“…the centre of the universe is where there is least resistance to new ideas.” Kevin Kelly

My mind boggles that I can listen in real-time to @falklandsradio even when I’m 9800+ km away.

Veranda view.

A lush, tropical outlook with tall palm trees and dense vegetation in the foreground. Sandy beach and shining sea in the background.

Today was the first time in 45 years that I had the chance to use the word ‘trapezoidal’ in written correspondence. I feel closer to life being complete 😀

Claiming my Bitclout my public address is:

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Sunrise 🌄

silohuetted palm trees as the sun rises

And if the stingers don’t get you then the crocodiles 🐊 will.

warning sign alerting to the presence of crocodiles

Watch out for the stingers.

Jellyfish first aid station with obligatory bottle of white wine vinegar

Today I’m experimenting with Pleroma <pleroma.social> a lightweight fediverse server. I’m installing onto OpenBSD v6.9 <www.openbsd.org> the proactively secure UNIX-like O/S.

There’s lots of food for thought from the recent Reimaging the Internet conference. I found the 90 minute panel discussion on Interoperability and Alternative Social Media with Cory Doctorow and Daphne Keller particularly attractive. Difficult to summarise but if you’d rather have protocols than platforms, promotion of competition in the social media market and better ways to deal with the pathologies in online discourse then this is for you.

Always makes me happy 😊

Big bird is a character from Sesame Street. it is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow anthropomorphic bird.

Always makes me smile

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Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺

This was delicious, light and refreshing lager. Perfect with spicy foods. 🍻

Tipping down with rain here ☔️

The cinema was never like this when I was a lad…

POSSE test

Running JavaScript inside PDFs is a bad idea and Mozilla previously disabled it by default. But now with FireFox 88 this option is ENABLED by default. Which means, if a PDF file contains JS it will run without any user interaction. What can possibly go wrong?

To disable this: about:config pdfjs.enableScripting –> false

Thinking back to a simpler time and my childhood favourite cartoons youtu.be/VdoJ7yq8f…