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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Instead of just fact-checking the candidates, and presenting “both sides,” how about recording the number of times the candidate threatens specific races, genders, lifestyles, religions and of course individual people. Keep a page where you tally the groups he doesn’t threaten with expulsion or worse. That would be very revealing, and in line with the true issue of this election. Time for you all to get in sync with the actual American history that’s being made.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/22.html#a202804
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s around this time of year that I start thinking about my BOTY. I should give out a plaque or a statue or something. Someday! Anyway almost immediately I had my answer. The announcement will wait till December of course, sometimes early January.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/22.html#a202442
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Social networks are condemned when they carry lies from race-hate, misogyny and worse, but the major news orgs do it all the time. It’s ridiculous that there are two standards.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/22.html#a202309
date: 2024-09-22, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study by Matthew Taylor (The Guardian) + Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump by Dell Cameron (Gizmodo) The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/22/article-pairing-demonizing-protestors/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
To my programmer friends, how long would it have taken to answer this question using Google and StackExchange. There was a bug in this one line of code, a call to new Date () in JavaScript, that was behaving as if months were not 0-based, which they are known to be. The problem: I was specifying the day as 0 and month, correctly, but the day had to be 1 in order for it to work and without thinking I had specified it as 0.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/22.html#a153409
date: 2024-09-22, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-west-wing
date: 2024-09-22, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/caption-contest-springfield
date: 2024-09-22, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Thursday, September 19, the day after the Federal Reserve began to lower interest rates two and a half years after it began to raise them to get inflation under control, President Joe Biden spoke to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., a nonprofit, nonpartisan forum where leaders from around the world can speak to larger questions about the global economy.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-21-2024
date: 2024-09-22, from: Jeff Geerling blog
They stole my voice with AI
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHfPH-Kr9XU">this clip</a>:</p>Your browser does not support the video tag.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar. I mean I would like you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. But that’s the Jeff Geerling channel, not Elecrow, where the clip above is from. I never said the words that are in that video.
Someone emailed me a link to Elecrow’s video and said it sounded off. I’m guessing at least some of the thousands of people who watched the video thought I agreed to voice some Elecrow videos, since I talk about some of the same topics on my channel.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/they-stole-my-voice-ai
date: 2024-09-21, from: Melanie Mitchell, AI Guide for Human Thinking
I never thought I would be a podcast host, but…Abha Eli Phoboo, the director of communications at the Santa Fe Institute, recently relaunched SFI’s official podcast, Complexity, and proposed that each season, an SFI faculty member co-host the podcast with her for six episodes on a topic of their choice.
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/podcast-on-the-nature-of-intelligence
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045321-its-my-unfortunate-duty-t
date: 2024-09-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Since I’m about to turn 70 (next May), and because my body is getting old in ways it never has before (of course) – I’ve become a more active participant in the health care system.
One thing I’ve learned is it can be hard to get the attention of the doctors. And once you see your GP about a problem it’s almost certain they’re going to send you to a specialist. So you go to the specialist and it’s pretty random as to whether they put the effort into understanding your situation in full. And they aren’t trying to solve all your problems, just the ones they deal in.
An aside, a couple of years ago I had a condition that ChatGPT diagnosed in a second but it took the doctors who weren’t paying much attention (my primary care doctor had retired and I was being shuffled between NPs and MDs until they could find someone to be my new main doctor) so they were all sending me to the wrong specialists, all of whom said there was no problem, yet I still had the symptoms which were getting worse. On the fourth try, someone sent me to the right specialist and they instantly diagnosed what ChatGPT had diagnosed at the outset. So when people say AI could hurt medical care, I don’t think so, it would probably be a good idea to have an AI looking over their shoulders and asking if they’ve considered the Occam’s Razor specialist.
So you have to be alert, and push to get them to pay attention.
And communicating with the system is ridiculous. Almost everything has to be done over the phone. They have email, but if you want to set up an appointment, you have to call. And wait on hold. And wait and wait. And then it’s a dice roll as to who you get connected to. There are some people you talk to who seem to be trying to be annoying. It’s a total pain in the ass, but you have to do it. (And since they have to ask for your birthdate to identify you they know how old you are and treat you accordingly.)
All the health care for a person my age seems to be directed at finding the thing that’s going to kill you and treating it. That’s good, and that’s a shift in perspective from someone who until recently had a young body which basically took care of itself. Or so it seemed (I did have emergency heart surgery at 47 that saved my life, although that’s a fairly distant memory now).
So right now I have a thing that needs to be looked into because it might be one of those serious things. And it’s really hard to get the system to respond quickly, because if it’s serious it’s one of those things that you want to deal with asap. I don’t think it is, but you have to act as if it might be. And it can be humiliating to say the least.
But there’s no law saying the doctor, or any of the others in the system, could go to jail or lose their license if they treat any illness I might have. I can now for the first time really understand what it might be like to have to deal with that in addition to all the other serious stuff you have to deal with.
That’s the point of this post. Throwing a wrench into the already broken wheels of our medical system is the crime. They should go to prison for doing this, the six Supreme Court justices and other Republican assholes who stick their noses where they don’t belong. There should be a penalty for what they’re doing, they should have the fear they’re putting women through. They should worry about what happens when their decision is overturned.
Perhaps they should lose their medical care as should all the members of their families. Then they might get an idea of how sinful they have been.
The first draft of this post appeared on Facebook.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/21/141315.html?title=healthIsNothingToScrewWith
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045320-the-fda-has-approved-a
date: 2024-09-21, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2024-837
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045319-did-shohei-ohtani-just-pl
<code>mkfs.fat</code> on Linux vs. OS/2 2.1
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-09-21/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-09-21, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-low-will-trump-go-the-coffee
date: 2024-09-21, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On September 16, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten wrote that while it’s “[p]retty clear that [Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala] Harris is ahead nationally right now… [h]er advantage in the battlegrounds is basically nil.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2024
date: 2024-09-21, from: Jonudell blog
On a recent trip I saw this pair of Latin phrases tattooed on the back of a flight attendant’s arms: Left: Deo absente. Right: Deum culpa. I took Latin in middle school, and could guess what the combination might mean. It’s not a common construction, and a search seems to confirm my guess. Both Google … Continue reading deo absente deum culpa
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/09/20/deo-absente-deum-culpa/
date: 2024-09-21, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
That hat reads so 90s to me.
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/20/listened-to-cake-frank-sinatra/
date: 2024-09-21, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I’m trying to learn to flex my schedule and let myself relax when project work is at a lull. (Especially since my hand is still bugging me so I’m not writing fiction.) It’s hard! But I caught up on a lot of library books this week. Highlight of the week: went to an unveiling of […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/20/weeknotes-sept-14-20-2024/
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The teaser for Squid Game Season Two dropped.
date: 2024-09-21, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-20, from: Liam on Linux
A friend of mine via the Ubuntu mailing list for the last couple of decades, Chris is bedbound now and tells me he’s in his final weeks of life. He shared with me a piece he’s written. I’ve lightly edited it before sharing it, and if he’s feeling up to it, there is some more he wants to say. We would welcome thoughts and comments on it.Some thoughts on Computers
The basic design of computers hasn’t changed much since the mechanical one, the Difference Engine, invented by Charles Babbage in 1822 – but not built until 1991. Alan Turing invented computer science, and the ENIAC in 1945 was arguably the first electronic general-purpose digital computer. It filled a room. The Micral N was the world’s first “personal computer,” in 1973.
Since then, the basic design has changed little, other than to become smaller, faster, and on occasions, less useful.
The current trend to lighter, smaller gadget-style toys – like cell phones, watches, headsets of various types, and other consumer toys – is an indication that the industry has fallen into the clutches of mainstream profiteering, with very little real innovation now at all.
I was recently looking for a new computer for my wife and headed into one of the main laptop suppliers only to be met with row upon row of identical machines, at various price points arrived at by that mysterious breed known as "marketers". In fact, the only difference in the plastic on display was how much drive space had the engineers fitted in, and how much RAM did they have. Was the case a pretty colour, that appealed to the latest 10-year-old-girl, or a rugged he-man, who was hoping to make the school whatever team? In other words, rows of blah.
Where was the excitement of the early Radio Shack "do-it-yourself" range: the Sinclair ZX80, the Commodore 8-bits (PET and VIC-20), later followed by the C64? What has happened to all the excitement and innovation? My answer is simple: the great big clobbering machine known as "Big Tech".
Intel released its first 8080 processor in 1972 and later followed up with variations on a theme [PDF], eventually leading to the 80286, the 80386, the 80486 (getting useful), and so on. All of these variations needed an operating system which basically was a variation of MS-DOS, or more flexibly, PC DOS. Games started to appear, and some of them were quite good. But the main driver of the computer was software.
In particular, word-processors and spreadsheets.
At the time, my lost computer soul had found a niche in CP/M, which on looking back was a lovely little operating system – but quietly disappeared into the badlands of marketing.
Lost
and lonely I wandered the computerverse until I hooked up with Sanyo –
itself now long gone the way of the velociraptor and other lost
prehistoric species.
The Sanyo bought build quality, the so-called "lotus card" to make it fully compatible with the IBM PC, and later, an RGB colour monitor and a 10 gig hard drive. The basic model was still two 5¼" floppy drives, which they pushed up to 720kB, and later the 3.½" 1.25MB floppy drives. Ahead of its time, it too went the way of the dinosaur.
These led to the Sanyo AT-286, which became a mainstay, along with the Commodore 64. A pharmaceutical company had developed a software system for pharmacies that included stock control, ordering, and sales systems. I vaguely remember that machine and software bundle was about NZ$ 15,000, which was far too rich for most.
Then the computer landscape began to level out, as the component manufacturers began to settle on the IBM PC-AT as a compatible, open-market model of computer that met the Intel and DOS standards. Thus, the gradual slide into 100 versions of mediocrity.
The
consumer demand was for bigger and more powerful machines, whereas the
industry wanted to make more profits. A conflict to which the basic
computer scientists hardly seemed to give a thought.
I was reminded of Carl Jung’s dictum: that “greed would destroy the West.”
A thousand firms sprang up, all selling the same little boxes, whilst the marketing voices kept trumpeting the bigger/better/greater theme… and the costs kept coming down, as businesses became able to afford these machines, and head offices began to control their outlying branches through the mighty computer.
I headed overseas, to escape the bedlam, and found a spot in New Guinea – only to be overrun by a mainframe run from Australia, which was going to run my branch – for which I was responsible, but without any control.
Which side of the fence was I going to land on? The question was soon answered by the Tropical Diseases Institute in Darwin, which diagnosed dengue fever… and so I returned to NZ.
For months I battled this recurring malady, until I was strong enough to attend a few hardware and programming courses at the local Polytechnic, eventually setting up my own small computer business, building up 386 machines for resale, followed by 486 and eventually a Texas Instrument laptop agency.
These ran well enough, but had little battery life, and although they were rechargeable, they needed to be charged every two or three hours. At least the WiFi worked pretty consistently, and for the road warrior, gave a point of distinction.
[I think Chris is getting his time periods mixed up here. —Ed.]
Then the famous 686 arrived, and by the use of various technologies, RAM began to climb up to 256MB, and in some machines 512MB.
Was
innovation happening? No
–
just more marketing changes. As in, some machines came bundled with
software, printers or other peripherals, such as modems.
As we ended the 20th century, we bought bigger and more powerful machines. The desktop was being chased by the laptop, until I stood at a long row of shiny boxes that were basically all the same, wondering which one my wife would like… knowing that it would have to connect to the so-called "internet", and in doing so, make all sorts of decisions inevitable.
Eventually I chose a smaller Asus, with 16GB of main RAM and an nVidia card, and retreating to my cottage, collapsed in despair. Fifty years of computing and wasted innovation left her with a black box that, when she opened, it said “HELLO” against a big blue background that promised the world – but only offered more of the same. As in, a constant trickle of hackers, viruses, Trojans and barely anything useful – but now included a new perversion called a chat-bot or “AI”.
I retired to my room in defeat.
We have had incremental developments, until we have today’s latest chips from Intel and AMD based on the 64-bit architecture first introduced around April 2003.
So where is the 128-bit architecture – or the 256 or the 512-bit?
What would happen if we got really innovative? I still remember Bill Gates saying "Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM." And yet, it is common now to buy machines with 8 or 16 or 32GB of RAM, because the poor quality of operating systems fills the memory with poorly-written garbage that causes memory leaks, stack-overflow errors and other memory issues.
Then there is Unix – or since the advent of Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, GNU/Linux. A solid, basic series of operating systems, by various vendors, that simply do what they are asked.
I wonder where all this could head, if computer manufacturers climbed onboard and developed, for example, a laptop with an HDMI screen, a rugged case with a removable battery, a decent sound system, with a good-quality keyboard, backlit with per-key colour selection. Enough RAM slots to boost the main memory up to say 256GB, and video RAM to 64GB, allowing high speed draws to the screen output.
Throw away the useless touch pads. With the advent of Bluetooth mice, they are no longer needed. Instead, include an 8TB NVMe drive, then include a decent set of controllable fans and heatpipes that actually kept the internal temperatures down, so as to not stress the RAM and processors.
I am sure this could be done, given that some manufacturers, such as Tuxedo, are already showing some innovation in this area.
Will it happen? I doubt it. The clobbering machine will strike again.
Friday September 20th 2024
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/91759.html
date: 2024-09-20, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
It‘s not that easy, unfortunately.
We used a dedicated channel where referees post game dates, and when people say they want to play on that day, the announcement is updated to include their name. If not enough people sign up, the game is cancelled.
There is a social channel that provides community and prevents the server from falling away into ignored-land. Not sure how important that is.
We keep signing up and chat about the game in a separate channel so that the “next games” channel sticks out.
If the pool of players is small, offer a role to people interested and tag it in the announcements.
That‘s all I got.
Going from “referee proposes a date and players sign up” to “players ask me for available dates and recruit fellow players to the expedition” took me 45 sessions…
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-21-get-started
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-zombie-flick-was-shot-on-an-iphone-15/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Has anyone attempted to make a higher level language on top of SQL? It’s taken me a few iterations over years to finally (I hope) figure out how to design a table to take advantage of the features that evolved into making SQL efficient for the applications people really deploy. If this were machine language, it would be time to start thinking about the HLL that it inspires. Actually long past time imho.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/20.html#a212332
date: 2024-09-20, from: Jonudell blog
Powerpipe dashboards can now connect not only to Steampipe but also to SQLite and DuckDB. This creates a combinatorial explosion of possibilities, including dashboards that use SQL to visualize large datasets read from Parquet files by DuckDB. SQL Translation From Postgres to SQLite and DuckDB Part of the LLM series at The New Stack.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/09/20/sql-translation-from-postgres-to-sqlite-and-duckdb/
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.austinmann.com/trek/iphone-16-pro-camera-review-kenya
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-reaches-50-homers-50-steals
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045304-what-impacted-the-earth-6
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Daring Fireball
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-shared-putin-propaganda-meme
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.elonowesyou100dollars.com/
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045298-which-came-first-a-quiz
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Daring Fireball
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_4761
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
This
is a test. For the next sixty seconds this station will conduct a test
of a new server app that combines the functionality of several apps I
used to run as separate servers. The goal is to be able to integrate the
functionality of all the components. It’s time to invest in blogging in
a real way. The
2017
corner-turn was about getting back to the foundation I had before
trying to co-exist with Twitter, Facebook, Medium. All three are now no
longer high value targets for interop. So while I wasted a lot of time
trying to peer
with them, I did finally get off the horse and I had a decent setup
while developed Drummer and
FeedLand and in doing so learned how
to do scalable server apps with
SQL. I’ve wasted so much
time trying to be compatible with apps that didn’t want us. I have a
feeling that none of the current targets really want us either. So let’s
get back to the
Open
Web, which gave us much hope before. I think we can do a lot with
feeds and OPML. They’re to open systems
what
GPL
is to open source. You don’t get to be half-committed to being open, you
have to be all-in or you can’t play. (Same idea as
podcasting,
which of course is just an instance of
RSS.) You don’t
have to deal with a lot of confusion to find the interop. You just have
to be willing to look in that direction. This started out as a test post
and look what it has become.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/20.html#a172012
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045311-londons-clean-air-zone-wa
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045306-the-toll-of-americas-anti
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Note to self: When the phone doesn’t ring, go to Settings - Sound & vibration - Do Not Disturb. It was on for some reason. I’m sure I didn’t set this. I’m pretty sure I’ve been here before. Here’s the ChatGPT log and screen shot.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/20.html#a162708
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
My Pixel 9 Pro keeps giving me tips on using it when I bring it up, as I’m trying to read an important message, or change something at a red light. I’m always distracted when I use the phone, and by adding more distractions to sell me on something, that’s not their right. I paid $1300 for this new phone. And also I can’t figure out how to get the phone to ring when I get a call. I keep missing important calls.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/20.html#a161044
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045310-a-previously-unknown-piec
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is really interesting.
It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line.
Clever.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/clever-social-engineering-attack-using-captchas.html
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045309-the-newest-season-of-the-
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045308-the-breakthrough-that-cou
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I keep discovering uses for ChatGPT. I think it would be very useful to learn a language, for example. I know how to say this in English, could you explain to me, in English, how to say it in French. I bet it’s very good at that. I am using it to learn to write SQL code that takes advantage of all the arcane features they’ve added over the years to handle cases that come up in real database work. It’s anything but a new language, and efficiency is everything – so I think they pretty much have all the cases covered. I remember how frustrating it was to learn Algol when all I knew before that was Fortran and Basic. It would have been great to have ChatGPT to coach me on it.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/20.html#a144001
date: 2024-09-20, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Sipeed NanoKVM: A RISC-V stick-on
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img width="700" height="auto" class="insert-image" src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/sipeed-nanokvm-box-contents.jpeg" alt="Sipeed NanoKVM"></p>This is the Sipeed NanoKVM. You stick it on your computer, plug in HDMI, USB, and the power button, and you get full remote control over the network—even if your computer locks up.
How did Sipeed make it so small, and so cheap? The ‘full’ kit above is about $50, while the cheapest competitors running PiKVM are closer to $200 and up!
