Net neutrality rules restored by FCC Good news. Removing net neutrality was an injustice to users and bringing it back was necessary. It is a major victory for people. Now FCC can, and should, hold companies responsible for violating people’s rights. Comment on this. | Continue reading
Part of job is to take photos and create documentation. Today, while I was taking photos from the construction site, I wondered how does this ‘photography’ works. Like how is it possible to tap on a screen and capture a moment of life and save that view forever? Ever thought abou … | Continue reading
I just found out that when you brush your teeth, both morning and night, you should spit but don’t rinse. Toothpaste contains fluoride which helps strengthen your teeth. By not rinsing with water, fluoride in the toothpaste will stay on your teeth for longer helping to keep them … | Continue reading
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event Comment on this. | Continue reading
I’m exhausted from all the news and threats and everything. Every day we wake up to another horrible alert that another war is starting. I just wrote a thousand words and deleted all of it. It shouldn’t need an entire article to tell people how bad a war is. I’m just exhausted of … | Continue reading
People send me all kinds of stuff but this was one of the funniest things I ever received from random people and I appreciate it a lot. Comment on this. | Continue reading
Would a woman, specially a feminist woman, work on an oil well? I don’t know. The Oxford dictionary defines feminism as “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.” Which is very cool. If feminism means that, I’m a feminist. But, then, you hear so m … | Continue reading
I’ve been on Nowruz holiday for the last week and I have to go to work tomorrow morning. There’s a four hour drive ahead of me and I’m getting sad already. It’s not that I don’t want to work or something, it’s just that I’m leaving my friends and all the memories I have here, […] … | Continue reading
I avoid using social networks. It’s just that I don’t like them and I find them irritating. But are they always bad? I don’t think so. I’ve advocated for using ethical social networks such as Fediverse/Mastodon instead of crappy ones like Instagram and Twitter but I have my own r … | Continue reading
I only have good memories from my grandpa. It’s even weird for me that I can’t even recall one bad memory from him. My grandpa died last night. Today was his funeral. It’s a tradition in Muslim countries that a dead person should be buried as soon as possible. Here in Iran it’s a … | Continue reading
One of the reasons I only use free software is that it gives me more security. Of course not all libre programs are secure but software freedom gives you more security as you can study the source code and edit/publish it the way you want. So if there’s a security vulnerability, y … | Continue reading
This is autopost test for Mastodon. Is everything going well? Comment on this. | Continue reading
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot. Another example that these chatbots and AI systems should not be trusted for important human stuff. Comment on this. | Continue reading
I just arrived to my old home. Home sweet home. I gave my business to my partner and I’ll start my new job as Project Control Specialist in few days. Everything’s fine. I miss what I’ve built already. For three years, I’ve been working twelve hours a day, on average, to make what … | Continue reading
I just surfed Mastodon’s site to choose an instance to sign up. Chose one that suits me and has open registration and few restrictions, and opened the link to read their terms of use. Then suddenly realized I’m like an alcoholic going back to alcohol. Closed the browser and came … | Continue reading
On Thursday, the Canadian government said it has intention to “pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketp … | Continue reading
Apple recently released a product name Vision Pro. It uses a proprietary firmware named visionOS, developed by Apple. It’s a computer, basically, and has features such as a camera, microphone, and wireless connections. It can be used in various ways but is not suggested to be use … | Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been hearing from my friends that I’m a good listener. That was surprising to me as I always try to keep up with chats and add to conversations, I never try to listen, I always try to add something. But, I came to realization that I’m a good a listener; good listener … | Continue reading
Take Proton for example. They advertise themselves as a “privacy by default” company. I used to admire their work and suggest them to people. I still suggest them to people who are in their first steps of reclaiming their privacy rights and moving away from Gmail and other propri … | Continue reading
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal”, “Thou shalt not commit adultery”, and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. Anonymous The … | Continue reading
The Moral and the Legal: it’s about how the legal level of an issue relates to the moral level, particularly for issues about nonfree software. Comment on this. | Continue reading
A man was in a hurry. He was going to buy some groceries and then heading to his office. Putting his car in reverse after buying the groceries, he gets distracted by the loud music that suddenly starts to play in the car. While going in reverse, he hits a delivery guy’s motorcycl … | Continue reading
