#Dave Winer

[protoslacker]

It's still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference. But using RSS will! Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life – and it will appreciably, irreversibly nudge the whole internet towards a better state.

Cory Doctorow. Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

I'm such a nincompoop when it comes to the Internet, and there's no excuse for it. I do use an RSS reader, The Old Reader, but I'm not very smart about it. This article informed me I could be a lot smarter.

There's an important history to RSS. And that reminded me that I didn't post anything about Dave Winer's 30th blogging aniversery. Dave Winer is someone to follow for expanding imagination about moving the internet toward a better state. If you don't have an RSS Reader, and decide to get one, consider adding for Cory Doctrow's feed and Dave Winer's right off the bat.

[thejaymo]

Enchanted Knowledge Objects in LLM UI

When we drop a document—a PDF, say—into an LLM’s context window, the document has a kind of gravity. It pulls and pushes the model toward certain ideas contained in the text, reshaping its context landscape and responses based on the content. Because I’m so sword and sorcery pilled, the word that comes to mind is that Knowledge Objects are a kind of Talisman – objects imbued with specific powers and properties that can be intentionally wielded to amplify the will of its user. 

[cpoetter]

Dave Winer loves the old Web. me, too

[younes-ben-amara]

ما شركة غوغل إلا ضيفٌ على الشابكة؛ مثلنا جميعًا؛ ولا يحقّ للضيف أن يشترط - دَيْف واينر (Dave Winer)

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐هل تعرف ما هي صيد الشابكة وتطالعها بانتظام؟ اِدعم استمرارية النشرة بطرق شتى من هنا: 💲 طرق دعم نشرة صيد الشابكة. 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #164 السلام عليكم؛ مرحبًا وبسم الله؛ بخصوص العنوان فهو موجود في أحد الانتقاءات في قسم…

[phillogbook]

Freshblog è il mio blog in salsa "Dave Winer" (Scripting News) che maggiormente somiglia a un blog del 1999. Ci trovate essenzialmente dei ritagli dal web che ritengo significativi. Insomma, una specie di newsletter in forma di blog.

[jkottke]

On Monday, Dave Winer’s Scripting News turned 30 years old. Dave is still one of the purest of the pure bloggers.

[mitchipedia]

Happy 30th blogiversary to Dave Winer

Here’s a profile of Dave, by John Naughton at The Guardian: The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted.

Dave’s blog, Scripting News, is one of my favorite blogs, and it’s the blog I’ve been reading daily for longest.

Naughton:

“Some people were born to play country music,” [Winer] wrote at one stage. “I was born to blog. At the beginning of blogging I thought everyone would be a blogger. I was wrong. Most people don’t have the impulse to say what they think.” Dave was the exact opposite. He was (and remains) articulate and forthright. His formidable record as a tech innovator meant that he couldn’t be written off as a crank. The fact that he was financially secure meant that he didn’t have to suck up to anyone: he could speak his mind. And he did. So from the moment he launched Scripting News in October 1994 he was a distinctive presence on the web.

[azspot]

I think this is what’s wrong with our political system. It’s organized to get people elected, then the people we elect do the work of big companies. And their work is to squeeze every bit of value they can out of the natural and intellectual resources of the world, and keep it for themselves. If they can kill something that’s worth $100 to reap $1 of value from the corpse, they see that as good business. That’s the approach that has got our species into the climate change corner we’re in. If you burn everything all you’ll have left to breathe are smoking corpses. That’s where we are in everything humans do. That’s why we feel a void for ourselves, collectively. We blame the government, but we’re the ones who believe the lies. We know they’re lying but we believe them anyway.

Dave Winer

[bea-lele-carmen]

In the Sixties, the hippies used to say, "Never trust anyone over 30."

"Don't trust anyone over 30" ( Nowadays it's be carefull of the bad influence of gen X and some gen Z pro lgbtq disorder )

By Dave Winer on Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM.

When I was a kid, and definitely under 30, the hippies had a slogan that you shouldn't trust anyone over 30. This was called the generation gap. Maybe some historian or sociologist can explain it. I just remember people saying it and not understanding.  

I could think of specific people over 30 that you coudn't trust. People I had seen betray young people because they were young and couldn't defend themselves. When you're a kid you're tuned into this. I guess the question is what do you plan to do about it when you become an adult. Will you be better, or will you seek r ? Or just forget about it. 

And here we are again.  

[missgenesis]

Jane Fonda

[protoslacker]

It will be possible to create better teachers out of ChatGPT tech. What led me to that is that it certainly could help people write better bug reports. It would have far more patience than a busy developer, whose job is to fix bugs, not decypher a user's (justifiably) imprecise understanding of how software works. But a chatbot could help, patiently asking the user questions. Then, of course, over time -- the user would learn how to do it themselves, and get this -- they would also learn how software works. There might be some great programmers out there who don't know they are. 😄

Dave Winer at Scripting News

[thejaymo]

In July 2003, two fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, journalist Christopher Lydon and software engineer Dave Winer, sat down for an interview together. This gave way to arguably the very first modern podcast. This gave way to arguably the very first modern podcast.

Think Faster, Listen Faster: The Podcast Renaissance

[fahrni]

Dave Winer

There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that what’s missing in the two-party system in the US is that one of the parties does not own a social network.

There’s a super easy fix for that. Setup a Mastodon server at the Democrats.org and start writing.

[andyrush]

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

I agree with everything that Dave Winer says here, except the part about WordPress not knowing what they have – I think they actually do. Anyway, let the dawning of the day where we take back control of our writing begin!

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

Like I said the other day, I doubt if Automattic knows what they have. I seriously doubt it. But in a few years, we’re going to look back on this as the moment when Twitter stopped controlling our writing, as they have since 2006.

[lostprotocol]

Jorn Barger and Dave Winer