a thing i dislike about nodeworld is that config files are so often plain JSON, so they can have no comments and they are woefully without the hints, tips, and tricks that help people get tetchy new configs they encounter right.
documenting these things inline is infinitely more effective both for the reader and writer than doing so elsewhere in some manual.
are there robux gofundmes on roblox?
"To cover questions of interpretation and significance with the curtain of data is to recruit the authority of science in a way that ultimately undermines it." #JasonBlakely https://harpers.org/archive/2023/08/doctors-orders-jason-blakely/ ht @poetryforsupper
Does anyone know of a mobile podcasts app that would *subscribe to* (not just import) OPML feeds?
I'd like to manage my subscriptions in an RSS reader (inoreader) which will publish folder contents as OPML. I'd like a podcast app that automatically picks those up, without my having to download and reimport the OPML all the time.
when you sang god sang through you, yet your prayers went unanswered.
[tech notebook] Getting started with Jitsi https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/21/getting-started-with-jitsi/index.html
ghosts are more natural than supernatural. https://mstdn.ca/@Jgmeadows/110927672011052963
a reason i decided to make a “tech notebook” was so ppl encountering problems i’ve encountered might find hints without relying on centralized platforms like stack exchange (which tbf has been among the better centralized platforms).
i’d like a world where everyone documents explorations in their own spaces, from which we all can learn.
but the search engines now suppress our own spaces, unless they get links from ever fewer prestige sites.
so what’s the point?
i for one would have a great deal of sympathy towards people assigned cop at birth, whatever identity they eventually embrace.
“Elon Musk was the Chicxulub asteroid that doomed the social-media dinosaurs… Mastodons are mammals; unlike mastodons, the players in the Fediverse aren’t huge, they are the little furry mammals scurrying around those unsteady dinosaur feet.” @timbray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/08/12/Mastodon-Checkin
your account has been honetized. may your life be ever sweeter.
if anyone wants to say "hi", like, now-ish, i'm testing jitsi and will DM you a link!
Anyone have any advice on trying to escape teleconference/meeting platforms (zoom, teams, meet, whatever) with open source or bespoke infrastructure (jitsi, edumeet, janus/meetecho.com, mediasoup, etc.)?
"We keep doing this: we keep seeking metrics to cut out human judgment, but it can’t be done." #IanWelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/why-human-judgment-must-be-primary-over-metrics-academic-edition/
suppose X has effect Y over the short term, but may well not have that effect, in fact might have the opposite effect -Y, over a longer term.
a well-known expert makes a public statement, simply "X has effect Y."
how does one characterize that statement?
(and no, i will not say who i might be "subtooting".)
I'm trying to get all my podcast feeds in my regular #rss reader, so they're not just stuck in Apple or Castro siloes.
This site has been a big help. Type the podcast name in the search. If you don't see a clear result, restrict the search to "The Podcast Index" on the results page. Scroll down. You'll see a ton of icons, but plain-old-rss-feed is the last one. https://podnews.net/
"The logic of neoliberalism was that reducing the scope of government would reduce spending. What the paper makes clear is that the result was the exact opposite: *increased* spending for the things we need government to do." @ddayen https://prospect.org/economy/2023-08-17-how-state-capacity-can-help-america-build/
// State-capacity — a bigger in-sourced state, rather than a privatized, outsourced, consultantified one — saves public money. Dramatically.
This is all mail from one flotilla of weird right-wing catastrophist / stock-market shill mailing list. They come from tens of different domains, but all share the same layout.
A screenshot of 32 incoming spam e-mails over about 12 hours, appearing to come from different domains but sharing precisely the same layout.
An example spam e-mail in the shared layout of all of these, showing today's date in a black bar, shilling for some ChatGPT-related stock hype below.
#KevinDrum has a model of student debt dynamics that he cites without evidence (“almost by definition”) that I think is just wrong. Older cohorts still with student debt are not, I think, predominantly affluent professionals who took a lot of debt — affluent genxers have paid theirs off by now! It’s people who have struggled to pay and seen debt grow through capitalization of interest and penalties. https://jabberwocking.com/gen-x-student-debt-is-mostly-about-highly-paid-graduate-professionals/
