I feel like comfort with being wrong is one of the most underrated part of language learning. If you want to work on writing or speaking skills you just need to get very chill about being extremely wrong and weird all the time.
— Jessica Rose (@jesslynnrose) January 17, 2021
This is incredibly true. One needs to throw caution to the wind and focus on making as many mistakes as possible.
— Dr. Simone A. Douglas-Green (@DrSimoneDouglas) January 17, 2021
People who are into crochet: can you send me all your favourite blogs/pattern stores/etc? I am ready to run full throttle at this hobby.
— kirsty (@keinegurke_) January 17, 2021
The Democrats are at least two parties. The progressive wing of the party (which is by no means unified) and the finance wing of the party, which is also the party leadership. 1/ During...…
An interesting broad level dissection of the Democratic party at the moment.
Casey Newton (platformer.news)Or: 14 ways to rebuild your hell site
Nice overview of New_Public’s recent Signals work here.
I always like to start the year by reading a biography; something about experiencing a life outside of my own to get perspective etc. But so many are...quite dry! So, what is the best biography you’ve ever read? One whose sentences stuck with you...
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 17, 2021
Some threads with great biography recommendations
Zignal Labs charted a 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president.
Parler has been hacked - hit by a massive data scrape. Security researchers collected swaths of user data and leaked it online.
Jamie Tanna (Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer)Creating Postman collections programmatically from a Micropub server's supported configuration.
<Dash> I didn't see any mention of the header in the github repo so I feel it's helpful to mention this: in case anyone gets ratelimited, Parler will honor an arbitrary x-forwarded-for header with any IP and, well, not ratelimit you according to my unscientific test
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<kallsyms> Dash: lmao really?
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<andrew> Dash: okay, that's actually pretty huge cc kiska arkiver Fusl
<Kaz> heh, good to know Dash
<ave> this is amazing
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<NotNite> yep
<Kaz> does that also apply to the API Dash?
<andrew> so, who wants to modify the thing to generate new IPs for X-Forwarded-For for each job and see what difference that makes?
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<Dash> Not sure, but i'm credential stuffing them with 300 threads without getting ratelimited
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<Dash> Someone else should probably test
I’ve been working for awhile on trying to make my blog the central hub of my online presence, even on social media, taking a #POSSE approach. I’ve recently setup Bridgy in order to bring back the conversation on other platforms back to my site. One issue that I’ve found is that the #Facepile setup of #Webmentions is getting blown away when using JetPack comments. This issue was reported on GitHub like 3 years ago, and even mentioned by Chris Aldrich on his excellent blog post about using WordPress with the #IndieWeb. https://boffosocko.com/2017/10/06/using-facepiles-in-comments-for-wordpress-with-webmentions-and-semantic-linkbacks/
How to Export from TiddlyWiki to Obsidian Note: I am on Mac, so all the steps are specially for that OS. I followed the steps by @kepano and just tweaked/clarified the things that didn’t work for me initially. So this is very much his work. @pikacho, I hope this is helpful for you and others. Step 1: Set up TiddlyWiki in Node.js Download and install Node.js Open “Terminal”, run npm install -g tiddlywiki If an error occurs, run sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules (that gives you a...
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)In her book Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown eloquently describes a model for decentralized leadership in a world of ever-changing emergent patterns. Heavily influenced by the philosophy laid out in Octavia Butler's Earthseed novels - God is change - it describes how the way we show up in the...
@pfrazee (threadreaderapp.com)Yo, decentralizers. If our projects are ONLY about censorship resistance and NOT about better algorithms for elevating truth, and NOT about creating constrained but real powers of moderation, then we're making things worse. 1/n
It kills me, absolutely kills me, that after years of decentralization advocacy it's a moment like this when all the dweb projects pop up on HN and social media. The interest popped -- not when truth became inconvenient for corporate power, but when lies did.
Charitably, people may be reflecting on the kind of power imbalance being revealed and reflecting on how it could be abused.
https://twitter.com/pwang/status/1348335710303096833
Uncharitably? Do I need to even say it.
For anybody still unsure:
We have to find a way to square our ideals and our fears about monopoly control with the realities of how our technology is working. It's not enough to defend an ideal. We need to be effective.
We've all done our spiderman homework. What comes with great power?
If we really believe that free speech is important -- as I do -- and we want to protect it, then we need to work hard to make sure that free speech provides value to people. Otherwise they're going to shrug and let it drift away, "a nice idea, but impractical, really"
The question isn't "how do we make moderation impossible?" The question is, how do we make moderation trustworthy.
That, it turns out, is much harder than p2p tweets
It's also about *checking* power, not just distributing it. Like code-forking: FOSS doesn't always mean "anybody can contribute," but it definitely means that the users can fork if the core devs abuse their position. How can we get that kind of check on power here?
It's nuanced. It's harder to sell than "censorship resistance." Maybe we need a new framework for discussing this, a new set of words. I don't know what to tell you, but the reward is equal to the challenge. n/n
