In today’s “terminology matters”:
❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.
One of the advantages of the downfall of the United States will be eradicating the mm/dd/yyyy date format
“I dug deep and found the most advanced VHS archiving project around: VHS-Decode. The short version is you solder wires into a VCR to extract as close to the raw tape signal as possible. From there, you are doing the decoding of the image in software. If you wanna see what a freakishly clean encode upscaled to 4K looks like on a tape from 1987 of The Cure on the BBC, check this shit out.
From there, I would just compulsively buy stuff that had no good encode.”
https://aftermath.site/ricky-jay-defector-archive-preservation
Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)
Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
@jmtd, I use a fork of something called rssgen.
You can specify CSS selectors to find blocks for each feeds item, and then you can use Go templates to format them more appropriately. For dates, you can also specify a regex to match the HTML element against (sometimes the date is not in a separate element, so you need to filter it out) and a search and replace map in case the website uses month names in multiple languages.
https://github.com/andrewshadura/rssgen/blob/main/example-config.yaml
