(date: 2024-12-21 07:05:35)
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a233038
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045895-balkonkraftwerk-a-german-
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Programming
work: I was trying to work out a feature for
WordLand that isn’t
cooperating, having to do with the clipboard and the
MediumEditor
package, which does all these nice things for us with the clipboard, but
it isn’t willing to share custody, or perhaps more accurately we can’t
figure out how to. The feature I want is when you paste a URL and
there’s a selection, the selected text is turned into a link. A video
explanation.
I’ve burned two full sessions on this, seeking advice from ChatGPT,
Claude and Perplexity. They all pretend to know what to do, but in fact
they don’t. The clipboard is one of those areas of the browser that is
held together with rumors and confusion, as is MediumEditor, and the
intersection is rumors and confusion squared. Tomorrow I’m going to work
on other things, and the day after until I have an idea for another way
to approach this. I really want this feature because apparently it’s
supported in Slack, WordPress and other software that supports
links.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a231830
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, we could use a few more testers with good experience with bug reporting who use WordPress. I’m sure there are more bugs we haven’t gotten reports on yet.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a231452
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-21, from: Daring Fireball
Bezos can still be a hero in this story. But his only move is to sell.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/journalism_requires_owners_committed_to_the_cause
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
One more thing. I love taking the time to craft a delicious piece of software. I have never really done that in the 50 years I’ve been doing this. This time I decided there’s no rush. I’m going to wait until people want what I’ve created. We’re not there yet. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a230758
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Amazing that the tech industry hasn’t tried to retrieve its reputation from the ones who are repping us in DC nowadays. Software doesn’t have to treat their users like nobodies. Quite the opposite. I come from the school that says our users are the smartest most powerful people in the world and it’s our privilege to create tools for them.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a230615
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve figured out more precisely what WordLand is meant to compete with –> the tiny little text boxes of the social web. Ours is slightly bigger, and grows as your piece gets longer. Neatly arranged like the others, and all your writing flows through WordPress and RSS, where each of the TLTBs only flows into their limited and incompatible views of the social web. RSS and WordPress are a powerful distribution system. Lots of software works with those two protocols, as do many programmers, and they’re both marvelously open, stable over more than twenty years each, and can’t be owned by billionaires. Pretty powerful place, kind of amazing that there’s so much room here, and the people are friendly. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a225549
date: 2024-12-20, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I ran role-playing games and I played in them. I think I tracked almost all of them using my bot, Norn. The result is visible on the Montag in Zürich page.
The games I ran:
| Game | Count |
|---|---|
| Burning Wheel | 3 |
| Elredd | 27 |
| Knochentanz | 8 |
| Montag | 4 |
| Traveller | 1 |
| Ultraviolet Grasslands | 11 |
The Burning Wheel game was effectively a 1-on-1 game that I don’t think we’ll pick up again.
Elredd refers to my running of the Arden Vul Megadungeon using AD&D 1st ed.
Knochentanz is my BREAK!! RPG campaign.
Montag refers to my running of Stonehell and the Giant Giants hexcrawl.
Traveller refers to my Traveller one-hots in the Tau subsector.
Ultraviolet Grasslands (UVG) refers to my UVG game using 2d6 rules (Halberts).
The games I played in:
| Game | Count |
|---|---|
| Dolmenwood | 2 |
| Glimmermark | 11 |
| GURPS | 1 |
| Montag | 5 |
| Pirates of Drinax | 1 |
| Taverne | 1 |
Dolmenwood is a short introduction adventure.
Glimmermark is Dyson’s Delve plus the Keep on on the Borderlands.
GURPS was a one-shot.
Montag refers to Aberrant Reflection.
Pirates of Drinax is a new Traveller campaign where we created characters and nothing else.
