2026-02-17 23:29:12
Really Impressed by this blog post describing the RSS reader Current for Mac https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/really-impressed-by-this-blog
Raiders Pinned as Top Fit for Durable 328-Tackle Free Agent DT https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/dj-reader-free-agent-top-fit/
William Lindsey is not fond of Trump
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116251252530474231
ACLU Lawsuit Accuses Trump Administration of Racial Profiling - Legal Reader
https://www.legalreader.com/aclu-lawsuit-trump-dhs-racial-profiling-minnesota-lawsuit/
@… thanks, an enjoyable quick read. The Firefox Reader estimate of "8–10 minutes" is way off.
"… Beyond anonymization, there’s a chance a person’s chats could be “regurgitated” by AI models. …"
Also, a strong possibility that without AI, a person's chat could be "regurgitated", repeatedly, by a human. Per…
I am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow …
Great post on the design and #UX of Current, a new RSS reader by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
My workflow relies on manual categorisation of feeds in folders and liberal use of “mark all as read”
I’m going to give it a try and see if this is a better approach
«PDF öffnen reicht — Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader seit Monaten unter Beschuss:
Angreifer nutzen seit Ende 2025 eine Zero-Day-Lücke in Adobe Reader aus, um Daten abzugreifen und Schadcode einzuschleusen. Ein Forscher schlägt Alarm»
Jegliche Software kann schwere Sicherheitsprobleme haben und die meisten beheben dies rel. schnell. Adobe lebt wider mal in seiner eigenen Fantasiewelt.
😬
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-sec…
Just finished Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down till I finished it, in less than a day. A really tender and entrancing novel-in-verse about a kid Puerto Rican kid struggling with some deep stuff. I loved the way that the journal focalization let deep feelings flow while also giving the reader a bit of a puzzle in the beginning to understand what exactly was going on. Deals with friendship, loss, and mental health (including depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and flashbacks).
#AmReading #ReadingNow
Microsoft VibeVoice does a really good job in TTS (Even on a CPU). Yet I won't be able to run it on my Minipc 🙁 But at least I was able to make it run on my PC.
If I really want to make my own website-reader, it seems like elevenlabs is the way to go.
#TTS
While a plurality of general election voters identify as independents and moderates,
those who vote in #primaries are more ideological and partisan
— as well as older, Whiter and wealthier
https://
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-) -- Larry Wall in <7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Und wie immer schweigen die selbsternannten Free Speech Warrior …
Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/067244/russia-fully-blocks-whatsapp
Film „Junge Mütter“
Vollkommen wahr erfunden
https://zeitung.faz.net/data/697/reader/reader.html?social=#!preferred/0/package/697/pub/973/page/14/content/126976
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/908302/amazon-…
Took some springtime photos with a comically great lens and, reader, if I were sitting at my desk rather than standing, I’d be falling out of my chair #photography
“A shrewd observer remarked, one day, that fascist Italy was being run like a large newspaper and, moreover, by a great journalist: one idea per day, with sidelights and sensations, and with an adroit and insistent orientation of the reader toward certain inordinately enlarged aspects of social life — a systematic deformation of the understanding of the reader for certain practical ends. The long and the short of it is that fascist regimes are publicity regimes.”
Is there a good video* on microfilm/microfiche and the various readers? Ideally a video that shows how to use a reader, what formats there are and what to look for when buying a reader. Perhaps with some recommendations for specific models.
*usually I prefer written articles, but in this case "hands-on" demonstrations are better
Someone posted this, perhaps in some other context. It is worth repeating here.
(I noticed a mild similarity to another short piece by Twain, his "Letter To the Earth", part of the Bernard de Voto assemblage "Letters From the Earth".)
The piece below is quite proper and relevant to the crazed faux "warriors" who have brought our nation into several illegal wars.
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
#totp I love it when the countdown reader tries to make a little funny sentence out of the title. Always dreadful.
Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
I have a tendency to write sentences starting with phrases like "It is noteworthy that [...]". Usually, these add no value and I try to remove such phrases when I notice them. The reader already knows that I find something noteworthy. Otherwise, I would simply not write about it at all.
Padd = a really cool Microsub reader https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/14/padd-a-really-cool-microsub
A work friend said this to me today, in the middle of continued reorg chaos
> Piffle. When things blow up I expect you will extend an invitation to build rad slow tech normal ass ML and FST based products for people who need them
Reader, my heart grew three sizes
Alice im Kartonagenland
Italienische Reise im Grand Palais: In ihrer Ausstellung „Grottesco“ baut Eva Jospin imaginäre Architekturen und Landschaftsreliefs aus Karton und Stickerei.
https://zeitung.faz.net/data/667/reade
Reading algorithmic feeds is a crazy thing to do: abandoning control over your own influences to a robot programmed by advertisers to manipulate you?
Madness.
I will not allow a robot programmed by advertisers and surveillance capitalists to determine what I read.
I don’t read any robo-feeds and don’t recommend anyone else does.
