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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If you want to help the open web, when you write something you’re proud of on a social web site like Bluesky or Mastodon, also post it to your blog. Not a huge deal but every little bit helps.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/29.html#a003937
date: 2024-09-29, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Mellow fruitfulness Our small vineyard is coming along nicely. Quote of the Day “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: Its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-30-september-2024/39905/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Also the temperature reporting is a nice touch
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113222979643113676
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
watchOS 11 is a major upgrade in terms of precision for pool laps. It used to miss or skip a few.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113222958754220861
date: 2024-09-29, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Oddµ replaced Oddmuse as my preferred wiki software.
Oddµ reacts to changes made as it runs, so I can edit the Markdown files remotely, using ssh and my favourite editor or I can edit the Markdown files locally and sync them with the server and the pages Oddµ serves reflect those changes immediately, no restart required. Earlier versions required a restart so that Oddµ would update its in-memory indexes of page names and titles.
Oddµ is also a program that doesn’t take a config file. Oddmuse, its predecessor, was famously hackable. There were a gazillion options to set. You could hook into the parser and add new rules, add new actions, add new meta data, and on and on. The drawback was an incredible lock-in. After twenty years, I started to feel it: it was hard to remove features for any specific wiki because its pages used all a markup that was incompatible with everything else. Some of my Oddmuse wikis used the old UseMod markup that was used by MediaWiki, too. Some of my Oddmuse wikis used the newer Wiki Creole markup that some wiki engine authors wanted to push back in 2006. Some of my Oddmuse wikis used their own eclectic mix. Some of my Oddmuse wikis used Markdown. For a while I even added Gemtext to the mix! I didn’t like this incompatibility between sites and sometimes even between old and new pages on the same site. This is why Oddµ only does Markdown with three minimal extensions: hashtags, wiki links and fedi account links.
Oddµ generates HTML using templates so there is no need for options to control the HTML output. If you want it changed, edit the templates. See oddmu-templates(5) for more.
Oddµ doesn’t know anything about users, passwords and permissions. If you want authentication and authorization (which you do, if your wiki is public), then you need to configure your webserver to ask for passwords and restrict access accordingly. See oddmu-apache(5) and oddmu-nginx(5) for more.
Over time, however, I did add a few configuration options to Oddµ. This happens via environment variables.
When stdin is a socket, Oddµ reads requests from it instead of listening on port. This allows for systemd-style socket activation. This is what I use at the moment. Otherwise, it listens on the address from ODDMU_ADDRESS and the port from ODDMU_PORT. ODDMU_ADDRESS may be either an IPV4 address or an IPv6 address. If ODDMU_ADDRESS is unspecified, then the listener listens on all available unicast addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6. If ODDMU_PORT is unspecified, it listens on port 8080. See oddmu(1) and oddmu.service(5) for more.
By default, Oddmu tries to identify the language used on every page in order to allow a style sheet to enable hyphenation for the correct language. This is important for multi-lingual sites. The library used detects over 70 languages. This takes memory and time. ODDMU_LANGUAGES allows admins to reduce the number of languages taken into account. This site, for example, only considers English and German. See oddmu(1) and oddmu-templates(5) for more.
A pretty hairy feature is activated using ODDMU_FILTER. Sometimes, subdirectories are separate sites. If you do not want to include those sites in searches or archives of the whole site, you need to identify them. The way to do this is via the environment variable ODDMU_FILTER. It’s value is a regular expression matching separate sites. On this site, my dad’s old site resides in such a subdirectory. I use this environment variable to exclude “his” pages from searches made on “my” pages. See oddmu-filter(7) for more.
And finally, since linking to fediverse accounts involves an outgoing Webfinger lookup, this feature is disabled by default. You can switch it on by setting ODDMU_WEBFINGER to “1”. It’s what I do. See oddmu(5) for more.
2024-09-29. I really love the fact that I picked Markdown. If I miss something, I can just write HTML directly. And with the decision to use Markdown, all the Markdown writing from years on GitHub use stays relevant. There’s no need to tinker with the code. That still surprises me.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-29-env-variables
date: 2024-09-29, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
SpaceLizard asked: What brought you to the MNT community? Well, actually there were three questions:
- How did you first find out about MNT Reform and/or what brought you here?
- What do you do / want to do with your Reform Laptop most?
- Are cats or dogs better, (or robots)?
Here’s what I said:
I learned about MNT Reform on fedi. I had bought a Purism laptop in 2017 and I wasn’t happy. On a blog post in 2021 I mentioned the MNT Reform laptop for the first time. I mentioned the MNT Pocket Reform in 2022, on a blog post from 2020.
I still use the Purism laptop as my main laptop, but one of its hinges broke in 2021 and I needed something else to take on trips. That’s why I started looking for an extra small laptop. I wanted something that was energy efficient, that would allow me to use all my Debian stable tools for system administration, to write Perl code, to use Emacs, to browse the web using Firefox, to ssh into my server and do maintenance work from hotel rooms and the like. The MNT Pocket Reform landed on the list.
As it stands right now, I’m still using Debian testing but I’d love to make that switch to Debian stable one day. My secret idea is that I just have to wait and one day I’d be able to do it using /etc/apt/sources.list sorcery. I managed to switch from PureOS to Debian stable doing that, so I don’t doubt that there is a way to do it from Debian testing to Debian stable. Painfully, maybe, but doable.
I’d love for battery and wifi to be no problem. Right now, battery life is good enough for my evening sessions if I have to move to the couch, and wifi seems to be working fine now that summer is over. I have an ethernet connection for the Pocket Reform, however, and that’s very nice. The cable is 3m long or something. But in a hotel, wifi still works, as I said.
I recently had some emergency sysadmin stuff to do in the evenings while on holidays and the Pocket Reform did exactly what I needed it to do.
Finally, cats are bird murderers and dogs are our best friends. No question, dogs are better! But also, I don’t have time in my life for a dog, so I think I’ll vote for little Internet people in my computers, on forums, IRC, Discord, Fedi, newsgroups and elsewhere.
Luckily, @josch had some answers for me!
Instead of doing
/etc/apt/sources.listsorcery in the future, you could replace “testing” by “trixie” today. That way, at the point in time where “testing” becomes “stable” you do not need to edit your/etc/apt/sources.list. The updates and security mirrors also exist already for trixie but are of course empty but this means that you can also add those today already and have things set up for the future:deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security mainThe one point of pain may be that after the trixie release, the MNT repositories will continue to build packages for unstable which will work for a while but will break after new uploads of glibc and friends. So in the future, you might want to switch out the MNT repo for the Debian stable repositories on
reform.debian.netwhich are currently only serving packages for bookworm and not trixie.
