There's a dude in the front row on the 1st base side behind home place in Denver who looks like he's completely passed out. Hope he's ok. #MLB#Padres#Rockies
This video is beautifully done. Crank it up to 8K. ARTEMIS II: A Visual Masterpiece. 8K Cinematic Supercut - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch #artemisII
Giant video board at Petco Park in San Diego, California showing the NASA Artimis II Orion capsule splashing down off the coast of California. #Artemis#ArtemisII
Some lady just walked in to the restaurant where I'm eating, filled up to big thermos bottles with ice and water and left. Just water but still pretty ballsy IMO
If you want to feel like you're in Mission Control, this is the place: Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/
#artemis #artemisII
'Researchers in the UK studied how European herring gulls ...in the city reacted to various types of takeout boxes. The gulls were substantially less likely to approach or peck at boxes that had googly eyes attached to them, they found. '
Shout out to all the Pirates fans still at the ballpark in the 9th on a cold Monday night when you team is down 5-0. You are the real ones. #MLB#Padres#Pirates
Watching James Bond. We've been working through the series on Netflix. I love all the stupid ways the bad guys try to kill James. In this one, "For Your Eyes Only", James and the heroine get tied to a boat and dragged through the ocean. Just shoot them! 😄 #movies
I missed this one | Jill Biden Security Mishap as Agent Accidentally Shoots Self at Philadelphia Airport FBO - AeroXplorer.com https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/jill-biden-security-mishap-as-agent-shoots-self-on-philly-tarmac.php 'Reports confirmed by federal authorities on March 27, 2026, indicate that a Special Agent assigned to Dr. Jill Biden’s team suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the leg while at a secure staging area within the airport’s perimeter.'
BBC's "13 Minutes Presents" has a new podcast series about Artemis II. https://pca.st/podcast/c19dfea0-4791-0137-f266-1d245fc5f9cf They had previous shows about Apollo and the Space Shuttle that are worth going back and listening to.
#artemis #artemisII #space
Somewhere around here I have an LP that was all about Apollo 11 and narrated by Walter Cronkite. I listened to that countless times when I was a kid. Maybe it's been digitized and put online? That would be cool. We didn't have on-demand audio and video back in the 1900s 😂 #artemis#artemis2#apollo
TIL, "Illini" is derived from the name of a Native American tribe, the Illiniwek, who lived in the Mississippi River Valley. (according to DDG) #MarchMadness#TheMoreYouKnow 💫
I'm goin' down to Petco, gonna have myself a time. Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation. Goin' down to Petco, gonna leave my woes behind. (To the tune of South Park theme song) #MLB#padres#OpeningDay
fun fact anker docking stations are NOT designed to swap the usb cord between computers. ymmv but it landed me in the "usb last connected...." loop. I think i finally resolved it completely unplugging everything from the dock, rebooting the machine, and then making the anker software update/repair the firmware. It finally settled down. GEESH. You'd think that'd be basic functionality that a dock or usb hub might float.
Found the power brick for this Atom x5-Z8350 1.44GHz, 4GB RAM small form factor PC. It runs Win 11 (that's what it came with) but sllowwly. Not sure what I'll do with it. It's too slow to do anything with the Windows GUI. Maybe something headless? Ideas welcome.
#windows #linux #hardware
I was thinking about #Obsidian, a growing knowledge base and linking. In the beginning, as you make notes on a topic, you don't make links because you don't know the facts are related yet. It would be cool, and maybe a good use of AI, if there were a tool that could go back and link all your notes and build the knowledge graph. Think of one of those boards in detective shows where they just start pinning facts to the board. Victim, crime scene, suspect 1 then some clue is revealed and everything links up and you have a case.
A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)
ROOTS - Return Old Online Things to your own Site
That’s what Lisa Charlotte Muth is doing at her website. And that’s what I’m doing with posts like Some urgent note-making questions find answers - bringing scattered material back together.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBE TO GET BACK 125 ACRES OF ANCESTRAL LAND STOLEN DURING GOLD RUSH
Julie Watson/ Associated Press/ Mar 20
California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the #GoldRush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year.
This could be "the largest data theft in history." - @alaw202@masthead.social
The Inspector General at the Social Security Admin was WARNED about the massive risk DOGE was taking with our private data, but the #DOGEBros wouldn't stop.
Chuck Borges, former Chief Data Officer of the SSA, quit & became a Whistleblower so it would be taken seriously.
On @nicolesandler@mstdn.social he said Congress should be jumping at the heels of #DOGE Bros to get the truth.
Check it out #Infosec friends
https://www.youtube.com/live/SxeRutsIqDw?si=9CwFV8HB2M77NEdd&t=2677 #uspol
Blood test may predict women’s dementia risk up to 25 years early, study finds | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/health/lurking-dementia-risk-exposed-breakthrough-test-25-years-before-symptoms
#science
@sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com @Ronguest@fosstodon.org I recently switched from DayOne to Obsidian for journaling and it was the best decision I ever made. I own my data, locally, and I can easily take it anywhere. I love #Obsidian in general and it’s perfect for #journaling. I wrote about it here:
Saying goodbye to the oldest app on my phone - Drea's World
I wish there was some way of joining #Obsidian to my browser, such that when I search for something I get a popup saying "You have extensive notes on this after researching this exact issue 3 years ago and have since forgotten about"
Drey is, as usual, worth the read | The Merger That Needed A War - The Drey Dossier https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-merger-that-needed-a-war 'Everyone watching Iran, meanwhile, Oracle Corporation quietly published a blog post announcing that the U.S. government had authorized it to run generative AI on federal government data.'
#oracle #ellison #iran #ai
I spent some free time over the last week or so rebuilding my site. I had moved to Pico CSS about a month ago because I wanted something more modern than I was using. I needed something simple enough that I could wrap my head around how it works and easily drop it in without too much fuss. I find CSS to be a bit of a mystery. If I hack on it long enough I can get things to a good spot but it doesn't come naturally and I'm no artist.
This week was all about the frontend. I've been using Obsidian as the editor of choice because it works with Markdown files natively. My site is made up of static HTML generated from markdown by Eleventy (11ty). I was using a Vault (Obsidian's word for where your files are stored) for my Personal notes and another Vault that housed all the markdown and asset files for my website. That has worked well but there is a lot of overlap. My brain had to keep track of what was in my personal notes and what was on the website. So, I decided I'd combine the two.
One huge advantage to using Obsidian as your frontend is the ability to use the Templater plugin. This lets me create a temple for a blog post and another for a garden page. It will even auto name and move the file to the correct folder.
I keep a Digital Garden on my site so my idea is that I will continue to flesh that out and merge some of the notes that were hidden in my personal notes over into the Digital Garden. One nice thing is that in my Obsidian vault, everything is indexed so if I do move a note from one folder to the other, it is easily found in my local repository.
What about private notes? The default folder in my Obsidian vault is NOT one of the public folders. This means I can edit a post or keep a private note and it won't get published until I move it to the right folder. Also, I have 11ty ignore certain folders at build time so nothing from there gets published. Additionally, it's not like I keep info that is that private in my Vault.
On the 11ty side, I took the opportunity to completely rewrite my .eleventy.js file. This is the core of 11ty that tells it what to include, which plugins and filters to use and what to simply pass through. It was a mess after a bunch of experimentation with different things. I also implemented photogabble's awesome plugin that adds wikilink and wikilink embed support with tracking of backlinks.. This makes using Obsidian as the front end even easier because making a link to another note is as simple as typing [[noteName]] and 11ty will render it correctly as a web link when the site is published. They wrote more about the plugin here: Adding Wiki Links to 11ty.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I've either over-complicated things for myself or made it easier to do my "digital gardening". Either way, it was fun to figure out.
Happy Presidents Day.""""Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people monthly since 1997.""""We built a replacement: https://openfactbook.org""""261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons""""Public data should stay public.""""OpenDataCivicTechOpenSourcePresidentsDayPublicDomainDataRescue
It's been a while since I posted about my favorite Fediverse client, Phanpy https://phanpy.social/. It's a web app that works well on every device from desktop to mobile. It handles long threads like a dream and skillfully manages reposts in a unique horizontal scrolling UI. On a wider screen you can enable columns and keep on top of everything at the same time (if you used Tweetdeck on the bird site back in the day, you'll love it). I honestly can't imagine being part of the Fediverse without it.
#phanpy #feditips
Goodyear Blimp over Torrey Pines Golf Course for the Farmers Insurance Open with Scripps Pier in the foreground as seen from La Jolla cove. #golf#blimp#sandiego
Auto Hide Obsidian Sidebars
The minimalist mindset has you remove all distractions from your environment so you can stay focused on the task at hand. I use headphones to block out the kids in the house when I'm working, and endeavour to stick with the tools I have instead of trying to find something new.
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Clearing an app cache is such a terrible solution. It's too technical. I get that a cache can become stale but an app should just do it and automatically delete the bits that can cause common issues on log out/in.
#Feditips ⭐(star) = I like what you posted. 🔁(boost) = I like what you posted and everyone needs to see it. No algorithm means we're here to help each other find the good stuff!
Just the Browser https://justthebrowser.com/ 'Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.'
#chrome #firefox #ai
Have you noticed what is happening next month?? Friday the 13th (says what it is on the tin) 🔪 Saturday the 14th - Valentines Day ❤️ Monday the 16th - Presidents Day 🇺🇲 Tuesday the 17th - Mardi Gras AND Lunar New Year 💜💚💛🧧🐴
Slurp Fixed Saving Web Articles to Obsidian
In my recent Obsidian setup video I talked about how the ReadItLater and Obsidian Web Clipper were not working for me. I had to run through saving a web page twice to get the content I wanted.
Lifehacker: This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11. “If you’d like your operating system to go back to being an operating system, check out RemoveWindowsAI. This free script changes various registry keys to disable AI features including Copilot, Recall, and the Copilot integrations in applications including Edge, Paint, and Notepad.”
The internet is now rife with what I call "zettelkasten method one pagers" that describe what many people rightly (or very often wrongly) think that Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten method entails. While doing some research about Luhmann's numbering system's antecedents, I recently came across a "one pager" (typescript) written by Luhmann himself in the form of some lecture notes from 1968 that folks may appreciate. Luhmann, Niklas. 1968-01-13. “Ms. 2906: Technik des Zettelkastens.” […]
Microsoft Office has been replaced by "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" 🙄 (not a joke, see office.com)
Fortunately there are many good alternatives on the Fediverse:
➡️ @libreoffice - Free open source office suite, can be used entirely offline
➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Online fork of LibreOffice, upstream contributor
➡️ @nextcloud - FOSS personal cloud including collaborative office tools
➡️ @CryptPad - FOSS online office suite with maximum privacy
Today is Epiphany, aka Three Kings’ Day. This is the day that Mary, holding the sleeping infant Jesus, says to the little drummer boy, "you wake this kid up and His Father will NOT be pleased!" #catholic
Loss32: An idea for a Linux designed around Win32 apps • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/loss32_crazy_or_inspired/?td=keepreading "The gist of the idea is to run the whole user environment, desktop and all, inside WINE. So it's something like a bare-metal WINE sitting on top of the Linux kernel, with just enough plumbing to connect them up. " #linux
New, by me: The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
Today's story is a long overdue series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about the security of the internal network behind your Internet router probably is now dangerously out of date.
Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
I quite like Steph Ango's system of rating 1 to 7 so I'm adopting it. (https://stephango.com/vault#rating-system) It is more granular than 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 is too many.
7 — Perfect, must try, life-changing, go out of your way to seek this out
6 — Excellent, worth repeating
5 — Good, don’t go out of your way, but enjoyable
4 — Passable, works in a pinch
3 — Bad, don’t do this if you can
2 — Atrocious, actively avoid, repulsive
1 — Evil, life-changing in a bad way
Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.
Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast, show reel, powerpoint presentation, youtube video or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you, and if not you directly, maybe someone you know.
This is not the final form. I add to it whenever I find inspiration to do so. Check back every so often as you may find more content was added when you weren't looking 🔇
Currently:
1210 items
766 MB download in mp3
over 9 hours of music.
Absolutely no AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.
If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks. https://onj.me/shorts
Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases | United States Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-virginia-men-arrested-conspiring-destroy-government-databases?is=7954b7f440cecfd9b9243ddbaab5414f1d380add504b8c010e47738f0c1bfbda "According to court documents, brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, of Alexandria, Virginia, were indicted on Nov. 13 for conspiring to delete databases used to store U.S. government information. Both men were federal contractors. Following the termination of their employment, the brothers allegedly sought to harm the company and its U.S. government customers by accessing computers without authorization, issuing commands to prevent others from modifying the databases before deletion, deleting databases, stealing information, and destroying evidence of their unlawful activities."
pCloud is offering lifetime pay-once plans for cloud storage. Because, like I said, it's eminently possible to pay *once* for something and be done, without any subscription (which could and usually does go up over time based purely on whether the vendor feels like it).
If your first thought when you read this is: "Is this sustainable?", just understand that NOTHING IS SUSTAINABLE and that's really, really NOT what your first thought should be.
really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator
it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.
this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.
HP, Dell quietly disable HEVC on certain laptops over minute license fee increase
Inter-corporation bullshit screwing over consumers - a tale as old as time.
Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users
#travel #sandiego SAN Pass Program - San Diego International Airport https://www.san.org/relax-before-you-fly/san-pass-program/ "The SAN Pass allows non-ticketed individuals to go through security screening and visit and experience Terminal 1 & 2. Whether you’re seeing off a loved one, greeting an arriving traveler, or simply enjoying the shops and restaurants, the SAN Pass makes it possible."
Researchers Reveal New Method to Detect Primordial Life in Ancient Rocks — Scientists have developed a new technique to identify signs of Earth’s earliest life preserved in ancient rock formations. The method promises improved detection of primordial biosignatures and could reshape our…
https://www.reuters.com/science/new-method-spots-signs-earths-primordial-life-ancient-rocks-2025-11-18/
Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, plus photos for half and profile text for almost a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures.
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers | WIRED
Three Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Space After Colleague Rescue — Chinese officials report that three additional taikonauts are now stranded in orbit following a recent mission that successfully rescued a colleague. The development raises safety and technical questions about China’s…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/three-more-chinese-astronauts-now-183505360.html
There are two things I want to ensure in my Obsidian Vault: 1) Every note is actually created in the vault. And 2) Every note has a link to another note or Map of Content (MOC) within the vault.
What do I mean, actually created? In Obsidian you can, in the text of a note, simply add [[My Grand Idea]] which looks like a link to the note called "My Grand Idea" but I might not have a real note called "My Grand Idea". This Base, which I keep on a note called "In Box" gathers up any non-created notes and shows them to me so I can be sure I create them for real.
The line that says !file.path.contains("Support") is meant to prevent anything in my Support folder or it's subfolders from showing up in the Base. This is where I keep my Templates. You can omit that line or change Support to something that makes sense for your Vault.
The second one is self explanatory: I want all notes to link to each other. This Base shows me any notes that don't contain links to other notes in the vault.
Like the above, I don't want false-positives showing up for notes in the Files folder (where I keep attachments), the Support folder or the Daily folder. These filters could be modified or removed.
I've been using Linux and in particular Zorin OS for a month or so. I try and note anything I've had to figure out or want to remember the next time I have to do an install. I've posted my notes to my Digital Garden: Linux Notes https://techlifeweb.com/garden/Linux/
#linux #zorinos
\#California’s state agency CalPrivacy is building a new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP 😂).
Starting Jan 1, 2026, you’ll be able to submit a request through DROP, asking data brokers to delete your data.
Starting Aug 1, 2026, data brokers are required to start regularly processing consumer deletion requests, reducing how many times your data can be bought, sold, and pop-up on sketchy websites. 😎
This is exciting, as it’s a FREE service for California residents, similar to existing, paid services like Optery, Incogni, Privacy Bee, DeleteMe, and EasyOptOuts.
Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
Obsidian is the notes app I use the most. Over the past few years, my collection of notes has changed a lot. I try out different ways of organizing my notes, then I watch videos or read about how other people use the app, and I adjust my setup accordingly. There’s no single correct way to use it. The way I use Obsidian might be very different from how you do. Heck, my online friend Lou Plummer (@amerpie on Mastodon) maintains a whole list of Example Obsidian Vaults from Around the Internet for you to see the different ways this wonderful app can be used.
My current way of organizing and working in Obsidian is finally stable and working well for me. I’ve decided it's the right time to share my setup and write about how I use it. Like everything else here, I do this so I can remember what I did and why, and also to have a place to send people who ask me about it.
Here's some information about the vault and how I use it. I've also added a section about my personal rules for using it. Your rules don't have to be the same as mine, but I strongly encourage you to take a moment to think about what you're doing with your notes and, even more importantly, why you're making these notes.
When I was setting up my vault, I believed that being able to find things easily was the most important idea. So, I thought about how to make notes that are quick and simple to create, while also including enough details so I can find them again without any trouble.
I avoid folders for content. Every note is stored in the Notes folder with the exception of Daily Notes which are held in the Notes/Daily subfolder.
Notes that are not content are stored under the Support folder. There are subfolders for the special cases of Navigation notes (some call these MOCs or Maps of Content) and Templates.
I have all the Navigation notes bookmarked so they appear in the list of Bookmarks. That panel I have open on the upper left and is where I start all my navigation unless I just search.
📥In Box: This is a list of any file this has been linked to but not yet created
🗂️Resources: Things I am interested in
🌐Areas: Areas of Responsibility are the roles you take on in life and the hats you wear (Spouse, Mother/Father, Team Leader, Soccer Coach)
💼Efforts: Things I'm actively working on
😎 Favorites: Any notes tagged "favorites" will show up here
📈Stats: Uses Dataview to show the current number of files in my Obsidian Vault and has a list of the 10 most recent notes.
Having Bookmarks always handy in the sidebar like this is very helpful for temporarily keeping notes handy. For example, if I'm on a trip I'll bookmark my "Trip to London" (or wherever) note and it is then a click or tap away when I pull up Obsidian while on the road.
I store this file at the root level of my folder structure for quick and easy access. Whenever I add or modify a plugin, I update the notes in this document accordingly. Some changes are straightforward, while others are more complex, so maintaining a record ensures clear documentation for future reference.
Default Template: Gets applied to all notes except Daily Notes
Daily Notes: For Daily Notes
Code - Subcategory List
This is code is magical Dataview code that pulls in a Base with a similar name. It is for displaying linked notes by Subcategory.
Code - Category List
More magical Dataview code the pulls in a Base.
The "magic" of these code snippets is that the snippet pulls in code when the note is displayed rather than actually living on the note itself. This allows me to change the design of the template ONCE and it is applied to ALL notes where this code is displayed. For example, I could change the design of a Base or add text to the template and now instantly all notes with that code have the changes rather than having to reedit all the notes.
Commander is a plugin for Obsidian which allows you to add commands to different parts of the user interface.
Dataview
Create and display queries to your content. Obsidian now has the core plugin called Bases which does something similar however, I've found there are still use cases for Dataview
Harper
Harper is a grammar checking plugin that doesn't violate your privacy.
Lazy Plugin Loader
Load plugins with a delay on Obsidian startup, so that you can get your app startup down into the sub-second loading time.
Linter
This Obsidian plugin formats and styles your notes with a focus on configurability and extensibility.
Minimal Theme Settings
This plugin accompanies Minimal Theme, allowing you to customize the theme from the Obsidian Settings panel. This plugin is not required to use Minimal Theme, but highly recommended.
Omnisearch
Omnisearch is a search engine that "just works". It always instantly shows you the most relevant results, thanks to its smart weighting algorithm.
Paste image PNG to JPEG
The plugin automatically handles the following when the image (png jpg jpeg) is pasted into the notes
1,Convert the image to jpeg format and compress it
2,store the image in the current notes directory in the images folder
3,Change the name of the image to the name of the current note plus a number
Plugin Update Tracker
Know when installed plugins have updates and evaluate the risk of upgrading
Style Settings
This plugin allows snippet, theme, and plugin CSS files to define a set of configuration options. It then allows users to see all the tweakable settings in one settings pane. Style Settings allows both toggling classes on and off the body element, as well as setting numeric, string, and color CSS variables.
Templater
A templating language that lets you insert variables and functions results into your notes. It will also let you execute JavaScript code manipulating those variables and functions.
The reason for this is sometimes, like this case of Coffee Shops, there are many similar items in the subcategory and I might want to report on them in a different way using Bases or Dataview.
Tags:
Always pluralize tags.
Always lower case, single word tags.
If multi word tags are absolutely necessary, use camelCase
Tags = the type of note (examples: links, meetingNotes, clippings)
Keep the number of tags to a minimum
Start with as few as possible and build from there if you come up with a really good use case for a new one
Use internal links profusely.
Use YYYY-MM-DD dates wherever dates are needed. ISO 8601 exists for a reason.
Usage Examples (you'll find these in this template vault as well):
You read a good book called Daemon
Name of the note: Daemon
category: [[Books]]
subcategory: Fiction
You want to save a link to a web page about Dataview in Obsidian
tags: links
category: [[Obsidian]]
subcategory: Dataview
Thanks for reading. Hope you found something you can use!
Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Light Transmission from Earth to Satellite — A new study shows transmitting quantum signals from Earth to a satellite is achievable, demonstrating feasibility for space-based quantum communications. The result opens the door to more robust, encrypted global…
https://scitechdaily.com/thought-to-be-impossible-scientists-show-quantum-light-could-be-beamed-up-to-space/
Controversial California proposal returns after Prop. 50 passes https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/controversial-california-proposal-returns-prop-50-21146593.php "His proposed new two-state map, which he said is in its early phases, takes a bigger leap than a 2020 proposal by splitting the state all the way from the northernmost part of California at the southern edge of Del Norte County down to the Mexico border. The division slices along coastal county lines, hacking off rural agricultural sections that include San Joaquin, Merced, Fresno and Kern counties, down to Imperial County east of San Diego."
