Sam Schooler 

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Design-focused #frontend + mobile engineer. I care about #privacy, #ux, #outdoors, #transportation nerd and #decentralization.
Currently:
- Working out of endless coffee shops. Please send recs.
- Building lil apps. Mostly on Expo
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Never a dull moment in my old San Francisco neighborhood

Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

Ars Technica
Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂

@w7voa There’s an interesting article about how organized modern militaries don’t use chemical weapons anymore, not because of the Geneva convention, and the kindness of their heart. But because it doesn’t make sense, and alternative forms of attack are more efficient.

all this to say, this is a good step for the United States, but it’s not as important of news as the US is trying to make it out to be.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/

Collections: Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?

This week, we’re going to talk briefly about why ‘we’ – and by ‘we’ here, I mean the top-tier of modern militaries – have generally eschewed the systematic…

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
"I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition" in its #chemicalweapons stockpile. -- President Biden in a statement

Threads is looking better and better. What I wanted from social media was:

* self-promotion from celebrities and rich people

* no control over my timeline

* strict prohibition of any sexual content

* nothing from europe

* no alt-text

* data harvesting to empower genocides

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
Art Universe  •  Creative Astrophotography

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

We have an ask: help us make the Fediverse a place where activism can take place effectively and hold the city of LA accountable.