This sounds like great advice.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-29-pocket-status
date: 2024-09-29, updated: 2024-09-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/09/meta-and-apple-same-game-different-rules/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Thread: Much easier than struggling with ActivityPub, would be a set of functionally equivalent APIs and a common understanding of what a “post” is among various social web systems. This how we created solid interop in the blogging world, and it would work here too.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/29.html#a175514
date: 2024-09-29, from: Enlightenment Economics blog
Summer over in a flash, autumn wind and rain outside – perhaps cosy evenings will speed up both my reading and review-posting. I just finished AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, having long been a fan of … Continue reading
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
This blog has been running for: 29 years, 11 months, 22 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes, 55 seconds. Still diggin!
http://scripting.com/2024/09/29.html#a154401
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW,
I haven’t mentioned this before, but I’m working on the reading
interface for my blog. What you see when you go to scripting.com. I’m
putting the same kind of attention into it that I did for the
blogroll feed
reader earlier this year. There are a few unreleased products that use
the same approach. The way we read the web hasn’t received enough
attention, we’ve been so focused on the twitter-like interfaces,
forgetting that reading on a full page is important too. We’ve settled
for a pretty awful way of reading. I want to fix writing too, and have
plans for this, but I thought I should do some work on reading as well.
I wish I could show you all the new ideas, but I’m saving that for a big
reveal at some point.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/29.html#a152704
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
New episode from the Podcast0 feed about a new Yahoo RSS reader.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/29.html#a152403
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
“unchecked @Sendable” or as the teens are calling it “rawdogging concurrency”
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113221381066953960
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
One of the rushed fixes was to slap a “DispatchQueue.main.async” to invoke a @MainActor method from the URLSession.didFinishDownloadingTo - but this method deletes the file upon return, so my file was gone by the time the method was called. But took a week to catch the regression.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113221343787241164
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Some observations on swift concurrency:
That said, I forgot how many times I used “foo!.bar” because I knew “this is never going to happen” and found it a few months later on the crash logs.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113221250820232066
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-29, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Good morning pineapple.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113221032826610098
date: 2024-09-29, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/linda-ronstadt
A “hello world” program in machine code on DOS
date: 2024-09-29, updated: 2024-09-29, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-09-29/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-09-29, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/caption-contest-vp-debate
date: 2024-09-29, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
When I travel, Buddy often sends me pictures from his morning that he considers throwaway, but I loved this one, not least because he stopped in the middle of hauling a trap to catch it.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-28-2024
date: 2024-09-29, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
As of Today, the Klamath River is Flowing Free for the First Time in More Than a Century (Lost Coast Outpost) Discussions about the potential for Klamath River dam removal began in earnest more than 20 years ago, shortly after an estimated 70,000 adult salmon died in the lower river before they could spawn. Collective […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/28/article-pairing-restoring-rivers/
date: 2024-09-29, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Growing up, we had a tape with Home Cookin’s earlier self titled album and it was a favorite for the drive to Tahoe, along with a Ray Charles mix tape. ‘Little Joe from Chicago‘ was a favorite track on that one — on this album there’s a sick organ solo on ‘Five O’clock Blues.’
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/28/listened-to-zydeco-gumbo/
date: 2024-09-29, from: Om Malik blog
If you have a long career in media and writing in public like I have, you’re likely to make some mistakes. And you’re going to have some regrets. One of those was a story I wrote about Path, a company started by Dave Morin. I was critical, harsh and unkind to the company and its …
https://om.co/2024/09/28/lessons-from-mkbhds-app-brouhaha/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Part 3
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113217537697420676
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Part 2
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113217532360330739
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Some observations from Twitter:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113217525459817345
date: 2024-09-28, updated: 2024-09-28, from: Daring Fireball
https://relay.experience.stjude.org/
date: 2024-09-28, from: James Fallows, Substack
A view of public life as political circus. And the ongoing damage that view does.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-38-days-to-go
date: 2024-09-28, updated: 2024-09-28, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-28, updated: 2024-09-28, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-join-openai-investment-round-e3be3e66
date: 2024-09-28, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
Right here on this website. But not for President.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/ok-kids-you-get-to-vote
date: 2024-09-28, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2024-aab
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I should put a dollar in a jar every time ChatGPT saves my ass. I thought I had boxed myself into a corner regarding the hash value for a web page, then I asked a question I wasn’t sure there was an answer to. “In JS in the browser, I have the name of an anchor element and I want the browser to vertically scroll to it,” to which it said: “Here’s an example.”
http://scripting.com/2024/09/28.html#a151322
date: 2024-09-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Molly
White wrote a great
piece on the problem we’re all facing now that so many of us are
trying to maintain a presence on a few different social web sites. She
describes a situation I’ve been writing about since the mid-late 00s,
with the inception of Twitter and Google Reader, two phenoms that had
very different ideas of what writing on the web should be. That’s where
the problems started.
Before that we had a cross-posting API that was broadly supported and really worked, based on RSS 2.0’s idea of what a post is. It’s called the Metaweblog API, and it’s still supported by WordPress and probably a few other social web sites (I take a broad view of what the social web is and definitely include WordPress and other blogging tools. Based on Molly’s piece, I expect she would see it that way too.)
The first approach I took to this problem was to cross-post as Molly describes, to work around the limits in software. But the limits will creep into your writing, since you know that people who read your stuff on Bluesky, Threads or Twitter won’t see the links, you’ll be reluctant to them in your writing. I encountered this problem in the mid-teens when I was trying to cross-post to Medium and Facebook, one supported links and basic HTML, the other didn’t. Eventually before giving up on the POSSE approach in 2017, I was barely using links at all. I was trying to keep four pieces of software happy and doing so made my writing suck.
To get a handle on the problem, I created a list of features I felt all social web platforms should support and published it at textcasting.org. Ultimately I think we’re going to have to make a platform that implements a reasonable subset of this functionality, if only as a demo for the social web companies to show them what we want. There already are Mastodon forks that support some of the features (no character limit, Markdown support).
I published the code I use to cross-post for my linkblog, that much does work quite well across the different platforms, and I’d be happy to operate a server for people to experiment with. The server software runs in Node.js, is already open source. It has a simple plug-in architecture so support for new platforms can be added without modifying the server.
But my main point is this – let’s work together. We really aren’t very good in tech at building on each others’ work, that’s why we get so stuck. I have a lot to say about that too, I’ve been writing about it on my blog for many many years.
And thanks for picking up this thread. It’s one of the two big threads – along with AI – how are we going to make writing on the web work.
