Radical Edward @RadicalEdward@hackers.town

New townies, new #Introduction #Introductions!

Just a fellow technomancer screaming into the void.

Posting about privacy, the dystopia of big tech and utopian small tech, cyberpunk, embedded/low-level stuff, retro computing, other arcane bits.

Restricting follow, will approve if you got an avi and some toots and don't seem like a total ghoul.

Tend to follow those that interact often enough, or are interesting, and aren't a firehose of toots.

Auto follow approval and follow back for townies.

this feels like the right place

Ed will introduce Ed. Full name; Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Trivusky the 4th.

Ed made it up, you know. Nice to meet you!

#introduction #introductions

If you're good at something, ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶ do it for free, destroy capitalism, build a community.

Tech enthusiast: "I want smart lights, smart tv, everything, and connect them all to my digital assisstant!"

Tech worker: *looks wistfully into distance* "I should get a small place in a little town, with a garden, make my own furniture."

ah yes, disrupt your use of the app to avoid disruptions

The Matrix code rain in the browser

https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/

funny how the discovery that Venmo transactions were public by default was this scandal, but the public ledger of cryptocurrencies is seen as this great feature

They called it the Web, or the Net, because it was supposed to connect us all.

But now it's called that because all it does is captures us.

wait you're telling me that the phrase isn't actually "male gays"?

Taco Bell Quarterly

the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters

https://tacobellquarterly.org/

whelp, google authenticator app randomly disappeared from phone

guess no longer using that

Huey Lewis AND the News? In this economy?

those color-coded dog leashes that signify "friendly to approach", "ask to approach", "aggressive, don't approach"

but something for people

think global (hack the planet)

act local (hackers.town)

Sim Nimby

The city building game where you can't build anything.

“Housing? Surely there must be other ways to deal with the unhoused.”

”This is a NICE neighborhood”

“Public transport would transport the public here”

https://opoulos.itch.io/simnimby

​ smart tech

​ wise tech

"We're making a rule that websites must respect your privacy."

Yeah!

you must now configure cookies on every single site you visit

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devlopper

after labor day, have this now

wears shirt with original NES graphics

younger person: oh cool, that from Minecraft?

🙃​

There's a thought. Getting past spam filter by sending links as QR codes.

I just now got a different email telling us to scan a QR code.

People have straight up forgot that you can click a link directly when it's in an email or digital file.

close enough