Category: Links of Interest
Greg’s Right Social Media is not Docs
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Again Greg is right social media is not documentation. It may be an easy way to pat yourself on the back to say you’ve got documentation, but it’s not documentation. Just like Discord is not documentation and it’s not a very effective customer communication channel. In the case Greg cites, I don’t even think I…
Cory Doctorow is Funding his Audiobook on the Climate Emergency
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Cory Doctrow is funding the audiobook for his upcoming release the lost cause. I just got a signed hardcover to go with the last one I funded, The Internet Con, which came in the mail last week.
Greg on Manual Practices for Digital Tasks
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Today’s post revisits Greg’s thoughts from a few days back about Bullet Journals. I have come to terms with the fact that, despite my love of physical things, digital tools suit me better. I started a new Bullet Journal this year and I’m sure at some point I’ll neglect it. I don’t let that get…
EVs Don’t Solve Many Problems
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While many look to electric cars to solve the current problems of our current dead dinosaur cars, there are a number of problems they don’t solve. They won’t solve the tire dust/plastic problem. In fact, they’re heavier so they’re going to wear out tires and roads faster. Every time I see a story about investing…
BIG – a newsletter about Monopolies
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I recently found out about BIG and subscribed. The latest issue was all about what the FTC has done in September to combat monopolies. I recommend the newsletter.
Four Onewheel Deaths = recall
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So it took four deaths on a Onewheel to get a recall of all of the products. Sure there are some software fixes to resolve these issues, but remind me again how many deaths happen due to cars and bad road design? Why aren’t we recalling all cars and redesigning the roads? Somehow Onewheels are…
Discord Outage Doesn’t Mean Discord Is Bad
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I’ve seen a number of people jumping on the outage for Discord to say that “see you shouldn’t put important information behind Discord it could go down”. While I agree that you shouldn’t put user communication and documentation in Discord this outage in no way means Discord is bad. Your forum or documentation site could…
Obsidian 1.4.13 PSA
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It’s out and it brings a security update in the installer. That means you need to go to the site and download a new copy of it to get the security fix. Get the latest version of Obsidian now.
Apple will save your life…unless you’re building its products
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As usual Paris Marx has a great look at Apple, specifically some of the claims in their latest ad to get people to purchase their products. The claim that products are “net zero” is questionable: As Lloyd Alter outlines, Apple’s claims of carbon neutrality rely on emissions offsets that are coming under growing scrutiny for not really delivering the…
Some Vision Pro Excitement Feels Dystopian
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While listening to The Talk Show Episode 3841 John Gruber and Michael Simmons raved about the meditation features of the upcoming Vision Pro being able to gain you some peace in the midst of a busy world. To me the excitement makes me think of the dystopian future we seem to be headed towards sometimes.…