Notices by Eamon (eamon@social.coop)

Before 2000: "normal people" watch cable TV all the time. Researchers, hobbyists, and assorted weirdos access the internet using a hodgepodge of protocols to access servers run by the very same sorts of people visiting them. Connections are generally slow, often carried over telephone networks.

2000-2030: Everyone is on the web. Servers are run by professionals. Connections are blazing fast.

After 2030: "normal people" watch algorithmic feeds on sanctioned devices exclusively. Researchers, hobbyists, and assorted weirdos access the open internet using a hodgepodge of protocols to access servers run by the very same sorts of people visiting them. Connections are generally slow, passing through onion networks and/or low-powered radio devices.

We live in a golden era of hand-me-down laptops.

It has never before been—and will likely never again be—this easy to get a decent computer for free just by asking your friends and neighbors, "do you have an old working laptop lying around that you don't use and I can have?"

Ten year old laptops work fine for most non-gamer things. With some gumption you can replace dead batteries and they're basically good as new (if the hinges aren't busted).

Is WPS totally deprecated?

I'm staying at a house and nobody knows the WiFi password. I have access to the router, and it has a WPS button, but I can't figure out how to actually make it work? I can't find any info on USING WPS that's less than ten years old... Although Gnome still invites me to "connect by pushing the 'WPS' button on your router".

I'd be grateful if somebody would either tell me, "no, yeah, that hasn't worked in forever," or (ideally) give me tips on troubleshooting this.

I just want to take a moment to publicly appreciate what a nice piece of software Calibre is. What a great way to manage an ebook collection. https://calibre-ebook.com/

@sam we get some sort of @mayfirst access as part of social.coop membership, right? I recall filling out a form but didn't hear back. (I'm not salty, I just want to check that I'm not confabulating this whole thing before I nudge the good folks.)

Jobs be like, "hey you're good at doing work, let's have you sit in meetings all day instead."

@evan @troublewithwords I wonder how many people living in liberal democracies actually believe this is a committed and principled way?

@neauoire Oh snap. Just in case it might help anyone, I went ahead and put my copy of the repo online (with no commits from me, and a couple commits behind main). https://git.eamoncaddigan.net/uxn/file/README.md.html

@neauoire Code forges are great, but IMO more hackers should post little static "dumb" (Git's word, not mine) repositories—like this one—of the code they like, just to improve our community's resiliency. How much of the knowledge produced during antiquity was only saved because somebody thought a thing that somebody else said was worth copying, and that copy happened to survive when the original didn't?