #ThinkPad X300 - I'm thrilled!

#RetroComputing

heurekus Jan 11

h333d Jan 11

The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence.
I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No
"suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol.
Just my tools, sitting there, waiting.
We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it.
#digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree

heurekus Jan 4

Daniel Gultsch Jan 4

Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳

On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.

Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.

In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.

¹: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/01/04/1621211

#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay #JabberDay

Open Real Time Messaging System - Slashdot

Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc). Most of the initial design and protocol work is done, as well as a working server and a few test clients."...

heurekus Dec 30