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Signs of Spring.
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An incredible website celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh by restoring a classic 128K Mac from 1984.
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With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial - The Verge
For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
An interesting look at the tension between AI crawlers and keeping the web open.
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The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases • The Register
Google Chrome is about 40 million lines…Nobody can read the source code of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team.
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Currently reading: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 📚
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Internet access is a human right. — Joan Westenberg
The concentration of access oversight in the hands of a few profit-driven entities poses grave threats to data privacy and consumer rights. Given these substantial risks, internet access demands robust government intervention, regulation, and direct public provision.
Agreed! I would like to see more community run ISP’s in the future!
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Happy 40th to the Macintosh!
If this is your sort of thing, check out the Mac 40th site put together by Jonathan Zufi of Iconic fame.
H/T 512 Pixels
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My first Mac was a white iBook G4, which I still have on a shelf in my home!
#MyFirstMac
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The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds - The Verge
I like that The Verge has been publishing more about the open Web and I hope it helps to spread awareness. Something I think about: what would it take to make RSS reading as ubiquitous and easy as podcast listening?
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Mourning Google
Let me quote myself from a little bit further into that piece, on the subject of Google: “I’m sure that tendrils of stupidity and evil are even now finding interstitial breeding grounds whence they will emerge to cause grief.” Well, yeah.
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Frost found in the back yard today.
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Hit a low of 13.3 today! 🥶 They promised me it wouldn’t be this cold in Atlanta!
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Where have all the websites gone?
So here’s the bad news— we are the ones who vanished, and I suspect what we really miss are the joys of discovery.
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Made Detroit style pizza last night and it turbed out great! Was not expecting this to be so good on the first shot at making it with a dough from scratch.
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Some important new ornaments just arrived and went up on the tree.
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Some interesting ideas for the web in here: The Cheap Web
cheap ≠ free cheap ≠ sleek cheap ≠ creep cheap ≠ deep cheap ≠ dark cheap = cheap
Also, first time I’ve come across the term solarpunk.