Taverne refers to a short guest appearance in an eight year long, ongoing OD&D campaign.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-20-games
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve been alternating days here on my blog. One day, lots of posts, maybe even a podcast. And then a quiet day. Today started out quiet, and then the ideas started flowing.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/20.html#a223255
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045894-a-thirty-year-old-man-tod
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-12, from: Bruce Schneier blog
A sticker for your water bottle.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/friday-squid-blogging-squid-sticker.html
date: 2024-12-20, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Sixteenth in the News Commons series. Dave Askins is shutting down the B Square Bulletin. This is tragic. And not just for Bloomington and Monroe County. (Dave covered the governing bodies of both like a glove.) It’s tragic for journalism. Because Dave was far more than an exemplar of reporting in service to the public. […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/12/20/losing-or-gaining-a-genius/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2024-cd5
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/my-jade-plants-flower-and-yours-can-too
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/al-greens-cover-of-rems-everybody-hurts
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045889-as-an-entomologist-ive-be
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/20/adelie_linux_1_beta_6/
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045888-20-minute-video-of-carvin
date: 2024-12-20, updated: 2024-12-20, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/20/fedora_asahi_41_out/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Robert Reich’s blog
It’s the third time in the nation’s history that a small group of hyper-wealthy people have gained political power over the rest of us. Here’s what we must do.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-american-oligarchy-is-out-of
date: 2024-12-20, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“These are the times that try men’s souls.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2024
date: 2024-12-20, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The Granta at night My favourite Cambridge pub, seen the other evening on my way home. Quote of the Day ”Whoever said money can’t buy you happiness didn’t know where to shop.” Gertrude Stein Musical alternative to the morning’s radio … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-20-december-2024/40233/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Just when you think it can’t get weirder or more dysfunctional …
https://steady.substack.com/p/is-trump-really-calling-the-shots
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005172/2024/12/19/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m thinking maybe we’ll do a Kickstarter for WordLand. It’ll cost money to run the server and continue to develop the sofware. It fills a big enough need to ask the users to support it financially, at least to get it off the ground. The server is open source so theoretically anyone can run one. But in practice most people will probably just want to use the service. I just want to solve this problem so we can start building a developer ecosystem around WordPress that it’s never had. Think of WordLand as a pump primer. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/12/19.html#a232030
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045893-gisele-pelicot-is-the-per
date: 2024-12-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
We are spending a week in the Valais. It’s the source of the Rhone river (comparable to the Rhine except it flows west instead of north). We’re at around 1300m above sea level, here.
The entire valley goes from east to west. There are mountains to the north, east and south. So in three out of four cardinal directions, the clouds already rained over some mountains. This region has the most sunny days in all of Switzerland.
The Valais has two parts: the upper part is German speaking, the lower part is French speaking. The German speaking part used to lord it over the French speaking part. The region joined Switzerland in 1815.
When I came here, I was about two weeks old. I don’t remember much. We left the Valais when I was at the age of learning to ride a bicycle. When is that? Maybe four years old? Not kindergarten age, in any case.
In the seventies, the Valais got a tunnel through the mountains to connect it to the German speaking rest of Switzerland. I remember my das thinking the locals were extremely backwards. They didn’t understand that he rode the bicycle up the mountain just for fun. They threatened to call the police when they saw him tend his tomatoes on a Sunday (no working on a Sunday, it’s the law!).
A little badmouthing remains. Outside of the Valais, people like to think that they are corrupt. The current and the last FIFA bosses – Blatter and Infantino – are from Valais. Enough said.
People here, on the other hand, like to call everybody from outside the canton “Üsseschwyzer” (people from “outer Switzerland”).
Historically, it was conquered by the Romans in 57 BCE, ended up as part of Burgundy in 888, was handed over to the bishop of Sion in 999 (still the capital), was part of the Holy Roman Empire in 1032, fell under the influence of Savoy, pushed them back and finally managed to conquer the lower parts during the Burgundian wars in 1475. This new, French speaking and subservient region got further expanded in 1536.
