(date: 2024-10-17 17:23:43)
date: 2024-10-17, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Where am I? Trying to navigate London using Google maps? Quote of the Day ”We cannot say that innovation is necessarily good simply because there is a market for it.” Simon Johnson, who shared this year’s Nobel prize for economics, … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-18-october-2024/39980/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
One
of the things that makes me want to see Automattic stick around and grow
is that they have a really large codebase that has been scaled, debugged
and maintained for over 20 freaking years. And the most important thing
– they don’t break users. The code I wrote to run against WordPress in
the 00s still runs today. To me as a developer this speaks very loudly.
It means it’s safe to develop here. It means there’s discipline in their
development organization. Most companies don’t do this, but the ones who
do, have earned my deep respect. For all of Microsoft’s sins, they were
incredibly good at this too. It’s why I liked working with them, and
also why we laughed at each others’ jokes if you can believe that. In
some ways all the open source stuff is too complicated. I understand the
concept of “development org” – so I look at it that way. I dig around
their codebase, see how they do things, and figure it’ll work out pretty
well if I just do it that way. Because the last people they’re going to
break are themselves. What I see on their latest APIs is maturity and
completeness. They didn’t rush off to the next thing before finishing. I
found that in their Calypso API, which I’ve been building on. Honestly
this is my kind of platform, it’s what Manila’s API would look like
today probably if we had continued developing it. I’ll see if I can find
the docs around here somewhere. Long time ago. ;-)
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a223019
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=5.8-emphasis
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045473-redbox-went-bankrupt-and-
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
made the
reallySimple
package for Node.js because I wanted to make it as easy as possible
to read feeds in Node apps. It should be as easy as reading a file. Give
it the URL of a feed, get back a JavaScript object that’s as simple as
feeds are. It can read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds, but you get the same
object regardless of what form the feed was in. I’m up for creating some
example apps if you’re interested. There is a very simple
Hello
World app included in the package and a set of
demo
apps. It’s MIT-licensed, so you can do whatever you want with the
code. It would lovely to see it ported. The idea is to plant some seeds
in the Node.js world to make it easy for developers to try out new ideas
with feeds, figuring the easier it is, the more people will do it. Be
creative. Blow our minds! :-)
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a221105
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/15/fido-alliance-portable-passkeys-across-platforms/
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045477-the-biden-administration-
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://rmondello.com/2024/10/07/apple-passwords-generated-strong-password-format/
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045472-this-mashup-of-ymca-by
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045471-a-weird-form-of-dark
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/how-cranberries-are-harvested-1
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-17, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Working on the usability of the debugger now. Lots of small details to fix:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113324249910004838
date: 2024-10-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16-2024-50b
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045469-supreme-court-rules-6-3-t
date: 2024-10-17, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img width="700" height="auto" class="insert-image" src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/snapdragon-developer-kit-for-windows-box.jpeg" alt="Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows"></p>This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows:
Dear Valued Customer,
Please see this important message from Qualcomm:
”At Qualcomm, we are dedicated to pioneering leading technology and delivering premium experiences to our valued customers. The launch of 30+ Snapdragon X-series powered PC’s is a testament to our ability to deliver leading technology and the PC industry’s desire to move to our next-generation technology. However, the Developer Kit product comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence and so we are reaching out to let you know that unfortunately we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-cancels-snapdragon-dev-kit-refunds-all-orders
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045470-ok-this-is-a-genuinely
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045468-the-binary-game-tests-you
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045396-new-research-documents-ac
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-17, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Ta-Nehesi Coates conversation with Peter Beinart:
If you are like me and can never do podcasts, you can read the transcript on the link above.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113323444208509521
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The
question has come up in various contexts, is a Substack feed a blog?
Yes, I think it can be. For some reason people thought I’d say no. In
2003, I compiled a list of
things
that make a blog a blog, and it’s not about the software you use,
rather it’s about who’s writing it, and whether they’re being edited.
Now it’s a different question to ask if I would use it. I would not.
Because it forces you to use their editor. And that’s a
pernicious form
of lock-in. It might sound like a small thing, but it means you can’t
easily try out something new. You are not available to other software
developers as a possible user, so no software will be designed for you.