But people do:
Top five highest reaching smart phone apps:
All designed to harvest data from your phone, three of them owned by one creepy billionaire, and most people use them by looking at a robo-feed suggesting to them what to read and watch or filter.
I don’t use any of them.
I watch some Youtube, but not though their app. Uninstalled that from my phone as soon as I got it. It’s an awful downgrade of just playing in a browser page. I subscribe to some channels there in my RSS reader like a boss. Never watch what their recommendation algorithms suggests.
I tell them what I want to watch, I don’t let them tell ME what to watch, and frankly I wish all those videographers would start a peertube instance or something instead of posting their work on a corporate surveillance site.
I say you should avoid that algorithm stuff, it’s crazy manipulative.
But people should be free to do what they want.
I’m free to block Facebook! And I do: and I encourage everyone else to do so too.
Edit your DNS, block their domain names. Do it.
But if governments or corporations have the power to mandate those choices for everyone, it will go badly.
Prohibitions always do.
Had a bucket list moment performing with him and his son (also a guitarist) in 2024. Lovely man, super cheery, and then just jaw-droppingly note perfect. RIP @… https://
Achievement unlocked: Got the SF Chronicle to publish an argument for social housing!
(it's the second in this batch of letters to the editor)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/licence-p…
I see the "maybe we shouldn't do free buses" discussion popping up again. Fares are dumb, and the other day - IN THE FREEZING COLD - I couldn't enter the subway with my kids because the OMNY reader wasn't accepting fares.
#FuckYourFares
Deleting 225 Noto fonts every time I install KDE is one of those sloppy, lazy things that pisses me off. Ain't gonna use Old Hungarian anyway. And why Okular needs 25 (I counted them) VLC plugins, is beyond me also. I thought this was a document reader?
#kde
Cowboys Urged to Pursue ‘Run-Stuffing Specialist’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dj-reader-nfl-free-agency-news-rumors/
#Minneapolis based Joe Ellis sees himself as curator, advisor, and broker, for graffiti artists. Interview in the High Plains reader; Exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
I would also like the crowd to consider that in 2007 when the Kindle was released there was no Calibre and there was no Kobo (you could get a Sony e-reader but these got discontinued over a decade ago); plus Kobo is just another commercial brand and Calibre is now pushing LLMs, which are sort of the opposite of reading.
Someone using a screen reader, any screen reader, wanna tell me what they get when they animate by character (the text is after the three buttons)?
https://cdpn.io/GreenSock/debug/xxmaNYj
Ref (at end of toot):
'Libraries are among the most powerful discovery engines available to an author. The person who borrows your book from the library is, far more often than not, a reader who would not have purchased it at all' https://starkreflections.substack.com/p/the-l…
I have a tendency to write sentences starting with phrases like "It is noteworthy that [...]". Usually, these add no value and I try to remove such phrases when I notice them. The reader already knows that I find something noteworthy. Otherwise, I would simply not write about it at all.
The trip I’m taking tomorrow (which I’m only now starting to pack for) is the first time since probaly the late 90s that I’m not taking a laptop with me. iPad, ebook reader, and only one phone. Too little stuff to even take the backpack!
I visited a popular #OpenSource documentation site this morning, and the glare almost blinded me.
Folk, in this day and age, if you run a website, there is NO EXCUSE for not implementing `@media: prefers-color-scheme(dark)`
But, I thought, this is open source! I can submit a pull request to fix this!
Reader, there are ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR distinct colours specified in th…
This piece from the LRB blog, "It cannot read the human heart", about a (Chinese) plagiarism scandal, has total «Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote» energy, which is both particularly fitting and ironic in this situation.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/i
So what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
So what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Bill Ryder-Jones:
🎵 The Reader (Malbork)
#BillRyderJones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FrhtwNrQp2vVsz1tjf7Dz
What is the hardest coaching job in world sport? Our reader rankings revealed https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7062010/2026/02/22/hardest-coaching-job-world-sport-rankings/
#EON #Glasfaser in #BadOeYnhausen
um Sommer sollte das eigentlich hier bei uns laufen. Ich habe in den letzten Monaten allerdings nicht den Eindruck, dass irgendwo etwas passiert.
microsub reader integrated to indiekit micropub client to orchestrate webmentiona or syndicate to elsewhere
https://rmendes.net/photos/2026/02/06/5622b
Added instructions to the :nixos: #NixOS wiki how to set up the #AusweisApp for the German #Personalausweis on NixOS, for using the mobile app or a ReinerSCT USB card reader to scan the Personalauswe…
A look at Chicago alt-weekly The Chicago Reader as it scales back to a monthly publication under new EIC Sarah Conway and reverts to a for-profit business model (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/
Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025
Despite Increased Reader Interest
Mainstream media around the world last year drew back from reporting on climate change, according to new reports.
This drop occurred despite increasing reader interest in the topic,
while greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continued to hit new historic highs.
According to a year-end analysis by the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO),
OK, I got a new toy and get obsessed with it... again. Nonetheless, I'm digging quite a lot to keep the focus on the less obvious hack you can do on your X4.
Today, we’ll explore how practical it is for reading manga or comics before you start throwing stones!
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_x4_m
#NetNewsWire, my (I guess now formerly) favorite RSS reader, now requires #macOS Tahoe :blobcateyes:
Found by Nick Bromley on the A11y Slack:
“In browse mode in web browsers, NVDA no longer treats controls with 0 width or height as invisible. This may make it possible to access previously inaccessible ‘screen reader only’ content on some websites.”
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1
I’m starting to be really proud of the claude assisted development I have been doing on my #indiekit blog
* https://rmendes.net/cv/
* webmentions widget
* podroll
* blogroll
* microsub reader
If true, these allegations are as bad (in my opinion) as DOGE having “God level” access to voting machines.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116211664557616752
Pitchfork launches a $5 per month or $50 per year subscription that lets readers comment on reviews, rate albums, and access its archive of 30,000 reviews (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/pitchfork-subscription-reader-scores-comments…
Cowboys Urged to Add 328-Tackle Free Agent DT https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dj-reader-dallas-nfl-free-agency/
Watch these habeas cases carefully.
They are among the main things impeding the Trump regime’s effort to create a full blown system of concentration camps in this country.
That is the fight we are in now:
blocking the expansion of such camps as well as shutting down existing ones.
https://
Took a while because everything has to go through her, and Kristi's such a slow reader...
FEMA OKs billions in disaster assistance
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5759792-fema-oks-billions-in-disaster-assistance/
Oh, I see that news.google.com is now re-writing headlines. Or at least synthesizing them from URLs. Whatever the method, what Google shows in its news is not the same as on the article if actually viewed by a reader.
For instance in the following article the actual headline is:
"Iran Claims It Struck American AWACS Aircraft In Saudi Airbase Strike"
But Google news rewrote that to be (or pulled it from the URL):
"Images Show Crucial American E-3 Sentr…
RE: https://yatil.social/@yatil/116357204014446753
This kind of reminds of when I wrote how you cannot trust screen reader speech history / logs for testing and a SR maker told me they aren’t meant to be used for testing and then a few months later released a p…
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch
I'd respect Senator Barrasso more if he just said
"I don't want women or minorities or young people to vote".
At least then he'd be honest about his intentions.
But making up bad analogies doesn't make you a statesman.
It makes you a liar.
https://
Vox executives detail how Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interactions; sign-ups grew 350% in the first two months after Trump's inauguration (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/vox-patreon-interview/
What is the hardest coaching job in world sport? Our reader rankings revealed https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7062010/2026/02/22/hardest-coaching-job-world-sport-rankings/
My indiekit fork is now able to Send & Receive webmentions automatically, no human interventions, all I need is to use the /microsub/reader endpoint via Indiepass or via my own blog and whatever I like, repost or bookmarks gets “magically” sent to the source URL I interacted with. Code is here h…
You may not need that “AI” voice thing that reads your web pages aloud to users. It comes free in the browser:
• Edge’s Read Aloud (Ctrl Shift U),
• Firefox’s and Chrome’s reader mode text-to-speech,
• Safari’s Speech feature.
Stop adding trackers to your sites. Don’t add WCAG risk.
Trump has threatened to commit war crimes against Iran, going so far as to threaten to destroy Iranian civilization.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116366572666355647
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905929/flipboard-surf-fediverse-launch
Vote counts are coming in very quickly in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116366572666355647
The rich and powerful are trying to prevent us from uniting in solidarity.
@…
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c…
Sounds like an entirely illegal deployment right from the start.
Add that there was no unrest in these cities prior to their arrival, and you have straight up deployment against non hostile, unarmed civilians.
--@…
⭐️🧵 @…
Sources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…
In "Kelo v New London"
SCOTUS (inadvertently) provided a mechanism for the federal government to seize and appropriate the assets of billionaires, and redistribute them for the public good
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cd…
In 1859, Richard Carrington observed the 1st solar flare
--an eruption so powerful it spawned brilliant auroras
& knocked out telegraph lines around the world.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116001931890633097
This is not a drill
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115997939397192690
'if you've seen one cloud you've seen them all', but are you prepared for this one?
Phil Stooke's massive thread on planetary missions to Venus
@…
htt…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…
It wouldn't hurt to contact your representatives in Congress,
ask them to assert themselves as is their responsibility,
and bring a hasty end to this painful conflict.
Otherwise, the entire world is now sitting on a bus being driven recklessly by American leaders with uncertain and varying goals and dubious judgment.
Fasten your seatbelts.
Remember how normal everything felt in early March 2020 and how rapidly the world changed in the six weeks that followed?
We may again be in a period like that.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116313954069325623…
Crypto Bros contributed at least $315 million
— more than double their record 2024 spending
— to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115980936797588226
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them
and to 'send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,'
a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me."
~ Ken Klippenstein
https:…
"Bridgy" connects over 40,000 Fedi accounts to ATproto,
-- which is two orders of magnitude more than the next ATproto service that is not Bluesky.
But these accounts, while visible to all of Bluesky, can't see most of Bluesky.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3…