#personalexperience — Public Fediverse posts

XDA Developers: I de-Googled my life for a week, and this is the local setup that replaced search, photos, and documents. “I wanted to see how much of my digital life could actually survive without Google in the event I wanted to ditch it for good. Email was a no-go at this moment since I couldn’t change my contact details with every organization I’m registered with. But the rest was pretty […]

Low Poly Brainblast: Hosting an ‘Internet Search Party’. “I recently hosted an in-person ‘Internet Search Party’ (and single release) here in Boston. The purpose and position of the party was exactly what it sounds like — we literally surfed the web. ‘…But why?’, you ask yourself. Read on for more.” As you might imagine I LOVE this.

Michigan Daily: The history we collect . “Beatriz González, a Colombian painter and sculptor, once said, “Art says things that history cannot.” I would argue that, in some capacity, the personal narratives we create through archives like these are also a sort of art…. Our memories, our receipts, our stickers, our ticket stubs from a play we might have seen with our friends — these all […]

ilyess: My Quest for IndieWeb Citizenship. “Browsing the internet, I landed on the IndieWeb site and went exploring that philosophy. I wasn’t new to the concept, but up until then I hadn’t taken the time to dig deep and really understand what it was all about. I knew it had to do with microformats — conventional HTML tags bloggers use to annotate information on their sites — and POSSE […]

New York Times: Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.. “As my dad was, patients today are inundated with misinformation spread by alternative-medicine practitioners, social media influencers and public figures. They are willing to experiment with unproven therapies, often at great physical or financial risk, in part because they want more personalized and […]

Charles F Kettering Foundation: In the Moment: Oral History as a Democratic Resource. “…the Kettering Foundation’s Democracy and the Arts focus area is partnering with OurStoryBridge to create the Democracy & the Arts oral history collection. These stories are from people experiencing challenges imposed by current efforts to limit free speech and creative expression in the arts and […]

JoJoFromJerz: "Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted. Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission":
https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be-quiet-or-be-bankrupted?r=u0k3a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#PersonalExperience #courage #ResistingHarassment #lawfare #IntimidationFrom #MelaniaTrump

New York Times: How Three Times Tech Journalists Make Sense of A.I.’s Promise and Peril. “I asked two tech reporters, Mike Isaac and Kalley Huang, and their editor, Pui-Wing Tam, to share how they approach providing readers with clarity on a topic that even its leaders are still figuring out. Read our edited and condensed conversations below.”

Two and a half years without a gallbladder

https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/16/two-and-a-half-years-without-a-gallbladder/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830434

#HackerNews #gallbladderhealth #recovery #journey #health #tips #personalexperience #lifestylechanges

Jeff Kaufman: Why I Stay Off Twitter. “After staying off Twitter reasonably successfully for years, I cross-posted my AI Tweets there a few weeks ago. I had something very Twitter-shaped to say, and I thought it was important to get out, so I do think this was worth it. And it all went well: none of this is complaining about the comments I got there. Coming back a few times to check […]

Doc Searls: Reanimating a Corpus. Or Two. Or More.. “For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permanent place (‘sites,’ ‘locations,’ ‘domains’), but in fact is a whiteboard. Then, last week, I asked […]

HackerNoon: Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning. “Every summer, cities get hotter than the countryside around them. This isn’t just a feeling; it’s a measurable phenomenon called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where concrete, asphalt, and dense buildings trap heat that green spaces and water bodies would otherwise dissipate… As a data […]

Justin Cox: What I Learned Building an App. “Getting to this point has been a journey where I learned so many things about app architecture, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, and exactly how not to build an app. But hey, I did it anyway and the reality is that you could probably do it too. Without any fanfare, here’s what I learned over the last few months putting this thing together.”

