Oliver Lowe

I often like reading his older pieces. I forget how long he’s been at it for. Here’s one making fun of Apple almost 10 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/if-dishwashers-were-iphones

Sorry to be a pain; I believe the correct term is “World Wide Wiki Wiki Wild Wild Web”. But we usually just say “WWWWWWW” which is super short and easier to type.

Headline is a bit misleading. It’s not about cadavers being ferried around the place, it’s a policy change in how cadavers are distributed to schools.

Currently cadavers are donated to particular schools. The proposal is for some centralised gov. control over which schools they go to depending on shortages and demand. Seems fair enough…?

That Turkish Lira has always been crazy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira) Check out this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira#/media/File:Euro_exchange_rate_to_TRY.svg

When I drop off my electronics at “recycling” facilities, I always wonder if they don’t just end up at a place like this. It’s hard to tell if sending them to a local landfill wouldn’t be less impactful on the environment.

Same. I’m in Australia so there is a lot of space. At the supermarket near me they have a dedicated battery recyclin g bin, so I guess I trust this a little more than those general recycling bins. That trust is even involved is not ideal though.

For now I just try hard to keep old stuff going for my friends and family. Software-wise they all use native apps for personal and work, so I see about 7-8 years of life for each laptop/desktop.

Closer look at human story: Ghana: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump

One of the problems with using older devices for a long time, even if they are repaired, is that common ways people use their computers (I’m including smartphones, tablets, laptops etc. here) gets slower over time. See How web bloat impacts users with slow connections by danluu@mastodon.social

Over the past approx. 100 days, dw_innovation@mastodon.social has made 2 or 3 public replies. The idea of using any of these social networks over RSS/Atom feeds and plain old websites is that they’re social, not a place you upload text.

As a freedom loving hippie, I’d rather see broadcasters posting to the fediverse instead of whatever awful mish mash of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter et al. it is right now! That would be fantastic!

But as a technical purist, the way DW is using their account right now, they’re arguably no worse off getting links/content from their RSS feeds available to the fediverse somehow (e.g. RSS Parrot). Sometimes I feel like we’ve had walled gardens for so long that we’ve forgotten about interoperability. Lots of platform thinking! Broadcasters don’t need to be on the fediverse, just a way that their stuff can be shared to the fediverse.

I’m excited to see things changing that makes thinking like this even possible!

I’ll upload a video in a bit!

As promised: https://www.olowe.co/tmp/apsubmit.mp4

I’m developing some software to connect ActivityPub and email. It’s been fun and I’ve learned a lot!

I’ll upload a video in a bit!