(date: 2024-04-26 08:51:08)
date: 2024-04-26, updated: 2024-04-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044480-an-experimental-data-soni
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Braintrust query: I’m interested in getting an adjustable height desk. I’d like to start with an inexpensive one, and if I like it, I’ll get a real one. If I can get it via Amazon that would be best.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/26.html#a133921
date: 2024-04-26, updated: 2024-04-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044491-sounds-like-the-onion-has
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I won’t believe the NYT has any integrity until they let people criticize them on their op-ed page.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/26.html#a121849
date: 2024-04-26, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/long-article-on-gm-spying-on-its-cars-drivers.html
date: 2024-04-26, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And Michael Johnson’s absurd demand
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-farce-and-ruse
date: 2024-04-26, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
[O]ur contemporary understanding of creativity and the creative person cannot be separated from their political, commercial, and economic valance. Far from being an innate human essence, creativity as a concept is, then, shaped by systems of power. Our relationship to creativity as a concept is largely a reflection of our relationship to systems of power. […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/25/the-creative-industries/
date: 2024-04-26, updated: 2024-04-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9027526-we-don-t-make-movies-to-make-money-we-make-money
date: 2024-04-25, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Warning! I often think I should put this cautionary pic up as a spoiler alert when writing about stuff that’s above my intellectual pay-grade. Quote of the Day ”You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-26-april-2024/39385/
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycap
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
It’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/base-model_ram_in_apple_devices
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/just-a-beautiful-drawing-of-bluebells
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When you really have federation no one needs to hype it, people don’t even realize it because things just work the way you expect them to. Every time I hear “Where ever you get your podcasts,” I’m reminded of how well that worked. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/04/25.html#a200556
date: 2024-04-25, from: Dave Rupert blog
Matt Haughey wrote a blueprint for his “Dream CMS” and we had him on ShopTalk to talk about it. That got me thinking about what features I’d want in my dream CMS. It’s fun to think of what a modern CMS might have like inline editing, asset serving, monetization/membership functionality, and more imaginative comment moderation.
Most of my dream CMS features center around improving my writing and content surfacing. All these ideas seem like a pretty good fit for LLMs or AI, even though I don’t drink from that particular well often.
As I think more about verifying outputs, I’d love a feedback tool that did a quick fact check before I hit publish. Did I not cite a source? Did I make a false assertion that ruins the credibility of the whole post? Did I not consider some perspective I should have? Am I just bitching and moaning? CMS, help me, please! I’m making an idiot out of myself.
I write a lot of posts but I’m shit at tagging them. I wish I could tell my CMS “Hey, here’s a general list of topics I write about, please recommend tags before I hit publish.” Then I think it’d be cool if the little robot butler could crawl old posts suggest tags for those or find themes emanating from my subconscious that I hadn’t picked up on.
À la auto-tagging, it would be neat if a CMS observed my content at a high-level and suggested opportunities to bundle posts of a similar theme into an online “zine” to offer new topic-based entry points for new readers. My lists of reverse chronological posts are thematically scattershot and I think some readers might find this more useful.
This idea gets into listicle territory pretty quick, but I often pull on thought threads over the course of months or years but that is entirely unsurfaced on my blog. I’d also love it if the machine could bundle links I share on my Mastodon feed to pull in other perspectives as well.
I’d love to know what content is outperforming other content. I’m sure I could piece this together myself with a half-dozen spreadsheets from Google Analytics, but I’d love to log into my CMS and know “Your CSS posts tend to have 10x engagement over your longform thoughtvomit” or “Your shitposts are driving traffic but are negatively impacting the quality of your site”. I don’t play the engagement game much but I’d love some data-driven validation nudging me in a positive direction when I’m discouraged, perhaps it could even suggest a handful of topics.
There’s a gross content farm machine version of this idea that identifies popular topics, suggests titles, an LLM writes posts based on those titles, and Dall-E plops an unsplashy image at the top… but that gives me the ick. At that point, you’re not blogging your thoughts or offering anyone any human value, you’re just clicking ✨ Sparkle Buttons.
For what it’s worth, baking these features into a CMS has little material benefit for me. This site is statically generated from markdown so it’s practically the opposite of a full-featured CMS. Or… perhaps it’s the perfect situation to start exploring some of these ideas.
https://daverupert.com/2024/04/ideas-for-my-dream-cms/
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/life-ruining-mistakes
date: 2024-04-25, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Manu asks where the line falls between self-promotion and advertising. Asking for money feels like a necessity for creators in an age where our jobs are all precarious, wages aren’t keeping up, we lack sufficient safety nets, and the value of art and writing are under attack. Frankly, a lot of creative folks don’t ask […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/25/self-promotion-vs-advertising/
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-feeling-that-the-time-for-doing-something-has-passed
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/size-xxxs
date: 2024-04-25, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
This video is ridiculously great.
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/25/ptit-belliveau-income-tax/
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044484-i-have-no-training-for
date: 2024-04-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, Several of you asked that I repost this from earlier this week because you read it once and couldn’t find it again or you heard about it and didn’t know where it was. Herewith: The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-i-teach-555
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/diary-comics-dec-15-16
date: 2024-04-25, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Corporate Open Source is Dead
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>IBM is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ibm-buy-hashicorp-64-billion-deal-expand-cloud-software-2024-04-24/">buying HashiCorp for $6.4 <em>billion</em></a>.</p>That’s four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the ‘Business Source License.’
As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently:
IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit
skywhopper replied:
HashiCorp has done a good job of pre-draining any flavor it once had.
Some people wonder if HashiCorp’s decision to drop open source was because they wanted to juice the books for a higher price. I mean, six billion dollars? And they’re not even a pointless AI company!
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/a-huge-collaborative-flipbook-animation
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A backgrounder on how the web is used for conversation, the pros and cons of each variant, and what role RSS can play in it, thanks to ChatGPT.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/25.html#a155555
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
don’t think conversation on the web has been the big benefit some people
think. Do you remember when you first realized that people weren’t
talking to you in a response to your post, they were talking over your
shoulder to the people who read your post. I guess it depends on who you
are, but I don’t see any value in providing a surface for spam. These
days I block people without much thought if I think that’s what they’re
doing. So, why should you design a protocol, and pay the cost of
supporting, something that is a vector for spam and abuse? That’s the
argument in favor of using
RSS to glue things
together. You can comment on my post, in your space, but my followers
don’t have to see it. That’s up to me. I think it would change the
nature of discourse, for the better.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/25.html#a153349
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044485-kelly-hayes-the-double-st
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044487-the-biden-administration-
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/what-bird-is-that
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044479-how-teens-benefit-from-re
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044478-a-message-from-the-chance
date: 2024-04-25, from: Ayjay blog
I have an essay coming out in the July issue of Harper’s which I titled “The Mythical Method” but which will probably end up with the title “Yesterday’s Men: The Death of the Mythical Method.” It concerns the rise and fall of myth as a central, or perhaps at times the central, concept of humanistic […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/influence-and-citation/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
ChatGPT has memory across chats. This just popped up on the screen. I’d like to tell it that until further notice I use Node.js and do not use Express, and do use jQuery for my browser-based JavaScript, and I use the debugger all the time, so you can assume that. If this works, I now have a programming partner with memory. And maybe I can somehow get it to read all my blog posts going back 30 years? I have good archives of most of it. Also, of course I fed this post to ChatGPT of course. So ChatGPT is not resting on its laurels. That’s good. I’d really like a Personal ChatGPT, and this is on the way to that goal.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/25.html#a123234
date: 2024-04-25, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection.
But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.
To understand why, you must understand publishing. Its core task is to connect writers to an audience. Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. Hoping to be selected, writers shape their work in various ways. This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/the-rise-of-large.html
date: 2024-04-25, from: Om Malik blog
Almost a year ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued subsidiary Ring, the camera security company that started off selling a video doorbell, for allowing employees and contractors to access private data without permission. The two parties have reached a settlement. Ring will pay $5.6 million to 117,000 customers whose data was accessed. That works out to $47. That is what …
https://om.co/2024/04/25/ftc-settles-with-ring/
date: 2024-04-25, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Recently, I jokingly replied to @jameschip when he said “maybe we need a new word for types of blogs that have comments and federation” that we should have kept the word micro-blogs. Regular blogs, with a character limit.
Then again, micro-blogs in that sense, from Identi.ca to GNU Social, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and the Fediverse now have a big plus: Notification actually works. If you mention another account, they get notified. If you get a reply, you get notified. It’s glorious.
For regular blogs, notification works with the oldest, universal, federated, communication medium online: email. Conversely, if you don’t have email or don’t do, you don’t get notified and most likely you can’t even comment. 😐
I tried web-mentions and they didn’t work I wanted them to. Far too few other blogs supported them, and for this blog, I didn’t know what to do with them. I didn’t want to send myself email so I turned them into comments, but mentions aren’t as strong a signal as a comment. Mentions aren’t public but comments are. Mentions don’t need a strong connection to the main article but comments do. By turning mentions into comments, I had made a mistake and the result was frustrating. So I got rid of them.
And so here we are, it’s 2024, and blogs still don’t have good (spam-free) comments and notifications where as micro-blogs do. 😢
2024-04-24. I got an email from @reidrac with a link to a related blog post, where he wrestles with webmentions:
This blog doesn’t have comments, although you can always send me an email if you want to comment anything, and some people have done that. Not often, but if I have received a handful of emails, that’s more comments that my old blog had in its last few years. – Connecting blogs
James also had this to say:
If your blog then has comments, and likes, and people on other platforms can comment, like, and share posts directly, is it really a blog any more? … Should blogs even have comments and notifications?
I don’t know.
