Catching up on reviewing my Christmas reading: Unbelievably dystopian
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
This may seem strange, but I really don’t mind it when my social streams fall off the bottom because I’ve been away. Generally, I will catch up with anything that I find interesting, and if I don’t, that’s ok too.
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@tones @jeremycherfas I agree. It feels like caring about not being up-to-date with the whole world; just irrelevant. Certainly don't think it deserves to be near the top of the priorities list when it comes to updates to Micro.blog.
, Jan 25 2018 on micro.blog
Very sad to read Daring Fireball on Dean Allen's death. https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/dean_allen No matter what Textdrive became in the end, it was a super place to be in the beginning and Textile was an inspiration to lots of lesser folks.
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@jeremycherfas by Textdrive you meant TextPattern, no?
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@daiwei No. I meant Textdrive, the hosting company. I did also use TextPattern, but for me Textdrive gave me the freedom to explore publishing content with NucleusCMS, Tinderbox etc.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Oh my, I had forgotten the name of the hosting company, indeed! Memories...
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@daiwei Grav (from memory). I really like it. Not quite static, but not very dynamic either. Heavily cached, or something, with simple Markdown files.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
Still puzzled by why some photo posts in Known go through to micro.blog with an image and others don’t. Almost all are PESOS from Instagram. I thought I had an explanation, but it doesn’t hold up.
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@jeremycherfas Now I have a new theory, which I think @cn alluded to. Anything with a hashtag in the description, which becomes the title in Known, is somehow interpreted as “not a photo” by micro.blog.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I think* one of my PESOS OwnYourGram photo posts “failed” because the hashtag at Instagram was filtered from the description when it arrived at known; which leads to text either side of the picture. (* I may be misremembering)
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I might try some experimentation later, but I do hate to be that guy who clutters up the timeline with loads of Please ignores and Tests.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn That again raises the question of whether foibles In Known or m.b ought to determine the way one uses other sites. I'm peretty much on the fence about that, and would even consider editing the PESOSed version.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas within 24 hours of it appearing on Known for micro.blog …
PESOS via OwnYourGram frequency is very much down to how often you post to Instagram
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas latest OYG PESOS POSSE image I move the hashtag to the title box
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Where was it before?
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas in the description box
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn I mean, how did it get there? Instagram has only the one text field, so something -- OYG? Known? -- is moving tagged words out of Title and into Description.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I suspect OYG, not sure how I would see the micropub transaction.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn Yes, there are times when the magic is both invisible and happens too quickly.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas would require capture of POST data…
173.230.155.197 - - [19/Jan/2018:15:05:11 +0000] "POST /micropub/endpoint HTTP/1.1" 201 5 "-" "-"
The docs imply only one field is passed, so Known might be “being helpful”?
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
@cn It looks like OYG sends the whole caption and each hashtag within that as a separate Category. Known puts the first Category into the Title and all the Categories into the Description.
, Jan 19 2018 on micro.blog
2018-01-17
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It is always interesting to read of someone else deciding to I like what Michael Singletary has to say, especially this
Most of my online friends and acquaintances will never understand or participate in the IndieWeb, and so I require a bridge between these worlds. On one side I choose what content to post and how it is stored, and it exists mainly on an island that few visit regularly. On the other side is nearly everyone I know, blissfully ignorant of my real home on the web and unable to see any content shared there without manual intervention or working plugins.
What really struck me, though, was the line in his bio: “Blogging since 2002, taking control of my content since 2018.”
I lost some of my pre–2002 posts, not through the actions of any evil silo (were there any, then?), but through my own idiocy in misplacing a crucial backup. And I never really got on board the silo first band-wagon, so in a sense I have always owned the content I care about owning. Most of my friends do consider it kind of weird that I didn’t see the photo they posted only to FB, but they’re only too happy to show them to me one on one. So yes, for now few people visit this island, and that’s OK. I enjoy the ones who do.
I'm using the IndieWeb in an attempt to make it easier for everyone to visit, and that works too.
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2018-01-15
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My friend Jason was recently musing on the possibility of legislating firms to employ a certain number of people, based on revenue, in order to slow the pace of automation and the joblessness it leads to. I get that there's a problem,because no matter how good state provision for joblessness might be, firms contribute only a small part (if any) to the costs of supporting the workers they fire. Jason's idea is essentially an additional tax on firms to offset the costs of joblessness by creating unnecessary jobs. In my view there's a far better way; tax firms more, and spend some of the proceeds on a universal basic income.
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@jeremycherfas they could probably afford to give everyone a basic income without raising taxes if they eliminated the bureaucracy that exists in today's entitlement programs. 😝
, Jan 15 2018 on micro.blog
@PhoneBoy I’m sure you are correct in at least some countries. There are experiments going on - not that data will change anything - and I’m looking forward to the results.
, Jan 15 2018 on micro.blog
2018-01-12
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One million webmentions. Very pleased to have played my own tiny part in this.
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Read it and weep (tears of joy). Bonnie Ohara of Alchemy Bread tells some of the story of her home-baking operation and how she has helped to create and nourish her local community. http://www.alchemybread.com/blog/2018/1/8/a60p0pdh15xudsrj7wu0qar0s8ix82
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2018-01-09
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@cn I use the date as the title of a Post in Known, to ensure that the contents of the post gets through to micro.blog intact, and, as so often, he is correct.
All I have to do now is remember to salute him next #micromonday
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@jeremycherfas there’s no absolute need for that, just a proof of one of @manton’s suggestions based on how Micro.blog parses RSS and its variants
, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog
Of course it would help if I also remembered to use HTML or Markdown as appropriate.
@cn No need, perhaps, but a want.
, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas at least we’re “struggling” together :o)
, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog
@cn We are, and that's supportive. But some of the struggle is, I feel, the result of bits and pieces, loosely joined, for which we abandoned the ease of the silo.
, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas as I see it, Known has been built for (at least some of) the Indieweb, whereas WordPress needs more coercion to handle some aspects, not having tried WP/Indieweb #sofar
, Jan 09 2018 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas that's my approach too. if i read stuff in my timeline, cool. if i don't because i've been away, like, living, cool.
tones, Jan 25 2018 on micro.blog