social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

i frequently dwell on the state of the WWW, and i enter this same thought process triggered by the question:

why don't we just write our own web browser?

the intuition i have that drives me asking this question is not necessarily technical, or even principled.

if we can marshal ~10 million accounts on just mastodon alone, can't we drive enough of a network effect to fight for a more open web?

but at this stage of day dreaming i realise the whole thing, all of the web is kaput, really.

does the web need saving? why could do a lot better.

let's play: will it boot???

the contestant enters the stage, much cheering; wooping etc.

the person approaches the old 286 and flips the switch--it whirs!!

... click, click, a grinding noise...

it booted!!!!!!

the crowd is completely beside themselves. they are practically riotous:

... that's right, contestant number 12, you win a whole day with richard stallman!

the contestant fans themselves from shock, they are clearly overwhelmed. their eyes roll backwards--everyone on stage rushes towards them--within a split-second they have hit the deck. they have fainted.

see you next time on: will it boot???

Steve Miller Band - "Rock'n Me"

alright registrations are open

https://social.solarpunk.au/registration

welcome all ye solarpunks

Dayglow - "Listerine"

Young Gun Silver Fox - "Underdog"

"i would like a SMALL CABBAGE"

Photoshop of Ripley in Alien, where the beast's face is righr next to her's, but the beast is the cute baby pygmy hippo

I totally loathe tech podcasts, but want to recommend tech folks listen to @jimmyhmiller episode of the changelog. It is v good.

https://changelog.fm/609

i am personally more in favor of a "social Web" than a "social network".

what i want to do is make it easier for anyone to make a website, and to manage that website.

i want those websites to be able to link to each other in well-defined and clearly-understood ways.

i want to make friends and express myself to the fullest, in varying contexts on various websites, without context collapse.

but it feels like is more interested in replicating the "social network" paradigm.

30/30

Between FediForum and now the Social Web Foundation I'm very tired of seeing these intensely corporate initiatives in this space where the majority of projects are entirely volunteer (or grant supported) efforts

Means testing harms the mean household and is just plain mean, by design.

Study after study shows that providing social safety nets - benefits the vast majority of people support - is cheaper and more efficient when you get rid of the hurdles to prove you qualify.

Means testing punishes those most in need who are often least able to spend time and energy to complete the intentionally difficult process to access benefits, and results in higher costs.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/11/11/universal-benefits-cost-less-than-means-tested-benefits/

Last week, Tyler Thorsted, @archivist_Liz, Chris Knowles and I did a workshop on imaging obscure floppy disk formats at
As part of this workshop we produced a guide, which is available on Zenodo!

https://zenodo.org/records/13828372

alright registrations are open

https://social.solarpunk.au/registration

welcome all ye solarpunks

why am i following you

why ... x 100

no i will not engage in fedi drama

no i will not engage in fedi drama

... x 100

today we praise guix

for it now has version 14 of openttd

omfg i am gonna be lost to the world

making screens bigger than 640x480 was a mistake

legit: we are gonna have to go back to big cursed linkrolls that are discovered merely by word of mouth in order to fix web discoverability.

quite excited for the prospect though.

we'll write a jank wiki and everyone can just put their web links on it.

thinkin' about
and then put it into the people's permacomputer project?

๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

thinkin' about
fediverse gopher front end...

๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

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