I know that back when the Old School RPG blogosphere was strong, there were often questions that got tackled by multiple people. You’d see a post about something interesting and post your own take and link back to the original. More people would jump onto the band-wagon, link to the four or five related blog posts they could find and add their take. It was cool! Those “replies” weren’t just replies, they sometimes built on what had been said before, reformulated it, distilled it. It was great! The replies were also hard to find, unfortunately. People relied on the blogrolls of well-connected bloggers and blog aggregators like the RPG Planet I’m running and similar sites like the RPGA, and forums like EN World, Dragonsfoot, ODD74, and so on.
I think we have to do the work and link to other people’s blogs.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-04-24-micro-blog
date: 2024-04-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
He’s demanding the largest pay package in corporate history while extorting his shareholders and firing 14,000 workers
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/elon-musks-grotesque-distortion-of
date: 2024-04-25, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
The unintended consequences that could affect the election
https://steady.substack.com/p/dear-scotus-look-what-you-have-done
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-dumbphone-boom-is-real
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Ron Garret
This is the fourth in a series about the scientific method and how it can be applied to everyday life. In this installment I’m going to suggest a way to approach all the science-y stuff without getting overwhelmed.There is an old joke that goes, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” That answer might be good for a laugh, but it wouldn’t actually work, either for a
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-part-4-eating.html
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://mastodon.social/@jgamet/112323590880011048
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044457-what-does-it-mean-to
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/can-i-lick-it-yes-you-can
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044475-what-would-you-consider-a
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044471-the-novelist-ro-kwon-the
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/bizarre-traveling-flame-discovery
date: 2024-04-24, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry by Hamilton Nolan and Erik Forman The main barrier is access to capital. We can build businesses that generate profit, but because the business is worker-owned, it doesn’t fit in the normative forms that venture capital prefers, and there really isn’t a large supply of risk capital for […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/24/access-to-capital-for-change/
date: 2024-04-24, from: Ayjay blog
Isaiah Berlin, “The Originality of Machiavelli”: The ideals of Christianity are charity, mercy, sacrifice, love of God, forgiveness of enemies, contempt for the goods of this world, faith in the life hereafter, belief in the salvation of the individual soul as being of incomparable value – higher than, indeed wholly incommensurable with, any social or […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/46122-2/
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044405-a-day-in-tokyo-a
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/vintage-japanese-train-tickets
date: 2024-04-24, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
The biosphere as we know it is ending and I’m spending two weeks in the Maldives with my wife for her 50th birthday. I feel conflicted.
The trip to get here was long. Zurich Doha by plane, Doha Male by plane, Male Kurudu by water-plane, Kurudu Komandoo by speedboat. I felt like sleeping for 20h when we finally got here. And all the anxiety before leaving was terrible, too.
With that, I think we have all out must-see locations before the end. We went to the Great Barrier Reef in 2017, to the Galapagos in 2020 and now to the Maldives.
2024-04-06. The last leg of the journey – our water-plane was delayed because of the bad weather.
Looking out from the porch the ocean is blue, the sky is blue and the reef begins a few meters in.
We go snorkeling every day. Our last two trips showed me that we need an underwater camera. Oh to have videos of Reef Number Nine in Australia or the penguins and sea lions in the Galapagos! I bought a GoPro Hero 10 before we left.
This cowtail stingray (?) we keep seeing is about 2m long and likes to hide in the sand.
There’s sea grass sprouting right now and sea turtles grazing.
Black tipped reef sharks… harmless! At a later point we did see it attack something hidden in the rocks and it was scary to see!
Most corals look dreary! It’s certainly not as colourful and busy as in Australia or the Galapagos. This purple giant is cool, though.
There are still plenty of colourful fish.
Whenever we’re away on a trip, we play games. The most popular tropical island game is Race for the Galaxy.
Yesterday we also played Petition by @klaatu.
2024-04-10. More pictures.
We saw our first hermit crabs in Costa Rica where we spent our honey moon. We love these little ones. Maybe because they’re slow and easily scared and therefore obviously harmless.
The parrot fish have super sharp teeth and gnaw on the corals. And when you’re snorkeling, you can hear them. Kchrrr! Kchhhrrk!
I also love those lone corals harbouring a small school of tiny fearful fish that retreat and hide in the coral as somebody approaches.
When you swim past the nearby reef the bottom drops out and the deep blue begins. I am always afraid some huge fish will show up.
There is a strange tourism industry, here. The islands are either uninhabited, inhabited by locals, or reserved for tourism. Tourists can stay on the “local islands” since 2007. Natives are only allowed to work on the tourist islands.
The capital city is one of the densest urban areas on the planet. Just look at the image of Malé on Wikipedia.
