I leave shortly for fun family matters in Minneapolis. Meanwhiles, here are some worthy tabs to close:
- While finding this kindness by Kaliya Young (quoting a now-vanished utterance by the late and very great Craig Burton) published in 2005 on her IdentityWoman blog, I also dug her latest post there, which is about commons and how they work, nicely comparing Cory Doctorow's enshittification descriptions with old-fashioned (but more current than ever) enclosure of commons, closing off wide open public digital spaces such as the Internet, the Web, email, and other graces. She offers open protocols as one solution, which brings us to—
- Vint Cerf is retiring from Google, which he has long served by continuing to work for everyone, and the Net he helped invent, rather than just for his employer. Among other things you'll find at that last link is this: "…he predicted that formalized protocols would emerge as a foundation for the next generation of AI systems, echoing the role standardized internet protocols played in the web’s early expansion."
- I have used Garmin BaseCamp for many years to extract tracks and use its map for many purposes, such as to identify what it was I've seen and photographed out the windows of airplanes. But, as it says at that Garmin link, BaseCamp is for very old-fashioned Intel-based Macs, and for newer ones running Rosetta, which Apple is abandoning. I have thousands of tracks I want to keep and visualize on a map, using software that can download and store those tracks somehow. BaseCamp did that. Google Earth chokes on that many tracks. GPXSee is just a viewer. QMapShack is geekware at this stage. MyTracks might do it, but it choked on my first attempt just to download my latest tracks off my Garmin eTrex 22X GPS. (It does well with tracks off its own app on my iPhone.) Anyway, I welcome recommendations.
- CKM Syndrome is a big deal. Read about it. Better than even chance you may already have it. You've been warned.
- MySignals may be one of those enclosure-preventing protocols talked about in #1, above.
- Interesting to read Roku's guidance to developers for TV ads nobody wants to see. Also that cars, and not just TVs, that are now built to interrupt your driving experience with ads that are just as surveillanc-based as the ones on your TV.
- Three excellent mummies. Five more.
- Of no importance but of some possible interest: Though I am in no hurry (got a lot to do), I wish for my eventual corpse to be a subject of scientific study and/or unembalmed fertilizer in a green cemetery, rather than to be a short-term mummy or cremains somewhere.
- Mozilla's rebel alliance.
- Public broadcasting goes retail.
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