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When I was a child, I fell into a cauldron filled with computers and other nerdy stuff.
— Low-tech Solar Panels (from the Low Tech Magazine)
Low-tech solar panels (by Low Tech Magazine) — I just share it out of curiosity, a very interesting read about solar panels and the possibility that they could be built in an "artisan" way.
💬 6 comments · 1 like · 2023-08-15 · 3 months ago
The ethics in technology — We developers should stop just looking at the technical side of our work only. There’s social, economic and values to be taken into account when we put our minds to solve a problem. We tend to go blindly into it, without thinking what it can cause when it is released into the world. It’s like if we put a bunch of developers into a secret project to develop an Internet World Wide Nuclear Bomb a là Project Manhattan… the leaders shouldn’t really have to hide what they...
💬 17 comments · 4 likes · 2023-07-24 · 3 months ago
Well, every big corp in the World Wide Web is closing their open access to their sites and APIs, so it was only time Google decided the World Wide Web is *their* API and close it to be used the *approved way*. Link to Reddit, beware. [https link] Google's New Web Environment Integrity (read DRM)
💬 9 comments · 2023-07-22 · 3 months ago
On communities, centralization and capitalism — I recently watched a YouTube video talking about the demise of a website called Tumblr (well, demise... the place is still working, but its current numbers make it a very low traffic place), how the NSFW content there made it what it was, how it turned into a very queer friendly place and how ads, revenue and the subsequent companies that owned it didn't want to do any with that content... and that was it. The part that was most interesting to me...
💬 View post · 7 likes · 2023-06-22 · 4 months ago