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• 24-Feb-2025
  Facebook: Video Storage Shutdown Email of the day, from Facebook, received just now. Note that the policy started February 19. It is February 22 as I write this. Download your old Facebook Live videos by May 25. We are sending you this email because you have previously broadcasted a Facebook Live video. Facebook is rolling out changes to its...

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• 20-Feb-2025
  Two, on social media, each gated. Frostine Shake: Social Media vs. Your Creativity (in a private post accessible if you sub to her newsletter): As algorithms continue to feed our every thought. I think it’s important to protect your brain and protect your creativity. So how do you do that? How do you protect yourself and your creativity on and off...

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• 18-Jan-2025
  Get your own website. on Tik Tok I’ve been studying film in one way or another since I was a kid. My first career was respiratory therapy. My second career was to be “something in film.” I have taken classes in tv production, broadcasting, film, screenwriting, visual effects. On my way out from medicine to film, I went to The Web. But...

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• 11-Jan-2025

  
  “People here in 2025???” I listen to music. Sometimes on YouTube (an odious yet indispensable entity). Usually the advice to NEVER READ THE COMMENTS is pretty good advice. On my tablet, I can’t hide the comments. A “top comment” bubbles up if I’m not in fullscreen mode. Here are a few picked from among my playlist this morning. I...

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• 09-Jan-2025

  
  What the heck is this YouTube Comment pattern? Every few days, I get a comment or two on YouTube with this structure: “{GENERIC COMPLIMENT}! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. ({12 random nouns}). What’s the best way to send them to Binance?” I don’t understand the motivation here. Am I supposed to...

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• 31-Oct-2024

  
  Owning my own bookmarks over 20 years When I worked as a respiratory therapist part of my responsibilities was to keep flowsheets for the mechanical ventilators I worked on. That’s a record of what the machine was doing with a time log. And when I gave a breathing treatment to an asthma patient I recorded the details of that treatment, the time,...

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• 16-Oct-2024

  
  History Rhyming (Flickr, Chumby, BarCamp…) During today’s IndieWeb HWC Europe meeting the topic turned to old hardware and hardware hacking. I said “on the topic of old hardware…” and got out my Chumby with a few weeks ago took out of a storage box with the intent to… hack it? Sell it? Recycle it? It was a hit and fun...

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• 25-Aug-2024

  
  Post-XOXO Ramble on Websites and Freedom: Everybody Comes To Ricks I am writing this from IndieWeb Camp 2024 Portland. It’s the day after the 2024 XOXO Festival. It was the last XOXO. In 2023, the boy billionaire Musk purchased Twitter, on credit. The enthusiasm for moving to Mastodon (started 2016) took off. Right now there’s a zeal to join Blue Sky. People are desperate for...

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• 18-May-2024
  Where’s the IndieWeb going? some random musings Tracy Durnell, who you ought to be reading, posted The IndieWeb’s next stage?. But the growing newsletter movement shows there’s a hunger for deeper conversation — nearly every Substack newsletter I read has a lively section of thoughtful replies. Having more readers of personal websites could bolster the existing community of indie publishers. The more...

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• 15-May-2024

  
  BO-HWC: Social Norms in the IndieWeb: upcoming event Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb is an event this weekend organized by Sara Jakša. The description of the event includes: Let’s have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the internet. Bring any topic connected to the social norms in the internet there. If you want to interact...

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