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Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1630 total)
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Automatically contribute to funding the web with the new Flattr extension – Ctrl blog
Automatically contribute to funding the web with the new Flattr extension
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The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality https://www.academia.edu/10034080/The_Red_Thread_Buddhist_Approaches_to_Sexuality?s=t via @academia
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In a nutshell, to make your WordPress GDPR compliant, you should (1) look into all the different ways in which you’re collecting visitor data. Next, (2) put mechanisms in place to make sure that users can control their data. Additionally, (3) it’s probably a good idea to avoid collecting user data where it’s not necessary (like the contact form example from above). And most importantly of all, (4) even if you’re using third-party tools and solutions, you still need to make sure that those are GDPR compliant as well.
If you don’t have all of the above taken care of by May 2018, trouble.
https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/complete-wordpress-gdpr-guide/
https://ninjaforms.com/gdpr-compliance-wordpress-forms/
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Services providers that shutdown their #RSS feed : Ushahidi, Bandcamp, What else ? :/
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Funny, https://woodwind.xyz/ think https://www.rmendes.net and https://rmendes.net are Two different websites, without the “www” subdomain I have zero subscriptions, with the “www” part I have my usual woodwind subscritions of #indieweb people. not sure if this “bug” is on my side or on woodwind side…any idea ?
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Défis pour la ville de #Bruxelles : laisser la possibilité à tous les Bruxellois de dire ce qui ne vas pas sur la plateforme de leur choix (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) avec un hashtag par commune ex :
#1000BXL Trop de poubelle sur le trottoir qui traîne toute la semaine au niveau 40 Boulevard d’Anvers. #yamoyendefairemieux -
Le futur est superbement en retard !
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Clever use of Twitter to natively “TweetStorm” without any third party app.
ongoing on the #SOTEU hashtag, there are hundreds if not thousands of accounts, from verified to newcomers using the buttons to generate a tweet with their most important issues they want to see addressed at the State of the Union. -
#Twitter redesign: feels like an instagram clone & I’m tweeting/tooting this from my own website :)
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Recovered my #archlinux users :)
Note to self : read any file overwrite dialog twice before taking an action when doing a system upgrade! -
Quand la coolitude des start-up se transforme en prolétariat nouvelle génération - et n’est en aucun cas de l’innovation !
C’est une forme d’organisation totalitaire, voire même sectaire. Dans ces structures, il y a la reproduction d’un même schéma avec un leader charismatique, incarné généralement par le fondateur de la société, autour duquel se crée un culte de la personnalité.
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The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been | Aeon Essays
The end of the world is a growth industry.
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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy - MIT Technology Review
A new form of online survey uses crowdsourcing and data visualization to reveal the hidden nuances in partisan debates.
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A command-line power tool for Twitter. http://sferik.github.com/t
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__Replied toa post on petermolnar.net :
Sad, sad…
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__Replied toa post on petermolnar.net :
haha the good old Jeskola Buzz (still alive) I remember doing the same tune-idea some 10 years ago :) https://www.buzzworkers.com/wp-content/mp3/B.e.n.-Project/B.e.n.-WMF-01.mp3 (limited to the sounds inside the “media” folder of XP)
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__Reposted Peter Molnar’s post on petermolnar.eu
There is nothing to “get”. It’s all the same. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. People want a free way to broadcast to their friends. Someone invents a service that does that. Slowly ads take over. Now the stream needs to be “curated”. It’s no longer a timeline. It’s no longer sensible. Now you can no longer reliably broadcast to your friends. People search for a new service that did what the old service used to do. They don’t even realize that’s what they are doing, but that’s what they are doing. I’ve done this myself now what, a half dozen times? Every 2 years you have to do it again.
It’s the same damn model. It’s all the same thing. Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Does no one see this?
Snapchat will rule until he ads take over. Your stories will slowly be interrupted by ads. Then your stories will fall out of time sync and you’ll only get some updates or a “Featured Updates” or some other features that’s really just a way to prioritize and guarantee ad delivery. And while this is happening someone will put out something new, that essentially does what Snapchat originally did in a slightly different format. Maybe square instead of portrait or GIF or Live Photo or whatever. But it’s all the same thing. This game will continue forever.
All people want is a way to broadcast into a stream of content, and view other people’s content in a timeline. That’s it. It works for a while until you get too big. Then you can’t pay for it and you have to start inject ads and resorting the timeline until it’s no longer a timeline or it’s a timeline full of all this stuff no one ever wanted or asked for.
When I was 15 I’d get home from school and run to my computer to check my favorite message board. I’d hit “New Posts” and see all the content from my friends. Cool new video game discussion, new video card benchmarks, some photos someone uploaded, some rant. Honestly, nothing has really changed in 15 years except the format of the content has been continuously updated to be technically (and culturally) relevant. But a post is still a post.
– themagician