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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-15, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
“Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown”
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113657074208356759
date: 2024-12-15, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/a-dancing-dick-van-dyke
date: 2024-12-15, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-defense
date: 2024-12-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Spent the day with family and friends, and am going to finish a lovely day with an early bedtime.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-14-2024
date: 2024-12-15, updated: 2024-12-15, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
date: 2024-12-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-13-2024-672
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
This is why it’s more than vanity to put your name on your work, whatever your work is — it shows you take responsibility for its validity.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/on_the_accountability_of_unnamed_public_relations_spokespeople
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045854-once-again-the-2024-kottk
date: 2024-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
A piece in today’s NYT said all networks flame out, but that’s actually too crude a statement.
If you want your network not to flame out, give the users the tools to keep things moderated.
One of the best features of Facebook is it gives the author of a post the power to decide who can respond to it. (I know they’re not the only ones, but they’re the first in my experience, so I give them credit.)
If I write something that I know will attract trolls, I just restrict it to friends. If they flame me, or even try to provoke an argument, I just unfriend them, and I suspect they know that. The hotheads have been culled from the list over time, there’s trust that people don’t want and won’t pick fights.
Assume adults know when they’re asking to argue, and not only don’t accept the bait, but don’t allow them to participate.
Keeps things friendly. Not kidding. It doesn’t flame out there.
It also helps that I’ve been using these networks since the 70s, and there have been times when I sought out the flames, because I could have shut them off at any time, but I let them keep going. Now I don’t. I just don’t argue online, and as a result the heat doesn’t reach me.
In other words, if you give people good tools, and they use them well, you can make this work.
PS: To be fair, the NYT piece focused on Bluesky, and they are for sure going down a path much like the one Twitter went down, but it will happen much faster because the trolls are already plentiful and well-organized. They’re going for the billion-dollar cashout, for sure and they will very likely get it, and as users we will still be looking for an open system that we can use to get work done.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/14/184411.html?title=onlineCommunitiesCanWork
date: 2024-12-14, from: Om Malik blog
“It’s generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon On My Mind We, as modern humans, try to control everything. In reality, though, we can’t really control the infinite number of ever-changing data points or the eventual outcomes. We can try, and in some …
https://om.co/2024/12/14/what-really-matters-memories/
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
The list is maintained on this page.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/upcoming-speaking-events-2.html
date: 2024-12-14, from: John’s World Wide Wall Display
Listened to: Learning Conversations Artificial Intelligence with Ollie Bray | Education Scotland podcast This is the first Education Scotland podcast episode I’ve listened to. Solid food for thought. I’ve not developed any really solid ideas around AI in education but this helped me think of some questions. Ollie compared the uptake and development to AI […]
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-14, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I can quit anytime I want
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113651824612917859
@John’s World Wide Wall Display (date: 2024-12-14, from: John’s World Wide Wall Display)
Chat GPT’s geography is a bit off.
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/chat-gpts-geography/
date: 2024-12-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Michael Lahanas-Calderón, Vishal Shankar, and Yours Truly, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/time-magazines-jackass-of-the-year
date: 2024-12-14, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Win of the week: wrote every weekday this week! Looking forward to: planning to bake this sourdough apple cobbler this weekend 🍏 Stuff I did: 9.5 hours consulting 4.75 hours writing reviewed someone’s blog post! Two more people have asked me to read theirs 😀 That means I’ve got two more openings — so if you’ve […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/13/weeknotes-dec-7-13-2024/
date: 2024-12-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-13-2024
date: 2024-12-14, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/13/iphone-14-and-iphone-se-eu-report/
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/whats-new-in-macos-15-2-here-are-apples-full-release-notes/
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/ios-18-2-release-date-new-features/
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/viticci_apple_intelligence_chatgpt_automation
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
ChatGPT gets projects. Haven’t had a chance to explore, but I desperately need this. I organize all my work as projects, and need to have my ChatGPT work be part of that.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/13.html#a222235
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/go-back-home-your-mother-made-you-waffles
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Good survey paper.
date: 2024-12-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-ceo-suckups-to-trump
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045710-what-would-happen-if-you
date: 2024-12-13, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I keep thinking about self-hosting and people dying, myself included. So my first wish for the end of the year is a solar-powered machine that takes all my websites and turns them into clay tablets to bury and survive the coming darkness.
Other than that, however, I think the solution would have to involve a kind decentralized archive sharing where I offer an archive (zip, tarball) for download and whoever has it can share it peer-to-peer with others. Is this how BitTorrent works? I think I don’t understand what words like “tracker” mean. Also, where does the original torrent come from and where does it go? I know there are sites where I can search for and download torrent files. But what happens if Alice has a file she wants to share with others including Bob, does she create a torrent and offers it on her website, Bob finds it, downloads it, runs a torrent client and gets a copy. If Alice and her website disappear, how does Charlie get a copy now? Bob isn’t hosting Alice’s torrent file on his website. So are they all dependent on a torrent hosting site?
