I suppose telephones were a sort of fediverse.

You know I think just the freedom of people is enough. People will naturally share and talk about what is important and interesting if they can go where they want and say what they want. They move the information as well as filter it for relevance.

The internet as we know it today is coercive; most of it is designed and run with opaque, narrow and self-interested goals. It has penetrated our thoughts, feelings, behaviour and culture, with very limited accountability or critical evaluation. And even just the sheer bandwidth of it on a user level is paralysing.

The internet interacts with the human appetite for information in the same way as processed foods do with our impulse to eat. We’ve freed ourselves from the limitation of supply but do not moderate our demand.

My own imagining of a better and different internet would be based on people and places rather than screens or other abstractions. We would have plenty of comfortable and non-exclusive public places to meet, excellent train services to get between those places and each others homes (trains are pro-social and have unbeatable efficency) and a system and philosophy of education that is based on critical thinking rather than arbitrary tasks.

Information technology would be peripheral to our relationships and experience and would be used as a tool to serve our own free interests rather than being an end in itself.

But then how will they become famous?

They do all sound stupid.

As it’s a complete statement just say “I’m wondering if the monkey can see my ears.”

Because it is ‘the’ monkey, rather than ‘a’ monkey, it is implied that the monkey has already been referred to.

If I were you I would definitely use Debian 12.

No, not legally anyway.

In your Lemmy account settings, set your default feed to ‘subscribed’ instead of ‘all’.

When you open the app or log in on your browser you will only see communities you’ve subscribed to.

It will greatly improve your (and everyone else’s) experience if you subscribe to positive communties and participate in them.

The guy at the end of Hotline Miami was pretty tough.

I think he should only let the hair grow back over the skull’s jaw.

Complicated to answer properly but I think that on the whole religion offers a good package. There’s so much variety though and of course not everyone who identifies as religious is sincere; all institutions are attractive for those looking to exploit their influence, whether it’s a religion, government, business etc. I’m interested in the social, moral, philosophical and spiritual aspects of religion but I’m also a bit allergic to institutions and am not humble enough to fit into the sorts of hierarchies that most religions seem to insist on.

Yeah, the ideal amount of content to consume is probably zero. I’m starting to think that the best use of any kind of feed is news about very specific things you want to know about on time and literature which is released in installments.

I use Newsboat on desktop and Feeder on android. Both are foss 👍 If you dont want to use the terminal for desktop I would just use whatever is suggested for the desktop environment you use.

Excellent post. I hope everyone reads this.

I’d like to reinforce your point about RSS feeds. I think that being in control of the amount and type of information that infiltrates your thoughts is a form of privacy that we all we need to exercise.

For those who don’t already know; one great thing about the fediverse is that you can follow hashtags via RSS. You can literally only see the things you want to see, if you want to!

1 Critical thinking

2 Healthy relationships

2 Cookery

3 Exercise

4 Arts & Engineering

5 The usual subjects

4839 AI (or whatever the industry du jour is.)

I’m unable to help with this but am curious: how are you finding the ultra 7 on Fedora in general? And have you been able to make use of NPU?

I can’t remember it’s name but I stumbled across a good instance with lots of musicians doing live performances in their studios/rooms. If anyone knows where to find it again please reply here!

Give the encrypted file to one person, the key to another and do not keep either yourself. They exchange them if you die.

These companies just go whichever way the wind blows. Which is exactly what you would expect.

RFF was the best thing I’d discovered on the internet for as long as I can remember. I was gutted to hear about it stopping.

Bandwagon is in development, which is/will be a federated music platform which can integrate with internet radio. You can check out the first instance at bandwagon.fm

In the meantime I’ve been really enjoying the music on Mother Earth Radio, particularly their instrumental channel.

As others have said, using a flat bed scanner will save some work. If you need to photograph it though:

• Use paper with grid lines as background (not sure the name, used to use it in maths at school). This will give you not just an index for scale but also for ‘squareness’.

• Position camera perpendicular to subject

• Use a telephoto or zoom lens from a distance rather than wide angle from close up to minimise lens distortion.

• Import image into GIMP or photoshop and use rulers, guides and transform tools to scale the image correctly and make it perfectly square.

• Matching the colour perfectly is more complicated and I won’t go into that here.

Let me know if you need any more tips. I photograph a lot of artwork and documents.