A mini-celebration of the cult film has some funny and brilliant sentences about Clint Eastwood and his fellow heroes destined for a Nazi castle in the Alps
Source: ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ by Geoff Dyer review – on Where Eagles Dare | Books | The Guardian
This sounds like a fun read about one of my all time favorite World War II movies.
FYI: I have a favorite World War II movie list, in case you are interested.
Like: Andrew Keen: How to fix the future | NEXT Conference
This is quite good. I cannot really disagree with anything Keen says. He speaks about regulation, but I think it is going to take both regulation and breaking up the Internet monopolies together to get the job done. IMHO.
Source: Adam Tinworth.
Like: Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the
TBL is fighting back against the silos. w00t! Good article. This is pretty neat.
Bookmark: Home | Solid
(From the Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Inrupt.)
Solid empowers users and organizations to separate their data from the applications that use it. It allows people to look at the same data with different apps at the same time. It opens brand new avenues for creativity, problem-solving, and commerce.
Note: Ownership of your own data and having control of your own data are very Indieweb.org concepts. Solid brings the concept to more to mobile and apps but it applies to the web too.
This was also posted to
/en/indieweb.
Bookmark: Inrupt
It’s time to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential.
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, it was intended for everyone. The excitement and creativity of its early days were driven from the notion that we can all participate – and the impact was world-changing.
But the web has shifted from its original promise – and it’s time to make a change.
This could be one of the most significant startups – ever.
This week, Berners-Lee will launch, Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon.
This was also posted to
/en/web.
Bookmark: the federation – a statistics hub
The Federation refers to a global social network composed of nodes that talk to each other. Each of them is an installation of software which supports one of the federated social web protocols.
Site shows the different social network scripts that can federate and statistics to how many instances of each script are federated.
Mastodon seems to be the most mature script offering. The others are in various states of development and adoption as social platforms. What is interesting are the scripts that are moving beyond being mere copies of either Facebook or Twitter and adding their own features.
Like: bellingcat – the home of online investigations
These are the folks that identified one of the suspects in the attempted Skripal assassinations as a senior GRU officer.
Bellingcat uses open source and social media investigation to investigate a variety of subjects, from Mexican drug lords to conflicts being fought across the world. Bellingcat brings together contributors who specialise in open source and social media investigation, and creates guides and case studies so others may learn to do the same.
It’s a bit sad that there are so few investigative journalists left that we have to rely on teaching amateurs how to do these kind of investigations online. But, all the tools are available so we might as well learn how to use them. This site can teach you how.
Vivaldi 2.0 is out! This is a major update and I like it. You can see all the details at the link below.
For me the big added feature is encrypted sync. This means my Vivaldi browsing history, bookmarks, setup, logins, can be shared with Vivaldi on my other computers. I really like that.
It also opens the way for Vivaldi to release an Android version of the browser, so you can share all that stuff from your desktop. I use Firefox on Android right now but I’d really prefer to use Vivaldi, so I’m hoping this means an Android version is to be released soon.
Adventure in Upgrading:
I did have an adventure in trying to upgrade to Vivaldi 2.0 on Win 10. The installer kept failing. I tried a lot of things like disabling my anti-virus to no avail. Finally, I uninstalled my old version of Vivaldi – still failed. Now I’m really worried because I am stuck totally without my go to browser. I tried one last time and on the Windows installation wizard I clicked on Advanced. This lead me to a dropdown set for “Install for One User” I clicked on that and changed it to “Install for all users” which changes the file path as to where Vivaldi is installed. Success! Vivaldi 2.0 installed, all my settings are there. Very happy.
I’m not sure what was causing the problem, but this is Windows and Windows gets weird. Similar things used to happen back in the old Opera days too so no big deal.
“Out of ammunition. God Save the King.”
Last radio message heard, Arnhem Bridge, 20 September 1944, just before British Forces were over run.
Yesterday, I bought a new Essential Phone from Amazon for US $335. I guess it boils down to two things:
