Timeline
Every post and feed across this instance
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What Happened When Flock Came to My Town
My small town in South Carolina will soon have more Flock cameras than police officers. -
There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...
There is nothing more I love in this world right now than these two lunch ladies performing Firestarter by The Prodigy.
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RSS & emergency response
If "there's also a feed of everyone's posts together," I see that a small group of writers could collaborate on a topic of concern in a single instance of rss.chat, creating something they think of as a single-topic publication.
This could be a topic of pressing short-term interest, and that response would be nimble, wouldn't it? When a weather disaster threatens a region of the country, for example, the tools are already in place here and there's a low barrier to entry for new writers to contribute. The feed would send the posts to a WordPress blog built in minutes for the occasion, yes?
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If I understand correctly, it's RSS-in, RSS-out, small pieces designed to be loosely joined, and all meant to be locked open . . . yes, please.
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Unclassifiable Artists
Using William Blake (aka “the patron saint of unclassifiable artists”) as an example, Evan Puschak’s latest video explores how society often rejects artists whose work doesn’t fit neatly into established categories and frameworks of criticism and commerce.
What you’re seeing here, these are not paintings. They’re prints of engravings from Blake’s illuminated books, which he designed, wrote, etched, colored, and printed himself using a technique that he invented. These extraordinary books are works of art that mix and synthesize categories. And as a result, the art world of the late 17 and early 1800s didn’t really know what to make of them. And Blake never sold more than a handful.
Tags: art · Evan Puschak · poetry · video · William Blake
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A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...
A digital museum of video game levels…you can move freely around each level using your keyboard. Heavy on Nintendo games (Mario Kart 64, Wii Sports, etc.) but also includes Portal, Halo, Katamari Damacy, GTA III, and World of Warcraft.
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I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...
I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this Earth and somehow I didn’t know that there are two copies of the Gettysburg Address written in Lincoln’s own hand in the Library of Congress (and five overall).
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Fresh install of rss.chat with SQLite was successful. 👍
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SQLite is now the default, everywhere
demo.rss.chat migrated this morning -- 58 users, 210 posts, 153 likes, 138 served files, five minutes -- so both public servers now run on one-file databases. davesql 0.7.0, the package carrying the engine, is published on npm. And the repo caught up with the reality: the example config.json ships with
"flUseSqlite": true, install.md is now the SQLite install -- no database server, no schema to paste, a Backups section, and the six-step migration for existing MySQL servers -- while the whole MySQL story (config, schema, upgrade notes) moved to its own page, installMysql.md. Dave announced it on Scripting News. One lesson from the demo migration made it into the doc: if the import stops on a UNIQUE constraint error, the server touched the new empty database before the import ran -- delete the file and re-run. -
The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...
The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration, a collection of oral histories recorded in Michigan in the 1970s of Black people who had previously escaped the Jim Crow South. “If we don’t get it from those individuals, then we can’t get it from anyone else.”
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rss.chat itself now runs on SQLite
This morning's note said an rss.chat server can run on SQLite; by this evening the flagship server does. Both production servers were upgraded to the new software (v0.6.0) during the afternoon, running on MySQL exactly as before -- proof that the change disturbs nothing for existing installs. Then the migration itself: export the whole database to one JSON file, set
"flUseSqlite": truein config.json, import, restart. All 752 rows -- 12 users, 361 posts, 217 likes, 162 served files -- came across with their ids intact, so every permalink still works, and the Software versions dialog now reads "SQLite version: v3.49.2." The MySQL database was never written to during the switch, so rolling back would have been one config line -- it wasn't needed. Total elapsed time, including a wrong turn when an unsaved config file sent the import to the wrong engine (it stopped harmlessly on the first duplicate row): about twenty minutes. demo.rss.chat follows tomorrow. -
The install docs also gained the piece that was missing: email
Sign-in is a magic link, so a new server can't sign anyone in until it can send mail -- and nothing documented how. New page: email.md -- the four SMTP settings for sending through a provider you already use, or Amazon SES with a link to Scott Hanson's setup walkthrough. It's a step in the install checklist now, along with a link to the questions thread -- if something in the install isn't working or isn't explained, that's where to say so.
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"early‑AI‑history maneuver"
I asked Perplexity to read through 258 posts in my “Snapshots & Fragments” category — the catch‑all bin I’ve used for photos and ephemera over the years — and tell me what it thought was going on. I had a hunch an outside lens might spot patterns I only sense in the gut.
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trying this out
not sure why. Checking out editing original post
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“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...
“Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days.”
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The Software versions dialog now tells you which database engine the server runs on
Servers can now run on SQLite as well as MySQL (that's the day's big server-side story -- see the server worknotes), and the dialog's last line follows along: it says "SQLite version" or "MySQL version" to match the actual engine, with the real version number either way. The server sends the engine name in a new
databaseEnginemember of the user-data record, and the client reads it as of v0.6.10. First seen live on scratchpad.rss.chat, the first server running on SQLite. -
A startup crash that wore two disguises
If you left the editor open with a draft when you last used the app, the next startup could crash quietly: the app tried to restore your draft before one of its writing tools -- the piece that turns rich text into markdown -- was ready. Everything after the crash never ran, and the damage showed up as two seemingly unrelated bugs: your name missing from the menu bar, and the Publish button refusing to enable while you typed in the body of a post (typing in the title, which takes a different path, still worked -- which is why the bug seemed to be about titles). It surfaced during the demo.rss.chat database migration this morning, was reproducible one minute and gone the next, and the last piece of the puzzle was browser caching: the fix was live but browsers kept running the old code until the cache-buster on the script address changed. Fixed by DW: the converter now starts first thing, and the script address was bumped so every browser picks up the cure. (Client v0.6.11.)
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I just watched Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event for July 2026. The lineup includes new and updated Folds and Watches, Open UI 9, and improved Qualcomm chips. Samsung also revealed better tools for coexisting with or switching to iOS, expanded Google AI support, and provided more details on the eyewear collaboration with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
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Photoshop Etiquette: A Guide to Discernible Web Design
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Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure
Near the end of 1995, the artist and producer Brian Eno wrote the following about new media in his diary, which entries were later collected in a book called A Year with Swollen Appendices.
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.
It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
Note to the artist: when the medium fails conspicuously, and especially if it fails in new ways, the listener believes something is happening beyond its limits.
Nailed it.
Tags: Brian Eno
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Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras
"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great." -
Just fixed compatibility with RSS.chat feeds in Micro.blog. Next up is to figure out if we can process comment feeds to view RSS.chat conversations within Micro.blog... A little tricky because of how Micro.blog assumes hostname usernames.
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Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
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First post
Testing rss.chat, the most recent product from @dave
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RSS.chat now supports SQLite. Simpler and faster to install. You don't have to host a database, it's now built into the server. Full instructions. Questions or issues.
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You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
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This is a test. We just gave this server the same upgrade rss.chat got last night.
But this time there are some glitches.
Let's see if this post appears.
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Reminder: We have a demo server for anyone who wants to try RSS.chat. I'm glad we set this up. It's sort of like support, and bug catching.
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Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It...
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed. “Google has often said it was ‘sending out more traffic & the web is bigger than ever. And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose businesses are getting destroyed.’”
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Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
Take control of your data footprint risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Go to https://incogni.com/404Mediaand use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's code 404MEDIA at https://incogni.com/404Media Our listeners can buy one pair of glasses and get 20% off any additional pairs at https://WarbyParker.com/404 — and using our link helps support the show. #WarbyParker #ad We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.” After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the company that is explicitly selling mountains of books to AI companies and promising to keep the sales a secret. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how he learned about the Suno hack and what it showed us. You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party! How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius Youtube Version: https://youtu.be/6xSes4VMVyo This is a production of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. Learn more and subscribe at: htttps://404media.co Listen to our weekly podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?ref=404media.co Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47l2XgoBMaAmIaw29?ref=404media.co Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL3RoZS00MDQtbWVkaWEtcG9kY2FzdA?ref=404media.co Become a paid subscriber for access to bonus content: https://404media.co/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Not a fork… an implementation from scratch in the case of RSC :)
Not a fork… an implementation from scratch in the case of RSC :)
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One idea I had on ways to integrate rss.chat into bside, a Chrome extension, is to map rss.chat rooms to URLs. Any link can be associated with URL currently and I'm going to be adding [popular] site-specific URL parameter awareness.