Supermassive Black Hole Produces Record Flare After Devouring Massive Star — Astronomers say a supermassive black hole unleashed a record-breaking flare after consuming a star at least 30 times the mass of the Sun. The eruption—reported to be brighter than 10 trillion suns—is drawing…
https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/unlike-any-weve-ever-seen-record-breaking-black-hole-eruption-is-brighter-than-10-trillion-suns
The term 3.5 inch floppy disc is in fact a misnomer. Whilst the specification for 5.25 inch floppy discs employs Imperial units, the later specification for the smaller floppy discs employs metric units.
The standards for these discs are [...] all of which specify the measurements in metric, and only metric. These stand
James Webb Telescope Produces First 3D Map of Exoplanet Atmosphere — Scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first three-dimensional map of a distant planet’s atmosphere. Early analysis highlights complex atmospheric structure and notable water-related…
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-makes-first-3d-map-of-an-alien-planets-atmosphere
China Delays Shenzhou-20 Crew Return After Suspected Space Debris Strike — China’s Manned Space Agency says the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft may have been struck by space debris, prompting officials to delay the crew’s return while assessing potential damage. Chinese authorities are examining…
https://www.newsweek.com/china-assessing-damage-after-spaceship-hit-by-debris-11000832
You might've heard of its spiritual successor, https://neocities.org? Recently I put together a beginner-friendly tutorial showing you how to create your own gallery page and host it on Neocities for free.
Ocean Gaia is Japan's first underwater sculpture to combine art and ecology.
Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor unveiled his latest underwater artwork off the coast of Tokunoshima Island. Weighing over 45 tonnes, the sculpture depicts the serene face of model Kiko Mizuhara and serves as a shelter for marine life.
Are you watching the World Series tonight? Well, here's a fun fact to share with your fellow fans: "jazz" started as a BASEBALL term!
In this week's podcast, @bgzimmer explained how "jazz" was baseball slang from 1912.
Players on the West Coast were talking about "jazz curves" and telling each other to "give it some of the old jazz" (meaning vim and pep) years before the word ever described music.
ICYMI, Joe Menn had a good scoop this week about how the US govt is getting set to ban TP-Link devices from being sold in the United States. If that happens, a whole lot of small businesses will probably need to find new networking gear. I have never trusted TP-Link devices and have repeatedly warned readers away from them. They have a history of flooding the market with massively underpriced hardware, and this is a market where generally speaking the cheapest means the most hackable. Here's one reply I sent to a reader in 2023 who inquired about finding what appeared to be an undocumented cloud login page.
"I realize that NYT and others constantly recommend TPLink b/c of the features vs price point, but I would stay away from this brand, and any that force you to register "in the cloud" before you can use them as local networking devices. You do not want your router to do anything except when you tell it do so, and to my mind all this cloud business being attached to network storage and local network things is troubling."
"If you are at all confident around computers, I'd recommend getting something like a high-end ASUS router and then installing an open source firmware on it, like Tomato or something. Because the default software that is on most routers is complete garbage, and often turns on a lot of stuff you really don't want turned on, or has other stupid default settings. If updating your new $160 router w/ third party firmware that could brick it if you screw it up is too much, then just stick with a Netgear router and make sure you check for firmware updates periodically."
OpenAI Launches ‘Aardvark,’ a GPT‑5 Agent for Autonomous Cybersecurity Research — OpenAI unveiled Aardvark, a GPT‑5–powered autonomous agent now entering private beta that can discover vulnerabilities and assist in creating fixes. The tool is designed to automate offensive and defensive…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-unveils-aardvark-a-gpt-5-powered-agent-for-autonomous-cybersecurity-research/
Meta Shares Plunge After $16 Billion Tax Charge in Trump Bill — Meta shares tumbled more than 10% after a Trump-backed bill levied an estimated $16 billion tax charge on the company, erasing roughly $25 billion from Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth. The steep sell-off heightened investor…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/10/30/mark-zuckerberg-loses-25-billion-now-worlds-fifth-richest-as-meta-shares-plummet/
Life sciences group Thermo Fisher agrees to acquire PE-owned drug trial software maker Clario for $9.4B in an all-cash deal expected to close by mid-2026 (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
If you're looking for something new to listen to, check out Cyber Hack: Evil Corp. It's a new podcast from the BBC.
https://pca.st/podcast/275614b0-7ad7-0139-3480-0acc26574db2
#podcast #infosec
I've been working on my first \#obsidian plugin the last few weeks and I'm ready to show it to the world. I wanted a calendar visualization of streaks for projects and habits. Would this be interesting for others to use?
You can get it here: https://gitlab.holloway-web.de/holloway/hw-streaks
Uber Offers $4,000 Grants to Drivers to Switch to Electric Vehicles — Uber is offering $4,000 grants to drivers who trade gasoline cars for electric vehicles as part of its pledge to reach 100 percent EV trips by 2030. The incentive aims to speed fleet electrification by reducing upfront…
https://www.theverge.com/news/802983/uber-electric-ev-driver-4000-grant-price
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas AI-Powered Web Browser on macOS — OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser built around ChatGPT, and made it available on macOS today. The product positions OpenAI to challenge Google and other browser makers by embedding generative AI directly into web…
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/
NASA Confirms Small Asteroid Becomes Temporary Second Moon — NASA confirmed that a small asteroid has been temporarily captured as a second natural satellite of Earth, designated 2025 PN7. The agency says the object will remain in Earth’s orbit until about 2083, creating a rare…
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/nasa-earth-two-moons/
Enjoying a sunny afternoon by the Scripps Pier (UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Jake considers a career in Oceanography. #LEGO#sandiego#travelswithjake
AlphaPhoenix's video about the home-built 2 billion fps camera is one of the coolest videos for a long time. The premise is so simple that anyone (even people without degrees) can follow and understand it. Educational and cool as heck!
#11ty follow-up: I pull posts (PESOS) from Mastodon to my own site via 11ty/import plugin. I then have some automation that crossposts to Bluesky via webmention and brid.gy. Earlier I noticed that hashtags weren't being sent as links to Bluesky. Thanks to @snarfed I learned that is because I needed to have the class "p-category" on my hashtags. Well that's fine but I'm pulling these in automagically and they aren't formatted that way. Changing the code by hand after import is a non-starter. Fortunately, I was able to figure out how to create an 11ty filter that will watch and change the code at build time. Here's the filter that changes "class='mention hashtag" to "class='mention p-category"
Here is a preview of Shuffle Mode coming later this month. Browse posts regardless of publishing date and find blogs going all the way back to 1995!
It's a great way to discover new writers and new voices even if they haven't published recently. And that's one of the key aspects of writing for the #indieweb that matters most. We strive for quality, not urgency.
I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.
I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
Today I learned about xcancel.com https://xcancel.com/about. It helps you avoid being tracked by x.com AND provides a means to follow an X account (via RSS) without having to actually have an X account! Super helpful if there is an old account you miss that hasn't (or won't) migrated over to the Fediverse. Magical! Also, I found this Chrome extension that converts x.com to xcancel.com so if you click a link it'll take you to the place you want https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xcancelcom-redirector/pgbegepjkmpcolalkpbakcbjlkodakie?pli=1
One thing I can't get working yet on Kubuntu is the fingerprint reader. lsusb shows it as "Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. Goodix FingerPrint Device". Not the end of the world but would be cool to get working.
#linux #kubuntu
Quite by accident, I found a pretty good spot for watching the Blue Angels during yesterday's MCAS Miramar air show. I had the spot completely to myself. I'll have to bring something better than my phone next year. #sandiego#blueangels
""So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
I said, "Yes, that's right...
The WSJ writers compare the AI bubble to other bubbles...and conclude that the AI bubble is vastly larger than any other bubble in recent history.""
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/\#subprime-intelligence
I am a huge fan of obsidian to write notes from research papers. But manually managing the note creation with all the bibtex info is also a pain. So my husband and I decided to automate it. I give you the bibtex-to-obsidian tool: Give it a bibtex key existing in your master bib file, and it will create a pre-populated obsidian note for you!
Robot umpires approved for #MLB in 2026 as part of challenge system | AP News https://apnews.com/article/robot-umpires-mlb-2026-d70c6431d1cccfcf7a6e69e3ce47b417 "Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra innings. Challenges must be made by a pitcher, catcher or batter — signaled by tapping their helmet or cap — and a team retains its challenge if successful. Reviews will be shown as digital graphics on outfield videoboards."
I haven't really had a problem with finding and installing distros. I think where my #Linux knowledge falls down is all around disks. From Linux, I want to be able to share a drive or partition to Windows or Linux machines. From Linux, I want to be able to map a drive to a Windows share. Similarly, I need to understand how to use external USB drives like flash drives or even old-school Blu-ray or DVD drives.
I've seen Zorin OS and Ultramarine mentioned as good distros for people moving from Windows to Linux. Which one would you recommend for a Linux noob?
#linux #zorinos #ultramarine
Rebuilding my site yet again. I had the social feed on the home page but I decided it was too cluttered so moving it to the sidebar. If I had a way to dedupe posts that originate on the site versus getting pulled back PESOS style then I might put them back on the home page. Another option would be to only post one way or the other but there are reasons. #11ty #indieweb
The WKRP: Johnny Fever Mix is a three-hour playlist of great 70s rock hits compiled from every DJ break that Dr. Johnny Fever made on "WKRP in Cincinnati," with introductions and comments by the Doctor himself, news from Les Nessman, and a commercial read by Venus Flytrap.
After listening to the Johnny Fever mix for a while, I remembered that there are Internet archives of hours or radio DJ sets, recorded off the air on tape, digitized, and uploaded to the Internet. I found this hour of Dan Ingram on WABC New York from September 1976.
I was a teenager then, living in that area, and might have listened to that hour live!
But listening to it for a little while this morning reminded me that I didn't much like WABC; I was a 99X guy and, in the 80s, WBAB. Listening also reminded me that 99% of the pop music in the 1970s was bad. However, Sturgeon's Law probably applies here.
According to Wikipedia: "One of Ingram's unique skills was his ability to 'talk up' to the lyrics of a record, meaning speaking over the musical introduction and finishing exactly at the point when the lyrics started."
The Multi Properties plugin was a lifesaver for my recent project (you know, that one 😉:wink src="/emoji/1f609.svg">). It made adding and removing properties from several \#Obsidian notes super easy. If you’ve been looking for a way to do that, I just published a video explaining exactly how to use it. https://youtu.be/TPm7puFxHJc
Obsidian users: Ever read through social posts or forums and think "ohhh that's brilliant!" and then want to rip up your whole vault and start over with these new ideas? Probably just me and whatever form of "neurospicy" I have 😂 #Obsidian
I love RSS. I have used RSS readers multiple time daily for more than 20 years. One of the first things I do when I get to my desk, while I’m eating breakfast and even before coffee, is check my RSS reader. https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/
TSA warns of phishing scam targeting PreCheck travelers - CyberGuy https://cyberguy.com/scams/tsa-warns-phishing-scam-targeting-precheck-travelers/ "Scammers have created fake emails and websites that look exactly like TSA PreCheck. They send these phishing emails to people who are eager to skip airport security lines. The messages urge you to click a link, enroll fast, and pay the fee." #travel #infosec
Download here
'Issue #1: Dream to Reality follows Callie's trailblazing path as the first woman on the Moon. Callie and her robot sidekick, RT, overcome setbacks, disappointment, and tragedy along the way. From her childhood dreams of space travel to being selected as an astronaut candidate, Callie takes us on her journey to the Moon.'
'Issue #2: Expanding Our Universe picks up where we left off with Callie, RT, and Dan in a treacherous situation on the Moon. Callie and her new team, Astronaut Meshaya Billy and Canadian Astronaut Martin Tremblay, use their training and human ingenuity to deploy a next-generation space telescope. We see how teamwork and perseverance help the crew overcome the challenges of living and working on other worlds.'
Finally got around to creating a Now page. https://techlifeweb.com/now/. Not going to win any awards but it's published. Ship now, fix later. Or something.
If you don't know what a Now page is, go here: https://nownownow.com/about #IndieWeb
Ever want to meet up with someone and need a midway point that is the same travel time for everyone? What if you are in a car and they are on a bike or taking public transportation? These are the things that Midway is trying to solve. | Midway@ https://www.midway.at/ #maps
Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/ "MellowTel causes extensions to activate a websocket that connects to an AWS server that collects the location, available bandwidth, heartbeats, and status of extension users. Besides the privacy erosions, the websocket also injects a hidden iframe into the page the user is currently viewing that connects to a list of websites specified by the Amazon Web Services server. There’s no way ordinary end users can determine what sites are being opened in the invisible iframe."
I've just learned about #gravy. Humans are awesome but how long before the overlords adjust for the word? I don't know enough about it. Wouldn't we need a new one every day? And not just each of us picking a random word, a kind of word of the day that we somehow all know yet not scrapable? Like we all agree day number = page and month number = word in some book in the public domain (today 2025JUL01 being page 7 word 1)? Or maybe it's yesterdays Wordle answer? Context for the uninitiated https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okvbdq33c32ekbv6hfzdg2/post/3lsvh7cupqk2z
I just had a brilliant idea for brands, especially book publishers: On the back of the product, print the name of it backwards! Content creators often use the wrong camera or don't know how to flip the video around. This way, when they hold up your product you've fixed it for them! #marketing
I wanted a quick way to copy movie details and a link to the page from IMDB. This way I can easily paste them to a Mastodon post or simply into a list of movies watched. Here's the result of the copied text:
🎬 Swingers: Directed by Doug Liman. With Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn. A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends. 🔗
To use this yourself, click and drag this link up to your browser favorites bar: IMDB copy details to clipboard
Note: You can right click on it in your browser bar and rename it.
The code:
javascript:(function() {
try {
const title = document.querySelector('h1')?.innerText.trim();
const descriptionMeta = document.querySelector('meta[name="description"]');
const description = descriptionMeta?.content.trim();
const url = window.location.href;
const link = `<a href="${url}" target="_blank">🔗</a>`;
const text = `🎬 ${description} ${link}`;
navigator.clipboard.writeText(text).then(() => {
alert("IMDb info copied to clipboard:\n\n" + text);
}, () => {
alert("Failed to copy to clipboard.");
});
} catch (e) {
alert("Something went wrong: " + e.message);
}
})();
As the fan of a West Coast #MLB National League team I'm always scrolling down the list of all the teams to see the standings. The default MLB URL lists AL first then east to west. It's a lot of scrolling all season long. I discovered quite by accident that MLB has unique URLs by team that put the division of your team at the top. For example, https://www.mlb.com/padres/standings/ puts the NL West at the top because that's where the Padres are. Edit and save yourself a shortcut or favorite with your teams name in place of "padres" and save yourself a season of scrolling.
I don't think I've heard about this anywhere. Was the Iran bombing about the mineral antimony and not about nukes? Both? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rgWHDs/ #antimony #iran
I've just discovered the app 'Super Productivity' via Mastodon. Looks like there are apps for all platforms or via the web https://super-productivity.com/. Syncing is available via WebDAV or Dropbox. There are many features and will take some time to look into but it looks pretty cool. #Productivity #FOSS
Spent way too much time trying to get an image link to work properly inside a table in \#Obsidian. The pipe to indicate the width has to be escaped (obvious in retrospect), and a link target with spaces has to be enclosed in angle brackets. Who the fuck came up with that harebrained syntax? Markdown can be ... unpleasant.
Final syntax inside a table: [![[Foo/image.png\|200]]]()
Or outside of a table: [![[Foo/image.png|200]]]()
Cool video on Instagram of some visual FX used in #Severance it's wild how much is not there IRL https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKPrWa5Jrq0/?igsh=MXhkMGpsYWdjdjh6ZA==
#makemkv dot com is still down, sort of. It's a DNS issue and someone on Reddit has the solution for now.
On Windows, edit "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" and add
If you're an \#Obsidian Publish user struggling with the default \#RSS feed, this video is a walkthrough of how I 'hacked' a chronological RSS solution. Please also head over to the article mentioned in the video for step-by-step instructions.
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https://youtu.be/TmmDQDkSniE
All the Windows PCs in the house can't print unless I restart the Print Spooler service. Annoying af. Restarting a service just isn't non-tech friendly. Have I mentioned I hate printers?
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-is-now-the-number-one “Newsweek’s piece relates the shocking findings of a new RECOVER study: that up to 5.8 million American children now have Long COVID, making it the most common chronic illness affecting children. However, this fact is not treated with any urgency by Newsweek, nor is the current approach to COVID- do literally nothing- questioned as the proper one.”
Tech wizards, could you combine a version control system like \#git with a markdown based notetaking program like \#obsidian to have version control over collaborative documents? I'm in a work group that is trying to define procedures and could use something like that.
Is there an app/website that will let me enter where i am and how far I want to run or walk and it gives me back a a route that loops back to where I am? #croudsource
for the \#obsidian folks… i've wanted the ability to see 'nearby notes' and create new POI-based notes based on my current location, and just got a working prototype together called obsidian-here. test it out if you're similarly minded! https://github.com/tmcw/obsidian-here
A side effect of #Obsidian web clipper iis that the images can be huge when viewing your note and you have to do a lot of scrolling to get past them. So, I set out to find a solution. https://techlifeweb.com/blog/2025/05/post-2025-05-30T175849/
I've been using the Obsidian Web Clipper a lot lately. Sometimes for bits and pieces of pages and sometimes full articles to read later. A nice feature is that the clipper grabs links to the images rather than taking up your storage with them. The side effect to that is that the images can be huge when viewing your note and you have to do a lot of scrolling to get past them. So, I set out to find a solution.
I found some nifty CSS code created by Kepano that got me about 99% of the way there. What it does it let you click and hold on an image and view it full screen. That itself is pretty cool. I added a line to the code to make it size the images down to something more manageable. Since you can click+hold and still see the whole image it gives you a very nice working solution.
Examples
This screenshot is a page in my vault with an image from the International Space Station. The whole image isn't visible without scrolling down.
Here is the same page after I've applied the CSS. Other elements are clearly visible because the images aren't massive.
And here is the image when I'm click+holding on it. Look ma, no scrolling and you can see the whole thing!
The code
You'll be adding custom CSS to Obsidian. If you've never done that, this guide will show you what you need to do. CSS snippets - Obsidian Help
Note, where it says "Create a css file", that is a simple text file with a name like "imagesize.css" or something equally clever. You'll see the name in your obsidian settings so name it something that makes sense to you. And don't put spaces in the name.
Paste the code below into your cleverly named css file. Save. Refresh in Obsidian. Done.
Caveats: There could be conflicts with your theme. This seems to work fine in Minimal and Border. In the default theme, it appears to only resize the images and not allow for the click+hold.
Improvements and other ideas welcome.
/*
author: Kepano
source: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/image-zoom-click-hold-to-expand-images/5164?u
purpose: Clicking and holding on an image expands it to full size
=====
modified by: TechLifeWeb
source: https://techlifeweb.com/blog/2025/05/post-2025-05-30T175849/
date: 2025-05-30
purpose: Modifies images so the don't take up as much screen space
*/
.view-content img {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 2%; /*This is the only change. Modify the value to your liking */
cursor:zoom-in;
}
.view-content img:active {
cursor:zoom-out;
}
.view-content .markdown-preview-view img[referrerpolicy='no-referrer']:active,
.view-content .image-embed:active {
background:var(--background-primary);
cursor:zoom-out;
display:block;
z-index:200;
position:fixed;
max-height:100%;
max-width:100%;
height:100%;
width:100%;
object-fit:contain;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
padding:0;
left:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
}
.view-content .image-embed:active img {
top:50%;
transform:translateY(-50%);
padding:0;
margin:0 auto;
width:100%;
max-height:100vh;
object-fit:contain;
left:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
position:absolute;
opacity:1;
}
\#Obsidian 1.9 changes its front matter format for array values, so "tags: tag1, tag2, tag3" no longer works. If your vault is full of front matter in that format (aliases, note IDs etc.), then here's what you can do about it:
'The iconic instrument and amp maker Fender is diving deep into the digital domain. The company just announced Fender Studio, an all-in-one music-creation software platform. It's basically a digital audio workstation (DAW) but one that's intended for newbies. Think GarageBand and not Pro Tools. Just like GarageBand, Fender Studio is free.'
In my wiki/digital garden I have a collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
Just watched this interesting YouTube video from EO: How Stanford Teaches AI-Powered Creativity in Just 13 MinutesㅣJeremy Utley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv779vmyPVY #AI
"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"
(This one is by Paul 'Moose' Curtis of the Reverse Graffiti Project )
Sounds like they have a lot to do so it will be awhile but this is interesting. I just walked by there yesterday and was wondering about it. #sandiego | Panama 66 & Blind Lady Ale House Team Launching New Concept https://sandiegomagazine.com/food-drink/new-restaurant-opening-in-balboa-park/ 'Restaurateurs Jeff Motch and Clea Hantman are redeveloping the vacant space at the Village Grill into a garden-inspired eatery in Spanish Village'
Some excellent "Internet Life Hacks" | Linkage https://linkage.lol/internet-life-hacks/
There's also a comment about about DuckDuckGo Email which I can't say enough good things about. https://duckduckgo.com/email/
Also, if you use Android, the Duck Duck Go browser is worth installing even if just for the included tracker protector. It sets up as a vpn that blocks all the various apps from trying to ping out to various services. I've been using it for a couple years. Mine has blocked 879 in the last week.
I wasn't aware that the San Diego Police Department had Mustang Mach E's. Apparently they have 22 with 18 being used for parking enforcement. #cars#sandiego
In reply to: "Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl@zirk.us: I have a Mac, and when I try to drag my windows around on the desktop, they often snap to expand to fill the whole screen, which isn't what a want."
Via @dmoren@zeppelin.flights on Mastodon:
@grammargirl You want Settings > Desktop & Dock and scroll down to Window Tiling. Turn off "Drag windows to screen edges to tile" and “Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen." It's a relatively new feature, but one that's way too easy to trigger accidentally!
