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Monday, December 16, 2024 Interesting episode of the Daily podcast about AI in Hollywood. They specifically mention a new movie starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, with bodies and faces edited by AI to be various ages other than what they are (mid-late 60s). The movie Here , was rated not too great by various critics including the NYT. # Linkblog items for the day. Starlink Satellite Phone Service from T-Mobile. t-mobile.com Jeff Barr who started the AWS blog 20 years ago is going back to developing. He was one of the earliest RSS devs. amazon.com Timothy Snyder has a habit of saying the right thing at the moment it needs to be said. substack.com What It's Like to Sleep in Prison: Moldy Mattresses, Bright Lights and Non-Stop Noise. themarshallproject.org Copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer. This email was sent on: 12/17/2024, 12:00:00 AM Eastern. "Still diggin!" This blog has been running fo...

Weekly Vue News #176 When to Use useState in Nuxt View online Hi 👋 Last week, I shared my plan to develop a new micro SaaS. I built an MVP using a SaaS boilerplate and quickly realized I need my own SaaS starter kit! That's what I'm working on now — a kit to help me (and potentially others) quickly spin up new SaaS projects. Once it's ready, I'm planning to offer it for sale too. Stay tuned! Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ ...

Sunday, December 15, 2024 Martin Luther King Day is January 20 in 2025, also is Inauguration Day. # What if you had a twitter-like system that was embedded in a ChatGPT-like app. What would you do with that? # The journalism I pay attention is labeling itself as truth-based -- but it most definitely is not. When it comes to topics I am expert in, they tell a mushed up version of extreme points of view, that (surprise!) favor the continued existence of their jobs. The choice of the truth-based label is kind of a clue. 😄 # This post spawned quite a thread on Bluesky: "The AI industry could give us easy tools to build our own models, from our own archived writing, for private use. This may be a blind spot. It's as if when personal computers started, instead of spreadsheet editors, we were offered great sets of tabulated recalc'ing data. Fun to watch, maybe useful for researchers, but nothing compared to the utility of playing 'what if' on our...

Saturday, December 14, 2024 Online communities can work # A piece in today's NYT said all networks flame out, but that's actually too crude a statement. # If you want your network not to flame out, give the users the tools to keep things moderated. # One of the best features of Facebook is it gives the author of a post the power to decide who can respond to it. (I know they're not the only ones, but they're the first in my experience, so I give them credit.) # If I write something that I know will attract trolls, I just restrict it to friends. If they flame me, or even try to provoke an argument, I just unfriend them, and I suspect they know that. The hotheads have been culled from the list over time, there's trust that people don't want and won't pick fights. # Assume adults know when they're asking to argue, and not only don't accept the bait, but don't allow them to participate. # Keeps things fr...

Friday, December 13, 2024 Mid-day ramble # There was a moment a couple of years ago when Mastodon was gaining traction in a serious way when I thought that Automattic should do something publicly to demonstrate support for it because I felt that WordPress and Mastodon were two sides of the same important coin. # As you know, I've felt as a writer that we've been tragically limited by the idea that Twitter popularized that there was glory in removing features that writers could use. As if to say that writers were over-using things like links, simple styling, titles, the ability to edit, or to finish a thought. These were all very basic features of writing on the web before 2006, as they should have been. # Somehow a mass psychosis took over and there was a belief that these limits were good. I am shaking my head as I write this. It's as ridiculous an idea as the one that's going around at the top levels of our future government that w...

Thursday, December 12, 2024 Possibly the last moment when the Dems really kicked ass. # It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet. # BTW, I hear that Safari now defaults to using HTTPS. Not sure exactly what that means. But if they ever actually stop showing scripting.com, which will always be plain old HTTP, I'll probably ship an Electron product that browses the web, and doesn't care if it's HTTP or whatever new fad Google is promoting. I'm going to hold the fort for the original web. I can't change scripting.com to HTTPS, it would break all the images and probably a lot of other stuff. # I'll keep my Tesla, thank you # I saw a pundit suggest people harass people who drive Teslas. # When I bought mine, it cost $70K, a large sum of money that I will not throw away just so a pundit can make a point. # Here's my rebuttal. I'd like to see you get on without buying Exxon pro...

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Bingeworthy has an RSS feed (not public yet), and new ratings show up in my blogroll, of course. # I have United Healthcare insurance. I got it as part of my Medicare package when I turned 65. I've had good experience with them. I had major surgery in 2002, cost hundreds of thousands, included a one-week hospital stay and lots of followup treatments. I know the hospital did all the work with them, I was shielded from any complications, but as far as I know there were none. Never had a treatment questioned or denied. I had another insurance provider for many years after that, but when given a chance I went back to United. Just want to say, so far -- knock wood -- I am a happy customer. # Just added to my todo list -- add the option to use the WordPress REST interface in place of the WPCOM interface , this will give WordLand the ability to edit WordPress sites anywhere, not just on wordpress.com. When I made the choice to go with WPC...