(posted for discussion, not necessarily in agreement with author)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/08/thematic-books-series/

Links to articles used in book (not linked on the site, presumably this is the book's contents):

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Why we need a speed limit for the internet

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/why-we-need-a-speed-limit-for-the-internet/

Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html

How to build a low-tech internet?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet

How to build a low-tech website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

How sustainable is a solar powered website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html

How and why I stopped buying laptops

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops

Why the office needs a typewriter revolu

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/664390

Braille displays can be expensive, so this project idea focuses on making them cheaper and open source

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1. Introduction
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Channels? Clients? Commands? Other thoughts?

Here's what I saw on a cursory glance:

list of clients: https://www.slant.co/topics/1323/~best-irc-clients-for-linux

how to get started (dated?): https://www.linux.com/news/beginners-guide-irc/

basic commands: https://www.mirc.com/help/html/basic_irc_commands.html

channel list? https://www.irchelp.org/chanlist/

A lot of people use other chats like element / matrix these days too

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/425638

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/425629

https://www.pdos.org/vlog/vlog.htm

Main site: https://www.pdos.org/

PD Software Philosophy: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt

In the public domain software world I still mostly only see PDOS and various TempleOS related projects and forks

From a post over a decade ago: https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

Does this appear to still be true today or how have things changed?

He talks to you, walks around and learns and dances. Also chat gpt

I liked the idea of Colemak, but it never became faster than QWERTY for me: https://colemak.com/

Dvorak seems interesting just older

I saw some people promote "Halmak" but it's a minority interest (may have been an attempt to tweak Colemak)

The Carpalx people have some exotic designs: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/

Of course going in a different direction is stenography, the open steno project: https://www.openstenoproject.org/

or the Characorder: https://www.charachorder.com/

Have you tried an alternative keyboard layout to QWERTY or an alternative to keyboard designs altogether with steno?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/113850

“Taxpayer-funded innovations should benefit American workers and industry, not our foreign adversaries. For far too long, we’ve allowed American breakthroughs to be offshored to nations like China and Russia – this legislation will bring those abuses to an end,” said Senator Vance. “It’s common sense: products developed with American taxpayer dollars should be manufactured by American workers on American soil.”

“When taxpayer dollars are used to fund innovation, American companies and workers are the ones who should be reaping the benefits,” said Senator Baldwin. “By building on the progress we’ve made to manufacture more products in the USA, the Invent Here, Make Here Act ensures cutting-edge American innovation is also American-made, strengthening our manufacturing sector and our domestic supply chains, and supporting American jobs.”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/109997

I've seen in programming that apparently naming things like variables or files is hard (?). So that could be a topic of discussion. I'm not sure if it's felt that hard, to me.

I have encountered a lot of problems with downloading files with irregular filenames, and then I can't find them, though. I'm guessing maybe that's on me to manually put the filename in whenever I download these things, but I guess sometimes I might just click "save" and the name of the file is not like a description of the file and it makes it difficult to find them when searching for them.

Now on the other hand, sometimes people don't want the files labeled so that people find them easily, so that's another issue too.

I've also wondered if a motion could be made to get more websites to automatically update certain filenames with titles of the page; for example, say a book on archive.org is gibberish, and you could select an option to