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I received a pretty compelling email, asking me for 750€ in bitcoin in order to not publish videos of me jerking off to porn. The mail describes quite thoroughly how they hacked into my devices, recorded me, and accessed my contacts. They say that if I attempt to call the police or try to find them, they’ll know because they control all my devices and they will release the footage immediately. But 750 € is quite a disappointing ransom. I’d be willing to pay much more. I deleted the email, I’ll wait for a proper shakedown.
My Blogroll page is small and personal, but I’m happy with the gradually growing collection of websites it contains.
I can’t stress enough how much I like the app Callsheet by @caseyliss@mastodon.social. The movie database I’ve always wanted, in a wonderful, easy to use and pretty app. No spoilers, no cheating, no adds, no BS. Just a terrific film and TV information hub. Please, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Tell me your life is sad without telling me your life is sad. I’ll go first.
I want to learn to play D&D, which should make me a proper nerd. But I don’t have friends to play with. What level of nerd does that make me.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one Jackal.
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And, of course, here’s THE Jackal.
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> There is one more question to answer: how do you start a website? I have a few recommendations. > > 1. Read the 32-Bit Cafe “Creating Your Own Website” guide. > 2. Read the IndieWeb Getting Started (“Get Your Own Site”) guide > 3. Join a Homebrew Website Club meetup and ask how you can start building your own website. > > No coding is necessary to build your own website. > > What platform should I use, James? That is a personal question, but I have a few recommendations: > > * Micro.blog (no coding required) > * WordPress (no coding required) > * omg.lol, a tool that has many tools to create websites that you can use with no coding experience. You can make link pages, blogs, and more! > * Neocities, a free place you can publish HTML sites. There are over 700,000 websites hosted on Neocities. > * Make your own website with plain HTML (for new coders) > * Make a website with a site generator like Eleventy (for coders who know a bit about HTML and JavaScript. > > The web is yours.
We live exciting times again. And James makes excellent points to add up to the ever growing conversation: own your space in the web and come out to the world from the place you build yourself. #tech #eng
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> These Josephinen Hütte glasses are, uh, not durable. What they are, though is incredibly gorgeous, insanely thin and very light. I could stack superlatives all day and you still wouldn’t get it until you held one in your hands. It feels like you’re holding heavy oxygen. When you drink from them it feels like the wine is materializing out of thin air into your mouth, it’s really ridiculous.
I love a proper hedonist, an epicurean. Salud, Panzer. #eng
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> The other day I finished reading Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod and for the first time in my life, a book made me feel the need to hug the author. Craig, thank you for creating this book.
And thank you, Manuel, for bringing Craig Mod to my attention. #eng 📚
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> In a time of crisis, social media is flooded with images, videos and bold claims. This can be useful for researchers like ourselves but overwhelming for the general public seeking the facts.
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> At Bellingcat, we pride ourselves on providing tools and resources for our audience to think critically about sources they find online. In this short guide, we give a few tips on what to consider when confronted with an abundance of footage and claims.
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> Here’s how to separate fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.
Good advices to keep a skeptic eye on misinformation. #eng
1800-2050 AD will go down in history as the brief period when humanity could afford to have billions of people dedicated to sitting on their arses, reading and writing on increasingly technological devices and getting fat. It was not sustainable, so an apocalyptic event put an end to it.
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> “When this news arrived, there wasn’t any cheering in the Defense Ministry as there’d been before. Only silence. Minister Chiang, who had sat diligently at the head of the conference table all through the night, stood and headed for the door. Lin Bao, as the second most senior officer in the room, felt obliged to ask him where he was going and when he might return—the battle wasn’t over yet, he reminded the minister. The Ford was out there, injured but still a threat. Minister Chiang turned back toward Lin Bao, and his expression, which was usually so exuberant, appeared tired, contorted by the fatigue he’d hidden these many weeks. “I’m only stepping out for some fresh air,” he said, glancing at his watch. “The sun will be up soon. It’s a whole new day and I’d like to watch the dawn.””
— 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN 📚
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> Lerner’s hand is clearly visible in Haley’s simple, patient approach to the 2024 campaign. Unlike her rivals, she’s opted against focusing on a single state — a time-honored path to a moment of glory and a losing campaign. Instead, she’s stretched her focus out to all the primary states, trying to chart a narrow course across the early primaries toward ending up as the sole non-Trump alternative. Her message to voters is also simple: She’s the most electable Republican — and one who can depart from the “chaos” that so often surrounds Trump. > > Haley, who pays Lerner’s firm a relatively modest $15,000 monthly retainer, has also been frugal, a preoccupation of Lerner’s (and a marked contrast with DeSantis’s messy, extravagant bid). On Tuesday, the campaign announced it had raised $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 — more than doubling their previous fundraising numbers — and entered the new year with $14.5 million cash on hand. > > It’s Haley’s own dexterity, however, that has kept her upright, at least until recently, on the near-impossible Republican tightrope. She’s a rare former Trump aide who maintained both her relationship with him and her distance from him, a party of one who is seen neither as Trump’s pawn nor his nemesis. Winning a Republican primary against him may well be impossible, but Haley and Lerner’s careful strategy seem, so far, to have gotten her closer than anyone else.
