I recently discovered that Bubbles offers the option to embed a widget on your website, to show how often your post has been upvoted and also to nudge people to go upvote in the first place. I'm not sure if I really want this on my blog and if it really has any kind of benefit... The idea behind it of course is to get your post in front of more eyes and increase your reach and visibility, and this leads back to the question why I write a blog in the first place. Is it just to get my thoughts out, or is it to have an "audience" and have people read what I write?
A little bit of both of course, but I'm never really sure where on this spectrum I really stand. But I thought I'd give it a try and see if I like it. It's all the way at the bottom and not particularly well integrated (yet) because I'm not good at web design, but it's there for now. What do you think, keep it or leave it? And do I have to do this influencer thing now where I tell you to like, comment, subscribe, upvote and share my post? Don't forget to turn on notifications and ring the bell so you don't miss anything!
Articles
- Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?
Gay bars in San Francisco apparently now have facial recognition devices at the entrance, and it's mandatory to scan your face before you're allowed to enter. The patrons are fine with that, because why would there be anything wrong with creating a comprehensive database of minorities in the current political climate... (via Computeum Vilshofen) - Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imperative As the US Reads Dutch Emails
"Microsoft allegedly shared the names and internal communications of Dutch officials working on EU platform regulation with the U.S. House of Representatives". Remember this the next time they talk about the supposedly "European Cloud". It's all a bunch of lies. (via Metin Seven) - A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Researchers are looking into using old phones as computing clusters, which is a great idea. There are hundreds of millions of these devices available, and if they can be put to good use, I'm all for it. - Millennial computers: how generation Y grew up with C64, Amiga, Atari, Apple and Windows – GenerationAmiga.com
A nice article which explores the relationship that the millennial generation (of which I'm a part of) has with computers. (via Valuable News) - The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks | TechCrunch
That's fascinating, and it makes sense. If you want to learn how to deal with a cyberattack, what better way than to build an actual town with infrastructure and study the effects first hand. (via Dustin Dikes)
Software/Services
- moments - A small home for your photos
A new photo journal blog thing. According to the developer, it's modelled after Bear Blog, but for photos. It's very new, but it looks great! (via Indra's Micro Blog) - GitHub - danifunker/usbode-circle · GitHub
I thought I had this already in here at some point, but apparently not... This turns a Raspberry Pi Zero (and a few other models) into a USB CD-ROM drive. Just flash this to an SD card, dump your ISO images on there, put it into a Raspi and hook it up to a PC via USB. Now you have a USB CD-drive without having to burn discs.
Videos
- Roger Wilco Dies a Lot in Space Quest 1 - YouTube
I've never played Space Quest, but after watching this I'm thinking maybe I should... some of these scenes are hilarious. (via)
Around the Small Web
- AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade
Datagubbe (still the best name ever) is back with another Amiga post. This time he takes a look at Workbench 2.0 and why it is vastly superior to it's predecessor. - "These Days I'd Rather Read a Book" | Brandon's Journal
Despite being a movie enthusiast, modern movies are driving Brandon away from the cinema and towards reading books instead, and I can see why. There's very little in the cinema that interests me these days, either.
Misc
- Pac-Hunt — You're the Ghost
This is really fun - it's classic PacMan, but you play as the ghost and have to catch him. (via Metin Seven) - GitHub - cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more. · GitHub
So apparently Chipotle (US fast food chain) runs an AI chatbot, and someone found a way to use this as a general AI assistant. "Not affiliated with Chipotle. They will probably sue us. Worth it." That's my kind of humour! (via Chris Heilmann)