Necessity may be the mother of invention, but the wheel is her most famous child. On its own the wheel is pretty useless, but the system of wheel and axle turned out a pre-historical technological revolution. But when, where, why, by whom and how […]
Author: jaxroam
Who are you?
From a thread on Bluesky: If we’re being honest the “use your own domain to verify your account” thing is some mastodon shit— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) Nov 22, 2024 at 4:50 To which I have replied:
Past the Peak: Climate Control
From peak emission to peak population to peak car, we are about to enter a series of turning points. What does this mean? Global peaks 2012: Peak birth2017: Peak ICE car sales2020: Peak child2024: Peak emissions, oil and coal2038: Peak ICE vehicle fleet2040: Peak […]
The Edge of Europe
Europe is a somewhat contorted triangle at the Western extreme of Eurasia. Like most other regions, Europe is habitually presented with north pointing up. Which is fine, that is a standard and standards help us take in geographical data without having to reorient ourselves. […]
Mastodon/Vivaldi as a POSSE publishing platform
This earlier dialog Toot-sized summary:Mastodon: coolIntegration with Vivaldi users: cooler But you can go further (given time, desire and business case): two-way bridge between Mastodon and all your other content Even further: POSSE-style publishing platform on vivaldi.net Even further: Social networking repository supported by […]
A Game of Discrimination
The trigger It began with a question in a tweet: That is “How can people be blind to a systemic behaviour they participate in?” The question has a specific context (US white evangelicals), but I liked the question on its own, context-free. If something […]
Retelling the future, chapter 1: The end of the PC
Introduction Coming back to Vivaldi.net has led to me reconnecting to this Vivaldi blog, originally on My.Opera,com beginning 18 years ago. Two months after Facebook, a website that has turned out rather more successful so far. Like every web publication of age, it has […]
Slow and Federated Media
I have long been a fan of slow news. This is a fairly consistent rule: The lower the update frequency, the higher the information quality. You get to know what is about to happen, why, and who is involved. The higher the frequency, the […]
Breaking the garden walls
Europe has a social media #infosec issue. Most social media are American, some Chinese, a few Russian. No European. They were taken over by Facebook on its rise. Primary issue is their near monopoly power, but this event highlights that ownership is a risk as well. […]
Changes of address
Addressing is the foundation of everything done on internet, be it email, web or Mastodon. What happens when nobody lives there anymore? — You got new mail address Back when I worked for Opera, I had a proposal for an extension for mail client […]