A very interesting piece on Nikki Haley’s strategy for the GOP nomination, and her strategist, Jon Lerner. #eng
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> # Things I Learned This Year > > 3. You don’t need to fill your time. Creating calendar white space provides a buffer for work and play. > 4. Find the intersection of doing what makes you happy, what is smart for you long-term, and what is useful to others. Whatever that is, do it often. > 5. Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. > 7. Friends are not forever, but they enrich our lives like no others can. > 8. Age should never hold back your confidence. > 10. Nobody cares how many books you’ve read. People care what books you’ve read. And timing can determine quality. The impact a book can have on you is dependent on where you are in life. > 11. Don’t dwell on augmenting your life. Self-care is more important than you probably think. > 12. Move to your own rhythm. This is where progress is realised. Keeping pace with others is a losing battle. > 13. How slowly or quickly you think is not an accurate measurement of your intelligence. Slow thinking is more deliberate and less emotional. > 14. Just because AI is available, doesn’t mean you need it in your product. > 15. Personal websites and newsletters are far more valuable than any social media presence. > 16. You can’t teach minimalism to somebody who hasn’t felt the pain of having too much stuff. > 17. Solo projects evolve faster, but collaborative projects evolve better. > 18. We don’t need a million followers. And maybe we don’t need a thousand true fans. But we probably could use ten good internet friends to make our digital life better. > 19. Email is the best form of communication. Especially if you write informally. > 20. It’s okay to obsess over numbers, but only if they give a sense of mission rather than distraction.
This is a list of 20 things that Carl learned last year. I highlighted the ones that are meaningful to me, go over to Carl’s page to read the rest. They make quite a good 2024 bucket list for me.
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People that use different languages regularly, how do you handle your social media? Do you have separate accounts for each language. Do you use a single account? Do you find that mixing languages in one single account might deter people from engaging or following? I use mostly Spanish and English, sometimes Basque, and I don’t know if mixing all languages is good for engagement or not. What do you think? #eng
🚀 Here’s why the fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web - The Verge
> Decentralizing social media can sound like a sort of kumbaya anti-capitalist manifesto: “It’s about openness and sharing, not capitalism, man!” In practice it’s the opposite: it’s a truly free market approach to social networking. Mastodon may not be interested in becoming a trillion-dollar company, but there’s no reason there can’t be plenty of those built on the fediverse. It’s just that in a fediverse-dominated world, the way to win is not to achieve excellent lock-in and network effects. The only way to win is to build the best product. > > The best thing about the fediverse is that it will actually enable an explosion of better social products, for lots of reasons but one in particular: it allows for so many more of them. Forget the hand-wavy protocol stuff for a second — one of the best things about embracing ActivityPub is that it sticks a crowbar into a single Voltron-ic product like Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat and pries it apart into its component pieces, each one ripe for innovation and new ideas. > > We’re still in the very early days of the fediverse, and it’s going to be messy for a while. It might feel like you’re seeing the same posts too many times, and like you see some posts that obviously weren’t meant to be seen in the app or feed you’re using. Some particularly thirsty influencers are going to go hard on cross-posting tools that threaten to clutter up all your feeds everywhere and become totally unavoidable. This is not a problem with the protocols; it’s an opportunity for better products. There’s plenty of money to be made in the fediverse, and plenty of space for new products to take off. > > If 2023 was the year “fediverse” became a buzzword, 2024 will be the year it becomes an industry. (Hopefully one with a better name, but I’ll get over that.) We’ve spent too long living our lives online in someone else’s spaces. What’s next will belong to all of us. All that’s left to do is start posting.
Message in a bottle. For all of you to read with a warm heart.
May your wishes come true in the new year.
Feliz año nuevo.
Urte berri on, 2024 oparoa izan dezazuela.
Jan, jo eta lo.
🔗 Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida
> “We got down from the car and went inside.” > > “I made the line to pay for groceries.” > > “He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.” > > These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. > > In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. > > According to my recently published research, these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida. #eng
I just found out that the people in Mastodon that I follow from my ActivityPub user in micro.blog do not see that I follow them, I don’t appear in their followers list. Is that so, @manton? I think that is bad for my visibility and engagement.
I’m 1 minute into “The General” by Guns n Roses and my ears bleed. Please, somebody erase that minute from my memory. music.amazon.es/albums/B0…
I’ve had time to read and reflect all morning. Now I’m going to make lunch for my family and in the afternoon I’m going to have more time to think. Just think. Isn’t that a miracle. Is it a good omen for 2024?
I have to admit I do not understand Bridgy at all. Neither do I get if I have to do anything to add webmentions to my site or it already supports them. I’d say it does, but I’m totally at a loss. It should not be that difficult but my brain doesn’t grasp these concepts. @manton any help for newbies?
