Meadowhawkz
@meadowhawkz.bsky.social
Been coding in Java since Applets were cool!
Also a big fan of indieweb, foss, gaming. I'm a long time maker and love learning new stuff. 😀
Also a big fan of indieweb, foss, gaming. I'm a long time maker and love learning new stuff. 😀
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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I like this and I don't think I have seen it before. YES START A COMPUTER CLUB IN YR OWN TOWN startacomputer.club ( via @meadowhawkz.bsky.social )
START A COMPUTER CLUB
startacomputer.club
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I like this and I don't think I have seen it before. YES START A COMPUTER CLUB IN YR OWN TOWN startacomputer.club ( via @meadowhawkz.bsky.social )
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October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely check out powrss.com/.
A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!
A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!
powRSS - Discover the Indie Web
powRSS is a public RSS feed aggregator for small and independent websites.
powrss.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely check out powrss.com/.
A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!
A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!
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Watch my BSidesPDX keynote where I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for communities to defend themselves micahflee.com/practical-de...
Practical Defenses Against Technofascism
I gave the Saturday morning keynote at BSidesPDX! I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for commu...
micahflee.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Watch my BSidesPDX keynote where I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for communities to defend themselves micahflee.com/practical-de...
I have the same optimism I bring to every large company buying up open source... Very low. Sure Arduino will remain the same for a while but corporate enshitification is nearly inevitable... I mean I might be more optimistic if it wasn't a US company.. idk. #rip
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Qualcomm is buying Arduino, releases new Raspberry Pi-esque Arduino board
Qualcomm claims Arduino will keep its own branding and “open source ethos.”…
arstechnica.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I have the same optimism I bring to every large company buying up open source... Very low. Sure Arduino will remain the same for a while but corporate enshitification is nearly inevitable... I mean I might be more optimistic if it wasn't a US company.. idk. #rip
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
I had a feeling this was going to be the result of Google "protecting" everyone with the developer registration plan... Another door will close
www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/g...
www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/g...
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
: Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member
www.theregister.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I had a feeling this was going to be the result of Google "protecting" everyone with the developer registration plan... Another door will close
www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/g...
www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/g...
I added an old school GuestBook to my blog today. Feeling super nostalgic but also it feels like another little stop to taking back the internet!
If interested, blog.meadowhawk.xyz
#indieweb
If interested, blog.meadowhawk.xyz
#indieweb
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I added an old school GuestBook to my blog today. Feeling super nostalgic but also it feels like another little stop to taking back the internet!
If interested, blog.meadowhawk.xyz
#indieweb
If interested, blog.meadowhawk.xyz
#indieweb
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Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items.
I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 Wayback Machine Hacks to Recover Pages, Prove Edits & Search TV News
YouTube video by Bendobrown
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Happy Birthday to me, thank you for the mug, you weirdos
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Happy Birthday to me, thank you for the mug, you weirdos
I'm pretty unhappy about this Google approved developer plan they have announced. Preventing side-loading means governments can control what you load as well. I'm fairly sure this will negatively impact F-droid usage as well...
#foss #android
www.gizmochina.com/2025/08/28/g...
#foss #android
www.gizmochina.com/2025/08/28/g...
Google’s Android Sideloading Crackdown: Safety at the Cost of Freedom? - Gizmochina
Google will require verified developers for Android sideloading from 2026, raising debates over security and user freedom.
www.gizmochina.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'm pretty unhappy about this Google approved developer plan they have announced. Preventing side-loading means governments can control what you load as well. I'm fairly sure this will negatively impact F-droid usage as well...
#foss #android
www.gizmochina.com/2025/08/28/g...
#foss #android
www.gizmochina.com/2025/08/28/g...
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Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic.
But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide
It sounds horrific. It should. Let's be clear about the material circumstances of what's happening rather than handwaving about 'the dangers of AI'
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic.
But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
Wow I just setup a cloudflare tunnel to my new server and now I have a public gitea server without all the trouble of configuring ports etc. then hoping I didn't leave the backdoor wide-open. This really makes self-hosting a low stress inducing activity! And you get TLS in the deal.
#selfhosting
#selfhosting
August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wow I just setup a cloudflare tunnel to my new server and now I have a public gitea server without all the trouble of configuring ports etc. then hoping I didn't leave the backdoor wide-open. This really makes self-hosting a low stress inducing activity! And you get TLS in the deal.
#selfhosting
#selfhosting
Oh perfect testing ground for AI.. always best to test on people with no rights so you can master its use before inflicting it on those considered "free".
Creating biometric profiles of people “is incredibly invasive,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @oklahomawatch.bsky.social. If it's being done in prisons, “there has to be a very clear policy and a real guarantee this information is not going anywhere.”
oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/26/...
oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/26/...
As Oklahoma Prisons Embrace AI, Critics Warn of Risks - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma prison officials envision drones, call monitoring and AI technologies as the future, but advocates worry the tools create risks that extend beyond incarceration.
oklahomawatch.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Oh perfect testing ground for AI.. always best to test on people with no rights so you can master its use before inflicting it on those considered "free".
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Fact!
Gurl, we already have a corporate dictatorship. That’s why the democracy’s dying!
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
August 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fact!
August 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Mental note ... Don't lose/break your phone if you want to move to a new phone, every damn app requires some form of verification from your old phone to transfer!
There's a serious downside to having your phone as the center of all verification and I'm surprised how much trouble the alternatives are
There's a serious downside to having your phone as the center of all verification and I'm surprised how much trouble the alternatives are
August 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Mental note ... Don't lose/break your phone if you want to move to a new phone, every damn app requires some form of verification from your old phone to transfer!
There's a serious downside to having your phone as the center of all verification and I'm surprised how much trouble the alternatives are
There's a serious downside to having your phone as the center of all verification and I'm surprised how much trouble the alternatives are
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Management loves AI precisely because they no longer know anything about the actual work that's being done. Because they know so little (and don't even know that they know so little), AI seems to them to "know" so much.
July 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Management loves AI precisely because they no longer know anything about the actual work that's being done. Because they know so little (and don't even know that they know so little), AI seems to them to "know" so much.
Hey look, everything old is new again! I'm breaking out my JQuery! Maybe WinAmp too so I can code some html and whip the llamas ass! Might also claim to do FE dev again... But I don't want to get too excited just yet...
share.google/aiuPMAcfiqaq...
share.google/aiuPMAcfiqaq...
HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?
Instead of starting with a framework, smart frontend developers now begin with HTML and enhance it progressively with JavaScript.
share.google
July 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hey look, everything old is new again! I'm breaking out my JQuery! Maybe WinAmp too so I can code some html and whip the llamas ass! Might also claim to do FE dev again... But I don't want to get too excited just yet...
share.google/aiuPMAcfiqaq...
share.google/aiuPMAcfiqaq...
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Today, there are massive protests all over the US. People are building communities and networks and beginning to communicate, as a nation. This solidarity is absolutely necessary. If the nation is to lift off a dictatorship, there has to be a nation. #3E #NoKings
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No kings, no subjects | Binding Chaos
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June 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Today, there are massive protests all over the US. People are building communities and networks and beginning to communicate, as a nation. This solidarity is absolutely necessary. If the nation is to lift off a dictatorship, there has to be a nation. #3E #NoKings
www.patreon.com/posts/no-kin...
www.patreon.com/posts/no-kin...
June 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM