This piece is about to re-air at 9:35AM on OPB! 91.5FM in Portland, online at opb.org
Just heard @anomalily introduced officially as @OPB weekend edition host! So cool. And in the interview she gave some big shout-outs to @pedalpalooza, her Bowie vs Prince...
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"text": "Just heard @anomalily introduced officially as @OPB weekend edition host! So cool. And in the interview she gave some big shout-outs to @pedalpalooza, her Bowie vs Prince ride, and more. Cannot believe she\u2019s their new host. Can\u2019t wait to listen. way to go Lily!! \ud83d\udcaf\ud83d\ude0e\ud83d\ude2e",
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Might want to tune in to @OPB at 7:35 to hear a lil intro to your new host (me)!
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Who is ready for some NEWS?!? Let’s go Saturday weekend edition OPB!
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Interesting take on suspected leaking of classified material
blame NAFO
Check this out…
So while the mockingbird media is busy painting the whistleblower as a “traitor” and for the “crime” of exposing how our corrupt government was...
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As Gogol
Guzzles
gold of sold
arguments
young hang
from
gallows
swinging on
guilt
of
an aged
gilded
who dine with
Ghosts when
God gets past
unlatched gates
of felled
ideas
forgotten
#smallpoems
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Twitter's free API tier was supposed to still support third-party OAuth, which is all that I was using it for on my site, but it was still banned for "violating the terms of service." I tried signing up for a new app on the free tier, but I can't get its API keys to work. Oh well
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I am not gonna give you my credit card info for an unknown amount of money to get my prescriptions, Kaiser.
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no excuse for exfiltrating classified data.
You were told of the consequences 100's of times.
but from 2016-2022 when you get hear nothing but Free State Red Pill Nonsense.....well bad things happen
When President of @LPNational advertises DIY edgleord kits......
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Do you have the energy to keep your catch during eternal Caturday?
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NEW: Twitter is turning on the "verified only for you" tab for employees starting today so they can test it before it goes public. The tab will now draw from 4 sources 1/
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My first new figure skating boots in over 20 years are done! I'm so excited. My current boots are really worse for wear
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Some say that it's better to seek forgiveness than to ask permission.
Some people take it further and try to just convince you that they did nothing wrong.
And then there's Elon Musk, who insists that *you're* wrong for not seeing his genius, and the rules just stifle him.
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And don't forget the routers and modems your "rent" from cable companies for 15-20 a month.
These often carry outdated firmware.
If you spend 80-150 on your own better security starts saving you money in a year.
How long have you rented your boxes?
Quad Cyber Challenge Day 3: Install Security Updates
Your internet-facing devices are a common vector for cyberattacks. Take the time today to check for updates on your s...
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Are you enjoying hard earned success during eternal Caturday?
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The automated system would:\nact as a Microsub (with an \"s\") client to fetch each entry from my YouTube Subscriptions channel\n look at each to see if it's missing information like the thumbnail\n for each entry with missing info, look up that info directly from YouTube, maybe via their API\n use Microsub to delete the original entry\n use Micropub (with a \"p\") to create a new entry with all the new details\nThis approach... should work! However, it certainly felt like I was working against the grain.\nI brought this up in the IndieWeb dev chat, where Aaron and Ryan cleared things up. Microsub is intentionally simple, and adding general operations to let clients treat the server like a general data store is way out of scope. Similarly, while Aperture supports some of Micropub, that's a choice specific to Aperture.\nHave we learned anything?\nThe general consensus was that entries should get into a Microsub server like Aperture via feeds. And if the feeds I'm looking at don't have the content I want, I should make a feed that does! I should be able to make a proxy service that:\naccepts a URL for a YouTube channel or playlist feed,\n fetches the feed,\n extracts everything I want from each entry, including thumbnails, and maybe even uses the YouTube API to get info like video length,\n rewrites that in a feed format that Aperture likes better. 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It specifies how a client can ask a server for channels, list entries in a channel, mark things as read, delete things, add new subscriptions, and so on.</p>\n<p>One bonus feature that Aperture has, but that is not part of the Microsub (with an \"s\") spec, is that in addition to subscribing to feeds, you can also <i>push</i> content into channels, using a different protocol called <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">Micropub</a>, Though they are off by one letter, they do very different things! Micropub (with a \"p\") is a specification for <i>authoring tools</i> to help you make posts to your personal site, with extensions that also allow for searching posts, updating content, and much more. In Aperture's case, Micro<i>pub</i> support is quite minimal - it can be used to push a new entry into a channel, and that's it. It's designed for systems that might not have a public feed, or that create events in real time.</p>\n<h2>Okay but what's the problem?</h2>\n<p>I use Aperture to follow some YouTube channels, so I don't have to visit the distraction-heavy YouTube app to see when my favorite channels update. This is possible because every YouTube channel has an RSS feed! What matters is that a good feed reader can take the URL for a YouTube channel (like the one for <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@Indiewebcamp\">IndieWebCamp on YouTube</a>) and parse the page to find its feed (in this case, https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCco4TTt7ikz9xnB35HrD5gQ).</p>\n<p>\n YouTube also provides feeds for playlists, and maybe more! It's a fun way to pull content, and they even support \n <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/push_notifications\"><i>push notifications</i> for these feeds via a standard called WebSub</a>\n .\n</p>\n<p>But! (of course there's a but!) YouTube's feeds encode some useful information, like the URL for a video's thumbnail image, and the description for the video, using an extension of RSS called <a href=\"https://www.rssboard.org/media-rss\">Media RSS</a>. This isn't recognized by Aperture, and it also isn't recognized by my go-to feed munging service <a href=\"https://granary.io/\">Granary</a>. As a result, while I can see when a new video is posted by the channels I follow, they... don't look like much!