(date: 2024-09-15 10:48:50)
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Something
has changed in the twitterverse, it’s grown new centers, for me,
Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Twitter is still here, but I use it a lot
less than I used to. Each of them acts as if they are alone, except for
ActivityPub but that’s more complicated than it may seem. As often is
the case, the tech industry is depending on confusion. This may be a
strategic mistake. I could cite a few examples where this didn’t work,
when an open ecosystem whose benefits were by then obvious to users,
completely erased the ecosystem that came before, often with remarkable
speed. Each of them is playing for all of it, wanting to control their
users, make it so they only post to one system. And some people do. I
think it’s better if we, as users, remain diversified.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15.html#a155734
date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
You’ll never see an article in the NYT saying how wrong polls have been in every presidential election because then they’d have to fire half their political reporters.
If you want a better idea of how it’s going, look at where the ad dollars are going, and where the candidates are campaigning.
And make sure all your friends know that you’re voting and who you’re voting for. I think that makes a difference.
I’m voting straight Democratic party line.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15/155121.html?title=ignorePolls
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I find that a lot of my posts on my blog are just like the tweets I post on Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Twitter. I used to have an icon in my outliner that tweeted the text of the bar cursor headline.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15.html#a141148
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If ChatGPT had a simple, non-AI scrapbook, like the old Mac OS had, where you could just throw something over your shoulder so you can find it later with a text search, that would make it a lot more useful for retaining practices that work. It’s a shame to work something out, come up with the answer that worked, and then to have to do it all over again 23 months later when you encounter the same problem.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15.html#a140952
date: 2024-09-15, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/michael-buble
date: 2024-09-15, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
When the web started one of the best parts about it was the naming of things. To “surf the web” implied fun and adventure and to “browse” implied serendipity. And we seem to have lost that. Let’s go back. When I discovered the internet it was pretty much just taking off. I didn’t go to […]
https://christianheilmann.com/2024/09/15/lets-bring-back-browsing/
date: 2024-09-15, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/caption-contest-news
date: 2024-09-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Five years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-14-2024
date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Rupert blog
Every two-to-four years my body chemistry changes and my armpits start to reject my deodorant with an intense itch. All that aluminum has gunked up the works I guess. Usually cycling out deodorants works fine, but this time it didn’t work because my armpits were overpowering all the other deodorants.
I tried a tactical reset and took the “No deodorant challenge”, the legend –which I remember my hippie step-brother Nik telling me about thirty years ago– that if you stop using deodorant for two weeks the oils in your body naturally recalibrate and you stops smelling… but this urban legend very much did not work. I smelled horrible all the time.
I casually mentioned this issue to my dermatologist and he was quick to recommend this homely teal bottle of over-the-counter 1970s logotype, Hibiclens.
I like to think the “hibi” part of Hibiclens stands for “hibiscus” because it’s a pink liquid (or foam) that you apply like soap and rinse off. It’s colored pink because it’s an anti-septic and hospitals like to color their liquids, but the reason it works –as my dermatologist explained– is that bacteria creates the odor in your armpits. That was news to me. My prior understanding was that puberty causes teenagers to grow green stink lines that shoot out from their bodies. Guess the science there has evolved.
I’m happy to report that Hibiclens works wonderfully and I’m pleased with the results. I don’t wear deodorant everyday anymore, my armpits aren’t irritated, and I only need to apply a squeeze of Hibiclens every three days or so (but even that timeline appears to be stretching out). I do sometimes wear deodorant when the stakes are high, but day-to-day working form home is au naturale. There’s a small satisfaction that the answer to my fragile-masculine deodorant FOR MEN problems is a pink liquid in a Tiffany blue teal bottle. Time will tell, however, if it really does solve my problems. I’ll follow up in two-to-four years to see if it still works.
https://daverupert.com/2024/09/hibiclens/
date: 2024-09-14, updated: 2024-09-14, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2024-631
date: 2024-09-14, updated: 2024-09-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
The list is maintained on this page.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/upcoming-speaking-engagements-40.html
date: 2024-09-14, updated: 2024-09-14, from: Russell Graves, Syonyk’s Project Blog
https://www.sevarg.net/2024/09/14/km-krusher-rock-dust-chain-flail/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW the Wikipedia page for the MetaWeblog positions it as a replacement for the Blogger API, but it’s an extension of it. You could use MetaWeblog to publish to Blogger sites, but it also supported features that Blogger didn’t have, that were in our blogging software, Manila.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/14.html#a141548
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Could we agree that ChatGPT can ingest everything that’s in Wikipedia? I particularly want the images. I’d like to ask for a picture of Chuck Berry, and get something nice and be able to put him in a scene with the Wordle Kitty. That seems pretty harmless. And the news industry could hardly object, they didn’t invent Chuck Berry, or own the copyright of the picture of him in Wikipedia.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/14.html#a141042
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m searching for some common ground between the twitter-like systems, a basis for interop, a common API even. We had that for the blogging layer of this onion, something called the MetaWeblog API. All the popular blogging software supported it. And that meant you could write once and publish to many places. And you could write the script that did that in an afternoon or two. We started out with simple systems and the best of intentions. There’s no technical barrier. And we could do it in a few weeks at most if there was a will to do it
http://scripting.com/2024/09/14.html#a140503
date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Hecklers at last night’s rally in Greensboro, couldn’t hear what they were angry about, but it had something to do with Gaza.
The US isn’t doing the killing there, the issue is with Netanyahu who is part of the same political party as Trump. So you can be pretty sure the killing won’t stop there at least until after our election. One way to be sure the killing continues is to elect Trump.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/14/140401.html?title=hecklers
date: 2024-09-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
It’s wonderful that we’re laughing at Trump now.
What a joke to think that after all he took us through, there are 47% of the people in the country who want more of that!
OMG we must be crazy. What else are you going to do but laugh.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/14/140115.html?title=itsGoodToLaugh
date: 2024-09-14, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
So you’re considering self-hosting? You heard good things about GoToSocial? I like it. I use it. This post is about the problems you should be expecting at the moment.
It’s not surprising, after all. This is a very prominent sentence in their README:
GoToSocial is still ALPHA SOFTWARE.
But what are the exact problems? Sometimes alpha software is good enough, right?
No post editing. I hope you can handle your own typos. All you have is “Delete and Redraft”. But that orphans all replies, undoes all boosts, forgets all likes and removes posts from bookmarks. “Delete and Redraft” is a sledge hammer. “Edit post” is a delicate quill. And you don’t get to have it. YOLO! (You only live once.)
No filtering. You can mute and block and all that, but when everybody is posting about Monsterdon, the European Song Contest, the US elections, Caturday or Wordle, you can’t filter those hashtags. You must endure the enthusiasm of the people you are following. (I think the developers are implementing things, but it does not seem to have an effect in the front-ends I use, so who knows.)
Limited federation. This one is hard to spot. You want to follow this account and that account and it all seems to work until you go back and find that for one account, your follow request seems to hang in limbo, waiting. You cancel, and follow again. It seems to work. Come back later, back in limbo again, waiting. If you check the log, you’ll find errors about signatures failing and what not. I have no idea. There are currently 8 open issues containing the word ‘signature’. Something is not working and you’ll have to have an alt (a separate account) on a different server that doesn’t have this issue. That makes me sad. 😥
No automatic post expiry. And you cannot use Mastodon Archive because of some version number check the Python Mastodon library refuses to work.
No front-end. There is no front-end. I use apps like Toot! on my phone and Semaphore on the web. I don’t need anything fancy. And for the non-fancy options, I have mastodon.el for Emacs, toot for the command-line, tuba for Gnome, bitlbee-mastodon for IRC, and so on. There are plenty of options.
Markdown in your posts. I like my code blocks.
SQLite on the server. It’s currently 8.4G. The media stuff is 11G.
Memory footprint. I use Monit to monitor processes and this process uses 185.6 MB.
No admin. I haven’t had to run any administration task. Not once. ❤️
2024-09-14. @technomancy wrote about his GoToSocial setup:
So what’s it like to set up your own GotoSocial server? Well, I can walk you thru what I used for my setup. Yours might be different; that’s OK! I made these up-front choices to simplify the operational overhead because I didn’t want this to be a hassle and I don’t need the extra engineering that comes from trying for nine nines of uptime … It’s fine. – in which social media can be put in your own hands
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-08-25-gotosocial
date: 2024-09-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-in-trouble-the-coffee-klatch
date: 2024-09-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2024
date: 2024-09-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Americans began to use the term “Bourbon Democrat” in 1871 to represent those white men standing against the rights of the Black workers white southerners claimed were radical revolutionaries.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-13-2024
date: 2024-09-14, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
via Universal design for work? by Meredith Farkas Unfortunately, [the ADA accommodation process is] also a dehumanizing process. This was definitely my experience with the ADA accommodations process, the stress of which then exacerbated my issues. Admitting to having needs and asking for help is hard enough without enduring intrusive self-justification. If I hadn’t already […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/13/getting-accommodations-at-work-shouldnt-be-so-hard/
date: 2024-09-14, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Win of the week: signed the contract for a new job 🙌 Looking forward to: bookstore adventure day with friends Stuff I did: 9.5 hours consulting 1.75 hours business development / admin 45 minutes writing — my hand is still bothering me so I have remapped my keyboard to swap the left control key with my […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/13/weeknotes-sept-7-13-2024/
date: 2024-09-13, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Dems reaping rewards of Trump’s performance
https://steady.substack.com/p/untruth-or-consequences
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines.
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045277-disco-in-the-80s-but
date: 2024-09-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Some personal recollections
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-violence-against-women-act-and
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-worlds-loudest-sound-1
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Over the summer, I gave a talk about AI and democracy at TedXBillings. The recording is live.
Please share. I’m hoping for more than 200 views….
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/my-tedxbillings-talk.html
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045274-how-to-monetize-a-blog
date: 2024-09-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2024-937
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045275-man-replies-stop-to-polit
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I keep seeing mention of “Podcast 2.0” in various places. That is unusually greedy, even for the tech industry. What next? Deprecating the way podcasting has worked for the last 20 years? How do we know the people doing this aren’t shilling for Spotify, Google or Amazon? Please don’t mess with something that works as well as podcasting. You want to do something better, great – make your own name and get people to respect it. Stealing respect from podcasting tells me you have no honor or self-respect, and it should say the same to everyone else. Something else that tells you it’s bad, they never bothered to send me an email. Welcome to the tech industry.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/13.html#a143240
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I also added a link to the RSS feed in each shownotes page. In the HTML at the bottom, as a white on orange icon and in the page source as a <link> element.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/13.html#a142904
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Show notes for a short podcast I recorded on this day in 2004, a response to Adam’s podcast which I had just listened to. These were the good days, a new medium in its early stages of booting up, after years of trying to get it to go. In the next few weeks, it’ll really start going. You can subscribe to the podcast feed here.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/13.html#a133743
date: 2024-09-13, from: Dave Rupert blog
Brian LeRoux posted a few thoughts about forms and the idea of a “good form” resonated with me so I dogpiled some of my own thoughts and experiences on it. Here’s a compilation of those ideas. I’m sure this is incomplete and would love to see your list.
<form> tag
inputmode attribute
autocomplete attribute
<form> tag in a
<search> element
<button type=reset>
formData
navigator.onLine before attempting a submit
accent-color for styling and only get
more complex if necessary
Anyways. People should talk about forms more. Here’s some more resources on good form design.
https://daverupert.com/2024/09/good-forms/
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045276-at-long-last-robert-caros
date: 2024-09-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, Trump backed out of another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2024
date: 2024-09-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Please share
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/election-2024-video-of-the-week-videos
date: 2024-09-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On the twentieth anniversary of the day terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, the weather was eerily similar to the bright, clear blue sky of what has come to be known as 9/11.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-11-2024
date: 2024-09-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Republican politician Richard Nixon so thoroughly distrusted television after his own disastrous debate with Democratic nominee John F.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-10-2024
date: 2024-09-13, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-model-reasoning-strawberry-chatgpt
date: 2024-09-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/karl-roves-take-on-tuesdays-debate
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-13, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-12, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Vanishing point In Donegal, after the rain. Quote of the Day ”Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.” Ernest Hemingway Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news J.S. Bach | Weichet … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-13-september-2024/39857/
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045237-the-365-most-famous-quote
date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I was trying to explain to Miguel de Icaza, a longtime developer friend, how Dropbox was within inches of making the web a million times more useful, ten years ago, and then backed away from it. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story here on my blog, so here goes.
In 2013, Dropbox had a developer program, you could write an app, and register it with them, and then the user could run your app from a website, and log on to Dropbox in the app, and they would have access to files in a directory in the user’s Dropbox hierarchy in the app, as if it were accessing it from the local file system, which in a way they were.
I made an outliner for that system, and loved it – it was great, I didn’t have to get into the business of reselling storage, or user identity. And for the users, it “just worked” as they say, because they were already using Dropbox, and now it could be used for something completely new and incredibly useful, and it didn’t require huge venture capital to get it going, so it would enable very small niche products to find a market. It was brilliant and visionary, and I was very open about my feelings on my blog.
They also had a Public Folder, where any user files could be accessed over the web.
They were within an inch of the perfect system. The problem was my app couldn’t access user files in any other directory. So it didn’t allow for specialization in products, every editor had to do everything.
They had an option where you could give an app access to everything but that was ridiculous, I couldn’t recommend users do that. Users store all kinds of private data on Dropbox.
Here’s the howto for the product and how it connects to Dropbox.
They lost interest in this, btw – and when they broke the API, I took that opportunity to shut down the product.
I wish they had gone in that direction, or someone would go in that direction.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12/213354.html?title=dropboxAlmostReinventedTheWeb
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Just watched a Harris rally in Charlotte NC. She’s using what Trump said in the debate in her new campaign speech. Brilliant. Getting him on the record in that context is a gift. 60 million viewers. Up till then he only took interviews where he could bully his way past the interviewer.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a213129
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Braintrust query: I got an email from OpenAI saying I could access the new models, but I don’t see the new models in the popup menu.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a212916
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/apollo-13-survival
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045266-quick-summaries-of-the-de
date: 2024-09-12, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
This is a translation of my German article for the AI mag. At the WeAreDeveloper World Congress in Berlin in July, GitHub announced that the company will use artificial intelligence and assistants to turn a billion people into developers in a very short time. Amazon’s Cloud CEO, on the other hand, explained in an internal […]
https://christianheilmann.com/2024/09/12/a-billion-new-developers-thanks-to-ai/
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/mountain-bike-flips-on-a-moving-train
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045271-yesterday-i-posted-on-thr
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045269-the-latest-issue-of-mcswe
date: 2024-09-12, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Meredith’s Slow Productivity (not to be mistaken for Cal Newport’s Faux Slow Productivity) by Meredith Farkas The very idea that some activities are productive presupposes that others are not, but I struggle with the idea that we can really categorize things as “productive” and “unproductive.” Do we decide that the only things that are productive […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/12/article-pairing-reclaiming-productivity/
date: 2024-09-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2024-8a9
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045270-a-recent-scientific-dna-s
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsoft’s details are here. From a news article:
The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously known as CRYSTALS-Kyber, ML-KEM is one of three post-quantum standards formalized last month by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The KEM in the new name is short for key encapsulation. KEMs can be used by two parties to negotiate a shared secret over a public channel. Shared secrets generated by a KEM can then be used with symmetric-key cryptographic operations, which aren’t vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm when the keys are of a sufficient size…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/microsoft-is-adding-new-cryptography-algorithms.html
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/layered-people
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/12/reasons-i--still--love-fish/
date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Rupert blog
I saw a tweet awhile back that sent my brain to a far off galaxy…
Most people are proud of their reading habit.
