(date: 2024-10-26 06:11:15)
date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
The
Washington Post
announcing
it wouldn’t endorse a candidate for president is the first glimpse we’ve
had of how news publishing in the US has been devastated by fear of
fascism. This must go back at least as far as the 2016 election and
Hillary’s
emails. The editorial people broke the wall, deciding to give the
readers
the
first glimpse we’ve gotten into the inner conflicts of one two most
influential news orgs in the country.
Until now this was the one story they would never report on. Truly a milestone. And now that the window is open, open it further. Report on how a major news org holds back stories that would be of intense interest to the people, if only the news orgs did their jobs. This is where the “public editors” never went, and should have gone.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/235617.html?title=journalismDiesInDarkness
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Tonight’s song: Unbroken Chain.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25.html#a235452
date: 2024-10-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Their billionaire owners are Trump enablers
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/cowardice-and-intimidation-at-the
date: 2024-10-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
#8
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/2024-election-video-of-the-week
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Bruce Schneier blog
A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain.
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045525-new-book-from-john-green
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/dua-lipas-proper-tiny-desk-concert
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045526-the-ny-times-editorial-bo
date: 2024-10-25, from: John’s World Wide Wall Display
Tech OSXPhotos What is OSXPhotos?OSXPhotos provides both the ability to interact with and query Apple’s Photos.app library on macOS directly from your python code as well as a very flexible command line interface (CLI) app for exporting photos. You can query the Photos library database – for example, file name, file path, and metadata such […]
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-links-59/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-24-2024-4cb
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/above
date: 2024-10-25, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
It doesn’t happen often, but whenever I come across an online business that doesn’t take orders 24/7/365, it gives them a bump up in my opinion. Resisting the demands of constant growth and ‘convenience?’ Giving your employees a break? I love it. (Prompted by landing on B&H Photo‘s website and seeing they’re closed for Shabbat. […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/25/online-ordering-hours/
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045524-overturning-roe-v-wade-re
date: 2024-10-25, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
“Agentic” is hot: As an adjective, it is typically used as a modifier for AI: Not surprisingly, Gartner puts it atop its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025: Here is one explanation, among many: Theme No. 1: AI imperatives and risks drive organizations to protect themselves Trend 1: Agentic AI: Autonomous AI can plan and take […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/25/personal-agentic-ai/
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://time.com/7093536/surgeons-apple-vision-pro/
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/if-adam-picked-the-apple
date: 2024-10-25, from: Jonudell blog
“If you work with these cloud platforms every day, you have doubtless forgotten that you ever had questions like these. But every newcomer does. And on a continuing basis, we are all newcomers to various aspects of applications and services. In so many ways, the experience boils down to: I am here, what do I … Continue reading What Claude and ChatGPT can see on your screen
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/10/25/what-claude-and-chatgpt-can-see-on-your-screen/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Maybe political parties should have strongmen, that might have prevented us from having one as the head of the government.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25.html#a163249
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045521-heres-how-foods-that-were
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I just changed the header graphic for my blog from the 1969 Mets, to the 2024 Supreme Court. They’re Americans too, and I have a feeling they’re going to be on the train to Aurora or Springfield before too long, if the worst happens.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25.html#a160348
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045519-polls-are-not-votes-the
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-system-of-international-maritime-signal-flags
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
What a sad situation. What started with the open web in the 90s is now owned by billionaires, who, looking for new worlds to conquer have adopted a fascist buffoon as their frontman. It was never supposed to be owned by anyone.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25.html#a143557
date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Why hasn’t the NY Times run a story that takes Trump at face value and explains to voters what it would be like to live in that United States? It should have been updated and run every time Trump ups the ante.
An example. Trump says Americans who criticize the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade should be imprisoned: “These people should be put in jail for the way they talk about our judges and justices.”
A news story on this subject should include calls to all the justices on the Supreme Court to ask if they agree or disagree. It’s time to bust some new norms. They are above reproach, traditionally, but they decided that the president can do whatever he wants, break any law without penalty. Are they concerned that perhaps they might be imprisoned if they make a decision that Trump doesn’t like? Let’s learn from them, how they think American citizens should feel about this. After all they are American citizens too, aren’t they? If we can be jailed, or worse, for our speech, why not them? 😄
Of course if they refuse to answer, which they probably will, that should be part of the story. No deference allowed, by the journalists. Simple factual statements.
We’ve relied too much on the Democrats to stick their necks out, when in fact all our necks are on the line here. So if you have something to say about this, now is the time to do it. In a couple of weeks it might be too late.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/142159.html?title=letsBustSomeNewNorms
date: 2024-10-25, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it would be fun to go back to our ways of early social media, and put them all up on Flickr with […]
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those choices. What makes this hard is (1) how much text is required for the watermark to work, and (2) how robust the watermark is to post-generation editing. Google’s version looks pretty good: it’s detectable in text as small as 200 tokens.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/watermark-for-llm-generated-text.html
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-25, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Another day of Israel massacring children and I am wondering “is every congress person enabling this on the Israeli payroll?”
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/
Not quite, but enough.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113367979173470841
date: 2024-10-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
His words are even more relevant today than they were in 1944.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/henry-wallace-and-american-fascism
date: 2024-10-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Trump’s threat to use the military on “the enemy within,” along with the recent statements of General John Kelly and other members of Trump’s administration who say he is a fascist, have fed growing concern that Trump’s reelection could spark a deadly conflict between MAGA Republicans and those they perceive as their enemies.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-24-2024
date: 2024-10-25, from: Om Malik blog
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.” Creativity Inc. Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
https://om.co/2024/10/24/good-ideas-vs-mediocre-teams/
date: 2024-10-24, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Picture at an exhibition At the terrific Paris 1924 exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. And Moussorgsky was nowhere to be seen. Quote of the Day “In a nutshell: companies are artificial social constructs that offload all their externalities … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-25-october-2024/39996/
date: 2024-10-24, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
In a network of connected nodes where you all exchanged public keys, it
is possible to do file requests. For this to work, the node with the
files needs to specify the directory with the files and the node wanting
the files needs to use the nncp-freq command to do a file
request.
But what file to request? One solution is for one side create a file listing all the other files and make this filename known to friends. Then run a job to recreate the file on a regular basis.
But you know me. It sounds like CO₂ for the CO₂ god.
So here’s the node that has the files, granting its neighbour
melanobomus access to the files in
/home/alex/alexschroeder.ch/wiki and offering to execute
ls -BR for that directory and sending it back as a file
called files.txt.
melanobomus: {
exec: {
rsmtp: ["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-bS"]
ls: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls --ignore-backups --recursive /home/alex/alexschroeder.ch/wiki | nncp-file - $NNCP_SENDER:files.txt"]
}
freq: {
path: "/home/alex/alexschroeder.ch/wiki"
}
…
}
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-24-nncp-exec
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/gobsmacking-image-of-a-stellar-nursery
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045517-join-or-die-the-documenta
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast: WordPress is too valuable to overlook.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/24.html#a204039
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When your house is on fire there aren’t two sides.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/24.html#a204037
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045515-conservative-man-proudly-
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/death-of-a-pig-by-eb-white-1948
date: 2024-10-24, from: Om Malik blog
We live in a time of such confusion and rancor, with a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone. We …
https://om.co/2024/10/24/our-unsocial-modern-times/
date: 2024-10-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23-2024-c55
date: 2024-10-24, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I think it’s great for everyone who wants a blog to write one — but I also think blogging can be especially empowering for women and queer folk. In America, it could also be especially risky. The power of women blogging In Women and Power, Mary Beard traces back the long Western tradition of silencing […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/24/a-woman-blogging/
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/walt-disneys-corporate-strategy-chart-1
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045502-the-1619-project-a-visual
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045512-things-look-a-little-diff
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045511-how-you-love-how-you
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-24, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
From Harper’s 1941 archive: “Who goes Nazi?“
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113362710501802679
date: 2024-10-24, from: mrusme blog
The HIBI MIA Botanical edition.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hibi-mia-botanical/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-24, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
A friend came to visit me yesterday, and he was sneezing. And I said “is that covid?” And he goes “I don’t think so, it’s just a cold”.
Tested him on the spot.
He had covid.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113362271952757768
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The Bitwarden online credentials storage service is changing its build requirements – which some commentators feel mean it's no longer FOSS.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/bitwarden_foss_doubts/
date: 2024-10-24, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett have spoken out on everything else but are afraid to come out against Trump. They are relinquishing whatever claims they had to leadership in America.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/political-cowardice-in-the-c-suites
date: 2024-10-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The struggle over whether the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23-2024
date: 2024-10-24, from: Om Malik blog
Humane, the San Francisco startup that made headlines (and not the right kind) with its AI Pin, is making a significant move by opening up its AI-first operating system, CosmOS, for licensing. CosmOS represents a fundamental rethinking of operating systems for the AI era. While the AI Pin faced harsh criticism at launch, it served …
https://om.co/2024/10/23/humane-has-a-plan-for-its-ai-first-operating-system/
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/23/ios-18-2-new-features-changes/
date: 2024-10-24, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Daring Fireball
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=qs5bol0g
date: 2024-10-23, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Period.
https://steady.substack.com/p/unfit-to-serve
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045510-heres-what-participating-
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045499-on-the-logistics-of-build
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If only voters understood that government isn’t a TV show.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/23.html#a203143
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-punitive-and-predatory-cost-of-going-to-jail
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/23/apple-releases-ios-18-2/
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-24, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5808180/2024/10/22/fernando-valenzuela-dead-mlb-dodgers/
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045508-new-childrens-picture-boo
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Bruce Schneier blog
An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program,” the lawsuit notes. “In Norfolk, no one can escape the government’s 172 unblinking eyes,” it continues, referring to the 172 Flock cameras currently operational in Norfolk. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and has been ruled in many cases to protect against warrantless government surveillance, and the lawsuit specifically says Norfolk’s installation violates that.”…
date: 2024-10-23, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-22-2024-6c7
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/pony-boys
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045503-three-thought-experiments
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/on-freedom-by-timothy-snyder
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I think it’s probably too late, anyway. Journalism should have reported, constantly, that the house is on fire. And nothing else. Biden’s age didn’t enter into it you fools. The much bigger story was and is that Hitler wants to be president, and this time he has a plan. It was true then and it’s true now. The next question is what will Biden do if Trump wins. It was tough watching Obama greet Trump at the White House in 2016. I can’t see Biden doing that. I wonder what ideas they’re workshopping in the actual Situation Room.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/23.html#a152726
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045500-before-google-reference-l
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045496-this-icelandic-hotel-offe
date: 2024-10-23, from: Om Malik blog
The Wall Street Journal’s technology columnist Joanna Stern interviewed Apple software chief Craig Federighi (watch the interview) ahead of the Apple Intelligence launch. It is a good chat, but one bit caught my attention: Joanna: Siri was introduced 13 years ago, which is kind of hard to believe. Is Siri gonna finally live up to …
https://om.co/2024/10/23/siri-sucks-even-by-apples-numbers/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Last
night I was surprised to see Wolf Blitzer reporting, on CNN, on all the
worst things Trump has said, with supporting video. On CNN, one of the
worst
sanewashing
sources for our would-be despot. I can’t imagine what happened there. Or
maybe I can. Is it possible that the
owners
of CNN who might have
gotten an education and possibly studied a little history from teachers
who remembered WW II, and understood that Trump’s lines are straight
from Mein Kampf,
and maybe perhaps possibly maybe with only two weeks to go before the
election started envisioning themselves and family on trains to American
death camps. After all CNN ran some perceivably negative stuff about
Trump, and who knows maybe President Trump won’t be so discerning and
might just have all media people euthanized.
It could
happen. Maybe visions of their own mortality caught up with them and
they decided to let Blitzer do what he can to douse the flames. Oddly
the same thing seems to have happened at the
NY Times and
the Atlantic, and Trump’s former
Chief
of Staff has gone
on
the record now, with audio, explaining what we all know is waiting
for us if the US actually goes down the path it appears we quite
possibly are going down.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/23.html#a134943
date: 2024-10-23, from: Economics from the Top-Down
I
test if the US housing crisis could be solved by taking money from the
rich and handing it too the poor. Spoilers … it would work.
The post The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage appeared first on Economics from the Top Down.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/10/23/the-american-housing-crisis-a-theft-not-a-shortage/
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that the absence of such tools up to now has had grave consequences for the web.</p> date: 2024-10-23, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Four scenarios
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-if-harris-wins-but-the
date: 2024-10-23, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
This is a continuation of 2021-07-12 Preparing Japanese green tea for beginners. This page is about the Chinese and Taiwanese tea I often drink: loose leaf oolong tea and pu’er tea (fermented tea) in a brick (round disks about as big as two hands next to each other). That would be tea costing around CHF 30/50g or CHF 220/375g.
The rule I use is simple:
Repeat the 1 min steep as often as you want.
I usually try to do this at least three times. I often find that the fourth time around the flavour is much reduced and I will stop. In addition to that, by the time I have drunk three cups of tea I’m usually in a different mood and no longer into tea.
If the tea is good, it doesn’t matter if you forget it while it is steeping. It doesn’t turn into the kind of bitterness that zombifies your tongue. It’s just bitter but still tasty.
Sometimes I forget the empty pot or cup and resume the steeping hours later. In this time, bacteria haven’t eaten away the leaves. There is no mould growing on the leaves. Just pour that hot water, let it steep for a minute and keep drinking tea!
Sometimes I know that the tea is very mild and I’ll let it steep for 2 minutes the second time around and 3 minutes the third time around. No problem at all. Tea is flexible. Good tea remains good tea. It tastes a little different but it always tastes good.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-22-chinese-tea
date: 2024-10-23, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Former president Trump’s closing economic argument for the American people is that putting a high tariff wall around the country will bring in so much foreign money that it will fund domestic programs and bring down the deficit, enabling massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-22-2024
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-intelligence-3833c320
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-22, from: John Naughton’s online diary
L’Eau potable Provence, 2008. Quote of the Day ”Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.” Adam Przeworski He should have added “and accept that they have lost” when they have. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Haydn … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-23-october-2024/39992/
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045507-i-need-the-kind-of
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Daring Fireball
The real story is — shocker — a scandal. An embarrassment for the Yankees, but almost certainly a crime on Giuliani’s part.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/the_sordid_tale_of_rudy_giulianis_yankees_world_series_rings
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/buster-keaton-and-the-art-of-the-gag-1
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-georgia-election-workers/index.html
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/carpenters-symphony
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045504-the-onion-the-donald-trum
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045498-these-containment-cages-u
date: 2024-10-22, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024-847
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045501-oh-boy-a-new-book
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045486-until-about-1885-female-n
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045495-from-the-pudding-more-tha
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/stuffies-lovies-that-have-been-loved-too-much
date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Bob Sassone writes via email:
You said on your blog that you can’t imagine moving from WordPress because “there isn’t anything else out there that’s offering something new for the writers.” What about Ghost?
Bob’s site is bobsassone.com.
My response:
Sorry it wasn’t clear – but as far as I know, Ghost isn’t built on WordPress. It’s a completely different product.
My writing app runs on WordPress. So you can use it with your existing wordpress.com sites.
It’s a browser-based JavaScript app that hooks into WordPress via the wpidentity package I wrote.
And the codebase I’ve built will support lots of editors built using WordPress as the backend.
A place to ask questions.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/22/161625.html?title=whatAboutGhost
date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Yesterday
I posted a
bit about the “million-plus Americans who died from Covid during
Trump’s tenure.” It wasn’t worded carefully enough, I should’ve had a
lawyer review it. Yes, a lot of them died during Biden’s tenure too. But
I don’t think of it that way. I think of the big con-job Trump pulled,
first denying there was a virus, then saying it would be done by Easter,
then telling people not to wear masks, then ridiculing Biden because he
was isolating during the campaign, and of course injecting bleach and
all the other
bullshit.
Then the mofo got Covid, and our doctors saved his life, and he never
said geez I was wrong about this, it’s a killer, and btw thanks for
saving my life. So yes this was yet another mess a Democrat had to clean
up left by his Republican predecessor. Recall the economic collapse Bush
left for Obama. And btw, I used to vote Republican, so don’t tell me I’m
biased. There are a lot of lawyers out there who think a turn of a word
can exonerate the depravity and incompetence of Trump. Hopefully he’s
the worst the Repubs have to throw at us, but who knows what they will
come up with. And for crying out loud, if you haven’t voted yet, save us
from concentration camps and
mass
deportation. One million Americans dead is far too many, let’s not
try to top that. Thanks.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/22/161508.html?title=theMillionplusAmericansTrumpKilled
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045494-ooh-a-preview-clip-from
date: 2024-10-22, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
It was President Andrew Jackson in the 1830s who first defended the so-called spoils system for political appointments.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-21-2021
date: 2024-10-22, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
October 20, 1973 was the “Saturday Night Massacre.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-20-2024
date: 2024-10-22, from: Om Malik blog
Why does every podcast have a six-minute lead of proverbial throat-clearing, self-promotion, and advertising? I can understand that mega podcasts like Joe Rogan’s have to deal with this — advertisers are throwing money at people like him and Tim Ferriss. The problem is more acute with relatively smaller podcasts. I listen to many “intellectually curious” podcasts that focus on subjects such as science, history, design, and …
https://om.co/2024/10/22/the-problem-with-podcasts/
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045492-from-ryan-brodericks-comm
date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Rupert blog
I bet if you were someone who could make a hammer that would have been a good stable job for years, centuries even. Almost everyone needs a hammer at some point in their life.
“Hey, where’d you get that hammer?”
“Oh, you gotta talk to
Bartholomew.”
Then some guy, Greg, would see how busy the hammersmith is making hammers one at-a-time and say, “I’m going to make hammers one hundred at a time!” He’d pay Bartholomew not to make him one hammer, but to make a mold that could make one hundred hammers at a time. Greg has rich parents, he can afford this sort of risky business venture. One hundred hammers for the price of ten, that’s profit.
After the hammer mold, Bartholomew would still get paid. No one actually likes pouring molten iron and hammering, but Bartholomew doesn’t mind. He’s making less money per hammer, but he’s also producing more hammers with a lot less effort, so it nets out okay. The job is less interesting – making hammers and nothing else – but he didn’t like being a salesman and dealing with wayward customer requests anyways. There’s lots of money in churning out hammers this way, it’s more efficient and people like Greg love selling them and making money. Bartholomew buys himself a new ox cart.
Then some other guy, Jeff, seeing all those hammers and all that money, would say “I’m going to make a machine that makes a million hammers a day.” Jeff knows a regional lord who is friends with the king and has big treasure chests. He’d hire Bartholomew and his hammersmith friends to build a giant complex machine with whistles and gauges and a furnace that makes ten hammers a second. A million hammers a day for the price of a thousand hammers, now that’s profit!
The profit charts are going up. Hammers are about as cheap as possible to mass produce… except now Bartholomew and his hammersmith friends are starting to catch the ire of bookkeepers. They’re starting to look expensive compared to the penny hammers that sell for $10. They fire Bartholomew. He’s given three months of pay, which is nice, but in exchange he has to sign a contract saying he’ll never make another hammer machine again in his life. Hopefully Bartholomew squirreled away enough money to retire with dignity, otherwise what’s an old hammersmith do when there’s no more hammers to make?
https://daverupert.com/2024/10/hammers/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Yesterday
I posted a
bit about the “million-plus Americans who died from Covid during
Trump’s tenure.” It wasn’t worded carefully enough, I should’ve had a
lawyer review it. Yes, a lot of them died during Biden’s tenure too. But
I don’t think of it that way. I think of the big con-job Trump pulled,
first denying there was a virus, then saying it would be done by Easter,
then telling people not to wear masks, then ridiculing Biden because he
was isolating during the campaign, and of course injecting bleach and
all the other
bullshit.
Then the mofo got Covid, and our doctors saved his life, and he never
said geez I was wrong about this, it’s a killer, and btw thanks for
saving my life. So yes this was yet another mess a Democrat had to clean
up left by his Republican predecessor. Recall the economic collapse Bush
left for Obama. And btw, I used to vote Republican, so don’t tell me I’m
biased. There are a lot of lawyers out there who think a turn of a word
can exonerate the depravity and incompetence of Trump. Hopefully he’s
the worst the Repubs have to throw at us, but who knows what they will
come up with. And for crying out loud, if you haven’t voted yet, save us
from concentration camps and
mass
deportation. One million Americans dead is far too many, let’s not
try to top that. Thanks.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/22.html#a121804
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, it’s not true.
This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.
Cryptography is safe, and will be for a long time
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Microsoft Excel, the true successor to the throne of COBOL. Version 1.0 was released on the last day of September 1985, four decades ago.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/excel_enters_its_40th_year/
date: 2024-10-22, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Two weeks before an election in which America should be sending Trump home (and then to jail), he and Harris are in a statistical tie in the battleground states.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-hell-can-they-be-tied
date: 2024-10-22, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/mass-deportations-a-culture-of-denunciation-and-an-altered-america
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045489-the-very-real-scenario-wh
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Daring Fireball
https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/stunt-city
date: 2024-10-21, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
For starters, avoid these two at all costs
https://steady.substack.com/p/advice-for-staying-sane
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045479-my-17-year-old-took-this-
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYAp0kS8ec
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/free-rothko
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-world-series-matchup-storylines
date: 2024-10-21, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20-2024-0aa
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045482-a-new-concept-album-by
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045487-the-secretive-dynasty-tha
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045484-a-program-that-pays-farme
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045480-walt-whitman-i-am-large
date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I’m continuing to develop on WordPress. I see the opportunity regardless of what else is going on.
I could be wrong, I have been before. I kept using Twitter for identity after Musk took over, even though as time went by it was increasingly obvious that developers weren’t part of his plan. I’ve been there before, with Apple, after Jobs came back. We had a great developer community for the web on the Mac, better than anything on Windows or Unix, and the management before Jobs, Heidi Roizen advising Gil Amelio, seemed to value our contribution, even if we weren’t prospering. But there was a moment when Jobs introduced the open source equivalent of some of our products – and that basically spelled the end of our little adventure, since Apple was putting the spotlight on them and not us.
But it doesn’t always go that way. I kept investing in the Mac in 1985, a very bad year for Apple, and in 1986 we had a huge hit, and because we were almost alone in sticking it out, we were rewarded with booming sales. Of course it mattered that MORE was a lovely product. But if no one looks, it doesn’t matter how lovely it is!
Anyway, the WordPress world is huge. Far bigger than the blogosphere in the 90s and 00s. Maybe somehow the trouble with WordPress will mean that people who see WordPress as a writing platform will all leave now, or stop considering new ways of writing. But honestly I don’t think that’s very likely. I have a few sites at wordpress.com that are archives, that I pay for, that I will continue to pay for. My father’s memorial site, for example. Things would have to get incomprehensibly bad for me to consider moving it and where exactly would I move it?
But on the other hand, there isn’t anything else out there that’s offering something new for the writers. I think I’m pretty much alone working in this area. And maybe people need some good news?
My new product is a medium size writing tool. Less than a full word processor and more than a tiny little text box. I think there are a lot of WordPress users who will like it. And I think there’s a chance they might notice it. So I’m going all the way with this one. I may lose the bet, but wtf, let’s give it a try.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21/155259.html?title=imStickingWithWordpress
date: 2024-10-21, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I’ve now seen this shit running on systems hosted by: Amazon, Google, Carnegie Mellon University, NVidia, Oracle, University of Texas, San Diego Super Computing Center, Alibaba, University of Edinburgh, Huawei, Intel, Coreweave, Samsung, Hong Kong University, University of Washington… and dozens, or perhaps hundreds more. This shit makes requests from the United States, Germany, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal… and so on, and so on. – Block This Shit by @alexskunz
I decided to see whether this bot was scraping my pages, too. Here’s how to use network-lookup to see who’s doing it:
grep "Firefox/72" /var/log/apache2/access.log \
| tail -n 100 \
| bin/admin/network-lookup \
> result.log
What I intend to do is to get all the ipset add …
instructions from that log file and add it to the ban hammer,
ban-cidr.
Let’s look at the organisations hosting that bot:
| Range | Hits | Org |
|---|---|---|
| 160.91.0.0/16 | 15 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory / OREN |
| 20.64.0.0/10 | 12 | MSFT / Microsoft Corporation |
| 3.36.0.0/14 | 10 | AMAZON-ICN / AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region |
| 35.222.104.0/21 | 7 | Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD |
| 34.30.0.0/16 | 6 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 35.239.48.0/20 | 6 | Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD |
| 34.27.0.0/16 | 4 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 31.13.168.0/23 | 3 | NET-DEM-4SITSOLUTIONS / TWK-NET-CUSTOMER1 |
| 117.161.0.0/16 | 3 | CMNET / China Mobile / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile communications corporation |
| 82.156.0.0/18 | 2 | IPv4 address block not managed by the RIPE NCC / NON-RIPE-NCC-MANAGED-ADDRESS-BLOCK |
| 34.121.48.0/20 | 2 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 35.223.240.0/20 | 2 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 35.225.64.0/20 | 2 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 3.34.0.0/15 | 2 | AMAZON-ICN / AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region |
| 15.164.0.0/15 | 2 | AT-88-Z / Amazon Technologies Inc. |
| 34.123.224.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 34.45.0.0/16 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 47.252.0.0/18 | 1 | ALIBABA CLOUD - US |
| 45.38.206.0/24 | 1 | EGN-22 / EGIHosting |
| 34.72.112.0/20 | 1 | Google LLC / GOOGL-2 |
| 121.30.0.0/16 | 1 | UNICOM-SX / CNC Group CHINA169 Shan1xi Province Network |
| 104.198.48.0/20 | 1 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 34.68.176.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 34.68.96.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 34.16.0.0/17 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 34.122.64.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 35.239.16.0/20 | 1 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 202.120.234.0/24 | 1 | CERNET-CN / Beijing, 100084 |
| 104.154.160.0/20 | 1 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 34.70.112.0/20 | 1 | Google LLC / GOOGL-2 |
| 35.224.160.0/20 | 1 | GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC |
| 34.66.128.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
| 34.133.16.0/20 | 1 | Google LLC / GOOGL-2 |
| 109.171.128.0/18 | 1 | KAUST Section 1 / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology / ORG-KAUo2-RIPE / SA-KAUST-20091118 |
| 34.68.144.0/20 | 1 | Google LLC / GOOGL-2 |
| 8.130.0.0/16 | 1 | Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited / ALICLOUD |
| 34.122.128.0/20 | 1 | GOOGL-2 / Google LLC |
To get a feel for the level of incompetence of the engineers behind it, check out this example:
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:37 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:37 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:38 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:39 +0200 | GET /wiki?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:40 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:40 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:41 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:41 +0200 | GET /wiki?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:42 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:42 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:43 +0200 | GET /cw?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
20.64.0.0/10 | 20.112.49.107 | 18/Oct/2024:14:58:43 +0200 | GET /wiki?action=download;id=MattisManzelPortrait HTTP/1.1 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0
Every fucking second‽
Now, a decision needs to be made:
Guess which option I’m taking?
Remember: 2023-10-04 Search engines, the deal is off!:
For a while it seemed that we all benefited from search engines – authors and readers both. These days, you’ll find that search results are full of garbage sites. Big sites with the most flatulent of pages explaining in great detail why the thing you’re looking for is important and how to do it, clearly optimized for an ad company and not for a reader. Big sites that have a gazillion answers are preferred over small and individual sites. Perhaps that’s easier. Perhaps it allows them to diffuse responsibility for the garbage, I don’t know. The effect is, in any case, that there is no benefit to search engines for small site authors, either. I was unable to find my own pages on the search engines. If you you are a small site owner and you think you can find your own pages on Google and Bing, I suspect that’s because they track you. Try it on a different computer, anonymously. Perhaps you won’t find yourself, either.
In any case, if I can’t get anything in return, both as a reader and as an author, I feel that the deal is off. Why let them feed on my words for free? Nay, at a cost, since they are keeping my website busy, producing CO₂ and heating the planet for no benefit at all.
Better to block them all.
Here we go:
grep ipset result.log|sh
That’s because network-lookup is kind enough to include the
appropriate ipset instructions:
ipset add banlist 160.91.0.0/16 # Oak Ridge National Laboratory / OREN
ipset add banlist 20.64.0.0/10 # MSFT / Microsoft Corporation
ipset add banlist 3.36.0.0/14 # AMAZON-ICN / AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
ipset add banlist 35.222.104.0/21 # Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD
ipset add banlist 34.30.0.0/16 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 35.239.48.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD
ipset add banlist 34.27.0.0/16 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 31.13.168.0/23 # NET-DEM-4SITSOLUTIONS / TWK-NET-CUSTOMER1
ipset add banlist 117.161.0.0/16 # CMNET / China Mobile / ORG-CM1-AP / China Mobile communications corporation
ipset add banlist 82.156.0.0/18 # IPv4 address block not managed by the RIPE NCC / NON-RIPE-NCC-MANAGED-ADDRESS-BLOCK
ipset add banlist 34.121.48.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 35.223.240.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 35.225.64.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 3.34.0.0/15 # AMAZON-ICN / AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
ipset add banlist 15.164.0.0/15 # AT-88-Z / Amazon Technologies Inc.
ipset add banlist 34.123.224.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.45.0.0/16 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 47.252.0.0/18 # ALIBABA CLOUD - US
ipset add banlist 45.38.206.0/24 # EGN-22 / EGIHosting
ipset add banlist 34.72.112.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 121.30.0.0/16 # UNICOM-SX / CNC Group CHINA169 Shan1xi Province Network
ipset add banlist 104.198.48.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.68.176.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.68.96.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.16.0.0/17 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.122.64.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 35.239.16.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 202.120.234.0/24 # CERNET-CN / Beijing, 100084
ipset add banlist 104.154.160.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.70.112.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 35.224.160.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.66.128.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.133.16.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 109.171.128.0/18 # KAUST Section 1 / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology / ORG-KAUo2-RIPE / SA-KAUST-20091118
ipset add banlist 34.68.144.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 8.130.0.0/16 # Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited / ALICLOUD
ipset add banlist 34.122.128.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
Thanks for nothing, leeches!
Oh, and of course I have an Apache config file called “blocklist.conf” where I added the following:
# Deny the image scraper
# https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/02/25/block-this-shit/
RewriteCond "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT}" "Firefox/72.0" [nocase]
RewriteRule ^ https://alexschroeder.ch/nobots [redirect=410,last]
#Administration #Butlerian Jihad
And more!
ipset add banlist 198.82.0.0/16 # Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. / VPI-BLK
ipset add banlist 34.31.0.0/16 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 34.72.32.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 35.238.176.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD
ipset add banlist 34.173.0.0/17 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 35.223.128.0/20 # GOOGLE-CLOUD / Google LLC
ipset add banlist 34.172.128.0/17 # Google LLC / GOOGL-2
ipset add banlist 35.202.224.0/20 # Google LLC / GOOGLE-CLOUD
ipset add banlist 34.69.112.0/20 # GOOGL-2 / Google LLC
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https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-18-firefox-72
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/early-90s-snl-graphic-parodies
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045481-al-greens-cover-of-the
date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Rupert blog
In this job we need to think a lot about the tools we choose and why, so I cataloged all the places where web components (for me) feel like “the right tool for the job”. Your list may be different and I’d love to read it. And because I don’t want this to be 100% propaganda, I’ll also cover some of the not-so-great parts of web components as well.
Here’s an incomplete list of situations where I think web components are a good choice.
<slot> element is fantastic for this, but you could
write a basic CSS class instead. The first rule of web components is:
Not everything needs to be a web component.
my-button is a lot easier than
div.spf50 and you don’t have to rely on sourcemaps.
<iframe>, web components do that and the
style encapsulation of the Shadow DOM would probably make your life
easier with less code.
No technology is perfect so here are some of the rough edges of web components, where people commonly have trouble, or where I’ve found them to not be the best abstraction.
referencetarget
is rolling out in Chromium and solves this problem. Hopefully other
browsers pick it up soon.
As always, your mileage may vary. Ultimately the technologies you choose probably come down to what’s cool at the time, what people think solves their problems, and what your team and decision makers feel comfortable with at the time. That said, in the year 2024 of our LORD, despite the apparent limitations I do think these are scenarios where web components are a great fit.
https://daverupert.com/2024/10/super-web-components-sunshine/
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045478-foursquare-is-shutting-do
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Don’t
depend on Threads to validate the Fediverse. That’s not what they’re
doing. Some of the people working there have good hearts and mean well,
but Meta is a huge company, competing with other huge companies, and the
goals of the Fediverse do not show up in their roadmap.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21.html#a135150
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I got a notice that Threads had deleted one of my posts because they said it violated their rules. They thought I was claiming to have written something I had not written. I didn’t keep the notice (it popped up when I signed on). I shrugged it off when I got it, but then realized that we are very far away from the web. It has been turned into Disneyland where the cops are algorithms and they err on the side of stopping innocent things. I was just passing on a link to someone else’s blog, something I thought an informed person would want to know about (that’s the idea behind every link I share). We really do need to dig our way out of this hole, again. This is of course no better than Twitter or Facebook. Not a place to get work done.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21.html#a134434
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s amazing that the million-plus Americans who died from Covid during Trump’s tenure aren’t even mentioned as a campaign issue. Maybe people don’t want to be reminded of those dark days.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21.html#a131028
date: 2024-10-21, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Last
night the Mets were eliminated by the Dodgers playing in Los Angeles.
And I don’t know about you but I’m really happy with how the season turned out. I didn’t think the Mets would make it through any of the hurdles, making the playoffs, and beating the Brewers and Phillies. That was amazing. And the energy of this team, their humor and inventiveness, professionalism and perseverance. The Mets of 2024 were a great team, and they give us something to look forward to in 2025.
People say Mets pitchers walked too many Dodgers, but the walks were a result of discipline on the part of the Dodgers hitters. Most pitchers throw a lot of crap, and the hitters swing at it. The Dodgers are more discerning. If the Mets pitchers had thrown strikes they would have hit home runs. It’s another way of saying that the Dodgers, no matter how much we despise them, this year at least, were the better team.
And there is a silver lining. I wasn’t sure I wanted the Mets to beat the Dodgers once we knew the team from the “other” league was going to be the Jankees. Last time the Mets played them in the World Series, they beat us in Shea Stadium and as a result we had to tear it down and start over. I don’t think any of us wanted that, or even to risk having to tear down Citi Field. I don’t like to be reminded that the Jankees even exist, much less be forced to watch them play. And honestly between the Dodgers and the other NY team, I want them both to lose. Is there any way to arrange that? I don’t even want to know.
Anyway thanks to the Mets for being such a wonderful team, a constant inspiration. So onward. Next year. And now..
The Knicks begin their season tomorrow night in Boston against the Celtics.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/21/125035.html?title=theMetsCameToPlay
date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-21, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.</p> date: 2024-10-21, updated: 2024-10-19, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious conflict of interest between the state and the contractor. Because tax farmers are primarily interested in short-term revenue, they have no problem abusing taxpayers and making things worse for them in the long term. Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is engaged in a modern-day version of tax farming. And the potential for abuse will grow when the farmers start using artificial intelligence…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/ai-and-the-sec-whistleblower-program.html
date: 2024-10-21, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Why winning the presidency is more important to him than preserving democracy.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-penis-envy
date: 2024-10-21, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
I had hoped to write tonight about the farm bill, which Eric Hovde, running for the Senate from Wisconsin although it’s not clear he lives there, could not talk about in the debate between him and incumbent senator Tammy Baldwin on Friday.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20-2024
date: 2024-10-21, from: Melanie Mitchell, AI Guide for Human Thinking
Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/the-llm-reasoning-debate-heats-up
date: 2024-10-21, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I shot the comet this time with a real camera: my Sony a7iv with a FE 70-200 mm F2.8 GM OSS II lens set at f3.5 at 135mm for 10 seconds on a shitty tripod I got at a thrift shop for $5. (I have good ones elsewhere.) This was at 8:40pm, just as the […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/20/comet-second-try/
date: 2024-10-21, from: Jirka’s blog
I know that the netcat(1) is cool but I never needed to actually use it. Until today. I have had two Linux laptops without configured SSH/FTP or anything like that. I needed to transfer some date from one to another. Both were on a local WiFi network.
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20241021-0442_Never_used_the_netcat_before
date: 2024-10-21, from: Jirka’s blog
I got my Pocket for my (another) bussines trip. Before the trip I tried to fix some stuff. The first was the keyboard layout. I had to reinstall my system in August (my fault: I run the Debian unstable and ignored the warning about bug related to kernel modules) and from that point the original “EurKey” layout. No big loss as the only important symbol was missing (the tilde). Anyway, I have fixed it by replacing the “us” by the “eur” in the $(HOME)/.config/sway/config.d/input file. Anyway, configuration of 2 layouts and usual way to configure keys for shifting them (xkb_options) haven’t work for me for same reasons.
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20241021-0442_MNT_Pocket_Reform_update
date: 2024-10-21, from: Om Malik blog
Derek Jeter knows a winner when he sees one. At the 2023 All-Star Game, Jeter told a panel of fellow experts hosting a television show that the New York Yankees should trade for Juan Soto. Five months later, former Yankees captain and once-and-forever No. 2 got what he wanted. The Yankees gave up some of …
https://om.co/2024/10/20/derek-jeter-still-manifesting-yankees-wins/
date: 2024-10-21, from: Om Malik blog
Apple Intelligence won’t actually launch until about five days after the new iPad hits stores on Oct. 23. The bigger obstacle is that the first Apple Intelligence features are underwhelming – with the more impressive capabilities coming later.At the start, the signature feature will be notification summaries. These can be quite helpful – if they’re …
https://om.co/2024/10/20/waiting-for-apples-intelligence/
date: 2024-10-20, from: John Naughton’s online diary
What — or of what — is he thinking? Quote of the Day “A university is a place devoted to the problem of how to make serious use of free time.” Agnes Callard Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-21-october-2024/39985/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-20, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Simple explanation of how bluesky works from one of their engineers:
https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3l6xwi52zti2y
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113342250040723250
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-20, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Albanese:
“Powerful interview, with an uncharacteristically emotional Jeremy Scahill. But how can one not be emotional at this point. Nothing justifies the butchering of children day after day, weeks and months. I am also profoundly disturbed and disgusted by what we have become.”
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113342049684173662
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A second elimination game for the Mets tonight. I almost don’t want the Mets to win, because the World Series opponent from the “other” league are the Janks from the Bronx. I love the Bronx. That’s about all I have to say about that at this time.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/20.html#a175831
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I did a podcast this morning about the reality of Musk owning Twitter, which is now completely settling in. He might have enough influence on the election to push Trump over. He wins even if Trump loses, he gets a moon mission project to boot up a Musk Party. It’s coming for sure, either way. Probably will pick up what’s left over after Trump, who clearly is losing it, and even if he’s president, someone else will be pulling the strings. I can’t imagine the billionaire will let JD Vance do it. And by “billionaire” I mean Musk.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/20.html#a175002
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Some
of us do most of our writing on desktop computers. I guess we’re in a
very small minority. We can use a much better twitter-like system than
the people who use mobile devices to tweet. I’m one of the desktop
people. So I want textcasting.
Mobile people either don’t care or don’t want it. So it stands to reason
we need a different user interface. We can use the same network, we just
need a different UI for editing. Since the twitter-like systems already
carry links to stories written by people on desktops, there’s room in
their pipes for our writing too. And it can work more efficiently if the
stories are part of the message as opposed to living off-site. Think of
it as a web of writing. A writer’s web that also carries short
messages.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/20.html#a174618
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-20, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Just last week my beautiful Xcode-inspired design for the debugger pad met the reality of iPad and launching an app side by side.
It is hideous, and I am fixing:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113340323996071935
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-20, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The sole reason I haven’t release Godot on iPad is that I have some 100 bugs that must be fixed, and everyone using it would be pretty annoyed at things like this:
We are working around the clock, but the “must be fixed for a small preview” list as grown to about 30 bugs has we do full tutorial walkthroughs, and get to experience every bit:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113340300888539368
date: 2024-10-20, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/aretha-franklins-think
date: 2024-10-20, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-if-his-lies
date: 2024-10-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
A number of people telling me we all need a night off had almost convinced me not to write tonight.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-19-2024
date: 2024-10-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2024-bb3
date: 2024-10-20, from: James Fallows, Substack
In the chaos of daily news, don’t lose sight of: The danger of JD Vance, the naked agitprop of Fox, and the common sense of citizens.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-17-days-to-go
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate my post. Not bad. Very colorful!
http://scripting.com/2024/10/19.html#a132955
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s possible the Dodgers let the Mets win as I begged them to yesterday, but it’s also possible the Mets just crushed the Dodgers, but either way, the Mets are still in it. The series is now 3-2, and returns to Los Angeles tomorrow. So we don’t have to tear down Citi Field after all. If the Dodgers win it’ll be in their own stadium. The Mets were magnificent! Absolutely inspiring. A three-run home run by Alonso started things off. Everyone got on base. Doubles and triples. It wasn’t without the concern that our wonderful and lovable Mets would do the usual Mets thing and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but they held out. The final score was 12-6. We’re still in it. Lets go Mets!
http://scripting.com/2024/10/19.html#a132034
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Eugen Rochko, the lead developer of Mastodon: “Fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things.” They got what they wanted, they got the users and press to relax because they’re Facebook who we know, but this is different, it’s the fediverse. And they got Eugen and others to validate them. This always works, standard tech playbook. they give up nothing, then the priority changes. I don’t like being right. But they’re never going to change in Silicon Valley. They do what works, and take advantage of newcomers who want to believe.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/19.html#a131620
date: 2024-10-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-unstable-harris-is-super
date: 2024-10-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The events of January 6, 2021, overshadowed those of January 5, 2021, but that day was crucially important in a different way: Georgia voters elected two Democrats, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, to the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2024
date: 2024-10-19, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Win of the week: finally did a bit of writing! Looking forward to: voting — got my ballot in the mail today! 🗳️ Stuff I did: 6.5 hours consulting — multiple client meetings, which is uncommon for me 2.5 hours writing — woo! took Monday off from consulting work more pruning and dug up a volunteer […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/18/weeknotes-oct-11-18-2024/
date: 2024-10-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“Reality TV” as its own genre arrived in the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-17-2024