I would lament this urban sprawl, the land reclamation, the garbage problem, the democracy deficit, the dependence on tourism – but I know what my friend Peter would say, pointing at the Factfulness book. Check out these stats from the German Wikipedia page on the Maldives: In 2020, the Maldives had 541000 inhabitants. In 1950, they had about 74000 inhabitants. At the time, a woman had about 7.5 children on average in 1980 but these days they are so much better off that the growth rate has dropped to 1.8% in 2020 and a woman has about 1.8 children on average. Life expectancy rose from 34.5 years in 1950 to 81 for women and 77.8 for men in 2020. An amazing improvement from the point of view of the locals.
From my green perspective, though… let’s not forget the garbage island Thilafushi. The picked an island and use it as a garbage dump because they don’t know what to do with all the garbage. Sure, every island needs a garbage incinerator now, but in the nineties, there was just garbage and it had to go somewhere. And some of the stuff starts leaking. It accumulates in the the fish. People eat the fish. It’s easy to feel grim about this. I need to remind myself that life expectancy was less than 35 years just a generation or two ago (I was born in the seventies). Poverty is much, much worse than pollution and we tend to forget it.
If you’re wondering why I’m basically skimming, reading and finally summarizing Wikipedia articles on my blog, I guess the answer is that this is how I try to deal with it all. To not close my eyes. Not to look away.
2024-04-12. Bad luck for Claudia. Yesterday, late at night, she stuck her small toe in a gap between two planks, took another step, nearly fell and twisted her foot. There’s a huge dark bruise on its back and a significant dark bruise below. No more fins, for a while. 😭
We had signed up for a snorkel safari when suddenly the buzz was that the young humpback whale they had seen two days ago was still around and so the ship picked up some extra passengers and Claudia came along to do some whale watching.
The whale watching did not disappoint.
This adolescent humpback whale was about 8m long. It’s unusual to find a whales here, now, so close to the reef, so young, without its family. There was speculation that it might be waiting for its family to pick it up again, or that perhaps it was sick.
2024-04-13. To it is raining. Good for Claudia since she is supposed to rest her foot.
2024-04-21. After snorkling with the whale, not much seemed to be worth posting about.
Before going on this trip, I bought an older GoPro HERO 10. Now I have a few gigabytes of reef snorkeling footage. I don’t know what to do with it. Post it? Unlikely! It takes too much space and nobody would look at it. Donate it to YouTube? Unlikely! Upload it to some Peertube instance and thereby offload the cost? Unlikely.
Regarding the economy of the Maldives and the shock when I learned about the garbage island and my dismay when I saw the skyline of Malé island – when we flew back, I got a closer look at Malé from the air as we landed and while it wasn’t an island nature paradise, it was just a city with nice, tall buildings and roads and palm trees and construction sites and glass fronts and cars and motorcycles. In other words, it seemed like a perfectly normal city and it wasn’t shabby and it didn’t have slums and so I keep coming back to the main issue: Beating poverty is of ultimate importance in order to improve people’s lives and giving them options so that they can work on the problems they care about. When we flew over Thilafushi, the garbage island didn’t look “apocalyptic” but just like some industrial zone elsewhere in the world, except it’s an island in the middle of the ocean.
2024-04-24. Ugh. Seems like Claudia broke her foot, after all. 😰
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-04-06-maledives
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When I started working with Automattic last year, one of the big milestones we were aiming for was getting FeedLand and WordPress working together. Now we have the first step. I hope you take a moment to give it a try and let us know how it works. Scripting News readers have helped bootstrap all kinds of cool stuff, we can do it again.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/24.html#a141352
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Jay Gilmore: “ActivityPub breaks my brain. It doesn’t need to be that hard given the payloads we are talking about.” True.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/24.html#a140452
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044406-two-men-swapped-at-birth
date: 2024-04-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
There’s a new plugin that adds a blogroll to a WordPress site.
It would be helpful if people who are regular readers of Scripting News who use WordPress, set up a test site, give it a try and let us know how it goes. You can help us get to the next level with this stuff.
So there are two sides, the FeedLand side and the WordPress side.
You can get ideas for feeds for your blogroll from reading other people’s feed lists. When you see a checkbox that isn’t checked, you can subscribe to the feed simply by checking the box.
Have a look at my feed list for ideas. Here’s a list of recent users, click on their names to see their feed lists. You don’t have to finish this now, you can come back and tune this up anytime.
Developers: Use feedlandBlogrollToolkit to add blogrolls to other platforms.
