People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Why I want a new feed validator. I am doing new things with feeds. If I do a validator, it will tell you if a feed will work with what I'm doing. I want to boot up a new layer, build on RSS, the way that not all TCP messages are HTTP (analogously), and not all XML is RSS. The differences will be minimal, and backward compatible. Scripting News will work very well with it, so there will be a solid example out there to crib from.
The last three trad sessions I played in were in three different countries—Sunday in Cork, Tuesday in Brighton, Wednesday in Amsterdam—lovely tunes each time!
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Chris Aldrich
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• Chris Aldrich
Day 6 of the photo challenge, contrast. Jack London Square / C. L. Dellums Station in Oakland.
For a minute I got really excited about this headline of a LoveFrom-designed electric bike from Rivian. But… a screen and it’s “bike-like”? I’ve been eyeing a new electric bike and always prefer something that looks like an actual, old-fashioned bike. No need to reinvent everything for this.
More jacaranda trees in bloom.
Reviewing my short post last night about the NYT vs. OpenAI data retention, maybe “wild” overreach was an unnecessary adjective. I also hadn’t seen OpenAI’s response:
As part of their baseless lawsuit, they’ve recently asked the court to force us to retain all user content indefinitely going forward, based on speculation that they might find something that supports their case.
There are very real fair-use questions for training, but I’m not sure they can be resolved by this lawsuit, and probably not without updating copyright law.
Joanne Jang who works at OpenAI has a blog post on human-AI relationships:
…many people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT not because they’re confused about how it works, but because being kind matters to them.
I read this last night and ever since I’ve been trying to figure out why I usually type to an AI chatbot with proper spelling and punctuation, even correcting my chat text when I make a typo. It doesn’t matter, the robots don’t care. But it’s almost like if I skip that step, if I’m careless, I’ve somehow compromised all of my writing.
A new acronym for people of a certain age. "WWWCS" or What Would Walter Cronkite Say? Now answer that question about the back and forth between Musk and Trump. I think he would only be talking about the on-the-record public confessions we were hearing. We knew about the grift before, but we didn't have such clear evidence.
turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/website/WebDAV-database.html
Congrats to Brent Simmons on his retirement! This is an impressive list of apps to have been a part of. I’ve actively used all of them over the years, and a few I still do:
Along the way I worked on, among other apps, Userland Frontier, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Glassboard, Vesper, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, and Audible.
I did a little digging, looks like I first linked to Brent in 2002, not long after starting my blog. I met him later at WWDC, back when it felt like you could meet everyone, although which year escapes me.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
I’m grateful that people stop by and read my posts. I think I’m really lucky. Thank you!
I love writing here, but I’d love to know how I could serve you better. So every year I ask my readers to fill in a short survey. It doesn’t take more than a minute or two.
This survey will help me figure out which problems and ideas people are thinking about, which will help me figure out how helpful I can be.
Click here to answer a few short questions. It’s entirely anonymous (unless you decide to leave your email address).
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
I’m grateful that people stop by and read my posts. I think I’m really lucky. Thank you!I love writing here, but I’d love to know
