Aral Balkan

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral

I make small things.

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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable

Me: https://ar.al
Small Technology Foundation: https://small-tech.org
Kitten: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
Live Streams: https://owncast.small-web.org

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2025-04-04 07:12:03

Hey, here’s an idea: you know the autocorrect on your phone that fucks things up daily? Let’s feed it the Internet and let it decide who lives and who dies. Who’s with me?
#AI

2025-04-04 06:03:09

“The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/owvGRdcyXxy
#UK #Starmer #neoliberaism #fascism

2025-03-31 20:02:48

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Both can get fucked as far as I’m concerned :)

2024-11-16 08:01:05

Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
https://vimeo.com/96727211
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087

2024-10-22 10:33:31

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Because folks like him own the jails.

2024-10-22 10:24:30

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Facebook is a mixer controlled by someone else. You can plug your microphone into it but you don’t control your volume and you can be muted at any time.

2024-10-22 10:10:03

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No great loss.

2024-10-16 12:28:45

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We have a lot of money. Sadly, most of it is being spent on killing machines to murder Brown people on the other side of the world. Making screen readers free would be a rounding error in public spending.

2024-10-14 17:00:10

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I’d rather not encourage them… what with enjoying having a habitat suitable to human life and water to drink and all that.

2024-10-14 16:58:27

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…
I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction
on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say
this but because of all that I value in human experience and
human achievement.
Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

2024-10-14 16:58:16

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… and the
sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy
and practice of fascism.
I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit
are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing
fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association
between us.
…

2024-10-14 16:57:24

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Alt text:
In December 1961, the British fascist, Oswald Mosley, sent Bertrand
Russell two of his books. Mosley wrote of “the two root differences
between us” in international politics, and subsequently invited Russel to lunch.
On 22 January 1962, Russell declined the invitation in these terms.
…

2024-10-10 09:45:24

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Not related, afaik.

2024-10-10 09:44:27

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Right, so tldraw is not open source any longer. You can still save your stuff locally but their going closed source and taking venture capital are warning bells.
Gotta love capitalism. Makes everything better, doesn’t it?
https://tldraw.substack.com/p/tldraws-upcoming-re-launch

2024-10-10 09:43:06

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Ah, scratch that, apparently tldraw used to be open source, the latest version isn’t.
Fun times :shrug:
https://tldraw.substack.com/p/tldraws-upcoming-re-launch

2024-10-10 09:30:42

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Looks like it’s their own font… tldraw_draw is what I see in the dev panel.

2024-09-30 13:34:44

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Aral, please… Mr. Balkan is my dad ;P

2024-09-30 12:49:31

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Da-yum! :)

2024-09-30 08:55:57

You can have democracy or you can have trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires.
(And if you don’t understand why, you either don’t understand what democracy is or you don’t understand what trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires are or both.)

2024-09-28 09:15:45

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While I’m trying to build a bridge from the web of today to a peer web (https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/), I’d highly welcome this. The more (non bullshit/not open to being co-opted) attempts at creating alternatives, the better.
That said, my gut feeling is that any such protocol has to have a bit more functionality that Gemini (which is great) does if it’s to be an alternative for the sorts of social interactions/functionality people are used to having on the web.

2024-09-28 08:55:56

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I fail to see how that follows from the point being made here but both of those things can be readily implemented as part of ActivityPub or, at worst, extensions to it or in a federated protocol in general (in fact, it already does: Mobilezon is a federated events app with invitations: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/)

2024-09-28 08:51:41

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Indeed, and as you should: as they’re partnered with Meta.

2024-09-19 11:05:34

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B. A makes me feel unsettled for some reason.

2024-09-14 16:46:04

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Thank you for providing the alt text.
@npub1wjs…ggtv

2024-09-14 16:43:15

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You remembered correctly: There are 3,790 in total in Unicode 16 (https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-counts.html) but that’s with modifiers.

2024-09-14 15:58:23

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Yep.

2024-09-14 15:57:52

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Ooh… Base3184, how delightfully evil :)
The only problem I see is byte count. I’m using only surrogate pairs. Afaik, there are less than 2,000 of those. So the codepoint size differences might be an issue.