This blog post is a lightly-edited transcript of the following video on my YouTube channel:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/sipeed-nanokvm-risc-v-stick-on
date: 2024-09-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2024-343
date: 2024-09-20, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Lakeview Lough Gartan seen from the grounds of Glenveagh Castle, Co. Donegal Quote of the Day ”There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy; it is not the bad taste of a country which knows no better; it … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-20-september-2024/39881/
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-20, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Virter is a useful little tool if you often create – and then remove – VMs to try stuff. It's arguably carried on the ripples from HashiCorp dropping the BSL into the FOSS pond.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/virter_simpler_test_vms/
date: 2024-09-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Yesterday morning, NPR reported that U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2024
date: 2024-09-20, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-sincere-thank-you-after-three-years
date: 2024-09-20, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Quoted from: Podcast: Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism (Matt Pearce and Paris Marx) Elsewhere, Pearce expands: Following hyperlinks in search of accurate information is annoying, inefficient and increasingly filled with scammy clutter. On the fenced-in internet of tomorrow, AI-powered portals controlled by a small handful of powerful international companies will treat us […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/19/long-live-hypertext/
date: 2024-09-20, updated: 2024-09-22, from: Ron Garret
IntroductionThis post is ostensibly about an obscure technical issue in distributed systems, but it’s really about human communications, and how disagreements that on the surface appear to be about technical issues can sometimes turn out to actually be disagreements about the meanings of words. I’m taking the time to write a fairly extensive post about this for two reasons. First, I’m
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/09/yes-you-can-have-exactly-once-delivery.html
date: 2024-09-19, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Stocks soar, interest rates fall. Will it help Harris?
https://steady.substack.com/p/news-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-hear
date: 2024-09-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On September 18, 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act as one of the five laws that made up the Compromise of 1850.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-18-2024
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/a-tour-of-antarctica-by-drone
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders forced us to think of her as a mom. I don’t think that works out very well in her favor, probably best not to go there.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/19.html#a210043
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/19/apple-seeds-first-ios-18-1-public-beta/
date: 2024-09-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-private-equity
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045305-visualizing-ship-movement
date: 2024-09-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2024-15f
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045300-a-famous-lecture-given-in
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045296-horndog-a-rotating-hot-do
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/double-trio
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045301-monopoly-but-communist-no
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers:
The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world, including home routers, cameras, digital video recorders, and NAS drives. Those devices were used to help infiltrate sensitive networks related to universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, and media organizations…. The botnet was launched in mid-2021, according to the FBI, and infected roughly 260,000 devices as of June 2024.
The operation to dismantle the botnet was coordinated by the FBI, the NSA, and the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), according to a press release dated …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/fbi-shuts-down-chinese-botnet.html
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045303-ian-bogost-on-the-death
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045297-oh-hey-a-new-book
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-kidnapping-i-cant-escape
date: 2024-09-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I
was driving on a mountain road yesterday to pick up a pizza in a nearby
town. I drive it fairly regularly, and I have a car that handles well so
I drive at the speed limit or a little above.
Still, what often happens on this road is some asshole tailgates, getting so close that if I hit the brakes suddenly they would have no time to react, and would slam into the rear of my car. And you do sometimes have to hit the brakes because animals appear on the road, deer, turkeys are common. Sometimes even bears.
I’ve never hit an animal, but I have come close.
There’s no way to pass on this road.
I’ve been in the other driver’s place when a tourist is driving 30 in a 45 mph zone, and what do you do? Keep your distance and don’t freak out. It’s perfectly legal to go 30 in a 45 mph zone.
Anyway I slow down, to send a signal to the other driver, and also to mitigate damage if there is an accident. This asshole leans on their horn. I slow down more.
And when I come to a stop sign I come to a full stop and pause, thinking okay they’ll pass me now, and I’ll get a chance to see who this asshole is. They stayed behind and leaned on the horn again.
When we come to the next stop sign, it’s the end of the road and you can go left or right. I’m going right, they’re going left, and the road is wide so the asshole pulls up to the left of me and I look over and see a middle-aged woman, could be a teacher or a nurse. I was amazed. The last kind of person I would expect to make such a scene.
If I had a chance I would have asked what the hell they were doing.
BTW, I don’t speed on these roads because I like driving them, I love the mountains, and the fresh air, and I wasn’t in any kind of a hurry. It’s not uncommon to get a tailgater but usually they take the hint when I slow down and add a few car lengths between us.
One of the reasons I have a blog is so I have a place to write these stories. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/09/19/131438.html?title=drivingOnAMountainRoad
date: 2024-09-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The inevitable logic of CEOs, private equity, and “activist investors”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/icahn
date: 2024-09-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, at a White House reception in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, President Joe Biden said: “We don’t demonize immigrants.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2024
date: 2024-09-19, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
(Download trurl here) Release presentation At 08:00 UTC I will do a live-streamed release presentation of trurl 0.16 on Twitch. Bump I decided to bump the minor version number again because there is a new option: –qtrim. This is the old –trim option made simpler and specialized for query components only. When we added originally … Continue reading trurl 0.16
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/19/trurl-0-16/
date: 2024-09-19, updated: 2024-09-21, from: Daring Fireball
What more proof of the camera’s singular importance to the iPhone would one need than the ever-growing block of camera lenses on the back of each year’s new models, or the “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign? A dedicated hardware button?
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_iphones_16
date: 2024-09-19, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Aesthetics seem to come before functionality in tech now… My husband and I both have new old Pixel phones (6a and 7a), which we both hate in comparison to the 3a we had previously. The new phones are exceedingly slippery, sliding off of seemingly flat surfaces constantly. They’re too large to comfortably hold, for either […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/18/aesthetic-fascism/
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045294-serena-rios-mcrae-makes-h
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247839/apple-intelligence-language-support-german-italian
date: 2024-09-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-17-2024-882
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/mickey-17-a-new-film-from-bong-joon-ho
date: 2024-09-18, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
2024-09-14. I’m somewhere in the Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland with my wife. There is a lot of running, hiking, hugging, kissing, eating and drinking involved. 🥰
2024-09-15. Still on the trip but late at night I spent more than an hour trying to figure out why my server had a load of nearly 40. 💻
All I discovered is that load went down when I shut down Emacs Wiki. See also 2024-09-16 on Emacs Wiki.
