Nice! You may enjoy this short thread of mine, though you likely know all the history already 😊
The linked article about typewriters, The Technology of Compassion, is a wonderful read.
Per Axbom
There is so much to learn from older technology.
Pictured is my Remington Standard 12 typewriter from circa 1925, with a Swedish keyboard.
Remington is notable as a brand of typewriter because their first two #typewriters had features that are still in use today on computer keyboards across the world.
Note the text in the brand label: ”To save time is to lengthen life.”
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The first of those features that has sustained throughout the decades is the QWERTY keyboard, invented by Christopher Latham Sholes.
The second of those features was added to the Remington no. 2, released in 1880 and later used by Agatha Christie: the SHIFT key.
And yes the tale is true: the QWERTY keyboard was thus designed to solve jamming problems. If you typed too fast the hammers would get stuck on each other.
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Some typewriter trivia to throw around: The first mechanical typing machine was invented by italian Pellegrino Turri for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano so she could write him letters. It's suggested they were love letters.
Attached is an image from one of the surviving letters.
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If you enjoyed that bit of trivia about typewriters, you should read on to learn more about the The Technology of Compassion.
Many typewriter innovations were driven by a desire to help those who can not see.
https://parisianfields.com/2012/09/30/the-technology-of-compassion/
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@smitha Haha, good answer.
Awesome, thank you, this is very helpful!!
So it would appear there are like 50 different varieties of book lamps (the ones that attach to books).
What do I need to know or look out for if I want to buy one? Battery or rechargeable? Big lamp? Flexible arm? Weight? Make my own?
I honestly thought this would be easier.
@yatil I’d consider using calendly.com and hooking it up to Stripe. Stripe can be set up to manage taxes automatically these days.
👍 My personal concern is that the Fediverse will be a notch more confusing when half of toots can be quote-boosted and half can not. Or quote-boosting actually makes your toot less visible because a lot of people will opt out of seeing them.
But this variety is somehow a necessary part of the Fediverse I guess…
And haha yes, I don’t really know how to respond to those. It’s interesting to me that people actually believe that anyone can just fork or contribute 😅
@bp All good and relevant questions. In a transparent development process I would hope they have answers that are easily accessible.
As a transparent decision-making process is my primary concern there are many questions that would have to be answered in this way before embarking on something that changes the dynamics of communication.
Without a transparent decision-making process I will certainly choose another service as my fediverse home :)
Yes, ’quote boosts’ are a great example of this. Interestingly (but far from surprisingly) most people who want them don’t choose the fediverse services that already support them.
Instead the hope is that the software that doesn’t have it, and has long had a clear stance on not implementing them, will still build them if enough (or the right) people demand them.
If people truly acted the way you described with regards to the fediverse, wouldn’t they just choose another service?
@LeoR1010 Igår läste jag även ut Backlashen av Irena Pozar. Två böcker på två dagar vilket jag hoppas sätter tonen för året, dvs mer läsning.
Känns som dina boktips här påverkade vad jag önskade och fick i julklapp. 😁 Tack för det.
Andra jag ska ge mig på nu är Maria Ressas How to Stand Up to a Dictator och Greta Thunbergs Klimatboken.
@ambivalena Ja, det var otäckt att gå in idag och känna att mitt hemflöde blivit mer likt fågelsajten. Det gick alldeles för snabbt…
Jag måste nog avfölja de som tar med sig sina gamla invanda beteenden hit. Var så kul att se dem här först, men förstår nu att det kan ta ett tag för dem att släppa sättet man indirekt blivit tränad i att kommunicera där borta.
Worried when the development of features appears to be down to
* how strongly a lead developer FEELS about it
* the EXPERIENCE of a strong demand with little reasoning about who and why
* a leaning towards a sudden demand from brand new users rather than concerns expressed by longtime users
The appeal of Mastodon was its stated attention to compassion. I’m not a person at risk, but I see the expressed fear of disenfranchised people, whose voices are weaker by the day with the surge in users.
I think the idea of the Fediverse is in constant flux, and that is part of its appeal to me. Originally the term applied to the OStatus protocol rather than ActivityPub.
And while ActivityPub is indeed the dominant format today it would, in my mind, convey a smaller space than the wider potential.
If it had been decided Fedi can never be more than OStatus the term would be weaker.
I do believe my diagram can be used as an explanatory model whichever conviction one has.
1 januari 2023 ägnades åt att läsa hela Landsförrädare av Moa Berglöf.
Gripande, klarsynt och oerhört välskriven. Jag fascineras av hur min egen tolkning av bokens titel fluktuerar under läsningen.
Särskilt sörjer jag den långtgående normaliseringen av det grova hat, hot och psykiska våld som Moa och så många andra utsatts för under lång tid, och som rättsväsendet inte haft förmåga att hantera.
Våldsverkare har gynnats av plattformars arkitektur o girighet. Vill arbeta för att det förändras.
@mralancooper Sorry to hear it Alan. Just terrible news to get. Take care and wishing you all the best for the new year.
It would show up in the federated timeline only if someone on your instance is following that specific Tumblr blog...
Very cool. I feel like I’m doing too little 😅
@jared Lovely, thanks! Will check out how you set up your podcast.
Curious about my network and software being used.
Feel free to clarify if you have noteworthy customisations on your instance as well.
Are you on