Seriously, this is such a basic hack, but it's been a game-changer for me. For ages, I had both \#Obsidian and Google \#Calendar constantly open, driving me a little crazy with all the back and forth. Now, one click and I'm there 😉:wink src="/emoji/1f609.svg">. So simple, so helpful.
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https://youtu.be/jOiXCxVxP78
@verge I've already replaced duolingo with AI. Generating flash card ideas and flashcards with AI voicing and explanations. All in \#obsidian for free!
I wrote about the process here but someone should really make it as a standalone free app:
Want to monitor news and hashtags on \#Mastodon but you live on a small instance with low news flow? I've put VibesMasto News Monitor on the Web so you can get trend and hashtag information from larger instances as well as keep an eye on your favorite \#RSS feed. Completely free, no Mastodon account required.
Louisiana, Virginia and Missouri report their first measles case of 2025 - The Mirror US https://www.themirror.com/news/health/measles-cases-louisiana-measles-virginia-1103427 'Virginia, Louisiana and Missouri have all now reported their first cases of measles for 2025 as the disease continues its spread through the country. All three cases were linked to international travel '
One of the most often used apps on my Android phone is GPS Coordinates. It let's you copy/share effete you are to any app. Super helpful when traveling and you want to make a quick note or message someone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latitudelongitude.gpscoordinates
Since vulnerability databases and catalogs are top of mind right now thanks to what's goin on with CVE.org, I thought I'd explicitly share this resource I've been maintaining for a while.
It's a list of all manner of vulnerability catalogs and vulnerability-related tools. That same page also features a plethora of other #infosec / #cybersecurity "tools".
Giving pages.casa https://pages.casa/ a try. Thanks to @adelesocial.pollux.casa for getting things quickly set up on the server. Switching my DNS from @hover@mastodon.social was quick and I'm up and running. Pages.casa also has a method that lets you publish markdown directly with out having to build things yourself (https://pages.casa/posts/publish-markdown-files-easily/ ) #smolweb #indieweb
I think I'm paying too much for simple SFTP static hosting. I don't use Wordpress any more and have like 400MB of files. Welcoming recommendations. #IndieWeb
#obsidian folks, is there way to have Obsidian prompt for a template when I click the link to a new yet to be created note? Like if I just type [[My New Note]] and then click that pseudo-link I want it to prompt for a template for the new note.
The Obsidian plugin to import JSON files from the Day One journal app has just been updated. I created a new vault today to test it out and it worked great with 16 GB of data! (Day One just layed off more than 100 devs) \#Obsidian\#ObsidianMD\#PKM
Welp, looks like the TV in the house decided to no longer turn on. I think it is 9 or 10 years old. Been that long since I've even paid attention to the latest TVs. #TV #Vizio
I'm going to include this whenever I finally make part 3 of my Obsidian tutorial series, but if you are an Obsidian Lover such as myself and want a sync solution that also provides google-docs-style real time editing of your notes both in-app and on the web, you should very much check out Screen Garden: https://screen.garden
There’s no reason RSS and social media have to be separate worlds. RSS is the easiest and fastest way to connect systems. When I see people endorse RSS over social sites I think we took a wrong turn somewhere because all these systems should be connected on the open web.
How to install, and optimize Obsidian.md on Linux.
Obsidian is great, but as it's an electron app it can have.... issues. This guide goes over several ways to install the app, and how to get the best performance from it.
This video demonstrates how I use \#Obsidian Canvas to organize and find information about a project or topic that has numerous ramifications.
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https://youtu.be/4WZODHH6nUc
Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok (Harry Alston/TheGamer)
I am a fan of using Obsidian sync because it lets me have different settings on each device where I use the app, but I recently found out that if you use Syncthing for DIY syncing, you can omit the .obsidian folder, where all the settings are kept and get the same result. \#Obsidian\#ObsidianMD\#PKM
Interesting idea. Hopefully it helps awareness. | #London Police Highlight Phone Theft Hotspots with Street Markers - Londontopia https://londontopia.net/tips/london-police-highlight-phone-theft-hotspots-with-street-markers/ 'the City of London Police have created mock heritage markers on pavements to indicate locations where mobile phones have been snatched from unsuspecting pedestrians.' #UK
Windows Hotpatch comes to client version of Windows
Good news for Windows users, and for once there's not a hint of sarcasm here: Microsoft has started rolling out Windows Hotpatch to the client versions of Windows. This feature, which comes from the server versions of Windows, allows the operating system to install patches to in-memory processes, removing the need for a number of res
Missions to the Moon have used wheels to get around. Makes sense if you're on a perfectly smooth terrain of powdery regolith. But we know the surface can be rocky and crater-filled, a terrain that might be best explored by a four-legged walking robot. In a new paper, researchers explain how the gait of the robot changes its ability to do science. Fast-walking robots let you cover a lot of ground, while a slower gait senses the ground's structure with every footstep.
using \#firefox or a derivative? Setting browser.ml.chat.enabled=false turns off the brand-new AI features.
You're welcome.
(RIP my mentions, muting this)
in the address bar type:
"about:config" then press enter.
You will see an "accept the risks" warning. Continue.
in the search bar, type:
"browser.ml.chat.enabled"
All the way to the right, you'll see two buttons, click the left one to toggle the true to false if it is not false already.
Honestly don't know how people can stand using OneNote. Every time I have to use it for work I feel like I want to pitch my laptop out the window. #pkm
MLB says Yankees new Torpedo Bats are legal and likely coming to a dugout near you but are we sure this is what we want? https://thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/yankees-new-torpedo-bat/ "The Yankees have apparently been working with Aaron Leanhardt (aka “Lenny”), a former MIT physicist turned baseball brain, who helped re-engineer the traditional wooden bat to better match where individual hitters make the most consistent contact." #MLB #yankees @baseball@a.gup.pe @baseball@chirp.social
U.S.-Canada Flight Bookings ‘Collapse’ | AirlineGeeks.com https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/27/u-s-canada-flight-bookings-collapse/ "Future bookings are much bleaker. The report added that future flight bookings between the U.S. and Canada have “collapsed” by over 70% in every month through the end of September."
Envoy Dedicates Jet to Actor Gary Sinise | AirlineGeeks.com https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/25/envoy-dedicates-jet-to-actor-gary-sinise/ "Envoy Air has dedicated an aircraft to the Gary Sinise Foundation. The dedication honors the organization’s work supporting service members, first responders, and their families"
If you're in KDE and can't tell where the edges of your @obsidian windows are (for example if you use Solarized theme in Obsidian and the terminal window behind it), turn on "Native frame" for the "Window frame style" option under Advanced in the Appearance settings.
With Obsidian, using multi-file search and replace in a text editor like Bbedit or Notepad++ is a huge time saver for editing properties or just notes in general. Much better than trying to use the handicapped plugin that tries to do the same thing. \#Obsidian\#ObsidianMD\#PKM
I set up a few filters on Mastodon again for a little while. If something big happens, I'll hear about it elsewhere. For right now, I don't need these things disrupting my mental health. If you've never set up a filter and want to do the same, here's how: https://techlifeweb.com/blog/2024/07/2024-07-26-post-184700/ #Mastodon #Fediverse #mentalHealth
Remember when we were kids and someone would say something like "don't screw up! That will go on your 'Permanent Record'!!" And we were all "Yeah, right, mom/dad/person of authority you're making that up!!" And we secretly thought "God, I hope I'm right 😬!" And now it turns out there really is that only we have cute names for it like the Dark Web or, worse(?), Google? 😱👀
What the hell? | Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o "A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30.."
Yesterday I mentioned the Mastodon Redirector plugin and today, thanks to @BeAware@mementomori.social, I discovered an even better plugin called Graze that is written by @jaredzimmerman@jaredzimmerman.com. Graze is available for Chrome-based browsers and Firefox. It works as you'd expect it to and goes a long way to smooth the edges I spoke of yesterday. Recommended. #Mastodon #Fediverse
Graze: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/graze/epocinhmkcnjfjobnglchpbncndobblj 'Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, and reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.'
Worm Moon: Full Moon in March 2025 | The Old Farmer's Almanac https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-march "This lunar eclipse is visible from all of North America. The Moon will enter the penumbra at 11:56 P.M. EDT (8:56 P.M. PDT) on March 13 and the umbra at 1:09 A.M. EDT on March 14 (10:09 P.M. PDT, March 13). It will leave the umbra at 4:48 A.M. EDT (1:48 A.M. PDT) on March 14 and the penumbra at 6:02 A.M. EDT (3:02 A.M. PDT)."
Mastodon Redirector - 'Redirect Mastodon URLs from other instances to your own instance.' https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mastodon-redirector/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe Looks to be a good solution to my earlier post about the rough edges of working with Mastodon posts from other instances. With the extension installed, simply click on the extension icon and you’ll be taken to the same account or status update you were viewing, but served on the Mastodon instance your account is on. Then you can easily interact with the post to reply, favorite, etc. Works in Chrome (or Chrome-like browsers e.g., Vivaldi) i #Mastodon #Fediverse
If I find an interesting post on another instance, say via RSS or someone sends me a link, and I then decide I want to interact with the post (e.g., Like, Repost) I'm greeted with "<snipped nice greeting> You are not logged in to this server. Where is your account hosted?" That's the nature of decentralization but it is a rough edge. Are there any browser plugins or other ideas to smooth that edge? #Mastodon#fediverse
Random lunchtime thought: I wonder if #MLB tracks how often a runner who had been caught in a "Pickle" successfully escapes and advances to the next base? My guess is the number at that level is very low. @baseball
Danes hit back at Trump with 'buy California bid' as they vow 'to take over Disneyland and bring hygge to Hollywood' | The US Sun https://www.the-sun.com/news/13498697/california-denmark-buy-hollywood-trump-greeland/ 'A DANISH campaign has been launched to buy California and take over Disneyland after President Donald Trump began pressuring Denmark to sell Greenland to the US.'
Super handy #Obsidian community plugin for writing: Harper. From the Read Me: "The Harper plugin is a powerful, privacy-first grammar and spell-checking tool designed specifically for Obsidian users. Unlike many other grammar checkers, Harper operates entirely offline, ensuring your data remains secure while providing real-time, high-performance corrections." One thing a little confusing to me is the settings. When you first install the plugin all settings are set to "default". I'm not sure if that means on or off so I went through each setting and made sure to explicitly turn on the ones that make sense to me. It won't make my writing magically better but I like that it processes everything locally and hopefully it will help me catch errors.
Failure of 7-Zip exploited in attacks against Ukraine | TugaTech https://tugatech.com.pt/t64519-falha-no-7-zip-explorada-em-ataques-contra-a-ucrania "The fix for this flaw was implemented in 7 Zip in its version 24.09, released on November 30. Although the flaw was confirmed with very specific attacks, it will still be recommended for users to update 7 Zip as soon as possible"
'A doctoral student in the field of information science currently based in New York City, [Johan] Michalove developed an interactive map at fireaid.info that has become an online hub for thousands of people in the greater Los Angeles area who need provisions, are looking to donate supplies or want to get involved.'
Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don't suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3
"A friend of mine works in the federal government and wrote a guide for their fellow federal workers on how to use Signal. There are lots of good reasons for switching to Signal for messaging, and this does a great job of laying it all out." This is good: #Technology https://werd.io/2025/a-guide-to-using-signal-for-government-workers
Me: I know I rarely ask you for anything but can you please print this one page?
My Printer: Who are you? Print? What are you talking about man, I'm a doorstop!
-= much cajoling, swearing on my part, restarting on the printer's part later =-
My Printer: Ok, here's 3 copies because they were stuffed in some queue somewhere and, oh I don't know, just felt like munching on some trees.
I f-ing hate printers.
Just realized I messed up one of the links in my sidebar during my site code redesign last weekend. Thankfully the new design means I only have to update one place and they are all fixed. #11ty
Waymo's autonomous cars coming to San Diego: What to know https://fox5sandiego.com/traffic/waymos-autonomous-cars-in-route-to-san-diego-where-theyll-be-driving/ "The company will be doing the same in Las Vegas over the next few months, as well as eight other cities throughout the remainder of 2025. The data Waymo collects will be used to improve how the cars move through new places and interact with different weather conditions."
I've been learning a ton about the working of #11ty It isn't really that hard, I just needed to wrap my mind around a few things. As a result, I rebuilt my site to be more data driven. It will be easier to use Obsidian as my editing UI now because I can control layout with yaml frontmatter instead of having to remember to use some HTML in my post body. Obsidian templates make that easy, its just hard to read and prone to editing errors.
Fediversians. I just spent three weeks blogging EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to give you a COMPLETE list of instructions to RECLAIM YOUR DATA. Go dark, scatter your traces, stay secure, erase your data footprint. Accessible to all.
Just in time too. Data sovereignty and protection are no longer a luxury but a MUST.
Data traces are political traces. History teaches us that data by you and about you can and will be used against you and those you love.
For you, your neighbors, your families. #optout NOW, and help others to do so too.
I love how I can open #pixelfed and scroll through some great photography and the occasional meme. I have seen a couple photos from world events but overall its like taking a dip in the pool rather than wading through a swamp.
Trying to figure out if #11ty can add code to the output. For photos, I want to automatically change 'img src' to 'img class="u-photo" src'. Anyone know if it's possible?
I've created a system on my site where I can upload photos to the Pixelfed instance I'm on and then pull the photo and content back down and post it on my site. Known as PESOS on the #indieweb. I'm using #11ty and the brilliant utility 11ty/eleventy-import. The utility pulls in the Atom feed from my Pixelfed instance at build time. I also had to figure out how to create a page template to use the metadata the import utility pulls down. Added bonus was discovering a few things on site that weren't necessarily broken, just needed some tuning up.
In Balboa park, San Diego, there are various International Houses. I spotted this flag I hadn't seen before flying outside the House of Scotland. It represents various Celtic nations.
✅ Moved my #Pixelfed account over to @techlifeweb@pxlmo.com ✅Added the rel=me on my website ✅App installed on phone. Time to start finding people on pixelfed (if you're there let me know!), posting and thinking of creative uses for the Atom feed. 😃 #IndieWeb #Fediverse
I've had an account on the main instance of #Pixelfed since '23 and haven't posted. I'm wondering if I ought to move to a different instance. Clearly, I'm not a huge user yet but maybe every little bit of less bandwidth would help as new users on-board?
I'll miss TikTok. SCOTUS upheld the ban
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tiktok-china-security-speech-166f7c794ee587d3385190f893e52777 #TikTokBan #TikTok
I was listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, and I started thinking, when did duels go out of style? I mean we still shoot each other but it's a shootout, not a prearranged, formal combat. #history #randomthoughts
Here is a list of essential resources including shelters, business assistance, meal services, and ways to help in the wake of the disastrous fires in Los Angeles. #lafires #lafires2025
Federal Emergency Management Agency - (FEMA)
Individuals and business owners who sustained losses in the designated areas can begin applying for assistance by registering online at www.disasterassistance.gov, by calling 1-800-6213362 or by using the FEMA Mobile App .
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loan
SBA disaster assistance for homeowners, renters, nonprofits, and businesses of all sizes affected by the wildfires and straight-line winds in California. Apply for a disaster loan here
Parking available at 155 E. Green St; enter from Marengo Ave. The Humane Society is on-site to accept small pets for boarding. Service animals are allowed inside.
Dream Center
2301 Bellevue Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Friends in Deed
444 E. Washington Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91104
Nonprofit providing services for the homeless, including opening its Bad Weather Shelter amid the fires.
Mastodon becomes nonprofit to make sure it’s never ruined by billionaire CEO
Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
This is the most delightfully nerdy thing I've ever seen:
*In the Sunday New York Times Crossword, one of the clues was:
The better of the two Sci-fi franchises
But you can win the puzzle whether you put on Star Wars or Star Trek!*
I ❤️ portable Windows apps. Get everything set up the way you like and then take it with you. Or just keep it all in an easily backed up folder so you don't have to redo everything the next time you rebuild or get a new computer. Here's how to enable Portable Mode in Visual Studio Code on Windows and MacOS: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/portable 'Visual Studio Code supports Portable mode. This mode enables all data created and maintained by VS Code to live near itself, so it can be moved around across environments.'
Last night I finished "The End of Loneliness" by Benedict Wells. Very well written story about the journey of life. We meet Jules, the main character, and his brother and sister. Evens keeps the story moving and you wind up really caring what happens to them. Can't sugar coat it, the book is definitely a gut punch in a few places but then, so is life. 5/5 stars. #books #Booktodon https://amzn.to/4gPcjKJ
Wondering if the smoke from fires in Southern California are heading your way? Check out: AirNow.gov. It's a good page for any region not just here in Lo Cal, just put in your Zip Code. #LAFires #PalisadesFire
If you're an Apple user and I spoof your phone number in a call to the legitimate Apple Customer Support line (800-275-2273), I can force Apple to send you a system level "Apple Account Confirmation" prompt to all of your signed-in devices.
This approach is commonly used by a prolific voice phishing group to convince targets they really are in a support call with an Apple representative.
Today's deep dive into this weird world was made possible in part by a series of live phishing videos, tutorials and other secrets shared by an insider that show in unprecedented detail how these voice phishing scams can be so convincing.
Please share this story widely, because I learned a ton reporting this and frankly the various methods used by these groups to dox and target people are really slick.
From the story: "Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices."
I've found "The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing". It's so fast you'll go looking for video to edit. #VideoEditing
Ever have a video that you need to just lop off the first few seconds where you had your finger in front of the lens? Or, maybe there are segments of a video you just want to separate into their own files. I've found the perfect utility to do all that and it works so fast you head will spin. Oh, and did I mention is it works on Windows, Mac and Linux?
This software is called Lossless Cut. This uses ffmpeg but you don't need to know anything about that. You don't have to learn any crazy switches or work at the command line or terminal. Just load a video, use the "scrubber" to find the spot where you want to split your video, rinse and repeat until you have them all marked then click export. Within seconds your files will be created. There's no time consuming re-encoding, you're done!
This isn't an editor in the sense where you'll be joining files and adding music, etc. It's just meant to cut up your video. You could then add your exports into your other editors and you've just saved time later because that editor is only working with the footage you want.
Per github, the following formats should work: MP4, MOV, WebM, Matroska, OGG and WAV. The following audio codecs: FLAC, MP3, Opus, PCM, Vorbis and AAC. Video codecs: H264, AV1, Theora, VP8, VP9 and H265 (needs hardware decoder)
Seeing is Deceiving | Analysis of Fake Zoom Meeting Phishing Attack | by SlowMist | Dec, 2024 | Medium https://slowmist.medium.com/seeing-is-deceiving-analysis-of-fake-zoom-meeting-phishing-attack-3b0138e13e49 "several users on X reported a phishing attack disguised as Zoom meeting links. In one case, a victim installed malicious software after clicking on a fake Zoom meeting link, resulting in the theft of cryptocurrency assets worth millions of dollars." #infosec
I've abandoned one of the main reasons many people use #Obsidian, the Daily Note. I just don't need a new markdown file created every day for the rest of my life. Here's what I'm doing instead.
For quite awhile now I've been using a journaling process called Interstitial Journaling*. Basically this is just writing down what and where you are and any fleeting notes you have. Some days I might only have a line or two and some days quite a lot depending on what's happening in life. It works for me but creating new files everyday via the Daily Notes plugin is just overkill.
Now, I have One Big Text File (OBTF). I've seen a couple in the Obsidian community discuss this and after trying it for awhile it just works better for my brain.
Here's how it works: Right now, I have a file called "OBTF - 2024" and I'll make a new one on January 1, 2025. I don't have to create a new one, it could just go on and on but I think it will make more sense to create new notes. I could go a whole decade that way and only have 10 notes as opposed to 3650. I like this so much that after I started doing this for a week a couple months ago I went back and merged all my 2024 daily notes into my OBTF then deleted all of them.
Here's the way I do it:
Everyday open Obsidian to the current OBTF and create a new line at the top of the file like this:
"##### 2024-11-30 - Saturday"
This creates an H5 heading with the date and day and it's easily done with the Templater Plugin. Since this file scrolls I don't really need the day of the week on there but I like seeing it later on when I scroll down and there is another benefit I'll get into in a later post. There are other people who scroll to the bottom and create their new entry there but I like this kind of blog form of writing.
Under the date I start each new line with a "-" character which creates unordered lists. Sometimes I enter the time if that seems relevant and sometimes just some notes I think will be handy later. Something like:
13:00 got to the coffee shop to do some journaling
ran into Bill and Kate from church. They have a new puppy named Max
Simple things like that. Later I can search or scroll the OBTF and find the entry if I'm trying to remember the name of Bill and Kate's new dog.
Do use a OBTF? Give your current set up some thought, it might prove a better solution for you. In a post soon, I'll get into how I'm linking to my OBTF in a way that helps bring things together in a unique way.
In 2015 a data scientist computed a US road trip to hit 50 major landmarks. You can start from anywhere in the country as long as you follow the rest of the map. 13,699 miles (22,046 km) of driving! #travel #roadtrip | Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S. https://randalolson.com/2015/03/08/computing-the-optimal-road-trip-across-the-u-s/
Just in time for Christmas I'm sharing my novice notes on my #3dprinting journey. It is essentially just my personal 3D printing #Obsidian vault I'm building out tweaked to make it more widely shareable.
https://forge.thoughtasylum.com/
So if you happen to have a new 3D printer under the tree, maybe have a browse through, or if you are looking for cool stuff to print, or print with, you'll be seeing my recommendations (based on my good and bad experiences) appearing on this site.
'Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped.
People had been given until 2031 to have all historic but unrecorded public paths and bridleways added to the nation's official "definitive map".'
Cuetlaxochitl: A Flower by a Native Nahuatl Name | Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum https://mbgna.umich.edu/post/cuetlaxochitl-flower-native-nahuatl-name "How a revered solstice shrub native to current-day Mexico and Guatemala and sacred to the Indigenous peoples of the region was captured by Joel Roberts Poinsett, a man whose legacy has prompted a move away from its stateside name: Poinsettia. "
Join Gretchen Rubin and Bookshop.org for Read 25 in '25 | Gretchen Rubin https://gretchenrubin.com/read25in25/ "Gretchen Rubin is partnering with Bookshop.org for her annual group challenge which, this year, is to read 25 minutes a day in 2025."