If you have questions or comments, or need help getting it working, post a note in the discussion group here.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/24/132025.html?title=feedlandAndWordpress
@Ayjay blog (date: 2024-04-24, from: Ayjay blog)
Matt Crawford, on Substack: Probing his riding companions, Robert [Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance] comes to understand that John and Sylvia’s attitude of non-involvement with “technology” is emblematic of a wider phenomenon that was then emerging, a countercultural sensibility that seeks escape from the Man and all his works: “the whole […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/46116-2/
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract:
In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy consent is fictitious. Instead of futile efforts to try to turn privacy consent from fiction to fact, the better approach is to lean into the fictions. The law can’t stop privacy consent from being a fairy tale, but the law can ensure that the story ends well. I argue that privacy consent should confer less legitimacy and power and that it be backstopped by a set of duties on organizations that process personal data based on consent…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/dan-solove-on-privacy-regulation.html
date: 2024-04-24, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, Many of you say that the worst aspect of the fraught political time we’re going through as the 2024 election looms is what it’s doing to your relationships with members of your family — with your parents, your children, your in-laws, and your siblings.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-how-are-you-talking
date: 2024-04-24, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
We provide an official curl container. Why would you use curl in a container? We actually don’t ask, we just provide the image, but I can think of a few reasons… Six billion as of now The official curl docker repository now (as of 06:43 UTC April 24, 2024) reports that the curl container has … Continue reading Six billion docker pulls
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/24/six-billion-docker-pulls/
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-senate-vote-sale-biden/
date: 2024-04-24, updated: 2024-04-24, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-24, from: Ayjay blog
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet. — Hugh E. Keogh There’s too much to read, right? Especially contemporary fiction. Too many choices. You have to develop a strategy of selection, a method of triage. I will always read more old […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/rational-choices/
date: 2024-04-24, from: Jonudell blog
Here’s the latest installment in the series on working with LLMS: https://thenewstack.io/the-future-of-sql-conversational-hands-on-problem-solving/ I keep returning to the theme of choral explanations (#4 on my list of best practices), and it’s especially relevant in the SQL domain where there are just so many ways to write a query. Exploring the range of possibilities used to be … Continue reading The future of SQL: conversational hands-on problem solving
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/04/23/the-future-of-sql-conversational-hands-on-problem-solving/
date: 2024-04-23, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Quai d’Orsay But not the one on the bank of the Seine. This one found its way to Ely, Cambridgeshire! “Quai d’Orsay” is often synonymous with the French Foreign Ministry, which occupies a magnificent building there. I remember a veteran … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-24-april-2024/39377/
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044470-designercreative-connell-
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwtyIDmhxh4
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/naja-tepe-pottery
date: 2024-04-23, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And how it helped Ronald Reagan into the White House
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-free-speech-movement-was
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://tidbits.com/2024/04/22/take-control-author-charles-edge-dies/
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044466-okay-heres-a-kids-toy
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://madebywindmill.com/taska/
date: 2024-04-23, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
King County Parks is preparing for their 2025 levy vote. Taking their survey made me change my mind about how I prioritized things — defining success for something as big as a park system was an interesting thought experiment. I like that they didn’t provide any examples, but simply listened. Prioritization of themes Respondents are […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/23/king-county-parks-levy-survey-an-exercise-in-defining-success/
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044465-music-for-programming-a-c
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-event-let-loose-may-7/
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044440-fascinated-by-this-wtf-no
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/mountain-bike-advice
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I don’t have time to write about it now but the end of last night’s Knicks game was one of the most dramatic bits of NY sports ever. I would like to thank Kevin Durant for saying the Knicks weren’t cool. It’s somewhat like the Streisand Effect where the thing KD was trying to hide was that he was no longer cool. Classic projection. Obviously he was not the hot shit he thought he was in 2019. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a161806
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A
big idea for the blogging world. I’d like to combine AI and search to
make a really great search engine for bloggers. We would contribute what
we know (we already do) and in return, along with everyone else, get to
benefit from the collection. And when we browse, it knows which blog
we write. So it has a very good idea of what we mean when we ask a
question and what we already know. This is totally missing in ChatGPT
and is something Google and other search engines have never been willing
to do (or even understood, I guess). But this is a huge idea. I’d like
to give it
my
blogroll too, so it knows which sources I consider credible. I love
that it creates an incentive to post to your blog, and it makes
working
together automatic.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a161338
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044463-scientists-have-repurpose
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
EZ Pass for News is formula for functional relationships between local news pubs and people in far away places (ie not their locality) who may from time to time want to read an article or a series of articles on their site, and pay per-issue instead of buying a subscription.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a161153
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
John Palfrey as the mover behind Press Forward will bring the gospel of EZ Pass for News on his “ongoing whistle-stop tour” of local news orgs. JP was my boss/rabbi when I was at Berkman, and is why we got so much done there. He ran air cover for what we did, the BloggerCons, giving RSS a home, podcasting, blogs for everyone, the people and democracy. Now he’s doing it for the local news business.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a160607
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The “largest open publishing network in the world” is the web.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a160340
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I was chatting with a friend who went to Bronx Science, as I did, and we were talking about Isaac Asimov, and I said I thought he went to Science too. So I fired up ChatGPT and asked if Asimov went to Science, and it said yes. Then I asked where he went to high school and it said Bronx Science. But by then I was pretty sure he didn’t, so I went to Google and meta.ai, and neither knew where he went to high school. So I asked on Twitter, Mastodon, Blue Sky and Threads. Not sure why I even care! Oh well. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/04/23.html#a155601
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044464-happy-to-announce-that-th
date: 2024-04-23, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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The BTM industry surged during the pandemic: The number of installed units increased more than five-fold over four years to about 31,100 units nationwide, according to Coin ATM Radar. But a closer look into the BTM boom revealed that the machines are often disproportionately located in areas with a majority of Black and Latino residents, charging fees as high as 22% per transaction.