With the French Revolution there was a revolt in 1798 against the upper Valais; France conquered the Valais in 1799, founded an independent republic in 1802 and absorbed it in 1810. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 they joined the Swiss.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-13-valais
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045887-from-literary-hub-the-50
date: 2024-12-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-18-2024-5ef
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045881-megastars-used-a-pandemic
date: 2024-12-19, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I like to read a lot of different writers because there’s so much cOnTeNt out there it’s easy to miss the good stuff; if multiple people are pointing to a piece it’s probably worth reading. And sometimes, writers will recontextualize something I did read: “look again.” Ah, you’re right, I didn’t catch that on the […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/19/looking-again/
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045891-philanthropist-mackenzie-
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast:
ChatGPT is encyclopedic but is not good at strategy. It will drive you
down blind alleys. It rewrites your code to conform to its standards. It
has a terrible memory. Forgets things you told it specifically not to
forget. It does not keep promises. People who say the bubble is fully
inflated on this stuff are not paying attention. We’re still dealing
with very basic features.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/19.html#a172939
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A tuneup for WordLand confirms that it’s publishing.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/19.html#a171532
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045886-the-killings-of-young-mot
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-vanity-fair-interview-with-billie-eilish-year-eight
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I watched Ari Melber last night and noted he isn’t yet on Bluesky or hasn’t updated his show graphics to include it? He usually tries to be leading edge in this, and at this point he looks a bit behind the times, imho, ymmv etc. After Melber, I stayed through the opening segment of Joy Reid and was charged up by her intro. She’s clicking on all cylinders. They must be thinking about gutting or reconfiguring MSNBC at this time. It’s up for sale, I wonder if a billionaire will see the wisdom of owning that piece of real estate as Musk saw the value in Twitter, far beyond what the stock market valued it at. (BTW, I should add that I benefited from his largesse, I was a very small shareholder in Twitter at the time. I did not want to sell, but my vote didn’t matter. Heh.)
http://scripting.com/2024/12/19.html#a160815
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
been thinking about
Blogger
Of The Year for a few months, and had a choice (not yet final), but
then
Paul
Krugman left the NYT, set up shop
on Substack, and has
been totally kicking ass every day for the last week. Presumably these
are all things the NYT wouldn’t let him run? Or if he submitted them,
would they edit them into mushy nonsense. I’ve been there, I quit Wired
when they edited my pieces, with my name on them, where I said things I
thought were inane, things that I most definitely did not say. There’s
never been a better illustration of the importance of blogging and the
value that’s removed by publishing in the NYT. If a
Nobel
Laureate like Krugman can’t get his ideas out that way, with the
huge advantage in circulation they have (as Wired did over my humble
blog), then there must be a reason to have blogs after all. I don’t
think he will be my BOTY for 2024, but maybe next year, if he keeps up
the intelligent irreverence.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/19.html#a155019
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/superman-trailer
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Bruce Schneier blog
It turns out that all cluster mailboxes in the Denver area have the same master key. So if someone robs a postal carrier, they can open any mailbox.
I get that a single master key makes the whole system easier, but it’s very fragile security.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/mailbox-insecurity.html
date: 2024-12-19, from: Dave Rupert blog
I’m in the middle of a design tokens project and I thought I’d share something I’m learning that is probably obvious to everyone else; every design token is a feature.
A token is a magical contract between design and engineering, if we agree to use the same name to abstractly refer to the same value, it will produce a desired outcome. That bridge alone is probably worth the investment, but tokens solve even more organizational problems. The mobile app and the website can look the same by sharing a single JSON file. But wait, there’s more! If the blue a different team chose is not blue enough for you, you can make your own blue and apply it at the global scope or the individual element scope. Tokens as an organizational feature are a powerful concept but there’s tons of nuance packed behind it.
Like features, too many tokens can bloat your system. I recently learned
–because I’m lucky to work with people who work on browsers– there’s a
not-so-theoretical limit where the browser starts taking a performance
hit based purely on the number of CSS variables. There’s no hard upper
limit on the number of variables (we drew a line at ~500) because the
limit ultimately depends on the size and the depth of your DOM. Style
recalcs and tree walking are expensive problems for a browser. Alias
tokens like –foo: var(–bar) compound the problem and the
more static you can be, like –foo: #bada55, the better.