I’m only half-aware of the InterPlanetary File-System (IPFS) and when I read the Wikipedia page, there’s stuff about hashes and content addressing, but how does that work from a user perspective? Is there a directory? How does Charlie learn about Alice’s site that’s no longer online and how does Charlie get a copy from Bob? Can Bob make a list of files on offer and Charlie can get them all, maybe from Bob and maybe from others?
In this case, preservation would mean: you need people interested in keeping a copy; the copies need to survive; the copies must be listed; the lists must be distributed widely; at least some people must make copies of these lists.
So, for me and you and some other fedi randos, we could have a “fedi website archive” list where our names are listed together with the hashes pointing to the content, and some IPFS client would keep it in sync.
The next question, though: how do we keep this list updated? What little I know about the blockchains underlying these protocols is that they are immutable so is there a way to say: “this is the updated list”? That would require some sort of social control and trust, too. An association of the living members of the “fedi website archive” list that manages the yearly updates, perhaps?
And so how would the maintenance actually work, I wonder. I write a web app. We chat. (I think the human element is important.) You have an account based on an email address and upload an archive and give it a name (the name of your website, a short description, its current URL). Once a year, the living associates meet and discuss whether to dump some of their members who have turned fascist or whatnot (sadly, always a possibility). Then we use the data gathered by the website to generate a new “directory” list with names, description, URL and hash (the URL may no longer work) and all the members share or host (??) this new directory and drop previous directories so that the old versions of our sites can be forgotten. And the IPFS clients do the magic of actually exchanging the archive bytes?
Perhaps all of this only requires BitTorrent and hosting the torrent files on our own websites.
Would that work? Would you want to be part of this association? We could create an association according to Swiss law. There are some famous international orgs that use this format.
@edsu wrote back, talking about pincushion. And that’s what it is all about:
The basic idea is that users should be able to download and view their data without losing the context they have added. We want a pincushion to represent a user’s collections, pins, images, videos, audio, tags, locations, comments … and we want users to be able to view this content when Historypin is no longer online, or even when the user isn’t online. Maybe the pincushion is discovered on an old thumbdrive in a shoebox under the bed.
This means that the resources being served dynamically by the Historypin application need to be serialized as files, and specifically as files that can be viewed directly in a browser: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JPEG, PNG, MP3, MP4, JSON. Once a users content can be represented as a set of static files they can easily be distributed, copied, and opportunities for replicating them using technologies like IPFS become much more realistic.
This is what I’m talking about! It’s all about exporting user data out of a dynamic site into a form based on static files.
Oddµ tries to do the same: all the pages you write, all the files you upload, everything can be downloaded as a static website. The dynamic wiki application on top of it is essentially optional.
There are two things I still haven’t solved, though:
Perhaps BitTorrent is the better solution. There are a gazillion tools. It’s been around for a while. It seems like a stable platform.
@edsu also added:
You might want to check out how Magnet Links work, which let users share links to their torrents and retrieve the metadata and data from peers using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). IPFS uses a DHT as well.
I think this is the way forward. People host to the latest torrent file and host a copy of the data.
The org gets together once a year to celebrate, to welcome new members, to honor those who have passed, the review complaints, produces a new torrent file and we all agree to update our link.
All of this while keeping in mind the two forces pulling in opposite directions: We want the right to curate, forget, delete, revise, but we also want to archive in a decentralized fashion.
It seems to me that the only way to “solve” this currently is via a social process. I suspect that the problem of reconciling these two requirements is fundamentally not solvable on a technical level.
And we need to start practising now, while we’re alive.
2024-12-13. I’ve been working on a wiki for the association.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-13-archiving-homepages
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/time-lapse-from-pinecone-to-pine-tree-in-110-seconds
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>AlmaLinux 10 is joining RHEL 10 in public beta testing, and the developers of CentOS Stream 10 have just hit the release button ahead of the festive break.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/rhel_almalinux_betas/
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045829-look-at-feisty-confection
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/business/media/la-times-patrick-soon-shiong.html
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-invention-that-accidentally-made-mcmansions
date: 2024-12-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2024-de0
date: 2024-12-13, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As I briefly mentioned yesterday, someone <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/comment/34602#comment-34602">mentioned in this blog's comments</a> a successful M.2 socket installation on the empty header on the Pi 500 (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omYWRb1dLA4">something I attempted, rather poorly!</a>). With a few added components, and 3.3V supplied to a pad on the bottom via a bench power supply, the M.2 slot works just fine, allowing the use of NVMe SSDs or <a href="https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com">other PCIe devices</a>.</p>
Indeed, this person emailed me further proof, along with notes for anyone wishing to follow in their footsteps.
First, solder on four minuscule capacitors (rating may be gleaned off the CM5 IO Board schematics, I think?) on the PCIe lines heading to the NVMe slot. These are incredibly small, so a good microscope and decent SMD soldering skills are pretty necessary.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-modder-successfully-adds-m2-slot-pi-500
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045850-i-really-like-this-if
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary:
On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library ultralytics —which has almost 60 million downloads—was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository. The package contained downloader code that was downloading the XMRig coinminer. The compromise of the project’s build environment was achieved by exploiting a known and previously reported GitHub Actions script injection.
Lots more details at that link. Also …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/ultralytics-supply-chain-attack.html
date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
There was a moment a couple of years ago when Mastodon was gaining traction in a serious way when I thought that Automattic should do something publicly to demonstrate support for it because I felt that WordPress and Mastodon were two sides of the same important coin.
As you know, I’ve felt as a writer that we’ve been tragically limited by the idea that Twitter popularized that there was glory in removing features that writers could use. As if to say that writers were over-using things like links, simple styling, titles, the ability to edit, or to finish a thought. These were all very basic features of writing on the web before 2006, as they should have been.
Somehow a mass psychosis took over and there was a belief that these limits were good. I am shaking my head as I write this. It’s as ridiculous an idea as the one that’s going around at the top levels of our future government that we should bring polio back to the children of America and the world.
Anyway, by supporting Mastodon, I hoped people would make the link between WordPress, which has none of those limits, yet is very popular for publishing on the web, and Mastodon, which I (it turns out correctly) believed would navigate away from those limits given enough time.
I think I sent an email or a text message to Matt, or wrote a note on their Slack system, communicating with Matt is an iffy thing, not sure if the idea got through. Then this morning, I woke in the middle of the night, and realized that what I wished for was actually there. Without any fanfare at all. I could write on WordPress and it would appear on Mastodon. How is that not exactly what I asked for? And theoretically at least (someone should test this) you can access my WordPress writing on Threads, the system that Facebook launched to (as it turns out) compete with Bluesky! (In addition to Twitter, which is no longer called Twitter of course.) What a strange world it is.
And in the interim, the focus has gone off the social web, imho because the limits are still very much in force at Bluesky, which still insists a post can only have 300 freaking characters and no links, styles etc blah blah blah and yadda yadda. We’re still having this argument. Programmers vs writers. The world has lost its mind.
And in another thread there are idiots who propose trying to vilify and presumably cancel people who drive Teslas as if the car you use for transport is as trivial a possession as a fur coat.
I’m having a great day, no sarcasm, all of a sudden I feel like we might actually be winning, again.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/13/161841.html?title=middayRamble
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/restoring-vintage-star-wars-posters
@Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed (date: 2024-12-13, from: Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed)
after doing my own research and asking myself and my loved ones some really tough questions, I have decided that I do NOT want to contract polio
https://bsky.app/profile/sixfoot6.bsky.social/post/3ld73ldq64227
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045849-evan-gershkovich-recently
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045848-six-childhood-scourges-we
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045792-museums-should-be-free-bu
date: 2024-12-13, from: James Fallows, Substack
Optimism? Pessimism? The compelling (and beautiful) case for both at once.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/looking-forward-a-brief-film-for
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Everyone's favorite Linux component has hit a milestone, while a fresh contender comes of age – with a touch of Lisp.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/systemd_257_gnu_shepherd/
A quick look at OS/2’s builtin virtualization
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-12-13/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-12-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
The Democrats’ failure to tell the truth about the Rot at the Top
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-four-stories-of-america-part
date: 2024-12-13, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
A few weeks ago, my sister Jan and I drove a cache of archival stuff from her garage in North Carolina to my office in Indiana. One plastic container was filled with boxes and carousels of slides nobody had seen for many decades. I also brought along my parents’ slide projector, and digitized each slide […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/12/12/a-christmas-gift-to-my-families/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Ten days ago, on December 2, President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2024
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s a big enough umbrella but it’s always me that ends up getting wet.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/12.html#a015759
date: 2024-12-13, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Murder, money, and Americans who are mad as hell
https://steady.substack.com/p/rage-against-the-system
date: 2024-12-13, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Snowy and me He’s been monitoring my workload atop the screens of a succession of MacBooks for many years. Quote of the Day ”People never die wishing they’d bought more stuff.” House-clearance manager Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-13-december-2024/40197/
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045847-wow-look-at-this-video
date: 2024-12-12, from: Matt Haughey blog
I had never heard of Mozi until a friend mentioned it in a Slack channel earlier today. I didn't hear about their big launch, but it's helmed by Ev Williams of former Blogger, Twitter, and Medium fame and I think it's a legitimately good
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/meet-mozi/
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045846-im-sorry-but-if-you
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-biggest-bomb-in-the-world
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045842-a-list-of-medieval-englis
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045838-this-is-interesting-and-s
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycd0SMahac
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/arts/the-amazing-kreskin-dead.html
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/aerial-foodscapes
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-12, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
That Apple design award I am dreaming off is looking further and further away
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113641123710266394
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045841-i-missed-this-back-in-1
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-12, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
One month of testing Godot on iPad, I thought I was working really hard before the preview, but the last month of fixing bugs has been twice as intense:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-preview-update/
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113641037464809652
date: 2024-12-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-11-2024-43d
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045840-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-w
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Possibly the last moment when the Dems really kicked ass.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/12.html#a162252
date: 2024-12-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I saw a pundit suggest people harass people who drive Teslas.
When I bought mine, it cost $70K, a large sum of money that I will not throw away just so a pundit can make a point.