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A Bloomberg review of Bitcoin Depot locations and data from the Census Bureau shows that states with proportionally large Black and Latino populations tend to have more of the company’s BTMs, especially in southern states like Georgia and Texas. Bitcoin Depot President and Chief Executive Officer Brandon Mintz dismissed any suggestion that the company targeted areas with underrepresented groups in deciding where to place its machines.But clearly there is something different about the populations of these areas:
“Never in our history have we once targeted an area based on any sort of racial profile,” Mintz told Bloomberg News. “Our focus is targeting areas that have low competition and that have populations that can support a Bitcoin ATM profitably.”
In Alabama, the concentration of Black and Latino residents within a mile radius of Bitcoin Depot BTMs is 20 percentage points higher than the broader state average, per a Bloomberg analysis of location data and the 2022 American Consumer Survey. In Dallas, BTMs are consistently located in areas where the highest percentages of Black and Latino people live.Among the mantras the crypto-bros never tire of repeating is that they are “banking the unbanked” and promoting “financial inclusion”:
Proponents of cryptocurrency often tout the asset as a way to reach unbanked people, who lack a more traditional bank account. In the US, that comprised 6% of adults in 2022, per the Federal Reserve. Black and Hispanic people were more likely to be more unbanked than their White counterparts.The BTM operators are no exception:
Bitcoin Depot, the largest US operator with about 7,300 BTMs as of April 8, charges some of the highest fees in the industry while touting financial inclusion, a concept that ensures that all customers, regardless of their socioeconomic standing, have access to such financial services as savings, credit and insurance. Over 80% of Bitcoin Depot’s customers earn less than $80,000 a year, according to a November 2023 investor presentation from the company.I am a bit baffled as to how HODL-ing Bitcoin would provide “access to such financial services as savings, credit and insurance”. I don’t think Equifax and Trans-Union pay attention to your pseudonymous HODL-ings. And there is the matter of the fees the BTM operators charge for providing this access:
Mintz, the Bitcoin Depot CEO, said the percentage of a transaction the Atlanta-based company retains as its fees is typically in the “low twenties,” but would not provide a bottom or top boundary. “Nothing’s definitive, it just depends on the market and what we need to do to cover our expenses,” Mintz said. The company also charges a flat $3 fee on every transactionHow do the BTMs end up in locations near people lacking “financial inclusion”?
…
CoinFlip and Bitstop, Bitcoin Depot’s main rivals, charge transaction fees as high as 22%, depending on the location, according to company representatives and customer service agents. CoinFlip also charges a “network fee” of $2.49 on every transaction.
One restaurant owner in Essex, Maryland, who declined to give his name, said Bitcoin Depot paid $145 a month for the kiosk that was installed a month ago. Another store owner in New Jersey, who identified himself only as Jai, said his store received $200 a month for the kiosk, also operated by Bitcoin Depot.$145/month at 22% would be the fees on $660/month in transactions, and $200/month would be the fees on $909/month, which puts a floor on the business these BTMs do. It is likely much higher.
The majority of BTMs — 92% of machines in the US, as indexed by Coin ATM Radar — don’t allow users to sell their crypto in exchange for cash.These machines are the Roach Motels of banking, your cash can check in but it can’t check out. The question in my mind is:
What kind of customer needs to pay 22% plus $3 for “access to … financial services” which won’t let you cash out?Clearly, someone who cannot use conventional banks which, even if they do charge fees, will let you take money out. Two kinds of customers come immediately to mind:
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-roach-motel-of-banking.html
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044460-sharks-the-scary-triangle
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/what-are-you-starting-right-now
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044441-why-earthquakes-on-the-ea
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-26, from: Charlie’s Diary
The AI hype in the media obscures the fact that we’re clearly in another goddamn venture capital bubble right now. As the Wall Street Journal said earlier this month (article is paywalled), “… In a presentation earlier this month, the…
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/04/the-radiant-future-of-1995.html
date: 2024-04-23, updated: 2024-04-23, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft:
Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to provide logging capabilities to the government by default, and given the fact the mega-corp banked around $20 billion in revenue from security services last year, the concession was minimal at best.
[…]
“The government needs to focus on encouraging and catalyzing competition,” Grotto said. He believes it also needs to publicly scrutinize Microsoft and make sure everyone knows when it messes up…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/microsoft-and-security-incentives.html
date: 2024-04-23, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Having found a separate server, written in Go, monitored by systemd, to be the superior solution for double hosting my site for Gemini, I kept thinking about Gopher. With Oddµ using a version of Markdown that is very close to the standard, and having found a library that I understand, more or less, which I had successfully grafted onto Satellite, the Gemini server I’m using, based on renderer code I found in the Hugo-to-Gemini converter that used the same Markdown parsing library I was using for Oddµ, I figured that I might use the same library to turn Markdown into suitable Gopher pages.
