Connect with me on Manyverse by pasting this invite code there:
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Manyverse is a social network mobile app with features you would expect: posts, threads, likes, profiles, etc. But it's not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone.
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
Männer müssen endlich über ihre Depressionen reden.
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic.
Commercial access to our media traces is also historically complex. For example, people used to buy their cameras and film from Kodak, and then send film back to Kodak to be developed. In these cases, Kodak had access to all of the traces, or memories, of its customers but the company didn’t commodify these traces in the ways that social media platforms do today. Kodak sold customers its technology and its service. The company didn’t give it away in exchange for mining their customers’ traces to sell ads targeted at them in the way that social media platforms use our traces to target us today.
Why a human-centred Universe is not a humane one.
(…) the ‘completely ridiculous anthropic principle’ (CRAP).
experiments.github.com – explore the future of software development.
Warum Chemnitz nicht der Hambacher Forst ist.
Was seltsamerweise nie passiert: dass ein Extremismusforscher nach tagelanger Berichterstattung über linke Gewalt - etwa bei den G20-Protesten in Hamburg - ankommt und mahnt: "Wir dürfen aber die rechtsextreme Gewalt nicht vergessen!"
JavaScript Equality Table Game (via t3n.de).
Find out how well you know (or don’t know) the JavaScript
==operator rules.
Hacker News Tools of the Trade.
These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?