"If the recent Twitter debacle has taught us anything it is that platforms aren’t stable. Tying your online identity to a corporate-owned website is fine for a while but in the very long run anything posted there is, ultimately, ephemeral....The only thing we can really rely on on the web is the web itself.
It is ubiquitous enough to be mostly decentralized, has backward-compatible standards that are mostly agreed-upon, and is mostly resilient to attack..."
Woo! Finally go #Wordpress to work on #NGINX by adding the below to the server block config! server {
[...]
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
}
[...]
}
Outlook for free on Mac is pretty nice! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-blog/outlook-mac-for-all/ba-p/3757787 They should do that with the x86 Windows Outlook too... the Outlook PWA Microsoft is working on is terrible.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys by @doctorow reminds me of my https://pocketnow.com/stop-being-naive-when-it-comes-to-things-like-whatsapp-telegram-signal-etc/ article. I wish I knew the "enshittification" word back then. :D
Get your $$$ from @ATT’s unlawful throttling of unlimited data plans
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RT @linakhanFTC
Due to @FTC's enforcement action, @ATT must refund customers for unlawfully reducing data speeds for those with unlimited data plans.
Former AT&T customers can check if they're eligible for a refund and file a claim by May 18: https://secure.attdatathrottling.com/
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/att-data-throttling-settlement
https://twitter.com/linakhanFTC/status/1631036635058937856
Hasan Minhaj deactivated his Twitter account on air during Wednesday night’s “Daily Show.”
Worth watching if only for the moment when he calls Madtodon the “Canada of Twitter” 😆
Warning: lifehack only for those who do not leave the terminal.
Enter in the terminal:
curl wttr.in
or
curl wttr.in/brno
and you are saved. :)
Wonderful!
Author: https://twitter.com/igor_chubin
I've been using LLMs like #ChatGPT before they were hot. Here are two things I do to not make a fool out of myself:
- I have a sticky note saying "this thing hallucinates" within my visual spectrum. This helps me calibrate reliance
- anything it creates is, at best, P-creative, not H-creative. Helps me calm down when I see something exciting. (H-creative is a thought that no one ever thought of. P-creative is localized to the individual)
I guess I have to republish historical articles that get lost to buyouts. https://bookofadamz.com/why-are-we-still-using-instant-messaging-apps-at-all/ #email #whatsapp
Not going to lie, Twitter killing off free API access hits me in the feels. I remember with great affection the flood of creativity that happened after we opened up the API, and it's sad to see that unceremoniously strangled.
I'm relieved that we've got better alternatives, though. While this is perhaps the final straw for many bots on Twitter, it's been a long time coming and the API has long been hobbled compared to the early days. Open protocols or bust. ✊
Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.
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