Here’s my rebuttal. I’d like to see you get on without buying Exxon products. We all agree they suck, but evil companies have a way of building dependence, that’s how they stay in business while openly doing despicable things.
When I put down $70K for what is, btw, a fantastic car, no one knew how evil Elon Musk was going to turn out to be, how little he would care what you and I think.
And I don’t believe anyone can live a pure life and extract all evil from it, and still participate in civilization.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/12/161258.html?title=illKeepMyTeslaThankYou
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045839-great-casey-johnston-piec
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, I hear that Safari now defaults to using HTTPS. Not sure exactly what that means. But if they ever actually stop showing scripting.com, which will always be plain old HTTP, I’ll probably ship an Electron product that browses the web, and doesn’t care if it’s HTTP or whatever new fad Google is promoting. I’m going to hold the fort for the original web. I can’t change scripting.com to HTTPS, it would break all the images and probably a lot of other stuff.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/12.html#a155806
date: 2024-12-12, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Summertime, when… It’s that time of year, when everything is muddy, brown and skies are grey. So it was nice while sorting through photos to stumble on a reminder of how the garden looked six months ago. Quote of the … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-11-december-2024/40190/
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045836-the-planet-uranus-and-its
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/terminal-rules/
date: 2024-12-12, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
I have talked about old curl bugs before, but now we have a new curl record. When we announced the security flaw CVE-2024-11053 on December 11, 2024 together with the release of curl 8.11.1 we fixed a security bug that was introduced in a curl release 9039 days ago. That is close to twenty-five years. … Continue reading A twenty-five years old curl bug
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/12/a-twenty-five-years-old-curl-bug/
date: 2024-12-12, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Trump has offered extreme versions. The Democrats stopped offering them at all.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-four-stories-of-america
date: 2024-12-12, from: mrusme blog
The RAMA M6-C Dualshot edition.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/rama-m6-c-dualshot/
date: 2024-12-12, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Yesterday, President Joe Biden spoke at the Brookings Institution, where he gave a major speech on the American economy.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-11-2024
date: 2024-12-12, from: Anton Zhiyanov blog
Compose concurrent pipelines from independent blocks.
https://antonz.org/go-concurrency/pipelines/
date: 2024-12-12, from: Matt Haughey blog
I avoided covid for quite a while, but in August of 2023 my luck caught up with me and I think it was going to three sold out movies in theaters in the same week while a friend was visiting and also I decided not to wear a mask at
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/dammit-i-caught-covid-again/
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Daring Fireball
Reporting from The Information suggests that an M-series tier above Ultra might remain years away.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/information_aside_double_ultra_scrapped
date: 2024-12-12, from: Matt Haughey blog
Today, someone tried to pull a scam on me, and it had some notable approaches I haven't seen or heard about before so I figure I'll write it up in case someone else someday is searching for a strange bunch of behaviors that hit their credit
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/spamalanche-2/
date: 2024-12-12, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045837-i-just-updated-the-2024
date: 2024-12-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/strong-winds-a83
date: 2024-12-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/strong-winds
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/now-serving-drinkable-mayonnaise
date: 2024-12-11, from: James Fallows, Substack
Eight years ago, then-FBI director James Comey tipped the election to Donald Trump. Today, his successor ensured that he will also be remembered for the destructive end of his tenure.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/obeying-in-advance-the-christopher
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045833-holiday-terms-conditions-
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/bryan-cranston-reads-from-robert-caros-the-power-broker
date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
A valued tester of WordLand asked a series of questions, which I answered in some detail, and felt it was a good idea to post the answers here on my blog.
BTW, if after reading this, you think you could be this kind of tester for WordLand, and you have experience with WordPress, and a site on wordpress.com, and are excited about the idea of a simple way to write and manage lots of documents in a WordPress environment, please fill out this form, I’ll read it right away, and if it seems like a fit, I’ll authorize your account.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/11/203305.html?title=answersForATester
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045832-recently-found-a-message-
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/11/macos-sequoia-15-2-m4-macbook-air-leak/
@Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed (date: 2024-12-11, from: Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed)
sick of online services and steps for all things, every day. i did this to myself
https://bsky.app/profile/sixfoot6.bsky.social/post/3ld2ku4non22b
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045835-racings-deadliest-day-aft
date: 2024-12-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2024-612
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045831-monument-valley-3-is-out
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I have United Healthcare insurance. I got it as part of my Medicare package when I turned 65. I’ve had good experience with them. I had major surgery in 2002, cost hundreds of thousands, included a one-week hospital stay and lots of followup treatments. I know the hospital did all the work with them, I was shielded from any complications, but as far as I know there were none. Never had a treatment questioned or denied. I had another insurance provider for many years after that, but when given a chance I went back to United. Just want to say, so far – knock wood – I am a happy customer.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/11.html#a171040
date: 2024-12-11, from: James Fallows, Substack
Something has started. Let’s keep it going.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/what-is-to-be-done-investing-where
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-origin-of-delay-deny-defend
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/check-out-the-2025-moon-phases