Well, I needed to sleep and I‘ve got plans for the next few days so I shut it down while I slept hoping that the misconfigured spider is fixed or the inept programmer discovers their mistake. Just another day in the Butlerian Jihad. Some misguided soul probably wanted to download it all and wrote a broken web crawler and when that got blocked they bought some nice scaling infrastructure from Amazon, Hetzner, OHV or Alibaba Cloud or whatever they are called, allowing them to use a gazillion different IP numbers that will eventually lead me to implement some sort of cloud service provider block.
2024-09-16. Switched Emacs Wiki back on after a few hours of sleep and it did fine. But then it restarted again… at 18:00, 19:00, 21:00, 22:00… and so I switched Emacs Wiki off again. Time to ban some networks!
Anybody interested in my banning of IP ranges and possibly interested in me reverting any of these, take a look at ban-cidr … from a network that isn’t banned, I guess. 😏
2024-09-17. This continues to keep me busy and angry every evening. Too bad I don’t have a real fast network-lookup to firewall ban pipeline. I’m using this script instead of carefully checking IP numbers and networks. I’m also sick and tired of the same networks popping up again and again.
I added over a hundred Chinese networks to the firewall rules and I’m seriously considering blocking the whole country for a week. It seems that most of the offenders are networks run by China Telecoms and China Mobile.
2024-09-18. So far, so good. Load stays below two.
Here’s example usage for network-lookup, filtering for
Emacs Wiki and a URL parameter used when requesting recent changes or a
RSS feed for a single page only. That would count as suspicious
misbehaving crawler behaviour in my book.
Made 16 DNS requests.
4 cache hits.
| Range | Hits | Org |
|---|---|---|
| 34.32.128.0/17 | 3 | Google LLC / GOOGL-2 |
| 113.0.0.0/13 | 3 | UNICOM-HL / CNC Group CHINA169 Heilongjiang Province Network |
| 14.208.0.0/12 | 1 | CHINANET-GD / China Telecom |
| 39.64.0.0/11 | 1 | China Unicom Shandong Province Network / UNICOM-SD |
| 111.36.192.0/20 | 1 | China Mobile communications corporation / China Mobile / CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP |
| 223.167.0.0/16 | 1 | UNICOM-SH / China Unicom Shanghai Province Network |
| 39.184.0.0/18 | 1 | Internet Service Provider in China / CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile |
| 111.18.128.0/20 | 1 | China Mobile / ORG-CM1-AP / CMNET / China Mobile communications corporation |
| 27.38.200.0/24 | 1 | UNICOM-GDSZ / China Unicom |
| 112.47.128.0/18 | 1 | China Mobile communications corporation / China Mobile Communications Corporation / ORG-CMCC1-AP / CMNET |
| 218.71.0.0/16 | 1 | CHINANET-ZJ-WZ / Zhejiang Telecom |
| 39.130.48.0/20 | 1 | CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile / Internet Service Provider in China |
| 222.90.0.0/16 | 1 | CHINANET-SN / Beijing 100088 |
| 223.81.240.0/20 | 1 | ORG-CM1-AP / CMNET / China Mobile / China Mobile communications corporation |
| 218.107.192.0/19 | 1 | CNCGROUP-FJ-XIAMEN-MAN / CNCGroup CHINA169 FuJian province network |
| 219.128.0.0/13 | 1 | CHINANET-GD / China Telecom |
34.32.128.0/17 Google LLC / GOOGL-2
34.32.172.122 34.32.172.122 34.32.172.122
34.32.128.0/17 | 34.32.172.122 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:12 +0200 | GET /cgi-bin/emacs?action=rss;rcidonly=RssExclude;days=1;all=1;showedit=1;full=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
34.32.128.0/17 | 34.32.172.122 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:12 +0200 | GET /cgi-bin/emacs?action=rss;rcidonly=RssExclude;days=1;all=1;showedit=1;full=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
34.32.128.0/17 | 34.32.172.122 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:12 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rss;rcidonly=RssExclude;days=1;all=1;showedit=1;full=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 34.32.128.0/17
113.0.0.0/13 UNICOM-HL / CNC Group CHINA169 Heilongjiang Province Network
113.2.156.201 113.2.184.52 113.1.92.78
113.0.0.0/13 | 113.2.156.201 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:11 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=14&rcidonly=tzhelp.el&showedit=0 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 ADG/11.0.2566 AOLBUILD/11.0.2566 Safari/537.36
113.0.0.0/13 | 113.2.184.52 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:16 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=7&rcidonly=WriteRoom&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Brave Chrome/88.0.4324.152 Safari/537.36
113.0.0.0/13 | 113.1.92.78 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:21 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1&rcidonly=screen-term.el&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.63 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 113.0.0.0/13
14.208.0.0/12 CHINANET-GD / China Telecom
14.216.128.162
14.208.0.0/12 | 14.216.128.162 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:27 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1&rcidonly=SyncBBDB&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 14.208.0.0/12
39.64.0.0/11 China Unicom Shandong Province Network / UNICOM-SD
39.76.103.29
39.64.0.0/11 | 39.76.103.29 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:17 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=1&rcidonly=FinderMode&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 39.64.0.0/11
111.36.192.0/20 China Mobile communications corporation / China Mobile / CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP
111.36.200.78
111.36.192.0/20 | 111.36.200.78 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:50 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=28&rcidonly=DiredPlusMarkMenu&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 111.36.192.0/20
223.167.0.0/16 UNICOM-SH / China Unicom Shanghai Province Network
223.167.74.168
223.167.0.0/16 | 223.167.74.168 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:39 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1726266329&rcidonly=etagsselect&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 223.167.0.0/16
39.184.0.0/18 Internet Service Provider in China / CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile
39.184.45.222
39.184.0.0/18 | 39.184.45.222 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:28 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rss&all=1&days=14&rcidonly=BufferMenuPlus&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Brave Chrome/81.0.4044.122 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 39.184.0.0/18
111.18.128.0/20 China Mobile / ORG-CM1-AP / CMNET / China Mobile communications corporation
111.18.142.15
111.18.128.0/20 | 111.18.142.15 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:00 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1&rcidonly=orgfold-separate-file.el&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 111.18.128.0/20
27.38.200.0/24 UNICOM-GDSZ / China Unicom
27.38.200.210
27.38.200.0/24 | 27.38.200.210 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:57 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1723764629&rcidonly=AnselmHelbig&showedit=1&upto=1724974229 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 27.38.200.0/24
112.47.128.0/18 China Mobile communications corporation / China Mobile Communications Corporation / ORG-CMCC1-AP / CMNET
112.47.136.104
112.47.128.0/18 | 112.47.136.104 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:28 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=0&days=14&rcidonly=RubyEvalRegion&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.89 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 112.47.128.0/18
218.71.0.0/16 CHINANET-ZJ-WZ / Zhejiang Telecom
218.71.59.116
218.71.0.0/16 | 218.71.59.116 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:55 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1726412272&rcidonly=AnilTappetla&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 218.71.0.0/16
39.130.48.0/20 CMNET / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile / Internet Service Provider in China
39.130.50.65
39.130.48.0/20 | 39.130.50.65 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:28 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=7&rcidonly=CarlMikkelsen&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 39.130.48.0/20
222.90.0.0/16 CHINANET-SN / Beijing 100088
222.90.194.237
222.90.0.0/16 | 222.90.194.237 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:57 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1&rcidonly=AnIntroductionToTheEmacsEditor&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.146 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 222.90.0.0/16
223.81.240.0/20 ORG-CM1-AP / CMNET / China Mobile / China Mobile communications corporation
223.81.249.112
223.81.240.0/20 | 223.81.249.112 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:43 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1726333566&rcidonly=iclects_-_search_search_commands,_overview&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.9999.0 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 223.81.240.0/20
218.107.192.0/19 CNCGROUP-FJ-XIAMEN-MAN / CNCGroup CHINA169 FuJian province network
218.107.204.27
218.107.192.0/19 | 218.107.204.27 | 18/Sep/2024:18:01:57 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&from=1&rcidonly=DiredPlusPopupRegionRemoveRectMenu&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Brave Chrome/88.0.4324.152 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 218.107.192.0/19
219.128.0.0/13 CHINANET-GD / China Telecom
219.133.249.75
219.128.0.0/13 | 219.133.249.75 | 18/Sep/2024:18:02:11 +0200 | GET /emacs?action=rc&all=1&days=1&rcidonly=Categor%C3%ADaHerramientasOnline&showedit=1 HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36
ipset add banlist 219.128.0.0/13
As far as I am concerned, all deserve to be banned. Over-banning? Maybe. What do you think?
For demonstration purposes, this is what I ran:
ssh sibirocobombus.root grep '"^www.emacswiki.org.*rcidonly"' /var/log
/apache2/access.log \
| tail -n 20 \
| ssh sibirocobombus.root bin/admin/network-lookup \
| wl-copy
So now I’m ready to ban them all:
wl-paste | grep ipset
#Emacs #Butlerian Jihad #Administration
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-15-emacs-china
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045293-the-newest-season-of-the
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045292-every-webpage-deserves-to
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045291-huge-study-from-the-econo
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Interesting
thread on
a simple upgrade for any podcasting client that would create a network
of tools people could use for subscribing and listening. I’ve tried to
get people who make podcast clients to listen. Yes I am a user, but I
also designed the technology, and did the first implementations, so I
know what’s possible.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/18.html#a133316
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>A thought experiment: If the computer business responds to commoditization and globalization like other manufacturing industries do, where does that leave programmers – and users?</p> date: 2024-09-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-grim-question-will-there
date: 2024-09-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, in 1776, he helped to draft and then signed the Declaration of Independence.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-17-2024
date: 2024-09-18, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Welcome to this follow-up patch release, just a week after we shipped 8.10.0. A bunch of bugfixes. Numbers the 261th release0 changes7 days (total: 9,679)24 bugfixes (total: 10,828)50 commits (total: 33,259)0 new public libcurl function (total: 94)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 306)0 new curl command line option (total: 265)19 contributors, 7 new (total: 3,246)9 authors, … Continue reading curl 8.10.1
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/18/curl-8-10-1/
date: 2024-09-18, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/science/voyager-1-thruster-issue/index.html
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-pagers-explosives.html
date: 2024-09-17, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The Lighthouse This is not my photograph, but I wish it was, because it’s perfect. It’s by John Darch, a gifted landscape photographer who also happens to be my brother-in-law. The lighthouse is on St John’s Point in Co Donegal … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-18-september-2024/39876/
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045288-a-man-named-alan-adler
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/ayrton-sennas-heel-and-toe-braking-technique-1
date: 2024-09-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The Ten Worst Things About the Trump Presidency
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/election-2024-video-of-the-week
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045290-the-power-broker-at-fifty
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045289-to-understand-mississippi
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045287-congrats-to-jason-snell
date: 2024-09-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-16-2024-063
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast: Let’s use feeds to hook together pieces of the twittersphere.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/17.html#a172704
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-18, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Wow.
It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered.
Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability?
I have no idea, but I expect we will all learn over the next few days.
EDITED TO ADD: I’m reading nine killed and 2,800 injured. That’s a lot of collateral damage. (I haven’t seen a good number as to the number of pagers yet.)
EDITED TO ADD: Reuters writes: “The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.” That implies supply chain attack. And it seems to be a large detonation for an overloaded battery…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/remotely-exploding-pagers.html
date: 2024-09-17, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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But you don’t have to just take your counterparties as you find them; you can work to encourage and develop bad ones. This is often a matter of product development: If you build a product that does nothing for sophisticated professionals but that is really good for noisy addicted gamblers, you will attract exactly the right sort of counterparty. This arguably explains much of crypto.The additional point he omitted is that, in order to “attract exactly the right sort of counterparty” you have to advertise the product. This will bring it to the attention of others seeking the same kind of counterparty. They will seek to leverage your product design for their own ends.
Trump’s eldest sons are gearing up to launch a new cryptocurrency venture called World Liberty Financial, which is already receiving a big social media boost from their father. Government ethics watchdogs say the project could create a conflict of interest if Trump returns to the White House next year.The headline on World Financial’s “coming soon” web page is “World Liberty Financial - The Only Crypto DeFi Platform supported by Donald J. Trump”. There are dozens of “DeFi Platforms”, but the unique selling point of World Liberty is that it is “supported by Donald J. Trump”. So the counterparties it is intended to attract are the gullible members of the Trump cult, the ones who have allegedly made him a billionaire.
