Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

Memo to self: remember, you don't HAVE TO argue with every rando who is Wrong On The Internet and tags you.

I had promised some photos of our recent trip to the redwoods outside Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay Aquarium; here are a few of my faves (pictured: 100-meter tall redwood trees in dappled sunlight and mist, and the 10-meter glass walls of the underwater kelp forest exhibit at the aquarium, with green and yellow kelp towering from the sea floor and scores of fish from garibaldi to sharks)

The people who persuaded me that Republicans are fascist are Republicans.

The people who persuaded me that the dominant spirit of my country is both conservative and supremacist are conservatives.

They persuade me every day.

I just watch what they do every day, as much as they can, everywhere they can, wherever they can stretch the margins of permission enough to persuade themselves they can.

Full essay:
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/youve-persuaded-us-already

Streaming platform executives:
“I don’t think enough people are pirating. Let’s see what we can do about that.”

Listening to @neilhimself on No Such Thing as a Fish about why bagels originated from anti-Semitism in Poland. Also learnt that the word "lox", as in smoked salmon, is about 8,000 years old.

https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

@Biggles @samlitzinger there are a disturbing number of things in our democracy that have in recent years been revealed to *assume good actors* and boy howdy, do we need to stop assuming good intent (or even rationality).

This is pretty neat to see on Hacker News... in position one, "Cisco Acquires Splunk", then in position three "Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup"

... and that single-file Python script solution turns out to use @datasette! https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/automatic_log_collector_and_analyzer

10 years of Preserving old software! @internetarchive

"10 years on, the Internet Archive now offers over 250,000 emulated games and programs that run in your browser"

https://betanews.com/2023/09/20/internet-archive-emulation-station-10-years/

The best thing I've read on Twitter in months. If you have the “new Slack design" in Slack for Mac, you can disable it across all your workspaces: https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1704515647814947081

This text-based equivalent of the JS you need to paste into the console is useful: https://twitter.com/borancar/status/1704533155242262624

@danielpunkass Did you see the hint about doing this: Command-Shift-R followed by Command-Shift-S, which opens up an additional left column with all your workspaces separated again. Another way to kinda get the old way back, a little simpler than the JS trick.

Meet the Orion Video System. It’s an advanced new software application that turns your iPad into an HDMI monitor.

We had a ton of fun making this. From unboxing (yes, really) to CRT emulation, to custom VCR OSD style typefaces. Get it now — it’s free. http://orion.tube

https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/20/a-quarter-in-a-quarter-million-out-10-years-of-emulation-at-internet-archive/

@bartek @tryst @SwiftOnSecurity
VINCENT: You know what they call a foot massage in Paris?
JULES: They don't call it a foot massage?
VINCENT: No, man, they got the metric system there. They wouldn't know what a foot is.

TIL how to use a (heavily limited) JSON API to run Google searches across the whole web using their Programmable Search Engine product https://til.simonwillison.net/google/json-api-programmable-search-engine

@darthnull @wjohnston @briankrebs Not really back where we started. Passkeys make it impossible for a breach of one authentication database to compromise the user elsewhere. The service only has your public key. That’s a big improvement even if absolutely nothing else changes.

This is from Bill Bryson, but would almost function as a draft constitution for an independent Scotland.

I wrote on Boing Boing about the swingin' theme song played on the 1966 Batman TV show for the Japanese television audience.
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https://boingboing.net/2023/09/11/dig-this-swingin-japanese-version-of-the-batman-tv-theme-song.html

Lyrics kindly translated in the Comments by Thlayli:

black mask, bat cloak
golden belt, tightened
very cool blue boots
Batman, the righteous Batman
he’s not only strong, he’s good
he’s kind, he’s our friend
Batman, the righteous Batman

Usefull search tricks for #Firefox Users:
Start typing your search with ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.
* to show only matches in your bookmarks.
% to show only matches in your currently open tabs.
# to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.
$ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL).

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification