Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 75

@EndIsraeliApartheid @GRA3432 And by “forces”, you mean terrorists, right? Because it sure sounds like terrorism to me.

@cstross @owenblacker Don’t worry, Starmer’s going to make up for it by freezing old people this winter.

@EdCates Oh wow, didn’t know. Anything for the money, then, I guess.

If society worked like technology, they’d just call fascism Democracy 2.0 and everyone would adopt it without another thought.

@cestpasgrave @sekhen I thought @Vivaldi was not going to drop it. Disappointing if that’s the plan.

“I laughed, I thought that was brilliant. I just thought, ‘Good on you, Donald.’ Donald’s always been a fan of mine, and he’s been to my concerts many, many times. So, I mean, I’ve always been friendly toward him, and I thank him for his support. When he did that, I just thought it was hilarious. It made me laugh.”

– Elton John

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/09/elton-john-donald-trump-rocket-man-nickname-kim-jong-un-hilarious

Privilege is a helluva drug, eh? “Oh, that fascist? He’s a fan of mine.”

Shame, used to like the guy.

#EltonJohn #Trump #fuckYouIGotMine

“‘I am the police, I am the army’ … Palestinians tell of self-styled warlord’s brutal reign across whole of Jabal Salman valley – and he is one of many
…
“Call me Yakov,” the burly, red-bearded settler told the Palestinian villagers who lived in his shadow. They should, it was understood, consider him their mukhtar, their chief, mayor and sheriff.’”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/i-am-the-police-i-am-the-army-sanctioned-settlers-rule-in-west-bank

Terrorists.

#Israel #Palestine #WestBank #settlerColonialism #apartheid

@ajroach42 @FediThing @laura A very informal little talk on the state of things from a few months ago: https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

(Since then I’ve started work on Place and there’s been more progress on Kitten and Domain.)

@ajroach42 @FediThing @laura Just one: trying to make the Small Web happen with Kitten¹, Domain², and Place³.

(The goal: Everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing should be able to get up and running with their own place on the web—one they own and control, at their own domain—in under a minute and without any technical knowledge.)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org (for devs)
² https://codeberg.org/domain/app (for hosts)
³ https://codeberg.org/place/app

@kkarhan @mozilla @torproject Why would they? They’re a Silicon Valley tech company and Firefox (or, more precisely, the money – around half a billion dollars a year – Google gives them is the reason they exist).

@sekhen Yeah, it’s my default browser.

@andre @FinalOverdrive If a fire extinguisher required that amount of work to operate you’d begin to think it was designed by arsonists.

@unknown8bit @olleolleolle It does deliver a rather cathartic barrage of brilliantly bristly burns.

@andre @FinalOverdrive I mean, the funny thing is: “why is my house on fire? Also, don’t reply with the obvious: ‘because you doused it in gasoline and lit a match.’”

🤷♂️

@FinalOverdrive Always has been. 🌏🧑🚀 🔫🧑🚀

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107070299249803289

If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting.

#mozilla #firefox #privacy #privacyWashing #AI

@baldur I guess it’s technically just-in-time builds instead of buildless but the experience with Kitten is basically a buildless one (and one of the reasons why it uses JavaScript instead of TypeScript and HTML template strings instead of – *spit* – JSX.)

https://kitten.small-web.org

@cemedia Alt text: Photo of three people, an older man, a middle-aged woman, and a young woman at what appears to be an anti-genocide protest. They’re all wearing signs, some of which are only partially visible:

THIS HOLOCAUST
SURVIVOR SAYS:
STOP THE
GENOCIDE IN
GAZA

THIS DAUGHTER
OF A HOLOCAUST
SURVIVOR SAYS:
STOP THE…

THIS GRAND-
OF A HOLOC-
SURVIVOR:

@FediThing @ajroach42 @laura Some links that might be useful as I couldn’t find any for Small Technology on the page:

Here are the Small Technology principles as we practice them at the Small Technology Foundation:

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

And the introduction to the term as I originally envisioned it in 2019:

https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/

And the launch of the foundation later that year:

https://ar.al/2019/08/26/introducing-small-technology-foundation/

#SmallTech #SmallTechnology

“I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history. It’s easy to attack them for being musically regressive: after all, they didn’t just Stop The Clocks, to quote the title of their 2006 best-of, but rewound them by 30 years. But the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
…
It’s no coincidence that Oasis are the band of choice for flag-shaggers and Reform voters”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/stop-the-celebrations-oasis-are-the-most-damaging-pop-cultural-force-in-recent-british-history

#oasis #neanderthalRock