The post has many spoilers about various movies and TV series. The list includes: * The Invention of Lying * House (TV series) * Lucifer (TV series) * Supernatural (TV series) Everybody lies, right? I was thinking about this. Small or big, everybody lies and life goes on. You may … | Continue reading
Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands! Comment on this. | Continue reading
There’s nothing more human than Comment on this. | Continue reading
So Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, is turning 40 in ten days and he asked for an interesting gift. He wants us to blog! Well that shouldn’t be surprising. He made something I’m sure every blogger ever has some experience with. This blog is made possible by WordPress. The … | Continue reading
His son was in hospital after a car crash, injured and in critical condition. Doctors said there’s low chance that he survives. He couldn’t tolerate seeing him so he went outside and waited for an answer. His wife and other son came, loudly crying, and delivered the sad news to h … | Continue reading
1987 June 28, the city of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan was attacked by Iraqi aircraft with mustard gas bombs in two separate bombing runs on four residential areas. 130 people died and eight thousand people were injured. Of the civilians who died, 39 were under 18 years of age, incl … | Continue reading
So Stallman is back and as expected his haters are busy hating him for false accusations. Richard Stallman is a diamond in free software world and we still need him. Meanwhile, I invite you to read this great article on the matter: #Cancel We The Web? Comment on this. | Continue reading
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) Comment on this. | Continue reading
From my previous post, I should add this: We should not let them win this. This is not just RMS, it’s a fight for truth. If we, and FSF, step down, we give them power to do anything simply because they want to. The first mistake was made back in 2019 when the FSF bowed … Continue … | Continue reading
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx Comment on this. | Continue reading
On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his first post on Identi.ca. Although that project now belongs to history, Fediverse lives on and by year 2020 it has become an incredibly creative, colorful and cozy place, with the potential to attract even more good p … | Continue reading
In Iranian Jalali calendar, today, Ordibehesht 28, is Omar Khayyam’s commemoration day. Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Khayyam was born in Nishabur, in northeastern Iran in May 18, 1048. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his … | Continue reading
Nowruz is the Persian new year which begins on the first day of spring and is the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar. It is celebrated worldwide by various ethno-linguistic groups, and falls on or around March 21. Nowruz has Iranian and Zoroastr … | Continue reading
In Iranian Jalali calendar, today, Mehr 20, is Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī’s commemoration day. He is also known and famous as Hafez. He is one of mythical poets of Iran not only known inside the country but well known in many countries. His collected works are r … | Continue reading
One thing I don’t understand is people’s behavior in social media. First of all, when did we start calling social networking sites and apps “social media”? Like, that’s not media I’m active on. Of course I share media but that’s a network rather than media. yeah I get it all of t … | Continue reading
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the US South when she was 6 years old.For her to attend school her first day, federal marshals with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”, spitting on her, … | Continue reading
If you follow this blog using your web browser, you probably realize blog’s theme and some other stuff are changed. My blog is now compatible with IndieWeb via these changes. You probably saw the “IndieWeb” links in the footer before, those links will forward you to another membe … | Continue reading
Using free software is always important, no matter what kind of computer you use. Whether it’s a laptop or a mobile phone, our computers should do our computing the way we wish. Using proprietary software makes corporations and computers do what they like, not what we want. Howev … | Continue reading
Many years ago, when we still had control over the web and giant corporation hadn’t still send it to hell, and there were no giant search engines for people to use, we had blogrolls. Blogrolls were sidebar links on our blogs with links to other blogs, usually our friends, which w … | Continue reading
Giving context to a blogroll Comment on this. | Continue reading
Things in the afterlife don’t happen while things are happening here because while time on Earth moves in a straight line, one thing happens and the next and the next, time in afterlife moves in a “Jeremy Bearimy.” In the afterlife time doubles back and loops around and ends up l … | Continue reading
It was when I quit social networks that I knew how they’re truly addicting. I felt something was missing from my life. I missed communicating with friends I made, I missed writing about whatever came to my mind, and I was opening the web sites randomly out of habit only to realiz … | Continue reading
In December 2004, 19-year-old Gary Brolsma uploaded a webcam video titled “Numa Numa,” featuring himself lip-syncing to the Romanian song “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone. Hosted initially on Newgrounds.com, Brolsma created the video after watching a cartoon about Japanese cats. Eve … | Continue reading