People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-happened-to-the-comment-section/
I always enjoy reading Jay’s newsletter, but this was a particularly fun trip down memory lane.
There’s a link to an old post by Jeff Atwood who said:
A blog without comments is not a blog.
That was responding to an old post of mine where I declared:
Comments should be disabled 90% of the time.
That blog-to-blog conversation took place almost twenty years ago.
I still enjoy blog-to-blog conversations today.
The generative AI industry only exists because some people decided that it’s okay for them to take all this work with no permission, let alone compensation for the original creators, and to charge others for the privilege of using the probabilistic plagiarism machines they’ve fed it to.
Surprised to read that Sonder has gone bankrupt, despite the Marriott partnership. It seemed like Sonder was a good balance halfway between hotel and Airbnb. I booked one last year in Arizona… although I got the date wrong and ended up having to stay somewhere else!
Tuesday session
Chris Aldrich
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Thanks @jarrod for the kind words about Micro.blog Studio. His post actually does a better job of answering the “why” of video hosting than my own announcement post!
Good move from Google for privacy, building servers similar to Apple’s private cloud compute. From The Verge:
The compromise is to ship more difficult AI requests to a cloud platform, called Private AI Compute, which it describes as a “secure, fortified space” offering the same degree of security you’d expect from on-device processing. Sensitive data is available “only to you and no one else, not even Google.”
As part of the process I reviewed the developer notes I posted in 2022. I see why there was confusion, it was so early in the process. I'm replacing those developer notes with new ones, that's based on more practical experience.
An example feed that has lots of source namespace elements.
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
10 wonderful web apps, including games, toys, puzzles and utilities
No coding knowledge needed, you just type
Today I'm going to work on re-shaping the docs for source:markdown because it seems to becoming a thing that people are supporting in their feeds and in their feed consumer apps. We're going to have discuss how it's supported, on both ends. What goes into a source:markdown element, and what does not, and how should readers use it. I will assume the role of benevolent dictator, as I did with RSS 2.0, with a bit more of an understanding of what's important. See Rule #1 in Rules for Standards-makers. "The only reason we have open formats and protocols is so our software can interoperate." And the Rule of Users: "People choose to interop because it helps them find new users. If you have no users to offer, there won't be much interest in interop."
Today was a good day, I think, for finishing a little guy that I’ve been carrying around incomplete for a couple of weeks.
📗 Want to read Landscapes of Fear by Professor Yi-Fu Tuan ISBN: 9780816684595
📗 Want to read Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee ISBN: 9780316399272