I know how well that kind of system works. And that’s probably why they
lock you into using their editor. If I can’t switch without breaking
everything, I’m not going there.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a151304
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/ravioli-and-other-ravioli-shaped-objects
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Mathew
Ingram
asks
if AI will save us or kill us. It could both save and kill us. That’s
what’s so disturbing about evolving. We live such short lives, people
aren’t really designed to evolve, but because of medicine and other
tech, we are often forced to do it. Evolution can come many ways. Losing
a job may force you to evolve. The dissolution of a marriage. Having
life-saving surgery with a long recovery saves you for sure, but it
might also kill you because you can’t go back to being the person you
were before. There might not be a path back. One thing’s for sure we
need saving. We can’t survive without radical change. We’re on a
path that doesn’t work. Is there any way for us to change radically
without a complete collapse? Well, actually kind of looks like we might
have been given a path out through AI. But it means we must give up
control. But here’s the funny thing about that. We aren’t giving up
anything because no one has any control. That’s a political question in
the US, can one person become a mad king and thus gain complete control.
But he’s 78 and not in good health, and that control could only last a
few years at most. We will need saving from that. If somehow we could
configure AI so it did what humans can’t and won’t do, at least our
civilization might have a way forward if not our species. Just some
random thoughts. Maybe unthinkable, but they occur to me anyway, which
is why I have a blog. 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a145140
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
keep writing on my hybrid
WordPress/Mastodon
blog at my kitchen table. This morning I wrote about why I don’t
believe in the Ya Gotta Believe, a baseball slogan coined by a 1973 Mets
pitcher Tug McGraw. It’s on-topic because the Mets are in a challenging
series with the Dodgers for the National League championship. No matter
how it turns out, this is a historic year for the Mets, and no matter
how it turns out I won’t love the Mets any less if they lose. I think
true believers believe in that – love – without any expectations, win or
lose, or maybe even more if they lose. BTW, I know the rendering
of the post isn’t complete on Mastodon, and there are errors. I’m
working with the people at Automattic at getting this right. I’m glad to
see that Mastodon has the flexibility to do that. Anyway, I believe in
the things I believe in, not because I “gotta.” I don’t like the slogan
because it doesn’t reflect how I feel about the team. My philosophy is
respectful (in a way) of the teams the Mets beat, because I understand
that their fans don’t love them any less because they lost. If anything
I think the better slogan for the Mets would be this:
Wait
till next year! 😄
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a134443
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/ooh-a-color-kindle-is-finally-here
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>A couple of months after launch, an OS update has delivered one of the Nokia HMD Skyline's headline features.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/hmd_skyline_digital_detox/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-17, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The United States is 100% behind the extermination and ethnic cleansing of Palestine
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/biden-israel-arms-aid-00184028
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113322664963942798
date: 2024-10-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-fascism-is-now-in-the-open
date: 2024-10-17, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
The transition from Ubuntu 22 to 24 for ubuntu-latest on GitHub actions started recently with the associated version bumps of a lot of applications. As expected. One of the version bumps is for clang: it now uses clang 18 by default. clang 18 introduced some changes that turned out to be relevant for me and … Continue reading UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer’s unexpected behavior
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/17/undefinedbehaviorsanitizers-unexpected-behavior/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Two Fox News Channel interviews bracketed today: one this morning with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in front of an audience of hand-picked Republican women in Georgia, the other by Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris with host Bret Baier.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16-2024
date: 2024-10-17, from: Matt Haughey blog
In 2022, for my 50th birthday I replaced my 20 year-old off road worthy Lexus GX 470 that I'd been building since the start of the pandemic with a brand new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe. This is a recap of the last two years of American car ownership
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/two-years-of-living-with-a-jeep-wrangler/
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/a-bonkers-japanese-skateboarding-show
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/business/boars-head-owners-listeria-outbreak.html
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1196015787&code=GRUBER
date: 2024-10-16, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
The media is finally reporting on Trump’s mental decline
https://steady.substack.com/p/its-about-time
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045451-reader-favorites-from-20-
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-16, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The annual Rust/Swift Godot interop selfie!