Trump has vowed to enact an array of pro-crypto policies in a bid to win votes — and campaign cash — from digital asset enthusiasts in recent months. Now, he’s weaving the overtures into his pitch for his sons’ forthcoming startup.
While the details of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s crypto endeavor haven’t yet been announced, it could stand to benefit from a second Trump administration’s approach to support the industry.
…
CREW identified more than 3,700 conflicts of interest during Trump’s first term.
But critics said the crypto project differs because it could align his family’s financial interest with policy changes that he would be poised to enact.
“The prior conflicts and illegalities took advantage of preexisting loopholes,” said Norman Eisen, an ethics lawyer who served in the Obama White House and later helped build the first impeachment case against Trump. “Here, Trump appears to be promising to create the loopholes while his family is simultaneously designing a business venture to exploit them.”
CoinDesk has gotten hold of a white paper for this supposed World Liberty Financial, which they note appears to be a clone of Dough Finance, a crypto lending platform that was hacked for around $2 million just a month and a half ago. The hack was not a sophisticated one, and instead exploited sloppiness on behalf of the development team.Of course, many people interested in gullible counterparties noticed all the hype, and they didn’t have to wait to hack the actual product launch to get in on the action:
The project hasn’t even launched yet, and it’s off to a bumpy start. First, Donald Trump Jr. had to issue a statement to try to stop people from buying up all the fake tokens purporting to be associated with their murky project. Then, Twitter accounts for Lara and Tiffany Trump were both compromised and used to send tweets announcing a supposed token launch. “This is a scam!!!” tweeted Eric, himself retweeting the tweet from his wife’s account containing the scam token address.Nic Carter tweeted:
The reason for this fiasco was that, as usual, the Trumps hired “only the best people”. Sam Kessler, Danny Nelson & Cheyenne Ligon dug into the project’s white paper in Inside the Trump Crypto Project Linked to a $2M DeFi Hack and Former Pick-Up Artist:can’t secure twitter accounts but i’m sure they’ll be able to protect an (already hacked) defi protocol from hacks
— nic carter (@nic__carter) September 4, 2024
The document and other reporting describe a borrowing and lending service strikingly similar to Dough Finance, a recently hacked blockchain app built by four people listed as World Liberty Financial team members. Other participants include all three of Trump’s sons (including 18-year-old Barron, who is identified as the project’s “DeFi visionary”), financiers and e-commerce influencers.The leader of the Dough Finance team was Chase Herro. When it came time to move on, he obviously found in the Trumps the ignorant and greedy counterparty he needed. Zeke Faux and Muyao Shen also piled on with Behind the Trump Crypto Project Is a Self-Described ‘Dirtbag of the Internet’:
Herro, a fast-talking 39-year-old who shows off his fancy cars and private-jet rides on social media, is an unknown in the crypto world. More than a dozen prominent digital-asset investors said in interviews they had never heard of him. The only crypto project with which he was publicly affiliated attracted only a few million dollars and suffered a devastating hack. A token he promoted on influencer Logan Paul’s podcast dropped 96% afterward. In one speech in 2018, he called himself “the dirtbag of the internet” and said that regulators should “kick s—heads like me out.”
“You can literally sell s— in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story’s right, because people will buy it,” Herro said about crypto in a 2018 YouTube video recorded as he drove in a Rolls-Royce. “I’m not going to question the right and wrong of all that.”
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“This is a huge mistake,” said Nic Carter, a Trump supporter who is a founding partner at the crypto-focused venture capital firm Castle Island Ventures. “It looks like Trump’s inner circle is just cashing in on his recent embrace of crypto in a kind of naive way, and frankly it looks like they’re burning a lot of the good will that’s been built with the industry so far.”
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“It’s a very typical playbook of smaller operators or more amateur operations in the crypto space to try to generate a lot of hype before revealing the details,” said Austin Campbell, an adjunct professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business who previously led the risk and portfolio management operation at the crypto firm Paxos. “That makes them susceptible to all sorts of nonsense.”
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One crypto industry representative in Washington, granted anonymity because of sensitivities around criticizing Trump, described having “a laundry list of concerns.” A big worry is that that it could reflect poorly on the industry as it pushes for policy changes that would help legitimize the sector.
“Maybe it doesn’t move the needle for most people, but if this thing is hacked or regular folks lose money on it or it opens up the door for the SEC to investigate the team, it only looks like it has downside risk,” Carter said. “It looks to have very little upside risk.”
As with Trump University and Truth Social, the whole point is for
“regular folks” to lose money. But, if you’re a candidate positioning
yourself as pro-crypto in the hope of getting large checks from the
cryptosphere, making this obvious to everyone but the cult members is a
bad idea.
PS: Wikipedia explains the title of this post
here.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/09/lie-down-with-dogs-get-up-with-fleas.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
theorized why Jack
Dorsey is disappointed with Bluesky
on
Bluesky. I did the same on Threads and heard people say ugly
personal things about Dorsey. This really pissed me off, because he’s a
human being who made a large contribution to the technology we use, and
I think his heart has been in the right place. Nobody is purely good or
bad. If my
theory
is right about why Dorsey is disappointed, it’s a valid point, Bluesky
was started with its prime mission as creating a distributed system. The
more they dig in on nice-to-have features that have nothing to do with
being distributed, the more they go down the same path as Twitter did.
Jack was openly talking about turning Twitter into a developer platform
as early as 2007. Had they realized the system he talked about,
basically global object storage with real financial backing, we’d be
much further along with the web as an operating system. We’re
paradoxically so close to that now, but so far, for a reason I don’t
understand. We should start having a public discussion about this. It
can’t hurt to talk about what-if’s instead of barrelling down the same
ridiculous cul de sac as we did in the 00’s. I’ve been writing about
this since 1994, the loop we refuse to break out of. Well let’s start
talking about how we break out, because it’s not going to “just happen”
organically.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/17.html#a135505
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I look forward to the day when I can link to a topic I’ve written about on my blog without having to depend on Google. I don’t think they know I have a blog or have any respect for it.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/17.html#a135253
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I look forward to the day when I can ask a question on my blog and get an answer, on the blog, from a trusted member of my karass.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/17.html#a135144
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When will ChatGPT be able to do a transcript of an audio file?