2024-09-14 15:48:18

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Good point (no pun intended)… I hadn’t even considered that (I hope folks don’t share their secret keys via social media) 😬

2024-09-14 15:35:09

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Last I checked, I didn’t have to ask anyone for permission ;)

2024-09-14 13:13:34

Was just documenting the KittenMoji standard I use to Base256 encode your ed25519 secret key in Kitten.
The full alphabet:
🐵🐒🦍🦧🐶🐕🦮🐩🐺🦊🦝🐱🐈🦁🐯🐅
🐆🐴🧮🦄🦓🦌🦬🐮🐂🐃🐄🐷🐖🐗🐽🐏
🐑🐐🐪🐫🦙🦒🐘🦣🦏🦛🐭🐁🐀🐹🐰🐇
🎈🦫🦔🦇🐻🐨🐼🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐾🦃🎹🐓
🐣🐤🐥🐦🐧💕🦅🦆🦢🦉🦤🪶🦩🦚🦜🚲
🐊🐢🦎📚🐉🦕🦖🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙
🐚🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🦗🎭🎁🧬🪱🦠💐🌸
🎠🌈🌹🧣🌺🌻🌼🌷🌱🪴🌲🌳🌴🌵🌾🌿
🎤🍀🍁🪺👽🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🥭🍎🍏🍐
🍑🍒🍓🫐🥝🍅🫒🥥🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🧸🫑🥒
🥬🥦🧄🧅🍄🥜🌰🍞🥐🥖💩🥨🥯🥞🧇🧀
🎶🏸🎾🎨🍔🔭🍕🌭🥪🌮🌯😸📷🌜🥚🚂
🛼🚁👾👻🥗🍿🧩🖖🥫🎸🍘🍙🍚🃏🍜🍝
🍠🍢🍣🍤🍥🥮🍡🥟🥠🩰🦀🦞🦐🦑🎡🍦
🍧🍨🍩🍪🎂🍰🧁🥧🍫🍬🍭🍮🎓🍼🎮🛹
🫖🌍🌎🌏🧭🌠🪐🪀🧵🧶🧋🎉🪁🙈🙉🙊
Maybe I’ll make a limited-edition poster of it sometime :)
https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten #SmallWeb

2024-09-12 16:05:22

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Literally what I told them to their faces at the parliament (for all the good it did):
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
Also: https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/
So, yes, this, 💯

2024-09-12 12:43:57

If you want to keep using @npub1rkw…5q62 in the EU, say no to #ChatControl
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/
#Signal #ChatControl #EU #surveillance

2024-09-01 07:23:27

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Nothing to see here… just “the world’s most moral army” committing the world’s most moral genocide.

2024-08-28 16:35:28

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Bloody hell it’s refreshing to have someone with integrity actually running something that requires integrity.
Thank you, [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) 💕
@npub1ejm…4j05 @npub13va…aerq @npub1rkw…5q62

2024-08-28 08:51:23

Hey Emmanuel, it’s “liberté, égalité, fraternité,” not “liberté, égalité, Macronité.”
#macron #france #democracy

2024-08-28 06:13:10

Macron: “president, prime minister and party leader all at the same time”
https://www.inkl.com/a/bjERlqfLNmL
Ah, Emmanuel, taking a page out of Erdoğan’s book, I see.
#France #Macron #Castets #democracy

2024-08-27 20:47:27

“you are potentially causing more harm than good with your ‘unapologetic anti-genocide’ ridiculousness”
A real thing some USian liberal just said to me.
I have no words.
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #America #US #USA #genocide #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

2024-08-27 17:07:40

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It’s the StarLite tablet by @npub1hpu…ggnf (https://ie.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite)

2024-08-27 17:02:47

Every day is a new adventure with Linux.
🤦‍♂️
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/113/035/050/274/011/472/original/3e4d0a8a8567eff9.mp4

2024-08-27 13:52:33

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“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”
🤔

2024-08-27 13:49:25

For all the love and understanding talk, religions sure do murder a lot of people.

2024-08-27 07:56:19

I love how we inhabit a world where the majority of people live according to the dictates of a magic invisible sky fairy and yet feel competent to pass judgement on the mental wellbeing of others.

2024-08-26 13:50:36

C’mon folks, cut Israel some slack: they’re committing the most moral genocide in the world.
#Israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid

2024-08-22 09:14:49

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Go defend your genocide elsewhere.

2024-08-22 09:06:21

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Ah, thanks. I heard three names and thought they were all his children but I guess one must’ve been his wife. Appreciate the correction; fixed.