— Alex Hormozi (@AlexHormozi) July 2, 2022
But for many, it’s just an act of productive procrastination.
I’m looking at you “I read a book a week” club
Here’s how you know:
Are you reading to find answers to questions?…or are you reading to find questions to answer?
Of all the injustices happening in the world… you know who needs to be taken down a peg? The Book-a-Week People. Fuck those guys. With their books in their Zoom backgrounds. That bothers me. Fuck them.
I know the original post is part of some weird hustle culture subgenre, but it’s probably no surprise to folks reading that I like books and fit this targeted demographic. After pondering whether I’m “finding answers to questions or questions to answer” my answer is a resounding, “…I guess?”
A lot of why I read is about juxtaposition. I read business books to juxtapose my experience against the Platonic ideal of “good business”. I read about social justice to juxtapose my lived experience against others lived experience. I read science fiction to juxtapose the present against futures I haven’t imagined. I read non-fiction airport books because I like facts and social science garbage. I read books on topics I’m already an expert in to see if there’s information that further informs my perspective. I read to teleport to different places, minds, times, and rooms where it happened.
I read to escape. I read to find myself. I read because I like facts. I read because I like fiction. I read for entertainment. I read to fall asleep. I listen to books to help me finish mundane tasks like doing the dishes every night. And I listen to books because there’s a slight communistic thrill of getting them from the library.
There’s a widely accepted idea out there that “the best way to become a better writer is to become a better reader.” I think Stephen King said it, but I can’t find the quote. Either way, I want to become a better writer. Whether fact or fiction, I want the ability to not struggle when putting thoughts on the page. Oh to partake in this magical osmosis! The transitive impartation of skills! Let me flex the language encoding and decoding synapses in my 40-watt brain.
And sometimes reading is out of due diligence. Like… if you’re going to start a job as a manager… read a book on management? Or ten? You’re dealing with people’s lives and careers, seems like the least you could do. If you’re going to talk or blog on a topic and there’s a relevant book… read that before showing your ass? A thought backed by some literature seems better than regurgitating TikToks.
Books are strange objects. Chapters and chapters of coherent research and lived experiences assembled by people who wanted to put it all down in one place. Edited by actual editors who like editing. Designed— down to the weight of the paper, the typography, and the illustration on the cover— to make the experience of reading it enjoyable. Books are uncanny and impractical objects. A terribly inefficient way to encode information from one brain to another, but an excellent way to tell a story.
You can also just like books for no reason.
Anyways, books. Check ’em out.
https://daverupert.com/2024/09/fuck-the-book-a-week-club/
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045267-heres-what-happens-to-you
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
And btw I also am wasting my ideas too, one in a hundred has any influence, and even then it’s minscule, the ideas drift away unimplemented or unused. I keep writing, hoping I see a way to get into the global conversation, again. I remember what it’s like. But I’m not done. We still have a big problem to solve in our political and communication system. Online software is where it’s at.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a130253
date: 2024-09-12, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
trurl is slowing growing up and maturing. This is a minor patch release following up the previous one done just a few weeks ago, fixing a few annoying bugs only. Download it from curl.se/trurl Fixes in 0.15.1 Future I have this feeling that we still have use cases and combinations that we don’t have tested … Continue reading trurl 0.15.1
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/12/trurl-0-15-1/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Another
fantastic thinker and writer who is mostly scattering his ideas –
Dan
Conover, who when he comes out with a piece, I stop everything and
sit down and carefully read it and savor it, because not only is there
sure to be new info and new ideas, the writing is sooo good. He’s a
former local reporter in South Carolina. I met him on a road tour I did
a bunch of years ago. Where does he post this stuff? Facebook. I want it
to be part of the concentrated web writers union. Maybe think of it as
my
karass,
my version of The Atlantic, perhaps. Or my version of the op-ed page of
the NY Times. I think there is definitely enough good stuff out there,
unorganized, to easily rival them for originality, depth of thought,
experience and great writing. Dan is on my list of such superheroes.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a125813
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
been enjoying the recent
blog
posts
by my longtime friend
Jeff Jarvis. A
couple of months ago, I was practically begging him to do this. He was
pouring so much unfocused energy into making journalism play an
appropriate role in our democracy. When Jeff started posting to his
blog, it gave his friends something to point to. This writing had much
more impact than a random tweet. Journalism crossed a line they should
not have crossed. Now we fully expect them to try to do it again. We
have to find a way for our ideas not to be scattered in the wind, so
thorougly ignorable. And in doing so, I’m convinced we’d find a better
way to organize the electorate online so it’s more immune from unwise
and unfair manipulation from the journalists. At the same time
Dan Gillmor, who
was also scattering his ideas about, has started a
newsletter. Dan was a real
blogging
pioneer
as was Jeff. We remember how this kind of thing boots up. We can set up
any kind of distribution system we need. What matters is the collection
of brilliance. Individuals are not so powerful unless they come from one
of these.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a123813
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Someday
an election will be like Game of Thrones or Succession. A campaign would
be a season. There would be character development, arcs, twists,
revelations, unforseen events,
cameos,
acts of god. Near the end of the season you have the election, with the
following episodes the plotting, intrigue, and undermining of democracy,
and at the end of the season the inauguration of a new president. Each
year you have more michegas, until four years later you go through the
election all over again. People would really study the candidates, and
would have reasons they like one character over another. And maybe the
patriarch
doesn’t die, and decides to run again. This is where we’re heading, we
might already be there.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12.html#a123319
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The latest version of System76's Ubuntu remix is available, but it's not finished by any means. The new Rust-based desktop is somewhat usable, though.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/12/pop_os_2404_cosmic_desktop/
date: 2024-09-12, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-frightening-truth-about-trumps
date: 2024-09-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today’s fallout from last night’s presidential debate between Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee former president Donald Trump has shown Harris solidifying her dominant position.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2024
date: 2024-09-12, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Doing Your Own Research? What You Need to Know About Data Voids by Dr. Jen Gunter Sending people out to do “their own research” just doesn’t work because the Internet is filled with good information right alongside misinformation, and unfortunately, distinguishing between the two can be challenging, even for an expert… Without that expertise, it’s […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/11/article-pairing-missing-information/
date: 2024-09-12, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Ron Garret
(This is part 10 in a series on the scientific method.)In 1966, well within living memory as I write this in 2024, Digital Equipment Corporation released the PDP-10, later rebranded as the DECsystem-10 or, more colloquially, the DEC-10. The base model cost over $100,000 in 1966 dollars, well over a million dollars today. For that price you got 8,192 words of memory, each being 36 bits
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/09/information-data-and-knowledge.html
date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
It would have been cool if Harris had said “He’s going to have you for dinner” instead of “He’s going to eat you for lunch,” which is what she said Putin would do to Trump.
Makes you wonder if that was a slip of the tongue or if it was a little Easter Egg she dropped for our later amusement.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11/015941.html?title=aSlipOfTheTongue
date: 2024-09-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
What
Harris is doing is marketing. It takes a lot of impressions to get
people to believe she can be president. If she wants to win, she has to
do a lot of interviews and rallies and say quotable things, and be
tweeting all the time, not just in the campaign snark accounts (which
are great) but also seriously in her own name.
People aren’t going to care about the policies though they will say that’s what they want more of. What they want to feel is that she is present. Biden was invisible that’s why they didn’t like or trust him, even though he is a good president. Trump is very present, and they like that, trust that, but most of them also know he’s a creep. She just has to keep beating the drum.
And the secret is to keep beating the drum, constantly, after she wins. Don’t disappear like Obama did. She must not only be president of the United States, but she has to be president of Twitter too (and by Twitter I mean all the twitter-like systems).
So don’t expect undecided voters to all convert to Harris in one event. But they will if she stays in the news, even dominates the news (please) and help them see Trump as a thing of the past.
That’s the way to win, and to win in governing too.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11/012827.html?title=itsMarketingDummy
date: 2024-09-12, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Ninomaru Garden – Japanese Garden (via) Takamatsu trees by David Kawabata The Art of Japanese Style Aesthetic Pruning Called “Sukashi” and “Niwaki” Kyokukanshitate style tree (“visit” link to the original is spam) photo by Wander in Japan Kenrokuen garden by Leo Hourvitz pine at beach photo by Henri Bonell small tree in garden Thunderhead Japanese […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/11/pine-niwaki-pruning-inspiration-and-notes/
date: 2024-09-11, from: James Fallows, Substack
Last night I saw the best presidential-debate performance in my memory. And the worst. Conveniently, I could watch them both at the same time.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-55-days-to-go
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Idea for TV series. Law and Order style crime drama where all the crimes are against humanity.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11.html#a212600
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/irving-penn-small-trades
date: 2024-09-11, from: Om Malik blog
If you’re a longtime mobile phone enthusiast like I am, you’ve already seen a dedicated camera control button on phones well before Apple entered the smartphone market. The Nokia N95 is a notable example that comes to mind. Of course, there was Sony Ericsson with its own models. And let’s not forget — though many …
https://om.co/2024/09/11/the-camera-is-in-control/
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-12, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wtAOKOW1z/
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045167-tuneshine-is-a-lo-fi-digi
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045141-the-isolating-life-of-a
date: 2024-09-11, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Thirteenth in the News Commons series. I grabbed the spottedhawk.org domain after hearing Garrison Keilor read this passage from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself over Leo Kottke improvising on guitar: The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me. He complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed. I too […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/09/11/on-journalism-and-principles/
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-lego-great-ball-contraption
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045265-gooey-prickles-or-prickly
date: 2024-09-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-10-2024-fbb
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045264-looks-like-francis-ford-c
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/penny-farthing-bike-race-1928
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Even if his supporters don’t see it, Trump is a pathetic broken has-been. When he’s gone we’ll dance in good riddance.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11.html#a160520
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I wouldn’t have traded places with Harris for anything in the world, she did fantastic. The pressure on her was enormous. I don’t think Trump said one thing that was true. And Harris made the point that the division is coming from that guy over there, and if we don’t want it all we have to do is turn the freaking page. For once the power is with the people. The Repubs in the Senate wouldn’t vote to convict, the Supreme Court just gave him immunity, but the American people, in a few weeks, can tell them all to fuck off.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11.html#a155518
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
most encouraging thing about last night’s debate was that the moderators
were journalists. When Trump repeated his most egregious lie about
murdering babies being legal in certain states, moderator Muir
confidently, almost derisively, said that there is no such thing. And
when Trump said he didn’t admit he lost the election, and then when
challenged said in a snotty way he was being sarcastic, Muir plainly
that wasn’t true either. It was like the Monty Python
dead parrot
sketch.
