NotHarlock
@notharlock.bsky.social
🇬🇧 On the enshittification treadmill with you.
Technologist (dev). Rather vapid. (He/him, early 30s, ace)
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Here for: funny shit, infosec, FOSS, UK, Europe, transit, climate, civility, rights, intersection of tech with all people
Technologist (dev). Rather vapid. (He/him, early 30s, ace)
I don't follow back
Here for: funny shit, infosec, FOSS, UK, Europe, transit, climate, civility, rights, intersection of tech with all people
It's another (regressive, backwards) step in what has been happening for a long time: photoshop. The videographer asks: do we trust this information? We haven't trusted it for decades - because of airbrushed photos.
August 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It's another (regressive, backwards) step in what has been happening for a long time: photoshop. The videographer asks: do we trust this information? We haven't trusted it for decades - because of airbrushed photos.
I have a couple of scripts that remain in "not fit for release" state for several years, but I'm using them.
Dumb example: being able to skip songs by tapping a sequence out on my mouse button, so that I don't have to have a "next song" button bound separately
Dumb example: being able to skip songs by tapping a sequence out on my mouse button, so that I don't have to have a "next song" button bound separately
August 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I have a couple of scripts that remain in "not fit for release" state for several years, but I'm using them.
Dumb example: being able to skip songs by tapping a sequence out on my mouse button, so that I don't have to have a "next song" button bound separately
Dumb example: being able to skip songs by tapping a sequence out on my mouse button, so that I don't have to have a "next song" button bound separately
There's some cool album covers in these
July 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There's some cool album covers in these
I agree but one way it might go is more places like stations and hotels/restaurants/malls would have porters (which someone might also try to replace with robots). Would still leave plenty of gaps though, eg. random streets, countryside, most places
July 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I agree but one way it might go is more places like stations and hotels/restaurants/malls would have porters (which someone might also try to replace with robots). Would still leave plenty of gaps though, eg. random streets, countryside, most places
You found it, right? On the app ot can look like something you can't expand.
July 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You found it, right? On the app ot can look like something you can't expand.
hunter2-- I mean... ●●●●●●●
July 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
hunter2-- I mean... ●●●●●●●
As for what to do about it:
1. I'm looking at this for some inspiration but I've not made up my mind on what to use: github.com/redecentrali...
2. As a Bluesky user I might move my account to my own server, but possibility exists that HMG forces Bluesky to block atproto services that don't comply
1. I'm looking at this for some inspiration but I've not made up my mind on what to use: github.com/redecentrali...
2. As a Bluesky user I might move my account to my own server, but possibility exists that HMG forces Bluesky to block atproto services that don't comply
GitHub - redecentralize/alternative-internet: A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).
A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form). - redecentralize/alternative-internet
github.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
As for what to do about it:
1. I'm looking at this for some inspiration but I've not made up my mind on what to use: github.com/redecentrali...
2. As a Bluesky user I might move my account to my own server, but possibility exists that HMG forces Bluesky to block atproto services that don't comply
1. I'm looking at this for some inspiration but I've not made up my mind on what to use: github.com/redecentrali...
2. As a Bluesky user I might move my account to my own server, but possibility exists that HMG forces Bluesky to block atproto services that don't comply
VPNs are always just a workaround.
Every Home Secretary since I have lived in the UK has had a major 'authoritarian streak' and attacked personal freedoms little by little over time, often in a tech-illiterate way (like this).
And most of us are frogs in boiling water, not realising.
Every Home Secretary since I have lived in the UK has had a major 'authoritarian streak' and attacked personal freedoms little by little over time, often in a tech-illiterate way (like this).
And most of us are frogs in boiling water, not realising.
July 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
VPNs are always just a workaround.
Every Home Secretary since I have lived in the UK has had a major 'authoritarian streak' and attacked personal freedoms little by little over time, often in a tech-illiterate way (like this).
And most of us are frogs in boiling water, not realising.
Every Home Secretary since I have lived in the UK has had a major 'authoritarian streak' and attacked personal freedoms little by little over time, often in a tech-illiterate way (like this).
And most of us are frogs in boiling water, not realising.
some motorways in the UK have emergency-only phones.
But those that get removed from villages are not replaced with emergency-only phones. Sometimes they get saved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was also in a train station last week, still had 4 built into a pillar (1 vandalised though)
But those that get removed from villages are not replaced with emergency-only phones. Sometimes they get saved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was also in a train station last week, still had 4 built into a pillar (1 vandalised though)
July 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
some motorways in the UK have emergency-only phones.
