Notices by Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange), page 3

@killyourfm Whoa, you’re back at Forbes? Nice.

HOLY HELL. No political candidate has hit Trump this hard, ever.

This is how you win elections.

The level of BS one has to go through to share a link on LinkedIn should be looked at by a regulator. It has reached comical levels.

https://tedium.co/2024/07/23/linkedin-complex-linking-schemes/

new @tedium

“LinkedIn … has clearly put in a lot of work to devalue the link, even more than other networks that do the same thing, like Instagram and Facebook.” https://tedium.co/2024/07/23/linkedin-complex-linking-schemes/

This Atlantic piece actually highlights how Biden dropping out when he did is perfect timing. By doing so almost immediately after the RNC, in the middle of a long weekend (a move designed to screw over the pundit class), he murdered the GOP’s momentum overnight and left them stuck with a VP candidate who won’t do anything outside of Trump’s base. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campaign-biden-dropping-out/679183/

Southwest’s tech debt hurt it back in 2022 but it seems to be doing it some favors today.

Old Windows taketh away, but sometimes old Windows giveth.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

EDIT: Fix date

EDIT: @peterbutler pushed me to do a little more research, and I’m more comfortable saying it the underlying software probably dates to Windows NT or XP.

Shout-out to all my people whose Y2K bunkers are finally getting some use

Awesome, my ISP got sued for a couple billion dollars by the RIAA. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24199236/verizon-music-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-2-6-billion

The fact that TVs have caches is the worst thing that ever happened to technology https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-clear-the-cache-on-your-tv-and-why-you-should/

Bernie Sanders, ten months older than Joe Biden, gets it: “Yes. I know: Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump. But this I also know: A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html

What does the person who won’t support advertising and won’t support paywalls do to support journalism?

@dcent @lxo let's focus on the point at hand, not the network where I post my content. Too many good discussions get derailed by debates like this

@dcent @lxo to nail into your broader point, having a single archive work as the internet's custodian doesn't make sense long term as it puts us at risk of broader legal challenges as we're facing.

The LLM idea is very clever but I will point out that it seems like the courts don't have a great appetite for novel legal theories based on the fact that this whole debate hinges on controlled digital lending.

We need better strategies for protecting archives.

This is insane. Someone just put a Web-based After Effects competitor up on Hacker News today. What a cool idea.

This is how the Adobe empire goes down.

https://pikimov.com

Someone else blocked me because I pointed out that copyright is broken.

I feel like defending the Internet Archive has proven surprisingly fraught. People would rather block me than have an honest debate.

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

@feld Those goals need to get back into sync, or you run into situations where RSS gets disregarded—where it becomes just a feed of summaries with links to the original posts. The result is that the whole thing gets undermined long-term.

The ecosystem isn’t working for everyone, and that’s why people are grabbing out for different directions like newsletters or ActivityPub.

@feld So in this light, ActivityPub could be seen less as a technical spec but as an opportunity to build consensus around something both end users and publishers can take advantage of. Will it work, who knows?

But I think RSS lost some publishers along the way, and getting them back onto something similar will take work.

@sun @feld I didn’t say ActivityPub offered it. I just said that’s what matters to me as a publisher.

Publishers should target RSS readers specifically.

They are a savvy audience that deserves our focus and respect.

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