ABC News was the last place you’d expect real journalism to surface,
maybe the NYT et al will follow their lead.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/11.html#a155202
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045268-theres-a-store-in-tokyo
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045207-12-principles-for-buildin
date: 2024-09-11, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
And kept him off balance
https://steady.substack.com/p/harris-put-trump-on-his-heels
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Bruce Schneier blog
New research evaluating the effectiveness of reward modeling during Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): “SEAL: Systematic Error Analysis for Value ALignment.” The paper introduces quantitative metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of modeling and aligning human values:
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) aims to align language models (LMs) with human values by training reward models (RMs) on binary preferences and using these RMs to fine-tune the base LMs. Despite its importance, the internal mechanisms of RLHF remain poorly understood. This paper introduces new metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of modeling and aligning human values, namely feature imprint, alignment resistance and alignment robustness. We categorize alignment datasets into target features (desired values) and spoiler features (undesired concepts). By regressing RM scores against these features, we quantify the extent to which RMs reward them a metric we term feature imprint. We define alignment resistance as the proportion of the preference dataset where RMs fail to match human preferences, and we assess alignment robustness by analyzing RM responses to perturbed inputs. Our experiments, utilizing open-source components like the Anthropic preference dataset and OpenAssistant RMs, reveal significant imprints of target features and a notable sensitivity to spoiler features. We observed a 26% incidence of alignment resistance in portions of the dataset where LM-labelers disagreed with human preferences. Furthermore, we find that misalignment often arises from ambiguous entries within the alignment dataset. These findings underscore the importance of scrutinizing both RMs and alignment datasets for a deeper understanding of value alignment…
date: 2024-09-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-who-won-the-debate-and
date: 2024-09-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Former president Trump has always approached debates as professional wrestling events in which the key is not to explain policies or answer questions, but rather to demonstrate dominance over your opponent.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-10-2024
date: 2024-09-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Congress admitted California to the Union on September 9, 1850, making it the first state in the far West.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-9-2024
date: 2024-09-11, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Numbers the 260th release18 changes42 days (total: 9,672)245 bugfixes (total: 10,804)461 commits (total: 33,209)0 new public libcurl function (total: 94)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 306)2 new curl command line option (total: 265)57 contributors, 28 new (total: 3,239)27 authors, 14 new (total: 1,302)1 security fixes (total: 158) Download the new curl release from curl.se as always. … Continue reading curl 8.10.0
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/11/curl-8-10-0/
date: 2024-09-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tonights-debate
date: 2024-09-11, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Anil Dash blog
https://anildash.com/2024/09/11/23-what-was-911/
date: 2024-09-10, from: John Naughton’s online diary
How the wind blows This is what happens to a tree growing up on Ireland’s so-called ‘Wild Atlantic Way’. Quote of the Day ”Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” Robert … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-11-september-2024/39853/
date: 2024-09-10, from: Om Malik blog
Did you know that at one point more than 2 million people were watching Apple’s fall 2024 launch event stream on YouTube? If nothing else, it shows a deep interest in the company and its products. These events — carefully crafted exercises in public relations — seem to have the same place in the modern …
https://om.co/2024/09/10/my-thoughts-about-apples-iphone-16-glowtime-event/
date: 2024-09-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Watch-along live with yours truly and Heather Lofthouse
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/first-harris-trump-debate-of-2024
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/james-earl-jones-reads-poes-the-raven
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/tychos-burning-man-sunrise-set-for-2024
date: 2024-09-10, from: Matt Haughey blog
I've watched Saturday Night Live from a frighteningly early age—I bet I've seen almost every episode live from about 1979 onwards, when I was barely 7 years old staying up late on Saturday nights to see some comedy.
Before NBC launches into their 50th
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-best-sketches-from-snls-49th-season/
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045260-what-if-trump-wins-more
date: 2024-09-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2024-60a
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/my-brilliant-friend-season-four-is-here
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045257-a-long-essay-from-2007
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-11, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/09/apple-discontinues-finewoven-cases/
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/09/09/the-observatory-apple-park-california/
date: 2024-09-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tall-energy-and-tonights-debate
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045258-the-set-of-all-four
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-mainstream-press-has-failed-to-meet-this-political-moment
date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Harris must become president of Twitter before becoming president of the United States.