2024-08-22 08:58:24

Tim Walz is a lucky guy. None of his three children were murdered by American bombs in Gaza. Sadly, the same can’t be said for tens of thousands of Palestinians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/thats-my-dad-tim-walzs-son-gus-tears-up-at-dnc/2024/08/22/8c8fb111-cc4e-4309-bc43-914fc899fe46_video.html
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #USA #UnitedStates #DNC

2024-08-22 08:51:20

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Cool, cool.

2024-08-22 08:42:26

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Darn, I’d have expected better from a surveillance capitalist.

2024-08-22 08:34:55

When the names of the children murdered by American bombs in Gaza threatens to reduce your “joy” during genocide, just cover your ears and mock the protestors like these Democrats were doing at the #DNC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiUZ_cRh14
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #America #US #USA #Democrats #Republicans #genocide #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

2024-08-22 08:31:22

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyiUZ_cRh14

2024-08-20 12:55:57

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Neat, well, if you build it the Small Web way, in other words, just for yourself, then anyone who wants to can run an instance of it for themselves.
Doing it that well will also hugely simplify your dev as authentication, etc., will be handled for you automatically.
Best of luck + looking forward to seeing it :)

2024-08-20 05:42:24

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Thanks, there’s still so much to improve (PS. It hasn’t hit 1.0 yet so expect breaking changes, although they’re coming less often recently these days and I do announce them here.)

2024-08-19 19:21:02

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Like, I don’t know… no genocide.

2024-08-19 19:20:21

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Indeed. A fascist genocide is worse than a joyous genocide. If only there was a third way.

2024-08-19 19:16:23

Just think, if the Americans elect Kamala, it could be a joyous genocide.
#IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Israel #USA #UnitedStates #genocide #settlerColonialism #apartheid #warCrimes #BDS #fascism

2024-08-19 18:24:36

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If you do have a play with Kitten, let me know how you get on :)

2024-08-19 18:04:15

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Depending on what you’re building, it just might be enough. In any case, should be a bit of fun to play with it regardless :)

2024-08-19 17:15:34

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And just to underscore how simple Kitten is, here’s a demo of creating a new Kitten project that displays the character you’ve configured using Kitten Kawaii.
There’s a lot more in the blog post (this whole thing just ballooned up from what I thought would be a nice weekend project) but I hope the highlights/videos give you some idea of how web development can be if our goal isn’t to exploit and extract from people to become billionaires.
:kitten:💕
#SmallWeb #Kitten #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/798/418/410/444/original/e62b7def0e037d94.mp4

2024-08-19 17:06:28

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Of course it’s not just quantitative differences but qualitative ones too…
Since all our time isn’t spent trying to create planet-scale factory farms for human beings (which are hard to do and involve lots of complexity), we can concentrate on nice things like maintaining state in the URL… like Kitten Kawaii does.
URL-based state: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/#url-based-state
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
View source: https://codeberg.org/aral/kitten-kawaii
#SmallWeb #Kitten #URL #state #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/763/553/860/920/original/b2beea006984147f.mp4

2024-08-19 16:51:41

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Development is one thing, what about deployment?
Soon, you’ll be able to deploy your Kitten apps to small-web.org using Domain¹.
Here’s a recording of me deploying Kitten Kawaii to kitten-kawaii.small-web.org using Domain.
Here, domain is registering the domain (subdomain but it’s on the Public Suffix List) and installing Kitten Kawaii on a pre-warmed VPS server.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
¹ https://codeberg.org/domain/app
#SmallWeb #Kitten #Domain #deployment #web #dev #KittenKawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/712/355/936/132/original/9683654d9d6466ca.mp4

2024-08-19 16:46:17

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React + Next.js vs Kitten: developer experience, getting started (cont.)
In fact, it’s even faster if you install Kitten first (the equivalent of installing Node.js first, basically).
Kitten is still up and running with the Kitten Kawaii web site in ~18 seconds.
So that thing about web frameworks and workflows being slow… that’s a Big Web thing.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
#SmallWeb #Kitten #BigWeb #React #NextJS
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/989/691/318/307/830/original/33ae61b9dee53dda.mp4