Infinite customizability and peak performance are often at odds.
Like features, too many tokens can create organizational problems! This is the opposite of what I said above, how can that be? It’s possible to generate enough tokens that they become their own hyperobject, impossible to comprehend from the outside, so well-meaning people eject from the system. Detached instances. One-offs. Snowflakes.
Like features, tokens can create little piles of
technical
debt. “Is anyone still using
–color-beefcake-primary-2?” you shout into the void of the
team chat. No one responds because no one knows. The person who does
know left the company five months ago. Alas, we’ll bolt on more until we
find time to fix it. Always adding. Never subtracting.
Like features, some tokens are going to have a massive payoff if implemented and some tokens the user benefit is less clear. You’re passing organizational complexity on to the user. Like features, you can build over-complicated machinery around a simple concept like sharing values. Like features, people will build every part without considering whether they actually need each facet.
Generally speaking, if someone wants to implement hundreds or thousands of little features in an application, that’s probably a red flag. If-statements are expensive over their lifetime. But from my experience, a good system of tokens inside a cascade of meaningful componentry can make a product resonate with consistency across many surfaces, while providing just enough customizability to differentiate when necessary.
https://daverupert.com/2024/12/every-token-is-a-feature/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Sure looks that way. The richest person in the world has turned his wealth into raw power. That’s what oligarchy looks like.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/can-the-muskrat-shut-the-united-states
date: 2024-12-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Yesterday, Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released an “Interim Report on the Failures and Politicization of the January 6th Select Committee.” As the title suggests, the report seeks to rewrite what happened on January 6, 2021, when rioters encouraged by former president Donald Trump attacked the U.S.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-18-2024
date: 2024-12-19, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/silo-renewed-season-3-ending-season-4-1236249072/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-muppets-carol-of-the-bells
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/the-missing-van-gogh-masterpiece
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045883-im-an-apple-news-article
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045885-saving-this-for-future-re
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045884-thanks-to-a-large-donatio
date: 2024-12-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-17-2024-dc6
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/substack-is-at-it-again
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-18, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Michael Moore’s response to be mentioned by Luigi is going to carry me through the day:
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113675069054568576
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045860-how-to-make-your-own
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/docs/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045879-i-am-almost-positive-that
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Really interesting research into the structure of prime numbers. Not immediately related to the cryptanalysis of prime-number-based public-key algorithms, but every little bit matters.
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/12/acorn-8-brings-subject-selection-live-text-data-merge-more/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
got a new project called
davegpt, it’s in
GitHub, open source of course. I also created a
ChatGPT
project with the same code. Presumably I can ask it questions about
the code. Because I have a
worknotes.md
file in the GitHub project, ChatGPT understands where I want to take
this project. Most amazing, it wrote a
summary
of what it saw in the project. I
added
that to the GitHub project, of course, and since it was in Markdown,
it fit right in with no mods. The power of standards. I love it when
things that should work, do. The next step is to implement a feature in
the new Bingeworthy that can only be done with an AI bot like ChatGPT.
It’s such a thrill to be working on this stuff as it’s happening. And
what a delight that it has an API. I don’t mind that I’m paying for it,
I love the idea of paying to break down walls to create new things that
couldn’t have been created before.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/18.html#a160909
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/youre_a_mean_one/
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/they-thought-they-were-free
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045878-jamelle-bouie-either-demo
date: 2024-12-18, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works yet.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/xfce_420_is_out/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-12-18, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The gofundmes have shifted from “help me cross into Egypt”, to “help me get food”, to “help me survive with one limb” to “I need surgery to remove my rotting left lung”
Meanwhile our politicians line up to have their picture taken with the criminals.
This is America’s legacy.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113673916405676298
date: 2024-12-18, from: mrusme blog
“Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants.”
