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Stacktopolis: The authentic charity CTO experience (game)(techfreedom.eu)
2 points by dajbelshaw 6mo ago|0 comments
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How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis(blog.dougbelshaw.com)
1 points by dajbelshaw 7mo ago|1 comments
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by dajbelshaw 7mo ago
I’m really happy with how my How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis blog series turned out, so I’ve pulled the three posts together into an ebook. The ebook is a more refined and cohesive version, with updated imagery, stronger links between
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by dajbelshaw 8mo ago
I've switched from Google to Proton and will soon be moving on from Zoom. So I wanted to be able to easily add video conferencing links. This extension, made with Claude Code, provides that functionality for Firefox and Chromium-based
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45 quotations for my birthday(blog.dougbelshaw.com)
1 points by dajbelshaw 9mo ago|1 comments
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5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025(blog.dougbelshaw.com)
1 points by dajbelshaw 9mo ago|0 comments
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The App Paradigm Inversion(blog.dougbelshaw.com)
2 points by dajbelshaw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dajbelshaw 5y ago
OK, well I wrote my doctoral thesis* on digital literacies, so this is a hot topic for me as a parent of an almost 15 year-old boy and almost 11 year-old girl. TL;DR: we're way stricter than other parents I know both in the UK and ot
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by dajbelshaw 7y ago
When consulting, I've found that people really like zero-install video conferencing solutions based on WebRTC (e.g. appear.in / Jitsi)
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by dajbelshaw 7y ago
Have you considered using Open Badges for this? https://openbadges.org
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Emoji triplets could help trust and identity on decentralised social networks(dougbelshaw.com)
1 points by dajbelshaw 8y ago|0 comments
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Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites(dougbelshaw.com)
2 points by dajbelshaw 9y ago|0 comments
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Why I just deleted all 77.5k tweets I’ve sent out over the last 10 years(dougbelshaw.com)
23 points by dajbelshaw 9y ago|14 comments
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How thinking of myself as a ‘Human API’ helped me get over my ego(discours.es)
2 points by dajbelshaw 9y ago|0 comments
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by dajbelshaw 9y ago
Dell XPS 13 running Ubuntu 16.04 (Went from 2015 MacBook Pro to Lenovo X220 to this. If the X220 had a higher-res screen and better GPU I'd have stuck with that...)
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by dajbelshaw 10y ago
Hmmm... > I need to confess something: ‘‘Whuffie’’ would make a terrible currency. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/03/cory-doctorow-w...
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by dajbelshaw 10y ago
As a knowledge worker, I've found that there is no 'best' way of organising information. It depends on what it is that you're doing. Having said that, the things I come back to are Trello (Kanban-style boards), Pinboard.
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I love co-ops, but Twitter shouldn't become one(discours.es)
2 points by dajbelshaw 10y ago|0 comments
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Curriculum as algorithm(literaci.es)
1 points by dajbelshaw 10y ago|0 comments
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by dajbelshaw 10y ago
I've taken cold showers every weekday for the last few years. The way I get around the problems raised (washing hair, etc.) is that I have a really hot shower just before bed. This helps me sleep by lowering my core body temperature. C
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Mozilla releases v2.0 of their 'Web Literacy Map'(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by dajbelshaw 10y ago|0 comments
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3 things I learned during my time at Mozilla(dougbelshaw.com)
2 points by dajbelshaw 10y ago|0 comments
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How to use a Chromebook in a more secure and privacy-respecting way(discours.es)
1 points by dajbelshaw 10y ago|0 comments
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by dajbelshaw 10y ago
I think the Chromebook Pixel 2015 suffers from the same HDPI problem with Linux distros that I've got with the 2013 version. I've got GalliumOS ( https://galliumos.org ) working, but it's somewhat unusable. Linux Mi
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by dajbelshaw 11y ago
As a new literacies researcher, this fascinates me - especially the 'forced informality' through artificial constraints. "so accustomed is the public to telegraphic brevity, that their use often produces amusement rather than
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by dajbelshaw 11y ago
It was my first time meeting Stallman at the Indie Tech Summit (where I also met the CloudFleet guys). He's a little eccentric, but he's one of the reasons I'm now on a Linux machine instead of a Mac!
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by dajbelshaw 11y ago
Cheers. :)
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by dajbelshaw 11y ago
Hey, OP here. Thanks for the mention of Xprivacy - I wasn't aware of it. :) Like everyone else, I'm always learning. Just sharing this post for others who weren't aware of Amazon's business model here (which does seem so
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by dajbelshaw 11y ago
Indeed, and that's the case with everything - Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I get it. My point in this post is that I (who am interested in privacy and rights online) didn't realise what was going on, how is Joe Average going to
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You can't trust Amazon Underground(discours.es)
117 points by dajbelshaw 11y ago|84 comments

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