(date: 2024-11-18 07:34:02)
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/this-week
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045650-you-might-be-able-to
date: 2024-11-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I posted a feature request on Bluesky that has gotten a lot of flow.
Discussion
http://scripting.com/2024/11/18/142716.html?title=blueskyFeatureRequest
date: 2024-11-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Why I haven’t created an account on sez.us yet.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/18/141735.html?title=feedbackOnSezusSignUp
date: 2024-11-18, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
The fediverse is the network of social media instances that communicate via ActivityPub, mostly Mastodon but others exist as well. My own instance runs GoToSocial. The benefit is that nobody can force you to look at ads or sell your data.
Running such an instance means that you need the following:
But if you have a friend who runs one, or you’re a member of an association that runs one, and you trust their admins, you can hop on. Some friendly souls even run servers out of their own pockets, for free, relying on donations to keep their servers up and running.
What I want to say: it’s possible to be part of the independent web.
There are, unfortunately, also problems:
I think some people might prefer the bigger corporate players:
There are a lot more people on those networks, that’s for sure. Personally, I follow about 700 people with three accounts and I have about the same number of people following me, I think. This is plenty! I think it would be an illusion for me to think that in network with millions more people my reach and influence would reach new heights. On the contrary, the algorithm would probably bury my posts and even the people who do want to see my posts would have to dig for them, past ads, sponsored posts and posts with higher engagement metric.
My guess is that we often imagine our alternatives selectively. We imagine the grass to be greener and our prospects to be better, elsewhere.
If you’re looking to get started, I’d be happy to help.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-18-small-instance
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/18/how-to-import-a-javascript-library/
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/riscv_framework_main_board/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
History guarantees that Trump’s billionaires will overreach
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-takeover-and-the
date: 2024-11-18, from: mrusme blog
“Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country’s most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone.”
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/travel/japan/yokohama/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
When I try to log into the server using SSH it takes a long time. Why is
that? iotop doesn’t show anything suspicious. And yet,
since Saturday 18:00, munin shows that something is up.
I rebooted the server. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” 🤷
And that seems to have worked. I wonder what I did back then.
I was clearly doing something!
Here’s what I noticed: I uploaded a new version of the Norn bot, which had an error. I replaced it. Was systemd spawning it again and again, spamming the journal? Is that what caused the problem?
This is very strange.
But… rebooting helped!
2024-11-18. Or did it? The initial connect to the web server still seems to take a second or five. Once the initial handshake is done, the site serves quickly. So what could it be? The problem seen above really is gone.
2024-11-18. Around midnight, I was exchanging emails with @akkartik and everything seemed slow again. Nearly eight hours later, the problem seems to be gone. And the graph supports that. The question is: What does this mean? If I’m assuming that I installed a faulty bot on Saturday 18:00 and fixed it Sunday 18:00 (plus a reboot), what happened from midnight to 2:00?
Strangely enough, this spike in CPU usage was not accompanied in a spike in disk usage.
Another thing I noticed this morning: Not only is my SSH extremely sluggish – sometimes the command line takes half a minute or longer to update – but my IPv4 banlist also wasn’t around. I had to run ban-cidr again to reconstruct it. I’ve been banning some more networks, too (mostly Contabo and Hetzner in Germany). It doesn’t seem to be helping right now.
And while I’m snooping around: This hourly beat in Apache requests seems like a clear sign of bot activity, too. Fuckers.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-17-slow
date: 2024-11-18, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Highlights of the week: seeing my sister for the first time in a couple years, meeting internet friends in person Looking forward to: resting 😄 After our first real travel since the pandemic, I’m wiped! Dinners: sushi and veggie tempura — tried a new roll and wasn’t a fan tapas: kung pao Brussels sprouts, baked […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/17/weeknotes-nov-9-17-2024/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Tonight is a break from the craziness of the news.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2024
date: 2024-11-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2024-987
date: 2024-11-18, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The Editor Paul Webster is retiring as the Editor of the Observer after a long spell in the hot seat. There was a nice party for him in London on Thursday evening, which included quite a few witty speeches and, … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-18-november-2024/40083/
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://getupgraded.com/home-vp1/?utm_source=daringfireball
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
If you’re advising a president-elect, you don’t publicly push him to do what you want. That’s true of any president-elect. It’s even truer of Trump.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-first-buddy-is-in-deep-shit
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/downhill-skateboarding
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Joe
Trippi posted a
video
to his new sez.us service where
Pete
Buttigieg explains what the Russians have done to the US. I see it
that way too. When
Brian
Lehrer asked a few weeks ago how the US got so divided of his guest
Bob Woodward (a fascinating time capsule, recorded before the election)
they both missed it. We were divided by an enemy that is on the cusp of
destroying the US without launching a single nuke. Putin didn’t have to
invade Ukraine. I guess even he didn’t think his plan would succeed so
spectacularly. BTW, I don’t think Trippi’s network is the answer, but
maybe it is. I wish I had had a chance to create the system he was
using, we would make a good team. Anyway we need to be further along
than his offering is. The right system would allow me to control my
presence with only
RSS, in and out.
Maybe not for everyone, to start, but it would allow us to start
building. It’s why I have been lobbying for inbound and outbound RSS as
a back-end for all these networks. With the rise of Bluesky in the last
couple of weeks (things are happening that fast now) we may have a new
shot at it because Masto and Threads are certainly feeling it, and when
people feel competed-with they are more open to new thinking.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/17.html#a152212
date: 2024-11-17, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/when-truth-is-funnier-than-fiction
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-the-takeover
date: 2024-11-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
One of President-elect Trump’s campaign pledges was to eliminate the Department of Education.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2024