Notices by r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social), page 21

From 2014, this is a touching rebuke of the idea that "ad free social networking" is a new thing and the notion that Pinterest and such attracting particular demographics is unusual

As someone who was part of that forum scene before "social networking" had a name, I can relate

https://flowerhack.dreamwidth.org/3230.html

@HerraBRE Thing is, my IP doesn't change for months anyway and they charge $70 extra for the privilege of having 80/443 unblocked. I've had that package before and the "speed increase" they promised wasn't really there. And it wasn't worth it to me to pay that much when hosting them elsewhere is much cheaper

This is only an issue in areas where there's no competition. Of course, ISPs have lobbied the government here to make sure they hold a monopoly

Only thing keeping me from hosting all my sites from home is my ISP blocking port 80

Official explanation: “Because Port 80 is often used by malicious software, including viruses and worms...”

Nothing says “Net Neutrality” like contrived nonsense to push customers onto fast (more expensive) lanes

Current mood

https://mastodon.social/media/hIb6HMq_MJhwOETwnV4

https://mastodon.social/media/WomcPyVIhP8W8QYWl_M

Meanwhile

https://mastodon.social/media/7oQ_BgZ6it6sszVKqbg

This year has been long

Please accept this kitten riding a unicorn as a consolation

https://mastodon.social/media/oqJrjMERNoHqg-uWW_w

5:55AM. #Naptime!

https://mastodon.social/media/xbAOrDI7Qls-9A_SAuA

More #Biopunk than #Cyberpunk, but scientists in China have managed to clone dogs. What makes this project more remarkable is that they edited the genes with CRISPR before doing so, which means you could change the heritability of some traits

If this moves on to human trials, it has implications for preventing diseases from passing on and, less ethically, letting people select more favorable traits in their children

http://www.wdsu.com/article/biz-says-its-cloned-the-first-dog-from-a-gene-edited-donor-dog/14497140

This is a great approach to most things, not just technology

https://twitter.com/wycats/status/944740946830270464

I see this a lot with programming languages

If you use something different from someone else, that’s fine. Disparaging them for using that different thing is not fine. No matter what tools you use, the result of your creativity is what really matters

https://mastodon.social/media/MfbqBd94KOijCn_V3Nw

Another Walk in the Snow, Dee Nickerson

#Art

https://mastodon.social/media/wUFkbDe1Z8WdmqNJ5-U

Current status
https://xkcd.com/1168/

https://mastodon.social/media/XrRvYSpbgZw5rifdchE

@djsundog Counter-intuitively, paper is censorship resistant (at least in Democratic societies) for software and idea distribution

You can block a website or prevent a download, but getting in the way of someone selling or giving away a book has a lot of social resistance

#Bitcoin:

“Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

Good to know Hacker News has changed little over the years

https://mastodon.social/media/UA6pIBocsNLRCeE42_c

Most of the web is now unreadable on mobile without disabling JS and without reader view

This wasn’t the accessible, semantic web I was promised in the early 2000s. It’s like everyone fell over themselves to severe ads and forgot what content was

ProTip: Be a good generalist

This is weirdly comforting despite me being a neat freak

“Serial Experiments Lain-esque setup”

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/3xqxcr/serial_experiments_lainesque_setup_xpost_from/
#Cyberpunk

https://mastodon.social/media/UAyIKMcIEFFlh4w7mbM

‘Tis the season

https://mastodon.social/media/h3xCFMOF48XBO4_tMNQ

I've fallen down a very weird rabbit hole

FYI, if you need a lab notebook and you've got a decent laser printer at home, you can print out however many sheets you need using a template I made:

https://github.com/cypnk/Lab-Notebook

Available as both PDF and original LibreOffice spreadsheet so you can make any adjustments you need. Just select the number of content index pages and lab sheets you like