Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine...
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The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published:* 1* — Newbie Blogger. *if it was your first time doing Blaugust * 5+ — Bronze* 15+ — Silver* 25+ — Gold* 31+ — Rainbow DiamondFrom https://nerdgirlt...
How to add MapQuest with a search shortcut to your Firefox:1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button4. enter "MapQuest" into the Search engine name field (without quotes...
If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it.Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C* https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_PageNote the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and ...
Welcome to September! Time for a new blogging challenge for the month. After some ideation, here’s my proposed September blogging challenge, on topics I find myself reading and posting about, with an emphasis on pragmatism:The Web And Standards September Useful Posts blogging...
There are many paths onto the #indieweb. Two of the most common:1. an idea for a name and a website2. a desire to create and express yourself, independently of social mediaIf you start with (1), have an idea for a domain name, find one, and buy it, then you need a place to di...
What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb?As several have shared before me:* own your domain and publish some content on itThat’s the foundation. If you have a personal website on a domain you own and control, you’re on the indieweb or part of the indieweb or how...
Due to recent reports about “AI”/LLM/“agent” tools and services, I have growing concerns that the #security properties of the open web are changing, or have already changed, in practice, to a degree that we haven’t seen in many years.This past week’s articles / reports on fur...
The #indieweb is about making your own words translate to actions, especially actions like writing, editing, and publishing your words (or photos or other media) on your personal site. The IndieWeb community is a place to help and empower good faith folks to do so as well. Pe...
TIL: “security by antiquity” from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackersPresumably a reference to (or a subset of) "security through obscurity".Best rationalization for old-tech-hoarding I have seen in a long time.Probably worth a longer cybersecurity post or a few. Like how to source (obtain), repair, maintain, and integrate with (or isolate from!) modern systems, or somewhere in between like local-only secure data transfers between such systems, perhaps gapped a la sneakernet.Glossary:security through obscurity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscuritysneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet#security #securityByAntiquity #oldTech #cyberSecurity #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy’s Rectifier Globe computer graphics?I was watching the TRON: Legacy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray remaster (only my second time watching the 4K remaster) in the background earlier today...
Lessons learned from the problem solving of “fixing” a recent “broken record”. In summary:1. sometimes waiting can (partially) fix a problem or reduce its severity2. applying reasoning and practical math & science (e.g. mechanics & acoustics) to diagnose and take acti...
Discussed Venn diagrams with a couple of friends this morning, especially in the context of illustrating the utility of including all 3 or 4 of a specific set of design principles when creating certain kinds of things, and learned about the difference between Venn diagrams an...
Parasocial grief. This week we lost a cheerleader. Days before that we lost a professor. A few weeks ago a musician. I knew of these individuals, had never met them, fairly certain they had no idea who I was. I was either a fan of their work, or sympathetic to their struggles...
Latest strange “AI” (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.https://chat....
More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:https://chat....
📖 read “Holston” in “Wool” by @hughhowey.com https://tantek.com/isbn/0358447844#book #Holston #Wool #Silo#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
kinda chic to order books from your local bookstore instead of Amazon who is now destroying books in their #VGT3 division, see the hashtag.also kinda chic to pay cash when buying local, to give local businesses an extra 2-3% instead of credit card companies, at no additional charge to you.#books #orderBooks #bookstore #localBookstore #Amazon #payCash #cash #localBusiness #localBusinesses #kindaChic#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
📚 picked up the Silo books trilogy @borderlands-books.com earlier today: “Wool”, “Shift”, “Dust”, and a small booklet of “Silo Stories” which came inside the boxset. Looking forward to cracking them open and seeing how far I get while waiting for the last three episodes of season three.Previously: https://tantek.com/229/t1/watched-silo-season-3-episode-7#Silo #books #trilogy #boxset#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
▶️ watched Silo season 3 episode 7 “Radio” last Friday night. I watched the first six season 3 episodes before that, and was inspired to order the Silo trilogy boxset (of books) @borderlands-books.com last Wednesday.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/222/t1/watched-silo-season-1-2#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #2026_226 #2026_08_14#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.This article documents an instance of this problem:* https:/...
🌋 Kilauea volcano’s currently active eruption in Hawaii https://www.youtube.com/live/mKJ7ZyIdjeQThe bright orange eruptions, orange streaks of lava flow, orange lit clouds of smoke & steam all contrasted against the black sky and land are quite the visual ASMR. Paired with the ASMR wind from the mountain, the effect is quite calming and peaceful.Putting this on a projector is quite the night light to fall asleep to (requires YouTube Premium to avoid noisy ads interruptions that harsh your mellow)#Kilauea #volcano #eruption #Hawaii #orange #lava #lavaFlow #ASMR #wind #video #USGS#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
1982 TRON prescience: “Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter2026 students:“How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.”* https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1v...
▶️ watching NASA’s “2026 Total Solar Eclipse”, 1h28m44s on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3wHelpful links so far:* https://go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety* https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses#NASA #eclipse #solarEclipse #totalEclipse #totalSolarEclipse#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
▶️ watched and finished the rest of Silo season 1 and all of season 2 over the weekend. Superbly well written.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/218/t1/watched-episodes-silo#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-monthSince...
Today is my blog’s 24th blogiversary!I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post:https://tantek.com/log/2002/08.htm...
The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.A few examples:* blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with...
▶️ watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled “The Flamekeepers”.#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the alias...