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Wow, I hadn’t heard about this yet but can’t wait. War of the Rohirrim coming at the end of the year, trailer here on YouTube. Love an animated Lord of the Rings.

More on the fediverse stars symbol, this time from Manuel Moreale:

I am no fediverse citizen but I do consider myself a good citizen of the web. I try my best to make it a better place and I try to encourage people to own their corners of the web. Am I excluded from your fancy club because I don’t “federate”?

This gets back to my point about “social web” vs. fediverse. Manu has a fantastic blog and he’s making the web better. The social web (IndieWeb!) should connect seamlessly to blogs without an extra protocol layer over the web.

Nice update to ChatGPT for Mac: option-space now brings up results in a small floating window. Good for quick answers, but can still be collapsed back into the main window. Whoever is working on the Mac app is doing good work. It’s like a case study in sticking with AppKit.

Finished reading: The Exchange by John Grisham. A sequel to The Firm. I usually try to find something positive to say about a book… I didn’t enjoy this after the first few chapters. But it’s short and I wanted to know how it ended. 📚

Full audio for Kamala Harris's acceptance speech at the DNC.

Thanks to Ian Landsman for converting the video to MP3.

My blog post about the speech.

Podcast: 37 minutes.

People over protocols over platforms.inspired by today’s #indieweb #fediverse #ActivityPub #decentralized #socialMedia lunch meetup at #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxo@xoxo.zone)This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption→ 🔮

Feasting on fresh Florida shrimp, corn, and tomatoes. 🦐 🌽 🍅

Penn family farm at Cedar Hill State Park.

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For many archivists, alarm bells are ringing. Across the world, they are scraping up defunct websites or at-risk data collections to save as much of our digital lives as possible. Others are working on ways to store that data in formats that will last hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.

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I love hanging out in Reeder. I subscribe to thousands of feeds, and it handles them well for me. But it does make it hard for me to prune them once I’m subscribed. I found myself looking at this screen this afternoon: And I thought to myself: you know what? I don’t need to...

Braintrust: I want to get a UserTalk parser running in C.

Loco Cafe in Denton. ☕️

Ben Werdmuller follows up on the fediverse symbol, blogging that Meta should be commended for adopting ActivityPub before any other large network:

Whatever you think about Meta’s goals for participating, I do also think Meta’s presence gives the network a sort of legitimacy that it was otherwise struggling to achieve.

I agree. I have nitpicks with the (for now) partial rollout on Threads, but overall it’s a good thing.

My linkblog now reliably works on Twitter and Threads, in addition to Mastodon, Bluesky, RSS and WordPress. I find it really empowering to be able to publish to all those places at once.

I like the proposed symbol for the fediverse: ⁂. It’s just unicode so doesn’t need anything special to use everywhere on the web. Part of me still thinks we should move toward “social web” as a phrase, though. The web should be the social network.

[Tara Tarakiyee] "I want to talk about three examples I see of cracks that are starting to form which signal big challenges in the future of OSS." I had a knee-jerk initial reaction to this post - what open source bubble?! - but Tara Tarakiyee makes some imp...

Trump is not the incumbent, but it might feel that way because the coup that started on Jan 6 is ongoing. It won't be over until there is a peaceful transfer of power from Biden to Harris and Trump is out of the picture.