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Bingeworthy
has an RSS feed (not public yet), and new ratings
show
up in my blogroll, of course.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/11.html#a153744
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
No more elections where Hope is the main theme. Better: Kicking ass. Kicking ass is for ass-kicking Americans. I personally like Hope, but I’m also a sports fan and understand the value of kicking ass.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/11.html#a150820
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045826-if-you-havent-had-the
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Just added to my todo list – add the option to use the WordPress REST interface in place of the WPCOM interface, this will give WordLand the ability to edit WordPress sites anywhere, not just on wordpress.com. When I made the choice to go with WPCOM I didn’t have ChatGPT to look at the other options, I was surprised to find that WordPress actually had a good JavaScript API. It doesn’t look like the conversion will be too bad. It’s obviously better to be able to work with all WordPress sites.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/11.html#a143952
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045821-the-old-school-oregon-tra
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Surprising no one, it’s easy to trick an LLM-controlled robot into ignoring its safety instructions.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/jailbreaking-llm-controlled-robots.html
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Last month's new version of the Linux kernel, 6.12, has been confirmed as the newest LTS release… which also marks the end of the line for kernel 4.19.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/11/linux_612_lts/
date: 2024-12-11, from: Robert Reich’s blog
It’s one of the most powerful forces in America. How does it express itself?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-where-theyre-raging
date: 2024-12-11, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/10/air-fryers-produce-less-indoor-air-pollution/
date: 2024-12-11, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
How thousands of school lunches are made for Japanese students (video) by Adedayo Afolabi and David Valerio (Business Insider) A completely different perspective on food in schools, considering it both part of the curriculum and an essential role of schools to make sure kids are fed. + How did planners design Soviet cities? (video) by […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/10/video-pairing-systems-steeped-in-values/
date: 2024-12-11, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Welcome to another curl release. This time we do a bugfix only release, five weeks since the previous version shipped. Release Presentation Numbers the 263rd release0 changes35 days (total: 9,763)79 bugfixes (total: 11,173)115 commits (total: 33,811)0 new public libcurl function (total: 94)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 306)0 new curl command line option (total: 266)51 contributors, … Continue reading curl 8.11.1
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/11/curl-8-11-1/
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-12-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-six years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2024
date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Rupert blog
A doctor told me to look into intermittent fasting. Not for weight loss, but for ADHD. There’s some new data that suggests a link between ADHD and insulin in the brain. Based on that science, intermittent fasting or a ketogenic diet –which can help improve insulin resistance– might help my brain. I’m a week into it and am seeing some weight loss, but it’s hard to tell with the ADHD without measuring my brainflorps per second. I might be more focused, but hunger and “hangry” bring their own distractions.
I’m skeptical, to say the least. Intermittent fasting makes frequent appearances in my YouTube shorts with balding Joe Rogan clones dressed in all black selling workout supplements. It has a whiff of being a cure-all. To counter that skepticism, I read a book called Life in the Fasting Lane co-authored by Dr Jason Fung, who was specifically recommended to me. It’s a mix of doctorly advice and testimonials from advocates who have had success with fasting. As scientific as the book tries to be, it undoes its own credibility pitching intermittent fasting with all the hallmarks of a fad elimination diet:
I do appreciate that the book calls out “Calories-In/Calories-Out” as a myth that works 1% of the time. But it’s hard to shake the feeling that eliminating meals or days worth of food isn’t a macro-version of calories-in/calories-out, where you measure calories in weeks instead of per meal. I suppose the key difference is the duration between meals allows my body to enter ketosis (read: a starving state) which will consume my excess fat stores instead of my morning breakfast tacos adding to those fat stores.
To be honest, I’m a good candidate for this fad diet. I can sustain myself on a couple meals a day. I could skip lunch most days. Skipping breakfast though is hard. Not putting creamer in my morning coffee is hard. Not having a little after dinner snack with the kids is hard. Not eating is not my favorite, but I’m going to trust the process for a bit and hopefully it’ll help a weary brain like mine.
https://daverupert.com/2024/12/intermittent-fasting/
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/in-training-a-book-of-bonsai-photos
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045824-a-very-simple-little-brow
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/straight-white-male-the-game-of-lifes-lowest-difficulty-setting-1
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045823-the-new-rules-of-media
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045820-willem-dafoe-interviewed-
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045819-propublicas-claim-file-he
date: 2024-12-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-9-2024-108
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045818-sally-rooney-when-are-we
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045733-a-thread-of-some-letters
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Many Tesla drivers wish they’d evict Elon Musk. On the other hand can your car do this?
http://scripting.com/2024/12/10/165048.html?title=appleWatchAndTesla
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/whats-the-one-thing-only-you-noticed
date: 2024-12-10, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Raspberry Pi 500 uses QMK Firmware for built-in keyboard
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>I mentioned in my <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-500-much-faster-lacks-m2">Pi 500 review</a> Raspberry Pi is dogfooding their own microcontroller in the new Pi 500. An RP2040 sits next to the keyboard ribbon cable connector, and interfaces it through a USB port directly into the RP1 chip:</p>
In good news for keyboarding enthusiasts, the RP2040 seems to be flashed with the open-source QMK (‘Quantum Mechanical Keyboard’) Firmware. Thanks to a reader, ‘M’, who figured that out!
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-500-uses-qmk-firmware-built-keyboard
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045810-an-analysis-of-the-ux
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
This time of year every day feels like Sunday.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/10.html#a153623
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Here’s a sad fact. When something open takes off, the vultures swoop in and try to own it. You wouldn’t believe the greed I’ve seen. It’s a virus, and it needs to stop, or at least be exposed as it’s happening.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/10.html#a150844
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Yesterday
I did a
podcast
about why it’s important to choose humble names for groups of developers
working on open formats, using podcasting as an example. Another case in
point, the Social Web
Foundation, which is about ActivityPub and the Fediverse, when there
are many other forms of the social web. Here’s where the rubber meets
the road. They’re having a meeting in Brussels where people can demo
their social web apps, but it’s only about ActivityPub. If you have a
project for Bluesky, or Threads, or non-ActivityPub Mastodon, or
RSS for that
matter, you should feel welcome there, regardless of what their
Call
For Participation says.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/10.html#a143706
date: 2024-12-10, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
This page is about me burning myself on a Raclette table-grill.
I’m no longer quite sure of the timeline. I think I got the burn on 2024-12-03 or 2024-12-04.
2024-12-05: Two days ago I got myself a second degree burn about one inch in diameter from our Raclette oven. I hadn’t burned myself in about forty years, I think and I feel like a kid again, observing the body as it reacts. The healing powers are so weird.
Also I’m thankful for these self-healing capabilities we have! And thankful for this accident to be a curiosity instead of an emergency. A good reminder to be thankful for all the good days we have and I hope you’re having a good day! Live long and prosper. Or, as I usually tell me wife: healthy, happy, and in love. Be well.
2024-12-07: The skin around the burn had reddened and had swollen a bit. I went to the pharmacy and got a disinfectant cream and wound pads. This was Saturday afternoon and no more doctors were available. Since this wasn’t an emergency, there’s was rush.
2024-12-09: The minor burn resulted in some sort of low-key infection, so now it’s antibiotic to swallow and antibiotics to apply.
Some things I’m learning from this experience:
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-09-burn
@Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed (date: 2024-12-10, from: Ryan Gantz Bluesky feed)
“This is a man who had options. He could have been almost anything he wanted to be. And the thing he ultimately chose to do with his life, after suffering a debilitating injury, was to shoot the CEO of United Healthcare.
Luigi Mangione was radicalized by pain.” https://open.substack.com/pub/shatterzone/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://bsky.app/profile/sixfoot6.bsky.social/post/3lcxgdqok722q
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is going to be interesting.
It’s a video of someone trying on a variety of printed full-face masks. They won’t fool anyone for long, but will survive casual scrutiny. And they’re cheap and easy to swap.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/full-face-masks-to-frustrate-identification.html
date: 2024-12-10, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Six weeks to go before Trump. How are you doing?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/checking-in
date: 2024-12-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The sudden collapse of the Assad regime in Syria yesterday took oxygen away from the airing of President-elect Trump’s interview with Kristen Welker of NBC’S Meet the Press. The interview told us little that we didn’t already know, but it did reinforce what we can expect in the new administration.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-9-2024
date: 2024-12-10, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
ed is the standard editor, they
say. I have strange fascination with it.
ed is a window in the past. This is a line-based editor,
not a screen-based editor. It can be used with a line-printer instead of
a screen. This also means that working with it is very different. I’ll
try to collect some interesting command sequences on this page.
I use ed to send mail from the command line. One way I do
this is by using mail on the server. It’s a line-oriented
mail client. You can use any editor with it, but the default feels very
close to ed.
When I started reading newsgroups again, I used tin and
made it use ed as the editor.
As you can see, it’s growing on me. 😅
And I’m not alone! On fedi, I’m following
@aartaka who
occasionally posts things about ed.
And so, in order to get better with it, I decided to write this page. I expect to be adding to it.
Also check out Actually using ed by @tejr.
Try man ed or info ed to learn more about the
commands available to you within ed.
@mwl. wrote
Ed Mastery which
motivated me to get into ed.
Start ed without a file name. You’ll be editing “lines” in
a “buffer”.
The commands to use:
i to insert a few lines
. on a line by itself ends the insertion of lines
w filename writes the buffer to a file (and prints the
number of bytes written)
q quits the editor
alex@melanobombus ~> ed
i
Hello World!
This is a letter from me to you.
.
w hello.txt
47
q
When we provide ed with a filename, it is read into the buffer (and the number of bytes read are printed). The current line is the last line of the buffer.
a appends new lines after the current line
. on a line by itself ends the appending of lines
alex@melanobombus ~> ed hello.txt
47
.
This is a letter from me to you.
a
And that was it!
.
w
65
Now, ed is line-oriented and so we can provide line numbers
and line ranges to our commands. If you omit a line number or the range,
these commands apply to the current line only. A range is two
comma-separated line numbers. If you omit numbers, defaults are “from
the first line” and “to the last line”. Thus, a single comma means “all
the lines”. $ is always the last line. Relative addressing
with negative offsets like -1 and positive offsets like
+1 works as well.
p prints the lines
n numbers the lines
These are all equivalent:
1,5p
1,$p
,p
So now let’s number the lines and then append to the first paragraph.
