(date: 2024-11-17 16:11:25)
date: 2024-11-17, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
When I try to log into the server using SSH it takes a long time. Why is
that? iotop doesn’t show anything suspicious. And yet,
since Saturday 18:00, munin shows that something is up.
I rebooted the server. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” 🤷
And that seems to have worked. I wonder what I did back then.
I was clearly doing something!
Here’s what I noticed: I uploaded a new version of the Norn bot, which had an error. I replaced it. Was systemd spawning it again and again, spamming the journal? Is that what caused the problem?
This is very strange.
But… rebooting helped!
2024-11-18. Or did it? The initial connect to the web server still seems to take a second or five. Once the initial handshake is done, the site serves quickly. So what could it be? The problem seen above really is gone.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-17-slow
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://getupgraded.com/home-vp1/?utm_source=daringfireball
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
If you’re advising a president-elect, you don’t publicly push him to do what you want. That’s true of any president-elect. It’s even truer of Trump.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-first-buddy-is-in-deep-shit
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Joe
Trippi posted a
video
to his new sez.us service where
Pete
Buttigieg explains what the Russians have done to the US. I see it
that way too. When
Brian
Lehrer asked a few weeks ago how the US got so divided of his guest
Bob Woodward (a fascinating time capsule, recorded before the election)
they both missed it. We were divided by an enemy that is on the cusp of
destroying the US without launching a single nuke. Putin didn’t have to
invade Ukraine. I guess even he didn’t think his plan would succeed so
spectacularly. BTW, I don’t think Trippi’s network is the answer, but
maybe it is. I wish I had had a chance to create the system he was
using, we would make a good team. Anyway we need to be further along
than his offering is. The right system would allow me to control my
presence with only
RSS, in and out.
Maybe not for everyone, to start, but it would allow us to start
building. It’s why I have been lobbying for inbound and outbound RSS as
a back-end for all these networks. With the rise of Bluesky in the last
couple of weeks (things are happening that fast now) we may have a new
shot at it because Masto and Threads are certainly feeling it, and when
people feel competed-with they are more open to new thinking.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/17.html#a152212
date: 2024-11-17, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/when-truth-is-funnier-than-fiction
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-the-takeover
date: 2024-11-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
One of President-elect Trump’s campaign pledges was to eliminate the Department of Education.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2024
date: 2024-11-16, from: James Fallows, Substack
“It really is nothing new, but you are watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.” Writers and thinkers on where the denial of reality can lead.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/after-the-election-swimming-in-the
date: 2024-11-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-15-2024-8d9
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Excellent
piece on how Bluesky leaves users with the impression that it’s open
and decentralized in ways it is not. If it’s bought by someone who wants
to use it the way Musk has, they can, without any recourse by the users.
As they said in the old days, if you’re getting something for free,
you’re the product, not the customer. We helped Musk build a way to
excercise political power against our interests. You may think Bluesky
is a way of fixing that, but it probably isn’t. They’re digging a deep
hole, probably too deep to climb out of at this point. They did some
innovative stuff, perhaps. But they ended up at the same place, it
appears, as Twitter did.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/16.html#a200617
date: 2024-11-16, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
To identify the microphones in that river, here’s Apple: That river began with the copious red pissings of Rush Limbaugh. Now eight Rushians comprise most of the News Commentary flow on Apple Podcasts, and much of the whole podcast watershed as well. (None are so skilled as Rush, but that’s another story.) It’s not much different […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/11/16/the-redstream-media/
date: 2024-11-16, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and lots of them that started as WordPress plugins but now are security concerns. Instead of guessing how […]
https://christianheilmann.com/2024/11/16/whats-your-excuse-for-not-using-the-web-share-api/
date: 2024-11-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-trump-the-coffee-klatch
date: 2024-11-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Three years ago today, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more popularly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-15-2024
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045654-haymarket-books-is-giving
date: 2024-11-15, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
If you’re tired of moaning (or celebrating) the after-effects of the U.S. election, or how all of us seem trapped inside the captive markets of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and other feudal powers, take in a talk about something constructive that’s nowhere near any of that, but serves as a model for economies and […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/11/15/going-local-with-open-networks/
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-07, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Fantastic video of a female Gonatus onyx squid swimming while carrying her egg sack.
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045653-jason-koebler-at-404-medi
date: 2024-11-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024-d4f
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045652-this-is-a-canny-observati
date: 2024-11-15, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
In this episode I talk about the two-headed Ettin!
Links:
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-15-episode-52
date: 2024-11-15, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I wanted to talk about Halberds & Helmets but I ended up talking about 2d6 systems and how to model armour and shields. Oh no!
It seems to me that I keep coming back to this because I want something out of it and I’m not getting it and I’m also not getting any closer.
Links:
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-15-episode-51
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045648-scientists-have-found-an-
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/lets-build-a-massive-meta-mcdonalds-in-times-square-1
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045646-youll-soon-be-able-to
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s song: Tea for two and two for tea.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/15.html#a182100
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045647-trans-posters-were-the-ea
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
When I was a boy my mother would sometimes say if I didn’t stop belching I wouldn’t be able to stop.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/15.html#a181717
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Why
Repubs won? They campaigned in a new way that the Dems apparently didn’t
notice (neither did I, not claiming to be better). Repubs were more
creative and improvisational. They didn’t worry what Jake Tapper or Ezra
Klein would think, so came off as more genuine. It’s a TV show, acting
and
suspension
of disbelief are what count. It has nothing to do with anything
else. Sorry it has to be that way but that’s how it is. I don’t think
they hate women btw, they would have voted for
Roseanne Barr
or Melissa
McCarthy. Maybe
Chris Rock, they
probably would have really liked
Will Smith.
Idiocracy was
incredibly
prescient. No
joke.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/15.html#a180939
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045645-todays-google-doodle-is-a
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Version 3.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is nearly ready for release. It has important new and long-awaited abilities – and you can try it now.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/gimp_30_release/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I predict that people will come to appreciate features that Mastodon has that the other twitter-like social web services don’t.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/15.html#a170136
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-running
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Daring Fireball
https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>LXQt 2.1 is the latest release of the lightweight Qt-based desktop used in Lubuntu – but this version has a significant edge over its rivals.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/lxqt_21/
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045642-a-report-from-the-america
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/fake-bear-commits-insurance-fraud
date: 2024-11-15, from: Jeff Geerling blog
AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img width="700" height="auto" class="insert-image" src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/pi-5-amd-radeon-pro-w7700-workstation-graphics-card.jpg" alt="Raspberry Pi 5 with AMD Radeon PRO W7700 graphics card"></p>After years of work among a bunch of people in the Pi community (special callout to Coreforge!), we finally have multiple generations of AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5.
We recently got Polaris-era GPUs working (like the RX460), but in the past month we’ve gotten 6000 and 7000-series GPUs up and running. And many parts of the driver work at full performance—well, as much as can be had on the Raspberry Pi’s single PCIe Gen 3 lane (8 GT/sec)!
I’ve been testing tons of modern AAA games, like Doom Eternal and Crysis Remastered, and can get 10-15 fps at 4K with Ray Tracing on, or 15-20 fps at 4K. Dropping down to 1080p is not enough to overcome the Pi’s CPU bottleneck—only at resolutions under 720p does the Pi’s CPU and the single PCIe lane not seem to get in the way quite as much.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/amd-radeon-pro-w7700-running-on-raspberry-pi
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I added a screen shot to the WordLand placeholder page.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/15.html#a145211
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies:
Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but that had not been studied scientifically. Their work was a big step forward, if not for two mistakes that would impede future progress in improving passwords for decades.
First, was Morris and Thompson’s confidence that their solution, a password policy, would fix the underlying problem of weak passwords. They incorrectly assumed that if they prevented the specific categories of weakness that they had noted, that the result would be something strong. After implementing a requirement that password have multiple characters sets or more total characters, they wrote:…
date: 2024-11-15, from: Robert Reich’s blog
If Trump aims to turn America into a police state, these are the officials he will utilize. After only 10 days as president-elect, he appears to be on his way.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/total-control
date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/42397251/mike-tyson-slaps-jake-paul-face-final-staredown
date: 2024-11-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Two snapshots today illustrate the difference between the economic—and therefore the societal—visions of the Biden-Harris administration and of the incoming Trump administration.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024
date: 2024-11-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-13-2024-f53
date: 2024-11-15, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Trump’s Cabinet nominees may be the most unqualified in history
https://steady.substack.com/p/wait-who-for-what
date: 2024-11-15, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Sunset in a wing mirror Seen while driving on a Summer evening in West Cork, many years ago. Quote of the Day I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-15-november-2024/40075/
date: 2024-11-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-wants-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045626-the-violin-a-stack-of
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/strata-layered-watercolor-gradients
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045639-this-is-how-david-copperf
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/first-trailer-for-star-wars-from-1976-1
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045638-ive-seen-a-lot-of
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936
date: 2024-11-14, from: Om Malik blog
Given our ever-increasing digital lives, what I am about to say makes little sense — recently released numbers show that there might be a historic slowdown in internet traffic growth. Three of the largest content delivery networks (CDNs) — Akamai, Fastly, and Edgio — indicated this when talking to investors after reporting their most recent …
https://om.co/2024/11/14/is-the-us-internet-really-slowing/
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045634-the-guardian-on-why-theyr
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve been having a one-sided discussion with Bluesky asking they make their product less vulnerable to takeover by tech bros, and I can’t tell if they’re doing anything about it. They must be conflicted, on the one hand, they clearly could sell there service now for a lot of money, but when they do that they must know they’re selling us out.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a163640
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045635-the-threat-of-trumpism-is
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Broadcom has made its desktop hypervisors freeware – even for production use. Not open source, but free stuff is still good, right?</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/vmware_workstation_free/
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/baby-evacuation-aprons
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, start thinking of WordPress as a highly networked, deployed, debugged, widely supported network operating system. It meets all the criteria. It also has storage. And can publish. And unlike other social web systems, it is textcasting-ready since it comes from the world of blogging where we competed to give writers the features they needed. We can build lots of apps on this foundation.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a151203
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A
few days ago I saw
Donald Fagen at
a local supermarket. I had heard he lives in the area. I didn’t bother
him, I imagine a star like that enjoys moments as an ordinary person,
but he’s anything but. I’m listening to
Haitian
Divorce this morning, grinning from ear to ear as I sing along.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a145834
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s song: Who’s this kinky so and so.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a145754
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
We’re going to open testing for WordLand shortly. At first I only want developers who write great bug reports. My goal is to speed up development and reduce wear and tear on me. Once we’re confident it really works as advertised, we’ll open up the testing further. There will be a form you can fill out to get in the queue. The choice of the first testers will be highly subjective.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a144912
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Last year on this day: We have too many modes of writing. I just wrote a blog post that’s also a tweet. Why didn’t it go to my followers on all the social nets I’m on? Why do I have to use a different editor to post to each of the services? That’s the point of Textcasting, btw.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/14.html#a144814
date: 2024-11-14, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
One positive thing among many others at this version of the HTTP Workshop (day one, day two) is the fact that there have been several new faces showing up here. People who have not previously attended any HTTP Workshops. Getting fresh blood into the mix is great. A chance to maybe lower the average age … Continue reading Workshop season six, episode three
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/14/workshop-season-six-episode-three/
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045633-actually-not-an-onion-art
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>At the end of October, Fedora 41 came out, with more different variants than ever before: 29 by our count, not including all the architectures and download options.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/fedora_41_a_vast_assortment/
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before First Unlock” state and has to be rebooted.
This is a really good security feature. But various police departments don’t like it, because it makes it harder for them to unlock suspects’ phones.
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-14, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
New source of inspiration just dropped!
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113481188095992580
date: 2024-11-14, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
How big are your memories? Some days they seem endless. Perhaps you started using an external add-on brain, a memory extender (memex) – a blog, like I did. It’s about 20 years old, now. The archives show the first blog posts showed up in 2002. I think I copied some entries over from Meatball, at the time. So I’m not entirely sure when this particular site started.
Back then, I was big into wikis. I was a Meatball Wiki regular. The history of blogs show that they entered the mainstream around 2004. I thought they were for people who couldn’t edit and couldn’t collaborate. The text is written and then sinks to the bottom to join the forgotten posts of the past. Wiki pages, on the other hand, were forever!
This site started as a wiki. And then something happened: I realized that the things I wanted to write under one heading changed over time. Sometimes I changed my mind. Sometimes I cared for a different aspect. I realized that I couldn’t go back to edit the old pages and just replace the old words with the new words. I wanted to capture this slow churn.
All of this came back to me when @somi asked on fedi:
for those that maintain personal wikis by hand, how do you approach it generally? Do you try and associate pages by topic? Do you maintain some sort of hierarchical table-of-contents? Maybe you tag stuff? Do you put it all in one big bag?
Now you know what happened. My site started as a wiki and has drifted towards a blog.
How it works: The blog posts are wiki pages starting with an ISO date. These pages are automatically added to the front page.
Pages have hashtags and if a page with that name exists (not all hashtag pages exist) then a link from the hashtag page back to the tagged blog post gets added automatically. The result is that every hashtag page has a subset of my blog posts, gathering all the blog posts for that particular topic.
If I write about a thing, I use hashtags. After a while I might think that I’ve written so much about this topic, time to create a dedicated page for this hashtag. I add a list of links to existing pages with that tag and from now on pages with this hashtag get added automatically.
Visitors (and I) can visit the hashtag page to see how my writing about the topic has evolved (or not).
I think the big driver of this is that my memex is over twenty years old and has thousands of pages. Going back to old pages to update them does not works for me. 😧
Writing more about a topic, and linking old and new does work.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-13-big-memex
date: 2024-11-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The real mandate is for Democrats to stand for a fairer economy.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/there-was-no-red-shift-there-was
date: 2024-11-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Republican senators today elected John Thune of South Dakota to be the next Senate majority leader.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-13-2024
date: 2024-11-14, updated: 2024-11-14, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The nomination is really Trump’s loyalty test of Senate Republicans: If they go along, there’s nothing they won’t agree to.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/matt-gaetz-as-ag-is-laughable-if
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045632-is-the-love-song-dying
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045631-im-a-journalist-and-im
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/jon-baptiste-hears-green-day-for-the-first-time
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
There isn’t a single social web network that I like pouring my creativity into. I feel like I’m being used not appreciated. There’s nothing in it for me. I had a similar feeling for Twitter, but they were the only one. Now there are a bunch, and I honestly don’t care about any of them, esp now that the election is over. I think this whole idea of feeding the greed of a bunch of tech people is over. If there’s a good place to gather, with a small number of people I relate to as people, then I’m up for that, but none of these services meet that need.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13.html#a215556
date: 2024-11-13, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
The fun continues. See day one. In an office building close to the Waterloo station in London, around 40 persons again sat down at this giant table forming a big square that made it possible for us all to see each other. One by one there were brief presentations done with follow-up discussions. The discussions … Continue reading The 2024 Workshop, day two
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/13/the-2024-workshop-day-two/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
It’s 4:28 pm, I can still squeeze another espresso
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113477769387982752
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045629-oooh-casey-johnston-is-co
date: 2024-11-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-12-2024-44b
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045627-huge-if-true-triangles-we
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
In Mexico we have a beautiful expression:
“A falta de pan, tortillas”
And a modern era follow up:
“Y de tortillas, totopos”
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113477381334642709
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
No person of authority deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Ever.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113477378286699433
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Depends.
If you are Mexican/nahuatl: “sho-got”
If you Galician,
“Jho-got”
If you are Brazilian, “sho-got-eh”
If you are
American, “Zo-got”
If you are Spaniard, “exo-got”
If you speak
Arabic,
شوقوت
https://mastodon.social/@khalidabuhakmeh/113476868927955908
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113477357929033648
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/a-new-view-of-the-aftermath-of-jfks-assassination
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045614-hey-its-the-microscope-mu
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045615-what-will-you-do-what
date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Whenever you ask for something with Bluesky they tell you about how a user account is like a website, you just have to make it work a certain way, that some devs have mastered, and I guess I could too, but right now all my attention is focused on WordPress and getting it to work well with ActivityPub so my editor can get directly into the Mastodon network and possibly with Threads too.
But what about Bluesky which is growing like a weed now??
It might be easy for the right person.
If you do this you might not win the Nobel Peace Prize but you will be Nerd of the Year in my book!
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13/172337.html?title=areYouTheNerdOfTheYear
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045624-erin-mckean-goes-down-a
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I am working on a text editor for WordPress using MediumEditor, but I save the text in Markdown and when I reload the Markdown text I regenerate the HTML. I think the social web should exchange Markdown as the canonical form of web text. It has the right set of features, it’s Just Enough HTML.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13.html#a162740
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/10946-a-year-long-post-it-note-animation
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
ChatGPT can’t remember my coding conventions. It always falls back to using features of JavaScript I told it not to use. I indent my code according to the way it works in an outliner, so I can’t use their code without having to manually modify it. I haven’t forgotten that I’m the human and it’s the computer. Its memory is supposed to be perfect. And I am a paying customer, btw.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13.html#a153855
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045623-kenji-lopez-alt-returns-f
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A 27-minute post-election ramble podcast.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13.html#a150024
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
On Biden and the Genocide:
I dislike the expression “believe them when they tell you” because it is so overused.
But maybe it is overused because our own cognitive dissonance pushes us to deny what is right in front of our eyes and we keep making up excuses
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113476210064477129
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
If we learned one thing out of this election is that “they are just supporting Israel for now because of the election and their hands are tied, but they will course correct later when they win” were pure mental gymnastics
They did what they meant to do
They support the genocide.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113476208499802951
date: 2024-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
It’s
good to have a record of the things you posted and when you posted it.
On August 12 of this year, I tweeted
this:
“When the NYT makes Trump sound like a reasonable candidate that a sane
person might vote for, remember this day.” I included a
screen
shot of the front page of the NYT on Jan 7, 2021. One in three Trump
voters still
watch
mainstream news, which follows the lead of the NYT, and if they had
been straight with us, perhaps enough people who like Trump’s style
would have realized the danger, and voted in a conservative way, ie to
conserve the Constitution. Because of how they covered it, we now get to
re-run the 2016 experiment all over again.
But, as Heather Cox Richardson points out in Jon Stewart’s weekly podcast (a must-listen) – we have more experience too, and perhaps will know better how to deal with Trump and know that his bark is often worse than his bite. I have to say as the new reality sinks in, I’m not as scared as I was on Election Night last week or even Election Night in 2016. A lot of people will sell out this time who didn’t before. But the problems of climate change have gotten worse in the intervening years, and people feel it in their bones, pocketbooks and fears. You think inflation was bad? This will be far worse and it’s happening now, and nothing we can do at a human scale will make it go away.
We’re dealing with a very unusual drought in the eastern US now. Fires are breaking out where we never used to have them. Yeah this shit is real, and even people who don’t believe in science are feeling it.
As someone once said, you should never waste a good crisis. A lot of other people feel compelled to move. Unfortunately some are moving to the wrong place, as they always do. Making change isn’t easy, but is possible, if you understand how people move. As they try to figure out what the Dem’s failed at, that’s it.
Skate to where the puck will be, not where it was, as another famous philosopher once said. And people don’t listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors (which I said, sadly, but then put that fact to use to get various standards to fly by without debate). There is a method to human madness, in other words, imho.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/13/144132.html?title=2024IsDifferentFrom2016
date: 2024-11-13, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different platforms. Personally I use Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn and the following video shows just how much […]
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Bruce Schneier blog
DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners.
It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/mapping-license-plate-scanners-in-the-us.html
date: 2024-11-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The backdrop for today’s news is that Republicans in the Senate will vote by secret ballot tomorrow for a new Senate majority leader.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-12-2024
date: 2024-11-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And what does this suggest about the rest of the Trump regime?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-influence-will
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-11-13, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Last week, reverse-cycle air conditioning was finally installed at our place and my god, it’s so much more efficient than the plug-in electric heaters we used to have to put everywhere. Judging by the last few days, we’re going to save hundreds of dollars a year on power bills. More money for nappies, hooray!
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/11/reverse-cycle-air-conditioning.html
date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289649/big-tech-leaders-donald-trump-presidential-election
date: 2024-11-13, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Night lights Walking through Upper River Court in St John’s on Monday night on my way to a lecture by Marietje Schaake I pulled out my iPhone to see how it would handle the lighting. Fairly well is my verdict. … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-13-november-2024/40063/
date: 2024-11-12, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Day one. For the sixth time, this informal group of HTTP implementers and related “interested parties” unite in a room over a couple of days doing a HTTP Workshop. Nine years since that first event in Münster, Germany. If you are someone like me, obsessed with networking and HTTP in particular this is certainly the … Continue reading The 2024 HTTP Workshop
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/13/the-2024-http-workshop/
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Daring Fireball
Apple’s S suffix for certain iPhone models — 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S, XS — has always been problematic in this regard.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/disambiguating_iphone_model_names_that_have_the_s_suffix
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Update: My guess is that they haven’t released enough code to run a Bluesky of your own, because all the answers from people who say they know say the same thing – “It doesn’t work that way.” You could write your own, but if we were to do that, why use their one-off API, use a standard instead, and we might have a chance to interop with other systems in a meaningful way. I don’t blame them for wanting to cash out, but I do blame them for conning people into believing it’s some kind of escape. Until I hear otherwise Bluesky is a dead-end, not worth investing your hope in. If you’re migrating from Twitter this is no better. Keep looking. But I promise to let you know if I get any info that changes my opinion, so if I’ve got it wrong, people from Bluesky, just answer the freaking question in the post at the top of this page. Thanks.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/12.html#a224124
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/single-line-mazes
date: 2024-11-12, from: Jeff Geerling blog
M4 Mac mini’s efficiency is incredible
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>I had to pause some of my work getting <a href="https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/680">a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5</a> and <a href="https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/52">testing a 192-core AmpereOne server</a> to quickly post on the M4's efficiency.</p>
I expected M4 to be better than M1/M2 (I haven’t personally tested M3), and I hoped it would at least match the previous total-system-power efficiency king, a tiny arm SBC with an RK3588 SoC… but I didn’t expect it to jump forward 32%. Efficiency gains on the Arm systems I test typically look like 2-5% year over year.
The M4 mini I just bought reaches 6.74 Gflops/W on the HPL benchmark.
I can get 283 Gflops at 42W, versus 264 at 66W on my M1 Max Mac Studio (for a round 4.00 Gflops/W).
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/m4-mac-minis-efficiency-incredible
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045619-journalisms-fight-for-sur
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045613-i-was-a-fool-art
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/the-anti-wonka-candy-factory-1
date: 2024-11-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024-ea9
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045616-words-from-toni-morrison-
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If
Bluesky is open source, which it
appears
to be, someone who has time and has experience packaging products,
should create a Bluesky distribution for a few popular hosting services
(Digital Ocean, AWS, Google Cloud), so installing a new instance is as
simple as it can possibly be. One click? That would be awesome. We need
to have thousands of these running. If it really is like the web,
as they say it is, then it should be like the web in every way. There
are lots of websites. If you sell your website to a billionaire, that
has no effect on my website. Right now we are totally vulnerable to the
Bluesky folk selling their service to another country, or our
country for that matter – or a billionaire, or whoever. Whoever did this
packaging job would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Anticipating the
objection that Mastodon is already doing this – it is not. Setting up
and using a Mastodon instance is good for nerds. Not for poets.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/12.html#a173255
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045618-marine-biologist-dr-ayana
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045617-a-classic-that-really-mad
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/11/ios-18-2-beta-3-camera-control-toggle/
date: 2024-11-12, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Popular Rockchip SBC distro in limbo after maintainer burns out
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Recently Joshua Riek posted <a href="https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/discussions/1104">he's dropping off from GitHub</a>. If you haven't heard of him, he's one of the few reasons working with Linux on Rockchip SBCs is so much easier today than it was just a few years ago.</p>His Ubuntu Rockchip distribution is built for Ubuntu 22 and 24, and they’ve been maybe the most popular and stable way to run Ubuntu on Rockchip devices.
So popular, in fact, that manufacturers who use Rockchip, like Turing Pi, build their own official images on top of Joshua’s.
Now, if you’re reminded of XKCD #2347, yeah, I am too.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/popular-rockchip-sbc-distro-limbo-after-maintainer-burns-out
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/200-of-the-largest-earth-impact-craters-mapped
date: 2024-11-12, from: Om Malik blog
Company Nov 5, 2024 Nov 11, 2024 Change ($B) Change (%) Meta $1,445B $1,471B +$26B +1.80% Amazon $2,174B $2,175B +$1B +0.05% NVIDIA $3,432B $3,563B +$131B +3.82% Microsoft $3,059B $3,108B +$49B +1.60% Tesla $808.9B $1,124B +$315.1B +38.95% Apple $3,378B $3,389B +$11B +0.33% Alphabet $2,078B $2,211B +$133B +6.40% Total $16,374.9B $17,041B +$666.1B +4.07% My good friend John …
https://om.co/2024/11/12/ai-big-tech-markets/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-12, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Godot for iPad went from “this is a weekend hack” to 12 months before I could do a preview.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113470696335957410
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-12, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Xogot: iPad for iPad TestFlight is open now, details: https://blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-godot-on-ipad-preview/
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113470678358003078
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045612-the-wired-guide-to-protec
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-12, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/c7155aaf-40b6-4da4-8d36-15556100ee7e
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113470517037825137
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045611-huh-i-didnt-know-that
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Bruce Schneier blog
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the bad guys will use it too.
Turns out the same thing is true for non-technical backdoors:
The advisory said that the cybercriminals were successful in masquerading as law enforcement by using compromised police accounts to send emails to companies requesting user data. In some cases, the requests cited false threats, like claims of human trafficking and, in one case, that an individual would “suffer greatly or die” unless the company in question returns the requested information…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/criminals-exploiting-fbi-emergency-data-requests.html
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-11-12, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Finally succumbed to temptation and signed up to Bluesky. I’m using my domain name as my handle there, i.e. @jayeless.net<span style=“white-space: nowrap;”> . I don’t really anticipate it replacing Mastodon as my go-to social media given that all posts there are public and it seems more… broadcast-y… than the Fediverse, but I figured there’s no harm using it in addition, to follow people with common interests and crosspost stuff I don’t mind being public 😅 I know a bunch of you already have accounts there, so feel free to follow me, and/or tell me your handles there so I can follow you!
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/11/joined-bluesky.html
date: 2024-11-12, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Wir haben letzthin im Internet Office Hours Podcast wieder über Traveller geredet. @hasran meinte zu Beginn der Sendung: Schreiben wir einen Traveller Klon und wann tun wir das? Ich denke auch, dass wir ein kurzes, einfaches Regelwerk brauchen.
Jetzt haben wir damit angefangen. Ich habe es Weltensegler genannt.
Unser Zielbild, für den Moment:
Hasran: “Als Spiel soll Weltensegler ermöglichen, eigene Welten und Abenteuer im Stile klassischer Science Fiction Literatur erlebbar zu machen.”
Ich: “Weltensegler soll ein relativ kurzes 2W6 basiertes Science Fiction Rollenspiel sein, auf Deutsch, für alles von Star Wars bis Perry Rhodan, von Star Trek bis Dune.”
Wir sind beide grosse Fans vom ursprünglichen Classic Traveller Gerüst. Also haben wir damit mal angefangen: Personagenerschaffung, Berufserfahrung, Karrieren. Es fehlen noch ein paar Tabellen aber grundsätzlich steht schon einiges. Und wenn wir nicht weiter wissen, hilft uns @wandererbill mit Traveller 5 Erfahrung. 😄
Allerdings habe ich für mich beschlossen, dass ich für Weltensegler bei den Regeln bleiben will, die ich am Tisch schon verwendet habe. Erstaunlicherweise waren das nie die Preislisten. Viel wichtiger war der Tech Level der Welt und das wars. Ausrüstung war geschenkt, gesponsert, geklaut, aus dem Ship Locker, oder aus der Lebensgeschichte heraus gegeben. Ich glaube, ich habe als Spieler nur einmal eine Sonnenbrille für 100 Cr. gekauft, mehr nicht. Entsprechend habe ich unter Ausrüstung eine Seite für Wirtschaft ohne Geld erstellt.
Aus dem gleichen Grund habe ich auch noch nie ein Schiff nach den Regeln zusammengebaut. Mal schauen, wie es bei Hasran aussieht. Ich glaube jedenfalls, dass er schon gerne Preislisten hätte.
2024-11-12. Gestern mal ein PDF generiert. Es sind schon 35 Seiten! Von wegen “kurz”. Oje!
Und bezüglich Schiffsbauregeln habe ich gestern Zeit damit verbraten, ein Universelles Schiffsprofil zu machen. Die Idee ist, jedes Schiff in 6 Ziffern fassen zu können. Sagen wir: Irgendwie gibt es eine Grösse und einen Preis, die ein “Budget” vorgibt und einen Technologielevel, der Maximalwerte vorgibt. Dabei ist zu beachten, dass der Bau von Raumschiffen mit Technologielevel 10 beginnt.
Vorschlag: Grösse (1–F), Sprungweite (1–5), Geschwindigkeit (ungerade Zahlen = Landung möglich), Computer, Personen, Geschütze. Es braucht entweder eine Person oder einen Computer für folgende Rollen: Falls Sprungweite gegeben, Navigator; falls Geschwindigkeit gegeben, Pilot; falls Sprungweite oder Geschwindigkeit gegeben, Kraftmaschinen; pro Geschütz, Artillerie; pro 10 weiteren Personen, Gastronomie.
Und so weiter. Wie viele Personen schlussendlich eine 5 bei der Navette bedeutet, braucht wohl eine Tabelle. Oder sind es 2⁵ also 32 minus Pilot = 31 Passagiere? Falls es Laderaum gibt, könnten es dann weniger Personen sein. Und warum das jetzt der Grösse 3 entspricht, ist mir auch nicht klar. Irgendwas mit Quadrat, Kubik, Exponent und Quersummen?
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-10-weltensegler
date: 2024-11-12, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Acknowledging what we are up against
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-will-you-do
date: 2024-11-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Afghanistan’s Taliban offered its congratulations to the American people for “not handing leadership of their great country to a woman.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024
date: 2024-11-12, from: Jirka’s blog
I have updated my Reform 2 (the original, “big” one with 12.5” screen) to the fastest CPU available, the RCORE RK3588. That is, I now have 8 CPU cores (but 4 of them are fast) and 16GB of RAM in my laptop.
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20241112-0442_MNT_Reform_2_CPU_update
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Does
anyone know who was doing the work at
kamalahq on the various
social networks? I wonder if they would like to keep posting. They
stopped updating on Election Day. We could change the names of the
accounts. I thought it was great that there was a steady source of
political news that didn’t equivocate like the NYT-inspired news orgs. I
would love to help fund a continuation of that flow.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/11.html#a023110
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-12, updated: 2024-11-12, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/05/vision-pro-ultrawide-display/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The year is 2024: the future is grim.
America has elected a criminal to high office and Swift-Syntax is still being compiled in release mode.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113466901585206246
date: 2024-11-11, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
We disengage from the Donald at our own risk
https://steady.substack.com/p/tune-in-not-out
date: 2024-11-11, from: Om Malik blog
Con·tent (as an adjective) in a state of peaceful happiness. (as a noun) contents of a book, television program, or website, or even a container. Daylight saving time can play havoc on one’s mind. Even though I am up at my usual time, I look out the window and it’s pitch dark. In other words, thanks to …
https://om.co/2024/11/11/content-vs-content/
date: 2024-11-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-10-2024-350
date: 2024-11-11, updated: 2024-11-11, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Version 8 of the Software Development Platform for the QNX microkernel real-time OS has gone freeware – but there are some strings attached.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/qnx_8_freeware/
date: 2024-11-11, updated: 2024-11-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045610-delete-your-account-for-r
date: 2024-11-11, updated: 2024-11-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045609-swifties-are-leaving-toxi
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It might be time to get our shit together.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/11.html#a153140
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I wrote this piece this morning on my iPad before I got up. It’s a third rail piece. A couple of weeks ago I wouldn’t have posted it for fear that it would ruin my life. Today it has to be said because I’m pretty sure this is where we have to start rebuilding the opposition party of the US.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/11.html#a144728
date: 2024-11-11, updated: 2024-11-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045608-andor-season-two-will-pre
date: 2024-11-11, updated: 2024-11-11, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's success, its missteps, his regrets, and what he'd tell his younger self.</p> date: 2024-11-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
What happened and what must be done
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-root-of-trumpism
date: 2024-11-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-10-2024
date: 2024-11-11, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Walking the planks On a boardwalk in an RSPB reserve, yesterday. Quote of the Day “Moral seriousness in public life is like pornography: hard to define but you know it when you see it.It describes a coherence of intention and … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-11-november-2024/40053/
date: 2024-11-10, updated: 2024-11-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045607-a-lovely-piece-by-john
date: 2024-11-10, updated: 2024-11-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/11/09/ep-413
date: 2024-11-10, from: Om Malik blog
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, said something in a 2020 conversation that has stuck with me since. “Twitter is one of those products where I can see overuse making people have a long term, problem with the product emotionally. And that’s being exacerbated in the day we’re living in now.” You can extend this …
https://om.co/2024/11/10/mute-block-breathe-how-to-deal-with-unsocial-media/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The 400 days of genocide by the numbers:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855556300232380523.html
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113459790843129552
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
There’s
absolutely no doubt in my mind that what’s missing in the two-party
system in the US is that one of the parties does not own a social
network. It is not represented online 7-by-24-by-12 every year, not just
presidential election years. Democrats, when you lose it’s because you
didn’t show up. It’s happened three times so far, at least. We could
have led here because most of the innovators in this space vote
Democratic, but the leadership doesn’t listen. The voters could get to
know all the stars of the parties. People were right when they said they
didn’t know Harris. It’s time to let the leaders rise from the net, not
just from the insiders. This is how you do it.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/10.html#a163202
date: 2024-11-10, updated: 2024-11-10, from: Russell Graves, Syonyk’s Project Blog
https://www.sevarg.net/2024/11/10/charcoal-experiments-1-solo-stove-process/
date: 2024-11-10, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-steady-playlist
DOS: How much conventional memory is available to a process?
date: 2024-11-10, updated: 2024-11-10, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-11-10/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-11-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-wha
date: 2024-11-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-8-2024-bb7
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
ChatGPT’s web search can search my blog, as I do on Google, but it’s way more useful. Here’s a screen shot. We’re getting there. Really nice.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/09.html#a042214
date: 2024-11-10, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Welp. That week happened. I’ve added in a couple extra things I appreciated this week because I think a lot of us could use some joy right now. Highlight of the week: meeting our neighbors at Diwali Looking forward to: vacation Stuff I did: 10.75 hours consulting we heard our neighbors throwing a party on […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/09/weeknotes-nov-2-8-2024/
date: 2024-11-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“Off the Bar” is one of my favorites of my friend Peter’s photographs, and after I fiddled around with all sorts of images and captions that hinted at the chaos of these days, I threw them all out and just came back to this image of peace and quiet for tonight.