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/travel/japan/osaka-2024/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Trump and his allies are already seeking to intimidate the four most likely centers of resistance.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-where-will-the-resistance
date: 2024-12-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Yesterday, Trump gave his first press conference since the election.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-17-2024
date: 2024-12-18, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Harry Potter? Yawn… King’s Cross station in London is the terminus for the fast trains from Cambridge, so I pass through it quite a lot. In a brilliant marketing move years ago someone had the idea of capitalising on the … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-18-december-2024/40218/
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://shapeof.com/archives/2024/12/say_hello_to_acorn_8.html
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045876-laaaast-call-for-the
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
What could journalism do to help the country? Move your shows out into the red territories. Make it a requirement that Chris and Joy, Lawrence or Rachel, if they want to stay on the air, have to broadcast from one of the red states. It could be a large city in a red state. The reason is symbolic and practical. The red state voters wouldn’t be such a mystery if you knew some of them from your everyday life. And you might have a few of them on the show. You have some selling to do, the idea you’re selling is that you care about the people you don’t know.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/17.html#a222925
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
Democrats are, of course, failing to lead the 75 million who voted for
them in the last election, which was a bit over a month ago. Maybe they
should factor that into their thinking, what kind of relationship would
you have with an organization that only cared about what you thought if
they needed something very specific from you in that exact moment. Any
other time, who are you again? We are without leaders.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/17.html#a222607
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045877-36-things-that-stuck-with
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045873-a-group-of-scientists-war
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/what-are-your-personal-foundational-texts
date: 2024-12-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-16-2024-23e
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/then-comes-the-body
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20241217-01
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045871-it-is-extremely-easy-to
date: 2024-12-17, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
I prefer a lightweight nonfiction book to a detailed tome. I’m a dilettante of many interests, so my attention for any given topic is more likely to sustain 100 pages than 600. The sweet spot is longer than a longread internet article, but that doesn’t demand a months-long commitment: a 2-3 hour text. At about […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/17/in-praise-of-the-hundred-page-idea/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
get my greatest ideas walking, riding my bike, on a ski lift, or sitting
in a hot tub esp when it’s really cold out and there’s a full moon as
there was last night. Sometimes the ideas prove workable and other times
they’re like the great brainstorms one had with
cocaine in the
80s, not that I would know, but have heard. Anyway, I was daydreaming
about what I’d do with
Bingeworthy
if I was going to continue working on it. I thought about the mode I
want to use it in. I want to watch a series that I would like, not that
Netflix thinks I’d like, because their idea of what I’d like is
bullshit. I find that I’ll like almost anything that’s rated in the 80s
by Metacritic, but really only if the NYT reviewed it well. I’ll give
almost any NYT critics choice a go. So what I really want in the
middle of the Bingeworthy display of a program is 250 words about the
program aggregated from various critics as Metacritic does so well.
Unfortunately neither Metacritic or the NYT offer an API for this as far
as I know. Oh too bad, same old thing. No access to the data where you
need it (btw, ideally Bingeworthy would be baked into the TV set, or all
the streamers could be played in the context of Bingeworthy). Anyway,
then boom it hit me, holy shit the thing I was farting around
with in the
outliner could actually do this. Now I’m going to need to be able to
call ChatGPT from a Node app.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/17.html#a170704
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-19, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Not everything needs to be digital and “smart.” License plates, for example:
Josep Rodriguez, a researcher at security firm IOActive, has revealed a technique to “jailbreak” digital license plates sold by Reviver, the leading vendor of those plates in the US with 65,000 plates already sold. By removing a sticker on the back of the plate and attaching a cable to its internal connectors, he’s able to rewrite a Reviver plate’s firmware in a matter of minutes. Then, with that custom firmware installed, the jailbroken license plate can receive commands via Bluetooth from a smartphone app to instantly change its display to show any characters or image…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/hacking-digital-license-plates.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m farting around with the OpenAI API. I have a nice encapsulation for calls to ChatGPT, one that hides all the tricky stuff, all you need is an apiToken to make it work, something that is available for free. The first place I put it is in an outliner. Basically I can write a question in a headline, click an icon and the response from ChatGPT is placed in a series of sub-heads. Interesting to see that they use Markdown to convey the response. The logical choice. I’m not sure how or if I will use this in my writing, but now I have an idea what it’s good for. Here’s a screen shot of a question I asked and the answer. Also the API is very slow. A question like that would be displayed instantly in their app, in my app it takes a half minute. And I have to pay for it, whereas in their app it’s all covered by my $20 a month subscription.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/17.html#a164345
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045864-yo-yo-ma-played-the-prelu
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6472801548?pt=14724&ct=DaringFireball&mt=8
date: 2024-12-17, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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| Source |
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| Source |
| Dec | Close | Dec | Close | NVDA | S&P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0.19 | 2009 | 0.38 | +100% | -9.1% |
| 2009 | 0.38 | 2014 | 0.48 | +26% | +85.8% |
| 2014 | 0.48 | 2019 | 5.91 | +1131% | +61.7% |
| 2019 | 5.91 | 2024 | 134.25 | +22715% | +87.6% |
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| Source |
Although the infographic suggests that the huge out-performance
started 20 years ago and has been decreasing, this is misleading for two
reasons. First, the infographic’s numbers are for the whole 20-year
period, not for each 5-year period. Second, they are dominated by the
rise in the most recent 5-year period. The linear plot of NVDA makes it
clear that, had the most recent 5-year period been like any of the
others, Nvidia would not have been in the infographic at all.
None of this is financial advice. Nevertheless, Nvidia is a great
company, and it is possible to make money in its stock. There are two
ways to do it, trading on the stock’s volatility, or buying low and
being prepared to hold it for many years.
Remember, past
performance is no guarantee of future performance. If NVDA were to
repeat the past 5-year return over the next 5 years, it would be around
$3,100. To maintain its current P/E of 52.85 it would need annual
revenue of around $2.6T.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/12/cherry-picking.html
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/two-more-tiny-desks
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045870-apple-has-renewed-silo-fo
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>A fresh release of the minimalist and very lightweight Alpine Linux is here, with support for Chinese LoongArch64 CPUs.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/alpine_linux_321/
Exploring OS/2’s virtualization and low-level x86: Probing drives
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-12-17/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-12-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-did-abc-cave-in-to-trump
date: 2024-12-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, President Joe Biden designated a new national monument in honor of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-16-2024
date: 2024-12-17, updated: 2024-12-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/12/13/the-developers-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/trailer-for-the-white-lotus-season-three
date: 2024-12-16, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Getting beyond ProcessExecutionErrors when installing Ubuntu on arm64
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Currently there are precious few SystemReady Arm computers—computers like the <a href="https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1-n1/configure">System76 Thelio Astra</a> I was sent recently to test.</p>The level or ‘band’ of SystemReady SR used by modern Ampere-based arm64 workstations and servers means you can install any out-of-the-box Linux distributions, as long as they provide an arm64-compatible installer.
Ubuntu has some of the most complete support for arm64, so I went to download a Live CD ISO I could flash to a USB stick, to install on my test Thelio Astra. For server installs (with no GUI), either 4k or 64k page sizes, there are easily-findable ISOs:
However, for desktop, you can only get it via daily build downloads:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Interesting episode of the Daily podcast about AI in Hollywood. They specifically mention a new movie starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, with bodies and faces edited by AI to be various ages other than what they are (mid-late 60s). The movie Here, was rated not too great by various critics including the NYT.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/16.html#a231138
date: 2024-12-16, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
You didn’t really think he was going to lower prices, did you?
https://steady.substack.com/p/oh-never-mind
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045863-speaking-of-tiny-desk-con
date: 2024-12-16, from: Matt Haughey blog
I didn't hear about it when this happened this past summer live, but I've been really digging the long-form videos that the Vegan Cyclist guy has been posting once a day to his YouTube channel for the past week.