#Obsidian #PKM Anyone have one of the latest eInk writing tablets (Kindle Scribe, Supernote, Remrkable, Boox, etc.)? I hate paper and these seem interesting. I do sync Obsidian to my phone and tablet but I've found that taking notes in a class setting is a little too fiddly. I could bring my laptop but then there's a screen popped open and I don't like that vibe. Plus the click-clacking of a keyboard. A notebook (Moleskine, etc.) is a heck of a lot cheaper than one of these eink devices and I probably shouldn't be adding one more device to my life but I thought I'd see what others are doing.
#microsoft #outlook wrote back on X with these details regarding the differences between the New Outlook and a pinned browser tab:
The 'New Outlook' for Windows is indeed more than just a wrapper around the web version. While pinning a tab in your browser is convenient, the full client offers several advantages:
Offline Access: You can access your emails, calendar, and contacts even when you're offline.
Performance: The desktop client is optimized for handling large volumes of emails and calendar events smoothly.
Advanced Features: It includes rich formatting, mailbox rules, and integration with other Microsoft 365 apps.
Customization: More extensive customization options, including add-ins and custom forms.
Security: Enhanced security features like encryption and advanced threat protection.
You can submit comments through this link https://msft.it/6019ob8u1 to assist us in improving your New Outlook experience.
Is "New Outlook" anything more than a wrapper around their web version? What's the advantage to having a full client when I can just pin a tab in my browser? #microsoft #outlook
What will users be paying for? “It’s a way for users to get more what we call ‘self-expression tools’,” !!!
Plus... "The plan is to build a system where creators can get paid right on Bluesky and any other platforms built on their open AT Protocol ecosystem."
One can assume similar to Substack, they would take a percentage.
So, subscriptions for good stuff and a payments system... Let the cow pies bloom.
Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
FYI, if you’re new to the Fediverse and want to drive engagment, just start following people. Anyone. Follow ‘em all. We got cool motherfuckers here. We have nerds. We have bikers and BIKERS. We have Ukranians, Germans, Haitians, and self-reported aliens. We’ve got shitposters and bad punsters. Just follow ‘em all. They’ll follow you back. They’ll boost your shitposts and your rants and your awesome educational posts. Just follow follow follow. We don’t have an algorithm, we have a weird-ass bar
dotepub — download any webpage as an e-book https://dotepub.com/ "dotepub is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book."
Why doesn't #tiktok just build a progressive web app and start pushing people to that? I get that being in app stores is better for them but unless America blocks IP addresses there really wouldn't be a ban. Yeah you can get to the web version now on mobile but itt's a crap experience because they push the app on every video load.
In a Microsoft environment the Outlook and To Do combo are nice because they are tightly integrated and you don't need some external software. Flag an email and it gets into To Do almost instantly. If they could just add a boards feature (kanban) it would be great. They have boards in Planner but that isn't tightly integrated and you end up with a kludge that just doesn't work well. #Productivity
British Pubs Are Running Out of Guinness https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/britain-guinness-shortages-limits.html #AlcoholicBeverages #BarsandNightclubs #ConsumerBehavior #Irish-Americans #London(England) #GreatBritain #GuinnessPLC #SupplyChain #DiageoPLC #England #Ireland #Beer
Research reveals how fructose in diet enhances tumor growth - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis https://source.washu.edu/2024/12/research-reveals-how-fructose-in-diet-enhances-tumor-growth/ "Fructose is a sweetener added to ultra-processed foods, typically in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. WashU research shows that the liver turns fructose into lipids that many types of cancers crave."
I've been using Phanpy (https://phanpy.social/) as my #Mastodon client of choice on mobile and occasionally on the desktop for about a year. The Boosts Carousel is too cool, and the threaded posts just add to the experience.
This evening, I was digging into the settings a bit more and whoa, next level! I always loved the Mastodon "advanced web interface" because it was like Tweetdeck of old. Phanpy lets you create columns like that on your desktop. Or, for your smaller screen devices, you can set up easy menus at the top of the screen or floating that let you easily switch between the items. For example, I have shortcuts/columns for my home feed, a list or 2 I have created, a couple hashtags I like to keep up with and one for my notifications.
Testing the #Kanban plugin for #Obsidian. I support and work on many different things, so I was thinking about not using it in the traditional Kanban method but rather lists of things all on one screen. Like a column header could be "SupportGroupA" then use that column for the things I do for that group. This actually kind of works until you go to archive the task. At that point you lose the context of what it was for because the header isn't listed with the task. I could do something like add data like a hashtag or something to the task, so I know what it relates to in the future. That looks redundant when you look a the columns. I could make separate boards but the defeats seeing everything at the same time. Should probably abandon trying to shoehorn this into Obsidian. Still working things out.
'Metadata Menu'
This plugin is made for data quality enthusiasts: access and manage the metadata of your notes in #Obsidian
https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu
#UsefulTools (thanks @Drezil !)
Found some time today to play with #MarkWhen. This is what I've been looking for! Being able to create timelines and calendars using basic data structures so that I can pull together some planning for 2025.
https://markwhen.com/
This is so good and fits in perfectly into my #Obsidian workflow.
A million #Bluesky posts were scraped for AI training, raising concerns about data privacy despite the platform's promises and highlighting the challenges of decentralized networks.
https://hmjournal.com/posts/bluesky-fa
GetRSSFeed: #RSS Feed Extractor & Finder for Websites, Blogs & Podcasts https://getrssfeed.com/ 'Helps you discover and extract RSS feeds from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, and blog / websites.' Side note: Maybe stop making people jump through hoops and actually PUBLISH THE FEED ON YOUR WEBSITE?!? /rant
I don’t know how to put this without sounding like a lollipop, but I just want to say how much I enjoy the snapshots and tales you toot from daily life. Your dog glaring at crows. Your library book. The view from the train. Your bike ride. Your volunteer shift. The kind thing you heard a stranger say to the mum with the meltdown toddler. Flowers. Birds. Photos. Fungus. These postcards from everyone's everyday are lovely. And in an uncertain world they feel, for want of a better word, reassuring.
Trying out Pagefind to implement search on my 11ty site and it sort of works. If all code is exactly the same and the post has at tag "article" it is included in the index. If all I do is change the tag to "note" it isn't included. Can't seem to figure out how to get "note" posts into the index. #IndieWeb
Working on a script to fetch unread emails from my mail server and convert them into Markdown files to save them in my Obsidian vault! It’s an early prototype, but I’m excited about the potential to streamline my workflow. Using IMAP, Python, and some creativity. Open to feedback and ideas! #Obsidian #Markdown #Automation #Python #Mail
#Travel Starting January 8, 2025. The UK is introducing a new Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) requirement. U.S. passport holders (and travelers from 48 other countries) will need to apply for an ETA, which will be electronically linked to their passport once approved.
Here’s a great resource with more details, including a list of countries impacted: Will the UK’s changing ETA rules affect business travelers? https://www.bcdtravel.com/blog/will-the-uks-changing-eta-rules-affect-business-travelers/
Hurrah! I finally finished the first version of my how-to book on Bluesky, a Twitter/X replacement. I've been working on this for a while. Let me know if you'd like to see a free PDF copy - I'd love any feedback or suggestions you might have on this! Who else is on Bluesky? Let me know so I can follow you! #Bluesky #art #author
Now building my site with #11ty 3! Though most of the rest of my code hasn't changed much. I'll have to dig into the new shiny when I get some more time. #indieweb
#Obsidian Ever wanted to hide your notes Properties in Read mode? Or maybe on a per-note basis? Check out all these helpful CSS snippets here: Properties view CSS - The Fall Collection - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum https://forum.obsidian.md/t/properties-view-css-the-fall-collection/66512 ""
Testing this new app called @openvibe.social that lets you see everything from #Threads #Mastodon and #Bluesky in one app. And Crosspost to each Network. When can we just have #Fediverse for all???
Now everyone’s talking about #rss again cause of @pluralistic … I’m gonna recommend https://commafeed.com again!
Never got into the traditional RSS “old school email program” UI, so I love the very scrollable CommaFeed “expanded view”. Free & open source, self host or use their server. Delightful!
#Catholic Love to know more about the decision around this one via Universalis '': From Advent Sunday, 1 December 2024, England, Wales and Scotland are changing Bible translations from the Jerusalem Bible, which everyone has grown up with, to the English Standard Version (ESV).
I decided to style my #RSS feed to make it more human readable. Mostly because I can and figuring out how to is interesting to me. This post from @inautilo that links to this page sent me down this road. Down through the rabbit hole I found this stylesheet that makes it pretty easy to do if you have an RSS 2.0 feed aboutfeeds/tools/pretty-feed-v3.xsl. Well, easy if you control how your RSS is generated. #indieweb
I've been seeing more and more people start to shift back to reading their news via #RSS rather than relying on some algorithm to spoon feed them. I've also seen others wondering what this is all about. I've started to put together links to good articles as well as reader clients. If your have read or written an article about reading via feeds I'd love to have a link for my list. .What is RSS?
Sometimes when planning I like to look at a calendar for the year. I've created a simple 2025 calendar for #Obsidian in markdown if you like to do the same:
Markdown Calendar
Sure, there's a calendar on your laptop and phone but you need one in markdown too. Sometimes when you have a hammer you go around looking for nails…or something. Anyway here's one for 2025, copy and paste to Obsidian or your MD editor of choice.
v2.0.3 of my [#obsdian](https://haunted.computer/tags/obsdian) plugin md2html is released! now works in reading, preview, & edit modes, improved scraping of the rendered dom, faster rendering of raw md, a new help screen, & more fixes!
Sometimes, I invite someone to join #Mastodon, and I end up sharing the same links and information repeatedly.
Following the “manual until it hurts” #IndieWeb practice, after repeating the same things a few times, it is time to “automate” it. Well, in this case, just put everything into one blog post, I guess.
BREAKING: California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state’s progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and… pic.twitter.com/IpdU9zuPiU
At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.
My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."
Long?
Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.
And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.
A reminder to myself and anyone who needs to hear it: Step away from your news feeds today. Go for a walk. Create something. You are doing yourself no favors being filled with anxiety and constantly refreshing the news. Be well, friends. #ElectionDay
My main use of Omnivore was to subscribe to newsletters and then easily save their highlights to #Obsidian. So, that's a whole workflow I need to figure out. If anyone is down that path, let me know what you're using in place.
Rethinking my over usage of DataView in #Obsidian. Switching to native Obsidian things such as the backlinks pane. I keep track of projects in my vault and previously had new notes for each meeting. I'm thinking about moving away from that and just have 1 per project "ProjectName Meeting" note that I open and add to with reverse-chronological blog-style headers. So, latest meeting at the top. This way, during a meeting I can just scroll down if someone has some kind of "why did we make this decision?" question. Some meetings I have a line or 2 and some are full of notes. We'll see how it scales.
Omnivore is about to be gone. I love how it integrates with #Obsidian so this makes me sad. Supposedly you can self host but idk if I want that overhead. Here's your 2 weeks notice. | Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs - Omnivore Blog https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs "Next, all Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted. "
The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/
UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
#Obsidian folks: If you use Obsidian for work and personal are you using separate vaults? That's what I'm doing currently but I'm trying to decide if that is really the right approach. Let me know your thoughts and why you set it up that way.
I've been toying with a bunch of "starter pack” ideas for a while now...
The #fediroll: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/04/22/fediroll (https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks/112316258053751977)
My Masto "Starter Pack": https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/10/20/infosec-mastodon-starter-pack
The #indiesec #mammoth "Smart List” (and .csv export) https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/03/21/mammoth-indiesec-smart-list (admittedly I need to udpate this)
Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free
37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit The web software biz that decided to exit the cloud after racking up a huge bill says it has saved almost $2 million in its first "clean year" after making the switch to on-prem, and has already recouped the costs of the extra hardware it…
#theregister #IT https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.th
LifeHQ by Mike Schmitz is what every Obsidian user needs.
It is one thing to theorize about organizing and utilizing your vault but another thing to see in practice.
LifeHQ is just such a tool - it will help you understand Obsidian's potential.
Mike's approach is realistic, practical & repeatable. I am happy to have such a resource to recommend to those looking to leverage #Obsidian to its fullest. #TfT #PKM #Obsidian
Always weird to me when someone starts a work email with "Dear". I guess they are trying to be respectul. Maybe? But it's not like you have your calligraphy pen out and are writing on parchment paper.
RECALL #Anker Power Banks. The lithium-ion battery in the power banks can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards. Get free replacement. CONTACT: 800-988-7973 email at support@anker.com, or online at www.anker.com.
So after @pluralistic put the RSS bug in my brain, I had a thought.
What if, say, @Tusky , which is an awesome Masto app, integrated an RSS feed reader into it.
Hear me out…
You could have the option of following accounts as RSS feeds, so that if you follow news accounts or anything you don't want to miss a post from, there would be a feed reader pane.
Sort of like rolling your own algorithm, but better.
Hey just spitballing here. Maybe something like that already exists, seems like a good and simple idea.
Many great points in this @pluralistic thread on achieving meaningful change through joining a movement, but I wanted to highlight this note on "infrequently updated sites":
"I follow a bunch of people via RSS who only update a couple times per year."
Not having "a lot" to say shouldn't stop you from sharing your thoughts and experiences in a blog. And you didn't "fail" if you only have one or two posts.
I'm so used to Markdown in #Obsidian that I really hate when I have to use #OneNote. Yeah, it's pretty but try doing bulleted lists. It picks up formatting from other lines and you spend more time messing around with Format Painter trying to fix things.
I've just installed the Language Tool community plug-in into #Obsidian and it's now a perfect writing tool for me. Some other tools that you'd love:
- Longform (combine notes into a long-form manuscript)
- Pandoc (to export into PDF, docx, epub and more)
Any other tools you'd recommend for writers?
In the Microsoft ToDo app you might have reasons to delete all of your completed tasks. For example, maybe you track your completes in another app like I do and want to just keep the app running smoothly. Whatever the reason, it's easy to delete things one task at a time but it isn't as straight forward if you want to delete your tasks in bulk. To get you started, here a little how to.
In the ToDo Desktop app do the following:
Ensure the "Completed" smart list is showing
Click user icon in upper left
Click Settings
Scroll to Smart Lists and ensure the slider for Completed is set to On
Exit the settings menu and go the the Completed List
You should have different sections within the Completed list that correspond to you other lists (for example, Flagged Email)
Expand the list by clicking on the ">" icon next to the list name
Note if you have many many completed items in this list you may need to wait a minute before proceeding
Once the list is expanded, right click on the list title and select Delete Tasks (if the dialog box to click Delete Tasks doesn't show up, WAIT it can take minutes if you have a lot of tasks). You'll be asked to confirm you want to delete.
Depending on the number of tasks you have to delete it can take awhile. There is a kind of scrolling dot indicator at the top of the To Do window to indicate there is something happening.
Repeat the process for each lists you would like to clean up
if you deleted many items it might take a long time for everything to sync. Be patient! Clicking on your user icon in the upper left will show you if the app is still syncing.
I'm using this calendar to track of when the Major League Baseball Post Season games are scheduled and on what channel. I've made the ics public so you can subscribe in your phone or wherever you like. The calendar should be showing up in your local time.
Some times are still to be determined by MLB and will be added as I find out. The numbers in parenthesis are the original post season seeding of the teams.
You can subscribe to this calendar using this link:
I've been figuring out how to implement #webmentions on my site, this is a small list of all the helpful posts I read. Thanks everyone in there, really appreciate your writings!
“#PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:
go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off”
I’ve been working on creative online projects again—literally just for fun, that’s all—and I completed a really simple one. It’s inspired by coming across “interesting” words, or words I have to look up because I don’t know the meaning. Refreshing the page gets you a new word. https://by.georgie.nu/lexeme/ #language #creativeprojects #indieweb
i've heard about POSSE for a long time but never understood how people implement it exactly. Really appreciate that @molly0xfff's post about POSSE includes a link to the source for her microblog's implementation
Mister A's Owner to Bring $15M Project to Liberty Station in 2026 | San Diego Magazine https://sandiegomagazine.com/food-drink/the-admiral-planned-for-liberty-station/ "The Admiral will comprise a restaurant, canteen, game room, an event venue, and a cocktail bar, each with its own take on a 1920s-1940s theme. It’ll be the feather in Liberty Station’s cap, perched on high ground as a jaunty and distinguished addition to one of San Diego’s favorite destinations. " #SanDiego
Tor Project Merges With Tails - The Tor Project: Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for o… - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/09/26/1431201/tor-project-merges-with-tails?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #privacy
George Lucas got the idea for Princess Leia's iconic "space buns" from Mexican revolutionary women. Specifically Clara de la Rocha, a total badass.
Clara's descendant recounted:
"She crossed a river on horseback…and was able to take out a power station in order to allow the rebel forces to attack during night without being seen."
Disney Officially Launches Password-Sharing Crackdown With Paid Sharing Program - Disney has officially launched its password and account-sharing crackdown, rolling... - https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1927210/disney-officially-launches-password-sharing-crackdown-with-paid-sharing-program?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #tv
Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates feature - There are other ways to keep things patched, but this one will sting for some Microsoft g... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.th
Today's side quest is figuring out how to have a collection in #11ty that is sortable by title and lets me pass in a tag.
This code below works but isn't dynamic in that the tag "garden" is hard coded. I can't seem to figure out how to make the tag part more flexible so I can use it anytime with other tags and not have to build different collections.
House Committee Approves Bill Requiring New Cars To Have AM Radio - The House Energy and Commerce Committee has approved the AM for Every Vehicle Act,… - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/205250/house-committee-approves-bill-requiring-new-cars-to-have-am-radio?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #transportation
The best feature of #iOS 18 and #macOS 15 is the new option to select folders in #iCloud Drive to stay fully synced on the local device. This avoids so many problems with many applications and finally makes #Obsidian sync work.
Headed to Boston tomorrow. Hoping to have time Sunday to do some exploring. Last year I went to the USS Constitution museum which was excellent but by the time I got through it was raining and the Navy didn't want people on board the ship because of lightning. So I'll head over there again if the weather holds. Also, the refurbishing is done and scaffolding down on the Bunker Hill monument so I may wander up there. Conference Monday and Tuesday. #Boston #VeevaSummit
See-through mice created by using food dye found in Doritos - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/09/05/see-through-transparent-mice-food-dye/ "researchers at Stanford University massaged a solution containing tartrazine, the chemical found in the food dye known as “yellow No. 5,” onto the stomachs, scalps and hind legs of mice. About five minutes later, the opaque skin of the mice transformed temporarily into a living window, revealing branching blood vessels, muscle fibers and contractions of the gut"
'RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic (for our use-cases) for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content. We built some open-source software to fix that.'
'A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics.
The catalytic process...works equally well with the two dominant types of post-consumer plastic waste: polyethylene, the component of most single-use plastic bags; and polypropylene, the stuff of hard plastics, from microwavable dishes to luggage. '
This is a really awesome article that explains how to setup a book management system in #Obsidian using different plugins.
https://www.dsebastien.net/how-i-manage-bo
IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron - Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.th
Serious question: If you vote red or blue, is there ANYONE on the other side of the isle you follow and is worth following here? Please tell me who and why. #RNC #DNC #USPolitics #PresidentialElection2024
Trying to unsubscribe to an email list and getting back one of the most ridiculous phrases in the modern world: "Sorry to see you go. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days to remove you from our email marketing list. You may continue to receive emails during this time." 10 freaking days?!? It's a row in a database!
Here is something I honestly believe: Everyone or nearly everyone who, in the last four years, has gotten a bad impression from the "remote work" experience, it is because their workplace was doing remote work wrong.
"What do you mean by doing it wrong, Andi" I mean that they were videoconferencing. That's the secret. Don't videoconference. Don't default to videoconferencing. Don't ever videoconference at all. You don't actually hate remote work. You hate "Zoom".
https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/ looks like would dovetail nicely with #triliumnext #triliumnotes (or #obsidian and #logseq if that's your jam)
What if Jurassic Park was shot on an iPhone and posted to TikTok instead? (video) https://boingboing.net/2024/08/09/what-if-jurassic-park-was-shot-on-an-iphone-and-posted-to-tiktok-instead-video.html #boingboing
Yesterday, I introduced my ~23 year old coworker to falstad.com, a website I've been playing with off and on since she was a baby.
Y'all, she got SO EXCITED that I thought she might have some kind of emotional breakdown in the office, and she spent like an hour just poking at the circuit simulator applet.
It warms my heart that falstad.com is still around and that some young people see the value in something as old as they are when they grew up in a world of walled gardens, gargantuan corporate platforms, and SEO bullshit.
I've always had a pen and paper next to my computer for jotting down notes and doing quick drawings. I really like how brainstorming in ink works; no ability to erase, only ever moving forward, a single line thickness, etc. Well, now I don't have to create as much waste because I remade it into a simple web app anyone can use: https://lab.levibeach.com/tools/sketch
Roku plans to launch a free, ad-supported 24/7 sports channel across its devices, apps, and website on August 12, showing live Sunday MLB games and more (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
2 pieces of snail mail in the last week telling me about a data breach my personal data might be involved in (one from Ticketmaster). I think at this point we just assume our data is out there and save a few trees on the worthless mandatory reporting. #infosec
Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.
I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.
Don’t support this awful behaviord and boycott this company.
