Mastodawn

Started writing thoughts on how I got to where I am now (and feel in no way alone) - lost & defeated, having fought a rear-guard action for 30+ years to use the internet for good and forestall all the easily anticipatable. erosions of civil society.

Turns out I could just read the inadvertently-mis-filed-as-spam @pluralistic mailout from April 11's titled "Don't Be Evil"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/

Identify strongly with "Tron-pilled," less sure we'll build "a new, good, post-American internet"

Pluralistic: Don’t Be Evil (11 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

D. Schmudde 5h ago

An outsider's view of the ongoing fight in #Chicago

"Se le città sotto assedio sono diventate la scenografia perfetta della resistenza all’autoritarismo, nella provincia del Midwest – dove nemmeno l’Ice si addentra – la vita continua sui binari sonnolenti di una quotidianità indiscussa."

https://www.doppiozero.com/iii-luisanney-cinque-anni-in-carcere

III. Luisanney, cinque anni, in carcere | Linda Birke

Alle sei del mattino, Chicago sembra paralizzata dal ghiaccio. Dan spinge forte sui pedali, indossa un passamontagna e due paia di guanti. Ha un’ora di tempo per raggiungere tre venditori ambulanti a Humboldt Park e comprare tutti i burritos e tamales del loro stand, così possono tornare a casa ed evitare le retate degli agenti federali anti-immigrazione. Poi senza nemmeno scendere dalla bici, distribuisce il cibo a persone in difficoltà o nei punti di raccolta preposti, come i “love fridge”, le dispense alimentari sempre accessibili che vengono mantenute e rifornite da volontari.

D. Schmudde 6h ago

Radio Blackout - Rss Bot 7h ago

Musick To Play In The Dark 14 Aprile 2026 https://radioblackout.org/podcast/musick-to-play-in-the-dark-14-aprile-2026/ #musick

Musick To Play In The Dark 14 Aprile 2026

<p>Musick To Play In The Dark è la trasmissione condotta da Maurizio a.k.a. Gerstein, Noisebrigade, Dr. Cancer, etc. che va in onda su Radio Blackout 105.250 il martedì dalle 23 fino a mezzanotte.Per un’ora verrete condotti attraverso un percorso trasversale fatto da sonorità che non si fermano ad un genere: si può passare dall’industrial alla […]</p>

D. Schmudde 6h ago

'Deep within the Karateka cartridge on the #Atari 7800, the programmer mixed in one human-readable message with the computer code: "Mommy and Me Are One." It never appears on screen. It is only visible to those looking at the code contained within.'

~ https://schmud.de/posts/2020-12-16-be-here-now.html

D. Schmudde 2d ago

Finally installed self-hosted Wallabag as a read-it-later replacement for Pocket (RIP). It’s excellent and the install is just a Docker container. What a life upgrade over at reader.schmud.de.

For those that missed it: https://wallabag.org/news/20250524-pocket-shutdown/

So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish: Pocket shuts down but open web remains

About Pocket shutdown and migration to wallabag.

Show thread

D. Schmudde 2d ago

@moshboy that Activision logo was certainly terrible.

D. Schmudde 2d ago

Mr Taps Apr 4

Does computer #history interest you, or maybe you're just curious where well-known and well-used tools come from? I've just updated the History of #Unix #Manpages, https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html, with the content you didn't know you wanted til this very moment. Learn about how the "man" program came to be, and just why are manpages styled like that? It includes snippets from Cynthia "Cindy" Livingston, who wrote the manpage language "mdoc"; John Eaton, who wrote the first GPL man tool; Doug McIlroy, who helped to divide manpages into sections; and more. Did you know that serving manpages online was part of one of the original http daemons? Or that an xman existed before X11R6, in X10? Enjoy!

History of Unix Manpages

D. Schmudde 4d ago

Not sure if this clarifies or confuses me on HTTP codes. Therefore, probably the best instruction manual for this technology.

https://httpstatusdogs.com/

HTTP Status Dogs

HTTP Status Dogs. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Response status codes. And dogs.

HTTP Status Dogs

D. Schmudde 4d ago

De Programmatica Ipsum 4d ago

"The market took the best of OOP: encapsulation and messaging. The Cloud Native world remarketed them as microservices, exchanging JSON messages over HTTP. Kubernetes is the new OO app runtime.

The tradeoff? Latency is worse than using Objective-C’s objc_msgSend() or COM+ IDispatch, but now we can apply Conway’s law and divide our teams conveniently: so that they only communicate using JSON messages on the cluster and with nerf guns on the open office floor plan."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/

The Hype Cycle Of OOP

Even though Marketing buzzwords might have an effect akin to Kryptonite against our readers, we're going to use the famous Gartner's Five-Step Hype Cycle to take a closer look at the practice of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and its various ups and downs in the past 50 years. Remembering that one of the core tenets of this magazine is to make the impossible dialogue possible, the framework provided by Gartner fits this task perfectly well.

De Programmatica Ipsum

D. Schmudde 5d ago

"The result is an emerging aspirational class who have everything except the thing they actually want: the ability to personally press the button and bomb a foreign country. Turchin identifies these people as counter-elites — people wealthy enough to expect actual power, have hit the limits of capital's affordances, and are furious enough the denial that they now wish to burn it all down."

~ https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-great-convergence-and-its-discontents/

The Great Convergence and Its Discontents

The world is unrecognisable. The people responsible are the ones you least expected. And you may ask yourself, "how did we get here?"

blog	http://schmud.de
GitHub	https://github.com/schmudde
Gallery 404	http://www.netart.today/
Twitter	https://twitter.com/dschmudde