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Jeremy Cherfas

And having spent a happy couple of hours tinkering with occasional bits of success, I'm giving up again.

Jeremy Cherfas

My conclusion now is that WithKnown actually does a lot of the heavy lifting itself, with reverse geolookups and so forth. Maybe try something a lot simpler, and send only lat-long

Jeremy Cherfas

Calculating the signature not as easy as it seemed originally

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At home, thinking about a location shortcut for WithKnown, and starting with the easy stuff.

Jeremy Cherfas

There has to be a better music library manager and player for OSX than Apple's Music app, but which one? Your recommendations, please. Please!

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

The supersedure state revisited | Small Farm Future

States and civilizations have collapsed many times in the past. But we’re in an unprecedented situation globally today, with such a vast population so reliant on high-energy resource flows orchestrated by a tightly-organized global network of centralized states increasingly incapable of organizing those flows, whose citizenries are extraordinarily alienated from the material and mental resource base needed to generate local livelihoods.

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Measure attention, not just downloads. Here’s how Bumper calculates Listen Time. — Bumper | podcast growth agency

I think Bumper is onto something here for sure, in that the main reason for big download numbers is to sell advertising, whereas I would just like some sort of measure of whether people find my episodes interesting and whether that is going up or down. If data collection could be automated ...

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

So, my online friend Jason has brought a new puppy into his life, and she does look very good. I feel the pull too.

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Jeremy Cherfas

TIL about the Bismarck Archipelago in the Bismarck Sea. Who knew? Not me, obviously.

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My Dad would have been 100 today. I can't say I miss him every day, because that would not be true. But still.

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11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day,

I'm sure I could make use of at least some of this, in my bumbling, amateur way. I also wish it wasn't a Twitter thread. Need to find time to save the details for myself.

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Jeremy Cherfas

I wish I knew why @launchcenterpro had suddenly decided to lock most of the functionality, but hey, that kind of behaviour is unlikely to encourage me to pay anything.

Jeremy Cherfas

Does anyone know what happened to The Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit? Did it turn out to be, er, unsustainable? Or something else?

http://pcfisu.org/

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Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all `venvs` and tinkering in `.zshrc` everything seems to be operational. For now ...

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Jeremy Cherfas

Prompted by In Our Time, we (re)watched Citizen Kane last night. It really is very good, and holds up remarkably well. Lots more to look out for, thanks to the discussion.

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

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I liked rss.app, but in all honesty is just is not worth $8.32 a month for me. I'll find another way ...

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Jeremy Cherfas

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

Very thought provoking and quite apart from reading and thinking about it, I'm feeling the need actually to do something about it.

it's a truism that anyone who wants you to stop thinking isn't your friend but it's equally true that anyone who insists that you think in exactly the way they've deemed proper is also not your friend. 

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

If Ben Werdmuller is wondering about the look of his front page, maybe that means that @WithKnown will get a template system that mere mortals can understand ... but probaby not.

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Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton's "Boxers or Briefs" MTV Moment - Waxy.org

This is why I contribute my bit to the Internet Archive, when I can.

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Jeremy Cherfas

Spending time cleaning up my RSS feeds in Newsblur and it isn't easy. I can export the OPML, and work directly on that, but is there a tool that will let me do so easily? Codebeautify's treeview doesn't let me edit the tree. opml.org seems dead. Is there anything else?

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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

Very grateful to John Naughton for pointing to this article, which explains the problems and some of the solutions and which seems like an obvious dose of sanity.

 Ultimately, like many discussions around solutions to climate changes, this is a “yes, and” rather than an “or” choice. We can, and should, build more transmission capacity and storage, whilst reforming the market such that the UK’s phenomenal success in deploying wind power can be finessed to more precisely match our energy needs.

I'm sure I don't understand all the details, but I feel as if I understand more than I ever did before.

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Whatever was wrong, it is right again. Thank you, mysterious gods of the internet.

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The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress

I'm persuaded; but then, I was already persuaded.

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My morning is disrupted. Something seems to be wrong @gocomics and I cannot get my daily dose of Nancy by Olivia Jaimes

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My only experience with far infra-red heating is the lovely little Klarstein panel under my desk, which makes winter just about bearable. When (if?) the time comes to extend, I'm calling in Peter Molnar as consultant.

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Jeremy Cherfas

@FindThatPod "Win Apple Reviews For Your Podcast From Other Podcasters. Enter a free daily lottery-style drawing for your chance to win integrity-based listens and reviews for your podcast."

Hmmn. I wonder what's in it for them?

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Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Indeed. Currently editing my next episode, from @ECLLD recent meeting in Budapest, celebrating how the new EU reg on OHM is allowing farmers and food producers to be more sustainable and nutritious.

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Hey @help. If I were to switch to a paid account (keeping my own domain) is there a way to import old posts from the RSS feed created by an export from Known?

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@help If I were to move to a paid plan, is there a way to import posts from the RSS file exported from Known?

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Feels stupidly good to be deleting ~5000 spam emails (since 9/21) and ~62,000 emails from Trash. I mean, they don't cost me anything directly, but still good to clear out. Also deleted everything pre 1/1/2018; nobody needs more than five years of email archive, do they?