I'm a late adopter on IndieWeb readers, I freely confess. Maybe I should make the effort now. Well, not now, because I'll be out of circulation for a bit, but soon.
The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
The large tech companies point to our willing use of their services as proof that people don’t really care about their privacy. But this is like arguing that inmates are happy to be in jail because they use the prison library.
Clever! Maybe not entirely true, but clever.
Telling people that they own their data, and should decide what to do with it, is just another way of disempowering them.
@heyheymaimai It is strange how one just feels that a gap should be a nudge longer or a nudge shorter, but one does. More to the point, do you have to look away from the screen to know? I do.
The very few occasions on which someone’s interesting reply leads me to an interesting original are far outnumbered by banal replies that clutter my timeline. Grumpy? Sure. But I wish I could control that.
@thesugarchef How strange that the tweet to which this thread is a reply has vanished. How sad too that the wisdom in the thread does not exist on, say, https://butterysaltedcaramel.wordpress.com/ where it could read and appreciated even more.
@_MatthewDillon This latest was prompted by the recent piece on gluten free from Bob Quinn ... and there's a certain irony in trademarking your grain name while not being content to simply copyright what you write rather than hand it over.
So sorry that all the great content in Heated "by Medium and Mark Bittman" is available only to people willing to pay Medium's price. I'd much rather pay money.
Tiny Loops, Hold Me Closer — Roden Explorers Archive
Phenomenally interesting edition of his newsletter from Craig Mod, talking at length about the seductive little loops that keep us in thrall.
Seems to me that your home page is great as a professional About page. Just add some #indieweb markup like an h-card. You have a contact form, which is important, what more do you need?
Really Tonz, you shouldn't be meddling in this stuff. I'm just going to leave this here: https://agro.biodiver.se/2009/05/nix-that-fruit-it-really-is-a-vegetable/
When Google Translate lets you down (because you can't be arsed to read what it offers).
It seems highly unlikely that the Catalogo de variedades de papa nativa de Chugay, La Libertad made "a great contribution to the National Register of Pope Native to Peru".
Slowly developing an interest in bonsai, and came across a name that might be https://micro.blog/cn in a post comment. Just wondering, anyone else here interested?
Sebastiaan has made fantastic progress towards indiewebified private posts. And it makes me feel better to read what he says about code that works, given how awful my own is.
@sandroantonello @racheleats Alas, the Guardian article doesn't say how Andrea gets fresh flour. Is he milling his own? Or does he have a special supplier? I'm keen to try milling my own but so far not been able to source wheat berries reliably here.
