Posts by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9sdDjom0CsGUSsVQ0m by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-03T13:33:12Z
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@liaizon Smoking is cool.
(DIR) Post #9ss0EuzyGj7kZmKkgS by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-10T16:37:58Z
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I think what makes me resent Smart Phones the most is that it is a _commercial category_. It's not some kind of emergent form of social practice, like (PC) home computing which came out of diverse hobbyist/experimenter mileu. Smartphones were conceived and developed by a small group of marketing people at one (or two) massive corporations as closed ecosystem _products_. So, for me, the culture of smart phones is fundamentally consumerist.
(DIR) Post #9t6vhuaChCuKBnCoam by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-17T10:03:35Z
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@liaizon @notplants This is wonderful.I think we were talking about throwing things away, and how in a digital context we rarely go through and delete things. I think I made the metaphor of going through stacks of papers etc. on my desk and filing, sorting, throwing away. With digital storage constantly getting cheaper, we tend toward a kind hoarding behavior which can be useful (i.e. archive.org) but also a psychological burden when your interface surface feels like a messy apartment.
(DIR) Post #9tEh9OGKm8jaFuHcie by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-21T15:27:29Z
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@penguin42 @fribbledom I suspect a lot of it came out of wealthy circles that travel a lot (initially business and later from vacations). I have heard estimates that most of the early vectors into Norway were people who went skiing in South Tyrolia in Italy. I think it may be similar in other countries.
(DIR) Post #9tMHcCbUBDMVIyM6UK by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-25T07:18:31Z
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@liaizon Latent knowledge is such a thrill.
(DIR) Post #9tOZ3c2Dp2YZXBR9Ye by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-26T09:43:54Z
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@jeffalyanak I recently saw this interesting (but experimental) PWA. Can Graphene install those and save them to the Home Screen? https://dat-shopping-list.glitch.me/
(DIR) Post #9tWh6zRUAFc7jy4jIm by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-30T07:51:07Z
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@liaizon I like the idea. Too bad it's locked up behind some proprietary SaaS. I suspect they're just putting a nice interface around Mplayer or MPV's EDL parser, plus a few things to generate robot voices and slide text. A few years back, @microresearch made a video editor mode¹ for the Emacs text editor which was pretty sweet.1. http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html
(DIR) Post #9tYh3jaH3bH00KYNOa by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-03-31T07:00:07Z
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@liaizon @microresearch Ha. Yeah I'm surprised I was the only one getting religious. I just found this:https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/autoEdit_2which seems interesting but not as minimalist.
(DIR) Post #9tuUAFT9OCuQLuEeQa by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-04-10T19:19:50Z
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@jeffalyanak A friend in the 90s used to braid DIP semiconductors into his hair and used a ton of silver duct tape on his clothes and most objects he owned.
(DIR) Post #9u6IYoUMsBFsv5BmpE by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-04-16T11:29:23Z
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@th Here in Berlin, we see people going "metal fishing" at the canals sometimes. There's usually one who has a 1kg magnet on a nylon rope and the other has a grappling hook. Not sure if this is a new post-industrial pastoral hobby or if they are hoping for something valuable.
(DIR) Post #9uOkLQiSMfk4ub5lL6 by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-04-25T09:42:14Z
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@OpenCulture Nicely done but pretty much copied from this¹ #MetaPost + #LaTeX implementation, which is (for me) more interesting as the diagrams and decorated initials are all done procedurally!
(DIR) Post #9uqTckYrmC7DO1rxWi by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-04-22T19:08:08Z
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@rra @entreprecariat Possibly, or perhaps sometimes those tactics are slightly less insidious versions of the same or are trying to position the hacker closer to the top of the pyramid. Refusal is still more radical, no?
(DIR) Post #9uqTckykDyocgHycrY by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-04-23T19:17:03Z
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@entreprecariat @rra Bartleby the Scroller.
(DIR) Post #9vAN0P8OCSc4MDPpWi by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-05-18T09:06:06Z
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@sir I use my own weirdo #screenless office to print out my RSS feeds each morning, like a newspaper. There are barcodes next to the summaries so I can print the full article, looking like a scientific paper. (and links are converted to footnotes with more barcodes)http://screenl.es/
(DIR) Post #9vIfBgpo61i6rNMnVQ by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-05-20T10:24:26Z
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The function of a "Brand" is to suppress imagination. It reduces a generalized, often complicated, messy phenomenon to a convenient name. If you refer to that name, controlled by a corporation, frequently enough, you will stop seeing other products or non-commercial methods in the realm of the possible. #designheresy
(DIR) Post #9vkbMN8sgIT2F3WYXg by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-06-04T20:37:00Z
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@liaizon I don't have a smart phone so I can't give any reviews but Tox, Briar and Jami might work for some of these cases.https://briarproject.org/https://tox.chat/https://jami.net/
(DIR) Post #9vkcGO54NY0xMxS3H6 by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-06-04T20:47:11Z
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@liaizon Y'all are some bourgey rebels. Haha! Well, I can say that Jami works well on a friend's iPhone 4, even with video, talking to my linux machine. Messaging was also quite ok, including image attachments.
(DIR) Post #9vkiU3XAASz5QJUcF6 by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-06-04T21:56:53Z
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@liaizon I don't see how it's elitist. The poor students, working class folks and homeless guys I interact with here are all on cheap android phones. Lidl sells them for <80€ and you can use them with prepaid plans. A new iPhone is over 1k€! The posh people I know and those in elite cultural circles have, almost every single one, iPhones. It's a status symbol and shows group you're part of the group. Maybe in NOLA the economics are different?
(DIR) Post #9vkoBMoEsTD9Qax3XE by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-06-04T19:02:36Z
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@LPS @air_pump @lgm Marketing is a big part of it. The other aspect that is really tough is a general attitude of mass conformity as a way of coping with high-tech insecurity. The bandwagon says Zoom is the big thing? Everyone rushes to install and use it. The idea of learning about the medium, considering alternatives and consequences never comes in question. The logic seems to be: if you don't use the most mainstream thing you will be "left behind". It's like techno-commercial populism.
(DIR) Post #9vkoBNJ51nsgyFNgbg by KnowPresent@mastodon.social
2020-06-04T19:28:00Z
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@LPS @air_pump @lgm Yeah I think it is something like that: a kind of groupthink. Although, I feel a bit out of my depth trying to explain how and why it got that way. It might be interesting to see if there's some serious research on attitudes toward technology and social conformity.