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113319486413063560
date: 2024-10-16, from: James Fallows, Substack
What we know, as voting begins. A note for the historical record.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-20-days-to-go
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/abortion-bans-have-made-miscarriages-more-dangerous
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Ron Garret
Yesterday we were treated to the sight of a major party nominee at what was supposed to be a town hall meeting suddenly stop taking questions and just dancing (badly) for the better part of an hour. A mere 20 years ago, well within living memory, less than five seconds of screaming were enough to end Howard Dean’s political career. My, how times change.But the truly astonishing thing
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/10/have-republicans-ever-actually-listened.html
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045463-jimmy-carter-cast-his-mai
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045460-hearing-things-is-a-new
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/lcd-soundsystem-x-miles-davis
date: 2024-10-16, from: Wait but why blog
So heavy but so worth it
The post Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch appeared first on Wait But Why.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/10/spacex-toddler.html
date: 2024-10-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2024-1b8
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045458-ugh-these-undecided-hobbi
date: 2024-10-16, from: Om Malik blog
I discovered Minimalissimo 15 years ago, literally on the day they started publishing. It became part of my RSS reader. It found a home in a folder called “The good stuff,” which had many such websites and blogs. These were aesthetics-oriented online destinations. Many of these sites are gone — becoming irrelevant with age. Others …
https://om.co/2024/10/16/minimalissimo-r-i-p/
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045454-abortion-our-bodies-their
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045455-flat-rate-train-ticket-re
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Gruber
gave me an idea when he put his
NYY
logo on his blog. I
thought that was both interesting and weird. I don’t get how anyone I
know can be a fan of the that team. An American League team in a
National League city. Kind of like rooting for Staten Island. Anyway,
the Yankees may win the
ALCS,
but what does it mean? It’s not going to make New York love them. But
then Gruber is in Philadelphia so why isn’t he thinking about the
Phillies, who btw, the Mets beat soundly in the division series, earlier
this month. In any case, I have made the
team
picture of the 1969 world champion Mets as the banner image on
Scripting News for now and into the forseeable future.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/16.html#a141037
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, I’ve been too busy to keep up with the Podcast0 feed. Not sure when I’ll be able to pick it up again.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/16.html#a140859
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-16, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Threads just added an online status feature, where it’ll show your icon to others with a green dot if you’re online. I turned it off. I don’t see this as a social network, I see it as a two-way publishing medium. Big fundamental difference. My words speak for me here and on Threads. It’s a strong argument in favor of “Follows” being the default algorithm, btw.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/16.html#a134809
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-16, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Good documentary on Facebook/Meta censoring content on Palestine:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113317214327790990
date: 2024-10-16, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
Multiple-Choice Uproars: more blather about the U.S. Election.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-oracle-mouths-off-part-2
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Windows Embedded POSReady 7, the last supported version of Windows 7, has hit the end of the road nearly five years after the desktop edition.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/windows_7_eol/
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/cheating-at-conkers.html
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs.</p> date: 2024-10-16, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2024
date: 2024-10-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-how-optimistic-are-you
date: 2024-10-15, from: John Naughton’s online diary
A reformed character I was a guest at lunch in the Reform Club a couple of weeks ago, and who should I see on emerging from the Coffee Room (as the dining room is perversely called) but old Tom Macaulay … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-16-october-2024/39966/
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/apollo-16-lunar-rover-dash-cam-1
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045449-this-is-cabel-sassers-xox
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045453-posse-post-on-own-site
date: 2024-10-15, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
This is from an email thread on the topic of digital identity, which is the twice-yearly subject* of the Internet Identity Workshop, the most leveraged conference I know. It begins with a distinction that Devon Loffreto (who is in the thread) came up with many moons ago: Self-sovereign identity is who you are, how you […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/15/identity-as-root/
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045452-bookshops-are-cool-again-
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/season-two-of-silo
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045450-from-robin-wall-kimmerer-
date: 2024-10-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14-2024-1ac
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Everybody’s maxing out on Wordle today. I stopped with one step left. Stumped. I may lose my streak today. A lot of people are.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/15.html#a181002
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-15, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Sublime:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113312739310774763
date: 2024-10-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On October 14, 1890, Dwight D.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-14-2024
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-15, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
i am not a sophisticated ChatGPT user, like the rest of you:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113312650001335163
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045448-theres-no-guarantee-that-
date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
A long time ago I ran a free service called weblogs.com. It was the early days of blogs. RSS didn’t exist yet, so there was no way to find out which blogs had new stuff other than going through your blogroll and clicking links.
So I built a simple server, running in Frontier, that handled pings. When you updated your blog, you’d send a message to weblogs.com saying your blog updated. It would then read the HTML of the blog and verify that it changed, and it would be added to a list of blogs that updated, in reverse chronologic order. It also published an XML version of the update list called changes.xml, so if you wanted to run a search engine off the list, you could do that too.