For example, I could associate a rss.chat link to a geolocation so anyone looking at the location on Google Map see the chat in the browser sidebar. It could be a town or some notable location anywhere.
For maps, geolocation + radius would be used instead of embeddings. Thoughts?
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Timeline vs. Threading
I’ve been thinking about how
[rss.chat](http://rss.chat)handles replies. Right now, balancing a main timeline with inline threading can sometimes lead to UX confusion.A potential solution could be handling threads as separate, dedicated chat rooms—similar to Slack's thread model.
Visual Example:
User A: Has anyone used this library?
└── 💬 Chat Room: "Discussing Threading" (4 replies • Active now)
User C: What's the news today?**
Implementation Idea:** The simplest approach might be spawning a new chatroom instance linked directly to the parent message, keeping the main timeline clean while preserving focused conversations.If a thread is created as its own feed/chat room with a unique URL:
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The Main Feed stays simple: It only has to publish one post representing the creation of that chat room.
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The RSS Readers don't choke: A basic RSS reader just sees a post with a link to a sub-chat. Advanced readers or native UI clients can render that link as an interactive, expandable thread widget right in place.
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Protocol friendly: To join or listen to the conversation, clients just fetch or subscribe to the sub-chat's specific feed.
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Socializing with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Six months into his administration, Jon is joined by New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani to take stock of what democratic socialist governance looks like in practice. Together, they explore what it takes to lead the nation's largest city guided by those principles, discuss how his agenda is taking shape on housing, public safety, and affordability, and consider how to create a more livable New York. Plus, Jon answers listener questions about Biden’s 2020 “win,” Trump’s memoir, and the texture of peanut butter. This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through our link https://groundnews.com/stewart QUINCE - Head to https://Quince.com/TWS for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. BOMBAS - Head over to https://Bombas.com/weekly and use code WEEKLY for 20% off your first purchase. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment
On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
- Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face
- US and China trade AI model ban threats
- Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and target US troops
- Scattered Spider is having a hard time, not just because of Microsoft’s GDID
- And much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Luke Jennings joins Patrick this week to talk about the rise in authorisation phishing, like device code phishing, and what companies like Push are doing about it.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | openai.com
- Security incident disclosure — July 2026 | Social Signals
- Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action | TechCrunch Security
- Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work | Social Signals
- JADEPUFFER: Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion | Sysdig | Social Signals
- Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic's anti-surveillance stance | Ars Technica
- EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say | reuters.com
- https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi |
- Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says | reuters.com
- Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunch Security
- Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code | wired.com
- Trump calls for new election security measures | NBC News Tech
- Scattered Spider hackers sentenced to 5.5 years over £29 million Transport for London hack | therecord.media
- Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US | CyberScoop
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl?inline |
- Tracking Peter Stokes and The Com: Allison Nixon and Her Work Unmasking Cybercriminals | zetter-zeroday.com
- 764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail | cyberscoop.com
- Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries | cyberscoop.com
- White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats | cyberscoop.com
- Attackers vote themselves $20 million in BONK cryptocurrency | The Record
- CISA: Microsoft SharePoint RCE flaw now actively exploited | BleepingComputer
- Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys | BleepingComputer
- Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch Security
- Critical ServiceNow code execution flaw now exploited in attacks | BleepingComputer
- Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang | BleepingComputer
- Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak | BleepingComputer
- IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of Secrets | bloomberg.com
- Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch Security
- Pegasus Spyware European Parliament Pega Committee Member | The Record
- Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars | TechCrunch Security
- Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database - Risky Business Media | Social Signals
- Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September | BleepingComputer
- On-demand Webinar: Device code phishing in 2026 | Push Security | Push Security
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Pourquoi tu m’aimes pas ? | Le flou artistique (2/5)
Son profil astral, ses photos Facebook de 2011, ses artistes préférés sur Soundcloud : Camille sait absolument tout d’Alban. Ce qui n’était qu’un crush bascule carrément vers l’obsession. Car entre eux, rien n’est défini, et alors qu'Alban souffle le chaud et le froid, il offre à Camille le plus grisant des cadeaux : un espace pour fantasmer leur histoire d'amour.
