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As part of my slow shift away from the still-awful Smile bank, I’m looking for a new ethical savings account/ISA. Ideally something modern I can manage easily like @[email protected] and @[email protected] Anything out there?

Synth project part 1 - protoboarded a crappy amplifier. Lots of noise from the wires all over the place, hopefully perfboard version will be better.

Is the Internet broken from Australia or am I getting outage alerts *only* from Sydney for some other reason? Hmmm.

Lovely to be out with some old @[email protected] folks this evening, and equally nice that loads of people said “oh wow, they’re so cool” when I told them I was working for @[email protected] now. Good for the motivation :)

Looking for a good technology podcast, with some decent depth. Any recommendations?

RT @[email protected]: Fascism works best when you rally the people against an enemy that doesn't exist. Lies like this are working in US, UK, Italy, Hungary, France and Germany to name a few. Its not about workers. Its not about the economy. Its not about patriotism. Its about consolidating power. twitter.com/PabloPerezA/status

RT @[email protected]: @[email protected] Thank you for your feedback on this! We want to make sure that Tower can stay a high-quality application in the long run. For us, a small and self-funded business, a recurring revenue model from a subscription is the only sustainable way to achieve this. -Sam

Feeling a bit unsure about this trend towards rental of desktop software. I’m happy to buy software I use regularly, and have many times, but renting it via a subscription seems… less happy. @[email protected]

Same here. I’d make things that people *actually* need but that capitalism has no route for. twitter.com/otfrom/status/1012

The Verso books flash sale is definitely not going to make my tsundoku problem smaller: versobooks.com/books

RT @[email protected]: There's still time to submit your talk or workshop proposal for EMF! We'll be accepting submissions until the end of July and you're still guaranteed a ticket if your proposal is accepted:

emfcamp.org/cfp

The history of the fall of civilisation will begin “actually, it was about ethics in games journalism”.