TIL that Arleen Sorkin used to prepare for voice acting sessions as Harley Quinn by singing “Adelaide’s Lament” in the car.
Author: Kelson Vibber
Interesting article from a local botanical garden where I like to go hiking (and taking …
Interesting article from a local botanical garden where I like to go hiking (and taking photos!) about how they're adapting planting strategies to the changes in climate.
How the Garden Is Adapting to Our Wild Weather Changes – and How You Can Too
#nature #gardening #climatechange #scbg
Static oEmbed?
So if I’m reading the oEmbed spec correctly, it should be possible to pre-render #oEmbed metadata for a #staticSite as long as I…
- Pre-render both XML and JSON formats
- Pre-render the discovery links in the page head
- Have the server map endpoint+parameter URLs to the files
- Only provide “link” type responses
Photo, video, and rich responses are all required to specify a width and height, and those are required to fit within the requested maxheight and maxwidth, so those responses would have to be dynamic.
It’s not clear whether [3] is necessary if I have [2].
Link responses aren’t that much more useful than including the title element in the original file.
Photo responses would be good for, well, photos, and rich responses would let me design the embedded preview for an article. Which would be nice.
But most of this is pretty much covered by #OpenGraph and similar #metadata schemes that are just in the file — no messing around with API endpoints or mapping and the rest. So I’m not sure it would be worth the effort except maaaaybe being able to get WordPress sites to embed a preview when someone pastes a plain URL. (Assuming it will look for the discovery link in the first place, that is.)
Pokemon Go / Star Trek silliness
Just got a 4-star (perfect stats) Shinx, evo’ed it to a Luxray.
Called it “Four Lights”
Still amused that Axe is advertising that you can smell like a goat.I mean, sure, it’s not “a goat” so much as “the G.O.A.T…
Still amused that Axe is advertising that you can smell like a goat.
I mean, sure, it’s not “a goat” so much as “the G.O.A.T.” but the imagery in the commercial is all about goats.
So tired of headlines ending with “…Explained”
HowTo Write a Headline with One Weird Trick Considered Harmful, Explained
uspolPolitically speaking, I don't care about whether Hunter Biden is corrupt or not. I …
uspol
Politically speaking, I don't care about whether Hunter Biden is corrupt or not. I care whether Joe Biden is corrupt or not. Hunter isn't (and wasn't) the one in office. Or even in the administration.
Prosecute Hunter for his own crimes, sure, but you don't need a congressional investigation.
That's just the GOP trying to establish guilt by association because they don't have anything on their actual target, and it's JUST. SO. TEDIOUS.
TIL that the last version of NCSA Mosaic, with juuuust a few modifications, is available …
TIL that the last version of NCSA Mosaic, with juuuust a few modifications, is available as a Flatpak, 1996-era UI widgets and all.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.fries1234.ncsa-mosaic
The Github project also has directions on building on Arch and Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, modern TLS and SNI aren't supported, so #Mosaic can't connect to a lot of websites, but it's still a fun look back at a piece of #WebHistory !
Happy over here on this social network, no need to reconnect with my X.
Happy over here on this social network, no need to reconnect with my X.
Interesting point: the two biggest markers of the anthropocene era in geology would be radioactive …
Interesting point: the two biggest markers of the anthropocene era in geology would be radioactive isotopes from nuclear weapons and microplastics from mass production and consumerism…both of which are major aspects of the modern world that really got going after World War II…and are handily represented by Barbie and Oppenheimer. https://wapo.st/3OkTKlH
“For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been …
“For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation.”
@eff provides a brief explanation of each and (for those of us in the US) tools to contact your senators & representative:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills
Let me see if I’ve got this right: They give out scholarships to an elite few in order to promote the idea that anyone can su…
Let me see if I’ve got this right: They give out scholarships to an elite few in order to promote the idea that anyone can succeed on their own through hard work even if they didn’t start with money? Is that what they’re saying?
Fascinating article comparing interactions with LLMs to interactions with a psychic doing cold readings, and …
Fascinating article comparing interactions with LLMs to interactions with a psychic doing cold readings, and how the same mechanisms that create the illusion of mind-reading for the audience can create the illusion of actual understanding, even for the people building the chatbots.
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
#ai #llm (via metafilter)
Window on the Marsh
Sunny side up!
OK, that’s a better shot of the butterfly. Most likely a Painted Lady
Ducklings!
Thanks, SO much, autofocus
Building With Dirt
Lemmy.world appears to be backfilling posts from remote communities I’m subscribing to. One post from a few months ago:
“Why did we stop building with dirt?”
And all I can think is “Because creepers can blow it up too easily.”
Titanic
No locator beacon. Bolts on the outside.
How meta is it that someone skimped on safety features on a sub designed to visit *the Titanic*, which famously skimped on safety features (like lifeboats) because they figured they wouldn’t need them?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23766998/oceangate-titanic-submersible-tour-logitech-f710