After the debate, Harris should be interviewed anywhere they’ll have her. Go ahead and be overexposed. Answer every question with one of your major positioning statements. Call in to radio talk shows, podcasts, whatever you can think of. Biden hardly ever promoted himself. Not being heard all the time was his biggest sin. Harris should get accustomed to being accessible when she’s in office. Keep the kamalahq snark channel going. This will have been Trump’s contribution to American politics, no fear of being heard.
BRIC countries == Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Brazil’s population is 215 million, US is 333 million, so Brazil is 64% of US.
When we win the Twitter presidency we will have Jumped the Trump. 😇
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10/162001.html?title=podcastTwitterPresidentKamala
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045242-more-than-friends-how-do
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
made
kittens
the theme for the presidential campaign, it was my attempt to bring
levity to it for readers of my blog. Then came “childless cat ladies”
and now cats being eaten in Ohio. Either I was prescient, or the Trumps
are copying me! Anyway, here’s the Wordle Kitty $5 postage stamp, next
in the series. She just broke out of prison to rescue the Ohio cats from
JD Lance. My collaborator of course is ChatGPT.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10.html#a154606
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s song: Spanish Moon.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10.html#a153314
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045248-a-hand-drawn-map-by-vladi
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/colonial-williamsburg-a-safe-space-for-learning-history
date: 2024-09-10, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I must have implemented WebDAV two or three times in the last decade or two. Just now I used mod_dav for Apache to enable WebDAV for some directories.
In theory, it’s great. You can treat the web server as a file server, connecting to it and using your regular file manager and text editor, using your favourite shell to do things. And if your website already uses permissions to restrict access to some locations, you can use the same config files to handle the making of changes.
In practice, however, the operating systems all have such brittle implementations that none of the solutions I had in production ever worked well. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Windows’ File Explorer, macOS’ Finder, the Gnome virtual file system via Nautilus or something else. The only thing that works is the command-line client cadaver. It’s the best. It works. Sooner or later, however, I realize that cadaver is probably not the tool I can expect non-technical people to use. It has the same user-interface as the old ftp command-line client.
I wonder what the issue is. WebDAV is 25 years old. It seems to me that something about the process or the spec must have set it up for failure. Perhaps it was a complex protocol? RFC 2518 for WebDAV is from February 1999, RFC 2616 for HTTP/1.1 is from June 1999. Perhaps the move from HTTP/1.0 to HTTP/1.1 too away all the thunder. There was the DotCom craze and Web 2.0 and what not. Nobody had time for WebDAV? Nobody had a business model for WebDAV? People used FTP and SSH and all that for remote file access, there was no point doing it using web technology? Or perhaps there wasn’t just one library to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?
In any case, I think I need to write this down so I don’t fall for it again in two years. I’ve been falling for it since 2005. Every wiki of mine gets WebDAV support … Looking at my blog it seems that the last time I spent five days to get this right. This time around I’m just tired.
Time to disable mod_dav again.
2024-09-10. Another option would be an explicit list of
endorsed clients like
cadaver,
CarotDAV,
Cyberduck,
hDAV,
WinSCP, … But I have only used
cadaver myself.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-08-webdav
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
James Earl Jones: “I don’t know if we ever learn from history.”
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10.html#a115132
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Ed
Kranepool was a Met when that really
meant
something. He started on the Mets in their inaugural year, 1962.
They went from the worst team ever to World Champions in record time.
They became the heroes of NYC in 1969. I was riding the
subway
back then to get from Flushing to the Bronx to go to school, and in the
Bronx, when the Mets won, everyone was smiling. If you’ve ever been to
NYC you know how unusual that is. And in the Bronx, which is of course
where the always-hated Yankees were HQ’d. Ed Kranepool
died
Sunday. He was watching a Mets game when he had a heart attack.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10.html#a113403
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Famous heroic kitten breaks out of prison to rescue house pets in Ohio from being eaten by JD Vance.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/10.html#a112516
date: 2024-09-10, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
According to Microsoft researchers, North Korean hackers have been using a Chrome zero-day exploit to steal cryptocurrency.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/new-chrome-zero-day.html
date: 2024-09-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And the future of Trumpism
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-future-of-trumpism-if-he-loses
date: 2024-09-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign launched a new section of its website detailing her policy positions.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2024
date: 2024-09-09, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
We all have to understand the assignment
https://steady.substack.com/p/dont-panic
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/on-the-regular-1
date: 2024-09-09, from: James Fallows, Substack
Examining another entry in the annals of the weird.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/the-trump-vance-plane-goes-into-prohibited
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045253-james-earl-jones-has-died
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045252-a-math-exam-but-obviously
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>OneFileLinux is a very different sort of distro that runs entirely from your UEFI system partition, without a bootable USB key or any other partitions on the disk.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/09/onefilelinux_esp_distro/
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/satisfactory-processing-machine
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045250-apple-just-announced-a-nu
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045244-the-neolithic-dad-guide-t
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045245-is-dating-a-flat-earther-
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045246-404-media-on-the-rise
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/playground-by-richard-powers
date: 2024-09-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Are the Apple announcements like great reunions for people who have been going to these things regularly for 20+ years? If so, I can see the value in it.
