Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use “the internet” to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another. I… read more
https://snarfed.org/bridgy_logo.png Bridgy Fed now supports all web sites! You can now use it from the fediverse to see and follow any site, regardless of whether it has microformats2, webmentions, or WebFinger. Bridgy Fed extracts as much profile info as it can, generates fediverse posts from Atom and RSS feeds, and… read more
This plank in Die Partei Bundesverband’s platform is amazing. My non-existent interest in politics is suddenly renewed. 11 Beer price cap The PARTEI is committed to a nationwide beer price cap and the strengthening of the ordering principle. For this purpose, a beer price index is collected. The brake comes… read more
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and web3 are “the hosted web, the posted web, and the signed web.” Heard this quote from Jay Graber for the first time today, via the DWeb Digest. Concise, elegant, poetic. For a straight ahead functional description, it’s got a surprising amount of soul.… read more
Wow. Never thought I’d see the day that Mickey Mouse would lose his copyright and enter the public domain, but it’s finally happened. The internet may have long since moved on to newer, stranger battles, but the old graybeard hell of copyright wars has finally frozen over. Truly the end… read more
My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term “data lake” a while back and has taken to calling his datasets a “data swamp.” Feels like a terminology improvement the whole field could get behind.… read more