Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)

@glyph something David Harvey pointed out years ago that stuck with me: Capitalism is about 500 years old. Markets are much older than that. Markets are a prerequisite for capitalism but you can have markets without capital-c Capitalism

My local, non-chain pharmacy here in Portland uses Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th" as their hold music which is simultaneously awesome and feels like a gut punch

Feels like I constantly complain about this but man do I hate 2026-era web development stacks!!!

I often find myself looking at a project website that's serving less than a dozen static documents to the end user... why am I looking at Vite and a build process at all???

It's like looking at a McDonald's franchise supply chain (warehouses, trucks, repeatability) and saying, "Yes, that is the appropriate setup for my home kitchen, just in case I one day need to scale it to a worldwide franchise."

@skinnylatte this is what I make and it's hard to beat (usually cinnamon-clove or cardamom-star-anise)

@evan @julian @bengo As chair of the new working group: I want as much work as possible done in the (community oriented, open) CG. I want the CG to bring proposals to the WG and I want the WG to reach out to the CG when we have needs.

The WG exists because W3C policy states that a CG cannot publish normative W3C specifications, only a (Members-only) WG can. I'm going to do the best I can to make the WG run as openly as possible within the framework handed to me.

@bengo @evan @julian The idea is not just to make class 1 and 2 changes per 6.2.6. The idea is to make class 3 and 4 changes as well. That was in scope of what we discussed during the many meetings about the WG charter.

And I think the fact of the charter getting approved by the CG represents consensus? I wouldn't have agreed to be chair of a group I felt was illegitimate. (I know the consensus does not reflect unanimous consensus. I'm okay with that.)

Me: Fine. I'll sign up to use a passkey to log in to this particular service. So many people tell me passkeys are the obvious thing to do now. Maybe the experience has gotten better in the last few years since I tried. [Signs up on desktop with 1password]

Service, a week later, on their mobile website: Please sign in with your passkey.

Me: [presses button]

Service: We couldn't find a passkey in your mobile web browser.

Me: Uhhh it's in my 1password app vault?

Service: lol what's that

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday."

It recasts a post like the one pictured. It reminds me to look at their profile and figure out if they are a real person, and are they terminally online, or engagement farming, or what. Then I might block/mute because I don't need people like that in my lifeworld.

> delphitools is a collection of small, focused utilities that respect your privacy and work entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine, no accounts required, no tracking. Just tools that do what they say.

https://tools.rmv.fyi/

@evan @qdot https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Not sure if it works with the latest Twitter exports but it might

I hope this is true

https://thenewstack.io/web-components-are-the-comeback-nobody-saw-coming/

This Wednesday is the Folk Tech Connection Call:

https://luma.com/to7dxjhz

> Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech

Featuring an interview with @mauve!

@cwebber @trwnh @datarama my Christmas lights do a nice job of blinking forever after I configure them!!

I was today years old when I learned about the `at` command in the unix shell??

Very useful for if I want to lazily do something non-critical in the near future. Like I upload a file for a friend, send them the link, tell them it's getting deleted in an hour, and then do

$ echo 'rm the_file' | at now +1 hours

Will this fail in a lot of corner cases? Probably. Do I care? no

Signal's "Safety Number" is an important feature that generates a pop-up which allows you to "mark as verified" a man-in-the-middle attacker. This way the attacker is verified and we can all feel better about the whole messy business.

Just wanted to surface this long comment from me on the state of #Hometown and its future:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/issues/1358#issuecomment-3549758036

I've been an absentee on the "Future of Hometown" thread for a year now and plan to be more responsive. I say more about it in the post itself.

#HometownAdmin

Hello fediverse, I'm in Kobe for W3C #TPAC ! Happy to meet anyone who's here for the event (or not for the event too, I guess)

Websites that let me log in ONLY via email recovery feel like they are personally punishing me as a password manager user... like, come on, I have an awesome, one click, client side way to recall a long unique password for your website but sure, allow me to personally increase your email service bills I guess

browser extension to replace ✨ with 💩

@annika @darkfrog I load it up approximately once a year. There was also a version on the Facebook app platform (lol remember Facebook games) circa 2010, which was fun because there were double digit numbers of players instead of single digit