PS: I started writing this in Mastodon, but obviously I had to fall back to my blog, because there was no room and I needed to use links or why bother. ;-)
http://scripting.com/2024/09/28/132152.html?title=makingTheSocialWebReallyWork
date: 2024-09-28, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Michael Lahanas-Calderón and Yours Truly Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-home-s-t-r-e-t-c-h-the-coffee
date: 2024-09-28, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Last night, at about 11:10 local time, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida, where the state’s panhandle curves down toward the peninsula.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2024
date: 2024-09-28, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Win of the week: finally got the contract for my new project, and got my insurance updated! Looking forward to: starting the project! Stuff I did: 3.5 hours consulting 3 hours business development and admin 45 minutes writing took one cat to the vet, always a stressful outing for the whole household 😑 more art […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/27/weeknotes-sept-21-27-2024/
date: 2024-09-28, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
A mention of electrifying “the great American road trip” threw me for a mental loop: does road tripping happen significantly more in America than other countries? 🤔 I could potentially see that being so, given our lack of long distance public transit, large geographic size spanning vast wild spaces, pretty extensive system of national parks, […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/27/the-great-american-road-trip/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Update for the weekend:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113212055082918025
date: 2024-09-27, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
I haven’t been sitting on my hands…
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/on-my-motorbike
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Guy Kawasaki sent a summary of my career created by his new chatbot. Very flattering. :-)
http://scripting.com/2024/09/27.html#a214205
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Fishermen are catching more squid as other fish are depleted.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/squid-fishing-in-japan.html
date: 2024-09-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On September 26, 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Second Continental Congress had been meeting.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-26-2024
date: 2024-09-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2024-580
date: 2024-09-27, from: Stephen Wolfram blog
Yet
Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe
multiplication. Surely that’s not enough to be able to generate any
serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very surprising
discovery that very simple programs based on cellular automata could
generate great complexity. But how widespread was this phenomenon? At
the beginning of the […]
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/09/nestedly-recursive-functions/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Don’t know about you folks, but every algorithmic-based platform for me is a non-stop stream of Arabs being blown up day after day in large volumes.
It’s been a year of this, and the only thing that has improved is the contrived language used to justify it.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113210735280950383
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The US is providing the targets for Israel to bomb Lebanon:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113210693853105333
date: 2024-09-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I’ve had the same thought as Dan Froomkin, of course – esp given how much voodoo is in weighting various things, the polls are junk.
But, she could be winning much bigger than the polls say. And wouldn’t that be nice. ❤️
But do you remember part of the 2016 postmortem was that yeah it was a problem for the racists among us that we elected a black president, and now they want a woman president. Many of us thought this is the price we’re paying for the euphoria we felt in 2008.
All he says about Harris is true. She’s a dream candidate, she had my vote at “Hello.” How could anyone not see what’s so obvious, here’s someone who organized her party’s support in the blink of an eye, and she was ready to run, all the pieces were in place in record time. Such competence, drive, humor, did I say drive? :-)
I worry that maybe all that was enough to get her even with Trump because now we’re pressing the race and gender button again, and they still don’t buy the idea of a non-white-male, Christian president.
Oh and btw her husband is Jewish, and… all the childless bullshit.
So I worry that we may be borderline fucked again. Pray. Pray, even if you don’t believe.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/27/170029.html?title=harrisCouldWinBut
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite
date: 2024-09-27, from: Jeff Geerling blog
AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus - Can’t record to microSD
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>I recently purchased an <a href="https://amzn.to/3TMeYv8">AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus</a> to help record screens on devices I test at my desk.</p>It’s claim to fame is being able to record to a microSD card standalone (at resolutions up to 1080p60), without having a separate computer attached.
For my 4K cameras, I typically use an Atomos Ninja V, since it can record in full 4K resolution, but that thing is $700—the Live Gamer Portable is $120, and runs a lot cooler (and quieter).
I don’t enjoy dealing with microSD cards, but it’s more convenient than having to use OBS or some other recording software on my main computer just to capture the HDMI output of another device. Especially since I can’t pass through the HD or 4K signal through my little Elgato USB capture card (they do make a few models that do this, but I digress).
Anyway, what brings me to this post is the fact I spent way too long trying to figure out the magical microSD card format required to be able to record on the device.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/avermedia-live-gamer-portable-2-plus-cant-record-microsd
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When
markets have dominant products, evolution freezes. Google search, for
example. I should have great search for my blog by now, powered by
Google. It has been here for 26 years. They should have been doing
R&D on how they can be part of a better reading environment on the
web. But reading on the web has just gotten worse over the years. It’s
why we don’t like clicking on links, usually what we find at the other
end of the link is obnoxious. To get some peace and quiet we had to go
to Twitter of all places, but now that’s gotten ridiculous too. The only
corner of the web where there’s real exciting innovation is ChatGPT. And
what’s tragic about that is we’ve never made search work on the web, and
search is valuable too, not just the digested version of what was said
that ChatGPT produces. But I’d like some of my writing to survive the
Great Ingestion. Writing matters, how humans express themselves matters.
In other words we still have work to do in search, AI does not fill that
need, at least not yet.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/27.html#a135558
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
An idea for a news org. I want a for-pay site where I can ask a question about the news and get the most up-to-date answer. I’d like to link to that page from a blog post, and have it either be frozen, to document where we were on that day, or dynamic, so that it changes over time. I’m sure this product will be here soon, so obvious.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/27.html#a132404
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/27/some-go-web-dev-notes/
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Bruce Schneier blog
NIST’s second draft of its “SP 800-63-4“—its digital identify guidelines—finally contains some really good rules about passwords:
The following requirements apply to passwords:
- lVerifiers and CSPs SHALL require passwords to be a minimum of eight characters in length and SHOULD require passwords to be a minimum of 15 characters in length.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD permit a maximum password length of at least 64 characters.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept all printing ASCII [RFC20] characters and the space character in passwords.
- Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD accept Unicode [ISO/ISC 10646] characters in passwords. Each Unicode code point SHALL be counted as a signgle character when evaluating password length. …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/nist-recommends-some-common-sense-password-rules.html
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>For those on the RPM side of the fence, Fedora 41 has hit beta, and works better in VirtualBox than ever if you're curious to try it.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/27/fedora_41_beta/
date: 2024-09-27, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Video #4
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/election-2024-video-of-the-week-trumps
date: 2024-09-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, President Joe Biden signed the continuing resolution Congress passed yesterday to fund the government until December 20.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2024
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045353-as-of-late-september-2024
date: 2024-09-27, updated: 2024-09-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-blocks-jd-vance-dossier
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045313-old-photos-of-basketball-
date: 2024-09-26, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Waiting for dinner Cote d’Azur, 2010. Quote of the Day ”The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. “ Bertrand Russell Thanks to John Seeley for spotting it. Musical alternative to the morning’s … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-27-september-2024/39899/
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045317-i-appreciate-the-new-no-n
date: 2024-09-26, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
And why we must keep talking about it
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-he-poses
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045337-in-the-late-19th-century
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/kodak-and-the-invention-of-popular-photography
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/09/26/ep-409
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chief-technology-officer-resigns-7a8b4639
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-28, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1727255253
date: 2024-09-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones rose to prominence following the 1993 events at Waco, Texas.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-25-2024
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.imore.com/apple/one-more-thing-goodbye-from-imore
date: 2024-09-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-25-2024-f06
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Why
do I care about what social web
means? Because I plan to add functionality to this space. I’m tired of
all the stupid limits these products have. Titles or no titles. 300
character limits. No links, etc etc and on and on. Where did they get
the idea that taking features out of writing was something they could
do. What a wrong turn we took there. And now that once we have a chance
to erase the limits, maybe – none of the companies running their
products are doing it. I don’t want the way they do it to be the only
way, the products are deliberately incompatible. Social web is
the best name for what I’m working on. So I need to reserve this space.