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/57/47/6a/6d/f300474512cbeebf97a287d55e09310ceba47822479ef15c6f7a3f49.png\" alt=\"\" />Screenshot of feed reader Monocle showing YouTube videos. Each entry includes the title and URL of the channel, the title of the video, and when it was posted. And that's it.<p>All I can see is that a given channel posted a video, and the title of the video.</p>\n<h2>Okay can we get to the point?</h2>\n<p>I'd like to fix this, and my first (wrong) thought was: since Aperture already has these not-very-good entries, maybe I can make an automated system that:</p>\n<ul><li>acts like a Microsub client to fetch each entry from my YouTube Subscriptions channel</li>\n <li>look at each to see if it's missing information like the thumbnail</li>\n <li>for each entry with missing info, look up that info directly from YouTube, maybe via their API</li>\n <li>somehow update the entry with this info.</li>\n</ul><p>Again, this is ... the wrong mental model. But why? The <a href=\"https://aperture.p3k.io/docs\">docs for Aperture,</a> the Microsub backend, gives us a hint when it covers how to write Microsub clients.</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>Aperture has implemented the following actions in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec\">Microsub spec</a>:</p>\n <ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Timelines\">GET action=timeline</a> - retrieve the list of items in a channel</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Timelines\">POST action=timeline</a> - mark entries as read, or remove an entry from a channel</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Search\">POST action=search</a> - search for a new feed to add</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Preview\">GET action=preview</a> - preview a feed before following it</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Following\">GET action=follow</a> - retrieve the list of feeds followed in a channel</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Following\">POST action=follow</a> - follow a new feed in a channel</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Unfollowing\">POST action=unfollow</a> - unfollow a feed in a channel (existing items from that feed are left in the channel, like IRC/Slack)</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Channels_2\">GET action=channels</a> - retrieve the list of channels for a user</li>\n <li>\n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Channels_2\">POST action=channels</a> - create, update, and delete channels, or set the order of the channels</li>\n </ul></blockquote>\n<p>\n Nowhere in that list is the ability to update or even create entries. <i>Those things are outside the scope of the spec.</i> The spec is intentionally narrow in describing how clients can manage channels, subscriptions, and mark read or delete entries pulled from those subscriptions. That's it! And that's good!\n <i>\n <br /></i>\n</p>\n<p>Remembering that the \"write API\" I was thinking of was actually Micro<i>pub</i> (with a \"p\"), I took a look at <a href=\"https://github.com/aaronpk/Aperture/blob/main/aperture/app/Http/Controllers/MicropubController.php\">the source for Aperture that handles Micropub requests</a> and it does refreshingly few things. It allows creating new entries from a Micropub payload, and it supports uploading media that would go along with a payload. <i>That's it. </i>And that's good!</p>\n<p>At this point, I thought I could still continue down my wrong-idea road. The automated system would:</p>\n<ul><li>act as a Microsub (with an \"s\") client to fetch each entry from my YouTube Subscriptions channel</li>\n <li>look at each to see if it's missing information like the thumbnail</li>\n <li>for each entry with missing info, look up that info directly from YouTube, maybe via their API</li>\n <li>use Microsub to delete the original entry</li>\n <li>use Micro<i>pub</i> (with a \"p\") to create a new entry with all the new details</li>\n</ul><p>This approach... should work! However, it certainly felt like I was working against the grain.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2023-04-12#t1681333082265400\">I brought this up in the IndieWeb dev chat</a>, where <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron</a> and <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/\">Ryan</a> cleared things up. Microsub is intentionally simple, and adding general operations to let clients treat the server like a general data store is way out of scope. Similarly, while Aperture supports some of Micro<i>pub</i>, that's a choice specific to Aperture.</p>\n<h2>Have we learned anything?</h2>\n<p>The general consensus was that entries should get into a Microsub server like Aperture via feeds. And if the feeds I'm looking at don't have the content I want, I should make a feed that does! I should be able to make a proxy service that:</p>\n<ul><li>accepts a URL for a YouTube channel or playlist feed,</li>\n <li>fetches the feed,</li>\n <li>extracts everything I want from each entry, including thumbnails, and maybe even uses the YouTube API to get info like video length,</li>\n <li>rewrites that in a feed format that Aperture likes better. Probably just HTML with microformats2 to make an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/h-feed\">h-feed</a>\n</li>\n</ul><p>For each of my YouTube subscriptions, I'll swap out the YouTube RSS for the new proxied feed - something that the Microsub API <i>is</i> intended to let me automate.</p>\n<p>One thing I mentioned in the chat discussion I linked above: I default to thinking of feed services like this proxy as \"public infrastructure\" by default - something that has to be on the public web, with all the maintenance and security issues that go along with that.</p>\n<p>However, as I self-host my own Aperture instance, I can set up this proxy on the same server and ensure that it only accepts local requests. Fewer public endpoints, fewer problems.</p>\n<p>\n Anyway, maybe I'll get that done and posted about in the near future, but today I just wanted to get these thoughts out of my head and close some tabs!\n <br /></p>"
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Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at the @OReillyMedia Security Superstream at 8AM PDT with host @ChloeMessdaghi
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Public comment Re: April 13, 2023 San Diego Land Use and Housing Committee, Agenda Item 5
I am a resident of District 3 and am writing to oppose this amendment as it leaves no place for unhoused people to exist in the city. Meanwhile the city continues to fail at investing in enough housing, public restrooms, and essential services for people to transition out of homelessness. Stop criminalizing unsheltered people and invest in more housing and access to public restrooms instead.
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New achievement unlocked: recording radio while ice skating
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Hey #NAFO looking for a way to ensure you are practicing safe bonking?
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