Use n to find the right line number to append to, and use
p at the end to proofread.
,n
1 Hello World!
2
3 This is a letter from me to you.
4
5 And that was it!
3a
It's pretty short, I know. I didn't have enough time to make it longer.
.
w
137
,p
Hello World!
This is a letter from me to you.
It's pretty short, I know. I didn't have enough time to make it longer.
And that was it!
Notice how we could only append new lines after the third line. We couldn’t append new words to the third line itself. What we can do is join two lines, though. Unfortunately, that doesn’t add a space!
One option is to add a single line containing a space. The other option is to use a substitution to add a space. That’s what we will use.
s/from/to/ replaces regular expression from
with string to.
j joins lines in the range
Knowing that this concerns lines 3 and 4 there is no need to use
n.
3s/$/ /
3,4j
p
This is a letter from me to you. It's pretty short, I know. I didn't have enough time to make it longer.
There is no way to process the buffer with external tools, but there is a way to do it with the current file.
w writes the file
e edits a filename, replacing the current buffer; or if the
argument starts with an exclamation mark, executes the command and
replaces the buffer with the output
w
137
e !fold -s %
fold -s hello.txt
138
,p
Hello World!
This is a letter from me to you. It's pretty short, I know. I didn't have
enough time to make it longer.
And that was it!
I like to start my blog posts with a level one heading, a date, and some
text. Here’s how I would insert a date. Note the invisible space after
the #.
r reads lines from a filename, inserting them into the
current buffer; or if the argument starts with an exclamation mark,
executes the command and inserts the lines from the output into the
buffer
ed i # . r !date --iso 11 a ed is the standard . ,j p # 2024-12-09 ed is the standard
OK, I know this is weird. But in theory we can think of the buffer as a huge one-dimensional workspace. We can insert lines from files and process output here and there, and we can write line ranges to files.
Here we are writing a haiku, don’t like the last line, insert a new third line and then write just the first three lines to the file. The fourth line not saved but it is still available in the buffer.
alex@melanobombus ~> ed
i
The words grow from lines
a growing snake on the screen
trying to escape
.
w haiku.txt
73
i
running off the page
.
1,3w
77
In this sense it’s unclear what the default filename of the buffer is. It’s the one-dimensional desktop!
f prints the default filename, or sets it if a filename is
provided
f
haiku.txt
Perhaps working with the buffer as a long, one-dimensional workspace
makes more sense if you drop markers as you work with files. Use
k followed by a lower case letter.
Here we insert a first haiku, mark the first line, insert a new haiku, mark its beginning, and then we print the two, using the marks and some line arithmetic.
r haiku.txt
77
1ka
a
Lines grow from the left
voices talking in my head
overhead, a lamp
.
-2kb
'a,'a+2p
The words grow from lines
a growing snake on the screen
running off the page
'b,'b+2p
Lines grow from the left
voices talking in my head
overhead, a lamp
'b,$w haiku2.txt
68
Something I do often enough: I hit the Enter key when I didn’t mean to. Fix it by beginning the new line with a space. Finish the line, and join the previous line with the current line:
i
Hello
World!
.
-1,.j
p
Hello World!
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-09-ed
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Daring Fireball
https://store.daringfireball.net/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
We’re watching Trump like a raven on roadkill
https://steady.substack.com/p/playing-chicken-with-the-economy
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-12-09, from: Robert Reich’s blog
They and Republicans in Congress think they’ve finally come up with a way to eliminate one of the most popular and necessary programs in the federal government
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-muskrat-plot-to-kill-social
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045795-for-the-love-of-god-1
date: 2024-12-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-8-2024-31d
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-arresting-typography-of-the-sanborn-fire-insurance-maps
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
How I know Twitter was great. When something was going on anywhere, any kind of thing, I’d go to Twitter and it happened there 14 minutes ago. It was the pulse of the news. And somehow they couldn’t figure out how to make a business of that! Amazing.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a200815
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045797-the-oldest-known-wild-bir
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045809-no-one-has-to-settle
date: 2024-12-09, from: Stephen Wolfram blog
Note:
As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to
allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For
additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want!
Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a few
months after ChatGPT burst on the scene—we introduced the first […]
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/grand-theft-hamlet
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045808-vaccines-have-saved-150-m
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If you want to get excited about the future, I highly recommend this week’s Jon Stewart podcast interview with Bernie Sanders. I recognize these ideas, it sounds like what we’re waiting for in the social web and in journalism. And working for and with each other.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a170755
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I bet a lot of people who voted for Trump hoped they were voting for Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith goes to Washington, or It’s a Wonderful Life. I think they may be surprised to find that they actually voted for Mr Potter or Ebeneezer Scrooge. Look for a lump of coal in the stocking.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a165448
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045807-no-surprise-conservatives
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast: We all own and no one owns podcasting. 11 minutes.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a160836
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045811-your-2024-therapy-wrapped
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve got the new version of Bingeworthy running here. When I saw how the database code worked, I had to redo it from scratch. It was probably my first SQL project, and I barely knew what I was doing. It’s too bad, because looking at it from that point of view I could see how SQL could have been much simpler by making some of the optional features automatic. A higher layer on top of SQL is possible, it seems to me. Having ChatGPT review my ideas has been invaluable in this project. I’m going to use it myself for a while, and see how I want to reorganize the user interface. There were opportunities for factoring I didn’t take back then because I was in a rush to do something else.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a152513
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/this-beautiful-day-daily-wisdom-from-mister-rogers
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Anyone
can build on an open format. That’s part of what it means for it to be
open. Developers and users are free to use anyone’s ideas, or not use
them, even if they claim to be the Holy Church of Some Open Format. No
one can form an organization that owns the future of the open format
because then it wouldn’t be open.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/09.html#a144947
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-09, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045812-food-deserts-are-not-an
date: 2024-12-09, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders. It originally appeared as a response to Evgeny Morozov in Boston Review‘s forum, “The AI We Deserve.”
For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to the early days of computing—and, often, on seed funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. But today’s tools are hardly the intentional product of the diverse generations of innovators that came before. We agree with Morozov that the “refuseniks,” as he …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues-in-ai.html
date: 2024-12-09, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-liz-cheney-deserves-from-biden
date: 2024-12-09, from: Jeff Geerling blog
The Pi 500 is much faster, but lacks M.2
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Raspberry Pi this morning launched the <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500/">Pi 500</a> and a new <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-monitor/">15.6" Pi Monitor</a>, for $90 and $100, respectively.</p>
They’re also selling a Pi 500 Kit, complete with a Power Supply, Mouse, and micro HDMI to HDMI cable, for $120. This is the first time Raspberry Pi is selling a complete package, where every part of a desktop computer could be Pi-branded—and makes me wonder if uniting all these parts into one could result in an eventual Pi Laptop…
Before we get too deep, no, the Pi 500 does not include a built-in M.2 slot. Sort-of.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-500-much-faster-lacks-m2
date: 2024-12-09, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
During WWII, the United States government incarcerated over one hundred thousand Americans because they were of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them American citizens. Their bank accounts were locked and they were forced to leave behind their homes, pets, businesses and possessions to live in remote, barren camps guarded by armed soldiers. They had to grow […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/08/weve-done-it-before/
date: 2024-12-09, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Late last night, the White House said in a statement that “President Biden and his team are closely monitoring the extraordinary events in Syria and staying in constant touch with regional partners.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-8-2024
date: 2024-12-09, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Dictionary Sam The stained-glass portrait of Samuel Johnson in his house in Gough Square, just off Fleet Street, in London. (Which is well worth a visit, btw.) Quote of the Day ”Whenever AI ‘generates’ something impressive, the first question we … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-9-december-2024/40177/
date: 2024-12-08, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-12-08, from: Robert Reich’s blog
But will Senate Republicans do their duty?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-under-no-circumstances-should
date: 2024-12-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-7-2024-705
date: 2024-12-08, updated: 2024-12-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045815-just-updated-the-2024-kot
date: 2024-12-08, updated: 2024-12-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045814-it-appears-that-the-bruta
date: 2024-12-08, updated: 2024-12-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045813-catherine-russell-has-sta
date: 2024-12-08, from: Om Malik blog
In this week’s edition of my newsletter, CrazyStupidTech, I posted a reported essay on the future of browsers in the age of AI, with reflections on their past, and their role in our multi-device, machine-first, information-dense extended reality. My thinking was prompted by immersing myself in new devices (such as Vision Pro) and new technologies …
https://om.co/2024/12/08/why-ai-will-eat-the-browser/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Mozilla
has repositioned itself as “a global crew of activists, technologists
and builders, all working to keep the internet free, open and
accessible.” These are all worthy goals, but in my experience Mozilla
has been an obstacle to these things. I wrote in a
comment
on Mastodon, “A long time ago they invited me to present my ideas, and
like an idiot I thought that’s what they wanted, instead it was an
ambush, people mostly wanting to ridicule me because they thought
anything that a person does can’t be any good, it has to come from a big
company like Mozilla or Google. I thought then and still do now, how do
they justify wasting their time on such a ridiculous thing. I kept on
doing what I was doing, but switched off their browser first chance I
got.” If they really want to get behind projects that make the open web
stronger, I’d be happy to help guide them, but only if they’ve sobered
up and take that mission statement seriously, instead of just as a
justification for holding on to their jobs a little bit longer.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/08.html#a152308
date: 2024-12-08, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/blue-velvet
date: 2024-12-08, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-maze
date: 2024-12-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Thursday, December 5, in Chicago, Illinois, former president Barack Obama gave the third in an annual series of lectures he has delivered since 2022 at his foundation’s Democracy Forum, which gathers experts, leaders, and young people to explore ways to safeguard democracy through community action.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-7-2024
date: 2024-12-08, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2024-f63
date: 2024-12-08, updated: 2024-12-08, from: Jason Kittke’s blog