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date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K7pIsfvg&t=505s
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Someday I have to reboot Bingeworthy, it’s the software snack I miss the most. It broke when Twitter broke their identity system.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a152625
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, why doesn’t Netflix buy Metacritic and integrate their ratings aggregator in their user interface. I predict I’d watch far more stuff on Netflix than I do now. Or Apple TV, Max, Hulu, Disney, etc. The idea that such a valuable resource is not part of the user experience is crazy imho. What a waste. What reminded me of this is Plex has integrated the equivalent of Bingeworthy in their service, which is also a good idea and will glue communities of users to you. The idea is to systematize recommendations. If I know a specific friend liked a movie or a show is valuable information for me, not just advertisers.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a152236
date: 2024-10-13, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Holding the mic in this shot, taken with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max, is Mitch Teplitsky, a documentary filmmaker based in Bloomington, Indiana. Mitch has been reading this blog for the duration, and reached out when I showed up in town. The scene is the Pitchdox award event yesterday, which was by Hoodox at […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/13/the-iphone-16-pro-max-so-far/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Textcasting shows up as a slight blip (or less) on Google Trends.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a145152
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I am totally having a blast with my hybrid blog, built by textcasting WordPress and Mastodon. Just wrote a post about the day the NYT signs off, finally realizing how fcuked we are if Trump is elected or manages to steal the election next month. Their final headline in this story is GOOD LUCK AMERICA.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a144304
date: 2024-10-13, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/let-the-river-run
date: 2024-10-13, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Dieser Artikel ist Teil von Hellebarden & Helme und eine Alternative zu 2024-10-07 Massengefechte. Die Massengefechte waren etwas OD&D inspiriert und sind ausführlicher, da sie für ein Fanzine geschrieben wurden.
Einheiten bilden: Gleichartigen Kreaturen werden nach belieben eingeteilt.
Ein oder zwei Einheiten pro Spielerinnen und Spieler ist ein gute Anfang.
Trefferpunkte berechnen: Man multipliziert Anzahl Kreaturen, Anzahl Trefferwürfel pro Kreatur und durchschnittlichen Trefferpunkten pro Trefferwürfel (4½).
40 Banditen haben beispielsweise 40 × 4.5 = 180 Trefferpunkte. Auf der Tabelle unten hat es viele vorberechnete Werte.
Initiative, Bewegung, Angriffe und so weiter funktionieren wie immer. Rüstungsklasse, Bewegungsrate, Moral und Rettungswürfe bleiben unverändert.
Im Nahkampf kann eine Einheit, welche mit mehreren Gegnern im Kontakt ist, alle gleichzeitig angreifen!
Gewicht: Schaden wird von Angreifer und Verteidiger nach untenstehender Tabelle gewichtet, da in der Masse und wegen dem Gelände nie alle gleichzeitig angreifen können: Der Schaden wird mit dem Gewicht des Angreifers multipliziert und durch das Gewicht des Verteidigers geteilt.
40 Banditen haben ein Gewicht von ×6. Landen sie einen Treffer und würfeln 4 Schaden teilen sie 4 × 6 = 24 Schaden aus. Ein Bandit mehr und das Gewicht würde auf ×7 steigen.
Haben die Banditen mit TW 1 noch 53 Trefferpunkte, sieht man in der Tabelle, dass es 11–20 Banditen mit Gewicht ×5 sind.
Die genaue Anzahl ist im Kampf egal. Wer es genau wissen will: 53/4.5 ≈ 12 (aufrunden).
| Anzahl | Gewicht | TW 1 | TW 2 | TW 3 | TW 4 | TW 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2–5 | ×3 | 22 | 45 | 90 | 180 | 360 |
| 6–10 | ×4 | 45 | 90 | 180 | 360 | 720 |
| 11–20 | ×5 | 90 | 180 | 360 | 720 | 1440 |
| 21–40 | ×6 | 180 | 360 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 |
| 41–80 | ×7 | 360 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 |
| 81–160 | ×8 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 |
| 161–320 | ×9 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 | 23040 |
| 321–640 | ×10 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 | 23040 | 46080 |
Steht eine Einheit mit mehreren Gegnern im Kontakt, können alle Gegner gleichzeitig angegriffen werden.
Spielercharaktere und ihr Gefolge werden von ihrer Einheit gedeckt. Erleidet die Einheit Schaden, nehmen Spielercharaktere und Gefolgsleute zuletzt Schaden.
Spielercharaktere und ihr Gefolge greifen wie immer mit eigenen Trefferwürfen und Zaubern an. Zauber werden auf Trefferpunkte umgerechnet. Zaubersprüche wie Donnerkeil oder Feuerball, werden genau so gegen Einheiten verwendet.
Schlafen 10 Banditen mit je 1 TW ein, so entspricht das 10 × 4.5 Schaden. Der genaue Wirkungsbereich der Zauber und die Marschordnung der einzelnen Kreaturen werden vernachlässigt.
Wenn eine Einheit ihr erstes Mitglied oder die Hälfte ihrer Mitglieder verliert, muss ein Moralwurf bestanden werden. Spielercharaktere verleihen ihrer Einheit den Charisma Bonus für Moralwürfe. Die Moralwürfe sind wichtig! Ist der Moralwurf misslungen, gilt die Einheit als gebrochen. Sie weicht zurück, sucht Deckung und hört auf zu kämpfen.
Spielercharaktere oder Gefolgsleute in gebrochenen Einheiten können diesen wieder Mut zusprechen. Pro Einheit kann dies nur eine Person pro Runde versuchen. Das Ermutigen einer Einheiten kann jede Runde wiederholt werden. Einer ermutigten Einheit steht ein erneuter Moralwurf zu. So oder so kann die Einheit diese Runde sonst nichts tun.
Erleidet eine gebrochene Einheit erneut Schaden, flieht sie vom Schlachtfeld. Alle weiteren Einheiten im Nahkampf erhalten einen freien Angriff mit einem +2 Bonus.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-10-massenschlachten
date: 2024-10-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-the-monster
date: 2024-10-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Celebrated another trip around the sun this week with a day on the water.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12-2024
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
would switch to any
podcatcher
that let me edit my subscription list outside their app, because I use
that list in different contexts, also because I’d like to share my list
with others, and would like that to be a dynamic connection, so I could
add feeds as I learn about them, or remove feeds that have stopped
updating. Also because there are lots of others, aka influencers who’d
like to too. You’d own the market if you did this.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/12.html#a211940
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The common denominator between journalism, business and politics is that none of them have any respect for people. To rise in influence, money or power you have to give up imagination, and be ruled by cynicism. If you don’t believe this, show me a journalist who listens, a business that makes products for thinkers, or a politician who lets individual people lead them.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/12.html#a211848
date: 2024-10-12, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Notes on What’s Happening Right Now by Alex Steffen There’s no new normal; the climate is moving from something we knew to a fluctuating set of conditions; we won’t be able to predict what the world we’re building for will look like. That means we have to rebuild in ways that limit anticipated risks and […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/12/fighting-climate-change-with-financial-reform/
date: 2024-10-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-11-2024-824
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Cynicism isn’t always the right explanation. Sometimes people just want to share something good with you, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re stupid, maybe they just like you.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/12.html#a165035
date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Well we know who the Mets are facing, starting tomorrow, in the National League championship series.
Last time we played the Dodgers in the postseason we kicked their ass. And now they have the nerve to show up again. Geez some people never learn.
And we haven’t forgotten how Chase Utley broke Rubin Tejada’s leg, deliberately, basically ending his major league career. We thought he should have been arrested for that, no kidding – it was a vicious un-baseball assault. He and the Dodgers showed no remorse.
Update:
The Jankees are playing Cleveland in the ALCS, and while some people
with limited imaginations wish for a
Subway Series
betw the the two NY teams, I do not. I have a rule, I always root for
the team the Jankees are playing. Thus I hope to see a World Series
between the Mets and so-called “Guardians.” And of course the Mets would
be heavily favored in that contest because the Cleveland team has
changed their name to something impossible to pronounce, ethically. When
you change your name, like
tearing
down your stadium (something that took the Mets a long time to
recover from) you basically put a hex on your team making it virtually
impossible for your philosophy to prevail. So Mets v Guardians, while
not necessarily what I predict, rather is something I hope
for, and as long as the game is played with philosophy, that’s
the real victory! So get em METS and never forget there’s always next
year. ❤️
http://scripting.com/2024/10/12/150933.html?title=paybackTimeForTheDodgers
date: 2024-10-12, updated: 2024-10-12, from: Russell Graves, Syonyk’s Project Blog
https://www.sevarg.net/2024/10/12/goldendale-washington/
date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
BTW, the reason there’s such a confluence of power between WordPress and Mastodon is this.
WordPress has a complete, debugged, deployed, scaled and frozen API. It’s been around since 2016 or so.
In contrast Mastodon, while they’re doing excellent work, is trying to wrangle an already large community into a set of consistent interfaces. It’s very hard for an outsider like myself to approach, esp when you’re overloaded with your own work (which we all are).
Meanwhile, Automattic has a small team whose only job is to make WordPress work with Mastodon.
So I can build software that works with Mastodon without venturing into the rough seas of Mastodon-land. I can stay on the cruise-liner, which is the WordPress API.
I didn’t even know they had this API until last summer. My jaw dropped when I first saw it. It even works with Node.js. And now that I’m on the other side, I haven’t hit any insurmountable obstacles or had to wait for something to be decided.
