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by ttepasse 2y ago
The Wordpress thing reminded me of the first time I heard about Wordpress: It was in this frustrated blogosphere spat about the new licensing for Movable Type and this blog post advocating for a GPLed blog CMS. Mark Pilgrim, the author, was
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Good thing that two decades before the Gauge Act there was the standardisation of the imperial units in the Weights and Measures Act. In the 20th century then the whole yard/feet/inch shebang got longer by a very minuscule measure
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The CargoLifter-Conendrum: If you're want to use your cargo airship for point to point transport, you'll need ballast at the target point so that the buoyancy of the airship doesn’t change too much. CargoLifter back then used wate
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It's interesting how cultural that must be. Here in Germany most mainstream cheap microwaves in the last decades still have electromechanical knobs, one for selecting power, one for time. If forced to draw a microwave out of memory tha
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Earlier in the speech Churchill used the same rhetorical device of in a positive sentence full of words with french/latin roots: A miracle of deliverance, achieved by valor, by perseverance, by perfect discipline, by faultless service
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They didn’t drop him after his loss in 2020.
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> Email + magic link Two scenarios I had recently, where I absolutely, utterly hated this pattern: * I did not remember the mail address for such a thing because I started (too late) to use a different mail address for every service, tha
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My impression is completely different, it's less the state but more the media. Some first standardisations started with the beginning of the printed media, especially Luther's bible translation, then later printed grammar manuals.
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https://www.ccc.de/en/hackerethik > Make public data available, protect private data.
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That must have been this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0lO_j6Ngc In a way I think Ukraine has a somewhat better handle on big unexploded munitions from ballistic or cruise missiles and drones: They have an active a
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Tangentially, I love this tweet: https://x.com/grauhut/status/1000017084435312642 Translated: > "I found some COBOL at a customer site. Fine. Mainframe. Nothing special. > The last comment is from 1985.
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One of my favourite movies. As an ensemble movie it get’s better with multiple viewings.
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I'm using an even more nerdier variant: Subscribing via RSS feeds, then downloading as MP4s. Having a small backlog of video files in the file system shows how great file systems are compared to a subscription feed on a web site: You c
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The unwavering fixation on metrics like Click Thru Rate, Average View Duration and Average View Percentage explains why so many of my previous channels get formulaic over time. It sounds like a small thing, but for some reason the thumbnail
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What I’d really love would be a proportional version of Berkeley Mono.
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Back in the days of HTML 4.01 there was the idea of an align attribute where possible numerical data could auto-align on a specified character: <td align="char" char=".">€ 1.20</td> https:/&
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I had a small conspiratorial thought while watching this event: "Apple Intelligence" does not come to Europe and the rest of the world because of the DMA/DSA or other regulations. It doesn’t come, because language support isn
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Stross has a talent for keeping an eye on the weirdos of the net without necessary sharing their belief, so I'm rather sure he was aware of the Cypherpunks of the 90s where a lot of this stuff originated.
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> More than once I've accidentally bonked someone in the head putting something in the hatch or have had a dog escape because they managed to leap over the seat and get out through the open hatch. There a basic nets and if one is ex
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I miss the creative explosions of Flash games. Even with Canvas and WASM today there is nothing which comes close. My favourite casual puzzler was made in Flash and published in 2010, the same year, Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash&qu
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The forthcoming MacOS Sequel will have an option to use your iPhone and its apps on a Mac. https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/ Also: Apples Password stuff has some TOTP stuff build in. (Personally I
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> They have limited access to solar and wind for their population size. I would have assume an island nation on their latitudes would profit from solar and even more from offshore wind. Is there a reason why it doesn't seem so?
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> [a] Someone who has still memories of the bombing will be in their 90s. I don’t want to complete minify that – my late German grandmother had bad memories of the allied bombing her teenage years – but witnesses who lived through WWII a
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That was a weird thought I had when the Japanese had problems actively cooling the destroyed Fukushima reactors: :Could one build reactors underground, so that in the case of need you can cool them by gravity alone without futzing around wi
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Originally you could use the schema.org vocabulary with RDFa or Microdata which embed the structured data right at the element. But than can be brittle: Markup structures change, get copy-and-pasted and editing attributes is not really grea
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Back then Facebook said their Open Graph Protocol was only an application of RDFa – and syntax wise it seemed so.
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Back in the optimistic 2000s there was the brief idea of GRDDL – using XSLT stylesheets and XPath selectors for extracting stuff from HTML, e.g. microformats, HTML meta, FOAF, etc, and then transforming it into RDF or other things: https:&
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JSON-LD / RDFa and such can use the full type hierarchy of schema.org (and other languages) and can build a tree or even a graph of data. Meta elements are limited to property/value pairs.
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There is also RDFa and even more obscure Microdata to augment HTML elements. Google’s schema.org vocabulary originally used these before switching to JSON-LD. The trick, as always, is to get people to use it.
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99% of the time you'll get an RSS 2.0 feed which is an XML format. Of course you can convert, but RSS 1.0 seems, like you said, forgotten from the world.

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