internet

Scroogled by Cory Doctorow

2010-05-10

evil, freedom, Google, internet, writing

Since Radar magazine doesn’t have it anymore (archive.org archive), and Scroogle isn’t showing it, here is the short story which inspired Scroogle:

This short story was published in the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. This story is copyrighted Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC-BY-NC-SA) There is also a list of translations of this story. I don’t know how many of those links are still good. Use archive.org if something’s gone missing.

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Google nukes meta search engines

2010-05-10

evil, freedom, Google, internet, websites

Scroogle is gone.

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The Compiled Website Lives!

2010-05-03

compiled website, internet, programming

The Compiled Website project is the engine running https://spiralofhope.com/.

I’ve made some astounding progress in recent days, and it’s now at the point where I can create and edit documents as I wish. The only critical feature I’m missing is the creation of lists of mixed-type; both ordered and unordered.

I took some time and cleaned up my TL;DR introduction page. In particular I’ve written my compiled website reasoning.

The compiled website project is pretty much the death knell for this blog. Useful stuff that’s stuck here is now in line to be imported into spiralofhope.com.

But before that happens, I think I’ll implement a site RSS feed so that people can stay up-to-date as they wish, and I can create temporal posts like blog entries.

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Darken Firefox’s blank start page

2010-04-18

Firefox, Firefox extensions, freeware, HOWTO, internet, open-source software, personal, Usability

Firefox

about:blank

moved to Firefox about-blank dark

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email sending limits

2010-02-16

email, internet, Linux, reviews, RSS, todo

The downside of rss2email is that many ISPs have a limit to the number of emails you can send. Lavabit.com has a flat 256 email limit per day.

GMail seems to be a little more lenient. While it too is restricted, it seems that I could indeed send unlimited emails to myself.

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rss2email, and a rant on usability-apathy

2010-02-16

abandoned, Claws Mail, documentation, email, HOWTO, internet, Linux, my writing, oldschool, reviews, RSS, RSS clients, Thunderbird, todo, Usability

rss2email >

Followup YouTube+RSS-related stuff is in Atheist YouTube channels, now gone

I was intending to do a decent post every day, but I got really burned out. Why? I’ve been struggling with several different programs over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been sick and tired of the clumsiness that my apathy has allowed.

I think everyone has a sort of apathy towards usability issues. We take them as excusable or as some sort of status quo “that’s just the way it is”. I’m sick and fucking tired of that. Seriously.

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Forum vs Mailing List; Why some developers have a strong preference

2010-02-01

internet, my writing, Usability, writing

There are two things I want to talk about. One is the underlying technology and the other is the user.

While there are tools which bridge the gap between the mailing list and the forum, I still haven’t found them in common use. I’m going to set aside that line of discussion in this post and go after the everyday usage of the two tools.

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