Andy Bell: Removing algorithmic feed slop from my life. “I decided to cut loose. I deleted Instagram, TikTok and Bluesky from my phone because I don’t use anything else. The feeling I had, for the first couple of days after that was the exact same feeling I had in attempts to quit nicotine, which was rather concerning. I persisted though, leaning more and more into my beloved RSS feeds […]

LAist: An oral history project captures stories in and around K-Town. Now anyone can dive in. “Lauren Kim works alongside her father, Hanjik, at his traditional medicine clinic on the border of Koreatown and MacArthur Park. But it took an oral history interview for her to hear parts of his story for the first time…. Now that interview, along with hundreds of others about life in and around […]

Library of Congress: Library Makes Nearly 500 First-Hand 9/11 Responder Accounts Available Online. “The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. Housed in the American Folklife Center, the collection includes 484 full-length video interviews conducted between April […]

University of Minnesota: What does it look like to create an ethical visual archive that’s truly accountable to the community it documents?. “Ethical documentary work cannot begin with cameras or interview questions; it begins with listening, trust, and understanding a community’s priorities. I learned this lesson while interning with Soomaal House of Art, a Minnesota-based Somali artists […]

Edinburgh Evening News: Palestinian lawyer’s diary saved from risk of destruction by Edinburgh university. “Through an estimated five million words, Raja Shehadeh has chronicled more than six decades of daily life in Palestine, spanning almost 60 years from 1967 when he was 15 years old. Alongside the diaries, his archive includes original copies of military orders, issued following the […]

Ars Technica: I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.. “My experience placing these data access requests was incredibly time-consuming, from finding the right filing methods to verifying my identity multiple times. Most exasperating during this process were the companies that either responded to my access requests with messages concerning the deletion of information, which I […]

BalkanInsight: ‘This Is How We Lived Here’: Documenting 16 Years in Hungary Under Orban. “Essentially an oral history archive, the husband-and-wife team are currently conducting personal interviews with people who have registered to share their stories. It’s a meticulous exercise. So far, they have received more than 240 submissions and conducted 54 interviews, but their target is at […]

It’s a Binary World 2.0: More Fun With Local AI Models. “A few days ago I mentioned playing around with local AI models, despite having low strength hardware for the task. Yesterday I was trying our some new models – tinyllama and smollm2 – and I asked each model the same question to compare the answers. After doing this for a few questions, I had the same feeling I always have when I’m doing […]

Invisible Parade: Learning Mahjong with AI help. “A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely efficient (at least I think so).”

Faraway, So Close: Reaching the End of My Selfie a Day for a Year Project. “As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there’s two more ‘selfie of the day’ posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project. I thought I’d do a bit of a review of my thoughts about this project, as well as write about my plans for what I’m doing for the next daily project when this is over.”

Ars Technica: A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals. “The story of how [Claire Stapleton] went from enthusiastic cheerleader to proactive dissident, and the many lessons she learned along the way, are featured in her new book, Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech—A Biting Memoir of Twelve Years Inside Google.”

Nibble Stew: Digitizing super 8 film yourself. “In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching film with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. … Even if you manage not to burn the film, merely running it through the projector causes wear, scratches and tearing. While film typically ages very well, eventually it will turn […]

Amerpie: YouTube Premium kills the ads but doesn’t solve the real problem. Here’s the stack I use to do that.. “Paid for YouTube Premium after years of DIY ad-blocking. Ads are gone; the algorithm, the clutter, and the impermanence aren’t. Building a stack of small tools instead of hunting for one app that fixes all four. First post in a series; toolbox preview inside, full reviews coming.”

Heritage Fund: Taking experiences with historic collections outside the archive’s walls. “Creating an archive about the fights for disability rights means thinking differently from the start. When we began creating the National Disability Movement Archive and Collection (NDMAC), we knew that preserving history was only part of the job. We also needed to think about how that history and […]

Spudart: Deciphering the Matrix Digital Rain. “…if it’s not secretly a recipe for spicy tuna rolls, what is on the screen? I decided to find out the dumbest, most 2026 way possible. I ran it through Google Translate. It’s kind of fun to point today’s ‘instantly understand any language’ technology at a 27-year-old movie prop and just see what happens.”

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033001

#HackerNews #SteveJobs #Keynote #2010 #Disrespect #TechStories #PersonalExperience

David W. Fitzsimmons: What will become of my life’s works?. “For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, the University of Arizona, specifically the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections Archive. Now that billionaire investor David Hoffman has acquired a controlling stake […]