My goal for @hwclondon this week is to get quill or micropublish working, including posseing to Twitter. #indieweb
The Zero Dollar Laptop is here! http://zdlt.lowtech.org/wiki/doku.php/zdlt:manifesto
‘Artificial artificial intelligence’ – using cheap, manual labour to make it seem like you have some fancy machine learning.
“The more than 2 billion smartphones used around the world today function not because of Jobs’s singular genius, not even because of the private sector, but because of research and development funded by an entrepreneurial state.”
https://aeon.co/essays/most-of-the-time-innovators-don-t-move-fast-and-break-things
Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more — https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more
Restricted access to external SD card on Android makes using syncthing for photos a bit of a faff.
“The “counterculture” that celebrated the early Internet and stamped it with utopian fantasies is not synonymous with the “counterculture” of student protests, civil rights, women’s rights, or the anti-war movement.”
Liking riot.im. Handy as a bridge to IRC.
Are we making progress?
Synco
