Nicolas Nacq @nlh@nacq.me

"Computers are mostly
used against people instead of for people
used to control people instead of to free them
time to change all that –
we need a …
PEOPLE'S COMPUTER COMPANY"
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661095

"People’s Computing Company" from the 1970s, a folksy computer newsletter

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it. It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work and focusing life goals on personal fulfillment and relationship building instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downshifting_(lifestyle)

someone: *sentence-long question*
me: *pages and pages of response*
me: *haha oops that's awkward*
me: *nervously inserting several more pages of response*
me: *thought of something else*
me: *haha apologizing again*
me: *haha one more apology*
me: *haha talk to you later bye*

I just found this past artifact on my childhood desk, it turned me into a profound nostalgia.

Back in the days, I had a 2h/month 48kbps internet connection. Needless to say downloading a whole operating system was way out of my league. Luckily for teenage me, canonical was sending install CD for free back then. GCC and gedit were included in the CD. I learned C programming on that system.

I just realized this CD is now 14yo. I spent this 2007, summer helping a local paragliding club to operate in exchange of some free flying instruction. I remember a old man was learning to fly at that club this summer, we talked a lot. A early morning, he told me something I still remember word by word

> You'll see, life is pretty short in the end, I vividly remember when I was your age, I was once talking to a man about my age now, and he told me "you'll see, in no time, you'll have my age, you'll look at a youngster and feel like you were like him just yesterday.

I responded with a stupid joke on dementia, he laughed and we moved on.

He was right: it really feels like it was yesterday. I wish I could tell him he was right after all. I sadly can't remember his name. I'm not even sure he's still alive.

Yes. This is exactly what programming is like.
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RT @kareem_carr
This would actually be an amazingly effective way to teach people how computers work and what computer programming is.
https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1411772304531595264

Hello Fediverse!
Almost 9 years after our very first tweet announcing the creation of the project, we're now happy to publish our very first toot

We are an international team of contributors of code and otherwise. Together we work on the the most popular open source podcast app for Android. And we would love to get you on board 👉 https://antennapod.org/contribute

What we like to do in our spare time? Listening to podcasts!

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