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There's a second new rule. Journalists do not make demands.

Just got a message from Slack that should serve as a warning to people who use other free services, expecting their archive to be maintained over time. It was too good to be true before. Now you need to ask vendors if that's true on their system.

[Anuj Ahooja and Sean Tilley at We Distribute] "Starting today, Flipboard will let users search for and follow accounts from across the Fediverse from the comfort of their own dashboards. [...] This new feature isn’t just limited to Mastodon or PixelFed, but...

The new rule for journalists on Threads is big.

How big is it?

So big I got my first Fediverse reply, ever.

Ben Thompson’s daily update reviews the App Store vs. Patreon mess:

In short, Apple is taking a percentage of individual creator subscriptions, but it is treating every individual creator as if they are a subsidiary of Patreon. It’s as if Apple can’t even conceive of the possibility of there being any sort of platform other than themselves; they may still market themselves as the company for creators, but their actions suggest they truly don’t care.

He also suggests a solution: Apple could charge 30% of Patreon’s own 8% fee, because Patreon is passing almost all of the money on to creators.

I had another morning of driving around so I listened to a bunch of podcasts about how the campaign is going, all good news for Democrats which of course makes me happy. The last podcast I listened to was Ezra Klein's interview with Nate Silver. I only listened to the first ...

The new rule for journalists is sweeping Threads and Mastodon. People have power we don’t use but could. We could turn off the interview after the first egregious lie, even if the reporters don't.

The new rule is getting a great response on Threads, Mastodon.

When the NYT makes Trump sound like a reasonable candidate that a sane person might vote for, remember this day.

Speaking of which, I must've converted DocServer some time ago and didn't test it well enough. It didn't even load. Oy. It works now.

“I’m learning, and I’m worried for the opponents in a couple of years.” — Victor Wembanyama, after winning silver at the Olympics 🏀

I listened to a bunch of podcasts this morning about how freaked out Trump is. I wonder if they realize that if a president freaks out over something like this, how would he handle a Cuban Missile Crisis? He'll panic. Remember the phone call that comes at 3AM? We saw what he did with COVID, he froze, like he's freezing now.

A new rule for journalists. End the interview on the first egregious lie. Turn the lights out, switch off the recorder, get up and leave. And your report should state clearly that this is why the interview was terminated. It never should have been tolerated in the first place.

When Google tells you it's easy to convert a site to HTTPS they're wrong. It's an insurmountable job for scripting.com. 30 years of writing is on that domain, lots of different runtimes on lots of different domains which would also have to be converted. Images in all the pages. All that breaks when you flip the switch, which would be easy. I can't walk away from a big part of my life's work. Sorry, not for Google. Every time someone assumes I'm to blame for this situation, that's how Google has tricked you. I followed the rules. They broke them.

My son is tinkering with Raspberry Pi and Arduino and it’s incredible what is possible now. So many little widgets you can buy and program. Servers that fit in the palm of your hand.

Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:

If Apple isn’t stopped, there will come a point where Apple slaps a 30% tax on all VISA transactions made on iOS (unless you use Apple Pay, of course!)

It could happen. Related, I’d love the option to use Apple Pay in iOS apps instead of in-app purchase. Apple would still skim off their small fee as part of the card transaction, but it wouldn’t hit developer revenue.

About 25 years after first learning JavaScript, I think I’m almost starting to get the hang of it. 🤪

Going to Boston. brb

This is an interesting thought from Scott: using Shadow DOM in HTML web components but only as a way of providing sort-of user-agent styles:

providing some default, low-specificity styles for our slotted light-dom HTML elements while allowing them to be easily overridden.

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Let’s talk about doxing (also known as doxxing or doxxxxxxxing). Doxing (from “docs” or documents) is when you release private and identifying information about someone in order to invite harassment, humiliation, and other kinds of trouble. For the most part, doxing should ...