There were several ways to send a ping. You could go to a web page and enter the URL of your blog. Or you could save the URL as a bookmark and click the bookmark when you updated. Or if you used blogging software like our Manila or Radio UserLand, or later EditThisPage.com or weblogs.com (which eventually hosted blogs itself), it could ping on your behalf, automatically.
Aside: Here’s a snapshot of the weblogs.com site, preserved.
A number of search sites appeared. And we were happy, until another developer, funded by venture capitalists, who expected a return on their investment, built on our open and free changes.xml list, started asking for and receiving pings on their own, and (key point) they didn’t make their change list public. This struck me as highly un-weblike and unfair, but they could do it and we had to live with it.
Based on what Matt has been saying it sounds to me like it’s something like our experience. Except weblogs.com was a short term thing, and not a business, and it didn’t last twenty years, and it didn’t have a payroll to support.
But it still felt wrong that they weren’t giving back as they received. If it had persisted like WordPress has, it would have eventually been a seriously diseconomic and unsustainable problem. And I can imagine I might write about it publicly as Matt has and maybe even get a famous lawyer like Neal Katyal to advise me. And here we are.
Have we heard anything from the other side, or anyone who is familiar with what their position might be. Do they not feel obligated to support the continued development of WordPress or maybe there’s another issue we haven’t heard about.
I can’t imagine that Matt would make such a big deal out of this if it weren’t actually a big deal. He probably knew in advance how disruptive this would be. And I imagine the others knew it would be too and counted on him not wanting to make a fuss.
I have gotten embroiled in these kinds of things in the past, and I don’t like it. I love to make software and make users happy and then make more software, round and round. Anything that involves lawyers is not me doing what I was made to do.
And I do see a silver lining. As with twitter-like systems, I now see the possibilty to help WordPress serve writers better in the future. Before this, people didn’t think change was possible in the WordPress world, like they didn’t see the possibility of change with Twitter. But now Twitter has quite a bit of viable competition. I know that WordPress could be better tuned for writers, and the product has a very nice API that would make it possible for lots of writing tools to flourish. It is a strong platform that’s debugged, scaled, documented and worked on for a long time, and they don’t tend to break users. And where commercial vendors like Facebook and Twitter often have excellent technology, ultimately they are run by execs and bankers who don’t believe in being open, where this is something that has been deeply ingrained in the WordPress culture from the beginning and would be hard to change and that’s a good thing for users and developers.
Here’s the exciting part – between WordPress and Twitter lies a product that would bring the web back to life. Imagine a twitter-like system with the writers features of WordPress. Amazingly, we are on the cusp of that being a reality.
There’s lots of opportunity to better serve writers here, and that’s what I love to do, and honestly I think Ghost and Substack have left themselves open to a writing environment built on WordPress that doesn’t try to lock users in. And at the same time, I think we can use this platform to help all the twitter-like services to support all kinds of writing, not just severely limited tweets typed into tiny little text boxes. Somewhere along the line they got the wrong idea that taking features out of the web was a good thing. I want to bring these features back so we can get going again with the web as a writer’s platform.
Anyway, I don’t need to think anyone is right or wrong here, and I don’t think anyone else should either. I think this platform is very nicely open and we can do lots of interesting new stuff here. I hope to open a new thread here, focused on writers and the web. It’s been too long.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/15/170749.html?title=whatsUpWithWordpress
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/charles-schulz-on-being-a-good-citizen
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Daring Fireball
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-15, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Jet lag this past weekend in Berlin hit me hard. Only managed 5 hours of sleep between Friday and Monday.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113312366801838308
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045446-the-way-mainstream-media-
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045444-ward-christensen-bbs-inve
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/ed-yong-on-breaking-down
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here).
The sales pitch came from a marketing official trusted by Hezbollah with links to Apollo. The marketing official, a woman whose identity and nationality officials declined to reveal, was a former Middle East sales representative for the Taiwanese firm who had established her own company and acquired a license to sell a line of pagers that bore the Apollo brand. Sometime in 2023, she offered Hezbollah a deal on one of the products her firm sold: the rugged and reliable AR924…
date: 2024-10-15, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
When my wife was a kid, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened. The next year, she had leukaemia, spent months in a clean room, spent years with chemo and recovery. Nuclear energy will always be personal.
Also, I grew up in two A zones and one C zone around nuclear reactors.
