Notices by Simon St.Laurent (simonstl@mastodon.social)

@perigrin @thomasfuchs It needed the 5-pin DIN, and I think XLR is 3-pin? The pin-out was weird, too, so I'm not even sure this is the right cable.

"The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.

Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations..."
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

@eaton I, um, miss the days when it was possible to select text vertically in Word without getting everything to the left or right. Probably an artifact of space- or tab-based tables, but really useful in its weird day.

@aral @emilygorcenski I fear there may yet be more and worse to climb.