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The Miami Dolphins have been given every reason to throw in the towel for the year. The general manager who assembled them, Chris Grier, is fired; their coach, Mike McDaniel, is a dead man walking; their quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa, has not only played terribly throughout th...

As usual, offering more long-form stuff here than any one person should be expected to read all of, hoping that a few of the choices will improve your day. This time out it’s almost all politics, but that’s the way the world is. And some of the politics aren’t American!

I wrote this as a comment on Doc's blog. Doc, I’m working on a discourse system that works better than comments, imho. One thing it does is lets me use the full fidelity of the web instead of forcing me to type in yet another Inadequate Text Box (ITB) with none of the featu...

I have cooked lasagna, conservatively, 12 or 15 times in my life. That's probably not a big number relative to, like, I dunno, a Bolognese nonna or whatever, but it's certainly enough times to have gotten the gist of the enterprise. If I am not (and I am not) a Lasagna Maste...

The Texas A&M Aggies played the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday, in what only a very few, who may not have witnessed it, are calling a "football game." It was more accurate to describe it as an assault on the senses, an exercise in how not to conduct yourself on a football field from both teams in each half.

https://youtu.be/7DcEb9bIf_U?si=bcr_OlN-nMG5Vzt-

I keep hearing and reading people bitching and moaning about the web being dead, lamenting the good old days of the web, when real people were out there, and sites weren’t all about promoting some shit nobody cares about or attempting to amass an audience only to then flip i...

I’ve updated Micro.blog with support for Day One journals. In the Mac app we’ve had a manual export to Day One for a while, and now the platform can automatically copy your blog posts to Day One. This uses Day One Premium’s “Email to journal” feature.

You can enable it on Micro.blog’s “Sources” page:

If you haven’t checked out our cross-posting options in a while, we have built-in support for over 10 different services, from Bluesky to PeerTube to Tumblr. I think our cross-posting features are unmatched by any other platform.

For more details about Day One, see this help page.

Here's a screen shot of what the Daveverse home page looks like. It's got all the stuff from scripting.com. It's not a perfect rendering of my Old School blog, I have more features, but it's pretty good. I'll be testing this out and thinking about it now, as we go forward. But here's the milestone: I have a WordPress place to hook into now that has pretty much everything I write outside the tiny little text boxes. What I write in WordLand or Drummer, the two places I write for real. The rest of it is throw away nonsense, a waste of time. No one reads anything, everyone fighting for attention.

Follow this on Mastodon at @scripting@daveverse.org.

I was going to tell you how much I like the Lever podcast, and wanted to recommend it, but they make it impossible to find the RSS url for the feed. The usual hacks don't seem to work. Since I'm subscribed to it on Pocket Casts, I thought I might be able to find the URL on their web interface, and it's possible I might have found it that way. Nope. It just points to the web page for the podcast, which did not have the RSS feed. I know they must have one. I was looking for a way to download my OPML file, would be nice if you could do it from the desktop.

Security should never be taken for granted, no matter what operating system you use. You might have a Linux desktop

The post Portmaster, an Open Source Firewall for the Desktop appeared first on The New Stack.

We ought to be thinking about a filtering system for feed readers based on loose instructions written by users, and shared on the web, to be parsed by our AI. Design your personal algorithm with AI. Share the good ones with your friends, and have it work on the web, in any feed reader. There are ways to do that.

Spoilers follow. Like Doc, I have trouble getting into TV series, but not Pluribus, probably because it came from the showrunner of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, two series that I have watched from beginning to end at least three times. The star of Pluribus, Rhea Seaho...

Marshall's first soundbar offers premium sound and style, but misses one crucial element.

These monthly deliveries get kids coding and cooking while encouraging them to learn science and read about the world.

NordVPN has a storied history with no shortage of controversy, but it still stands as one of the best VPNs on the market.

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development.

The AI's latest trick is following the schedule you set for it.