The plant has been operating since September 1969. … Beznau 2 operated under temporary licenses until 3 December 2004, when the Swiss Federal Council removed the limitation. – Beznau
I guess they just discovered it was suddenly safe?
… on the Rhine and close to the border with Germany. – Leibstadt
Lucky how close the borders are! Half the people at risk can’t complain because they can’t vote. Strange how this seems to be a popular nuclear power plant building strategy in densely populated, fragmented political landscapes.
The last significant change to the KKG was the construction of a new storage facility for spent rods. – Gösgen
That’s right. There is no solution for the spent rods for all Swiss nuclear power plants. Whenever they start digging the locals launch political movements to stop it. The solution was ingenious: now such protest must happen at the federal level, not at the local level. And this is how we’ll force that pesky radioactive waste repository on somebody. Genius.
I don’t even want to talk about nuclear energy vs other types of energy. Just use less fucking energy. As long as I see energy being wasted, I don’t feel like I need to accept new power plants into my life. Let alone nuclear power plants.
Let alone artificial intelligence.
Nuclear energy for artificial intelligence:
Google has become the latest tech giant to seek nuclear power as a source for its datacenters and other operations. … Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment, by Simon Sharwood, for The Register
Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft … Microsoft will purchase the carbon-free energy produced from it to power its data centers to support artificial intelligence. … However, nuclear has drawn criticism for environmental groups for decades for its waste. The US still has no permanent repository for that waste, instead storing it at over 70 operating and shuttered plants around the nation. – Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft, by Jordan Valinsky, for CNN
I can’t wait for the next AI winter.
#Nuclear #Artificial Intelligence
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-15-nuclear
date: 2024-10-15, from: Robert Reich’s blog
We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Trump is on the side of the ultra-wealthy who are rigging the system. Harris should make it clearer she’s on the people’s side.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/heres-how-harris-can-dispel-any-doubt
date: 2024-10-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
As the two presidential campaigns position themselves for the final sprint to the election on November 5, the difference between them is dramatic.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14-2024
date: 2024-10-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
When Italian mariner Christopher Columbus and his sailors “discovered” the “New World” for Spain’s monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, they brought with them both ideologies and germs that would decimate the peoples living in the Americas.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/history-extra-for-october-13-2024
date: 2024-10-15, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Stories provide a scaffold for understanding When I read non-fiction, I’m less interested in learning facts than gaining understanding (though sometimes facts support the understanding). I want to build a mental scaffold to hook future facts and related concepts onto. I want to build a story. This connects to the “big questions” approach, which gives […]
date: 2024-10-15, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Ed Yong is a thoughtful guy — as he says at the end, his pillars are empathy, curiosity, and kindness. After winning the Pulitzer, he made himself rules for being a public figure online. It was interesting to hear how he related to winning the prize, which seemed to be almost embarrassment at having received […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/14/watched-ed-yongs-xoxo-talk/
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Anil Dash blog
https://anildash.com/2024/10/15/its-2004-again/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I need to install gear in these two structured wiring cabinets in the garage of the new house we are finishing. I don’t know exactly what to put in them and seek advice. The installed cables are: Blue CAT-6a Ethernet cables go to outlets (RJ-45 jacks) in four rooms. Internet will come from the city’s […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/14/wiring-question/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise by Wes Davis (The Verge) Who cares if it’s fake if it’s cool? + Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop by Jason Koebler (404 Media) A specific segment of the people who have seen and understand that it is AI-generated […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/14/truthwashing-vibes-and-scams-all-the-way-down/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
It’s better to be Harris than Trump
https://steady.substack.com/p/with-the-race-thisclose
date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2024/10/14/213600.html?title=theKittenLovesTheMets
date: 2024-10-14, from: Om Malik blog
Last week over coffee, a friend told me about Screenable, a new app designed to help with digital parenting. Founded by ex-Googler Tom Clifton and his brother, Stevie, the app manages children’s access to smartphones. Screenable limits access to phones and text messages, for example. It works on any Apple phone or iPad released in …
https://om.co/2024/10/14/are-kids-screenable/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-14, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Israel is planning to conquer and annex parts of Gaza. To do so, they will need to exterminate the Palestinians there.
Despite watching a year worth of their extermination campaign, they still manage to impress with new and innovative approaches. We are out of words for this carnage.
