Daily Shaarli
January 29, 2024
A complex challenge as the official standards are implemented in few websites.
Guesses have to be made.
Software correctness is indeed praised by many, but in many cases it’s not entirely clear what it even means for software to be correct. In reality, it often boils down to some hand-wavy principle of least surprise, where a staggering amount of software requirements are entirely made up on the fly in response to the behavior of the code.
- Subscribe to an RSS feed
- Start something online
- Make your online thing RSS friendly
- Learn to write / format in Markdown
- Publish something using a Creative Commons license
- Make a FOI / FOIA request
- Edit a Wikipedia article
- Map your neighborhood on OpenStreetMap
- Read an Open Access paper
- Check in with someone to see how they're doing
Watch The Internet's Own Boy https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft's new Service Agreement, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models.
Instead, I find it more exciting to write about things I don’t yet fully understand, where new information has become available or where I want to clarify my thinking. In other words, to “write so that I know what I think,” or to “write what I need to know.”
The trolley does not have to kill.
- margarine, ou les céréales listées
- eau
Pas de pain
Call it a hobby if you will, but writing gives me something that nothing else provides.
The benefits of it run far deeper than the sum of its parts. No person should judge their blog based on the number of views the posts get because it always serves a different purpose. It allows you to publish whatever it is you want to publish, get it out of your brain and own it from start to end. I don’t need a blog, but everyone should have one.
Bureaucracy tends to make generic rules valid for 95% of the people. But what happens to the 5% in each case? The job becomes automated, and these cases are not handled.
The author proposes to reduce the size of the communities, so they can fit to each individual.
I WRITE JOKES IN CAPITALS.
THIS ONE WAS WRITTEN IN OSLO.