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davew

@davew@mastodon.social

OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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Wondering what the process of being selected for a high-profile jury looks like from the juror perspective? This is something on which I happen to have firsthand experience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/15/what-jury-selection-high-profile-ny-trial-is-like-from-inside/

davew,
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@pbump --

thanks for this piece. i read the whole thing. i feel the same way about jury duty and i have served on one all the way to verdict, in calif, and wrote it up in wired where i was a contributor at the time. but it was such an education, totally got a different perspective on what it means to be a citizen and the power that is vested in us.

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I don’t like all the ads for betting on sports tv. I find it offensive and it scares me, especially knowing that a lot of kids are watching this stuff

davew, to random
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Prediction: A new social web will spring up in a blogroll of all places.

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Mainstream media--at least the WaPo and NYT--should have a story like this, covering what lies Fox tells, every day. (Gift link)
Fox News twists data on economy and crime to attack Biden https://wapo.st/49qQtsw

davew,
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@jeffjarvis — and why do you and I have to pay for Fox just because we might want to watch a Knicks or Mets game?

davew,
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@blogdiva @jeffjarvis

No mets or Knicks for ms blogdiva?

davew, to random
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Back in the day, many of the early writing tools were called Word-something. WordStar, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect.

davew,
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@jimluther

MacWrite

davew, to random
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I block spammers. In twitter-like systems, like Mastodon, spam means you attached a post to my post that is in no way responsive to it. You're just trying to coast on the flow generated by other posts. I don't abide that. Have a nice day.

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With ActivityPub you know who's following you and in RSS you don't. This may sound like a negative until you think about it from the user's standpoint: no spam, spyware, etc. Which is probably why Google didn't like RSS btw.

davew,
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@dusoft

yes that's true, but i can't recall ever receiving spam as a result of subscribing to a feed, and i never get messages from them when i unsub begging me to come back. so it isn't a huge problem in a real way at least for me.

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@dusoft

someday you will notice an ad on some site that they would only show someone who just subscribed to a podcast you just subscribed to.

davew, to random
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I block spammers.

In twitter-like systems, like this, spam means you attached a post to my post that is in no way responsive to it. you're just trying to coast on the flow generated by other posts. I don't abide that. Have a nice day.

davew, to random
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Reporters are ignoring the story of the century, the greatest horserace in American history!

Decision 2024!

Has American had enough of democracy? Should we return to slavery? Should we burn Jews, immigrants and intellectuals in the ovens?

Let's have a good debate about this!

pbump, to random
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Three in 10 Americans — and nearly half of independents — say that neither Trump or Biden would be a good president. The scene is set for a 2016-like November. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/trump-biden-independent-voters/

davew,
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we're governing when we vote, but for some reason we act like this is about how we feel.

telling truth to power means telling voters the truth. we have the power but we're living in a dark fantasy.

what happens to women, people of color, jews, old people, health care, when the new republicans take power in 2025.

this should be topic 1 in the press. imho of course.

https://mastodon.social/@pbump@journa.host/112219390537445869

simon, to random
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Figured out a zsh script recipe for pasting images from my clipboard in the terminal on macOS, so now I can do this:

impaste > /tmp/screenshot.png

Or pipe images into commands that accept them on standard input

https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/impaste

davew,
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@simon @billseitz

Then you used Frontier, indirectly. Radio was a Frontier app.

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@simon @billseitz

you were actually using frontier when you were using radio.

i read your post about what you wanted, we were actually polling sites on weblogs.com, the pings just made things happen faster. a precursor to rssCloud which made that work for feeds.

and we could have easily given you exactly what you wanted. but that was a long time ago, as you say. ;-)

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Maybe The Atlantic or New Yorker could write a detailed article about what the great purges in China and Russia were like. How many millions died. Hitler isn’t the only recent model for an authoritarian government. We should be studying this, you can be sure Trump’s government has and is.

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Understanding AP and RSS

I've been trying to figure out what ActivityPub does that RSS doesn't.

Off the top of my head, it's not the ability to syndicate, RSS already does that. I can follow anyone on any server.

I think it's the timeline? And the ability to delete posts. Keeping all that in sync is a lot of work, and presumably a lot of traffic?

Also replies. If I reply to a post when viewing it on another server, the reply should show up under any other view of that post.

What else??

davew,
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@rscottjones -- interesting. it feels like that to me too.

so why not just open a discussion group of some kind, using discourse for example.

or is that just another approach to what AP and Mastodon are doing??

davew,
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@librenews

this package usually finds the feed.

https://github.com/scripting/reallysimple/tree/main/demos/feedhunter

davew,
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@librenews -- actually i think we have the problem solved in FeedLand.

davew,
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@julian

rssCloud which is part of rss 2.0, gives instant updates. Not even a second between update and it appearing on readers screen.

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@jan

So many people have said this but rss has had push since 2002.

davew,
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@Edent

http://scripting.com/rss.json

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@julian

RSS doesn’t care about servers, it’s just http.

davew,
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@julian

a simpler way of saying that is that with AP you know who's following you and in RSS you don't.

which sounds like a negative until you think about it from the user's standpoint, no spam, spyware, etc.

which is why google didn't like it btw.

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