A great read. Defining facts is hard – and hence is writing about and surfacing it. It is not that no one is willing to be “arbiter of truth”, but rather no one can be. So people with agenda keep beating the algorithm with “natural” posts.

For a person not interested in football as a sport, I still try to remain informed on FIFA updates. I thought that was enough - apparently it isn’t as my daughter’s school proved to me.

A fun quiz there had questions on “weight and manufacting country” of the ball. Sigh🤷🏽‍♂️

★ Liked How itty.bitty works

Good showcase of possibilities. Static goes next level.

itty.bitty takes html (or other data), compresses it into a URL fragment, and provides a link that can be shared. When it is opened, it inflates that data on the recievers’ side.

Article 13, which makes platforms directly liable for copyright infringements by their users — pushing them towards pre-filtering all content uploads, with all the associated potential chilling effects for free expression;

This is terrible — I cannot understanding the reasoning behind such a regulation.

And the commissioners drafting this portion of the directive do appear to have been mostly intending to regulate YouTube — which has been a target for record industry ire in recent years, over the relatively small royalties paid to artists vs streaming music services.

Ah, of course. It’s EU - has to have a Google angle.

I think I need to gain control on how a feed client, micro.blog app for example, process my title-less posts. This is especially important for posts larger than 280 characters which get truncated.

I don’t like how ad-hoc it’s done. I better generate a title myself in the feed.

I am tired of the tangled cables around my earphones. They are too messy and discomforting. I think I would soon move to a wireless option. Wish the market wasn’t so broken though.

So that foldable Surface “phone” running Andromeda OS? Yeah, that was just a concept after all.

The Surface Phone and Andromeda OS have been shelved indefinitely(…)

Microsoft has (had the experience of designing for foldable form factor). It even has right at this moment many of the pieces that could be stitched up to make a Courier. Unfortunately, just having pieces doesn’t mean you can immediately make a whole.

Showcasing and demoing, wooing even, the technology concepts in development is always easy, relatively. Especially to the tech minding folks (I include myself in that) who tend to think forward and imagine the potential use cases for themselves.

But delivering a product with it for masses is difficult by magnitude. I guess however these product are just boring to lend any coverage.

After a bit of playing around, I am still not clear on the purpose and benefit of IndieBookClub. Without aggregating the data from multiple users on all the books, the entries would remain just posts around books on individual sites. Aggregation is the key.

It’s time to catch up on C.B. Strike - second story “The Silkworm”. I like the characters, right from the books. And I had especially liked this plot and presentation from Rowling.