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I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now. http://scripting.com/2025/08/28/140604.html

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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die.' people.com

06.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve spent most of the last week using Claude to work on full browser based apps in JavaScript, and having fun as long as I let it do all the programming.

On the other hand, it's hard to get Claude to apply itself to my own software. It likes to drive. Same with ChatGPT.

06.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What if friends treated their friends as nicely as they treat dogs. When you sensed they needed a little support, you'd look them in the eye and say "Who's the good girl?" Rub behind the ears. When they sit give them a treat.

05.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous β€˜Stop Cop City’ Protester "A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the...

"A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI." werd.io/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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05.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 3404 πŸ” 774 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 15

Which of the countries being dragged into the war have nukes.

05.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Portrait of Cristina My Sister, 1928 #fridakahlo #kahlo

05.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pizza has something to say.

05.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pizza has something to say.

05.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Without such options, a large class of telecom devices and XML‑based enterprise systems will lose their only practical browser‑native UI layer, and many deployed devices will be left without a functional interface.’

issues.chromium.org/issues/43562...

05.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when Zuck comes to me I say open up your services so a wide variety of tools can connect via open protocols in both directions so we can build on and around his massive resources so innovation isnt stalled by the limits of his employees.

Disclaimer β€” I’ve never spoken with him.

04.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Inside of us, everyone, including you, is a little pup who just wants to know they're in the right place doing the right thing

05.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What if friends treated their friends as nicely as they treat dogs. When you sensed they needed a little support, you'd look them in the eye and say "Who's the good girl?" Rub behind the ears. When they sit give them a treat.

05.03.2026 04:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t care what you say, this is art.

05.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth - Wikipedia

Hegseth went To Princeton so he isn’t stupid or uneducated.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_He...

05.03.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The war is spreading.

05.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

These is the β€œriver” of news from the feeds in my blogroll. feedland.social

05.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Notes for FediForum meetup The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder …

My notes submitted for FediForum meetup, but it wasn’t selected. If this were a real developer and user community, imho, this is what would’ve been covered.

04.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not a bad idea. That’s the problem, except for his paranoia about vaccines a lot of his ideas are based on real science.

04.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dancer, 1877 #degas #edgardegas

04.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when Zuck comes to me I say open up your services so a wide variety of tools can connect via open protocols in both directions so we can build on and around his massive resources so innovation isnt stalled by the limits of his employees.

Disclaimer β€” I’ve never spoken with him.

04.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI slop - Wikipedia

Trump is president the way slop coders write code. Not sure if it’s working but if it’s not who cares.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

03.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Filtering News Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need toΒ watch it?Β  In 2018, I wrote about how to...

Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?

03.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down | TechCrunch Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

03.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. Amazing. Why have I not tried this before. It made me a little spreadsheet in two minutes. this.how

03.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The 'source' namespace

it's a good idea, we have something for a blogroll, source:blogroll.

source.scripting.com#1710035563000

They're the same thing it seems to me.

03.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

do you know what a podroll is?

03.03.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also i agree about listening to machine generated speech. but then i'm in one of those modes where all the podcasts i listen to are stuck in a rut, so i listen to music on my walks and when i'm driving.

03.03.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can see a lot of improvements possible, to broaden and simplify it. And it wouldn't just be for podcasting, actually I do use AI to write the show notes for my podcasts and would like to disclose that. I might give it a try for the source namespace.

shownotes.scripting.com

03.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down | TechCrunch Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

I thought that Ro Khanna supporting the billionaire tax would enrage the billionaires of Silicon Valley, and so it has. It's a great referendum. If I still lived in Calif, I would vote for Khanna just on this one issue.

03.03.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0