#oldschoolcool #film
Egyptian actress Soad Hosny on the set of Watch out for ZouZou, 1972
Andrew
andrew@ditto.pub
npub1k979...z7te
Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬
Things I like:
- #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff
- #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt)
- #Transit oriented city design
- #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power
- #Space exploration
- #Videogames (especially #GTA)
Things I've Built:
- Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
https://agorasocial.app
- Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/
“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor”
- Roman poet Theocritus
This is a good reminder of why #opensource software is so awesome.
Even if the author of an open source app/service discontinues it, anyone
can just fork the project and keep updating it.
When
it comes to closed source stuff like Google Podcasts here, you're at
the whim of the company shutting down a product at any point, and
there's nothing you can do about it.
Here's a great tool to find alternatives to Google products, make sure to set the "open source" filter!
https://alternativeto.net/browse/search/?q=google
TechCrunch
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music | TechCrunch
Google announced this morning it will be shutting down its Google Podcasts app later in 2024 as part of its broader transition to move its streaming
Hey @brugeman I noticed that one of the relays that the super spammy @npub1flpr...awc6 's posts are consistently found on is nostr.band
It would go a long way of removing that account's annoying replying in every thread if nostr.band added them to the spam filter!
#opensource
KartaView: Open-source and crowdsourced street level imagery
KartaView
Wow huge improvements to Nostrudel since I last tried it, great work dude!
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Some solid changes to increase the rate of new housing supply added in NYC yearly.
Fun fact: of the 15 busiest airports in the world, 8 of them are American 
More like XCylinder am i right hehe 
Why do JFK theories accuse Soviets/Cuba/etc, when a much more logical culprit is a collab b/w CIA + Israeli Mossad? The Israelis saw obtaining nukes as an existential requirement, they feared the Egyptians would get there first, and JFK wanted to block the Israelis from doing so.
What are the best #opensource apps that use the #OpenMeteo or #OpenWeather APIs?
@OpenWeatherMap is your iOS app open source?
Testing uploading to Imgur on Agora
Hold up the dad from Sister Sister and the 2nd Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince are married?! 
Glad to see the newest generation of Here Comes Treble is going strong @edhelms https://t.co/7GsqZdr4y6
#greenenergy #solarpower #tesla
Tesla Officially Introduces Powerwall 3
https://www.tesla.com/powerwall
Never thought I’d see the day #iphone15 #apple 
The Project for the New American Century was a neoconservative think tank that focused on US foreign policy.
It was founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan in 1997. In 1998, Kristol and Kagan advocated regime change in Iraq.
Convenient timing?
Opinion | Bombing Iraq Isn't Enough (Published 1998)
William Kristol and Robert Kagan Op-Ed article contends that only way to insure that Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein never again uses weapons of mass des...