Data breach notifications show US pharmaceutical giant Cencora has notified at least 1.43M individuals that their data was compromised in a February data breach (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
US reaches plea deals with three accused of 9/11 attacks [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/us\-reaches-plea-deals-with-three-accused-of-9-11?traffic\_source=rss](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/us-reaches-plea-deals-with-three-accused-of-9-11?traffic_source=rss) [#News](https://assortedflotsam.com/tags/News)
Said no one: "Wow, didn't see that coming!" CrowdStrike: Tech firm sued by shareholders over IT global outage https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy08ljxndr4o "It cites chief executive George Kurtz, who said in a conference call on 5 March that the firm's software was "validated, tested and certified."" #CrowdStrike
I’ve been using and enjoying [@obsidian](https://mas.to/@obsidian) long enough now that I thought I’d share some miscellaneous thoughts, settings, CSS snippets and more ✍️ [https://tylersticka.com/journal/obsidian-miscellany/](https://tylersticka.com/journal/obsidian-miscellany/)
A massive new cycling route linking eight European countries opens this week
[https://www.timeout.com/news/a-massive-new\-cycling-route-linking-eight-european-countries-opens-this-week-073024](https://www.timeout.com/news/a-massive-new-cycling-route-linking-eight-european-countries-opens-this-week-073024)
The Trans Dinarica trail meanders through national parks, forests, inland villages and the Adriatic coast over a whopping 5,000km
Something that started as a simple idea a few weeks ago, has become a thing that people are using.
I am humbled by the love it has received so far. And..... I am working on a collaboration -- coming real soon.
Komments -- a quick way to add commenting to a page, or blog posts. Users can leave comments and you review in seconds, literally. Minimum fuss and a great way to let people interact with you posts/pages. Works with ANY page/blog/site.#komments#blog#bloggig#microblog
> *The Komments logo. The word Komments in orange, on a white backgroud, with a small speach bubble in purple above the letter e.*
Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers - An anonymous reader shares a report: Hundreds of websites trying to block the AI c... - [https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/29/1823255/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers?utm\_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm\_medium=feed](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/29/1823255/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) [#ai](https://schleuss.online/tags/ai)
Heard this the other day and it still amazes me. With Biden passing the baton to Harris, this becomes the first presidential election since 1976 without a Bush, Clinton or Biden. #uspolitics
Every once in awhile there is something big happening in the world and you want to avoid reading about it or stay clear of spoilers. Right now, we have the Summer Olympics starting in Paris so that could fall into either camp depending on your love of sports.
Fortunately, Mastodon makes it pretty easy to filter out posts containing key words. You can even set a time limit so that later on you don't have to remember to go back and turn off the filter. I did this once for the words "Biden" and "Trump" and my feed was blissfully silent on those topics. It isn't like your head is in the sand. I mean if something really big happens, you're going to hear about it through some other channel and you can simply disable the filter and posts with those key words will start flowing again.
Here's how to make it work:
Open Mastodon and click Edit Profile
On the left hand side, click "Filters" and the click the Add Filter button
Title your filter anything you want
Choose an exportation. From 30 minutes on up through never
Next, choose where you want the filter to apply. I usually choose "Home and Lists" and "Public Timelines". I leave the others because if I'm having a conversation, I don't want to miss something. And I don't look at profiles all the time so no need to filter those.
Next choose if you want to hide completely or behind a warning. This depends on your level of paranoia. If you choose to simply hide then you will get a message like this with the title of your filter show you which one did the hiding.
Next enter you keyword or phrase. If you want to add more than one, click "+Add Keyword" below the box. Note that this is an OR. That is, if you put in another keyword such as "Paris" in this case, you will be filtering our any posts with "Paris" in them, not just posts with "Olympics". That probably isn't what you want.
Click "Save Changes" and you're done!
Hope that helps you have a more peaceful feed of posts and avoid spoilers.
I love TikTok but the TikTokification of Instagram is annoying. It used to be photos and goodness now it is just a hot mess. #socialmedia #tiktok #instagram
I've just learned about Tiny Awards https://tinyawards.net/ which celebrates small website that are fun. Sites built by smart creative people. Recommend going and having a look at some of the entries. #smolweb #IndieWeb
OH MY! There's an Obsidian plugin for reading /and editing/ other file extensions!!
Thank you, Falcion, for making the UNITADE plugin. It's so good to be able to edit .txt and .journal files in Obsidian on my phone, knowing they'll be synced and ready for work when I get back to the Terminal on my Mac.
I'm checking out the Linter plugin for #Obsidian. This plugin lets you format your notes YAML front matter as well as the Markdown in your notes. There is A LOT that can be configured in this plugin. Fortunately, Lou Plummer (@amerpie) helps you get up to speed quickly in his excellent post: Don't Be Afraid to Use the Linter Plugin in Obsidian
Just watched this interesting YouTube video from Tiny Automations: How I get calendar events into my Obsidian Daily Note. Haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty cool. #Obsidian
New phishing tactic hijacks email protections to mask links | SC Media https://www.scmagazine.com/news/new-phishing-tactic-hijacks-email-protections-to-mask-links "In the attacks identified by Barracuda, which have targeted hundreds of organizations, the attackers managed to “wrap” their own phishing links in a legitimate protection service domain, decreasing the likelihood of automatic detection and filtering."
Scientists have confirmed cave on moon that could be used to shelter future explorers [https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/07/501\_378735.html?utm\_source=fl](https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/07/501_378735.html?utm_source=fl)
Just discovered property names in [#Obsidian](https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/obsidian) are case sensitive.
Fortunately it was easy to rename/merge properties with the core properties plugin. Going forward, I'll use lowercase for them. That's my usual practice but I'd gotten lazy. The iPhone keyboard defaults to uppercase for the first character on a line.
I get more engagement from people here than I do from #Facebook. Maybe my Facebook algorithm is broken or Facebook sucks. The answer is in the question.
I've lived in the USA my whole life. I've decided to teach myself to think in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit when it comes to the weather. Of course we had to use it in school for classes like Chemistry but I've never needed it day to day. I've switched my phone and our home indoor/outdoor weather center. We'll see how it goes. 30 is hot 🥵, 20 is nice 😊, 10 is cool 😐, 0 is ice 🥶. Old dog, new tricks.
Just watched this interesting YouTube video on The Wall Street Journal: 7-Eleven Is Reinventing Its $17B Food Business to Be More Japanese | WSJ The Economics Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATHbP1bAhI
Saw someone on Facebook say the built one of these. Looks like an interesting project! | DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box - Clean Air Crew https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/ "Also known as a Corsi-Rosenthal box, this DIY method of building your own air filter with MERV13 furnace filters and a box fan are an easy and cost-effective way to help clear indoor air from airborne virus particles, wildfire smoke, pollen, dust, and more!"
Our community member, Riiku, dove into a research rabbit hole and returned to tell us what he found about using Omnivore with alternative search engines.
Researchers from Qualys say a flaw in OpenSSH can allow attackers to remotely compromise servers, with over 14M servers potentially vulnerable (Lucian Constantin/CSO)
I started using Zettel notes (Android) a few weeks ago for this very purpose. Be careful. During my testing I added my whole vault to Zettel and it worked well. Then I deleted the Zettel repository and it really messed things up and deleted my Obsidian notes. User error for sure but it's worth noting. I'm still using Zettel but pointed at its own folder within my vault. This keeps things more separate in case of disaster but gives Obsidian access to all my Zettel notes. Lessons learned. Thank goodness for backups!
Mycorrhiza is a free self-hosted #wiki engine developed by @bouncepaw and the wonderful contributors. It features file-based storage, history, a custom markup language, categories, among other features.
Mycorrhiza 1.15 is finally released today! Among changes: linked diffs in Recent changes, /today and /edit-today links, changeable passwords, PDF/printer CSS, and more.
Here are 10 lesser-known Windows settings that can elevate the way you interact with your PC. From personalized adjustments to efficiency boosters, get ready to master these often-overlooked features.
Filing: Clearview AI proposes to settle a class action suit by collectively giving a 23% company stake worth ~$52M to Americans whose faces are in its database (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
I have a trip coming up so I've been trying out this #Obsidian plugin for building Itineraries. https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-itinerary?tab=readme-ov-file. It's a nice way to keep things in markdown and have the plugin present them in the form of a calendar. Using it in conjunction the Templater plugin is nice because you don't have to remember the syntax for making an entry. Not really sure if it makes sense to use over some kind of calendar app or an app like Tripit. Testing continues.
How to Use Your Smartphone to Cope With Hearing Loss (2024): Tips for iPhone, Android - From live transcriptions to sound filtering, here’s how you can benefit from features on ... -
The Rhode Island Computer Museum has a good story about getting calls from someone wanting to buy one of their museum piece computers. They're like, "Naw; we're good." The calls got more frantic.
Turns out a nuclear power plant in Europe was still using the same system, and it was failing.
They came to an agreement: You can borrow it, until you upgrade to modern equipment. And then return it.
Brazil Hires OpenAI To Cut Costs of Court Battles - Brazil's government is partnering with OpenAI to use AI for expediting the screeni... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/06/11/2237241/brazil-hires-openai-to-cut-costs-of-court-battles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court
Snowflake customers not using MFA are not unique – over 165 of them have been compromised - Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on ...
Tuxedo showcases prototype Linux laptop with Snapdragon X Elite
I've long been waiting for a powerful ARM laptop that can run Linux comfortably, and it seems that with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite SoC, that's finally going to happen. We talked earlier about how for once, Qualcomm is taking Linux support for their new laptop-focused processors very seriously, and that
Folks who worked on it will move on to new features and the ownership will be transferred to the servicing devision (WSD).
After a while WSD will get fed up with the cost of maintaining yet another rarely used shell feature and will deprecate it. Either that or the shell team will rewrite everything again and drop it.
See: Cortana, Timeline, People on the Taskbar, Chat, Live tiles.
Bill Anders: Nasa 'Earthrise' astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o "Officials say a small aircraft he was flying crashed into the sea off Washington state."
"After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features."
Russian navy vessels to dock in Havana, Cuba insists no threat https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/7/russian-warships-to-dock-in-havana-cuba-insists-no-threat?traffic_source=rss #News
As schools reconsider cursive, research homes in on handwriting's brain benefits : Shots - Health News : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/11/1250529661/handwriting-cursive-typing-schools-learning-brain "A study published in January found that when students write by hand, brain areas involved in motor and visual information processing "sync up" with areas crucial to memory formation, firing at frequencies associated with learning."
People on ActivityPub-powered platforms like Mastodon, and Bluesky, which uses the AT Protocol, can now follow each other, see posts, like, reply, and repost them, thanks to the work of @snarfed.org, creator of Bridgy Fed. @Sarahp interviewed him for Tech Crunch about the future of bridging networks, how to bridge your account from the fediverse to Bluesky, and what to expect when you do.
Google is acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo to deeply integrate virtualized Windows app support into ChromeOS, following a partnership last year (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tomorrow: Front End Study Hall 4! #IndieWeb event where we explore, experiment, hash out, and puzzle over #HTML and #CSS. Bring your curiosity and creations.
Found an interesting plugin for Obsidian called Webpage Export https://github.com/KosmosisDire/obsidian-webpage-export. Really interesting for building simple static websites. You'd build you things in Obsidian as usual, click export et viola you have static html to upload wherever you want. I'm still considering where it will fit in my online life. I may rip and replace everything or just add on as a digital garden.
#indieweb #obsidian
After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
It turns out that digital rights management and its consequences extend even beyond your passing when it comes to Steam. Valve has made it clear that no, you cannot will your Steam account or games to someone else when you die.
The issue of digital game inheritability gained renewed attention this week as a ResetEr
A look at Daylight Computer's DC1, a 10.5-inch, $729 tablet that feels like a hybrid of an iPad and a Kindle and runs on a custom Android-based OS called SolOS (David Pierce/The Verge)
Well I'll admit that I stayed up a little bit later than I intended but I managed to hammer it out. Some thoughts on the #indieweb#smolweb#personalsites movement (whatever you want to call it) and, incidentally, the first update to my personal website in 6 months.
I don't know if the world needed another one of these think-pieces but for me, at least, it's a sort of statement of intent. At the very least I hope to put some more effort into my personal site.
If you are on Threads and posting publicly, why wouldn't you turn on Fediverse sharing? Sure you may not understand the Fediverse but, why limit your reach? https://www.threads.net/settings/account #threads #fediverse #social
If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.
I've been using Spaced Repetition flashcards for years. Over 2 years ago, I transitioned my SRS system to Obsidian with the plugin featured in this video. It's effective, and I enjoy making flashcards within my research notes. #TfT#Obsidian 📚✨
@liztai Your dataviews wil evolve and that might be a challenge when you have dataviews in your templates that you then likely want to update too.
My solution to that is to put a #DataviewJS snippet in the template that loads another note (call it a #Dataview#template) where the actual Dataview lives.
The code to load that other note:
```dataviewjs dv.span(await dv.io.load("/full_path_to/note.md")) ``` Works like a charm and it makes life much easier.
I've written a guide for people who want to draft papers in #Obsidian and then export to Microsoft #Word with "live" #Zotero citations. That is, the final document will look like a document that was written in Word with Zotero from the beginning, allowing you to edit the citations and generate a bibliography before submitting to a journal.
NoteApps.info: 40 best note taking apps analyzed over 324 features https://noteapps.info/ 'Screenshots, feature lists, and pricing for popular note taking apps.' via @dhry@mastodon.social #pkm
I'm on Bluesky but I have no idea why 😂 I don't know anyone there. I still miss the BirdSite of old and the local gang of frindships I made over there.
Thinking about going back to Remember the Milk. Somehow what's old is new again. Lots to like: Cross platform (including web), Android widget support, import from the Todoist, and a cute cow icon. | Remember The Milk: Online to-do list and task management https://www.rememberthemilk.com/ #productivity #rememberthemilk #rtm
Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
Sometimes I build crazy things. I get an idea for something and then I attempt to cobble it together. Mostly non-repeatable by anyone other than me but they keep me entertained. I'd rather spend hours trying to figure things like this out than play video games.
Recently I was thinking about how I could ease the creation of Mastodon Boosts in the form of using the Indieweb idea of a "repost-of".
From that link:
Why implement reposting:
Retweet from your own site. Incrementally supporting reposts, especially with POSSE to Twitter, enables you to "retweet" from your own site, rather than depending on Twitter to do so.
This in turn ensures a copy of anything you retweet on your own site, in case the original is deleted/removed etc.
The side benefit, for me, is I can search my own content for that link that I thought was interesting at some point.
Sure, I could just click the "Boost" button on my Mastodon client but that's just too easy. Instead, with my new system, I click the Bookmark button and that unleashes a crazy stream of events all in the effort of doing repost-of.
The next piece requires a bit of background. This site is built with Eleventy (aka 11ty). Eleventy is a simpler static site generator. Among other things you can use simple Markdown to create the pages. I have the wonderful PKM tool Obsidian sitting on top of my 11ty source folder. In Obsidian terms, the Source folder is an Obsidian "Vault". This lets me interact with the files using Obsidian as a kind of "Front End". That works well for site content. For 11ty code manipulation I can light up VS Code and work with the tiles that way instead.
Inside the above mentioned Obsidian Vault I am running a plugin called Simple RSS. And the Templater plugin. Templater does the magic of converting code slugs into usable things like dates.
Simple RSS does the work of pulling in the feed that I set up in Mastodon Bookmarks to RSS. For that you have to go to the plugin's setting and first create a "Feed Type". I used the creative name "Mastodon" for mine. It looks like this:
Next, you need to set up the feed. You choose a name, enter the url. The "Type" is the one you created above. The posts get pulled in an placed in the folder you enter into the path field. In the title field I use the title the feed has for each entry. That code is particular to this plugin. Then in the template I have a bunch of code for how I want the post to look on my website. Getting this right can be a little tricky because you don't have tons of control over the actual body section. Mine looks like:
You can have the plugin run on a schedule or you can just click the icon in your Obsidian sidebar and it will pull in the latest entries.
The template I've created is built with microformats that Bridgy understands. When my site is built and uploaded I have a script that sends a Webmention to Bridgy and it does the magic creating a repost on Mastodon on my behalf.
Yep, it's a kind of crazy but it was fun to figure out. And, if it stops working, not really the end of the world.
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby - An IT glitch leaves the cabin crew expecting to welcome a baby on board rather than a cen... - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo
I would just like to thank @shanselman, Jeff Wilcox, and the Microsoft OSPO for working with me to preserve the source code of MS-DOS 4.0, a very early beta build of the very limited release Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0, and some source code for that too
UCSB Library awarded $350,000 to digitize prewar American music recordings | The Current 'The award will enable the library to add the discographic data for 12,000 recordings made by the American Record Corporation (ARC) to its Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) project, and to digitize 8,500 recordings by ARC and its subsidiaries dating from 1922 to 1938 for free online access.' #ucsb #music #history
Taking visual notes with Obsidian Excalidraw with @nicole
A fascinating video by Nicole discusses her progressive incorporation of visual notetaking into her workflow. Of course, @zsviczian, the master of visual thinking is helping out. #TfT#Obsidian
There have been other attempts to document the process of bringing ActivityPub to a (mostly) static site, but this is my favorite so far. I wonder if I should give it a go, if POSSE ever stops serving my needs.
The Getty Villa in Los Angeles ran this event a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed how they designed the contest and the incredible process used to virtually unroll the papyrus.
The Vesuvius Challenge: Resurrecting a Library of Ancient Scrolls - YouTube 'Learn about the papyrus scrolls discovered at the Villa dei Papyri at Herculaneum buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the groundbreaking challenge to virtually unwrap and read them.
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What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/
A few years ago I #degoogled my life by finding replacements for each and every one of the MANY google services and products I became reliant on over the years. I was spending around $30/m on their cloud products both for application development and personal use (Drive, Calendar, Mail etc.).
In just a few weeks I transitioned to a #selfHosted#nextcloud and haven't looked back. It handles my files, calendars, email, documents, backups, contacts and more - more than google even. A built in #WebDAV server allows you to sync your note apps like #joplin and #obsidian.
For #android users there's a wonderful app on #fdroid called #DAVx5 by @davx5@fosstodon.org, which allows you to auto sync your contacts & calendars. It works a treat. Really, this was just a long-winded way to give a shout-out to DavX5 for the great app! I only think about it when I change servers or phones, and that's a complement!
Cat-themed illustration of what it’s like to add new-new shiny-shinies to your #PKM, and test / admire them from every possible angle — instead of getting on with catching mice / the work you should actually be doing
DNS over Wikipedia - a good article about a project to help get around the Google bans on reaching sites like SciHub and (the real) Pirate Bay. I’m all about getting to parts of the web the corporate overlords are trying to wall off. https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia
PodcastAP allows you to follow podcasts and music feeds in the fediverse. (So when Ezra Klein or On Being drops a new episode, you’ll get it right in your Mastodon feed.) https://podcastap.com/
Earlier this evening I was trying to figure out if I could have Obsidian Tasks community plugin https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks alongside checklists. The Tasks plugin is nice for many reasons. One being that it prompts you with some values to help you set due dates and also automatically records when you complete a task. You can turn off the default stamping of completion dates but I find it handy.
In my mind, a checklist doesn't really need a date completed. Let's take a Packing List as an example. If I mark the "Shirts" item as done that merely indicates to me that the item is in my bag I have no reason to have a date on there.
The solution to this is custom statuses in Obsidian Tasks.
In Obsidian Tasks settings you can set all kinds of custom statuses. Here I have set 2 of them. What this allows is for me to create a note and put in the markdown something like:
- [?] Shirts
- [?] Socks
- [?] Jeans
When I click on one of the list entries, it fills the check box with 'o'. In other words, lets say I've packed my Shirts and Socks, the list would look like:
- [o] Shirts
- [o] Socks
- [?] Jeans
The advantage here is that the way I have these states set up in the settings, neither one is a 'DONE' state to the Tasks Plugin. Thus, we don't get the date stamp. Exactly what I want for this purpose.
"Trying to figure a way for Tasks and checklists to coexist in Obsidian. The Tasks plugin is handy because when you mark things complete it adds a date. There are reasons I like this. However, there are times when I might want a check list (e.g., Packing LIst) where I wouldn't care about the completion date just that the item is in my bag. #Obsidian @obsidianmd"
Pro tip: When you are done configuring your home router, open the web interface and go through each section. Take screenshots and paste them in to Obsidian or your PKM system of choice. Maybe even go as far as making a note as to why you set something the way you did. You'll thank me later. #Obsidian #pkm
Forty years since that fateful Saturday when the brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal all met in the school library for detention. Happy Breakfast Club Day, friends. See you in detention.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/mediaviewer/rm1290438144/ #BreakfastClubDay
Unsubscribing to basically everything. A handfull of things were blocked by ublock origin when I tried to unsubscribe and one had the worst catcha ever. Up next, ctrl+a+del the whole inbox. Good riddance to bad rubbish. #email
Email clients, web or otherwise, need an abiility to be able to just keep the latest. If I get this week's newsletter, I don't need last week's. I don't care whether I've read it or not, just nuke it or archive it 'cause I ain't got time to go back and read it. #email
Saturday thoughts: The Kindle paperwhite would be such a nice read-later device if you could access things like Omnivore or Pocket. Yes, there are e-ink Android devices and that is tempting but along with Android comes all the other distractions that you avoid with a read-centric device. #kindle #omnivore
Microsoft will end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, for the Amazon Appstore on Windows as well (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Firstly, an RSS search engine. Quite literally. It finds blogs and stuff with RSS feeds and is amazing for finding new #IndieWeb blogs to try https://feedle.world/
The second is a tool that displays RSS feeds that your Mastodon/Fediverse network share! https://rss-is-dead.lol/
I must have missed something. I thought Teslas were expensive and hard to get? I was at Costco the other day and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Tesla. #Tesla
I’m delighted to announce that today I’m launching a new nonprofit journalism studio: Proof News.
Proof is into proving things! Our goal is to question, test, and investigate the most important issues of our time. We will always tell you what we know and what we don’t know.
Looks like #Microsoft rotated the host keys on their #Azure SFTP server. Not sure what's up with that but if you have any automations they may be breaking if you have the old keys in there. Niche post of the day, ha!
Just like the #NFL playoffs, I'll be posting about the game on Mastodon because TweX has lost it. End of an era. Enjoy the game, all. #SFvsKC #NFL #SB58 #NFLOnMastodon #SuperBowl #SuperBowlLVIII @nfl@a.gup.pe
"Anyone use #Obsidian tasks for keeping track of things assigned to other people? Using Tasks plugin or Dataview it's easy to get them all together but how would you keep track of who is doing what because they'd jumble in with your own tasks. I guess you could develop a naming convention like "[ ] Name: Task Assigned". If anyone has insights, I'd be interested to hear. @obsidianmd"
Anyone using Phanpy for #Mastodon? It's a refreshing take on how to present a social feed. You can follow frequent reposters without cluttering up your stream. Also, a Progressive Web App (PWA) meaning it runs in a browser so works essentially everywhere and nothing to get from some app store. Give it a try! https://phanpy.social/#/
Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says | The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-not-spirit-mis-installed-piece-that-blew-off-alaska-max-9-jet/ 'The self-described Boeing insider said company records show four bolts that prevent the door plug from sliding up off the door frame stop pads that take the pressurization loads in flight, “were not installed when Boeing delivered the airplane.” the whistleblower stated. “Our own records reflect this.”' #boeing #aviation
Obsidian's annual Gems of the Year winners for 2023 have been announced, and the Best Tool is something called Quartz that I've been meaning to try for a full year now. Well, I decided it was about time to learn it and... it's pretty amazing. It's a free, open-source static site generator that happens to be really good at turning #obsidian notes into a public site that is more easily shared. https://youtu.be/6s6DT1yN4dw
Finished "Mexican Gothic" I agree with The Guardian when they said "after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.” Let's just say strange things are afoot at High Place. https://amzn.to/3u3eIye #booktodon
I took some time to work out the exact #formatting that #Elasticsearch demands. If you think this might be useful, go ahead and boost. If you find any errors or would like to suggest additions, please also post a reply!
Hopefully this can help prevent a lot of frustration and trouble people might encounter and give them a better Mastodon experience!
Just learned about Betterbird. Going to give it a try.https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html "Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will."
Finished "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" last night. Really enjoyed the writing and the story. I look forward to picking up the next book in the series! #Booktodon
My site has morphed over time. Used to self-host Wordpress and now 11ty. I'm updating again to add a side section for a digital garden. I haven't exactly figured out how I'm going to use but it will be good to have a spot where I can put things that aren't "blog-y" and it has been a fun little New Year project. Plus, all the kids are building Digital Gardens these days 😎 #indieweb #digitalgarden
Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech - Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Nikon-Sony-and-Canon-fight-AI-fakes-with-new-camera-tech 'An alliance of global news organizations, technology companies and camera makers has launched a web-based tool called Verify for checking images free of charge. If an image has a digital signature, the site displays date, location and other credentials.'
What is the current state of the #Threads #ActivityPub implementation? Do Threads users have to do anything on their side to show up on ActivityPub streams?
Flipboard on the fediverse: how the company is rebuilding with ActivityPub and Mastodon - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006062/flipboard-fediverse-mastodon-activitypub-profiles-social '“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”'
New #obsidian group in the Fediverse! I've created @obsidianfans@chirp.social so all you have to do is follow that account on Mastodon or wherever and then when you post, mention @obsidianfans@chirp.social and your post will be sent to the group.
I was goofin with Bing's AI image creator and had it "Create an engineering drawing of a turbo encabulator transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters." If you don't get the reference, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag"
Yankees to acquire slugger Juan Soto in blockbuster trade - The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2023/12/07/baseball/mlb/yankees-acquire-soto/? 'The Yankees agreed to send right-handed pitchers Michael King, Drew Thorpe and Jhonny Brito, left-hander Randy Vasquez and catcher Kyle Higashioka to the Padres in exchange for Soto and outfielder Trent Grisham.' #SanDiegoPadres @sdpadresfans@chirp.social
New #sandiegopadres group in the Fediverse! I've created @sdpadresfans@chirp.social so all you have to do is follow that account on Mastodon or wherever and then when you post, mention @sdpadresfans@chirp.social and your post will be sent to the group. Hey, it's winter, what else am I going to do?
I have an old Windows tablet (Asus T102H) I'm thinking of putting #Linux on. Are there any recommended distros? Would need to be as tablet friendly as possible (touch, screen rotation). Needs wifi, bluetooth I don't care about for this.
Tesla Will Sue for $50K If You Try to Resell Your Cybertruck in the First Year https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sue-cybertruck-buyers-they-resell-in-first-year-2023-11 From their Motor Vehicle Order Agreement: '"Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater. Tesla may also refuse to sell you any future vehicles," it says.'
I was browsing with Brave browsser and it happend to load Brave.com to show me about new features. I noticed it blocked 2 trackers. What's up with that, Brave? Are you just trying to prove it works?? #privacy #infosec
Then the major yelled "Fall Back!" and the soldiers dropped to a knee. Not only was baseball season over, so was Daylight Savings. With a tear in their eye, they wound back their watches.
Eyedrops from CVS, Rite Aid and others carry possible infection risk, FDA says - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/eyedrops-cvs-rite-aid-carry-infection-risk-fda-104479352 "advisory applies to lubricating drops sold by six companies, including CVS Health, Target, Rite Aid and Cardinal Health. Consumers should stop using the products immediately and avoid purchasing any that remain on pharmacy and store shelves" #health
San Diego Public Library giving access to banned books https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/booksunbanned 'teens and young adults ages 12 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access San Diego Public Library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks for FREE.'
Anyone have any good #Windows utilities for the moving, zipping, unzipping and possibly sFTP up and downloading? I've cobbled together many scripts over the years but it's time to see what else is out there.
WS_FTP servers targeted in ransomware attacks | SC Media https://www.scmagazine.com/news/ws_ftp-servers-targeted-in-ransomware-attacks "The WS_FTP server's recent vulnerability presents a severe threat landscape because of its inherent nature, which permits unauthenticated attackers to execute commands on the underlying OS remotely, explained Callie Guenther, senior manager, cyber threat research at Critical Start." #infosec
I was playing with #Obsidian for #genealogy. The Breadcrumbs plugin is promising because you can do ascending and decending representations of peole-notes. The one drawback is a "parent" makes children siblings. So even if children have the same mother and different fathers they appear as siblings in Breadcrumbs. So close.
Netflix is planning to launch retail destinations in 2025 - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914796/netflix-house-retail-stores-2025 "Bloomberg reports that the streamer is planning to launch new retail destinations — dubbed Netflix House — that will offer not only things to buy but also food and other experiences themed after whatever is hot on Netflix at the moment."
Microsoft says VBScript will be retired in future Windows • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/10/microsoft_says_vbscript_will_be/ ""VBScript is being deprecated," Microsoft said. "In future releases of Windows, VBScript will be available as a feature on demand before its removal from the operating system.""
There's a flaw in cURL? Not good. | Patches Prepared for 'Probably Worst' cURL Vulnerability - SecurityWeek https://www.securityweek.com/patches-prepared-for-probably-worst-curl-vulnerability/ "“We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including fixes for a severity HIGH CVE and one severity LOW. The one rated HIGH is probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time,” the maintainers note in an advisory." #infosec
More Microsoft token trouble: 38TB of data exposed • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/more_microsoft_token_trouble/ "After being notified about the exposure on June 22, Redmond says it revoked the SAS token to prevent any external access to the storage account, and it plugged the leak on June 24. " #infosec
Considering moving away from BridgyFed back to native Mastodon. Maybe just use Bridgy for posts like this that I make from my site and post it to my Mastodon account. Thought about hosting my own Mastodon instance but thats more work than I want to do for seemingly little gain. #indieweb
Okay, this is ridiculous. The NYT is recommending Cascade somehow as the best dishwasher detergent. The last two people who serviced our (now 15-year-old) beloved and very quiet Miele dishwasher said don't ever put that crap in your machine.
We used the exact same pods recommended by NYT and it made our dishwasher stink and it didn't get things clean.
My wife ended up making a homemade version that uses mostly natural stuff plus a pinch of something like Oxyclean. Best detergent ever used, and that's all we use now.
In case anyone is interested, here's the recipe:
DIY Dishwasher Detergent
YIELD: 4 1/2 CUPS / 2.2 LB (ENOUGH FOR 36 LOADS OF DISHES)
1 cup / 225 g super washing soda (sodium carbonate)
1 cup / 225 g powdered oxygen bleach (sodium percarbonate)
1/4 cup / 62 g table salt (sodium chloride)
50 drops lemon essential oil
12 drops peppermint essential oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
Washing soda and oxygen bleach are skin sensitizing. I recommend wearing nitrile gloves while you prepare this DIY and washing your hands afterward.
Mix dry ingredients. Add washing soda, powdered oxygen bleach, and table salt into a large, non-metallic mixing bowl. Whisk to combine.
Add essential oils and stir until everything is thoroughly combined.
The essential oils will accumulate in small clusters at first. Keep
stirring to break them apart.
Transfer the detergent powder into an airtight glass jar or storing
container. Store sealed in a dry place, protected from moisture.
Use about 2 tablespoons per load.
Seems like it wouldn't be that hard to add to all their products while they're at it.
Reply to:
Threads.net now supports the #indieWeb #microformats #openStandard rel-me for distributed ✅ verification!^1 (supported since 2023-08-09) My Threads profile already had my domain since it was created from my Instagram profile. View source on https://www.threads.net/@tantek and you can see the #relMe on a link tag: Instructions to add yours: * Add your domain to your Threads profile "Link" field. That’s it. Longer explicit steps: https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Threads Thanks especially to @timothychambers.net (@tchambers@indieweb.social, @timothyjchambers@threads.net) for requesting rel-me s...tal building blocks which are disproportionately helpful as Tim says. These small building blocks which directly enable user features are usually something a web developer can code at least some (often complete!) support for in one day/night which makes them particularly appealing as a way to rapidly support open #socialWeb standards used by the #fediverse and beyond. Incrementally implementing microformats & IndieWeb standards^4 also demonstrates good will and good intentions for supporting the #openWeb. This is day 44 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days ← Day 43: https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse → 🔮 Previously: * 2023-02-01 Wikipedia.org supports multiple rel=me links: https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me ^1 https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/Cvu2eXurRbB ^2 https://www.threads.net/@timothyjchambers/post/CupCvChAxI8 ^3 https://www.threads.net/@0xjessel/post/Cvu7-A4viZu ^4 https://spec.indieweb.org/ - Tantek
@teamtuck you can find a KJV version in Markdown here: https://miscellaneplans.gumroad.com/l/kjv-bible-markdown?layout=profile Other versions are hard to come by because of copyright.
Oh that's interesting. I didn't know you needed an account on X to view the content now. I wasn't logged in, clicked the link to someones profile and couldn't get to it unless I logged in. Tweetdeck and now this? The enshittification continues at an alarming rate.
I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
The thing is that #RSS is the best. Social media sites don't like RSS because it breeds independence. Which is exactly why #creators should be using and *promoting* RSS. You can whine about the #algorithm or you can work on freeing your self from its clutches.
For #Newstodon and #FollowFriday, let's share our favorite publications in the #fediverse. Here's just a few of ours:
@damemagazine
@themarkup
@Chron
@TheConversationUS
@gbhnews
@TucsonSentinel
@thexylom
@insideclimatenews
@FAIR
@grist
Deep learning model can steal data by listening to keystrokes with 95% accuracy - A team of UK researchers has trained a deep learning model to interpret keystrokes... - https://thenextweb.com/news/deep-learning-steal-data-ai-keystrokes #startupsandtechnology #governmentandpolicy #dataandsecurity
Intel GPU drivers now collect telemetry data on "which types of websites you visit, which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and logged without URLs or information that identifies you, including how long and how often you visit certain types of sites". It also snitches details on your computer *and* "other devices in your environment", as well as "how you use your computer" (no clarification provided).
It was as if Clark County, #Ohio set out to prove why this election was all about.
#Issue1 was defeated there by ONE VOTE. Under current rules, that’s decisive for NO. Had it been under terms of raised threshold, that woulda meant NO victory for NO
When Nichelle Nichols told Gene Roddenberry that she wanted to quit #StarTrek he begged her to sleep on it.
That night she met Martin Luther King Jr. and he told her she simply could not quit.
“Gene Roddenberry has opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave, that door can be closed."
She went back in on monday and stayed a part of the franchise.
When NASA realized it was a sausage party they recruited her to spearhead their diversity program and she brought countless women and people of color into the space program.
After filming her first season of Star Trek Discovery, Sonequa Martin-Green met Nichelle on the red carpet premier and tried to tell her how hard she had worked not to let her or the franchise down.
Nichelle pulled her in close and whispered "Take care. This is yours now."
One year and one week and one day ago she left us mortals. but the changes and progress she helped make will always be with us.
“The principles of the #Fediverse, with an emphasis on local control, quality content, and social value, are far more aligned with our public purposes than those of avowedly commercial networks like #Threads or #Twitter.”
Betula is a self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats are produced.
Among changes:
Bookmarklet
Searching
Built-in documentation
Custom CSS
Full notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.0.0.html
If you were delaying Betula installation, now is the perfect time!
Scientists from #NASAHarvest are monitoring the situation, with the goal of developing tools based on satellite data to quickly assess how growing conditions and the war in Ukraine are affecting global food supplies. https://go.nasa.gov/3Yh4rt2
#NASAEarth
Lon has the word on all the ridiculous moves the broadcasters are trying to pull with NextGenTV. I'm still pissed about ClearQAM going away and this is way worse. | ATSC 3 DRM Encryption is Worse Than We Thought! https://youtu.be/0NhV5BdEWqo #savefreetv#NextGenTV
Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi https://news.itsfoss.com/google-controversial-tracker/ 'this API would facilitate a way of detecting whether a connected user meets the website's criteria for a secure connection.
But, to achieve this, the API would need access to far-reaching data from the user, opening the door for uniquely fingerprinting them. Even though the developers feel that the API shouldn't be used for such a thing, many doubt how it will pan out.'
When It’s OK to Use AI at Work (and When It's Not) https://lifehacker.com/when-it-s-ok-to-use-ai-at-work-and-when-its-not-1850683978 Worth doing: 'you can opt out of training ChatGPT with your conversations. By doing so, your interactions with ChatGPT will not be used to improve the service, and your previous chats will be deleted from the servers after 30 days.' #AI#ChatGPT
If you are dreaming of exploring the beautiful sights and cultures of Europe, you may need to take an extra step before booking your flight. Starting in 2024, American passport holders will need to apply for an online authorization form called ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) to visit 30 European countries.
ETIAS is not a visa, but rather a security check that will allow you to stay in Europe for up to 90 days within any 180-day period23. It will cost you 7 euros (about $8) and will be valid for three years or until your passport expires.
The ETIAS system is similar to the ESTA program that the U.S. implemented in 2008 for travelers from certain countries. It is designed to enhance border security and prevent terrorism and irregular migration.
To apply for ETIAS, you will need to fill out a form online or on your mobile phone, providing personal information, passport details and answers to some questions about your health and criminal history. You should apply at least a month before your trip, as the approval process may take up to 30 days in some cases.
You can check the full list of countries that require ETIAS here(PDF) ''. Some of the popular destinations include France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece.
So don’t let this new requirement stop you from planning your next European adventure. Just make sure you have your ETIAS approval ready before you board your plane, train, bus or cruise ship. Happy travels! 😊
As Juan Soto smacks a RBI single to give the #Padres an early 1-0 lead, let me emphasize that there’s no way #SanDiego is shopping him at this trading deadline. #MLB #baseball
ChatGPT For Android Is Now Available - OpenAI has released ChatGPT for Android, months after launching the free iOS app f... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/07/28/2035215/chatgpt-for-android-is-now-available?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #android
Hashtags to follow? #JukeboxFridayNight is one of many music themed # activities here.
Someone posts a #theme and folk add music video links with name of song and performer. JFN starts in New Zealand late afternoon and is picked up by other timezones later.
For more music #s see pinned post by @Kitty
For some gaming #s see @satsuma's top post
Catlover? Try #Caturday on Saturday whereever you are.
Quick reminder that at least a decent chunk of the forests *still burning* in Canada were part of the "offsets" countries and companies pay for as credits in Carbon Trading schemes meant for them to keep polluting guilt-free.
The "offsets" are now in the atmosphere heating the planet. As well as the original emissions.
Good stuff. /s
That's part of why Emissions Trading Schemes are little more than fancy accounting and should never be accepted as Climate Action.
Here is how to distinguish Elon Musk’s new X.com from 1994 computer strategy gaming classic XCOM: one involves a brave struggle against freakish, hideous alien intelligence seeking to undermine world civilization with advanced technology and the other is a computer game
Thanks to a global effort to regulate ozone-depleting substances, the ozone hole is showing signs of recovery and is projected to return to a healthy level by mid-century. https://www.nasa.gov/esnt/2022/ozone-hole-
This user over on GitHub might have figured out what's up with BridgyFed and Webmention.io. https://github.com/tyage/blog.tyage.net/issues/10. It seems that bridgyfed is converting hastags, which are part of URLs, into ^^ instead of %5E%5E . #indeiweb
Incredibly sad to hear of Anchor Brewing shutting down after 127 years: https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/anchor-steam-18192913.php
A huge loss. Though, the writing was on the wall when some absolute dingbat in charge got rid of their amazing historic label design and made it look like generic Trader Joe’s crap.
@jessica I think your question is really about backfeeding of "likes" and "comments" to your site via webmention. I'm not really sure why anyone would question an outgoing webmention. I've seen arguuments against backfeeds because someone commenting, for example on Mastodon, and having it land on a webpage they never interacted with is confusing and disconcerting for some.
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jessica :lily_autistic: :lily_asexual:: "Seen mixed messages on #WebMen…" - Mastodon
Today I learned about Sky Bridge https://skybridge.fly.dev/ which lets you use a Mastodon app with #Bluesky. I'm not on there yet but if that helps avoid some tracking issues then I'm all in.
The amount of data that #Threads is trying to capture on you is eye opening. Luke LeBrun an Mastson did a comparison of #Threads, #Bluesky, #Twitter and #Mastodon apps https://mastodon.social/@llebrun/110664586216685040
Shoutout to all the social media influencers who don't have their scheduling tools set up yet and run the risk of accidentally being authentic when they post manually
Shifting to following the Atom feed of my Bridgy Fed stream. RSS wasn't showing the "By" value so it wasn't as helpful. It used to so something seems to have changed. #indieweb
Canadian Judge Says Thumbs-Up Emoji Amounts To Contract Acceptance - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Globe and Mail: A Saskatchewan judge ... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/07/06/1955226/canadian-judge-says-thumbs-up-emoji-amounts-to-contract-acceptance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court
Nearly all of #Evernote remaining staff has been laid off by their new acquiring company. If you have notes there, I’d suggest making backups or start looking elsewhere. Might I suggest #Obsidian where you can self-host your notes.
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits (Andy Baio/Waxy.org)
To kill BlackLotus malware, patching is a good start, but... • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/22/blacklotus_nsa_guide/ '"Administrators should not consider the threat fully remediated as boot loaders vulnerable to Baton Drop are still trusted by Secure Boot," the guide continues, adding that patches "could provide a false sense of security for some infrastructures."' #infosec
so excited about our growing big ass resource list for everything #webdev for website hobbyists & #indieweb builders, completely accessible & editable by the community. just an easy list for beginners, veterans, and everyone in-between to reference & #help build a personal website :)
@rcade I've been doing this for awhile but you make a good point about pointing the feed against a big instance. I think I'll experiment with that as well. I'd love to be able to combine tags in one feed for those instances where people might use slightly different ones but I don't think there is syntax for that.
BREAKING- Canada passes the Online News Act, which forces companies like Meta and Google to pay publishers for posting news. Meta to pull all news from Canadian Facebook and Instagram. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-ne
Not sure why I never thought about this before but Elvis Preley's "Little Less Conversation" would make a good ringtone. Especially since I hate talking on the phone.
@daledesilva so be honest, I'm not sure how much Feedly has changed over time. I got back into RSS reading recently when I started useing Mastodon more. I use RSS to follow hashtags.
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Dale: "@scott I used feedly for a ye…" - Indieweb.Social
A Nevada City Confronts Millions of Smelly Mormon Crickets - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/us/nevada-mormon-crickets-elko.html'The crickets are so numerous that Nevada has taken to plowing and sanding Elko-area highways for drivers to get better traction.'
@techlifeweb.com I did in the past. It’s just a no brainer. Decent visuals, out of the box SEO, it *used* to feel like a *serious* venue so it brought some cheap gravitas. TLDR my own site was worse for the reader.
@techlifeweb.com
I find Medium is quite good for syndicating (I.e., republishing something I’ve written for my site or publishing for a medium pub and then republishing on my site).
For those who only publish to medium it seems that money, convenience and/or the social aspect are the main factors.
@renegadejade jumping into the thread to say WithKnown has had some love lately. Last update was a couple weeks ago. | Releases · idno/known https://github.com/idno/known/releases
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jade: "Is #indieweb compatible with f…" - Hachyderm.io
Tried to follow a Lemmy account via BridgyFed and it failed hard. #indieweb "IndieAuth verification failed: 404". It should be set up right as I've used it before plus indiewebify.me checks out.
Watch Out for ‘Junk’ Fees When Booking Travel Online - Hotels and airlines struggling to recoup their losses from the pandemic have been includi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/technology/personaltech/travel-booking-junk-fees.html #prices(faresfeesandrates) #computersandtheinternet #hotelsandtravellodgings #airlinesandairplanes #contenttype:service #travelandvacations #luggageandpacking #consumerreports #searchengines #nerdwalletllc #budgettravel
The https://kbin.social server is now federating with the Fediverse. You can follow/interact with kbin.social magazines & users from other Kbin servers, Mastodon & rest of the Fediverse. For example the TIL magazine is at @TodayILearned, the lead dev of Kbin is at @ernest
There's a new Kbin server at https://readit.buzz which is run by the same people as the Universodon.com Mastodon server. It's open for signups, just click "log in" and then "register".
