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🔗 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification
It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement.
It's alarming how easily Google is managing to take control over email. It's the lifeblood of the internet. Just dropping all email from a list that you subscribe to, sent from a reputable domain, just because is completely unacceptable.
If you're using gmail, please stop. I switched to Fastmail years ago and recommend you do too. -
🔗 Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
This tracks with my experience growing up online. AIM was good, but IRC was my gateway drug for the internet. Being able to interact with like-minded people my age across the world in real time was a real treat. Now it's the norm.
I find this move from the silos to smaller, distributed communities and platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb encouraging. -
🔗 A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
It’s one of the first real-life examples of how to shift critical grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy plants. And eventually, the kind of grid services Kapolei has pioneered will have to scale nationwide.
Fantastic news. The faster we can turn off coal the better. -
🔗 Fixing Macs Door to Door
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.
Glad I got out of the PC repair game in high school. Such a fun read. -
🔗 I Quit Meat. Then Cigarettes. Then Alcohol. Then Caffeine. Then Eating After 8 p.m. Who Am I?
My 30-Year Quitting Addiction
I quit meat. Then cigarettes. Then alcohol. Then caffeine. Then eating after 8 p.m. What am I doing?I don't quite have the willpower of the author, but quitting meat and alcohol seem admirable. I'd like to get to that place, eventually.