but at night while the others slept we kept walking the tightrope. — Shane Koyczan: To This Day.
Serendipity, here I come.
TinCan is a one-to-many text messaging app that doesn't use the internet or cellular service. Instead, messages hop from phone to phone over WiFi tethering. TinCan is normally a very inefficient messaging platform. However, it should work well in populated areas such as a festival, conference, or similar gathering. As TinCan doesn't use the internet or cellular service, it could be useful where these services are lost, as in a natural distaster, or blocked, as in a protest. (Via hubski.com.)
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter.
“It is ironic that the birth of hugely profitable social media sharing platforms have resulted from the gestation of the worst possible of human traits – selfishness, treacherous betrayal and a flexible (a)morality that bend to the calling of fame, fortune and celebrity. With such disreputable and cut-throat parentage, it comes as no surprise that Twitter and Facebook are used to efficiently disseminate blaring selfcasts. I found it dispiriting that technology developed to enhance human connectedness have merely become cynical instruments to advance personal ambition and gain.”
Tiled terminal, here I come.
tmux is the new screen.
Bitcoin, Shitcoin (cont’d).
Ignoring the SEO mumbojumbo I at least learned that Google+ is Google.
Mass Killings Can Haunt Elephants for Decades.
“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’ ― Jeremy Bentham.