We're seeing a large influx of new users, so here's some helpful Mastodon tips:
Liking a post does not affect its visibility. Instead, use the like button to let a user know that you find them to be irresistibly attractive and would like to become their internet soulmate.
Instead of saying orthodontist on here, we say mastodontist. This is important to know.
Tell us about yourself! Write either "pro-cannibalism" or "anti-caniballism" in your bio to avoid simple misunderstandings.
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/'the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”'
Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout - Reddit has been going through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/12/1553215/reddit-is-crashing-because-of-the-growing-subreddit-blackout?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #social
Lemmy, the Federated Reddit https://join-lemmy.org/'Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.' #lemmy#Reddit
The Moon formed when a Mars-sized object slammed into the Earth billions of years ago. As the Moon orbited around the Earth, its tidal interactions carried it slowly away from the planet, slowing down Earth's rotation. For about a billion years, a day on Earth lasted 19 hours before it continued to slow down to the current 24-hour day. Geologists have developed a new technique for measuring the length of Earth's day using sedimentary layers that change over long periods following the Earth's orbit and rotation.
Reddit cuts five percent of workers as API pricing shift sours developers - Two third-party Reddit apps have thrown in the towel over increased expenses Social media... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.th
Your deets are out there. Just take it as read at this point. | Yet Another Toyota Cloud Data Breach Jeopardizes Thousands of Customers https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot/toyota-cloud-data-breach-jeopardizes-thousands-customers'"As we believe that this incident also was caused by insufficient dissemination and enforcement of data handling rules, since our last announcement, we have implemented a system to monitor cloud configurations," stated the company in its apology and notice.' #infosec
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-management-idUSKBN2XN3WY 'An email to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji. Irwin declined further comment and Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.'
It means that I can just prepend [highlight:: ... ] inline while taking regular notes, and this one page brings them all up in one place.
I do the same for other things I want to extract from across the vault (ideas, concepts, bookmarks, random-thoughts, etc). I have a folder called "Extracts" and one page each for each of these keywords.
I suppose if the outputs do get out of hand in terms of the number of results returned, I can additionally filter by file creation time and append a Vol - I, Vol - II, ... etc. to the files.
Tips for Cutting Social Media Use and Being Online in a Healthier Way - You don’t have to quit Instagram and TikTok cold turkey. Use these strategies — some prac... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/technology/social-media-mental-health-tips.html #mentalhealthanddisorders #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #murthyvivekh #unitedstates #socialmedia #loneliness
#indieweb uses a set of standards such a microformats and webmentions. With those things in place it can be part of the Fediverse via ActivityPub with a little help from briding services such as Bridgy Fed https://fed.brid.gy/
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Boris Mann: "@Jeremiah @reiver IndieWeb use…" - CoSocial
Virgin Galactic plane reaches space with 6 employees onboard - The successful test flight should mean the company, founded by Richard Branson, could soo... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
privateGPT: Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT 'Ask questions to your documents without an internet connection, using the power of LLMs. 100% private, no data leaves your execution environment at any point. You can ingest documents and ask questions without an internet connection!' #ai#gpt
Real question: what implications does GDPR have for decentralized protocols like ActivityPub where instances in countries like the US are likely to cache data from users in European countries even if those users are not members of that instance and did not consent to data being stored there? Is there an expectation that covers this?
8 VS Code extensions you didn’t know you needed - Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment, not only because it... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3434611/7-visual-studio-code-extensions-you-didnt-know-you-needed.html#tk.rss_all #softwaredevelopment #developmenttools
NASA Picks Blue Origin To Make a Second Human-Crewed Lunar Lander - NASA has selected Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to create a lunar lander for an upcoming... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/05/19/2254220/nasa-picks-blue-origin-to-make-a-second-human-crewed-lunar-lander?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #nasa
@artlung they don't matter in the way they did on Twitter as there is no algorithm. However, it is nice to let people know their posts are resonating or being heard. There was an interesting thread on it a week or so ago https://mastodon.social/@design_law/110356222442779225
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Joe Crawford: "Do people not know that “likes…" - XOXO Zone
"Perhaps most significantly, though, the new Instagram text app will have an element of decentralization as well. 'Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,'
...'Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow & interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.'
(Presumably that compatibility will come through ActivityPub, which Meta has been exploring..."
Drunk driving suspect switched seats with dog when pulled over https://boingboing.net/2023/05/16/drunk-driving-suspect-switched-seats-with-dog-when-pulled-over.html #boingboing #crime #Delightful_Creatures #DUI #mistakes
On my website, I have an archive page for all native flowers & plants in San Diego County that I have photographed (currently 339 species), and over the last couple of weeks I've added ten new ones. :)
They're all in this blog post, on my website:
https://www.alex-kunz.com/flower-plant-update/
The only question is... will this post have a thumbnail? :P
Drobo, Having Stopped Sales and Support, Reportedly Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: StorCentric, the holding co... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/05/16/2013226/drobo-having-stopped-sales-and-support-reportedly-files-chapter-7-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #business
@elly I have a convoluted process of posting to IG with their app then pulling the photo etc. to my site via IFTTT and creating a post here in the Fediverse. It works but is exceedingly "geeky" :)
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Elly Loel ✨🌱: "How are IndieWeb people postin…" - Front-End Social
Apprently Mattress Firm is selling these bases with wide-open Bluetooth speakers. Perfect for Rick Rolling your local store. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRKXjj33/
End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/13/am-radio-electric-cars/ 'Automakers, such as BMW, Volkswagen, Mazda and Tesla, are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because electric engines can interfere with the sound of AM stations. And Ford, one of the nation’s top-three auto sellers, is taking a bigger step, eliminating AM from all of its vehicles, electric or gas-operated.'
@fran_kostella have a look at this page https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/ a little way down there is a graphic called 'Visibility of a Toot' it helps explain the way posts show up.
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Fran Kostella: "@feditips The part I don’t und…" - Mastodon
Don't listen to anyone who says "likes don't matter" on here.
Yes, it's true that there's no algorithm for them to feed.
But letting people you know that you like what they're sharing, that you agree with them, that they're not just shouting into an empty abyss? That matters.
Unlock the power of handwritten notes in Obsidian with Zsolt Viczian's Scribble Helper! Check out this article to learn how to integrate Apple's Scribble feature with Excalidraw plug-in for the ultimate note-taking experience.
7 countries with travel bans against the US | Miami Herald https://www.miamiherald.com/detour/article274840151.html 'Travel Noire revealed why New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Venezuela and Uruguay encourage their citizens to stay diligent when visiting America.' #travel
@researchbuzz I'd be interested to see what your doing with IFTTT here. Seems pretty handy. I still haven't coughed up for the paid plan yet but it is a great tool they keep adding to.
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) - IMDb IMDB 'The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.'
Warning: Spoilers
If you've ever seen this movie you'll know the "Hundred-Foot Journey" is the distance between these establishments and the lives of the people involved. I thought it might be interesting to track every time the "Journey" is made.
Madam Mallory -> Maison Mumbai when they are looking at buying it
Madam -> Maison Mumbai when they are renovating and they show her the menu
Hassan -> Le Saule Pleureur to deliver pigeon meal
Madam -> Maison Mumbai to photograph chicken
Madam -> Maison Mumbai to wash off the painted wall
Hassan -> Le Saule Pleureur to make the omelet
Papa halfway (middle of the street) to Le Saule Pleureur to argue about Hassan's training
Madam -> Maison Mumbai to wait for Hassan
Hassan -> Le Saule Pleureur to join as an apprentice
Hassan -> Maison Mumbai to get the Indian spices
Papa and 2 youngest kids -> Le Saule Pleureur to sample Hassan's cooking
Madam -> Maison Mumbai to take a special surprise - Bastille Day
Papa -> Le Saule Pleureur to wait for the call re: Michelin Star
Hassan -> Le Saule Pleureur to meet Marguerite for word re: Michelin Star
Madam -> Maison Mumbai for wine with Papa - Bastille Day
Papa -> Le Saule Pleureur to dance with Madam
All from Maison Mumbai -> Le Saule Pleureur to eat dinner
Everyone -> Maison Mumbai for the actual meal
BREAKING: Starbucks to shut down *all* Ithaca locations as a part of its union busting efforts.
This means that over 30 people will lose their jobs, as a result of Starbucks' illegal anti-union efforts.
Ithaca was the first city that had 100% of its Starbucks stores unionized & now it will the first city to have all of its Starbucks stores shuttered.
The story hasn't broken locally yet (SB did a news dump last night); message me if you want to cover this
Pornhub blocking all of Utah is one of the greatest publicity gets of all time. Geofencing to get mainstream media to start talking about your NSFW website.
My blog now shows likes from the fediverse. To like a post, you just need to favorite my toot sharing the post.
The only remaining thing to complete #IndieWeb backfeeding is to show fediverse replies on my blog, I don't think I'll do this as it seems like a privacy issue.
Thanks to the maintainers of brid.gy and #webmention.io for making such great services freely available
8 ChatGPT tools for R programming - Without fine-tuning or being trained on a specific topic, ChatGPT can answer questions... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3694611/8-chatgpt-tools-for-r-programming.html#tk.rss_all #naturallanguageprocessing #artificialintelligence #chatbots
In a world first, RSV vaccines wins FDA approval for adults 60 and up - Enlarge / An electron micrograph of the respiratory syncytial virus (RS... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1936993 #respiratorysyncytialvirus #infectiousdisease #severedisease #olderadults #60andover #approval #science #infants #moderna #vaccine #pfizer #virus #fda #gsk #rsv
There is a lot of friction with liking, boosting, replying if you try to keep in line with pure #inideweb ethos. I ease a TON of that with bookmarklets, scripts, templates, process watchers, etc. Still, could be better.
LoRa Goes To The Moon - LoRa is a communications method that allows for long range radio contacts to be ma... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/03/lora-goes-to-the-moon/ #earth-moon-earth #longdistance #radiohacks #moonbounce #pathloss #sdrangel #hackrf #radio #lora #eme #sdr
Hollywood's writers on strike have two worries on AI: they don't want their work used as training data and don't want to fix AI-generated "sloppy first drafts" (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
"Work is starting on a protocol bridge between ActivityPub and the AT protocol (the protocol that Bluesky uses)... and there is also a group network starting up that is dedicated to this.
This is one of the key stories of the fediverse at the moment, with massive implications... being able to interoperate with the rest of the fediverse would be of great benefit to all parties."
CERN celebrates 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/world_wide_web_30th_anniversary/ 'On April 30, 1993, CERN signed off on a decision that the World Wide Web – a client, server, and library of code created under its roof – belonged to humanity'
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine (Forbes)
To make sure you are seeing all the interesting post on a particular hashtag on Mastodon, you can easily follow them when logged into Mastodon. But wouldn't it be cool to have these posts delivered straight to your RSS reader? The good news is, its easy. You just need the right URL. To do that you need: the server address of your Mastodon instance and the hashtag you want to follow. Then you form it like this:
Here are some rare Torrey Pines (Pinus torreyana) and California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) in fog, on a lovely June morning in San Diego, California, eight years ago.
A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
Airbus Designs a Space Station with Artificial Gravity
The International Space Station has been orbiting the Earth every 20 years, with astronauts continuously on board. Some of their missions have lasted as long as a year, showing weightlessness's effect on the human body. To truly live and work in space for years, we'll need an artificial gravity system to help astronauts protect their bone and muscle mass and prevent other issues like vision loss. Airbus released new designs for a new space station called LOOP, a multi-purpose orbital module with many features, including a centrifuge to give astronauts artificial gravity.
So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread .
I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.
Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.
If I have webmention sending and receiving working, does bridgy fed (fed.brid.gy) backfeed to my site if someone replies in the Fediverse? Because it seems like that isn't the case as far as I can tell. #indieweb
Okay, if you use the #Outliner #plug-in in #Obsidian, please update it ... and you'll discover you can now activate the experimental drag and drop functionality!
Drag and drop bullets to your heart's content. It takes Obsidian one step closer to being a true outliner.
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The creator of a tool that s... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/2035259/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Since @Cloudguy is warning people to flush all of their Amazon credentials due to some kind of undisclosed security issue, I thought it would be useful to write a step-by-step guide for the average non-technical user: Flush your Amazon credentials now | auspicacious https://auspicacious.org/posts/2023/04/26/flush-amazon-credentials-now/
Goto your Amazon account, sign out of all your devices, everything, everywhere all your Echos (yes I know it's a pain), reset your password, delete 2FA and any tokens and reset them. Now.
That doesn't include Fido / Yubikeys but does include Auth tokens.
Do it now.
As much a pain as it is to reset Echo and all smart devices, trust me, please do it.
I can't tell you more yet, but I am being ethical and you need to actually realise I have a clue.
Is there such a thing as an RSS reader that lets your flacg articles and then it create its own feed for you? Like creating a curated feed of your own just by interacting with the reader. #rss
Google Authenticator Can Now Sync 2FA Codes To the Cloud - Google Authenticator just got an update that should make it more useful for people... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/24/1957201/google-authenticator-can-now-sync-2fa-codes-to-the-cloud?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #google
I was having an issue where Microsoft edge was not resolving www.amazon.com. My router is set to ensure all clients use the DNS servers I want them to use. I think this was what was causing the issue. To fix this, I went into Edge's DNS settings by going to this URL:
edge://settings/?search=dns
Then turn on "Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites"
and select "Use current service provider" see screenshot below.
Doing this fixed the issue and Amazon.com resolves as expected.
For those that post into the #Fediverse via your own site and bridgy fed, what is your favorite way of reading posts of those that you follow? Currently using RSS Id like to know what others are doing. #indieweb
Twitter quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including a ban on misgendering and "deadnaming" (The Verge) The Verge
People use large language models to generate text and images, but the underlying transformer architecture can work on any kind of data. A group of researchers wanted to know what would happen if you fine-tuned a large language model on only astronomical data. According to their paper, the model could classify astrophysical phenomena, distinguish between types of gamma-ray bursts, and calculate the redshift of galaxies. This could be a handy assistant for future research.
“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks”
Frankly, with all its current woes, #Microsoft is missing a huge opportunity here by not turning #Windows into something that people might want to use - that is, something streamlined, more secure, and more private. Then again, this IS Microsoft we're talking about.
I used ChatGPT to craft a Python script today that edited 500+ markdown files (my imported Raindrop.io bookmarks) from my #Obsidian vault. It moved text in the form of an inline properties field for URLs from the body of the note into the YAML front matter. I knew next to nothing about #Python.
Usually my u-syndication links back to Mastodon (when I bother to create them) are blank but I'm trying a new thing where I put in the text "Reply on Mastodon". Why not, right? #indieweb
If you're like me, you probably hate the Twitter algorithm. You know, the one that decides what tweets you see on your timeline based on some mysterious criteria. The one that shows you tweets from people you don't follow, or tweets that are hours or days old. The one that buries the tweets from your favorite accounts or topics under a pile of irrelevant noise.
Well, I have a solution for you: Twitter Lists. Twitter Lists are a way to create your own custom timelines based on the accounts or topics you choose. You can make as many lists as you want, and they will only show you the tweets from the accounts you add to them. No more algorithm messing with your feed!
Here's how to set up a Twitter List on mobile:
Go to your profile
Tap on Lists.
Tap on the plus icon in the lower right corner to create a new list.
Give your list a name and a description (optional).
Tap on Create.
Tap on Add members to start adding accounts to your list. You can search by username or browse by category.
Tap on Done when you're finished adding accounts.
On your computer you can add people to Twitter lists on a web browser by following these steps:
Go to the Twitter website and log in.
Click "More" then “Lists” from the menu at the side.
Click the “New List” icon at the top.
Fill out the Name, Description (optional), and set the list to either be Public or Private.
Click “Next”.
Click “Add” on the Suggested accounts that pop up if they are relevant. If not, click “Done”.
To add people to your list, click on their username on any of your existing Twitter streams and click “Add To List”.
To add people you are following to your list I find it easiest to the following:
go to https://twitter.com/YOUR_TWITTER_NAME_HERE/following
Click on the username of the person you want to add to your list, , click on the three dots, select Add/remove from Lists, and then choose the List you want to add them to
Not going to lie, it's very tedious and time-consuming. You have to do this for every single person you want to add. Why can't there be a faster and easier way to do this? Like a drag-and-drop feature or a bulk selection option. At this point in the tire fire that is Twitter, this isn't likely to improve. I used the opportunity to go through my Following list and unfollow accounts that don't tweet much or lately and the ones I've lost interest in. Then I added to my new List the ones I really don't want to miss. Then, slowly when I have some slack time, I add more.
The plus side of all this tediousness is that, looking at the posts on my new List, I'm seeing posts from accounts I've forgotten about and didn't even know they are still tweeting! That, my friends, is why the algorithm sucks.
That's it! You can now access your list by going back to the Lists tab and tapping on it. You can also pin your list to your home screen for easy access by tapping on the pin icon next to it.
You can create as many lists as you want, and edit or delete them anytime. You can also make your lists public or private, and follow other people's lists if they are public.
Twitter Lists are a great way to customize your Twitter experience and avoid the annoying algorithm. Give them a try and let me know what you think!
If you're looking for a pair of wireless earbuds that can deliver high-quality sound, block out unwanted noise, and last for hours on a single charge, you might want to check out the Soundcore Space A40 earbuds. These are the latest noise cancelling earbuds from soundcore, a brand known for its innovative audio products.
The Soundcore Space A40 earbuds have several features that make them stand out from the crowd. First of all, they have adaptive noise cancelling technology that automatically adjusts to your environment. Whether you're in a quiet office, a busy street, or a noisy airplane, the earbuds will reduce noise by up to 98% and let you enjoy your personal space.
Secondly, they have soundcore's pioneering double-layer diaphragm drivers that deliver sound with strong bass, clear mids, and bright treble. The earbuds also support LDAC technology for high-resolution sound and have a HearID Sound 2.0 feature that lets you customize your sound profile according to your hearing preferences.
Thirdly, they have an impressive battery life of up to 50 hours with the charging case. You can listen for up to 10 hours on a single charge and get an extra 4 full charges from the case. The earbuds also support wireless charging and fast charging for convenience.
Lastly, they have a comfortable and lightweight design that fits snugly in your ears. The earbuds come with 5 sizes of flexible silicone ear tips to ensure a stable and noise-blocking fit. They also have 6 microphones and an AI algorithm for clear calls and a transparency mode for hearing your surroundings when needed.
One of my favorite features that they go into pairing mode as soon as the case is opened. This way, once paired, they are ready to go by the time you put them into your ears. Also, they can be used in mono mode in either ear. Even with hear-through modes with the app I like to use a single earbud when walking to keep alert to traffic or other people.
The Soundcore Space A40 earbuds are a great choice for anyone who wants to enjoy high-quality sound and noise cancellation in any situation. They are available in white or black colors and come with a USB-C cable and a user manual. You can buy them from soundcore's official website or from Amazon for $99.99.
Hadn't checked pi-hole stats in a while. 46.1% of DNS queries on my home network are for ads or blocked domains. Wow. And Roku is by far the most chatty. #pihole #dns
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor (Washington Post)
Link in bio don't work if the site breaks. Linktree breaking a bunch of people's networks right now (getting 504 for any sort of profile link but the marketing/landing page is up).
You improve Twitter (organically) and your own experience by:
1-Only following low noise accounts.
2-Blocking those who generate noise on your thread.
3-Blocking ALL the friends of those who generate noise on your thread.
Say it aint so! What a tire fire the bird site has become. I've made so many IRL friends there. The API and 3rd party developers are also what made it great. Sad face. #indieweb | So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish | snarfed.org https://snarfed.org/2023-04-03_so-long-twitter-api-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish
-Post frequently about what you miss about Twitter
-Mastodon's frustrating quirks are good actually. Eat your vegetables!
-Oh cool, you just found this cool #mosstodon hashtag haha
-You run Linux now
-Federation is pretty simple. It's like email, if you couldn't see emails from someone that isn't followed by someone else on your email server or if it was interacted with by someone
While looking at a #zettelkasten on Ancient Egyptian, I just ran across an actively maintained scholarly zettelkasten with over 10 million individual slips!!! One of the largest sub-sectional topics alone has over 90,000 slips. Eat your heart out Niklas Luhmann!
How has the message not gotten out that people need to sanitize Youtube links?
Everything after before the "si=" is the actual link. That "si=" part lets Youtube link your fedi account to your Youtube account and therefore to everything Google has on you.
Please stop feeding the corporations even more data about you and everyone who clicks the link you post.
"Using my server as a guide, we found no increase in abuse or harassment...& I believe the opposite is true: not only did no disaster occur, but many people on both sides saw a glimpse of the future of the open social web. In practice, not in theory.....I saw numerous new Threads users excited to discover the Fediverse, and many Fediverse users welcomed them."
After Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are slowly coming forward, many of which used the GoAnywhere file transfer tool (TechCrunch)
Going to be driving a 10ft UHaul up I-5 in California. Anyone know if I need to stop at weigh stations? Have only done local moves so I have no clue and search results seem mixed.
Been working on this all month and finally made the announcement today! The full program and schedule with every detail about the International Mobile Film Festival April 28-30 in San Diego by the bay.
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
Ran across this excellent series from @blog as they build an activitypub enabled static site. Includes deep discussions about the core components that make up activitypub.
Good stuff, especially their work to convert an RSS feed to an AP outbox.
(18) The Figen on Twitter: "Awesome! Astronomer Jan Koet captured this video in 2007 of Saturn appearing behind the Moon. https://t.co/BB6fCOEAtp" / Twitter
No cow needed: Oat and soy can be called milk, FDA proposes | AP News https://apnews.com/article/us-food-and-drug-administration-business-health-nutrition-ed2acef14a014eef30a0fd24f98be07b
Edge browser';s Read Aloud feature stopped working in the latest update. It works with the lame voices but not the online 'Natural' better sounding voices.
