Great guy.

Still Bill.

(…) if you take away the people who stutter from the world you are left with a whole bunch of chatty… fill in your own word.

Relevant: Use me.

Matrix.org – An open network for secure, decentralized communication (via lobste.rs).

The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web client in your browser, which is configured by default to connect to the matrix.org homeserver

A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19.

Artists are bringing back Amabie, a 'yōkai' associated with protection from disease.

WPoDNS: Wikipedia over DNS (via lobste.rs).

Relevant: DNS over Wikipedia.

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

Google and Facebook, including their subsidiaries like Instagram and YouTube, make about 83 percent and 99 percent of their respective revenue from one thing: selling ads. It’s the same story with Twitter and other free sites and apps. More to the point, these companies are in the business of what’s called behavioral advertising, which allows companies to aim their marketing based on everything from users’ sexual orientations to their moods and menstrual cycles, as revealed by everything they do on their devices and every place they take them. It follows that most of the unsavory things the platforms do—boost inflammatory content, track our whereabouts, enable election manipulation, crush the news industry—stem from the goal of boosting ad revenues.

Relevant: The infinite scroll.

We have compressed and corroded and finally collapsed what used to be the core of a publication—its relationship with its readers, and the basic notion that one should not make it hard for them to read.

Better than Zoom: Try these free software tools for staying in touch.

Relevant: Zoom Blow as Thousands of User Videos Are Found Online.

What’s the Point of Pointing in Japan, Anyway?

指差喚呼.

Dr. Dobb’s, Smalltalk and, of course, Adele Goldberg.

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Cross-Platform.

Waiting for Godot.com.

Yesterday, almost 24 hours ago, I created a room at Jitsi – or at least I assumed I created it as nobody was around at the time.

I disabled my mic and camera and just waited if anyone would come by – like you hear people passing your window or the staircase.

However, just a few minutes ago I heard strange noises and wondered which tab would just start to autoplay a video… and there it was: The movie Waiting for Godot playing in the very Jitsi room!

It’s a beautiful idea from Martijn, an “artist within the field of computer art and avant-garde cinema” based in Amsterdam, who just thought of exactly the same room name (not that it’s avery original one, but still: the coïncidence!) and decided to play the movie in a loop.

So now we are watching it together! Made my day.

Musical Robot Learns to Sing, Has Album Dropping on Spotify.

Into Your Mind by Shimon the Robot.