Was just listening to the latest episode of Dot Social podcast where there was a discussion with CEO of Ghost (alternative to Substack). They’re integrating ActivityPub into the platform, but where they’re going with it is that you can use your Fediverse ID instead of email to sign up.

Once they have that worked out, any likes or comments automatically migrate back to the fediverse. Replies back to replies also show up in your timeline and your followers can see them. This makes discovery pretty effortless. They can also use the stats to keep track of engagement across all fediverse services.

It also means turning one-way streams like RSS (podcasting), email services, and commenting services into common two-way communities.

You’re now going beyond just catching up to existing services and doing things just not possible in closed silos. Real “Aha!” moment.

Seeing all these comments on use of ACs… what happens if it cumulatively overloads the grid and you get blackouts?

Is there a Plan B?

‘Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”’

– Eric Schmidt, quoting Steve Jobs.

Holi Puppy!

Democracy works if the populace have a baseline level of education and basic knowledge.

If a majority don’t, it doesn’t work so well.

They got a PhD in science from a well-known university and worked on research for a while. Last I heard, they got married and ended up selling real-estate.

Don’t know about kids, but “Clifford, the Big Red Dog” sure traumatized Grandma.

Don’t do what they did: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wells-fargo-fires-more-than-a-dozen-employees-for-faking-work-using-mouse-jigglers-and-keyboard-simulation

For starting basic structure, have had good luck with Plottr. If there’s a complex timeline, Aeon Timeline is pretty handy. And once ready to write, Scrivener.

It’s very subtle.

• The houses are all set on a grid, as you would expect in a planned suburb. But this one building is at a 45-degree angle.
• The sunlight drops off and the mood gets dark as you look toward the big city in the distance.
• There are roiling clouds over the city, and plumes of industrial fumes spewing out of a factory.

Getting vibes of “The Swimmer” movie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swimmer_(1968_film)

That was amazing! Watched the video with my Trackmania-crazy kid. I’ve played it a few times but I’m total crap at it. We couldn’t peel our eyes off the action. The first external shot of the track shows how insanely difficult it was going to be.

In our neck of the woods, membership in the Automobile Association comes with free maps. You have to go into their offices and request them, and they’re very helpful about which maps may come handy.

I usually get them before a long roadtrip into areas where they may be weak cell service. To be safe, I also download digital maps, but a paper map gives better broad context on where we are and what is nearby.

Problem is, we’re terrible at getting rid of them after the trips…

On Mac/iOS, Ivory is pretty dope: https://tapbots.com/ivory/

That is actually kind of brilliant. Having to go through MFi and getting the Apple DRM chip into the manufacturing pipeline can be a real pain (and expensive).

With this scheme, they could also run all the wired on/off and volume control actions through Bluetooth AVRCP. Even have a Mic on the wire, so if a call comes in, switch to HFP to talk/manage the call.

Damn, that’s clever. Hats off to whoever came up with it.

Incidentally, there’s very little Apple can do to make this stop, unless they decide to break Bluetooth and third-party accessories.

I haven’t but my kid playing Osu! Lives and breathes the game. Used birthday gift money to buy a special three-button keyboard. Walks around all the time, tapping fingers on every surface.

Have you looked into the suid bit? You can set it on the file, then change the script owner to root and it runs in elevated mode: https://linuxhandbook.com/suid-sgid-sticky-bit/

So many old and new ones. But if I had to pick one: American Pie by Don McLean.

Ballpark beer was $16 last year. Saw someone obviously inebriated grab 3 cups, then on their way back to the seat in the bleachers, trip and spill it all.

Many tears were shed.

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