A small rock as monumental as an alp
#thinkSmall

Wired: Replace the Leather in Your Wallet With Seafood Waste https://www.wired.com/story/tomtex-chitosan-leather-alternative/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Gear/Trends #ThinkSmall #materials #fashion #apparel #design #Gear

Replace the Leather in Your Wallet With Seafood Waste - A new leather alternative from the startup TômTex uses shrimp shells instead of petrochem... - https://www.wired.com/story/tomtex-chitosan-leather-alternative/ #gear/trends #thinksmall #gear

So apparently there’s been a denial-of-service attack on mastodon.social and it was down for a bit.

I didn’t notice.

(I have my own server.)

That’s the fediverse working as designed.

No server should be so big that its absence endangers the greater system. And if any are, that’s a problem.

If we want a healthy, resilient fediverse, we must keep the size of servers small and the number of servers high.

#fediverse #mastodon #resilience #ddos #thinkSmall

I'm going to be moving my #blog to my own infra and remove it from github pages.

I built it using the "off the shelf" solutions out there: Wanna host a static website... for free? github pages.
Wanna track how many people visit your website... for free? google analytics.

And honestly I lost so much by using those "free" solutions. I don't want to a js tracker on my website, I could just log the IP. And I don't want to send data about my blog for free to google and microsoft.

Last year I started renting a #vps and it changed how I interact with technology. And moving away from the birdsite to the #fediverse made me feel connected to people like me who had enough of big tech controlling everything we do online.

Soon I'll be posting on my blog how I setup it's infra (using grafana, prometheus, caddy, and more...)
It's going to be hosted on https://gbrls.space for now it's on https://gbrls.github.io

#blogging #SmallWeb #BuildSmall #ThinkSmall

Thinking more people are going to engage with you on mainstream social media “because everyone’s there” is like thinking people at a stadium concert are there to listen to you. It‘s only true if you’re one of the ones on stage. Not so much when you’re huddled in the nosebleeds.

Forget the numbers. Forget about “going viral” (leave it to the psychopaths in Silicon Valley to make virus-like behaviour aspirational). Embrace the joy of interacting with one another on a human scale.

#ThinkSmall

Here’s wishing all of you on the Gregorian calendar a Happy New Year!

(And here’s to building a smaller, kinder, more human-scale world in 2023 and beyond.)

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#ThinkSmall #HappyNewYear

No one knows what is best for you than you and your's. #ThinkSmall #CommunitiesFirst
https://youtu.be/e6EGQFJLl04

Uxn - The Uxn ecosystem is a personal computing playground, created to host small tools and games, programmable in its own unique assembly language.

https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

#uxn #virtualmachine #thinksmall