http://scripting.com/2024/09/17.html#a135125
date: 2024-09-17, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article
These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, when a number of popular open source Python tools were maliciously duplicated with added malware. Now, though, there are also attacks involving “coding tests” that only exist to get the end user to install hidden malware on their system (cleverly hidden with Base64 encoding) that allows remote execution once present. The capacity for exploitation at that point is pretty much unlimited, due to the flexibility of Python and how it interacts with the underlying OS…
date: 2024-09-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
A family policy for the working class
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-key-to-what-should-be-and-hopefully
date: 2024-09-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In the week since Trump’s disastrous debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, MAGA Republicans appear to be melting down.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-16-2024
date: 2024-09-17, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
This is a fun thought. See also: Recipes as a score for improvisation
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/16/recipe-as-story-structure/
date: 2024-09-16, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
The VP candidate has morphed into a dangerous MAGA extremist
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-vance-dance
date: 2024-09-16, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Both blogs and books are written for an audience, but blogs are a dialogue, while fiction is a narrative. I use blogging as a tool for thinking and making meaning. Fiction writing is not itself a sense-making process for me, but told out of — after — sense-making. Blog posts construct an argument as they […]
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
been re-watching
The
Bear and am now totally thinking of my job as a chef. I started out
that way 40+ years ago, and somewhere along the line I stopped thinking
that way. If you can, watch
S02
E07 to see what I mean. It’s about service, the connection between
the staff and the people who come to eat, and the medium is the food.
It’s the same idea. There’s so much cynicism around tech, and I hate
that. We’ve rarely seen it as a human thing both by the people who make
the meals and the people who love great food. The world thinks of it as
billionaires and influencers and lying fascist politicians. But it
should be much more than that.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/16.html#a230435
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/09/ten/
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/16/apple-watch-sleep-apnea-feature-150-countries/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Has it ever been suggested that journalists take an oath, similar to the one the President takes to: “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Could be voluntary. Sports reporters might take a different oath.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/16.html#a195217
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045285-holy-moly-william-peterso
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-17, from: Daring Fireball
Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_things_they_carried
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045284-gamebaby-is-an-iphone-pro
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/a-fun-taxonomy-of-bread-tags
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045282-how-journalists-can-stop-
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045281-a-recent-dating-fad-in
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://x.com/thierrybreton/status/1835565206639972734?s=46
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045280-recent-research-indicates
date: 2024-09-16, from: Enlightenment Economics blog
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman is a rip-roaring read and simultaneously terrifying. The reader is left with the clear impression of fragility in the world financial system – bad enough in … Continue reading
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/09/techno-financial-imperium/
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045279-well-what-a-surprise-in
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported.
Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things.
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/black-and-blue-and-read-all-over
date: 2024-09-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I have a linkblogging tool crossposts to Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Twitter, WordPress and RSS.
Every time I publish a link it goes to all those places,
The RSS feed is doing a lot of the work.
This feature is tucked away in a corner of micro.blog and I suspect most people don’t know it’s there. It’s sort of a Grand Central station for moving stuff around among the twitter-like systems. If you’re a micro.blog user, its Feeds page is where you set it up. Screen shot.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/16/135141.html?title=howICrosspostToThreads
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Shownotes page for the first Trade Secrets podcast, on this day in 2004. I was in Seattle, Adam was coming from Belgium. Haven’t written any notes about it yet. If others are interested in listening and commenting on these podcasts, this is when it was all coming together, let me know and perhaps we can start a thread on Mastodon.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/16.html#a133336
date: 2024-09-16, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
In the late ’70s, I worked for a while at the Psychical Research Foundation, which occupied a couple of houses on Duke University property and did scientific research into the possibility of life after death. My time there was a lever that has lifted my life on Earth ever since, including many deep and enduring […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/09/16/remembering-iris-harrelson/
date: 2024-09-16, updated: 2024-09-16, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>As we have said before, the software industry has a decades-long history of cost-cutting, commoditization, and a successful sales model of "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap." This has worrying consequences if your skill set is the next one to be commoditized. But there may be ways out of this narrowing commercial bottleneck.</p> date: 2024-09-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
While utterly despicable, yesterday’s apparent assassination attempt on Trump can be seen as a symptom of the hate-filled politics he and Vance are peddling.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-hate-brigade
date: 2024-09-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
I was all set to write today when I opened my cartoonist friend Liza Donnelly’s Seeing Things newsletter.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-15-2024
date: 2024-09-16, from: Jirka’s blog
I still have the SHARP Zaurus SL-C3200. A cute tiny clamshell PDA - actually a tiny Linux laptop. I have got it when it was already obsolete and used it little. It’s the most expensive model with the biggest RAM (128 MB, I think), the bigges storage space (the 6GB HDD) and - of course - the biggest power consumption.
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20240916-0442_Zaurus_on_Internet
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-09-16, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
I’ve got to say, I’m lurking in various pregnancy/“new parent” subreddits and it’s weird to me how often I see comments like “in our parents’ generation breastfeeding was discouraged” or “dads didn’t change nappies then” or whatever. I was born in the early 90s and my mum/aunts absolutely felt the same enormous pressure to make breastfeeding work as exists today… and the men did their fair share of active baby care (including, but not limited to, changing nappies). Yeah, some things were different, but the 90s aren’t THAT long ago. These people are talking like they were the Dark Ages…
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/09/in-our-parents-generation.html
date: 2024-09-15, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Picasso’s guitar Amazing what you can do with a distorting lens. An experiment from 2007, which explains why it’s not a high-definition print. Quote of the Day ”I’m smart enough to know I’m dumb.” Richard Feynman Musical alternative to the … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-16-september-2024/39868/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I was recruited to speak at a Ria Novosti conference in Moscow in June 2011, but decided not to go. This was back when we thought naively that Russia was a democracy, and working with Russian journalists, when American journalists wouldn’t, seemed like a fair deal. Something about it didn’t smell right though, so I stayed home.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15.html#a190334
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I used to think of Twitter as a coral reef, but its role as a world wide notification system is fading, and we haven’t replaced it with anything. I wrote this in 2007 when the utility of Twitter was just becoming apparent.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/15.html#a190209
date: 2024-09-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-14-2024-3de
@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: 2024-09-15, updated: 2024-09-15, from: Anil Dash blog