They didn’t ask for my opinion, the first I heard of it was a press
release. When I ship my thing I want to point back at this and say look
– I did tell you this was going to be a problem.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/26.html#a175120
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045344-fun-little-word-game-alph
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
question
came up on Threads as to whether the ActivityPub support in Ghost will
be a full two-way presence in the fedisphere, and apparently the
answer
is yes. They are working on a feed reader that also hooks into AP.
That’s how I would have done it. Really feeds and tweets should always
have been peers. If you want to know the history, blame Google Reader
for that disconnect. Also it highlights the need for a
news-zine
focused on the social web. When
the PC first came out there was PC Mag and PC World and then PC Week.
Same for the Mac. And there was InfoWorld that covered everything. Now
we’re basically using smoke signals between users. A few really
interested users could bootstrap a blog to keep track of what’s going
on, and share what you learn publicly. That was the advice I gave
Mike Arrington and he started
TechCrunch and that acted as the glue that hooked together the early
blogosphere, feeds and ultimately twitter and its offspring. We need it
again. Users and developers party together has never been more needed as
now.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/26.html#a161419
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045339-the-pudding-has-collected
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-williamsburg-bridge-riders
date: 2024-09-26, from: mrusme blog
Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/updates-2024-q3/
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045349-dark-matter-could-be-hidi
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
oursocialweb.org: You don’t have to give it any money or come to any meetings. Just know that someone else believes in users and developers. And let’s work together to make it great, as soon as we can, without waiting for the big companies.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/26.html#a141434
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045351-the-return-of-ta-nehisi-c
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-26, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
They got Eric Adams over bribery, not for his flex to shoot New Yorkers commuting.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113204059087055193
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-26, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I am too tied up to do a .net version currently, but we could use this as a blueprint:
https://mastodon.social/@ktoso/113203507192283649
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113203806804461450
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Bruce Schneier blog
A good—long, complex—analysis of the EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/an-analysis-of-the-eus-cyber-resilience-act.html
date: 2024-09-26, from: Robert Reich’s blog
His incitement to assassinate America’s commander-in-chief is only the most recent illustration
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-elon-musk-threatens-national
date: 2024-09-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In 2004 a senior advisor to President George W.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-25-2024
date: 2024-09-26, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows Teardown (2024)
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In late July, a week after ordering the <a href="https://www.arrow.com/en/products/c8380-12c-mp-32g/thundercomm">Snapdragon Dev Kit</a>, I wondered <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/where-qualcomms-snapdragon-x-elite-dev-kit">where it was</a>. Arrow's website <a href="https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1819386097153065238">said 'Ships tomorrow' when I ordered</a>, after all.</p>Many developers eager to test their code on Windows on Arm, on the premiere new ‘CoPilot+’ PCs that would revolutionize computing as we know it, were also wondering.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-dev-kit-windows-teardown-2024
date: 2024-09-26, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I’ve taken to ignoring all the autogenerated “memories” that my phone would like to show me from four years ago — because while the system simply matches the date, I know that four years ago was the depths of despair of the pandemic. We were still waiting for a vaccine. My anxiety was revved to […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/25/four-years-ago-today/
date: 2024-09-26, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Daring Fireball
The race to bring AR glasses to market is clearly on.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/a_few_brief_thoughts_on_meta_connect_2024
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-25, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Friday we went to hear some classical music at the Tonhalle in Zürich. Thorvaldsdottir’s composition was amazing. Apparently there will be more Icelandic elements this season. 😄
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi, Music Director, Víkingur Ólafsson, piano: Johannes Brahms Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 d-Moll op. 15.
Same director and same orchestra, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s «Archora» for orchestra.
Same director and same orchestra, Igor Strawinsky’s «L’oiseau de feu», Konzert-Suite (1919).
On Sunday we went to hear Old Music.
El Cant de la Sibil•la; Draumkvedet – Traumlied; Orlando di Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum.
This is the second week of our holidays. We stayed in Zürich and decided to live as if we’re on a trip: hikes, runs, activities (today: cycling!), restaurants, museums or concerts. I told myself that we can spend the hotel budget on cultural events and train rides and suddenly everything seems possible where until now I would have hesitated. Is it really worth that much money? But since we’re not paying for the hotel … I convinced myself that it’s OK.
2024-09-25. Today we went to the Tonhalle again.
I saw the third flutist sitting around a lot and not playing the flute and when the volume went up he covered his ears. Poor lad. Did he just play five notes early in the performance and then he had to wait until the end? How strange!
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-09-22-holidays-at-home
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-25, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Good talk from John Mearsheimer on Gaza:
https://youtu.be/jqPQ5dUfSTw?si=zUDFVwQKfBFrib3v
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113200604434748933
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-25, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Israel executed the largest terrorist attack on this planet since 2001 and we treated it like a football team scoring a touchdown.
Maybe a small blip compared to slaughtering 14,000 children, but I still think it is quite significant.
My thread on Twitter collecting the descent of a society into madness:
https://x.com/migueldeicaza/status/1801376224457199915
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113200585528621129
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-artists-and-writers-cookbook-1
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045348-frozen-food-delivery-serv
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045347-presidential-polls-are-no
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/arts/music/sean-combs-sam-bankman-fried-jail.html
date: 2024-09-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-24-2024-38b
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-26, from: Daring Fireball
It’s entirely plausible for a premium wallpaper app to justify a price of $50/year. But Panels isn’t a premium app.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/panels
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/listen-to-a-performance-of-some-new-mozart-music
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045345-the-state-should-not-give
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045315-american-suburbs-are-a-ho
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The beta version of Ubuntu 24.10 has just come out, with GNOME 47 as its default desktop and some fun retro touches.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/ubuntu_2410_beta/
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045343-ian-scott-tracked-down-th
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/substack-still-sucks
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045341-the-ny-times-is-beta
date: 2024-09-25, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Elecrow responded, apologized for AI voice cloning
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>AI voice cloning is a tool. It can be used, and it can be abused.</p>Your browser does not support the video tag.
Last week I was made aware that Elecrow, an electronics manufacturer and distributor, was using an unauthorized clone of my voice in some of their YouTube tutorials.
I couldn’t prove it at the time, but there are AI identity detection services like Resemble.ai that can at least give some input into whether it was a direct clone or just something that sounds ‘midwestern US male.’
Anyway, I made a short video about it, because I wanted to make a point that it is not okay for a corporation to clone someone’s voice and use it in their videos without that person’s consent.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/elecrow-responded-apologized-ai-voice-cloning
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045325-ross-anderson-on-the-secr
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Interesting
situation
in Atlanta with the Mets. They have two more games to play with the
Braves, but there’s a
hurricane
headed
toward
Atlanta. It’s going to start raining at 1PM and won’t stop until Friday
afternoon. It’s the end of the season and both the Braves and Mets are
in the same wildcard battle. Do the Mets stay in Atlanta to ride out the
storm, or head back to NY? It’s far more weird than I have time to
explain right now.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/25.html#a141819
date: 2024-09-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I keep thinking of this cartoon, which explains it so well.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/25/133351.html?title=howTheyDivideUs
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-25, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I did check as soon as I remembered and Gtk+ last release is only a day old:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113198203789567831
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-25, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Last night I had a nightmare that Gtk+ had not been maintained by 7 years and that Owen Taylor had moved on to a secret Red Had project on social media and I was running frantically trying to get a new release out.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113198186889123351
date: 2024-09-25, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Bruce Schneier blog
A malware campaign uses the unusual method of locking users in their browser’s kiosk mode to annoy them into entering their Google credentials, which are then stolen by information-stealing malware.
Specifically, the malware “locks” the user’s browser on Google’s login page with no obvious way to close the window, as the malware also blocks the “ESC” and “F11” keyboard keys. The goal is to frustrate the user enough that they enter and save their Google credentials in the browser to “unlock” the computer.
Once credentials are saved, the StealC information-stealing malware steals them from the credential store and sends them back to the attacker…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/new-windows-malware-locks-computer-in-kiosk-mode.html
date: 2024-09-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Several theories
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-how-can-it-possibly
date: 2024-09-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
This morning, President Joe Biden spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-24-2024
date: 2024-09-25, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
On Monday this week, I did a talk at the Nordic Software Security Summit conference in Stockholm Sweden. I titled it CVEMITRECVSSNVDCNAOSS WTF with the subtitle “Keeping the world from Burning”. The talk was well received and I think it added something to the conversation. Almost every other talk during the rest of the conference … Continue reading Talk: Keeping the world from Burning
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/25/talk-keeping-the-world-from-burning/
date: 2024-09-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On September 23, 1779, the American Continental Navy ship Bonhomme Richard engaged the British frigate Serapis off the east coast of England.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-september-23-2024
date: 2024-09-24, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Always on(line) Provence, Summer 2023 Quote of the Day ”Profit models are not philosophies, and should not be gussied up as such, festooned with purloined intellectual gew-gaws and other pirate fineries. Serious thinkers should not be pressed into service merely … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-25-september-2024/39893/
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-25, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/24/iphone-80-percent-charging-test/
date: 2024-09-24, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
It goes back to housing as an investment. Speaking very macro, property, since the 1980s, has far eclipsed wages… And that—and leverage—define our economy now. This makes design important, but downstream, and in a narrower context than we think. Furniture must reflect… the investment value a house has. For these types of houses, the design’s […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/24/the-aesthetic-is-liquidity/
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Daring Fireball
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hands-on-with-new-iphones-electrically-released-adhesive/
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045334-tipping-point-is-a-three-
date: 2024-09-24, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Fourteenth in the News Commons series. The main work of journalism is producing stories. Questions following that statement might begin with prepositions: on what, of what, about what. But the preposition that matters most is with what. Ideally, that would be with facts. Of course, facts aren’t always available in the pure form that researchers call data. […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/09/24/open-source-journalism/
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045336-foliage-season-is-ramping
date: 2024-09-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-23-2024-c40
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/radio-shack-catalog-archive-1939-2011
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Now that ActivityPub is claiming to be the Social Web, I feel like Lloyd Bentsen at the debate with Dan Quayle. ActivityPub is not the web any more than Dan Quayle was Jack Kennedy. The web is simple. That was hard to do. Very little since then lives up to that standard of simplicity, definitely not ActivityPub. The web is the web is the web is the web etc. Pick another more humble name. If it ever does achieve the utility of the web does we can take another look.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/24.html#a181508
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045335-dont-ever-hand-your-phone
date: 2024-09-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
First, a couple of examples/case studies.
I followed his steps, and it worked, and of course I wrote a blog post about it. That was the key I needed that unlocked what Node is, and helped me see what I could do with it. The first thing I did was factor out some of the bits so I could make it even simpler and then I built. I just wanted a few lines of code that created a server and responded to requests. All I needed was a Hello World to get me going.
Now Brent knew that I knew the basics of HTTP servers, we both worked together on a huge app that had as a small part of it a full HTTP server, thanks to Wes Felter who wrote it, no one asked him to, one day he showed up with a server that ran in Frontier. I was ecstatic. That’s the key. If you have something that isn’t truly new, that might have some analogies in other worlds, if you want people in those other worlds to know how to get started, give them the beginning. The first step.
Everything I’ve ever learned how to do required me to first understand it at this level.
Okay here we are in 2024, and I want to understand what Bluesky is. I know how to use it, but I don’t know how to make it. But I would be surprised if it is any more complicated that writing a web content management system that uses feeds, something I’ve done many times. I know the components of a message, have iterated over it for the last thirty years. I even wrote the spec that defines them in RSS 2.0. We’re all doing the same thing over and over and Bluesky is no different. I hear there’s some nice design for the protocol, but right now I don’t care. I want my Hello World. The minimal code I need to add a node to the network defined by Bluesky and I want to see what it can do with the same kind of aha moment I had with the web. I want it to work when I try it, and I want it to reveal what Bluesky is beyond what I can see from using it. I want to begin to understand the opportunities for interop.
Why do I ask? For one, I’m a student of this stuff, and I want to understand. But I also am very active in this area, and interop is my product (really read that piece, I mean it, and I think it’s Bluesky’s product too). I’m into working together – it happens so infrequently. So here I’m also trying to show not just you how to explain what you do for a curious but time-limited developer, but I want to make this a this.how document that explains how to do it for everyone, hoping that we as an art and industry start explaining ourselves better to each other, because we absolutely need to do this much better imho, ymmv, mmlm, etc.
To summarize – assume I know how the web works. I’ve worked with the structures and protocols for systems that are very much like Bluesky. Don’t try to explain the design of the protocol, just use it to solve a problem that I will understand because I use the product and I have developed lots of stuff like it. It should be possible to show us, to teach us, what your product does.
PS: It could take a few days to put a Hello World together. Because once you do the first iteration, you may think of a more direct way to illustrate the idea, and you should do it, iterate until it works, until you can’t make it any simpler.
PPS: And if you don’t want to do it, that’s okay too. I just thought it was worth the effort to explain what’s needed to foster a greater understanding of what you’re doing and what the opportunities for interop are.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/24/165831.html?title=aHelloWorldForBluesky
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045338-google-is-serving-ai-gene
date: 2024-09-24, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Now that AI is a huge thing, it’s worth visiting what intelligence is, and how we mismeasure it—for example, by trying to measure it at all. I’ve been on this case for a while now, mostly by answering questions ab0ut IQ on Quora. My answer with the most upvotes is this one, to the question […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/09/24/on-intelligence/
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045332-out-today-sally-rooneys-n
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Imagine
no doctor would treat you for a serious illness until you got a court
order saying it was due to rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Judges with the power of life and death. In some states with the death
penalty judges have the power to sentence people to death, but not for
having a well-accepted medical procedure. But that’s the situation women
with a troubled pregnancy are in, if they live in the wrong state. From
the patient’s point of view, I have a slight inkling about what this is
like because twice in my life I’ve needed health care to save me from
imminent death. The health care system never hesitated to help. But what
if they had said “we can’t admit you until a judge rules that we can.”
In the new USA, abortion is like a pardon, something only the government
can grant. Forget about juries of our peers. It raises so many
questions. If a woman is about to miscarry are they even allowed to
admit her to the hospital, or does she have to wait until she is
actually dying? If you can check her in, what are the limits of the
treatment they can provide? Aspirin? Blood? Oxygen? Surgery? And btw,
medicine has advanced a lot since before Roe v Wade. Whatever
practices they had for avoiding abortion can’t apply now. This is the
kind of thing no society should change the way we changed it as an edict
handed down by judges who are subject to corruption. We are learning
about a serious flaw in our system of government.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/24.html#a154033
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-for-2024
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045316-international-space-stati
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It would be great if we could make voting a party, a celebration, something to look forward to, not something you have to make time for. That would probably do more to improve the lives of all Americans than any other single thing. It’s like the SuperBowl, the NBA Finals, Coachella or the Oscars, only better – because we are the stars.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/24.html#a122441
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Israel’s brazen attacks on Hezbollah last week, in which hundreds of pagers and two-way radios exploded and killed at least 37 people, graphically illustrated a threat that cybersecurity experts have been warning about for years: Our international supply chains for computerized equipment leave us vulnerable. And we have no good means to defend ourselves.
Though the deadly operations were stunning, none of the elements used to carry them out were particularly new. The tactics employed by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied any role, to hijack an international supply chain and embed plastic explosives in Hezbollah devices have been used for years. What’s new is that Israel put them together in such a devastating and extravagantly public fashion, bringing into stark relief what the future of great power competition will look like—in peacetime, wartime and the ever expanding …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/israels-pager-attacks.html
date: 2024-09-24, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The only way to stop public money from being siphoned off to shareholders and top executives
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/buying-back-chips
date: 2024-09-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal,” MSNBC’s Ryan Teague Beckwith wrote on September 21.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-23-2024
date: 2024-09-24, from: James Fallows, Substack
We’ll hear the question more and more in these remaining days. Here are some facts for a response.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-43-days-to-go
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-29, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-24, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/24247538/apple-iphone-16-pro-review
date: 2024-09-23, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Trump 2.0 would be “game over for climate progress”
https://steady.substack.com/p/patriotism-politics-and-plastic
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I wish my father had lived to use ChatGPT. He would have been so thrilled. My uncle would have lost his shit.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/23.html#a221615
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/master-blacksmith-forges-a-beautiful-knife-1
date: 2024-09-23, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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Dewayne Hendricks reported at SHARE XLII, in March, 1974, that he had successfully implemented MVT-CP handshaking for page faulting, so that when MVT running under VM took a page fault, CP would allow MVT to dispatch another task while CP brought in the page. At the following SHARE, Dewayne did a presentation on further modifications, including support for SIOF and a memory-mapped job queue. With these changes, his system would allow multi-tasking guests actually to multi-task when running in a virtual machine. Significantly, his modifications were available on the Waterloo Tape.
Dewayne became the chairman of the Operating Systems Committee of the SHARE VM Project. Under his guidance, the Committee prepared several detailed requirements for improvements to allow guest systems to perform better. At SHARE XLV, in 1975, the Committee presented IBM with a White Paper entitled Operating Systems Under VM/370, which discussed the performance problems of guests under VM and the solutions that customers had found for these problems. Many of the solutions that Dewayne and others had found, such as PAGEX, made their way into VM fairly quickly, apparently as the result of customers’ persistence in documenting them. By SHARE 49, Dewayne was able to state that, “It is now generally understood that either MFT or MVT can run under VM/370 with relative batch throughput greater than 1.” That is to say, they had both been made to run significantly faster under VM than on the bare hardware. Dewayne and others did similar work to improve the performance of DOS under VM.
He has been involved with radio since receiving his amateur radio operator’s license as a teen. He currently holds official positions in several national non-profit amateur radio organizations and is a director of the Wireless Communications Alliance, an industry group representing manufacturers in the unlicensed radio industry.In particular:
Back in 1986, he ported the popular KA9Q Internet Protocol package to the Macintosh, allowing the Macintosh platform to be used in packet radio networks. Today, thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide use the NET/Mac system he developed to participate in the global packet radio Internet. This system continues to be developed and deployed by the amateur radio service.Dewayne was a member of the Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Evaluation Team from 2021 to his death. ARDC grants around $5M/year:
ARDC makes grants to projects and organizations that are experimenting with new ways to advance both amateur radio and digital communication science. Experimentation by amateur radio operators has benefited society in many ways, including the development of the mobile phone and wireless internet technology. ARDC envisions a world where all such technology is available through open source hardware and software, and where anyone has the ability to innovate upon it. To see examples of the types of grants we make, go to https://www.ardc.net/grants/.
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- Started in Fall ’96
- Covered 35 mi area in south bay
- Delivered from ISDN to 30 Mbps bandwidth
- Used both licensed and unlicensed equipment (Part 15 and 97)
Prior to forming Dandin Group, he was the General Manager of the Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 following an opportunity to participate as the Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless Field Tests for Education project. The project sucessfully connected remote educational institutions to the Internet. The test sites ranged from rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.Com21 was founded by Dewayne’s mentor Paul Baran.
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a partner in the Advanced Networking Project with Minority Serving Institutions (AN-MSI) an EDUCAUSE project funded by the National Science Foundation. The project’s purpose is to provide improved communication services, including Internet access, to underserved minority and tribal-nation institutions. Because these institutions are frequently in remote locations which currently lack communication infrastructures, Internet-linked services delivered by wireless networks offer the most appropriate and cost-effective approach to connecting their communities to the world and to each other.The project description is here. NSF Awards $6 Million to Help Minority Schools Prepare for Advanced Computer Networks is EDUCAUSE’s press release:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Rita Colwell announced last week at EDUCAUSE ’99 that the foundation has awarded almost $6 million over four years to help institutions of higher learning that traditionally serve minority communities prepare for the next generation of information technology and computer networks. The grant will be administered by EDUCAUSE.
Tetherless Access was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks using the TCP/IP protocols. He has participated in the installation of these networks in other parts of the world including: Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia.
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“We’re replacing the entire existing telecom infrastructure with a wireless IP [Internet protocol] network,” says Dewayne Hendricks, CEO of Fremont-based Dandin Group and former general manager of Com21’s wireless business unit. “Since the country is a monarchy, there was only one guy to convince, Crown Prince Tupouto’a, and then we just went for it.”Tonga had about 11,000 households and 6,500 phone customers, with an 8-year wait to get a phone. The goals of the project were to deliver 30Mbit/s IP to each home for a customer end budget of $450.
Hendricks’ firm plans to replace Tonga Telecom’s aging landline system—which still uses mechanical relays—with a broadband wireless network for data, video and telephony (using voice over IP). It will run at 30Mbps with user access at 2Mbps and 10Mbps by the end of next year. “We can get all the spectrum we want,” Hendricks says.
The prince’s objective, Hendricks says, is to convert the country’s largely agricultural workforce, which has an astonishing 95 percent literacy rate, into knowledge workers, such as programmers. The government launched the Royal School of Science for Distance Learning last year, using Internet connections to allow students to take courses at international universities. There are just fewer than 100,000 people in Tonga scattered across 170 islands.
“We’re going to an Internet-style mesh network,” says Hendricks. MMDS, which some carriers are using to deliver broadband services, won’t scale well for an IP network, he says. Hendricks, a technical advisor to the FCC on ultrawideband (UWB) technology, is considering UWB for the network.
At Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota, he’s installing a wireless network. In its initial form, the system will meet FCC requirements governing frequency, power, and transmission technology. But not for long. Hendricks’ mission is to build the best system possible - even if it’s illegal - and he intends to use every tool at his disposal. Should the FCC crack down, the tribal leaders will hoist the flag of Native American sovereignty, asserting that they can do whatever they want with the sky above their reservation.Dewayne’s work on the reservation, in Tonga and elsewhere was an attempt to demonstrate the problems with the obsolete US spectrum allocation policy:
There’s no sensible reason why Americans shouldn’t have inexpensive, ubiquitous, high-performance broadband access, Hendricks says. Using technologies that are already available or in fast-track development, everyone could enjoy reliable, fully symmetrical wireless at T1 speed or better. No more digital divide. No more last-mile problem. No more compromises. The only things standing in the way are the FCC, Congress, and “other people who just don’t get it.”
One of the biggest barriers today standing in the way of deployment of advanced wireless communications systems turns out not to be the technology, but restrictions related to regulatory policies. This presentation will discuss the nature of these barriers and how they have affected the development of wireless data systems over the years.The slides are here.
The speaker will also discuss on-going work in which he is involved to use advanced wireless technology to deploy multiservice IP systems as part of infrastructure-development projects in the Kingdom of Tonga and with Native American groups in the US, and how such projects are able to deal with the limitations imposed by conventional regulatory barriers.
From a future historical perspective, are we descendants of Icarus? Is our Internet like Icarus’ wings? Are our protocols, ciphers and codes, brilliant capabilities built on immature engineering, which like Icarus’ wax and feathers, are capable of taking us to great heights, but systematically flawed? For a brief historical moment, humanity has flown high like Icarus, on a vulnerable first generation Internet platform. Which as been used for securing and using distributed ideas, arts, media science, commerce, and machines. Promising brilliant futures with the arrival of networked things, autonomous personalized services and immersive media. But, now our first generation Internet , built on a fragile global network of vulnerable codes and protocols, is falling apart, like Icarus’ wings, through a triple shock from:Dewayne’s slides for this talk are here. Video of the talk is on YouTube
Humans eventually conquered the barriers to flight and learned to build durable and resilient aircraft. Similarly, humans must learn to build a more reliable, private and secure Internet for communications, innovation and commerce. We will share our thoughts on how we might go about the design of a more durable and resilient Internet:
- Massive dotcom data stalker economy built on mining of terabytes personal data.
- Ubiquitous criminal penetration of financial and identity networks, on our devices, in the cloud.
- Pervasive state intruders at all levels and every encrypted hardware and software node.
- How prepared is the Internet for future human benefit?
- What are the attributes of a future more durable internet?
- What are the existing assets that could be harnessed?
- What needs to be developed?
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/09/dewayne-hendricks-rip.html
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045330-how-to-decarbonize-your-l
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/wes-anderson-is-museum-bound
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045328-reader-survey-upon-discov
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-09-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
This
is what it
looks
like when UPS loses a package. It’s a
case
for the new
Pixel 9
Pro. It shipped 17 days go. It was hell to just tell Google that the
case was lost. I expected at that point they’d apologize and refund the
money. That was a week ago. Just got an email saying want me to return
the case when it arrives. It’s never going to arrive. Luckily this is a
cheap product, just $38. If it had happened with the $1300 phone, that
would be a pretty big problem. It’s amazing that a company the size and
age of Google doesn’t have a procedure for dealing with products that
are lost (or more likely stolen) in transit. I’ve been through this with
Amazon, they knew what to do, because UPS does lose packages, esp ones
that look like they have phones in them. Anyway I have a fairly large
credit with Google. I don’t dare use it to purchase anything else, given
how incompetent they are at dealing with fairly common customer
problems.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/23.html#a185701
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045318-gorgeous-lego-animation-o
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/departure-mono
date: 2024-09-23, from: Liam on Linux
This
is the second, and I very much fear the last, part of my friend Chris
"da Kiwi" Thomas’ recollections about PCs, Linux, and more.
I shared the
first part a few days ago.
Having found that I could not
purchase a suitable machine for my needs, I discovered the Asus ROG
Windows 7 model, in about 2004. It was able to have a RAM upgrade, which
I duly carried out, with 2 ×
8GB
SO-DIMMs, plus 4GB
of SDDR2 video RAM, and 2×500GB
WD 7200RPM hard drives. This was beginning to look more like a
computer.
Over the time I used it, I was able to replace the spinning-rust drives
with 500GB Samsung SSDs, and as larger sticks of RAM became available,
increased that to the limit as well. I ran that machine, which was
Tux-compatible [“Tux”
being Chris’s nickname for Linux. – Ed.],
throwing away the BSOD [Blue
Screen Of Death – that is, Microsoft Windows. – Ed.]
and putting one of the earliest versions of Ubuntu with GNOME on it. It
was computing heaven: everything just worked, and I dragged that poor
beast around the world with me.
While in San Diego, I attended Scripps and lectured on cot death for three months as a guest. Scripps at the time was involved with IBM in developing a line-of-sight optical network, which worked brilliantly on campus. It was confined to a couple of experimental computer labs, but you had to keep your fingers off the mouse or keyboard, or your machine would overload with web pages if browsing. I believe it never made it into the world of computers for ordinary users, as the machines of the day could not keep up.
There
was also talk around the labs of so-called quantum
computing,
which had been talked about since the 1960s on and off, but
some
developments appeared in 1968.
The
whole idea sounds great – if
it could be made to work at a practicable user level. But in the back
of my mind, I had a suspicion that these ideas would just hinder
investment and development of what was now a standard of motherboards
and BIOS-based systems. Meanwhile, my Tux machine just did what was
asked of it.
Thank
you, Ian and Debra Murdoch,
who
developed the Debian version of Tux – on which Ubuntu was
based.
I
dragged that poor Asus around the Americas, both North and South,
refurbishing it as I went. I found Fry’s, the major technology shop in
San Diego, where I could purchase portable hard drives and so on at a
fraction of the cost of elsewhere in the world.
Eventually, I arrived in Canada, where I had a speaking engagement at Calgary University – which also had a strong Tux club – and I spent some time happily looking at a few other distros. Distrowatch had been founded about 2001, which made it easy to keep up with Linux news, new versions of Tux, and what system they were based on. Gentoo seemed to be the distro for those with the knowledge to compile and tweak every little aspect of their software.
Arch attracted me at times. But eventually, I always went back to Ubuntu – until I learned of Ubuntu MATE. The University had a pre-release copy of Ubuntu MATE 14.10, along with a podcast from Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress, and before I could turn around I had it on my Asus. It was simple, everything worked, and it removed the horrors of GNOME 3.
I flew happily back to New Zealand and my little country cottage.
Late in 2015, my wife became very unwell after a shopping trip. Getting in touch with some medical friends, they were concerned she’d had a heart attack. This was near the mark: she had contracted a virus which had destroyed a third of her heart muscle. It took her a few years to die, and a miserable time it was for her and for us both. After the funeral, I had rented out my house and bought a Toyota motorhome, and I began traveling around the country. I ran my Asus through a solar panel hooked up to an inverter, a system which worked well and kept the beast going.
After a couple of years, I decided to have a look around Australia. My grandfather on my father’s side was Australian, and had fascinated us with tales of the outback, where he worked as a drover in the 1930s and ’40s.
And so, I moved to Perth, where my brother had been living since the 1950s.
There, I discovered an amazing thing: a configurable laptop based on a Clevo motherboard – and not only that, their factory was just up the road in Fremantle.
Hastily, I logged on to their website, and in a state of disbelief, browsed happily for hours at all the combinations I could put together. These were all variations on a theme by Windows 7, and there were no listing of ACPI records or other BIOS information.
I looked at my battered old faithful, my many-times-rebuilt Asus, and decided the time had come. I started building. Maximum RAM and video RAM, latest nVidia card, two SSDs, their top-of-the-line WiFi and Bluetooth chipsets, sound cards, etc. Then, I got it sent to New Zealand, as I was due back the next day.
That was the first of four Metabox machines I have built, and is still running flawlessly using Ubuntu MATE.
My next Metabox was described as a Windows 10 machine, but I knew that it would run Tux beautifully – and so it did. A few tweaks around the ACPI subsystem and it computed away merrily, with not a BSOD in sight. A friend of mine who had popped in for a visit was so impressed with it that he ordered one too, and that arrived about three months later. A quick wipe of the hard drive (thank you, Gparted!), both these machines are still running happily, with not a cloud on the horizon.
One, I gave to my stepson about three months back, and he has taken it back with him to the Philippines, where he reports it is running fine in the tropical heat.
My new Metabox arrived about six weeks ago, and I decided – just out of curiosity – to leave Windows 11 on it. A most stupid decision, but as my wife was running Windows 11 and had already blown it up once, needing a full reset (which, to my surprise, worked), I proceeded to charge it for the recommended 24 hours, and next day, switched it on. “Hello” it said, in big white letters, and then the nonsense began… a torrent of unwanted software proceeded to fill up one of my 8TB NVMe drives, culminating after many reboots with a Chatbot, an AI “assistant”, and something called “Co-pilot”.
“No!” I cried, “not in a million years!” – and hastily plugging in my Ventoy stick, I rebooted it into Gparted, and partitioned my hard drive for Ubuntu MATE.
So far, the beast seems most appreciative, and it hums along with just a gentle puff of warm air out of the ports. I needed to do a little tweaking, as the latest nVidia cards don’t seem to like Wayland as a graphics server, and the addition to GRUB of acpi=off, and another flawless computer is on the road.
Now, if only I could persuade Metabox to move to a 128-bit system, and can get delivery of that on the other side of the great divide, my future will be in computer heaven.
Oh, if you’re wondering what happened to the Asus? It is still on the kitchen table in our house in the Philippines, in pieces, where I have no doubt it is waiting for another rebuild!
Chris Thomas
In Requiem
03/05/1942 — 02/10/2024
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/92138.html
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.fastcompany.com/91195233/jony-ive-love-from-logo-building-post-apple-brand
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045312-exactly-why-are-friendshi
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-24, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/18/ios-18-messages-app-crash/
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045314-online-street-maps-and-sa
date: 2024-09-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2024/09/23/161723.html?title=thisIsATest
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-09-23, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Seasonal avatar
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113187679035850997
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Bruce Schneier blog
I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare program has a system to reward people who move bicycles from full stations to empty ones. By deliberately moving bikes to create artificial problems, and exploiting exactly how the system calculates rewards, some people are making a lot of money.
At 10 a.m. on a Tuesday last month, seven Bike Angels descended on the docking station at Broadway and 53rd Street, across from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Each rider used his own special blue key -- a reward from Citi Bike— to unlock a bike. He rode it one block east, to Seventh Avenue. He docked, ran back to Broadway, unlocked another bike and made the trip again…
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/0045326-legalizing-sports-gamblin
date: 2024-09-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
BTW, to be clear, I have no interest in working on twitter-like systems.
It’s been like a prison to writers, we’re stuck with this huge divide, with crap on both sides.
These things exist, they have a jumble of APIs and ways to integrate.
And we’ve been playing by the rules laid down by Twitter (ev, biz and jack) for 18 freaking years. That’s enough.
This will never get sorted out until people realize it needs sorting out.
Not expecting much more to happen there.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/23/150840.html?title=enoughTwitter
date: 2024-09-23, updated: 2024-09-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/09/the-joyful-utility-of-yeeting-pufflings-off-cliffs
date: 2024-09-23, from: Robert Reich’s blog
“Hate” has become his signature utterance
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-hate
date: 2024-09-23, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
As I travel around the United States, one of the things that always jumps out to me is just how beautiful this country is.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-22-2024
date: 2024-09-22, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Summer house Lovely little arbour in the gardens of Muckross House, Killarney. Quote of the Day ”Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.” Edward Gibbon Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Billy Strayhorn | Lotus Blossom | Duke Ellington … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-23-september-2024/39886/
@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, origins, 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: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-21-2024-4a5
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"><blockquote>UPDATE 9/23: The CEO of Elecrow responded. I’ve posted a follow-up blog post with my reaction to the response and some other thoughts on AI voice cloning.
Listen to this clip:
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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.
<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