keverets @keverets@librem.one

What would happen if we stopped asking, “How can this grow?” and started asking, “What is this thing’s natural size?” What if we evaluated projects not by their potential for expansion but their depth of impact within their chosen bounds?

Choosing to stay small, focused, and finite can be a radical act. It’s a declaration that some things are valuable precisely because they resist the illogic of endless growth.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/

- i cannot overemphasize this: dont be the motherfucking mastodon hoa. the entire reason bsky has been as successful as it was, is because too many people here told people "how to behave" on their first day, or shamed them because "they werent doing it right"

if you want mastodon to thrive, you have to make it "worth it to come here". nobody likes being shamed by rando strangers.

I have Kiwix and an offline copy of wikipedia on my phone, and my local Gen Z was so surprised and excited by the concept that I thought we should have a dedicated thing for it. Cheap e-reader plus 128GB SD card plus no wifi.

Just to be clear, because a bunch of assholes have hijacked public perception and lifted up some of the worst people on Earth as exemplars of what the “tech world” is supposed to be:

I’ve been in the software world for decades, surrounded by thoughftul, creative, and humane people with whom I’ve formed many wonderful friendships and done meaningful work. That’s possible. It’s normal, even.

You don’t have to become a sociopath to make it in the tech world. Or a malignant narcissist. Or a Nazi.

Your instincts to be a decent person are good instincts. Don’t let anyone talk you into being an antisocial monster. You don’t have to be.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayback-machine-is-preserving-outdated-government-websites/

I for one am thrilled that journalism has been saved by everyone moving to substack. cant wait to find out what happens when a single company controls the publish button for every opinion worth reading. history has no lessons here

Just signed up to @ente photos, migrating everything from #Google #photos. Google unnecessarily jumbles up its data export into 2GB zip files , so it's a nightmare to put together manually for the #ente upload. I wrote this very simple bash script to do it automatically - maybe useful to somebody: https://github.com/mszell/googletoente

COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death
Researchers recommend kids stay up to date on the COVID vaccines.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/covid-shots-protect-kids-from-long-covid-and-dont-cause-sudden-death/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In case you're wondering if the purge in the US could happen in Canada, it already is: "The administrator and interim CEO of Alberta Heath Services changed AHS's official rules to declare that only the deputy health minister could be named CEO of the health agency — a change made while he was serving as deputy health minister." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/adriana-lagrange-andre-trembly-alberta-health-services-bylaw-investigation-1.7465173

Many cultures celebrate solar events — solstices and such — and that is a fine tradition. My variant of that is to celebrate the first day of the year when the solar panels generate more power than the house uses, running the meter backward overall. Thanks to some warm weather, that was yesterday... spring is coming!

As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral https://tcrn.ch/4kfUGFU

Love this!

Spotted this morning . . .

It was mentioned that there is a petition to get the Canadian gov't off of X.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Maybe we can get them onto the Fediverse?

#Fediverse #OpenSocialMediaIRLSocial

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

“Truly a middle finger”: Humane bricking $700 AI Pins with limited refunds
Humane's showing how not to treat early adopters.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/truly-a-middle-finger-humane-bricking-700-ai-pins-with-limited-refunds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler.
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Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland

Citizen Lab released a report that highlights three serious security issues in the RedNote app, including that the app retrieves uploaded user content in a way that allows anyone else on your network, at your ISP, or organizations like the NSA, to see everything you look at and upload to RedNote. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/crimson-memo-analyzing-privacy-impact-xianghongshu-aka-red-note