#aralbalkan — Public Fediverse posts
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In a groundbreaking revelation, Aral Balkan unveils the revolutionary concept of... using IP addresses, because domains are just so last century! 🌐✨ Apparently, the "Small Web" is about to make a big splash (or maybe just a ripple) with its dazzling #innovation of... personal websites. 🙄💻
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/ #AralBalkan #SmallWeb #IPAddresses #PersonalWebsites #HackerNews #ngated -
Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:
Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)
(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)
PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).
#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook
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"The way we practice design today is colonial. It is no different than the ethnographer hiding behind their camouflaged screen, watching the natives."
@aral, 2018
https://davbot.media/w/45837668-4627-4a92-9147-5c053b7f761e
Ethnography, and anthropology in general, does have a dark past. But AFAIK ethnography is observing as a participant, not hiding in the bushes.
#video #PeerTube #design #UX #HX #AralBalkan #ethnography #anthropology
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"The way we practice design today is colonial. It is no different than the ethnographer hiding behind their camouflaged screen, watching the natives."
@aral, 2018
https://davbot.media/w/45837668-4627-4a92-9147-5c053b7f761e
Ethnography, and anthropology in general, does have a dark past. But AFAIK ethnography is observing as a participant, not hiding in the bushes.
#video #PeerTube #design #UX #HX #AralBalkan #ethnography #anthropology
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TT-RSS - De la friture sur le Fediverse ?
https://framablog.org/2022/11/13/de-la-friture-sur-le-fediverse/
#rss #smalltechnologyfoundation #internetetsociété #decentralisation #droitsnumériques #talesoffediverse #centralisation #décentraliser #gretathunberg #activitypub #centraliser #eugenrochko #aralbalkan #fédération #stephenfry #fediverse #nonclassé #elonmusk #instance #mastodon #serveurs #sidekiq #twitter -
#ActuLibre Développeurs, développeuses, nettoyez le Web ! à lire sur https://framablog.org/2021/04/20/developpeurs-developpeuses-nettoyez-le-web/ #SmallTechnologyFoundation #DégooglisonsInternet #LibertésNumériques #Internetetsociété #LibresLogiciels #Nettoyonsleweb #CleanupTheWeb #AralBalkan #traqueurs #pistage #Google #FLoC #AMP
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You rang? @sullybiker @nolan
I've been banging on about #JoeEdelman's talks about #TimeWellSpent, and #AralBalkan's awesome talk about shitting unicorns (https://2017.ind.ie/excuse-me/). The theory that corporate platforms are dumb maximizers because *corporations* are dumb maximizers ("growth is good!") makes sense to me. Just another example of #ConwaysLaw. To change this, we need to change our organizational culture. Which is why I keep pimping #Loomio and #Enspiral as models