Videos of children and hospital patience burning to a crisp are everywhere (nothing in Mastodon)
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113307276262936073
date: 2024-10-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-13-2024-513
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045442-an-early-analysis-of-data
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-14, 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/2024/10/upcoming-speaking-engagements-41.html
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045441-nations-indigenous-people
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Highly recommend today’s Olbermann podcast. I’ve seen video of a recent press interview where Trump said he’s use the military to arrest and in some cases kill Americans, starting with but not limited to Hispanics. This is not being reported in the major news orgs. We can’t wait for them to fix it, we have to create new channels for news flow that have credibility and work, and we need it before the election. People need at least have a chance of understanding what they are voting for.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/14.html#a151552
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/10/the-last-years-of-alexei-navalny-in-his-own-words
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware:
The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. It can also exploit CVE-2023-33246, a vulnerability with a severity rating of 10 out of 10 that was patched last year in Apache RocketMQ, a messaging and streaming platform that’s found on many Linux machines.
The researchers are calling the malware Perfctl, the name of a malicious component that surreptitiously mines cryptocurrency. The unknown developers of the malware gave the process a name that combines the perf Linux monitoring tool and ctl, an abbreviation commonly used with command line tools. A signature characteristic of Perfctl is its use of process and file names that are identical or similar to those commonly found in Linux environments. The naming convention is one of the many ways the malware attempts to escape notice of infected users…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html
date: 2024-10-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Keeping the faith
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/may-i-have-a-word
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-10-14, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Departing the Android capital of Europe
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113304652739955321
date: 2024-10-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
“He is the most dangerous person ever.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-13-2024
date: 2024-10-13, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Messages for Ludwig The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is buried in Ascension Churchyard in Cambridge, a lovely peaceful cemetery where my late wife Carol is buried. So I often go there, and when I do I sometimes stop by Wittgenstein’s grave, … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-14-october-2024/39959/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Om Malik blog
Jason Kottke, one of the blog elders and author of Kottke.org, celebrated Dave Winer’s 30th blog anniversary by calling him “one of the purest of the pure bloggers.” To that, Dave asked Jason what he meant by “pure blogger.” I don’t know what Jason means, but as I pointed out in a comment, “Blogging is …
https://om.co/2024/10/13/pure-blogger/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Against Fearing Home Cooks by Devin Kate Pope The U.S. food system disconnects people from their food and each other. When a home kitchen invokes fear, doesn’t that say more about what we think of our neighbors than any truth about cleanliness? + Public Spaces, Private Lives by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [P]eople are afraid to […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/13/resilience-builds-on-trust-fascism-on-fear/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
See also: Read Ways of Curating The vulnerability of having taste
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/10/13/the-list-is-the-origin-of-culture/
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K7pIsfvg
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Someday I have to reboot Bingeworthy, it’s the software snack I miss the most. It broke when Twitter broke their identity system.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a152625
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW,
why doesn’t Netflix buy Metacritic
and integrate their ratings aggregator in their user interface. I
predict I’d watch far more stuff on Netflix than I do now. Or Apple TV,
Max, Hulu, Disney, etc. The idea that such a valuable resource is not
part of the user experience is crazy imho. What a waste. What reminded
me of this is Plex has integrated the equivalent of Bingeworthy in their
service, which is also a good idea and will glue communities of users to
you. The idea is to systematize recommendations. If I know a specific
friend liked a movie or a show is valuable information for me, not just
advertisers.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a152236
date: 2024-10-13, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
Holding the mic in this shot, taken with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max, is Mitch Teplitsky, a documentary filmmaker based in Bloomington, Indiana. Mitch has been reading this blog for the duration, and reached out when I showed up in town. The scene is the Pitchdox award event yesterday, which was by Hoodox at […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/10/13/the-iphone-16-pro-max-so-far/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Textcasting shows up as a slight blip (or less) on Google Trends.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a145152
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I am totally having a blast with my hybrid blog, built by textcasting WordPress and Mastodon. Just wrote a post about the day the NYT signs off, finally realizing how fcuked we are if Trump is elected or manages to steal the election next month. Their final headline in this story is GOOD LUCK AMERICA.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/13.html#a144304
date: 2024-10-13, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/let-the-river-run
date: 2024-10-13, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Dieser Artikel ist Teil von Hellebarden & Helme und eine Alternative zu 2024-10-07 Massengefechte. Die Massengefechte waren etwas OD&D inspiriert und sind ausführlicher, da sie für ein Fanzine geschrieben wurden.
Einheiten bilden: Gleichartigen Kreaturen werden nach belieben eingeteilt.