One of my most valuable work/life possessions is the little library of code snippets I've built up over the years. If you do ANY coding, take care of your future self and save your code. #TheMoreYouKnow #Programming
A group that wants to ban books was prevented from reading what they claimed was a sexually explicit portion at a school board meeting. So they sued the district and won. Kind of hard to keep the sheer hypocrisy in my head.
Happy #MardiGras everyone. If you are celebrating, tune into WWOZ from New Orleans today for all the #music and #culture you need! https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/
If you guys are in Dora, #florida listen to your local and state officials stay inside for a few days. This is really really bad almost as bad as the #eastpalestine disaster
@tww Mastodon has RSS ( https://[server.name]/@[username].rss ). You could use that and IFTTT to save the links as files. The downside is IFTTT stores files as .txt rather than .md so you'd need to figure out how to convert that when you get it for use with #Obsidian
Outlook signatures need the option where if you are sending external it could include your whole block and if internal something more simple. No need to spam internal folks with your whole LinkedIn profile.
I'm hearing rumors that #Tweetdeck might become part of Twitter Blue, Twitter's paid plan. And now I can't log back into Tweetdeck. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Netflix begins rolling out new password sharing rules in Canada, Spain, Portugal, and New Zealand; other countries will be added in the next few months (David Friend/Canadian Press)
Apparently Spain doesn't live by the addage 'measure twice, cut once' | Spain spends €258m to build trains too big for its tunnels – DNyuz https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/07/spain-spends-e258m-to-build-trains-too-big-for-its-tunnels/'The trains must now be redesigned to ensure they can pass safely through tunnels on their intended routes. The first services will not begin until 2026 at the earliest, two years later than expected.'
The other day I received a snail mail postcard from an old high school friend. We really need to bring back postcard writing. It is such a different feeling than getting a text.
Today I learned from @0xabad1dea that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they're called solarpunk grazers and life seems a little better.
That feeling when you Amazon package is tracking nicely. Then it is delayed. Then it gets a new tracking number with a different carrier and not a single status update. wtf
LastPass parent GoTo confirms that hackers stole encrypted backups and an encryption key for some data during a recent breach, first acknowledged on November 30 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Twitter updates its web version to default to the timeline a user had open last, rather than reverting to the algorithmic feed; coming to iOS and Android "soon" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Trying to decide if I really want to dive down the #Obsidian rabbit hole. Been using Tiddlywiki for PARA for a long time and should leave well enough alone but shiny new thing is shiny.
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed the data of 133 accounts via employee social engineering, first detected on January 11 and its second breach in six months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
How to recycle your old electronics into Amazon gift cards | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-recycle-your-electronics-into-amazon-gift-cards/?taid=63c3a0fb3b7e2300013f2aad
#tootpick is a privacy-preserving Mastodon share button link target. Worth checking out if you are looking for a simple way to do a "share this" button on your site pointing to #Mastodon
Mastodon remains frustrating to find local sources of news. It's all national stuff, sadly. Unless someone way smarter than me can figure out how to make a bot that posts articles from Virginia Mercury
I get an email from LinkedIn saying I appeared in x number of searches. How is this even useful? Is it to keep job seekers away from the edge? Like, 'keep trying buddy, you'll make it.'
Current crazy posting mode consits of 11ty, some Hygen templates, old school batch files, a file watch and WinSCP. Also Bridgy and webmentions.It's a house of cards but it feeds my geeky soul. #indieweb.
Now I just need to figure out incremental builds for #11ty. There really is no reason to rebuild and upload all files when I create 1 new post. I think the feature is coming in 2.0 but I might have some ideas for work arounds at lest for the upload bit.
"So how about we make 2023 the year of the personal website? The year in which we launch our first site or redesign our old one, publish a little more often, and add RSS and Webmentions to our websites so that we can write posts back and forth. The year we make our sites more fussy, more quirky, and more personal. The year we document what we improved, share what we learned, and help each other getting started."
Up until late December 2022 hackers were using a flaw on Experian's site to get people's entire credit reports using only their name, SSN, address, and birthday (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
(6) Tantek on Twitter: "11 years ago today, Ryan Barrett (https://t.co/gUrFUtzJWQ @schnarfed) launched Bridgy (https://t.co/8GFzsIrYtV) to copy #socialmedia replies as comments on original blog posts. This meant those of us building #IndieWeb sites could use a service for ... https://t.co/eGqgfpywLv" / Twitter
I'm not going to go on about the whys and wherefores surrounding getting started with Mastodon. I'll include some links at the end of this that go over all that.
I started to collect information to write this post and came across this excellent post: 10 quick Mastodon tips. It is a great overview and includes some nice graphics to explain things. I highly recommend reading it to familiarize yourself with how Mastodon works.
These tips and tricks are for once you've set up your account and now need to know what to get things done. They are a bit redundant if you read the link above but I'll leave them here anyway. I plan to add to this page as I find other useful tips.
An easy way to do this is to use debirdify. debirdify uses the Twitter API to find any users you follow that are on Mastodon. All you do is authorize debirdify to access your Twitter account and it cans through looking for links to Mastodon in Twitter profiles (this is why it is important to link to Mastodon in your Twitter profile as above) 2025-12-03 Sadly, this site is no longer available. If you are a developer, the author has the code on GitHub - pruvisto/debirdify
Enable a Tweetdeck-like interface on your laptop
Open Mastodon and then click Preferences > Appearance then check "Enable advanced web interface"
If you then click on a hashtag or search for one a new column will open. If you want to make that new column a permanent part of your interface, click the 'Show Settings' button at the top of the column. Then click Pin.
Once you pin it you can open the column settings again and add more hashtags. You can have it include any or all additional hashtags or block tweets that include certain hashtags.
Be sure OneDrive is set to use Office Applications by going to OneDrive settings, Office tab and be sure "Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open" is checked Be sure all Office applications are **closed**
Copy the text below and save it as a batch file onedrivefix.bat:
@echo off
echo Clearing caches...
For /R "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Office\16.0\OfficeFileCache" %%i IN (*.*) do (
del "%%i"
)
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset
timeout 3
start %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe
echo onedrive has been reset
pause
Then run the batch file and OneDrive will reset.
It is possible that OneDrive.exe isn't in the folder above so if this doesn't start Onedrive, you might need to figure out where OneDrive.exe is. Most likely C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe. Then you'll have to modify the script with the correct location.
Find the location of the onedrive
Search Start for OneDrive –> open file location.
right click onedrive shortcut –> open file location
In a diversion from the usual tech tips and news….
My wife and I were watching the movie Waitress and we decided to write down all the creative pie names and ingredients. I know everyone needs this information so here is the list 🙂
Pie #1: Blue Plate Special I DON’T WANT EARL’S BABY PIE or BAD BABY PIE – Quiche with egg and brie cheese with a smoked ham center (later referred to as BAD BABY QUICHE PIE by old Joe)
Pie #2: KICK IN THE PANTS PIE – Cinnamon spice custard (Today’s Special)
Pie #3: I HATE MY HUSBAND PIE – “You make it with bittersweet chocolate and don’t sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel …”
Pie #4: SPAGHETTI PIE – has at home with husband
Pie #5: MARSHMELLOW MERMAID PIE – From when she was in her mermaid stage. Pie made for Dr. Mueller and given later in the appointment to Dr. Pomatter. “Biblically good!”
Pie #6: FALLIN’ IN LOVE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE PIE – made for Dawn
Pie #7: BABY SCREAMING IT’S HEAD OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND RUINING MY LIFE PIE – New York-style cheesecake, brandy brushed and topped with pecans and nutmeg
Pie #8: PEACHY KEEN TARTS – made for Dr. Pomatter
Pie #9: EARL MURDERS ME BECAUSE I’M HAVING AN AFFAIR PIE – “You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust.”
Pie #10: I CAN’T HAVE NO AFFAIR BECAUSE IT’S WRONG AND I DON’T WANT EARL TO KILL ME PIE – “Vanilla custard with banana. Hold the banana …”
Pie #11: SPANISH DANCER PIE WITH POTATO CRUST – Joe orders at the Diner
Pie #12: NAUGHTY PUMPKIN PIE – brought to appointment for Dr. Pomatter, but unexpectedly with Dr. Mueller. Dr. Pomatter unexpectedly out of town with wife
Pie #13: STRAWBERRY CHOCOLATE OASIS PIE – After Joe orders this one and Jenna tells him that it’s just a pie: “Just a pie! It’s downright expert. A thing’a beauty … how each flavor opens itself, one by one, like a chapter in a book. First, the flavor of an exotic spice hits ya … Just a hint of it … and then you get flooded with chocolate, dark and bittersweet like an old love affair …” – Joe
Pie #14: PREGNANT MISERABLE SELF-PITYING LOSER PIE – “Lumpy oatmeal with fruitcake mashed in. Flambéed of course …”
Pie #15: LONELY CHICAGO PIE – Teaches Dr. Pomatter how to make this one
Pies #16 & #17: CAR RADIO PIE and JENNA’S FIRST KISS PIE – These are pies Jenna’s mom used to make that she fondly remembers.
Pie #18: OLD JOE’S HORNY PAST PIE – Jenna states she is going to invent after a saucy story from Old Joe.
Note: This was originally posted in 2008. Moving it here since my old WordPress site is gone.
The San Diego Zoo is a wonderful place for families. I’ve been going there my whole life and always enjoy seeing the animals and the smiles on the face of kids seeing their favorite animals often for the first time. If you have never been to the Zoo, the first thing you’ll find out rather quickly after you enter the gates is that it is built on a series of hills and valleys. Some of them much steeper than others.
The Zoo does offer solutions to help with getting around. There is the Bus Tour which takes you around the park and a guide points out the animals. There is also a Kangaroo Bus that lets you hop on and off at different points in the park. Another new addition is the Discovery Cart Tour which is a more personal tour than the Bus and might be good if you have a large family. However, these can add to your expenses for the day, and to see things up close, you need to get off the roads that those vehicles travel on.
Most people fail to come up with a good plan, so the hills don’t wear them out too early in the day. All too often I see parents struggling to push their strollers up hills or dealing with fussy young kids who are worn out. It isn’t their fault; nobody tells you about this before you go. Once there, the excitement takes over, you grab a map at the gate and try to come up with a plan. Often, it’s just pick something you want to see and head that way.
That’s why I wrote this guide. I’ve spent lots of time thinking about this and wandering around the Zoo trying out different paths to determine the best zoo routes. That said, hills are unavoidable. This guide will show you how to take as many of them as possible going downhill. My goal here is to help people enjoy the Zoo as much as I do. There is no wrong way to walk to the Zoo but these family-friendly zoo tips can help make it easier.
A couple of points before we start. First, I’m not affiliated with the San Diego Zoo, just a long time Member and fan. Second, this isn’t meant to be a guide to the animals you will see on the routes. Take your time, enjoy the sights and sounds, and refer to this along the way.
Let’s go!
Front Street
Once you enter the Zoo you’ll be on Front Street. Grab a map or get the Zoo's official app for iOS or Android. You’ll need the map because I’ll be referring to “map locator’ numbers on the map. The biggest problem I have with the map is that it is not to scale. Looking at it makes it very hard to figure out which path to go down. In a couple of confusing spots, an employee is posted to help you out with directions.
If you are standing with your back to the entrance, you could head to the left and visit the Reptile House, Reptile Walk, and the Children’s Zoo (currently closed for construction). There are no big hills there so I tend to save this for the end of the day. Because of that, this guide will start you off going into the heart of the zoo.
1️⃣ Find Treetops Way between Map Locator 4 and the ticket booths and follow that to the Orangutan enclosure on the right.
Monkey Trail
2️⃣ Follow the brief Orangutan Trail until it exits back onto Treetops way right near Zoo Brew.
3️⃣ Take Treetops Way left toward the zoo exit and shortly you will see Monkey Trail. on your right.
To Tiger Trail
4️⃣ Follow Monkey Trail down to Tiger Trail. Keep left when you see the sign for Tiger Trail.
5️⃣ Follow Tiger Trail down to the tigers. You will be passing by the lower part of their enclosure and there are 3 opportunities to see them. If they are down by the glass, it is a nice up-close view.
At the end of Tiger Trail, you will see the plaques as reminders of donors that made these exhibits possible. As you pass by them, the trail leads to the left and down to Hippo Trail.
🔅 TIGER TIP: If you missed a good view of the tigers because they were at the top of the enclosure, turn right just past the plaques and before you head down to Hippo Trail. You’ll go up a walk that is a bit steep but it is worth it for the tigers. The walk ends at the door to the aviary. After you view the tigers, head back down to Hippo Trail.
6️⃣ Hippo Trail ends at Map Locator 14.
At that point, go to your right. The middle of the zoo doesn’t have a Locator. It is the elevator up to the Bashor Bridge. The ground floor of the elevator is right near The Pagoda.
7️⃣ Take the elevator (or climb the 116 stairs) up.
At the top of the elevator, you will be by Bashor Bridge.
1️⃣ Head across the bridge toward Map Locator 20 and then go left. Shortly, you’ll see Map Locator 19.
2️⃣ Continue left, enjoying the enclosures on the way to Map Locator 17.
3️⃣ At Map Locator 17, cross the street to Polar Bear Plunge. This area is a loop. be sure to go all the way in to see the reindeer. The loop will take you through the small gift shop and back out onto Park Way.
4️⃣ Before you cross the street back to Locator 17, go to the right a little way. You’ll see the valley Highway 163 runs through, and you will have a unique view of Balboa Park’s Cabrillo Bridge.
5️⃣ Cross back over the street and continue on downhill to the right (not back toward the bridge). Shortly after the zebras, you will find a wood walkway called Eagle Trail. Follow that wood walkway along past the eagles.
6️⃣ At the end of Eagle Trail, you will see the entrance to the Asian Leopards exhibit.
7️⃣ Go straight ahead and visit the leopards and the red pandas. After the red pandas, you will emerge back onto Park Way not far from The Pagoda and the elevators back up to the Bashor Bridge.
Back at the top of the elevator, you will be by Bashor Bridge again.
1️⃣ Head across the bridge toward Map Locator 20 and then go right. You’ll see the Elephant Odyssey sign where you will go left and through the tar pits exhibit. The tar pits lead to the elephants.
2️⃣ Keep to the left as you emerge from the tar pits area, and you’ll see the lions.
To Africa Rocks
3️⃣ Follow that path past the elephants all the way around and continue past the Sabretooth Grill. Just after Map Locator 10, the path winds through the Kopje exhibit and on to Map Locator 9. Here, you will be at a kind of crossroad.
4️⃣ Follow the path downhill to the right toward Africa Rocks. Africa Rocks is a long winding path all the way back down to the heart of the zoo. Just past the penguins, you’ll see Hua Mae Cafe.
Across the street from Hua Mae Cafe and to your left as you emerge from the penguin exhibit, you’ll see the entrance to the sun bear forest.
Follow the path to Sun Bear Forest as it takes you through the trees and past the sun bears. The path emerges at Map Locator 11.
7️⃣ Go right here and follow the street back down to the Hua Mae Cafe area.
8️⃣ At Map Locator 13, turn left and head down to the elevator.
Back at the top of the elevator, we will go a different way this time.
1️⃣ From the elevator go toward Treetops Café. Follow the trail between Treetops Café and Albert’s.
2️⃣ Keep to the right for Monkey Trail and follow Monkey Trail past the Gorillas.
3️⃣ At the Monkey Tales & Forest Tales sign, keep to the left to follow Hippo Trail past the Pigmy Hippos. This portion of Hippo Trail exits back onto Treetops way. There will be restrooms on your left.
4️⃣ Go left here and follow the signs for Aviary Trail on your right.
5️⃣ You will reach Owens Aviary. Go through the doors and continue following the trail through the aviary. Shortly after you exit the doors at the end of the upper portion of Owens Aviary, you will see the doors for the lower portion. Go back inside and visit that portion.
Exit the aviary and continue down the trail toward Center Street. The trail ends across Center Street from Map Locator 11.
6️⃣ Cross the street and follow the path up the hill to the right. You will be passing the bears on the left. This is a bit of a hill but take your time and enjoy the bears.
7️⃣ The hill ends with Map Locator 8 on your right and Sydney’s Grill on your left. Continue left around Sydney’s Grill to the Urban Jungle. This area is a loop, keep to the left past the giraffes and follow the trail all the way around. Go into the Outback and visit the koalas. If you walk through to the end of the koala exhibit, go to your right. If you continue straight, you will end up in Africa Rocks. Go right and back toward Sydney’s Grill.
8️⃣ Keep to the left and across from Map Locator 8, follow Koalafornia Boardwalk back toward the Zoo Entrance.
1️⃣ From near the zoo entrance and Map Locator 4, go left to the Reptile House near Map Locator 3.
2️⃣ Go left as you exit the reptile house and down Reptile Walk. The Reptile Mesa is a big loop. Make your way back to Map Locator 4 when you are finished.
I hope this guide helped you enjoy your day at the San Diego Zoo! Tag your Instagram and Twitter posts with #sdzooninja so we can share our adventures! Let me know if the app was useful.
Last month, a week or so before Christmas, I received an email from Lt. Denise Garcia of the U.S. Navy. Now email from the Navy isn’t something that occurs often for me so I opened that one ahead of the others in my in-box that day. That email was like getting an early Christmas present as it contained an invitation to join 7 other bloggers aboard a Los Angeles Class Fast-Attack Nuclear Submarine.
I had to read it a couple of times. Really? Me?
I learned that my friend Jenn Van Grove, who I know from Twitter and several Twitter Meetups, had included my name on a list she gave to Lt. Garcia. Also, ours would be the first group of bloggers that the Navy has invited on a submarine.
Our amazing trip was this past Friday, January 15, 2010.
The group of us and Denise met Thursday night at Celadon in Hillcrest for dinner and as a kind oficebreakerr. This was something we arranged on our own but I think it really added to the trip. Eachof us knew some of the others but not everyone. Denise was able to answer questions as well as give us some information about what we would be experiencing the next day. Good food, good times and an early evening as we had to be at the submarine base in Pt. Loma at 7:30 a.m. on Friday.
We met Friday in a parking lot just outside the base. Here, Denise gave us permits to drive onto the base and we carpooled together the short distance from there to the pier where the
submarine would be. We were each given name tags and divided into 2 groups to facilitate tours through the sub. For security reasons, it wasn’t until then that we learned that we would be aboard the USS Hampton (SSN 767)
At 8:00 things came to a stop as we had Colors and the Star Spangled Banner played. Then it was across a gangway to the sub, into an open hatch, and down a vertical ladder into the sub. It was immediately apparent why the 2 groups. Having all 8 of us in one spot would just clog things up.
We all went to the Wardroom where we were briefed on what we would be doing for the day.
My group was the first to go up to the control room and attack center where I was able to watch the men control the sub. I also got to go into the sonar room where I was given a set of headphones to listen in on what we could hear around us.
There is so much information coming at you on these screens. It was incredible. The screens in the control center aren’t dedicated to a specific task. One minute they could be displaying sonar contacts and the next they could be displaying a live video feed from the periscope. Also, interesting is that these systems are COTS (commercial off the shelf) which keeps costs low and enables them to be easily switched out or upgraded.
Around 10:00 we reached our dive point. I was in the control room when the order was given. The Hampton was put at a 5-degree angle down and we started to slip beneath the surface. I was really looking forward to this. It was quick and silent. I was standing by a monitor that was receiving a video feed from periscope 2 and shot this little video of our dive:
When we had reached a certain depth we went through a procedure the men call “Angles and Dangles.” During this procedure, the sub dives deep and then comes back up, both at a steep angle. You need to grab hold of something because at 25 degrees you are really leaning! One of the reasons for going through this procedure is that everything not secure will fall. Falling objects make noise and noise and submarines do not mix. Silence is your friend.
Also demonstrated for us was the crew coming to battle stations. A flurry of activity in very limited space occurs. Orders and acknowledgments fly. The bunch of us press ourselves out of the way as best we can in the tight control room. Everything is like clockwork. Torpedo tubes flooded. The order was given to fire! A quick shift in air pressure occurs that makes your ears pop as the torpedo leaves the tube. Today it was a ‘water slug’ which is basically a flooded torpedo tube with no torpedo in it. Torpedo away, the sub turns and moves. Fast.
We went down to the torpedo room where the sub has 4 torpedo tubes and
watched a demonstration of a torpedo, this one inert for training purposes, being loaded into the tube. The torpedoes are 19ft long and only slightly less in diameter than the tube. Here is a picture looking down torpedo tube #1. The Pacific Ocean is about 20 feet away on the other side of that door at the end.
Loading that torpedo is a precision maneuver with no room for error. Orders are shouted, acknowledgments given fore and aft of the torpedo as it is moved on its hydraulic rails into the tube.
After the weapons demonstration we made our way back to the Wardroom where lunch was served. With all the excitement of the morning, I was hungry! The chef on the Hampton did not disappoint.
There was a menu at each of our places. From the soup options, I chose tomato and, while you could have had all three deserts I chose the ice cream. There was also fresh bread and pitchers of water, Diet Coke, and juice. Everything was good.
After lunch, the groups switched places. The others went up to the control room and my group went to the places they had been in the morning.
We went back to the torpedo room for a closer look at the controls and the tubes themselves. We also saw the auxiliary diesel engine, crew meeting room, crew mess room, and galley.
Later we went up to the control room again. I believe we were around 60ft below the surface and we had a demonstration of an ‘Emergency Blow’. This is where air is forced into the ballast tanks and the sub rises rapidly to the surface. Felt like a quick elevator ride.
We saw and did so much it is really had to distill it into a blog post. Everyone I encountered was ready to answer questions and proud of their amazing machine. And they should be. I am honored to have been included on this historic first blogger submarine embark.
Thanks to Commodore Genoble, Lt. Garcia, and the men of the USS Hampton for your hospitality and an amazing adventure!
