Doug Webb

douginamug@mastodon.xyz

Member of Kanthaus, 🏠 a common house in 🇩🇪 <a href="https://kanthaus.online" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://kanthaus.online</a> Current focus: score voting ➡️ coop & commons governance ⚖️ Glad to be here with you 🌍

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Post #3046104
super rare and useful Anatolian hieroglyph discovered: 𔐰 hand held open, pointing left with symbols looking like &quot;IC&quot; above and below a.k.a. &quot;I see, I see&quot;, for a weary, neutral but still affirmative response🤌 U+14430
Post #3046103
Say I wanted to make a kinetic light sculpture (I do) (Think CCC, see https://hansleser.de/) Say that required turning something with ~5 KG of weight at about 1 rpm. What tech would you use? Bonus points if I can salvage it somehow.
Post #1692307
I just stumbled upon the &quot;charging optimization&quot; setting to limit charging to 80% in #GrapheneOS 😍
Post #1692305
&quot;feedback&quot; implies &quot;feedforth&quot;
Post #1692304
I think my favorite thing about German is the abundance of &quot;syllabic contractions&quot; e.g. Solawi ⬅️ Solidarisches Landwirtschaft (solidarity agriculture) I feel it&#39;s way more common in English to make &quot;letter acronyms&quot; e.g. CSA ⬅️ Community Supported Agriculture The German approach makes it much easier to have &quot;nice&quot; new words.
Post #1692301
Saw this slide in a fosdem talk https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GNKEPR-burnout_in_open_source_a_structural_problem_we_can_fix_together/ and immediately thought of the &quot;with great power comes great responsibility&quot; spiderman thing. It sums up why I generally think it isn&#39;t desirable or possible to have orgs where all members have the same power/autonomy: I am a member of way too many orgs to take top-level responsibility in all of them!
Post #1145410
Listened to this podcast with author of book &quot;Don&#39;t talk about politics&quot; Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano. https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189991441/e888cad16e3c5835d2a100dc101d783c.mp3 (yes, I know the platform is bad) Basically confirms what I felt was true: politically debating strangers is useless if not counterproductive. What does is friendship and experience. But further: forming friendships with people outside of our comfort zone is a social skill that can be tra...
Post #751073
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@dk/116283379156611340 This is genius and hilarious &quot;in a world looming with the threat of ai stealing your job, save humanity by stealing ai&#39;s job.&quot;
Post #358203
&quot;What if all governance is onboarding?&quot; https://enfascination.com/weblog/post/2857 The title is the thesis, but the detail is worth reading. Kind of reminds me of CAP theorem, except for people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
Post #309043
caught myself about to do a calculation on my phone that I could clearly do myself. stopped, did it myself.