This is the proper way to build interop. Implementors make things work, not W3C committees (I say that with decades of experience with this, btw).
I thought it deserved an explanation.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/12/145403.html?title=whyIsThisPossibleNow
date: 2024-10-12, from: Liam on Linux
But there’s still a lot of power in that festering ball of 1980s code.
In 6 weeks in 2016, I drafted, wrote, illustrated, laid out and submitted a ~330 page technical maintenance manual for a 3D printer, solo, entirely in MS Word from start to finish. I began in Word 97 & finished it in Word 2003, 95% of the time running under WINE on Linux… and 90% of the time, using it in Outline Mode, which is a vastly powerful writer’s tool which the FOSS word has nothing even vaguely comparable to.
But as a novice… Yeah, what the tweet said. It’s a timeless classic IMHO.
Some Emacs folks told me Org-mode is just as good as an outliner. I’ve tried it. This was my response.Org mode compared to Word 2003 Outline View is roughly MS-DOS Edlin compared to Emacs. It’s a tiny fragmentary partial implementation of 1% of the functionality, done badly, with a terrible terrible UI.
No exaggeration, no hyperbole, and there’s a reason I specifically said
2003 and nothing later.
I’ve been building and running xNix boxes since 1988. I have often tried both Vi and Emacs over nearly 4 decades. I am unusual in terms of old Unix hands: I cordially detest both of them.
The reason I cite Word 2003 is that that’s the last version with the old menu and toolbar UI. Everything later has a "ribbon" and I find it unusable.
Today, the web-app/Android/iOS versions of Word do not have Outline View, no. Only the rich local app versions do.
But no, org-mode is not a better richer alternative; it is vastly inferior, to the point of being almost a parody.
It’s really not. I tried it, and I found it a slightly sad crippled little thing that might be OK for managing my to-do list.
Hidden behind Emacs’ awful 1970s UI which I would personally burn in a fire rather than ever use.
So, no, I don’t think it’s a very useful or capable outliner from what I have seen. Logseq has a better one.
To extend my earlier comparison:
Org-mode to Word’s Outline View is Edlin to Emacs.
Logseq to Outline View is MS-DOS 5 EDIT to Emacs: it’s a capable full-screen text editor that I know and like and which works fine. It’s not very powerful but what it does, it does fine.
Is Org-mode aimed at something else? Maybe, yes. I don’t know who or
what it’s aimed at, so I can’t really say.
Word Outline Mode is the last surviving 1980s outliner, an entire category of app that’s disappeared.
http://outliners.com/default.html
It’s a good one but it was once one among many. It is, for me, THE killer feature of MS Word, and the only thing I keep WINE on my computers for.
It’s a prose writer’s tool, for writing long-form documents in a human language.
Emacs is a programmer’s editor for writing program code in programming languages.
So, no, they are not the same thing, but the superficial similarity
confuses people.
I must pick a fairly small example as I’m not very familiar with Emacs.
In Outline Mode, a paragraph’s level in the hierarchy is tied with its paragraph style. Most people don’t know how to use Word’s style sheets, but think of HTML. Word has 9 heading levels, like H1…H9 on the Web, plus Body Text, which is always the lowest level.
As you promote or demote a paragraph, its style automatically changes to match.
(This has the side effect that you can see the level from the style. If that bothered you, in old versions you could turn off showing the formatting.)
As you move a block of hierarchical text around the outline all its levels automatically adopt the correct styles for their current location.
This means that when I wrote a manual in it, I did no formatting by hand at all. The text of the entire document is automatically formatted according to whether it’s a chapter heading, or section, or subsection, or subsubsection, etc.
When you’re done Word can automatically generate a table of contents, or
an index, or both, that picks up all those section headings. Both assign
page numbers "live", so if you move, add or delete any section, the ToC
and index update immediately with the new positions and page
numbers.
I say a small example as most professional writers don’t deal with the formatting at all. That’s the job of someone else in a different department.
Or, in technical writing, this is the job of some program. It’s the sort of thing that Linux folks get very excited about LaTeX and LyX, or for which documentarians praise DocBook or DITA, but I’ve used both of those and they need avast amount of manual labour – and very complex tooling.
XML etc are also extremely fragile. One punctuation mark in the
wrong place and 50 pages of formatting is broken or goes haywire. I’ve
spent days troubleshooting one misplaced :. It’s horrible.
Word can do all this automatically, and most people don’t even know the function is there. It’s like driving an articulated lorry as a personal car and never noticing that it can carry 40 tonnes of cargo! Worse still, people attach a trailer and roofrack and load them up with stuff… because they don’t know their vehicle can carry 10 cars already as a built in feature.
I could take a sub sub section of a chapter and promote it to a chapter
in its own right, and adjust the formatting of 100 pages, in about 6 or
8 keystrokes. That will also rebuild the index and redo the table of
contents, automatically, for me.
All this can be entirely keyboard driven, or entirely mouse driven, according to the user’s preference. Or any mixture of both, of course. I’m a keyboard warrior myself. I can live entirely without a pointing device and it barely slows me down.
You can with a couple of clicks collapse the whole book to just chapter headings, or just those and subheadings, or just all the headings and no body text… Any of 9 levels, as you choose. You can hide all the lower levels, restructure the whole thing, and then show them again. You can adjust formatting by adjusting indents in the overview, and then expand it again to see what happened and if it’s what you want.
You could go crazy… zoom out to the top level, add a few new headings,
indent under the new headings, and suddenly in a few clicks, your 1 big
book is now 2 or 3 or 4 smaller books, each with its own set of
chapters, headings, sub headings, sub sub headings etc. Each can have
its own table of contents and index, all automatically generated and
updated and formatted.
I’m an xNix guy, mainly. I try to avoid Windows as much as possible, but the early years of my career were supporting DOS and then Windows. There is good stuff there, and credit where it’s due.
(MS Office on macOS also does this, but the keyboard UI is much clunkier.)
Outliners were just an everyday tool once. MS just built a good one into Word, way back in the DOS era. Word for DOS can do all this stuff too and it did it in like 200kB of RAM in 1988!
Integrating it into a word processor makes sense, but they were standalone apps.
It’s not radical tech. This is really old, basic stuff. But somehow in the switch to GUIs on the PC, they got lost in the transition.
And no, LibreOffice/Abiword/CalligraWords has nothing even resembling
this.
There are 2 types of outliner: intrinsic and extrinsic, also known as 1-pane or 2-pane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner#Layout
There are multiple 2-pane outliners that are FOSS.
But they are tools for organising info, and are almost totally useless
for writers.
There are almost no intrinsic outliners in the
FOSS world. I’ve been looking for years. The only one I know is LoqSeq,
but it is just for note-taking and it does none of the
formatting/indexing/ToC stuff I mentioned. It does handle Markdown but
with zero integration with the outline structure.
So it’s like going from Emacs to Notepad. All the clever stuff is gone,
but you can still edit plain text.
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https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/92883.html
date: 2024-10-12, from: Liam on Linux
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https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/92655.html
date: 2024-10-12, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-musking-of-trump-the-coffee-klatch
date: 2024-10-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
A report from the Labor Department yesterday showed that inflation has dropped again, falling back to 2.4%, the same rate as it was just before the coronavirus pandemic.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-11-2024
date: 2024-10-12, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
The house next door is a short term rental and the current renter is a very diligent band — they played for six hours straight yesterday 😳 (I played wind instruments so my chops would be well shot by that point.) I keep making up their story: are they here to record an album? maybe […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/11/weeknotes-oct-5-12-2024/
date: 2024-10-12, from: James Fallows, Substack
What John Boyd’s ‘OODA Loop’ tells us about the Harris campaign.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-25-days-to-go
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Summarizing the last 18 years on the web. Between Twitter and Google Reader, the web was cut into two, and they didn’t get along. We may now be on the cusp of fixing that. Why? Because WordPress and Mastodon work with each other in unforeseen ways. We got lucky, because I don’t think this was done consciously by the developers of either product.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/11.html#a231010
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-12, from: Daring Fireball
https://x.com/danahull/status/1844530542190158288
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045412-a-short-thread-of-videos
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/indian-fishermen-are-catching-less-squid.html
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045414-a-syllabus-for-generalist
date: 2024-10-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Please share!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-2024-election-video-of-the-week
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade - but not all of the new hotness is here yet.</p> date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/floor-maps-of-iconic-nyc-fast-food-joints-1
date: 2024-10-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2024-a08
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Bruce Schneier blog
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing.
At this point, we would like feedback on titles. Here are four possibilities:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/more-on-my-ai-and-democracy-book.html
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Joseph and me just rawdogged the first restaurant near our hotel in Berlin that served goulash and the meal was one of the best I had this year.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113290113350108952
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045402-the-most-sought-after-tra
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045436-newly-remastered-and-avai
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.reuters.com/technology/teslas-musk-unveil-robotaxis-amid-fanfare-skepticism-2024-10-10/
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045415-photos-of-spanish-human-t
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-distorted-paper-collages-of-lola-dupre
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Berlin is the Mexico City of the Middle East
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113289426623433968
date: 2024-10-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
After the Civil War, the Midwest had never gotten fully on board with the national celebration of industrialists and their great fortunes.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-10-2024
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045411-twin-peaks-actually-expla
date: 2024-10-11, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Realizing Meshtastic’s Promise with the T-Deck
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://meshtastic.org">Meshtastic</a>—a simple off-grid mesh network used to transfer short messages—is a neat bit of tech, but until recently, most development has focused on little nodes with or without tiny OLED displays, and a separate phone app or web UI to actually <em>interact</em> with the mesh.</p>The major use case I have for Meshtastic is backup comms—when cell networks and physical infrastructure may be unavailable. In those conditions, I don’t want to run my full computer, or even a full smartphone, just to communicate long range via text.
Enter the T-Deck:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/realizing-meshtastics-promise-t-deck
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045425-i-am-tempted-by-this
date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I have a morning ritual which begins with breakfast and iced coffee, and my laptop, on the kitchen table, to review the news, sports, whatever. Write a few tweets or share a few links. Usually with WNYC playing in the background until I find something I want to read carefully, then I shout at Alexa to go away. When done, I head upstairs where the work begins, often with a blog post, as I’m writing now, and sometimes with a bit of code, but that usually waits until my brain is warmed up.
But today I had a different assignment. Instead of tweeting, I wrote a few wordpress/mastodon posts, a new hybrid, a medium that I may well be the first person to explore, to do actual writing in.
I
have a writing tool I call wordLand, it connects directly to WordPress,
and from there, one of my sites is hooked up to Mastodon via
ActivityPub. I choose to view it that way, to keep from going crazy. I
know that it’s hooked up to the “fediverse” – meaning my writing can be
viewed by any other app that supports the protocol Masotodon supports
which is kind of ActivityPub+ – where the + is the Mastodon API. Not
sure what the ratios are, and I don’t care. In this context I am a user,
and happy to be that. The developers at Automattic are taking care of
the technical details.
Here’s the conclusion that appeared in one of the posts I wrote in my kitchen this morning – “I am more excited about the web than I have been in a lonnnnng time.” I am. I explained why in one of my posts, but it comes down to this. I have most of the features I asked for in textcasting (!) and I am typing in a respectable editing window, where I retain copies of my writing, and there’s no freaking tiny little text box. And because I’m hooking in through a protocol (here’s the punchline) this writing can go anywhere. Anywhere. Let me say that again. Any. Where.
Like I said the other day, I doubt if Automattic knows what they have. I seriously doubt it. But in a few years, we’re going to look back on this as the moment when Twitter stopped controlling our writing, as they have since 2006.
No more character limits. Posts can have titles, or not. We can use links, as many as we like. Styling works. We can edit our posts. And the really big payoff, I can use a writing tool I love and you can use a tool you love and they work together perfectly well. And if one day you feel like using mine, and I feel like using yours, it just works. So in one step, we turn the clock back to 1994, when the web had all the features a writer could want.
Links to the stories I wrote earlier, on Mastodon:
WordPress versions are linked to from the Mastodon posts.
Enter this in the address box: @daveverse.wordpress.com to follow this blog in Mastodon.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/11/132736.html?title=theWebLivesInWordpressAndMastodon
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045409-initial-experiments-in-us
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Apple's latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/macos_15_is_unix/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I have arrived in Europe, the land of cookie popups!
I hope they don’t arrest me from bringing a contraband ChatGPT with me, or opposing the genocide in Gaza.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113288662680855648
date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed on his own time while still in the military. That always troubled me. Whatever ideas he had, they were developed on public time using public resources: he shouldn’t have been able to leave military service with them in his back pocket.
In any case, it was never clear what those ideas were. IronNet never seemed to have any special technology going for it. Near as I could tell, its success was entirely based on Alexander’s name…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/ironnet-has-shut-down.html
date: 2024-10-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Trump and Putin are stronger allies than we even knew. This is bad news for Ukraine if Trump wins the election, and bad news for American democracy.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-axis-of-tyranny-in-america-and
date: 2024-10-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday evening as a Category 3 storm just south of Sarasota, Florida.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2024
date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Rupert blog
School is back in session, sports are in full swing, we’re tossed and turned by the weekly routine. This past month has been a season of fixing and repair and I’m thankful everything went well and we’re (hopefully) through the hard parts.
Ramping up to Spooky Month, the lights in our house were acting up. We’ve always had the occasional power problem; lights dimming, oven clocks resetting, but they were random and isolated. But around the beginning of September our lights would flicker for a solid minute every time the A/C kicked on. I was getting concerned about a potential fire – and no matter what anyone says, I was not concerned about a ghost, ghoul, specter, gremlin, dracula or otherwise – so I scheduled a bunch of maintenance calls:
D80 code on our LG
dryer, I got suspicious that a clogged dryer vent was causing extra draw
on electrical system. An older gentleman who liked to talk helped us
clean out the 7ft pipe that shoots hot air and lint out of our roof.
Works great now The flickering lights seem to have resolved. All ghosts busted.
It wouldn’t be a year at the Ruperts house without maxing out our deductible. This time my wife’s tennis habit got the best of her and she needed to undergo laparoscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus. Surgery went fine, she was walking the same day and (even in bandages) was walking better than before. Surgeries are no fun, but necessary at times.
The week after my wife’s surgery our two new adopted pups had their scheduled appointment from the adoption center to get spayed. A non-event except that two young dogs in two cones is an absolute ruckus. Days and days of bonking into doors and knees (some of which had surgery the week before).
After a week the cones were off and they’re back to themselves; eating rocks, wrassling, and digging holes in my yard and whatnot.
Thousands of dollars and a handful of stressful weeks later we’re on a path to recovery. Shaking off the stress of the last six weeks is yet another thing to fix. And the fixes don’t stop. The near future is going to be figuring out our next major family expense. We need to update both our cars, the kids want a camper again, and almost all the rooms in our house need updating. I also made an enormous mess decanting all our hoarding piles while trying to clean the garage and need new shelving and storage. Oops, will fix.
Finished
Started
Movies
Podcasts
Some great guests talking about everything from game dev, to AI, to WordPress, to bespoke apps for adding multimedia experiences to live music.
ShopTalk
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https://daverupert.com/2024/10/vibe-check-35/
date: 2024-10-10, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Inwards and Onwards! The new entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, one of my favourite buildings in London, yesterday. Quote of the Day ”Within every lean, hungry, tech start-up founder, a bloated monopolist was struggling to get out.” Henry Farrell … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-11-october-2024/39952/
date: 2024-10-10, from: Jonudell blog
There are plenty of ways to use LLMs ineffectively. For best results, lean into your own intelligence, experience, and creativity. Delegate the boring and routine stuff to closely supervised assistants whose work you can easily check. Mix Human Expertise With LLM Assistance for Easier Coding Part of the LLM series at The New Stack.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/10/10/mix-human-expertise-with-llm-assistance-for-easier-coding/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
OMG the new on-device transcription for your voice memos on iPhone is amazing! And it can do text searches.
I have so many lectures recorded.
This is a gift of the gods.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113285627290303245
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
First time traveling on the AirBus Beluga. I am so excited.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113285546639976602
date: 2024-10-10, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I got an iPhone 16 Pro twelve days ago. I have two more days to swap it for an iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will cost me $100 above the mint I already paid for the Pro with 1 TB of storage. Why so much storage? I want to maximize storage because this thing is […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/10/iphone-16-pro-or-pro-max/
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045435-the-trailer-for-season-2
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Leaving for GodotCon!
Looking forward to meet you all on Saturday!
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113285133317052765
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/radioheads-everything-in-its-right-place-800-slower
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-11, from: Daring Fireball
The question to ask is, “Is this what users want and expect?” Sometimes it really is that simple. I’m not sure it’s ever worth asking “Is this what growth-hacking VC-backed social-media app makers want?”
https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/consider_the_plight_of_the_vc-backed_privacy_burglars
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045431-whoa-new-nintendo-hardwar
date: 2024-10-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On October 9, 1919, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-9-2024
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045428-covid-19-may-increase-the
date: 2024-10-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
A tweet that says something that’s obviously true until you realize it’s not. “No kid remembers their best day in front of the TV.” In fact I have four memories from my youth, watching TV.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/10/190904.html?title=memorableTvwatchingMoments
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045432-one-woman-and-two-men
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m posting development notes on the wordland product in my wordpress/mastodon account. I’m starting to like using the new editor. Today I switched the format we save drafts in from HTML to Markdown. More consistent with my belief that Markdown is the ideal subset of web writing features for the social web.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/10.html#a184350
date: 2024-10-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-9-2024-07a
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-best-panoramic-photos-of-2024
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045430-the-myth-of-the-climate
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045433-who-died-and-left-the
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Isn’t it weird that businesses work hard to get better position on Google search, but fight the other way with AI to be excluded. At some point they could realize that one of the approaches isn’t correct.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/10.html#a161705
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/10/06
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Quick
note about last night’s
Mets win over
Philly. The series is over, the next game on Sunday will be against
the winner in the west, either San Diego or Los Angeles. Last night’s
game was stressful, low scoring, until the Mets star shortstop hit a
freaking
grand slam
home
run, and that was all the scoring we needed. The Mets are the
hottest team in baseball. It doesn’t feel like a long time since
2015
when they got to the World Series before crashing. Who knows how far
we’ll get this year, honestly – I’m surprised (and pleased) we got this
far. And in the meantime, I caught a tiny bit of last night’s preseason
game between the
Knicks
and some other team I don’t care about. They have two new stars to add
to the roster after
losing
one star as a free agent, and trading two others for the
second
new star. All in all, very enticing. New York has some excellent
sports teams, which is unusual, because it isn’t just the Jankees this
time, a team I will, I promise, never root for. Quite the
opposite. I will root for whoever they are playing. You can probably
tell I don’t like them. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/10/10.html#a155959
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://x.com/bella_bongiorno/status/1843705512808067296?s=12&t=75cuNzpkeCQ9C7aB0JjsEg
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/photo-remakes-of-famous-art-1
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/24266272/nintendo-alarmo-sound-clock-hands-on
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-10, from: mrusme blog
After over four years, I am simplifying the UPDC to make it more lightweight, more portable, and less in the way. This is a status update on the Ultra-Portable Data Center.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/ultra-portable-data-center-part-two/
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045429-this-simple-tool-finds-yo
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045420-forums-are-still-alive-ac
date: 2024-10-10, from: Jeff Geerling blog
3rd Party PoE HATs for Pi 5 add NVMe, fit inside case
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Today I published a video detailing my testing of three new Raspberry Pi HATs—these HATs all add on PoE+ power <em>and</em> an NVMe SSD slot, though the three go about it in different ways.</p>You can watch the video for the full story (embedded below), but in this post I’ll go through my brief thoughts on all three, and link to a few other options coming on the market as well.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/3rd-party-poe-hats-pi-5-add-nvme-fit-inside-case
date: 2024-10-10, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Dieser Artikel ist erstmals in Grenzland Nr. 4 erschienen. Siehe 2024-10-10 Massenschlachten für eine Alternative, die näher an B/X D&D angelehnt ist.
Massengefechte bieten eine interessante Abwechslung, genauso wie Spielabende, wo man die Monsterseite spielt oder wo man als Däumlinge unterwegs ist und dergleichen mehr.
Um ein Massengefecht vorzubereiten, gilt es auf der Karte potentielle Freunde und Feinde zu verteilen, jeweils mit mindestens einer Person, mit der sich interagieren lässt. Die Feinde bauen den Druck auf, der von den Spielerinnen und Spielern gelöst werden muss. Schon bald machen sich die verschieden Parteien in Gerüchten, Zufallsbegegnungen und Horten bemerkbar.
Typischerweise könnte man so das Problem mit einer Infiltration lösen: Die Gruppe muss die wichtigen Bösewichte in Festungen und unterirdischen Anlagen finden und ausschalten. Man könnte das Problem auch mit Diplomatie lösen: Die Gruppe muss Verhandlungen führen, Geschenke überbringen und möglicherweise Tribut zahlen, um den Krieg abzuwenden.
Die Schlacht bei Murten, Seite 265, aus Stumpf, Johannes: Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren Chronick wirdiger Thaaten Beschreybung […]. Getruckt Zürych in der Eydgnoschafft : bey Christoffel Froschouer, 1548. Zentralbibliothek Zürich., AW 40: 1-2
https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-5076 / Public Domain Mark
Eine Massenschlacht bahnt sich an, sobald klar ist, dass nicht jedes Problem mit Diplomatie, Infiltration und Mord gelöst werden kann. Es dauert einfach zu lange. Die Gegenseite ist mit ihren Vorbereitungen schnell und effizient, ihre Dungeons und Festungen sind zu stark, ihre Fallen zu gefährlich, ihre Zauber zu mächtig, ihre Ansprüche zu hoch. Den Bösewichten kann man nur auf dem offenen Schlachtfeld die Stirn bieten.
Um die Idee der Massenschlacht nach und nach einzuführen, gibt es bei Begegnungen mit potentiellen Freunden Hinweise auf den Expansionswillen der Gegenseite und auf den mangelnden Kooperationswillen neutraler Parteien. Daraus ergeben sich diplomatische Missionen, um den Zusammenhalt der eigenen Seite zu stärken. Zudem fallen der Gruppe bei unabhängigen Abenteuern Pläne und Hinweise in die Hände, die den Expansionswillen der Gegner belegen. Auf der eigenen Seite hat es Machthaber, denen man diese Hinweise überbringen kann, was dann zu Spionagemissionen führt. Auf diesen Missionen findet die Gruppe Belege für die Grösse und die Organisation der Gegenseite und es wird klar, dass die eigene Seite ebenfalls organisiert werden muss.
Ab diesem Moment sind die Weichen auf Krieg gestellt. Idealerweise gibt es nun einen Zeitplan, der so aufgebaut ist, dass man in der verbleibenden Zeit einen Teil der neutralen Parteien zu Verbündeten machen kann. Damit ist die Gruppe gezwungen, Entscheidungen zu fällen. Wen will man auf der eigenen Seite? Wer läuft Gefahr, zur Gegenseite überzulaufen? Wer ist besonders wertvoll?
Der Zeitdruck wird der Spielerschaft klar kommuniziert. Wird mit einem 1:1 Kalender gespielt, vergeht zwischen wöchentlichen Spielabenden auch ein Woche in der Spielwelt, in der die Gegenseite sich vorbereiten kann. Es lohnt sich nicht, dies zu simulieren. Ist die Zeit abgelaufen, fallen der Gegenseite alle verbleibenden neutralen Parteien zu. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Gegenseite bei allen neutralen Parteien Agenten hat, welche die Partei in ihrem Sinne zu beeinflussen versucht. Das Neutralisieren oder Umkehren solcher Agenten ist Teil der Herausforderung.
Die Anzahl Parteien muss zum Zeitplan passen. Wenn wir von 12 Parteien ausgehen und drei Spielabende pro Partei für unsere Runde ein entspanntes Abenteuer sind, dann braucht es 18 Spielabende, um die Hälfte der Parteien (6×3) auf die eigene Seite zu ziehen. Wenn die Gruppe in der gleichen Zeit mehr Freunde gewinnt, soll das ihr Vorteil sein. Die Spielleitung muss für jede der 12 Parteien ungefähr drei Spielabende Unterhaltung vorbereiten: Anreise, Begegnungen, Gespräche, Probleme beseitigen oder sonstige Gefallen leisten, und so weiter.
Die Parteien können und sollen untereinander unbekannte Loyalitäten und Rivalitäten haben, welche die Spielerinnen und Spieler erst entdecken und möglicherweise entschärfen oder ausnützen können.
In der folgenden Liste hat es 12 Parteien und Gorga von den Dunkelklauenechsen ist der Hauptgegner.
Gorgas ist der Anführer der Dunkelklauenechsen und lässt Eier des eigenen Stammes in Drachenblut einweichen, damit daraus Superkrieger entstehen.
Matacabra ist die Anführerin der Schwarzflussechsen, die von den Dunkelklauenechsen unterdrückt werden.
Edelbauch ist Anführerin der Goldaugenkobolde. Diese wurden von Gorgas angeheuert, um die Belagerungsmaschinen zu bauen, welche die Burg vom Blausee schleifen sollen.
Purdefel der Weise ist Burgherr von Blausee und Anführer der Menschen. Damit ist es auch Schutzherr der Holzfäller und Goldsucher.
Berta ist die Anführerin der Gnomenbande, welche das Holzfällerlager von Ledinan kontrolliert.
Barzidom ist Anführer der Ogermagier, welche in der Ruine des Odin Tempels ihr Unwesen treibt.
Quinn ist der König der fliegenden Affen, welcher in der Ruine des Wassertempels herrscht.
Sanael ist Anführer der letzten Elfen im Wald. Sie beschäftigen sich mit der Greifenzucht.
Apanal ist der Flussdrache des gleichnamigen Flusses, der durch den Wald fliesst. Er meint, dass alle Schätze im Wald Teil seines Schatzes sind.
Kaia ist die ehemalige Anführerin der Steinherzfestung. Sie und alle anderen Familienoberhäupter sind einem Kettenteufel verfallen.
Treibniz ist Priester des Orcus Tempels und ein böser Geselle, aber er kann Tote wieder zum Leben erwecken und Zombies kontrollieren.
Purbok ist Anführer der Goblinjäger von Grezneck. Die Hälfte seiner Leute ist wird im letzten Moment zu Treibniz überlaufen, der den Goblins ewiges Leben verspricht. .SH Langsame Eskalation
Erst nach und nach erfahren die Spieler, dass sich etwas zusammenbraut.
Die Holzfäller berichten, dass die Schwarzflussechsen kaum mehr gesichtet werden.
Die fliegenden Affen berichten, dass es Echsen auf Riesenlibellen gibt, welche den Luftraum unsicher machen.
Im Freya Tempel wird berichtet, dass der Kreislauf des Lebens korrumpiert wird.
Bei einer Bande Kobolden wird ein Brief des Gorgas an Edelbauch gefunden, wo ihr ein lukratives Angebot gemacht wird.
Die Goblinjäger berichten, dass das Schwert .I Sumpffeuer gefunden worden ist. Es wurden den Abenteurern allerdings von Gorgas Echsenkriegern abgenommen.
Eine geflohene Schwarzflussechse berichtet, dass neuerdings alle Eier den Schergen des Gorgas abgegeben werden müssen.
Die Holzfäller berichten, dass der Fluss nach Essig und Schwefel riecht, denn der Drache sei von Zorn erfüllt.
Der Burgherr von Blausee sucht nach tapferen Recken, welche den Einfällen der Schwarzflussechsen ein Ende bereiten.
Bei Kämpfen mit den Schwarzflussechsen zeigt sich, dass diese extrem stark und gefährlich sind.
Bei jeder Begegnung gibt es weitere Hinweise darauf, die zeigen, dass etwas in Bewegung ist.
Bei den jeweiligen Abenteuern, wo Spielerinnen und Spieler Verbündete gewinnen können, sollte schnell klar sein, unter welchen Umständen diese mitkämpfen würden und wie stark die Einheiten dann wären (siehe unten). Hier sollte mit offenen Karten gespielt werden, damit die Gruppe den Versuch auch schnell abbrechen kann, wenn es die Zeit nicht wert scheint.
Die entsprechenden Abenteuer müssen natürlich von der Spielleitung noch zusammengestellt werden. Diese würden den Rahmen des Artikels leider sprengen. .SH Die Einheiten
Beide Seiten werden in Einheiten mit gleichen Werten eingeteilt. Anführer werden von ihren Einheiten unterstützt.
Gorgas TW 7 RK 3 mit Sumpffeuer (RW vs. Gift oder Tod) BW 6 mit 100 .B Dunkelklauenechsen TW 2+1 RK 5 BW 6 ML 9 und 50 .B Superechsen TW 4+1 RK 5 BW 6 ML 11
Matacabra TW 5 RK 5 BW 6 mit Zaubersprüchen Nebelwand (keine Fernwaffen) und Angst (alle Gegner mussen einen RW vs. Sprüche oder Flucht) und 30 Schwarzflussechsen TW 2+1 RK 5 BW 6 ML 9
Edelbauch und 40 Kobolde TW 1-1 RK 7 BW 6 ML 7 wobei je 4 ein Katapult (3 TW) bedienen
Purdefel TW 5 RK 2 BW 6 und 50 Soldaten TW 1 RK 4 BW 6 inkl. Armbrüste
Berta TW 3 RK 7 BW 6 mit Zaubersprüchen Schlaf (2W8 Gegner) und Farbspray (1W8 Gegner) und 20 Messerstechergnome TW 1 RK 7 BW 6 ML 7 und 6 Riesenwiesel TW 2 RK 8 BW 15 ML 6
Barzidom mit 5 weiteren Ogermagiern mit Zaubersprüchen Fliegen, Unsichtbarkeit und Nebel (keine Fernwaffen) und 20 Oger, all TW 4+1 RK 5 BW 9 ML 8
Quinn TW 5 RK 9 BW 12 mit 20 fliegenden Affen TW 2 RK 9 BW 12 ML 6, alle fliegend, mit einmaligem Bombardement aus der Luft (3 TW)
Sanael mit 20 Elfen TW 1+1 RK 5 BW 9 ML 8 alle mit Unsichtbarkeit und Fernangriff und 10 Greifen TW 7 RK 7 BW 30 ML 8
Apanal mit Zauberspruch Schlaf (2W8 Gegner) und Drachenodem (Blitze) nach belieben TW 9 RK 2 BW 24
Kaia und 50 Zwerge TW 1 RK 4 BW 6 ML 9
Treibniz TW 7 RK 2 BW 6 mit Zauberspruch Flammenschlag (5 TW) und 20 Zombies TW 1 RK 8 BW 6
Purbok TW 3 RK 6 BW 6 und 30 Goblinjäger TW 1-1 RK 6 BW 6
In Massenschlachten gibt es pro TW einen Angriff mit dem W20. Jeder Treffer verursacht 1 TW Schaden, multipliziert mit dem Gewicht der Einheit.
| Anzahl | Gewicht | Anzahl | Gewicht |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2–5 | ×3 | 41–80 | ×7 |
| 6–10 | ×4 | 81–160 | ×8 |
| 11–20 | ×5 | 161–320 | ×9 |
| 21–40 | ×6 | 320–640 | ×10 |
Sind mehrere Einheiten am gleichen Ort, bestimmt die Verteidigung, welche Einheit getroffen wird. Über Verletzte wird nicht Buch geführt: Wer die Runde überlebt, bleibt ungeschwächt. Zaubersprüche werden passend geregelt.
Matacabra und ihre 30 Echsen und die 50 Superechsen von Gorgas nähern sich im Schutz von magischem Nebel dem Lager von Barzidom, den 5 Ogermagiern und den 20 Ogern. Die Gegner können im Nebel nichts erkennen und so kommt es zum Nahkampf.
Die Oger schützen die Ogermagier. Matacabra würfelt 5W20 und trifft für 1 TW Schaden (Gewicht für 1). Die Echsen würfeln 2W20 und verfehlen. Die Superechsen würfeln 4W20 und treffen für 1 TW×7 Schaden (Gewicht für 50). Da die Oger TW 4+1 haben, bedeuten 8 TW, dass 2 Oger erschlagen wurden.
Die Echsen nehmen den Gegenschlag auf sich. Die 5 Ogermagier würfeln 4W20 und treffen für 2 TW×3 Schaden (Gewicht für 5). Die Oger würfeln 4W20 und treffen für 2 TW×5 Schaden (Gewicht für 20). Da die Echsen TW 2+1 haben, bedeuten 16 TW, dass 8 Schwarzflussechsen erschlagen wurden.
Die Oger und die Schwarzflussechsen müssen einen Moralwurf bestehen oder sie brechen und werden handlungsunfähig. Solange sie das Feld nicht verlassen haben, können Anführer sie mit einer eigenen Aktion sammeln. Die anwesenden Einheiten dürfen dann einen erneuten Moralwurf machen.
Werden gebrochene Einheiten noch einmal getroffen, fliehen sie vom Feld. Gegner im Nahkampf dürfen noch einmal mit +2 angreifen.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-07-massengefechte
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Bruce Schneier blog
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs.
Ecovacs’s privacy policy—available elsewhere in the app—allows for blanket collection of user data for research purposes, including:
- The 2D or 3D map of the user’s house generated by the device
- Voice recordings from the device’s microphone
- Photos or videos recorded by the device’s camera
It also states that voice recordings, videos and photos that are deleted via the app may continue to be held and used by Ecovacs…
date: 2024-10-10, updated: 2024-10-10, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback.</p> date: 2024-10-10, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
We all know the reason they are not great: there’s so mega much to read!
A well-written megadungeon doesn’t require you to read it all, however. You should be able to run your first session by just reading about the area around the main entrance to the first level. Everything else should come later.
Do not waste time role-playing in the nearby town before adventuring in the dungeon.
Do not waste time exploring the wilderness around the main entrance before adventuring in the dungeon.
Do not waste time searching for other entries before using the main entrance.
A dungeon has “regions” that are not easily traversed because there aren’t all that many places to cross from one region to the next. That’s why you can get away with just preparing the area around the main entrance to the first level.
The benefit of this approach is that players will revisit the area around the main entrance to the first level many times. And this is true all throughout the megadungeon. Players will return to known locations many times. For the person running the megadungeon, this is great. Only small things have changed as far as prep is concerned but the interactions between the things is vastly different.
The map remains the same. The rooms remain the same. Perhaps new monsters have shown up. Perhaps this time they have a different routine. Perhaps they don’t want to fight, this time. Perhaps they’re complaining about something and need the party’s help, this time.
This is the thing! This is why megadungeons are great: The locations, numbers, attitudes and reactions of dungeon denizens is easy to change on the spot but writing and drawing a new dungeon is not. Every location can be visited many times and it’ll still be interesting. New traps, new monsters, new treasures; same monsters, new reactions, new quests, new allies. This stuff is easy for us to improvise once we have a map and the initial setup.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-09-why-are-megadungeons-great
date: 2024-10-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The media is demanding candid responses from Harris while letting Trump get away with no answers at all
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/double-standard
date: 2024-10-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Yesterday we learned from a forthcoming book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward that in 2020, while he was president, Trump secretly shipped Covid-19 testing equipment to Russian president Vladimir Putin for his own personal use at a time when Americans could not get it.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-9-2024
date: 2024-10-09, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
Be careful what you wish for.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-oracle-mouths-off-part-one
date: 2024-10-09, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Action plus enthusiasm may help Harris win the White House
https://steady.substack.com/p/all-gas-no-brakes
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-10-09, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
A while ago I was watching a Canadian YouTuber who (as a sidebar in a much longer video) was objecting to the idea that Australia is bigger than Greenland… he just went, “Um, haven’t you seen them on a map?? There’s no way!” I guess some YouTubers are provocatively wrong about things to farm engagement but that wasn’t this guy’s schtick, he was just genuinely brainwashed by Mercator maps.
Anyway, I was reminded of that by this post:
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/10/mercator-map-projection.html
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/the-why-of-crazy-stupid-tech/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/imprints-of-nature
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045426-in-their-own-words-what
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Thanks for all the good wishes re the 30th anniversary of the start of blogging here. It’s not the same as it was at the beginning, but it’s still pretty good. And to all the friends no longer with us, and there are plenty of them – you are appreciated, respected and missed.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/09.html#a205740
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Summary of my posts about New Orleans in December 2005.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/09.html#a205632
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
December 2005: Biloxi/Gulfport after Katrina.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/09.html#a205202
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
After Katrina I went to New Orleans to see what was left, esp in the areas where there was a 15-25 foot storm surge in coastal Mississippi. If you went inland from the coast for a few miles there was nothing left. No trees, only a few skeletal all-concrete buildings where the beach used to be, otherwise everything destroyed. What you don’t necessarily realize that it isn’t just 15 feet of water, it’s 15 feet of stormy ocean with cars and building debris being pushed around floating in the water. This video on Threads provides a visual illustration of what a 9 foot surge is like.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/09.html#a204740
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045427-waffle-house-has-develope
date: 2024-10-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-8-2024
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045422-on-monday-dave-winers-scr
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045417-stupid-dipshits-are-start
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045421-green-day-demastered-thei
date: 2024-10-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-2024-83b
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/erin-kissane-on-trying-to-save-the-internet-for-the-humans
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045418-comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-s
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://manytricks.com/blog/?p=6385#more-6385
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://sophiestication.com/NightOfTheLivingApp/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/milton-is-the-hurricane-that-scientists-were-dreading
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/08/home-depot-apple-pay-support/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045404-the-passwords-generated-b
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045413-mainstream-journalists-ar
date: 2024-10-09, from: Enlightenment Economics blog
I read Sam Freedman’s Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It with a mixture of nods of recognition and gasps of disbelief. It’s all too apparent that – as the subtitle puts it – nothing works in … Continue reading
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/10/the-narrow-path-from-votes-of-despair/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious, but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention.
News article.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/auto-identification-smart-glasses.html
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing – but it's a lot more mature than that sounds.</p> date: 2024-10-09, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-milton-helene-floods
date: 2024-10-09, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
tldr: the curl bug-bounty has been an astounding success so far. We started the current curl bug-bounty setup in April 2019. We have thus run it for five and a half years give or take. In the beginning we awarded researchers just a few hundred USD per issue because we did not know where it … Continue reading curl bug-bounty stats
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/09/curl-bug-bounty-stats/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
This leak from the “AI girlfriend” hack includes email addresses and ways of tracking people. If it wasn’t enough of a nightmare, the CSAM requests were leaked too.
https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1843788319785939422?s=61&t=icP0vNw4OqAHssn8WLVAAg
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113275525511178066
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
There has never been a better time to acquire novelty .io
domains
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113274036505755520
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113275494605489621
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-10-09, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Oooh, I just saw that GRIS is 90% off on Steam . I remember watching BaerTaffy play through it years ago; it’s a beautiful platforming game with a poignant “mental health” message, but I figured I’d never actually pick it up myself because AUD$22 is more than I can justify for a three-hour game. Two dollars (and 19¢), though – I can definitely swing that!
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/10/gris-90pc-off.html
date: 2024-10-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“It’s been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October,” host Scott Pelley said to the camera last night before 60 Minutes aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-2024
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2024/10/3/a-cozy-wwdc
date: 2024-10-09, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Rather, my experience is that young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made. Thought that Atlantic article seemed sus. I see this skepticism of curricula as rooted in the growing distrust in experts and the […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/08/agency-in-reading/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://blog.panic.com/end-of-the-road-for-google-drive-and-transmit/
date: 2024-10-09, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/07/apple-potentially-facing-worst-leak-since-iphone-4/
date: 2024-10-08, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Coffee morning In one of my favourite cafés. Quote of the Day ”Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.” Ernest Hemingway Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news J.S. Bach | … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-9-october2024/39945/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-08, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I keep closing bugs, and more keep creeping up, so looks like I am not making much progress, but I am!
Still left to do:
- Limited Preview: 16 bugs
- Public
TestFlight: 50
- Public launch/appstore: 29
Some was pretty major, like getting drag and drop to work to reorder nodes.
23 new bugs, some not triaged.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113274451247643320
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/07/apple-screen-recording-popup-update/
date: 2024-10-08, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Writing with hypertext gives us additional options beyond just text for conveying a point, be it links, embedded pullquotes, audio notes, photos, animations, drawings, maps, or screenshots.
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/08/hypertext-writing-includes-modalities-beyond-text/
date: 2024-10-08, from: Stephen Wolfram blog
The
Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human
experience. But what actually is it? In traditional scientific accounts
it’s often represented as some kind of coordinate much like space
(though a coordinate that for some reason is always systematically
increasing for us). But while this may be a useful mathematical
description, […]
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the-nature-of-time/
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-move
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045408-a-look-at-mozillas-rebran
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast: I was able to write a post that appeared on Mastodon using ActivityPub. Via the WordPress API. Congrats to the ActivtyPub community, Automattic and Mastodon. “It just worked.”
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a200539
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-08, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Year 2040, Seattle:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113273587496049980
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/finalists-for-the-2024-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045403-from-kenji-lopez-alt-a-li
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, it also supports HTML pretty well, but the title does not appear on the Mastodon version. That’s going to be a problem. Actually the title is visible at the bottom. Let’s call that an anachronism. Of course the title should/must be at the top.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a175612
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Okay
this is blowing my mind. My friends at Automattic showed me how to turn
on ActivityPub on a WordPress site. I wrote a
test
post in my simple WordPress editor, forgetting that it would be
cross-posted to Mastodon. When I just checked in on Masto,
there
was the freaking post. After I recovered from passing out, I
wondered what happens if I update the post in my editor, and save it to
the
WordPress
site that’s hooked up to Masto via ActivityPub. So I made a change
and saved it. I waited and waited, nothing happened. I got ready to add
a comment saying ahh I guess it doesn’t update, when – it updated. Oh
geez look at that. Folks, I did nothing here but write an app that can
be used to edit WordPress posts. And I got in return an app that is part
of the freaking Fediverse. And I never had to write a line of
ActivityPub code. Think about that. I don’t know if Automattic
understands what they have, honestly.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a174842
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045405-aint-nothing-like-the-rea
date: 2024-10-08, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After I saw Pineboards <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-and-external-amd-gpu-used-to-play-4k-open-source-kart-racing-game-pineboards-demos-supertuxkart-using-hat-upcity-lite-board">4K Pi 5 external GPU gaming demo</a> at Maker Faire Hanover, I decided it was time to set up my GPU test rig and see how the <a href="https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/564">Pi OS <code>amdgpu</code> Linux kernel patch</a> is going.</p>
I tested it out on a livestream over the weekend, but I thought I’d document the current state of the patch, how to apply it, and what else is left to do to get full external GPU support on the Raspberry Pi.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/use-external-gpu-on-raspberry-pi-5-4k-gaming
date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Guy
Kawasaki and I have been going back and forth privately about what
we want from our personal ChatGPT. Here’s one thing for the list. When I
go to Google and search for NBB, it should take me to
this
page on my blog. It shouldn’t even require me to click on Feelin
Lucky. Google has had 26 years to get to know me, and it still thinks I
might mean National Bank of
Blacksburg. Folks, this is my
blog, read it and use it as context when I ask a question. And they
don’t have to even read my blog,
NBB
is defined in my
glossary,
which I make public and is used in rendering all my pages.
Back to Guy. I asked if he’s written about what an evangelist is. To me, he is the prototypical evangelist. He’s #1 and there isn’t a #2 or #3. He has written about it, in the Harvard Business Review in 2015. But his story is, excuse me, bullshit. I should record a podcast about what an evangelist is, as I was very well-schooled in this by Guy. Let me try here.
The evangelist for a product or organization is the person who deliberately tilts the playing field in favor of developer products that absolutely must get out there for the organization to achieve its mission. How is the tilt determined? Intuitively. If some random schmuck approaches him out of the blue at a developer conference, and explains their problem, where most BigCo people ignore them, the evangelist listens carefully. Helps without a second thought. And his door is open, if the developer wants to follow up. He helps route his needs through the organization. No developer is on their own if Guy is there.
And when the killer product comes along, the one that will give Mac users something to get charged up over in 1986 when the hardware problems were being solved (they were!) and the software flow had dried up, Guy gets the developer the $400K they need to keep the doors open to ship the freaking product. The level playing field approach, which most tech companies follow, results in dead developers and platforms whose capabilities go unexplored. Users get bored, and move on to where the excitement is.
I’ve seen products and companies fail to look around them to see what’s possible. They only look inward at their own organizations who fail year after year to create products that users love. There’s a reason for this, but you don’t need to know it – you just need to keep looking at every possible victory and when one comes along, do anything it takes to get it out to users.
I’ve applied Guy’s teaching in every project I’ve done since I got to know him in 1983 and when we, together, rode the wave of success in the Mac in 1986. He was like a member of our team inside the Mac Division at Apple. And we did have the hit product that year. And Guy pulled every string to make sure the world knew.
This is how I applied the lesson. When I saw the potential in another developer and a way for their project to help me achieve my goal, I go for it. I know those things are very rare, and not to worry if it doesn’t arrive in exactly the way I expected it to.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08/155702.html?title=guyKawasakiProtoevangelist
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/infinite-cosmos-visions-from-the-jw-space-telescope
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Om Malik, a long-time friend, NBB and supporter: “The best version of Dave is the Hopeful Dave.” I agree. That’s certainly when I’m happiest. Because it means someone is working with someone else. Imho, that’s the only source of hope in our world.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a154014
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045401-report-nbc-is-shelving-se
date: 2024-10-08, from: Om Malik blog
It would be an understatement to say that Dave Winer has been influential in my life. His pioneering work set me on the path of blogging. I wouldn’t be where I am without blogging, as my ideal medium of expression. Sure, I was a professional journalist, but my blog was me, my voice, and my …
https://om.co/2024/10/08/dave-happy-30th-blog-birthday/
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045399-nobel-physics-prize-award
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045398-an-exhibition-of-dozens-o
date: 2024-10-08, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I follow @peterdutoit on fedi. He posts climate news and his goal is “climate literacy” – ensuring that even if people can’t stop what’s coming they at least understand what’s coming. And act accordingly.
Just now, for example, he linked to the Copernicus bulletin:
According to the ERA5 dataset, globally September 2024 was … 1.54°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average for 1850-1900 … the average for the latest 12-month period (October 2023 to September 2024) was … an estimated 1.62°C above the 1850-1900 level – Surface air temperature for September 2024, by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
Remember Paris 2015?
The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference near Paris, France. As of February 2023, 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are parties to the agreement. … The Paris Agreement has a long-term temperature goal which is to keep the rise in global surface temperature to well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels. The treaty also states that preferably the limit of the increase should only be 1.5 °C (2.7 °F). The lower the temperature increase, the smaller the effects of climate change can be expected. To achieve this temperature goal, greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced as soon as, and by as much as, possible. They should even reach net zero by the middle of the 21st century. To stay below 1.5 °C of global warming, emissions need to be cut by roughly 50% by 2030. – Paris Agreement, Wikipedia
We need to try harder. It sounds terrible. We need to do stop cars, stop planes, reduce heating, reduce building, reduce meat, and on and on. If we do it on our own accord (“degrowth”) we get to choose what to keep. If we do not, the survivors get to choose what to do.
Changes are very low for us to be among the survivors, I suspect.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-08-climate
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m
really proud of
what
John Gruber said about me as a blogger in his Daring Fireball
yesterday:
“Winer is rightfully renowned for his technical achievements — outliners
as an application genre, RSS in general, and RSS in the specific context
of podcasting in particular — but what’s kept me reading Scripting News
for the entirety of Scripting News’s 30-years-and-counting run is his
writing. He has such a distinctive writing voice that is impossible to
imagine in any medium other than the web. But I think that’s because he
helped define what writing not just on the web, but for the web, even
meant.”
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a124723
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve mentioned the wpIdentity package a few times recently, and thought I should explain its purpose and history.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/08.html#a120618
date: 2024-10-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-7-2024-3ea
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.
It’s a weird story. The first line of the article is: “A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers.” This implies that the attack wasn’t against the broadband providers directly, but against one of the intermediary companies that sit between the government CALEA requests and the broadband providers…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/china-possibly-hacking-us-lawful-access-backdoor.html
date: 2024-10-08, from: Robert Reich’s blog
A personal story
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/when-corporations-maim-and-kill-their
date: 2024-10-08, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I’ve also been spending a lot of time gardening and nesting. I’ve noticed myself having trouble focusing on longform reading and doing things that involve making decisions… I forget sometimes how much stress and anxiety become embodied. There are real reasons I can’t concentrate, and it’s a good time to be gentle with myself. Now […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/07/granting-ourselves-grace/
date: 2024-10-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
People in Florida are evacuating before Hurricane Milton is expected to hit the state’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday evening, bringing tornadoes, high winds, a dramatic storm surge, and upwards of 15 inches of rain.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-7-2024
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/10/07/ep-411
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-08, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
When you are a terrorist, but you also have a good skin care routine.
Rafael Eitan and Ariel Sharon:
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism/
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113269032630476384
date: 2024-10-08, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-08, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
‘Blowhard’ is not just a wind speed
https://steady.substack.com/p/a-hurricane-of-lies
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-08, from: Daring Fireball
https://1password.com/daringfireball
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-10-07, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Trying to sleep at 36 weeks pregnant fuckin’ sucks, man. My Fitbit tells me I got four hours’ sleep last night, in two separate blocks, and that’s been the story of three of the last five days. People keep telling me it’ll get worse when Baby is here and I just do NOT believe it. Even if I’m still only getting four discontinuous hours, at least it’ll be deep sleep 😂
I mean, I guess a large part of my frustration is that it’s not like sleeping four hours a night means I have 20 hours a day for productivity (general chores, tidying the flat ahead of Baby’s arrival, etc.) + leisure + whatever else… I’m spending AT LEAST another four hours a night tossing and turning in pain, unable to sleep. It’s this “tossing and turning” time that I assume will not exist when we have a newborn!
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/10/late-pregnancy-sleep-fuckin-sucks.html
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/chefs-table-noodles
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Daring Fireball
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Daring Fireball
https://aaron.vegh.ca/2024/10/say-hello-to-croissant
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045397-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-r
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045394-an-ai-model-helped-uncove
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/every-frame-a-painting-what-would-billy-wilder-do
date: 2024-10-07, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
During the Trump administration, after an extensive investigation, the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election…by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting …
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-6-2024
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045393-spain-barcelona-legend-an
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045392-private-snafu-the-world-w
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/new-film-by-errol-morris-separated
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
did a roundup of
thoughts when this blog turned 25. I stand by what I wrote then, but
I’d add this. My blog started because I needed content to test a script
I had written that sent emails on my Mac using
Eudora,
which was an early
scriptable
app and I had a nice scripting system that worked with it. I looked
around for
something
to send (30 years ago today), and shot out an email to the people whose
business cards I had collected at various tech conferences. It was a
thrill, so I did it
again,
and
again
and
three
more
times,
before I realized hey I could use this thing to get
my
own ideas out there. And
thus began this thing that I still
do to this day. Look at the
two
posts I wrote
about WordPress in the last few days. There may be hope to find a
blogosphere buried somewhere in there. And it may be possible to give
them some sweet new writing tools so they can get excited about writing
on the web the way we did all those years ago. I actually am kind of
optimistic about that. Maybe we can stand up something in the midst of
the noise. When we booted up podcasting, approx 20 years ago, we had a
slogan – “Users and developers party together.” It worked! That is still
the way I want to build stuff, it’s the only way I know how to do it.
Blogging started out as a programming adventure and eventually became a
form of literature. How about that. I’m up for doing more of that if you
all are. But please expect to make contributions, don’t expect it all to
come to you for free, because as we know nothing really is free.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html#a170303
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045389-lots-of-good-links-and
date: 2024-10-07, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2024-be6
date: 2024-10-07, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
Ten years ago today I posted Economies of Scale in Peer-to-Peer Networks . My fundamental insight was:In the name of blatant self-promotion, below the fold I look at how this insight has held up since.
- The income to a participant in a P2P network of this kind should be linear in their contribution of resources to the network.
- The costs a participant incurs by contributing resources to the network will be less than linear in their resource contribution, because of the economies of scale.
- Thus the proportional profit margin a participant obtains will increase with increasing resource contribution.
- Thus the effects described in Brian Arthur’s Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy will apply, and the network will be dominated by a few, perhaps just one, large participant.
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Coinbase Global Inc. is already the second-largest validator … controlling about 14% of staked Ether. The top provider, Lido, controls 31.7% of the staked tokens,That is 45.7% of the total staked controlled by the top two.
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There have been many attempts to create alternatives to Bitcoin, but of the current total “market cap” of around $2.5T Bitcoin and Ethereum represent $1.75T or 70%. The top 10 “decentralized” coins represent $1.92T, or 77%, so you can see that the coin market is dominated by just two coins. Adding in the top 5 coins that don’t even claim to be decentralized gets you to 87% of the total “market cap”.
The fact that the coins ranked 3, 6 and 7 by “market cap” don’t even claim to be decentralized shows that decentralization is irrelevant to cryptocurrency users. Numbers 3 and 7 are stablecoins with a combined “market cap” of $134B. The largest stablecoin that claims to be decentralized is DAI, ranked at 24 with a “market cap” of $5B. </blockquote> <table align="right" border="3" cols="3"> <thead> <tr bgcolor="lightgray"><th>Protocol</th><th>Revenue</th><th>Market</th></tr> <tr bgcolor="lightgray"><th> </th><th>$MShare % Lido 304 55.2 Uniswap V3 55 10.0 Maker DAO 48 8.7 AAVE V3 24 4.4 Top 4 78.2 Venus 18 3.3 GMX 14 2.5 Rari Fuse 14 2.5 Rocket Pool 14 2.5 Pancake Swap AMM V3 13 2.4 Compound V2 13 2.4 Morpho Aave V2 10 1.8 Goldfinch 9 1.6 Aura Finance 8 1.5 Yearn Finance 7 1.3 Stargate 5 0.9 Similar effects apply to “Decentralized Finance”. In DeFi Is Becoming Less Competitive a Year After FTX’s Collapse Battered Crypto Muyao Shen wrote: Total 551
Based on the [Herfindahl-Hirschman Index], the most competition exists between decentralized finance exchanges, with the top four venues holding about 54% of total market share. Other categories including decentralized derivatives exchanges, DeFi lenders, and liquid staking, are much less competitive. For example, the top four liquid staking projects hold about 90% of total market share in that category,Based on data on 180 days of revenue of DeFi projects from Shen’s article, I compiled this table, showing that the top project, Lido, had 55% of the revenue, the top two had 2/3, and the top four projects had 78%.
Because these systems, if successful, cannot be decentralized, the cryptosphere doesn’t care about the fact that they aren’t. In Deconstructing ‘Decentralization’: Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems Prof. Angela Walch explains what the label “decentralized” is actually used for:
the common meaning of ‘decentralized’ as applied to blockchain systems functions as a veil that covers over and prevents many from seeing the actions of key actors within the system. Hence, Hinman’s (and others’) inability to see the small groups of people who wield concentrated power in operating the blockchain protocol. In essence, if it’s decentralized, well, no particular people are doing things of consequence.
Going further, if one believes that no particular people are doing things of consequence, and power is diffuse, then there is effectively no human agency within the system to hold accountable for anything.In other words, it is a means for the system’s insiders to evade responsibility for their actions.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/10/it-was-ten-years-ago-today.html
The British Pathe Archive
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-british-pathe-archive-1
“We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died…
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045388-we-only-learnt-of-our
Pseudo code and kitchen-table conversations
date: 2024-10-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Today’s podcast has nothing to do with the 30 year milestone, except that it is totally unscripted, stream of consciousness, for 30 minutes, on two topics.
- The idea of what a programming language is, is about to be completely overturned. The verbs and nouns will, at least at first, be pretty much exactly like we do it now, but the way you specify how they work, how they interact both in the UI and on the backend, will be done more or less as you would document the user interface. The AI system is almost ready to work at that level. With a few more iterations by human designers it should all meet up in a place where the slogging type work I’ve been doing for 50+ years will be obsolete. We will all become anachronisms. All of us. Get ready for it. And btw I was the biggest skeptic of the idea of a higher level more human way of programming. Scoffed at the idea. Repeatedly. Never say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
- The second part is about kitchen-table conversations in families, the bored rantings of our ancestors, passed on lovingly from generation to generation. Should have realized that we did not turn a racial corner with the election of Obama, we all should have gotten prepared for the backlash from children of the slavers and fascists, who were raised alongside us as victims of slavery and fascism were raised to feel persecuted. We all revert to our comfortable roles. The question is can we rise above that and forget for a moment what our ancestors taught us as gospel and take an interest in going beyond that, or do we have to do another loop around the genocide and its consequences, which this time will be far worse than they were in the 1940s because of all the new war and computer tech and the damage done by the post-war growth.
I feel good about this podcast, because it has nothing to do with the milestone. I have an idea of what it feels like to have been blogging for 30 years, but no conclusions to offer that would mean anything to me or anyone else, except perhaps a psychologist.
I’ve been watching a lot of sports recently and the interviews with star athletes saying the same predictable bullshit after being asked how it felt to do whatever heroic thing they just did. All of TV and news is like that, none of it is news, all of it is predictable bullshit. That is probably why they have so much trouble reporting the truth about Trump and Musk. It doesn’t fit into their job description, it’s not in anyone’s job to tell the truth. And that’s the truth.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07/135828.html?title=pseudoCodeAndKitchentableConversations
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Interestingly, the clock at the bottom of the nightly emails does not agree with the clock on the home page of Scripting News. It’s a hard thing to test in real life. And it’s completely fitting, given the motto of the blog is: it’s even worse than it appears, which could be the motto of all programmers everywhere, and probably bloggers too. We always focus on the bad news, of course – that’s human nature – but always remember, it could actually be worse.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html#a121916
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s the big day. Thanks to John Naughton’s wonderful piece in the Guardian, I’m hearing from people all over the world about what blogging means to them. I appreciate all of the messages, but would appreciate them even more if they were on your blog. We need to keep using the tech. Blogging is kind of lost, and I would like to see that change. Every time you post something you’re proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too. And while there, if appropriate, link to something from some part of your post, even though the social media sites don’t support linking, the web is still there and it still does.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html#a121544
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog. Hola!
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html#a121515
Largest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Bruce Schneier blog
CLoudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. (Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.)
News article.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/largest-recorded-ddos-attack-is-3-8-tbps.html
Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
A couple of FOSS goodies that should be ready for the festive season
<p>The next version of Xfce, the oldest FOSS Unix desktop environment around, is nearly ready – and should have preliminary, "minimally usable" Wayland support.</p>
https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/07/xfce_420_and_mint_221/
Some notes on upgrading Hugo
date: 2024-10-07, updated: 2024-10-07, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/07/some-notes-on-upgrading-hugo/
How did the GOP become the party of cranks and crackpots?
date: 2024-10-07, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-cranks
October 6, 2024
date: 2024-10-07, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
This morning began with a CNN headline story by fact checker Daniel Dale, titled “Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response.” Dale noted that Republican nominee for president Donald Trump has been one of the chief sources of the disinformation that has badly hampered recovery efforts.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2024
October 5, 2024
date: 2024-10-07, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-2024-bb5
Monday 7 October, 2024
date: 2024-10-06, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Roll out the barrel Rooting around in my vast photo archive what should I find but this? Taken on Boxing Day (December 26) 2008 when a large number of ostensibly sane male residents of Grantchester, a nice village near Cambridge, … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-7-october-2024/39938/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-06, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
1 day, 3 hours, 4 minutes, 49 seconds until this blog is 30.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/06.html#a154635
How about those Mets, day 2
date: 2024-10-06, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I am reminded of 2015, when the Mets were so charmed – they could be down 9-0 in the 8th inning and you would tune into the game to see how they’d win it. It’s not the usual thing for the Mets, who pull defeat from the jaws of victory far more often than the other way.
And omg, 2024 is shaping up the same way.
Sit down and shut up, here come the Mets!
Briefly, because I have stuff to do – the Mets were down 1-0 in the bottom of the 8th, having been thoroughly shut down by the amazing Zach Wheeler. Imagine someone throwing a ball at you at 100 mph that looks like it’s going down but actually goes up and to the left. Or next time down and to the right. You could try to swing but you’d have to be very lucky to connect. And so it was for the first seven innings until they took out Wheeler (pitchers don’t do complete games any longer, they used to).
The Mets were ready. Hit after hit after hit and before you knew it, it was 5-1. Alonso, the star of the last Milwaukee game drove in one of the runs with a long sacrifice fly to center.
The Phillies and their fans who had been so confident of victory were shocked. And left to plan for today’s game at 4PM on Fox. You gotta know where I’ll be – glued to the set and dreaming about the fate of this Mets team who shows real signs of strong philosophy.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/06/151115.html?title=howAboutThoseMetsDay2
WordPress destiny, day 2
date: 2024-10-06, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Glad I wrote the piece I wrote yesterday.
I could have written it any time in the last year as I was investigating and developing on the WordPress API and back end, but now seemed to be a good time, with all the attention its getting, and Matt’s interviews, I and others are getting a better idea of what the various components of the community are. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I had only a vague idea of what WordPress is beyond a piece of software used for commerce and to a lesser extent these days, writing on the web.
A few ideas – not in any particular order:
- From my point of view, blogging and the social web, WordPress is being built around more than being built on, when it is such a potent and surprisingly open platform. I took the time to look, and underneath the cluttered user interface is a strong foundation that you could build any kind of writing software on.
- If a community developed at this level, writing tools, we’d be compatible at a very deep level, so the opportunities for interop are amazing. I don’t say that lightly. (I had asked them to allow apps to attach their own data to posts for years, until I discovered earlier this year the API has that feature. If only they had listened to the question and answered it thoughtfully, we could have saved years. The company desperately needs an evangelism function.)
- The WordPress platform could be a very strong part of the social web. The comparison between developer freedom on the WordPress platform and the Facebook one (which is what Threads is built on) is stark. I have worked on the Facebook platform, btw – and from a software design perspective it’s brilliant, a breakthrough, something to emulate, which I did in the wpidentity package I wrote. But from a policy standpoint, after the 2016 election Facebook’s API was radically restricted, not something many people know about (it was a fully public event). WordPress has an API that doesn’t appear to have any such limits, and even if they imposed them, in theory their server could be cloned (it’s open source) but it certainly could be emulated at an API level.
- It’s enticing. All those users – there should be a market for writing tools there, but there isn’t. Why is that??
- I feel like we’re like ships passing in the night. I thought I should point this out, at least once, as Matt and company go off in a direction I don’t understand and don’t see why I should want to. Did they care when the move to HTTPS undermined what remains of the original blogosphere? I don’t see any evidence of it. It’s like Walmart sought to build a shopping center on the remains of the Library of Alexandria. People don’t seem to have any respect for independent writing on the web, what we dreamed of in the beginning, and the dream was realized. No wonder the tech industry wants to tear it down. It contradicts a basic premise of the programming priesthood. And no wonder journalism doesn’t defend it, they are offended by the idea of people writing for free, based on the incorrect assumption about what we do. We’re their sources, dammit, not their competitors, at least if they would do their jobs (which is another problem altogether) and if they spent any time thinking and questioning before condeming.
- Look at John Naughton’s piece today in the Guardian. He’s doing more to focus attention on the web as a writing environment than the whole tech industry which is built on our work, especially Automattic. The ignorance and in some cases resentment in the industry is huge, something else Naughton points out so well. We can turn this around, I guess since WordPress is open source, it doesn’t have to wait for Matt to turn in that direction.
Just some thoughts as the world seems to be converging on something, not sure what. There are so many doors that are now open that never were before, the question is – do we have the courage to connect the dots and work together, or do we all insist on going our own ways to a fairly dark future.
PS: If you’re a developer, this is the API you use in browser-JS code for the wpidentity package. This was the way Facebook packaged their API for developers, and it was far more efficient than the way Twitter did and WordPress too. So I added this to the stack, and built on it.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/06/142657.html?title=wordpressDestinyDay2
’Forever Country‘
date: 2024-10-06, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/forever-country
Sunday caption contest: Activism
date: 2024-10-06, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-activism
October 5, 2024
date: 2024-10-06, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write).
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-2024
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-10-06, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Can I just ask, what is the point of a service being called “Hospital in the Home” if you still have to go to the hospital for the appointment? Maybe call it something different, like idk, “outpatient services”, at that point?