But those that get removed from villages are not replaced with emergency-only phones. Sometimes they get saved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was also in a train station last week, still had 4 built into a pillar (1 vandalised though)
But those that get removed from villages are not replaced with emergency-only phones. Sometimes they get saved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was also in a train station last week, still had 4 built into a pillar (1 vandalised though)
The mechanism in-game is actually very simple (just like transistors and synapses are kind of simple in terms of their inputs and outputs). But combining them makes it a computer. I'd say not all computers are Turing complete but all Turing complete machines are computers (including biology)
July 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The mechanism in-game is actually very simple (just like transistors and synapses are kind of simple in terms of their inputs and outputs). But combining them makes it a computer. I'd say not all computers are Turing complete but all Turing complete machines are computers (including biology)
this reminds me of the Redstone computers people build in Minecraft - the in-game mechanism is Turing complete, and Turing-completeness is usually used to judge this kind of thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=osFa...
Introduction to Computing - Let's Make a Redstone Computer #1
YouTube video by mattbatwings
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this reminds me of the Redstone computers people build in Minecraft - the in-game mechanism is Turing complete, and Turing-completeness is usually used to judge this kind of thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=osFa...
As someone without a personality, this.
June 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As someone without a personality, this.
Can I be your neighbour now? Just for the food. :)
June 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Can I be your neighbour now? Just for the food. :)
I searched the quote to see whether someone actually said it - found out it's a quote from Sadhguru, an Indian guru/yogi. (That means I still don't give it much credence 😄) - his foundation has a page full of the quotes, many of them are "it's all in your head" kind of stuff, ignoring how we evolved
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I searched the quote to see whether someone actually said it - found out it's a quote from Sadhguru, an Indian guru/yogi. (That means I still don't give it much credence 😄) - his foundation has a page full of the quotes, many of them are "it's all in your head" kind of stuff, ignoring how we evolved
Although, re-reading what I just wrote, the Aurelius quote would even suggest that the 'present' isn't something that can be suffered directly.
I think what I take from it is that the emotional 'pain' or irritation comes from inside me. I acknowledge that first, then 'take care of business'.
I think what I take from it is that the emotional 'pain' or irritation comes from inside me. I acknowledge that first, then 'take care of business'.
June 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Although, re-reading what I just wrote, the Aurelius quote would even suggest that the 'present' isn't something that can be suffered directly.
I think what I take from it is that the emotional 'pain' or irritation comes from inside me. I acknowledge that first, then 'take care of business'.
I think what I take from it is that the emotional 'pain' or irritation comes from inside me. I acknowledge that first, then 'take care of business'.
But taking it to its logical conclusion isn't the way - because moving forward requires a bit of forward thinking, too, and if no one ever worried about pending and possible needs, we'd not be able to build even a basic society.
June 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
But taking it to its logical conclusion isn't the way - because moving forward requires a bit of forward thinking, too, and if no one ever worried about pending and possible needs, we'd not be able to build even a basic society.
I see it as a single aspect of stoicism, but oversimplified. A regular theme, but not the entire point, of stoicism is in the vein of: "External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." (Marcus Aurelius)
June 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I see it as a single aspect of stoicism, but oversimplified. A regular theme, but not the entire point, of stoicism is in the vein of: "External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." (Marcus Aurelius)
I'll definitely try this microwave trick. In my supermarket the 'protein bars' like Quest are like 10 meters away from all the others - next to the medicine. 😆
June 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'll definitely try this microwave trick. In my supermarket the 'protein bars' like Quest are like 10 meters away from all the others - next to the medicine. 😆
Usually fines are meant to kind of offset the externalised costs the violator has imposed on the community (obviously it isn't worth nearly £1k). It's the same reason policies framed as "anti-driver" in that piece are usually popular after they're implemented. Lumping the two together isn't right.
June 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Usually fines are meant to kind of offset the externalised costs the violator has imposed on the community (obviously it isn't worth nearly £1k). It's the same reason policies framed as "anti-driver" in that piece are usually popular after they're implemented. Lumping the two together isn't right.
No. But I do note the article itself is about privacy in what's now an oppressive state.
June 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
No. But I do note the article itself is about privacy in what's now an oppressive state.