For those who celebrate Christmas, as I do… MERRY CHRISTMAS! As I am off celebrating the holiday with my family, I thought I’d ask an AI to tell the Bible’s Christmas story. So I went to ChatGPT and asked: > Tell the biblical Christmas story in iambic pentameter Why iambic pentameter? I don’t know… other than thinking it could be more interesting than just having Chat GPT regurgitate blocks of text. This requires a little bit more effort. After getting the first version, I found the focus on Herod to be a bit odd, so I pressed the “Regenerate response”…
Dec 24
Two Major Challenges For Operating Mastodon Servers – Scaling and Content Moderation
As more people embrace the decentralized world of the Fediverse – and as we WANT more people to migrate to the Fediverse – we are seeing an explosion of new Mastodon servers/instances set up by all sorts of people and…
Dec 22
Automattic Promotes WordPress.com as a Platform for Email Newsletters (and provides improved support)
Just as Twitter is killing off it’s Revue newsletter service, Automattic is promoting their hosted WordPress.com service for newsletters – and providing some new tools to make that easier. In their announcement blog post, they note that WordPress.com has already…
Dec 21
Ceremonies of Light and Dark
I have always enjoyed our ceremonies of light and dark, here in the cold mid-winter of northern New England. The winter solstice here is always a time of celebration. For us, it is the shortest “day” in terms of daylight – and the longest night. It is cold here at this time of year. The solstice gives us hope. From here on out, the days only get longer… and at some point will start to actually get warmer. (We have to go through some much colder periods first, though!) We celebrate here so often with candles… with fires… with flames……
Dec 19
Mastodon – The Server You Are On Is Most Important When You Are Starting Out
“How do I choose which Mastodon server to join? It’s SO CONFUSING! I just want to sign up to ‘Mastodon’!” This seems to be a common refrain from some people exploring Mastodon as part of the Twitter migration/exodus. The reality…
Dec 17
The Term "Weblog" Is 25 Years Old Today
By way of a Mastodon post this morning, I learned that the term “weblog” is 25 years old today! The Wikipedia article for “Blog” says that the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. Reading the Wikipedia…
Dec 15
Google IPv6 stats consistently peaking over 40%
When I looked at Google’s IPv6 stats recently, it was great to see that the peaks are now consistently all over 40%. Back in January, I wrote about crossing the 35% threshold, so there’s been a 5% growth over the space of the year. Would we who advocate for IPv6 want it to grow quicker? […]
Dec 15
Google IPv6 stats consistently peaking over 40%
When I looked at Google’s IPv6 stats recently, it was great to see that the peaks are now consistently all over 40%. Back in January, I wrote about crossing the 35% threshold, so there’s been a 5% growth over the space of the year.
Would we who advocate for IPv6 want it to grow …
Dec 14
Au Revoir Revue! Twitter to Kill Off Newsletter Service at End of 2022 – I Guess I Need To Move My Newsletter!
I was a little surprised to learn this morning that Twitter is shutting down its Revue newsletter service. Casey Newton first wrote about this back on November 3 in his Platformer newsletter, but subsequent articles after the massive layoffs confirmed…
Dec 13
New collaborative book about IPv6 – available for free, and seeking contributors
Why is it that many of the “IPv6 books” are 10+ years old? Where can you find the most current info? Could a group of people using IPv6 today come together and create a new book about IPv6? Brian Carpenter asked those questions … and then started a project on GitHub to do exactly this […]