Here's where you'd
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-good-fast-coastal-ride/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2024-541
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6188337?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aToMV4wL2wc
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045859-actual-things-my-parents-
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045862-hpv-vaccines-have-been-li
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/billie-eilishs-tiny-desk-concert
date: 2024-12-16, from: Om Malik blog
It’s a hell of a noise to be woken up by your continuous glucose monitoring app sending an alert for a hypoglycemic event. As a diabetic, you’ve got to pay attention to this — get up, take a quick sip of apple juice, and wait for things to get better. While you’re doing that, you …
https://om.co/2024/12/16/wah-ustad-zakir-hussains-lasting-lessons/
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045857-americans-spend-more-year
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045858-isle-of-tune-a-web-based
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/0045843-from-an-old-version-of
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/12/kottke-comments-now-with-faves
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Starting next year:
Our longstanding offering won’t fundamentally change next year, but we are going to introduce a new offering that’s a big shift from anything we’ve done before—short-lived certificates. Specifically, certificates with a lifetime of six days. This is a big upgrade for the security of the TLS ecosystem because it minimizes exposure time during a key compromise event.
Because we’ve done so much to encourage automation over the past decade, most of our subscribers aren’t going to have to do much in order to switch to shorter lived certificates. We, on the other hand, are going to have to think about the possibility that we will need to issue 20x as many certificates as we do now. It’s not inconceivable that at some point in our next decade we may need to be prepared to issue 100,000,000 certificates per day…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/short-lived-certificates-coming-to-lets-encrypt.html
date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The maker of Moxie, an "AI"-powered educational robot for kids, is going out of business – and the $800 bots will die with it.</p> date: 2024-12-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-doge-billionaires-plan-to
date: 2024-12-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Tomorrow, December 16, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, signed into law on December 16, 1974, by President Gerald R.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2024
date: 2024-12-16, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The dark at the end of the tunnel A metaphor for 2025? Quote of the Day ”If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.” Richard Feynman And was it Wittgenstein who said somewhere that “If a … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-20-december-2024/40205/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
The US has at least two different systems of what gets termed “socioeconomic class” by Siderea Economic class refers to money. It refers to the wealth or poverty of a person, and to the privileges they do or do not have because of their economic might or lack thereof. Social class is what is being […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/15/cultural-power-vs-economic-power/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Shady Characters blog
It’s that time of the year again!
You: a discerning reader of books about unconventional information technologies (unusual marks of punctuation, say, or pocket calculators). Your friends and family: the same, naturally. But what gifts to give them this holiday season?
https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2024/12/2024-gift-guide/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Martin Luther King Day is January 20 in 2025, also is Inauguration Day.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/15.html#a215852
date: 2024-12-15, from: John’s World Wide Wall Display
The Advent calendar in Glow Blogs has now 15 wee activities for mid-upper primary. 5 minutes of Christmas fun or a brain break for each day. New ones appear at 1 minute past midnight. I have learnt a bit about the Site Editor when making the Calendar page. I used the new, to Glow, Grid […]
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/h5p-christmas-advent-in-glow-blogs/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Deep in the thread: “I want to give a huge volume of writing to ChatGPT or something much like it, and then ask it to give me an outline of what I wrote, and allow me to massage the outline, churn out a synopsis. I’d like to see what’s there, and there’s far too much writing for me to do that.”
http://scripting.com/2024/12/15.html#a181857
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
What if you had a twitter-like system that was embedded in a ChatGPT-like app. What would you do with that?
http://scripting.com/2024/12/15.html#a180520
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
journalism I pay attention is labeling itself as truth-based –
but it most definitely is not. When it comes to topics I am expert in,
they tell a mushed up version of extreme points of view, that
(surprise!) favor the continued existence of their jobs. The choice of
the truth-based label is kind of a clue. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/12/15.html#a174726
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
This post spawned quite a thread on Bluesky: “The AI industry could give us easy tools to build our own models, from our own archived writing, for private use. This may be a blind spot. It’s as if when personal computers started, instead of spreadsheet editors, we were offered great sets of tabulated recalc’ing data. Fun to watch, maybe useful for researchers, but nothing compared to the utility of playing ‘what if’ on our own models.”
http://scripting.com/2024/12/15.html#a174444
@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: 2024-12-17, 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: 2024-12-16, 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: 2024-12-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/13/iphone-14-and-iphone-se-eu-report/