Mimi Uploader is now free for the rest of the year. Great opportunity to do more photo-blogging on Micro.blog.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Archives
Speaking of serendipity, not long after I wrote about making a static archive of The Session for people to download and share, I came across a piece by Alex Chan about using static websites for tiny archives.
The use-case is slightly different—this is about personal archive...
Feed reading
I described using my feed reader like this:
I would hate if catching up on RSS feeds felt like catching up on email.
Instead it’s like this:
When I open my RSS reader to catch up on the feeds I’m subscribed to, it doesn’t feel like opening my email client. It feels...
Ben Werdmuller
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US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
[Hannah Devlin, Tom Burgis, David Pegg and Jason Wilson at The Guardian]
Quite a disturbing new startup coming to light in The Guardian:
“The footage appears to show experimental genetic selection techniques being advertised to prospective parents. A Heliosp...
Matt Mullenweg
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Cloudflare Stories
There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO, John Graham-Cumming, later helped break past the cryptography system’s lost password, which he blogged about … Continue reading Cloudflare Stories →
Updated my Texas state parks page, now up to 17 out of 88 parks. Need to get back on schedule to have any hope of finishing this challenge within a few years.
Eisenhower State Park near my campsite this morning. I had so much fun last night for the Honda Element meetup! Lots of cool cars, all different.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Republicans, young adults trust news on social media about as much as news from national outlets
[Kirsten Eddy at Pew Research Center]
The lede is a little buried here behind some pretty shocking top-line stats:
"Today, 37% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they have a lot of or some trust in the information that comes from social ...
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate my post. Not bad. Very colorful!
It's possible the Dodgers let the Mets win as I begged them to yesterday, but it's also possible the Mets just crushed the Dodgers, but either way, the Mets are still in it. The series is now 3-2, and returns to Los Angeles tomorrow. So we don't have to tear down Citi Field after all. If the Dodgers win it'll be in their own stadium. The Mets were magnificent! Absolutely inspiring. A three-run home run by Alonso started things off. Everyone got on base. Doubles and triples. It wasn't without the concern that our wonderful and lovable Mets would do the usual Mets thing and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but they held out. The final score was 12-6. We're still in it. Lets go Mets!
Eugen Rochko, the lead developer of Mastodon: "Fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things." They got what they wanted, they got the users and press to relax because they’re Facebook who we know, but this is different, it’s the fediverse. And they got Eugen and others to validate them. This always works, standard tech playbook. they give up nothing, then the priority changes. I don't like being right. But they're never going to change in Silicon Valley. They do what works, and take advantage of newcomers who want to believe.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
You should be using an RSS reader
Cory Doctorow discusses how he reads writers like Molly White:
"This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power."
I agree. I start every day in my RSS reader (I maintain a very simple live list of my subscriptions over here) and it's one of the best tools I use. I rarely miss a news story from a publisher I care about - whether that's a newsroom, an individual, or an organization. And nobody's getting in the way to try and predict what I should be interested in.
RSS is free, open, well-established, and easy to use. More people should be using it. Even you.
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Ben Werdmuller
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Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
[Abrahm Lustgarten at ProPublica]
"For a generation, conservatives — not just the far right, which Crusius appeared to identify with — had propelled the notion that climate change was a hoax fabricated so the government could impose new restrictions on the e...
2004 was the first year of the future
theverge.com/c/24247055/2004-tech-internet-gadgets-phones-pop-culture
My solar-powered and self-hosted website | Dries Buytaert
This is a neat project form Dries:
This project is driven by my curiosity about making websites and web hosting more environmentally friendly, even on a small scale. It’s also a chance to explore a local-first approach: to show that hosting a personal website on your own internet connection at home can often be enough for small sites. This aligns with my commitment to both the Open Web and the IndieWeb.
At its heart, this project is about learning and contributing to a conversation on a greener, local-first future for the web.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
My solar-powered and self-hosted website
[Dries Buytaert]
"I'm excited to share an experiment I've been working on: a solar-powered, self-hosted website running on a Raspberry Pi."
Lovely!
The key seems to be a Voltaic 50-watt panel and 18 amp-hour battery, which run to around $300 in total. That's...
Binged the first season of Rivals sorry, not sorry.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Underrepresented journalists most impacted by layoffs, says new report
[James Salanga at The Objective]
"Layoffs in journalism since 2022 have disproportionately impacted people of marginalized genders and people of color, according to a new report from the Institute of Independent Journalists (IIJ). It collects data from a sur...
Posted a new Core Intuition. This week we talk about trademarks… with Micro.blog, not WordPress. When to call a lawyer and other decisions of running a small business.
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