it's quite ironic that its called gastown. perhaps even selfacknowledging.

because the world where gastown looks attractive? that's the world where everything already went to shit!

to want to go to gastown is to accept that world. why accept that world when we can build a better one?

listen you can make fun of gastown all you want but giving up on everything you loved about your craft is the future of your craft so if you don't get on board right now you are missing out

Rebuilding the indieweb one tendril at a time.

This is what we need to do. Rebuild the internet, reclaim the word social in social media and put people before platforms.

We must uncouple our attention from the tech-bro, elitist, narrative-controlling monopolies1 and get back to building individual, independant website presences. The indieweb.

Sites that are shared and aggregated by RSS feeds, collected into like-minded groups by webrings, boosted with decentralised social media platforms such as Mastodon, and cross-pollinated with interlinks and cross site conversations from individual posts.

Subvert, bypass, and starve the big platforms of their attention oxygen. Let them suffocate in a circle-jerk of AI generated slop.

There is now a growing movement of people dumping the scroll-gatekeepers, and building their own cheap, simple (often retro looking) independant websites.

Here is an example: Daryl Sun has a simple site that is packed with information and interesting links for anyone spending a little time to click rather than scroll (just like here).

In the spirit of re-wilding the web and creating interesting tendrils, I have updated my own ABOUT PAGE to let you know far more about me than you ever knew you wanted to know. It is a work in progress and will grow over time.

Another great example is Brennan, who writes some really interesting stuff and has recently begun moving his focus from posting on Medium to growing his independent site.

He always has tons of interesting outgoing links, is a member of a heap of webrings, as well as including a slash page of all his interests and projects.

I am gaining a lot of inspiration from this movement and urge you to consider dropping out of the shittosphere of big social media and spending that newfound scroll time creating your own independent online presence.

Let us tear the whole thing down and rebuild it fit for purpose.

If you already have a indie website drop me a link in the comments….I would love to follow and share.

1. Facebook. Twitter X. Bluesky. Youtube. Tiktok. and the rest… ↩︎

#blackAndWhite #indieweb #photography #socialmedia

Malware creators are targeting Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system through its Snap store, and it seems that Canonical is allowing security issues to remain unresolved. https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/ #linux #ubuntu #opensource

Siemens proefproject Zoetermeer in de Blankaardflat, Ed van der Elsken, 1982 - 1990

#Siemens #Zoetermeer #deBlankaardflat #EdvanderElsken #German #Germany #fotografie #photography #EdVanDerElsken #EdvanderElsken

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2019-299-34-8

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Istanbul, Turquie (1964)
#photo #cartierbresson #photography

Henri Cartier-Bresson
#photo #cartierbresson #photography

Eyes Down

#photography
#london

Tobacco packhouse. Person County, North Carolina

#NorthCarolina #DorotheaLanges #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772165/

RE: https://toot.dusepo.co.uk/@vortoj_eo/115770183623078937

I like this word because it exemplifies what esperanto is about.

buso – bus
halti – to stop
-ej- – a place
bus-halt-ej-o bus stop place (noun)

#esperante #esperanto
mi ŝatas tiun ĉin vorton ĉar ekzemplas tion, kio Esperanto pri estas.

The FCC just granted US hams a new secondary (contiguous) allocation on 60 meters: 5351.5 to 5366.5 kHz, in addition to the existing four channels outside of that range. Might need to make a new dipole now. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio

Trying to do #adventofcode inside of Termux may be the only thing stopping me from brute forcing solutions. My poor Essential can't handle the thrash of my trash solutions.

If you've been waiting for the right moment to give to EFF, now's your chance. All donations through December 9th get an automatic dollar-for-dollar match! https://eff.org/power-up

And then, co-incidentally because it's the 1st of December, here's Episode #1 -- installing and looking at #immich

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/01-immich/

Is this thing on? 🎤

Oh, it's December. Should we do one of those month-long series things?!

Okay then.

We can call it #selfhostember because the world does not need another Advent calendar.

If you've ever asked "what would I use my own server for?" then we would like to show off ~around two dozen self-hostable pieces of software, alternatives to centralized solutions or just their own thing.

To start, here's some instructions on setting up your environment: https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/00-setup/

pov: you love linux so much that you decided to port linux into gmod

yes, this is a real isa, you probably already know which one.

it boots! i eventually got bored with the counter and just make the quota limit higher

Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

Common Desktop Environment comes back after 2 years with v2.5.3!

Two years after the last point release of Common Desktop Environment, a new point release has been released this year, bearing version 2.5.3. Unfortunately, it’s nothing major; just a subset of bug fixes that are mostly development-related, such as compiler warning fixes to reduce the clutter during the build process.

For those who like the old-school desktop UI that is similar to old HP-UX (Visual User Environment) and Solaris Unix systems, this one is for you. CDE 2.5.3 brings some of the big changes, such as support for more mouse buttons in dtwm.

Improvements were also made to the built-in terminal emulator, including fixes for copy and paste system. You can see the full commit logs here.

For the sake of reminding you of Visual User Environment, here’s the picture:

#cde #cde253 #commonDesktopEnvironment #de #desktopEnvironment #linux #motif #news #tech #technology #update