2024-08-19 16:29:07

New blog post – Kitten Kawaii: porting a React library and Next.js web site to Kitten
Small Web is the exact opposite of the Big Web. But what does that mean in practice? I wanted to find out by porting Elizabet Oliveira’s lovely React Kawaii app to Kitten. How does Kitten hold up to the frameworks of trillion-dollar and hundred-billion-dollar corporations?
(Spoiler: pretty darn well, actually.)
https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
:kitten:💕
#SmallWeb #Kitten #BigWeb #React #NextJS

2024-08-16 15:34:54

You can now download your configured character as a regular SVG from Kitten Kawaii.
https://kitten-kawaii.small-web.org
(I’m going to stop myself from adding anything more to it and finish off the blog post on porting it from React Kawaii now.)
#Kitten #KittenKawaii #ReactKawaii #port #SVG #SmallWeb #web #dev
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/972/416/566/679/722/original/ac26aa0216f0b959.mp4

2024-08-05 18:52:50

As a fun little exercise, I decided to port Miuki Miu’s (Elizabet Oliveira’s) adorable React Kawaii¹ to Kitten².
Going to write a blog post about the experience but, in the meanwhile, if you want to play with the cute little characters, here you go:
https://kitten-kawaii.small-web.org
And here’s the source code:
https://codeberg.org/aral/kitten-kawaii/
Things to try: the back and forward buttons ;)
¹ https://react-kawaii.vercel.app
² https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten #SmallWeb #React #BigWeb #porting #experiment #kawaii
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/910/911/756/512/480/original/98f7442c2f3cbe67.png

2024-07-19 09:09:51

Quick, everyone, use the same tech by the same huge corporations… what could possibly go wrong?
#BigTech #TooBigWillFail #centralisation

2024-07-14 21:34:32

Dear designers and developers,
The opposite of “Yes” is “No”, never “Maybe later.”
#consent #dontBeCreepy #yes #no #maybeLater

2024-07-11 08:11:28

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Many thanks. Appreciate the quick help :)
(Also appreciate your protecting my privacy. Although everyone here already knows I’m in Ireland, it’s small details like this that tell you you’re taking with people who care about the important things – although I already knew that – and that really puts a smile on my face.)
💕

2024-07-11 08:08:20

At this point I have a feeling Biden could die and the Democrats would dip him in formaldehyde and run him anyway.
#USPol #democracy #fascism #Biden #Trump

2024-07-11 08:03:04

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(And yeah, it didn’t happen with the StarLite that arrived about a month ago so it’s definitely not consistent. This feels very much like a UPS screwup in their favour. The cynical me wonders if some bean counter at UPS concluded that if they do this on X% of orders they’ll make €Y profit and only lose an acceptable N number of customers.)

2024-07-11 07:56:45

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Thanks. I’ll tell them when they get here. (They haven’t arrived yet.)
What should I do if they refuse to deliver?

2024-07-11 07:36:16

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Didn’t have any trouble with the Starlite itself, oddly, but this is for the keyboard and pen.
Basically, was charged €28.06 taxes on €122 order by StarLabs and then got a message from UPS saying that I owe them €48.72 taxes (€28.06 + 16.80 brokerage charges + 3.86 VAT). As far as I can see, the only thing I should have to pay is perhaps the €3.86 VAT.) But clearly the €28.06 is a double charge.
€76.78 taxes on €122 order is ridiculous.

2024-07-11 06:51:15

@npub1hpu…ggnf Hey folks, UPS is trying to charge me tax again for the same amount I paid you in tax + their fees. Can you please sort this out? Package is scheduled for delivery today. Details sent via email. Thanks!

2024-07-10 10:11:32

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Among other things.

2024-07-10 10:06:17

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Tell me your corporation wants to limit its liability for the bullshit its AI spews without telling me.

2024-07-10 09:08:12

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Gorgeous :)

2024-07-10 08:59:48

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:kitten: 💕

2024-07-10 08:48:38

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Yeah… I see what you mean. Good thing I learned a long time ago not to have heroes :)

2024-07-10 08:33:37

Went down a rabbit hole reading up on adventure game history and half way through I’m thinking “nearly every genre-defining game has its own engine”. No one in gaming says “oh, why’d you reinvent a game engine for your game?” It’s clear why… you’re creating something unique and you need an engine tuned to its needs. And you want to be able to use the engine for other, similar, games.
Which made me think: Kitten is the game engine for the Small Web.
https://kitten.small-web.org
#Kitten #SmallWeb

2024-07-10 08:15:46

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Hadn’t seen that. Well, I mean, it’s still The Guardian…

2024-07-10 08:14:14

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Odd… why would you compare Kamala Harris to The Joker?

