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this week I finally finished porting all of my bluesky follows back to RSS feeds; as I mentioned there, it's mostly "tweaking digital habits to prevent me from scrolling, and aggressively pushing me to explore sites directly", with a side of "if my account is nuked, the follows are safe", as well as my yearly ~go hermiting~ instincts. (to be completely honest, I also have substantially less faith in the site (and its users) than i did at the beginning of this year, but I don't care to go into that.)
the cool thing is; while i haven't been keeping hard metrics on this shift - the amount of links I'm treasure-hunting naturally feels pretty substantially more in the last week alone compared to before. too early to say if i've broken that habit, but it's a step in the right direction.
here's a few below ~
* for a spot of old web whimsy, this is a great, authentic writeup on usage of incense in japanese culture. fascinating how the blend of spirituality is adopted from elsewhere.
* if i haven't mentioned it elsewhere, yandex is my go-to for finding,... ah..... "on the high seas" media links. cobalt.directory is the second part of that to ripping videos/audio off of various video hosting platforms. (cobalt.tools is the original, but sadly youtube blocks their shenanigans; the lesser-known cobalt mirrors aren't usually blocked though.) yandex oftentimes links back to archive.org gems such as this giant directory of free vintage software.
* about the only time hackernews is useful these days is when all the nerds come out of the woodwork to mention their RSS readers of choice (there were a shocking amount I haven't heard).
* this excellent deradicalization documentory for free on youtube is one i've seen for a long time in those circles; been meaning to watch it. this is incidentally a great chaser of an essay; while not about deradicalization, it's about the tough, nuanced issue of kids essentially being homeless on the internet these days and at much greater risk for radicalization-and-its-partner, grooming. (the line about how kids have nowhere to go on the internet -> being a different species of plant but choking out the fauna of nsfw creators was a really great metaphor, imo, without trying to play the blame game.)
* for the digital forensics nerds that i know are reading this, this article was originally about GrapheneOS shenaniganry, but was really quite the thourough 101 primer for phone forensics for me. (after first unlock / before first unlock explained).
* a thoughtful essay about how wikipedia handles discord (not the app, hah); ways it could be better, ways it's handled conflict in the past and learned from it.
* and for a little bit of back petting, "how to make a 2010's anime cell in krita" by yours truly, as a static article.
the cool thing is; while i haven't been keeping hard metrics on this shift - the amount of links I'm treasure-hunting naturally feels pretty substantially more in the last week alone compared to before. too early to say if i've broken that habit, but it's a step in the right direction.
here's a few below ~
* for a spot of old web whimsy, this is a great, authentic writeup on usage of incense in japanese culture. fascinating how the blend of spirituality is adopted from elsewhere.
* if i haven't mentioned it elsewhere, yandex is my go-to for finding,... ah..... "on the high seas" media links. cobalt.directory is the second part of that to ripping videos/audio off of various video hosting platforms. (cobalt.tools is the original, but sadly youtube blocks their shenanigans; the lesser-known cobalt mirrors aren't usually blocked though.) yandex oftentimes links back to archive.org gems such as this giant directory of free vintage software.
* about the only time hackernews is useful these days is when all the nerds come out of the woodwork to mention their RSS readers of choice (there were a shocking amount I haven't heard).
* this excellent deradicalization documentory for free on youtube is one i've seen for a long time in those circles; been meaning to watch it. this is incidentally a great chaser of an essay; while not about deradicalization, it's about the tough, nuanced issue of kids essentially being homeless on the internet these days and at much greater risk for radicalization-and-its-partner, grooming. (the line about how kids have nowhere to go on the internet -> being a different species of plant but choking out the fauna of nsfw creators was a really great metaphor, imo, without trying to play the blame game.)
* for the digital forensics nerds that i know are reading this, this article was originally about GrapheneOS shenaniganry, but was really quite the thourough 101 primer for phone forensics for me. (after first unlock / before first unlock explained).
* a thoughtful essay about how wikipedia handles discord (not the app, hah); ways it could be better, ways it's handled conflict in the past and learned from it.
* and for a little bit of back petting, "how to make a 2010's anime cell in krita" by yours truly, as a static article.