Ein oder zwei Einheiten pro Spielerinnen und Spieler ist ein gute Anfang.
Trefferpunkte berechnen: Man multipliziert Anzahl Kreaturen, Anzahl Trefferwürfel pro Kreatur und durchschnittlichen Trefferpunkten pro Trefferwürfel (4½).
40 Banditen haben beispielsweise 40 × 4.5 = 180 Trefferpunkte. Auf der Tabelle unten hat es viele vorberechnete Werte.
Initiative, Bewegung, Angriffe und so weiter funktionieren wie immer. Rüstungsklasse, Bewegungsrate, Moral und Rettungswürfe bleiben unverändert.
Im Nahkampf kann eine Einheit, welche mit mehreren Gegnern im Kontakt ist, alle gleichzeitig angreifen!
Gewicht: Schaden wird von Angreifer und Verteidiger nach untenstehender Tabelle gewichtet, da in der Masse und wegen dem Gelände nie alle gleichzeitig angreifen können: Der Schaden wird mit dem Gewicht des Angreifers multipliziert und durch das Gewicht des Verteidigers geteilt.
40 Banditen haben ein Gewicht von ×6. Landen sie einen Treffer und würfeln 4 Schaden teilen sie 4 × 6 = 24 Schaden aus. Ein Bandit mehr und das Gewicht würde auf ×7 steigen.
Haben die Banditen mit TW 1 noch 53 Trefferpunkte, sieht man in der Tabelle, dass es 11–20 Banditen mit Gewicht ×5 sind.
Die genaue Anzahl ist im Kampf egal. Wer es genau wissen will: 53/4.5 ≈ 12 (aufrunden).
| Anzahl | Gewicht | TW 1 | TW 2 | TW 3 | TW 4 | TW 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2–5 | ×3 | 22 | 45 | 90 | 180 | 360 |
| 6–10 | ×4 | 45 | 90 | 180 | 360 | 720 |
| 11–20 | ×5 | 90 | 180 | 360 | 720 | 1440 |
| 21–40 | ×6 | 180 | 360 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 |
| 41–80 | ×7 | 360 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 |
| 81–160 | ×8 | 720 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 |
| 161–320 | ×9 | 1440 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 | 23040 |
| 321–640 | ×10 | 2880 | 5760 | 11520 | 23040 | 46080 |
Steht eine Einheit mit mehreren Gegnern im Kontakt, können alle Gegner gleichzeitig angegriffen werden.
Spielercharaktere und ihr Gefolge werden von ihrer Einheit gedeckt. Erleidet die Einheit Schaden, nehmen Spielercharaktere und Gefolgsleute zuletzt Schaden.
Spielercharaktere und ihr Gefolge greifen wie immer mit eigenen Trefferwürfen und Zaubern an. Zauber werden auf Trefferpunkte umgerechnet. Zaubersprüche wie Donnerkeil oder Feuerball, werden genau so gegen Einheiten verwendet.
Schlafen 10 Banditen mit je 1 TW ein, so entspricht das 10 × 4.5 Schaden. Der genaue Wirkungsbereich der Zauber und die Marschordnung der einzelnen Kreaturen werden vernachlässigt.
Wenn eine Einheit ihr erstes Mitglied oder die Hälfte ihrer Mitglieder verliert, muss ein Moralwurf bestanden werden. Spielercharaktere verleihen ihrer Einheit den Charisma Bonus für Moralwürfe. Die Moralwürfe sind wichtig! Ist der Moralwurf misslungen, gilt die Einheit als gebrochen. Sie weicht zurück, sucht Deckung und hört auf zu kämpfen.
Spielercharaktere oder Gefolgsleute in gebrochenen Einheiten können diesen wieder Mut zusprechen. Pro Einheit kann dies nur eine Person pro Runde versuchen. Das Ermutigen einer Einheiten kann jede Runde wiederholt werden. Einer ermutigten Einheit steht ein erneuter Moralwurf zu. So oder so kann die Einheit diese Runde sonst nichts tun.
Erleidet eine gebrochene Einheit erneut Schaden, flieht sie vom Schlachtfeld. Alle weiteren Einheiten im Nahkampf erhalten einen freien Angriff mit einem +2 Bonus.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-10-massenschlachten
date: 2024-10-13, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-the-monster
date: 2024-10-13, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Celebrated another trip around the sun this week with a day on the water.