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The events in the WordPress community since September have shown how fragile the ecosystem can be. In A Stronger Foundation for the Ecosystem, I laid out my core ideas of how we could move forward with the WordPress Foundation to build a better community together. The key ideas were: Despite best efforts to engage on […]

Plus: A 22-year-old former intern gets put in charge of a key anti-terrorism program, threat intelligence firms finally wrangle their confusing names for hacker groups, and more.

Plus: Ruark has new speakers, Photoshop comes to Android and summer's finest music player gets updated.

An update to our changelog for OpenChannels.fm 6.0

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For the most sensitive parts of the human body, friction is the enemy. Here’s how to keep it at bay with our favorite lubes made of water, silicone, or natural oil.

BobWP updates listeners on the evolution of "Do the Woo," a podcast focused on WooCommerce. It features diverse hosts and segments, catering to all experience levels.

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.

I talk about Linux pretty much every day and have for decades. But when you’re so immersed in something, it’s

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I was an active software developer when the web came online in the early 90s. I knew what closed systems were like, and open systems. The web was open, and a miracle because of its radical simplicity. We were so lucky. We developed all kind of stuff that was only possible wh...

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.

For four years now I have been informing every Dillon (or Dylan) I meet of the existence of a Tigers catching prospect called Dillon Dingler. If you know too much about baseball, you have to talk to the well-adjusted about it at least occasionally. Even if you have perfect s...

A couple photos heading up the coast, from each side of the train. 🚂

A teardown of Nintendo's latest console has found the core tech that causes joystick drift is still there. Plus it's even harder to repair than the original.

As the government has built its case against Sean “Diddy” Combs over the past few weeks, they have called witnesses to build out the story around an incident that many are familiar with –  the violent 2016 encounter at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. A video ...