2024-07-10 07:59:38

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Denying the bombing of hospitals by a genocidal regime? So they’re taking a page out of the US government’s playbook on Gaza, then? That Elon, always learning from the best.
#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #russia #ukraine #genocide #UnitedStates #ElonMusk

2024-07-10 06:47:32

Joe Biden now relies on instruction manuals, so here’s a good one: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/09/joe-biden-instruction-manuals-beat-trump
“Huge fan of American democracy here, which is to say – huge fan of the country of America having democracy … you’ve probably heard the expression “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold”. Most of us in the droplet radius have zero clinical interest in discovering what the world catches when America does … whatever this is.”
Marina Hyde, on form as usual.

2024-07-10 05:37:48

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Yes, the folks who are support the genocide of the Palestinian people do love to conflate being anti-genocide with being antisemitic.
Hope they’re getting flagged for being pro-genocide.

2024-07-10 05:28:33

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Yay :) It’s still prerelease so expect rapid changes and please do let me know how you get on with it 💕

2024-07-09 16:51:14

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Already following ;)
💕

2024-07-09 16:50:28

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Oh yes, spoke too soon. *sigh*

2024-07-09 16:43:26

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On the upside, at least he’s not massacring Brown folks any more. Progress?

2024-07-09 16:40:28

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Audre Lorde. And yes, indeed.

2024-07-09 16:39:29

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Sorry. Sending a kitten to make up for it :)
:kitten: 💕

2024-07-09 16:36:47

So is the US going to always be one election away from fascism now? “Vote for us or it’s fascism” every four years feels less like democracy and more like a hostage situation.
How do you reform a system where things have gotten this bad?
#USPol #Trump #MEGA #Republicans #Democrats #TwoPartySystem #electoralReform #democracy #institutionalCorruption

2024-07-09 16:22:28

:kitten: Update
New: Support for using .well-known URIs¹ (e.g., WebFinger²) in your apps.
Kitten has a file-based router and, by default, ignores .hidden-directories. However, the .well-known URI scheme… well you see the problem.
So, anyway, the router now has a special case for a folder called .well-known in your app.
Also, I reverted slash handling so we’re back to canonicalising URIs with trailing slashes for ease of authoring.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI
² https://webfinger.net
#Kitten

2024-07-09 14:55:22

I used to think Google were evil but smart.
I no longer think they’re smart.
#Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart
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2024-07-09 13:40:32

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Darn, I thought you could at least buy it in NI… was thinking it would be a good excuse to drive up. *sigh*

2024-07-09 13:26:22

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Bloody hell, didn’t realise you were a tankie. Goodbye.

2024-07-09 13:23:08

This is the same technology that’s being used by Israel to sort Palestinians for murder in Gaza.
Let that really sink in.
Now remember your local police department is salivating over it too.
Oh, and fascism is on the rise.
😬👍
#firstTheyCameForThePalestinians #israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #AI #LLMs #SiliconValley #BigTech #billionaires #capitalism https://mastodon.social/@dailygrail/112756179125674064

2024-07-09 13:17:35

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;)

2024-07-09 13:16:49

If you live in #Ireland and are confused about what “boost your vax” means, it means “hurry up and get to 80 years old so you can be eligible for a booster.”
Because we have muppets cosplaying a government. https://chaos.social/@jspath55/112756693346235793

2024-07-09 13:14:14

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Goodness, I wonder what could’ve happened in the UK if The Guardian hadn’t been complicit in demonising Jeremy Corbyn.
A bit rich of them to now sing Kumbaya.

2024-07-09 13:03:21

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Yes, can’t imagine they have ;)

2024-07-09 12:54:10

So Certera is a Certificate Authority spamming folks to insert their links into organic content because they want to appear… *checks notes*… “trustworthy”
To help, I can tell you that you should most likely not be using their services and, by the way, have you checked out Let’s Encrypt? It’s free and automatically updates.
PS. #Kitten automatically handles #TLS certs for you and if you want to do the same in plain Node.js, check out my @small-tech/auto-encrypt module.
https://kitten.small-web.org
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