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

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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…

  1. Pre-render both XML and JSON formats
  2. Pre-render the discovery links in the page head
  3. Have the server map endpoint+parameter URLs to the files
  4. 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.)

Please help #comics #writer and #artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife stay in their home. …

Please help #comics #writer and #artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife stay in their home. Illness and injuries have left them in dire financial straits, and they're facing eviction.

His run on #TheFlash is one of my favorites. The character work on #WallyWest from when he started to when he finished was amazing, and he made me think about a lot of social issues as a teenager that I might not have encountered until later.

https://gofund.me/3699858d

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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.

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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 !

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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

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“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

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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)

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