Progress on the YouTube TV front. Thanks to all the responses, I've gotten Fucks News out of the startup position, but it still appears in the upper left corner of the 2-by-2 news multiview display, and thus is the default, and when I launch it I hear them talking which is not pleasant. Further I always have to see what their freaking chyron says, and the commercials from the Hitler-fanboi pillow salesman. Basically I want to be able to see what they're doing when I want to, but never have it forced on me. Help.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Oklahoma City loves this team. Thunder are really good right now. Still excited for the Spurs this season, just a little overmatched tonight. 🏀
Spurs vs. Thunder. Wemby warming up from the 3-point line. 🏀
The body element
When we create or discover new things, we label them too. These labels act like IDs, making it easy to access these things in the databases that are our minds.
Unique labels are needed otherwise different things will get conflated and confused. But using random sets of chara...
Trees and remains of the wall of the federal building, at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
YouTube TV when it starts up, the station it automatically opens is Fox News. I posted this on various social webs and heard from people this is not their experience.
I was thinking about what I'm most proud of in my career, and one of the things is that I am not #1 for creation of interop or #2, but I might be in the top 10.
Micro.blog t-shirts! Jim Mitchell realized I was never going to get around to making t-shirts, so with my blessing he’s done it: the unofficial official Micro.blog t-shirt. Just ordered one for myself. There’s a phone case too.
W3C@30: W3C and me - YouTube
Here’s a silly thing I created for Halloween, a new domain name: micro.boo! 👻 It just collects posts that mention Halloween or use emoji, from Micro.blog and other sources connected to Micro.blog. Sort of a random Halloween-themed timeline. 🎃
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Democratising publishing
[John O'Nolan]
This is a genuinely inspiring post from John O'Nolan about the foundation behind Ghost and how it operates. It feels like a blueprint for so many open source projects.
"The business model was simple: We would make a great open source prod...
The return of Austin's IndieWeb Meetup
The pandemic started to hit America in earnest just as we were wrapping up IndieWebCamp Austin 2020. If the event had been scheduled for even a couple weeks later, it would’ve been cancelled, as everything moved online to Zoom meetings. Years have passed since then. It now f...
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Tech is interesting, but democracy deserves our attention
I’m aware that a lot of my linkblog posts have been about the state of America this week. That’s because — well, I’m sure you can figure out why. There is nothing bigger to talk about than this election. So much is at stake, and it really, truly matters.
Once Election Day is...
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Josseli Barnica Died in Texas After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care
[Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana at ProPublica]
The deeply tragic stories of how abortion bans lead to preventable deaths continue.
"The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and ...
Finished reading: Boom Town by Sam Anderson. Could not ask for a more perfect book to finish before driving up to Oklahoma City. Great mix of basketball and the history of the city going back to the founding. 📚
"When your house is on fire there aren’t two sides." A few people misunderstood. In this analogy there are no arsonists. There is the house and there is fire. If you were reporting on this situation, you don't need to find out what motivates the fire, the only important thing is that if not checked it will destroy the house.
IndieWeb Movie Club November 2024: Vsi proti vsem / All Against All (2019) [Call...
Turquoise Coffee Stop. Neat little coffee shop in the very small town of Chillicothe, with a sort of museum inside that reflects the memorabilia and politics of its owners.
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A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
[Nilay Patel at The Verge]
This is, uh, the opposite of this year's trend of a bunch of newspapers refusing to endorse anyone:
"Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the exist...