The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies, thanks to just-passed bill | TechCrunchA brand-new law (awaiting only the president’s signature) will let the Federal Communications Commission directly regulate rates in the notoriously predatory prison calling industry. Under the threat of having to provide a solid product for a reasonable price, companies may […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-18
Why the super rich are inevitableThis is the crux of the Yard-sale model. In a free market, one person ends up with all of the wealth – completely by chance. This is completely counterintuitive. If everyone wins half their games, everyone should end up approximately where they started, around $1,000. But it all starts to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-11
Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanationsA variation on the secret crush website I loved from many years ago. Convert curl commands to codeConvert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, C#, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Dart, CFML, Ansible URI or JSON John O’Nolan ???? on Twitter: “However, directly loading scripts from our CDN on […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-04
URME Surveillance — Leonardo SelvaggioThe principle method is by inviting the public to wear a photo-realistic, 3D-printed prosthetic of my face. When a user dons the prosthetic, camera systems equipped with facial recognition software identify that user as myself, thus attributing all of their actions to the identity known as “Leo Selvaggio.” In this way, […]
Winter Festival Photography
I was asked to take pictures at the kids’ school for the Winter something or rather. It was a combination of an art show, an unveiling of the holiday lights, and a concert representing a variety of classes and clubs. I’ve been watching a video series from National Geographic on taking great photographs. It certainly […]
Actually Turning on Heroku Dyno Access
Heroku got rid of the their free access a while back. I have one Node JS app on there that knits together a Slack form and WordPress site. I went to the trouble of upgrading to the bottom tier paid account with Heroku. It’s $5 a month. At that point, I thought I was done. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-27
Vince Chadwick on Twitter: “I’m here at the “gala” concert in the EU foreign aid dept’s €387k metaverse (designed to attract non politically engaged 18-35 year olds — see story below). After initial bemused chats with the roughly five other huSecond round of second life . . . Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social on Twitter: “The […]
Concert Photography
I got a last minute request to photograph Trinity’s student music show a few weeks ago. I was hesitant. It was the night of their state championship football game which I was photographing. I knew I’d have 3000+ photos from that and would have spent about 4 hours taking pictures. The idea of adding several […]
Road Trip Photography
When we go on long road trips my wife insists on driving. If I’m not sleeping I tend to try to take pictures. It’s an interesting challenge. Much of the time we’re on the highway moving along at 70mph and that makes it a bit like reverse sports photography. You have to see the thing […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-20
10 KB ClubThe 10 KB Club is a curated collection of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB compressed size. See this GitHub repository for the source code of this website. […]