What We Leave Behind

Researchers recently discovered a 67,800 year-old piece of cave art in Indonesia which predates humans' migration to the European continent. My first reaction upon learning of this was of awe. Imagining early humans trekking across the globe, the vast unknown before them, is incredible. This discovery provides us with greater insight into human history, and how we came to occupy every corner of the planet. [...]

https://koolaidwithkaran.com/what-we-leave-behind

I will note that one of the real unanticipated joys I've had from using my #Commodore64 ultimate has been:

- Not being prompted for whether I want to use some sort of Cloud storage, and
- Not being prompted to enable some AI functionality

This is not something we should need to go back to 8-bit computing to achieve.

Dear FOSS maintainers,

here’s a list of funding programs currently accepting proposals for maintenance work:

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

GitHub: https://github.com/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource it! I’ll keep it updated, issues and PRs are very welcome :)

#opensource #funding #maintenance #foss

Looks like we'll have to work a bit faster on the massive audio/video call and Spaces features 👀

https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

#xmpp #movim #release #feature

Calling people who write their own #websites by hand, or appreciate those who do!

Do you have a favourite #links page style? It's been ages since I've composed a website manually. I'm avoiding CMS for now, just doing it the hard way with #html and #css, but want to make an attractive table of links to other sites, and a bit of blurb about them.

Seeking minimalist style and maximum #accessibility .

Thanky'all

#indieweb

We're celebrating 11 years on the web, with a sale on our Pro plan that will last you for the next half-decade, and a discount on our @writefreely iOS app!

Read all about it on our @deals newsletter: https://write.as/deals/celebrating-11-years-on-the-web

#WriteAs #WriteFreely #sale

#lowtech #permacomputing

Wrote a blog post about the Kindle Wall Display I hacked together!

https://ragman.net/musings/kindle-display/

In it I go over:

* why I think making stuff out of old tech is one of the coolest things techies can be doing right now

* how and why we should all jailbreak our kindles

* the nuts and bolts (bits and bytes?) of how I made it

Hope you enjoy!

Today is the 10th anniversary of Liberapay's launch!

In its first decade, Liberapay processed donations worth a total of around 5 million euros, from more than 40k donors in more than 110 countries to more than 3500 recipients in more than 80 countries.

Thank you all.

To keep making the world a better place, everyone who uses Liberapay to collect donations, including Liberapay itself, needs *your* support. Browse the website. Donate if you can. Spread the word.

→ https://liberapay.com/

11 Years of Writing

Today, February 2, marks 11 years since we officially launched Write.as! What started as a minimal, anonymous article publishing platform in 2015 has since grown into an ecosystem of apps, a community of writers, and an open source platform called WriteFreely powering it all.

To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16th, we're having a sale on our long-term, 5-year Pro plan, and iOS app. You can read all about it on our Write.as Deals newsletter.

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https://write.as/blog/11-years-of-writing

Just a reminder! If you are looking RSS starter packs, The RSS Review has downloadable OPML files for each category. They can be imported directly into your feed reader to subscribe to the entire category at once.

https://the-rss-review.surge.sh/

If you want to add a feed or feed category, then post it in the comments.

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