It took some wrangling and it’s probably not great, but the main menu matches my front page and the blog posts look mostly OK, and so the site is back as a gopher hole on port 70!
See Markdown Gopher for the Gopher server code.
See my patched Satellite for the Gemini server code, discussed back in 2023.
And naturally I’m immediately annoyed by the lack of UTF-8 support in this client I’m using.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-04-22-gopher
date: 2024-04-23, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And why Columbia’s faculty should issue a vote of no confidence in its president, Nemat Shafik
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-i-teach
date: 2024-04-23, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Human Protocols by Chris In summary, the IndieWeb will thrive because of the human protocols we develop by using it. We don’t need a central standards body to define those protocols. Instead, we will refine them through continuous conversations with ourselves. Let’s keep talking about it 👏 I think the next phase of the IndieWeb […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/22/webbing-the-indieweb/
date: 2024-04-23, from: Jirka’s blog
I have decided to re-organise my desk.For a few years (~5) I had one shared keyboard for “all” my machines but two LCDs - one for most of systems and one just for the SGI O2 (the O2 works best with the special SGI 1600SW screen - a special 17” 1600x1024 device with a non-standard connector).
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20240423-0440_Desk_changes
date: 2024-04-22, from: Om Malik blog
Over a year ago, Opal Camera CEO Veeraj Chugh and his co-founder, Stefan Sohlstrom, convinced me to replace my trusted Logitech Streamcam with their new sleek device, Opal C1. The Opal C1 is a beautifully designed (temporarily disabled) 4k webcam that was better than what others had to offer. Opal also sells another cute and well-designed webcam called Tadpole, primarily for Windows Laptop users. Every startup …
https://om.co/2024/04/22/sometimes-a-camera-is-not-just-a-camera/
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Daring Fireball
https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/denis-villeneuves-four-favorite-films
date: 2024-04-22, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Seeking moral clarity
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-talk-about-israel-and-gaza
date: 2024-04-22, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Pigs flying? No, Trump on trial
https://steady.substack.com/p/things-we-never-thought-wed-see
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044459-they-fixed-it-nasa-is
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137284/meta-license-horizon-os-quest-headset-lenovo-asus
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Daring Fireball
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/a-little-comments-check-in
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-25, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044451-a-database-of-useful-biol
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044447-hold-the-line-is-a
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044450-for-all-mankind-has-been
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
idea of us all
working
together to federate is the right idea, but making ActivityPub the
hurdle everyone has to jump over is imho the wrong idea. I’m building on
feeds – RSS, Atom, RDF. A lot of good stuff works on that basis. And
it’s a much shorter path to
interop
than ActivityPub.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/22.html#a171256
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-lost-mixtape-from-the-hood-internet
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044453-this-had-me-cackling-in
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting social-engineering attack vector:
McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS,” known as vcpkg.
The attacker is exploiting a property of GitHub: comments to a particular repo can contain files, and those files will be associated with the project in the URL.
What this means is that someone can upload malware and “attach” it to a legitimate and trusted project.
As the file’s URL contains the name of the repository the comment was created in, and as almost every software company uses GitHub, this flaw can allow threat actors to develop extraordinarily crafty and trustworthy lures…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/using-legitimate-github-urls-for-malware.html
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044452-a-bot-that-pairs-the
date: 2024-04-22, from: Om Malik blog
Post.News, a Twitter-like news-first social network, is shutting down. It is not surprising. It lacked dynamism and excitement, even as an early adopter and a former media professional. Given the overwhelming emphasis they put on establishment media, I am not surprised. The last time I visited Post.News was to read founder Noah Bardin’s post. “Our service is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a …
https://om.co/2024/04/22/postnews-script/
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044449-this-looks-promising-an-r
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044448-once-again-it-is-cheaper
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I hate paywalls tied to subscription. I’m never going to subscribe to a Philadelphia news org, but based on Jay’s recommendation I might pay $1 on my EZ Pass for News to read this story, esp since I saw the Civil War movie. I just had a thought, I might subscribe to a Philadelphia news org for a week or two, given that the Knicks are playing their NBA team right now in the first round of the playoffs. I really want to know everything there is to know about this faceoff. See, I want to pay for journalism here, but journalism hasn’t been willing to sell it to me, at any price. They’ve never gotten the basic truth of: “The customer is always right.” Really important point and true in every way.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/22.html#a132020
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Over the weekend I tested the blogroll plugin for WordPress. It worked. After a little more testing and docs-writing we’ll be ready for other people to test it, an important step before wider use. So if you’re a regular Scripting News reader, and are curious what this blogroll stuff is about, you’ll be able to try it out pretty soon.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/22.html#a130009
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Jeff Jarvis writes that a German man who died with 70K books in his house was obsessed with the work of writer Arno Schmidt, who was my great-uncle, my grandmother’s brother.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/22.html#a125147
date: 2024-04-22, from: Ayjay blog
The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important aspects of the phenomenon we call Puritanism. Very simply, it is a great example of our collective eagerness to disparage without knowledge or information about the thing disparaged, when the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/46090-2/
date: 2024-04-22, from: Ayjay blog
A brief follow-up to this post from last week: In our current climate of political assholery, no self-described “activist” can answer what I think of as an essential question: If you get what you want, what will be the costs? Every choice — every choice ever made by every human being — carries costs. Some […]
date: 2024-04-22, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The pendulum is swinging toward countervailing power
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rebirth-of-the-american-labor
date: 2024-04-22, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one of my previous articles about curl. … Continue reading curl is just the hobby
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/
date: 2024-04-22, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
The Santa Barbara News-Press was born in 1868 and died in 2023 at age 155. Its glory years ran from 1932 until 2000, when the New York Times sold it to Wendy McCaw, who rode it to hell. That ride began with the Santa Barbara News Press Controversy in 2006 and ended when Ampersand, the company McCaw created […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/04/21/archives-as-commons/
date: 2024-04-22, from: Om Malik blog
Sad but True: Internet has become cable television. U.S. Internet households watch an average of 43.5 hours of video per week, up from 37.2 hours in 2020. # ** Five Long Reads Why do today’s cars look so similar? Why are today’s cars so boring? Why are today’s cars so much safer? Do you see the connection? [NPlusOneMag] The New Yorker asks, what is …
https://om.co/2024/04/21/what-i-read-this-weekend/
date: 2024-04-22, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Daring Fireball
“The entire Mac product line is set for annual speed-bump Apple silicon updates” is, as far I can tell, the actual story. Not “Mac sales are in the tank and Apple is overhauling the whole product line to change its focus to AI.”
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/making_a_mountain_out_of_molehill-sized_m4_news
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-22, from: Ron Garret
This is the third in a series on the scientific method. This installment is a little bit of a tangent, but I wanted to publish it now because I’ve gotten tired of having to correct people about these things all the time. I figured if I just wrote this out once and for all I could just point people here rather than having to repeat myself all the time.There are a lot of myths and
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/three-myths-about-scientific-method.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I asked meta.ai to draw a pastoral scene with sheep and dogs, birds, fish, airplanes, clams and seagoing ships in ancient England.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/21.html#a235226
date: 2024-04-21, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Lakeland Glenteentassig Lake on the Dingle peninsula. One of Ireland’s loveliest hidden lakes. Quote of the Day “One of my best decisions was being born before the Internet and smartphones.” Robert Shrimsley Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Berlioz … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-22-april-2024/39370/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Doc asks the question on all our minds: “Why does ChatGPT misspell the f*ck out of words on images?” Don Park, Wes Felter and JY Stervinou chime in.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/21.html#a212728
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Back
in the old days, during a great sport event, we’d post our feelings, pro
or con, to Twitter. I
observed
as follows: “Let’s do something great with our lives! In the meantime I
miss the role that twitter used to play and never will play again. It
was the place to go to say ‘How about those Knicks!’ when they win a
game like the one they won last night. Not no mo.”
Betsy
Devine was the first to like this. I felt heard.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/21.html#a212552
date: 2024-04-21, from: James Fallows, Substack
Political memories fade. Bob Graham’s unusual, inspiring story should live on.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-198-days-to-go
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Good morning sports fans!
http://scripting.com/2024/04/21.html#a154110
date: 2024-04-21, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/i-will-survive
date: 2024-04-21, from: Enlightenment Economics blog
Uber arouses strong opinions, for some good reasons. The trouble is – for those who strongly dislike the company’s treatment of its drivers – that it offers a service users and even some drivers seem to like a lot. That … Continue reading
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/uber-goes-to-washington/
<code>dusage</code> for the command line and <code>PMdusage</code> for OS/2
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-04-21, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-support
date: 2024-04-21, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Journalism as we knew it is washing away. But the story is bigger than journalism alone, and bigger than a story alone can tell. (Image borrowed from the brilliant Despair.com.) We who care about journalism are asked to join the Save Journalism Project, and its fight against Big Tech. Their pitch begins, and adds, On the first point, we […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/04/20/this-thing-is-bigger-than-journalism/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Technology has given us instant access to everything. From internet with all of humanity’s knowledge, to food delivery at our door, or even cat videos, you have an app for it. But technology has also given everybody access to you, and that’s bad. Not everything requires an instant response, nobody will die if you answer […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/20/phonefree/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Trade and exchange have been around essentially forever. How much is too much, though? How far is too far? How do the critical quantities of phosphate mined in the Western Sahara and sent to fertilize farms all over the world compare with peat moss harvested fifty miles from me and used to feed gardens like […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/04/20/global-nutrient-transfer/