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Scripting News: Monday, February 10, 2025

Monday, February 10, 2025 It's past time to wake up # At some point soon we're going to have to stop business as usual. Remember when we realized Covid was deadly and we'd have to radically change our lives to survive? Most of us did that. We're going to do that soon re the overthrow of our government and looting of the economy. # It was remarkable watching the SuperBowl last night, you could conclude everything is normal. It's not. We're going to have to start shutting down all the services we can to make the point to our fellow citizens that we, the United States, are not coming back from this without major change. # Musk roots the world economy # First, that's just a theory, but I need to get your attention. # Rooting a computer means you own it. You have superuser powers. You can do anything, install or uninstall anything. # Mostly journalism has been reporting "He has our social securit...

Weekly Vue News #184 - Ignoring Nuxt Files During Build Phase

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Weekly Vue News #184 Ignoring Nuxt Files During Build Phase View online Hi 👋 Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue 📕 Good practices for Vue Computed Properties ...

Scripting News: Sunday, February 9, 2025

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Sunday, February 9, 2025 I'm still fixing bugs in the new Bluesky feature I wrote about yesterday. If the URL of an image has search args, I wasn't getting the type correct and Bluesky rejected it. I used a post about Aaron Swartz's statue unveiled in San Francisco yesterday to test the fix. I knew Aaron of course, he was part of the group developing RSS in the early 00s. He went on to do other things, as did I, and I met up with him again in NYC in the early teens, and then a few months or a year or two (I don't have the exact date of the meetup) he commited suicide . It was a real shock. Now, many years later -- a statue. And the random snarky slogan my test script picked out was really appropriate to the event . It was a tragedy, because an older more confident Aaron would have made a big contribution. I often think about that. # I subscribed to Wired because of their famous coverage of the Musk Coup, so I also added its feed to my blogroll so...

Scripting News: Saturday, February 8, 2025

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Saturday, February 8, 2025 I still haven't decided what to do about my Tesla Model Y , which still is a wonderful car, and I still love driving it after 3+ years, which is amazing. But the other day it updated, and gave me a pause, if they let Musk hack their computers the way he's hacking ours, should I trust what it installs on the vehicle I drive every day that theoretically has the ability to take control of my car and drive it off the road? I wonder if the people at Tesla would like to reassure people who drive their cars that the updates are safe from hacking by one of his associates? How is security on the Tesla network? # It's our social web . "We started off with a network of writers, and ended up with business models of oligarchs. It's time to start building webs like we mean it and damn all the wannabe-billionaires." # I had three questions this morning for Elie Mystal . # I have to say , a judge ruling that Musk has to stop...

Scripting News: Friday, February 7, 2025

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Friday, February 7, 2025 Behind the scenes in the US government I imagine it's like a Vonnegut novel, or an episode of Pinky and the Brain . # I've cracked the code for adding OpenGraph data to Bluesky posts. The key was I learned how to do the equivalent of a View Source on a Bluesky post so I could see how others did it. I tried Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, none of them even understood the question of how to get Bluesky to add the data. I was amazed to learn that each developer has to do it for themselves, that this isn't something they built into their server. Anyway, I'm halfway there. # I wish Bluesky had just used the Twitter API . That's how I would've done it. Continuity matters a lot. And think of all time wasted at re-doing something we had working a long time ago. # The AI world would have done much better with a president like Biden than we will with Trump. AI is a very potent tool for surveillance. Completely changes the game. A...

Scripting News: Thursday, February 6, 2025

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Thursday, February 6, 2025 A great scene in Goodfellas where they explain what it's like to have Paulie the mob boss as a partner. In this scene Paulie is Musk. The restaurant owner is Trump. The United States is the restaurant. # BTW, I found that video using ChatGPT. I had tried explaining it to Google and it didn't understand. ChatGPT found it in an instant. # People might be curious to see the list of feeds that make up the Little Feed Reader account on Bluesky . It's dynamic, I can add or remove feeds through a very simple user interface designed for managing systems like this. It's like the user inteface of a product like WordPress, for designers and developers, producing results that are for users. There are now apps for the NBA , Devs and all my feeds . # Big picture, the US is being turned into Russia. # California Senator Adam Schiff said, I think it was yesterday, that Trump and Musk are removing honest FBI investigators and DOJ...