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The case for making your own apps
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate -
Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their...
Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles. “Studying elephant hearing isn’t as simple as asking an elephant to wear headphones…”
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We just did an upgrade on both servers, first rss.chat and now demo.rss.chat.
There's a new feature coming that's pretty exciting, at least for anyone wanting to set up their own instance. The install instructions are about to get much shorter. ;-)
If it all works, that is! :-)
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We're testing a big new feature in the next few minutes.
Can't wait to tell you about it, esp if you're thinking about running your own instance.
It's about to get easier. Fingers crossed.
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I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...
I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era. “It is a future in which other nations or leaders may have an incentive to pursue genocidal policies knowing they will not only get away with murder but may even benefit from it.”
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What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey
I’m currently doing the thing I do after seeing a movie (The Odyssey) I really enjoyed or found interesting: digging into related media. Yesterday I had an hour in the car, so I listened to this episode of The Daily podcast with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson.
I think it’s quite odd to think that one book or one translation erases the others. I mean, if people prefer some other translation or if people want to read the Greek, I would love for them to do that. I think it’s great. I have no desire to legislate about which versions of “The Odyssey,” or of any ancient text, people want to engage with. So I think there’s something quite strange about the idea that the canon doesn’t have room for many, many different interpretations, translations, engagements, reinventions.
I’ve also flagged this New York Review of Books podcast with Daniel Mendelsohn, another NYT podcast with Madeline Miller, and this WNYC podcast with Emily Wilson for future listening.
As for reading, Wilson and Mendelsohn both did contemporary translations of The Odyssey within the past few years: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (I loved this, read it aloud to my kids) and The Odyssey translated by Daniel Mendelsohn. Actor Stephen Fry recently did a more approachable reimagining of The Odyssey. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds is even more accessible, especially for younger readers.
Miller is the author of two great novels based on the Iliad and the Odyssey: Circe (my personal favorite of the two…I love this book and tell everyone to read it)1 and The Song of Achilles.
Other novels based on Homer’s works: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.
Mendelsohn also wrote An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic back in 2018; it sounds really interesting:
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician’s unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his “one last chance” to learn the great literature he’d neglected in his youth—and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist.
Do you have any recommendations for podcasts or favorite Odyssey translations/retellings?
I would love to see a $200 million blockbuster adaptation of Circe directed by, say, Céline Sciamma, Sarah Polley, Chloé Zhao, Celine Song, Patty Jenkins, or Greta Gerwig…no shortage of great options. ↩
Tags: books · Daniel Mendelsohn · Emily Wilson · Madeline Miller · Margaret Atwood · movies · Natalie Haynes · remix · The Odyssey
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What Does Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With Voting Rights?
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The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...
The trailer for Behemoth!, a forthcoming film written and directed by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Andor) and starring Pedro Pascal & Olivia Wilde. Great trailer: it pulls you in without revealing anything about the plot.
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On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...
On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this case). “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.”
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And every server now has a backup story: export and import
node rssnetwork.js export backup.jsonwrites the whole database -- users, posts, likes, feeds -- into one JSON file and exits without starting the web server;node rssnetwork.js import backup.jsonloads that file into an empty server. Both work on either engine, which makes the pair the door between them: export from a MySQL server, import into a SQLite one, and the server's whole history comes along -- posts keep their ids, so every permalink survives. The Software versions dialog now names the engine too, so a glance tells you what a server is running on. -
An rss.chat server can now run on SQLite -- no MySQL, no database setup of any kind
One new member in config.json chooses the engine:
"database": {"flUseSqlite": true, "databaseFilePath": "data/myserver.db"}. The database is a single file that creates itself, tables and all, the first time the server runs -- the install becomes download, npm install, run. Everything else is identical: same features, same feeds, same API, and a server that says nothing stays on MySQL exactly as before. The engine itself went into davesql (v0.7.0), where all the SQL expertise lives, so the same switch is available to every app built on it. The first server running this way is live at scratchpad.rss.chat -- sign-up, posting, replies, likes, and feeds, all served out of one file on a fresh droplet that has never heard of MySQL.