I went to a reunion at Berkman, after 20 years, and it was great, made me wonder why we didn’t do it every year for the last 20. When you get a group of people together who do great things in a special moment, you should see them from time to time.
But
I have a feeling there’s a lot of turnover at the Apple events. In any
case, I stopped going to them somewhere in the mid-90s, or more
accurately they stopped inviting me. Yeah I was disruptive, but only in
comparison to how well-behaved the other journos were (at that time I
was writing for Wired).
The press was in awe of Apple and other Valley companies. I enjoyed that for a very brief period when my company went public after I had a hit Mac product. Then I became something of a pariah, because I started blogging and believe me the icons of the Valley for the most part did not like it. They were accustomed to fawning attention and rewritten press releases. But because I was an insider, I had an idea where the bodies might be buried, and I wrote about it. Woz liked it. I was popular at the parties, I guess.
BTW, Heidi Roizen once observed that I took a date to an Apple announcement (the one where Steve came back). There weren’t many people there, maybe 20 or 25.
Jeff Jarvis wrote in the foreword to his upcoming book that I’m like the Zelig of tech. This is what he meant, imho. 😄
We’re coming up on the 30th anniversary of my blog, one month from tomorrow. You won’t hear anyone from tech applauding, and you probably won’t hear anything from the old bloggers. But I have something special in mind myself. Hopefully it’ll come together in the next month, or sooner. :-)
Let’s go back to 1994, by looking to the future. You won’t need an invite, btw. It’ll open to everyone.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/09/164454.html?title=30thAnniversaryInAMonth
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045177-this-extensive-list-of-pa
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045187-til-that-bananas-emit-ant
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-prince-documentary-you-might-never-see
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Daring Fireball
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Could Kamala Harris look into the camera tomorrow night and say “To Fox News viewers, they’ve been feeding you a load crap. Just thought you should know. And I wouldn’t trust the others so much either.”
http://scripting.com/2024/09/09.html#a151044
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045208-john-mcfall-is-the-first
date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-09, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Ubuntu 24.04.1 is still available, but for now you can't update to it from Jammy Jellyfish until a bug is sorted. To compensate, there are some fun goodies coming in 24.10.</p> date: 2024-09-09, updated: 2024-09-15, from: Bruce Schneier blog
In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption.
The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry. These components include:
- Technical Assistance Requests (TARs): TARs are voluntary requests for assistance accessing encrypted data from law enforcement to teleco and technology companies. Companies are not legally obligated to comply with a TAR but law enforcement sends requests to solicit cooperation. …
date: 2024-09-09, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Why he faces a gender chasm, and why women voters will be America’s salvation
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-woman-problem
date: 2024-09-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“Lovebirds,” by Peter Ralston.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-8-2024
date: 2024-09-08, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Stoned Taken on the north shore of Galway Bay, with the ‘moonscape’ of the Burren in the far distance. The cairn was built by person or persons unknown. But it was asking to be photographed! Quote of the Day ”Anyone … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-9-september-2024/39848/
date: 2024-09-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In the late nineteenth century, as workers tried to reclaim power from the industrialists who had bought control over the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-7-2024
date: 2024-09-08, updated: 2024-09-08, from: Daring Fireball
As it stands, fun side is not the EU. But hope springs eternal.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/ios_continental_drift_fun_gap
date: 2024-09-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
A very practical issue.
BlueSky has a 300 character limit, which is less than the other services I cross-post to, namely:
This will be a problem when we eventually get peering working cross-network among twitter-like systems.
It looks to me, just eyeballing this list, that 500 is a good place to start, although I don’t think ultimately there should be any specific limits.
We saw that clearly when RSS 0.91 was the most recent version, there were limits in the Netscape doc, but they were ignored by content sources, which is why I took them out in the 0.92 and 2.0 versions.
Peering is simpler than federation. It would enable people to send messages across these boundaries, but wouldn’t handle the engagement features, likes, replies, forwarding. It’s what many people are starting to do now, by hand. There’s no way to put it off, imho – the Bluesky limit is already hard to deal with.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/08/152655.html?title=peeringInTheSocialWeb
date: 2024-09-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-7-2024-107
date: 2024-09-08, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/shania-twain
date: 2024-09-08, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/caption-contest-hair
date: 2024-09-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
By rights, tonight’s post should be a picture, but Trump’s behavior today merits a marker because it feels like a dramatic escalation of the themes we’ve seen for years.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-7-2024
date: 2024-09-08, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
IVF success drops nearly 40% with air pollution exposure: study by Katie Dangerfield (Global News) See also: Moving towards climate accountability + It’s ‘almost impossible’ to eliminate toxic PFAS from your diet. Here’s what you can do by Tom Perkins (The Guardian) Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’ by Douglas Main […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/07/the-invisible-toll-of-pollution/
date: 2024-09-08, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Supplements are a Rising Cause of Liver Failure by Dr. Jen Gunther …the risk of supplement-related liver injury and liver injury severe enough that liver transplantation is needed has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. Some estimates suggest supplements may cause up to 43% of drug-induced liver injury in the United States and 19% […]