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Micah Alex

@khattamicah.xyz.bsky.social

I sometimes think about community technology, archives, novel interfaces and tech histories

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PhotoSwooper is a dating app for ur photos.

Have you ever had too many photos and would just love to swipe them like dating profiles? Well I made just the app: PhotoSwooper :D


Features:

Undo button

Info drawer

Review photos to be deleted

Statistics page

PhotoSwooper is a dating app for ur photos. Have you ever had too many photos and would just love to swipe them like dating profiles? Well I made just the app: PhotoSwooper :D Features: Undo button Info drawer Review photos to be deleted Statistics page

Am I imagining it or are FOSS android apps having a cambrian explosion?

29.07.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love this panelling and style!

04.07.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing, that article itself was such a hard read, I can't imagine what it cost for her to write about them

02.07.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why?

02.07.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The PARA method was something I found most useful

19.05.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you request the author for the subs file with the private parts removed?

14.05.2025 05:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fakespot - Love Everything You Buy Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.

5. Review Faking
www.fakespot.com

28.04.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

4. Pharmaceutical insureflation

bsky.app/profile/khat...

26.04.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

3. Art Gobbling Machines powered by AIโ„ข๏ธ
bsky.app/profile/khat...

26.04.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2. Social Media Bloated Interfaces
bsky.app/profile/novo...

26.04.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A list of alternatives to enshittified systems
1. bookshop.org

26.04.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To address this, the next thing we could try is, rather than sending inputs over the network, sending STATES over the network.

That is, instead of sending "P1 pressed jump", the client sends "Mario is at position X: 20, Y: 34, and has 5 coins", and so on.

At first, it looks the same as before...

21.04.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The multiline thread doesn't work for a mobile interface.
What we really need to see from that line is where all do other thread emerge and how do i get back to where i started from
@bsky.app

21.04.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cybersecurity Visuals Media Handbook

You can read more here
cis-india.github.io/cybersecurit...

20.04.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

None of this my work, I am only adapting it for Bluesky

20.04.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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These interactions between and across different institutions and nation states (dineshans) carry forward the concept of a corpus of consent, manufactured or elected, through computer mediated spaces

20.04.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the instagram user @sadgurlmemez, describes attributes of being dineshanal at a more local and personal level, where one aspect of it is curatorial in nature, where one performs many different aspects of themselves, in public computer mediated spaces, creating the data trail leading all the way here

20.04.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe nation wants to know.โ€ A catchphrase popularized by news anchor Arnab Goswami, who wants to know about the ulterior motives of politicians, activists and anybody else. A Malayali overhears Arnab on the TV and is curious to know who this Dineshan (The Nation) is and why he wants to know so much

20.04.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the interaction of institutions with, for or against individuals leverages user-generated content -eg. click-farms and behaviors of collusion. Dineshanal behaviors then lead to state sponsored surveillance, internet shutdowns and military coups

20.04.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[this data goes on to]... larger institutions, that use and create data and services around itself and for individuals. Depicted are ethical hackers who typically look at possible loopholes or aberrations in privacy, access protocols, and malicious institutional actions

20.04.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For individual to individual interactions, where our devices allow for mediated experiences... there were several simpler opportunities of violating somebodyโ€™s notion of private access to their data in public spaces and personal details. A conversation becomes data

20.04.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cybersecurity Visuals Media Handbook
20.04.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have much bigger Leviathans to worry about
Paul - who also drew the below image that is part of a panel says "Surveillance capitalism will make sure that Trump isn't the problem. There's no opt out for this social contract, that's why resisting is dangerous"

20.04.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Adblock based templates might be an amazing idea to directly start tweaking interfaces

20.04.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs? YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. ...

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a complicated task. Micah investigates how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.

gfsc.community/can-you-subv...

18.04.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.

"Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space." #art nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

15.04.2025 05:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).

12.04.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a black and white photo of a man kneeling on a mattress ALT: a black and white photo of a man kneeling on a mattress
11.04.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part I - Reactor I have never read an article on South Asian speculative fiction (there are many) that didnโ€™t feel painfully incomplete to me, so I decided to write my own. South Asian literature is a large and often ...

Not exactly sci-fi but we used this list for a lit review www.tor.com/2018/01/30/a...

06.04.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How To Train Your Dragon | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures Philippines How To Train Your Dragon | Official Trailer

Looking forward to recession Hollywood
m.youtube.com/watch?v=auJc...

06.04.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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