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Your Teenage Self is Not a Bug, It's a Feature
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📅 2025-01-21 14:01
Between middle-class stability and creative resistance, there's a teenage part of us keeping watch. Maybe it's right.
Why I Make Smart Devices Dumber: A Privacy Advocate's Reflection
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📅 2025-01-16 14:41
When you replace a vacuum robot's proprietary brain with open-source firmware, you are not just modifying a device—you are making a statement about ownership and control. Sometimes the smartest choice is to make devices dumber.
The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband
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📅 2025-01-07 15:01
In a world of endless pings, every creative act becomes rebellion. This isn't about time management—it's about protecting your spark in a system designed to extinguish it.
The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
📰 mjg59.dreamwidth.org
📅 2025-01-02 01:14
As part of their "Defective by Design" anti-DRM campaign, the FSF recently made the following claim:Today, most of the major streaming media platforms utilize the TPM to decrypt media streams, forcefully placing the decryption out of the user's control (from here).This is part of...
AI ‘Street Photography’ Isn’t Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience
📰 simone.org
📅 2024-12-21 16:43
When we pretend AI generation is street photography, we're not just misusing terms—we're surrendering authentic engagement with reality.
Beyond Borgmann: Single-Task Tools and the Future of Meaningful Technology
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📅 2024-12-16 17:43
Single-task tools complement modern devices by combining technological capability with intentional constraints. From offline cameras to e-ink readers, these tools preserve human agency while embracing progress. How thoughtful friction and focused design create more meaningful eng...
When should we require that firmware be free?
📰 mjg59.dreamwidth.org
📅 2024-12-12 15:57
The distinction between hardware and software has historically been relatively easy to understand - hardware is the physical object that software runs on. This is made more complicated by the existence of programmable logic like FPGAs, but by and large things tend to fall into fa...
Android privacy improvements break key attestation
📰 mjg59.dreamwidth.org
📅 2024-12-12 12:16
Sometimes you want to restrict access to something to a specific set of devices - for instance, you might want your corporate VPN to only be reachable from devices owned by your company. You can't really trust a device that self attests to its identity, for instance by reporting ...
The Productivity Paradox: Why Doing More Leads to Less
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📅 2024-11-21 14:30
In a world obsessed with optimization, what if the most productive strategy is to stop maximizing productivity? Discover how strategic inefficiency might be the key to reclaiming your work, your time, and your sanity.
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
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📅 2024-11-12 16:01
Explore how devotion to convenience reshapes human experience, and why embracing the friction of inconvenience might restore depth and meaning to your life.
The Tapestry of Influence: The Inspirations That Shape Us
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📅 2024-11-05 11:29
Discover how your unique combination of influences—from art and philosophy to pop culture and personal experiences—shapes your creative perspective. Explore how connecting seemingly unrelated passions and memories creates unexpected insights and original expression.