Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • That you cannot understand technology without understanding the people. And you cannot understand people without understanding politics. Every choice you made has an impact on the world.

    As it happens, I had this very conversation with a high school kid yesterday who was in my office on work experience. She said something to the effect of “I’m not political” to which I looked her dead in the eye and said: “You should be. Everything is political”.

    Thanks for sharing. It’s always good to see people advocating for Free licensing for the right reasons.








  • Yeah I thought about the security cases, but decided it wasn’t a problem for my situation since I was only archiving links that I’m selecting. If I were to open this to us, yeah that’s a real risk. I should probably add something about this in the docs.

    The suggestion of pointing to archive.org was floated to me by someone on Mastodon actually, and I think I’ll probably add that option as well. Just not right now. I’m tired 😆







  • This might be fun to write actually. Basically you need a central server you connect to via a websocket that would plot points out on a map (maybe with leaflet?) on receipt of notifications pushed via said socket.

    The trouble of course is that with a central server, you tend to incur costs, so you’d have to pay, unless some sort of P2P mesh could be established between participating parties. That’d be a fun problem to solve for sure.