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Husband and dad living in Princeton with my wife, two kids, and too many pets. Lawyer based in Philly focused on litigation. Geek old enough to know what LAN parties were. Writer, blogging since 2005.

Posts are never legal advice.

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2024-07-22 06:08:11

Linked Links: Google Docs Can Import and Export Markdown by Michael Tsai
Maybe I’ll use Google Docs more often now that it can copy/paste and import/export Markdown.
I still remember using it for hours at a time throughout law school, most firms maintain their vise grip on Microsoft Word.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/07/19/google-docs-can-import-and-export-markdown/

2024-07-19 07:46:40

I never found Letterman funny, and he comes off as mean and a little bigoted in this clip with the late, great Richard Simmons. But Simmons has a ton more charisma than Letterman, outshining him in a 4-minute clip produced by Letterman’s own team.
https://youtu.be/I4AflonZ6S4?si=QLkmjj6mHCNm1sE-
https://youtu.be/I4AflonZ6S4?si=QLkmjj6mHCNm1sE- https://youtu.be/I4AflonZ6S4?si=QLkmjj6mHCNm1sE-

2024-07-17 20:42:15

Everyone who has ever traveled by airplane has at least one infuriating story, including me. But when I missed a scheduled flight on American Airlines last week, the customer service person put me on the next flight with none of the fees, up-charges or judgment that I was expecting, and it was nice.

2024-07-05 19:28:38

Oral Argument for Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive – CourtListener.com
This oral argument before the 2nd Circuit about the legality of Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending program is a great listen, regardless of what side you support.
Find all the litigation filings here.
#law
https://www.courtlistener.com/audio/92800/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67801014/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/

2024-06-29 00:06:39

Sure, Elon, I’ll go right ahead and disable my privacy related extensions…
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5757/2024/2599032c00.jpg

2024-06-21 08:36:54

Laurens Hof, writing in Episode 73 of his Last Week in Fediverse newsletter:
"What makes the situation with rumours of Mastodon leaking private messages so interesting to me is that the original posts that contained the rumours got significantly more engagement than the corrections. So it seems to me that the structural feature of decentralised networks that ‘significantly limits the reach of fake news’ can also work to limit the reach of corrections to fake news as well."
This is a good point, but the structural aspect of decentralized networks that makes it as difficult to circulate corrections a... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/06/21/laurens-hof-writing.html

2024-06-19 23:14:38

Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments | CNN Politics
I haven’t looked into yet, but my first thought is that this middle finger to the Constitution has the stench of Leonard Leo and his ilk all over it.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/politics/louisiana-classrooms-ten-commandments/index.html

2024-06-17 22:28:13

🦎 What are some good dinosaur apps and games to learn and play with your kids on iOS?
I’m happy to pay for good apps, I just want to avoid scams and low-effort nonsense.

2024-06-12 12:47:19

🔗 Rich Idiot Tweets
Nick Heer has a great post about the vapid coverage of vapid Elon Musk, but this bit from the end of Heer’s post struck me as the perfect Twitter bio for Musk:
"words from the fingers of a dipshit"
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/rich-idiot-tweets/

2024-06-04 07:13:46

Now that Spotify’s family plan costs $20/month now I don’t have much incentive not to switch to YouTube Music, which comes with the YouTube Premium I’m already paying for. I’m also giving the Tidal 30-day trial a shot, but that would be $22/month for a family plan.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170301/spotify-us-price-increase-plans

2024-06-03 16:08:21

⌨️ A quick MS Word tip: Press control + shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks in a selection of text. You may need to include the Fn or equivalent key if you're a keyboard nerd using several layers.
This is handy for work because while I'm writing briefs I like to keep the citations hyperlinked for easy ref... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/06/03/a-quick-ms.html

2024-06-01 22:15:43

Alito's intellectual honesty https://joeross.me/2024/06/01/alitos-intellectual-honesty.html

2024-05-24 09:30:31

TenBlueLinks.org shows you how to make Google’s old school, AI-free search filter, called, and this is true, Google Web, the default.
I’m not a fan of Chrome on iOS, or anywhere really, so I added the &udm=14 suffix to the Google action I use in Drafts and shared it to the Drafts directory.
https://tenbluelinks.org/ https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2S3

2024-05-19 01:32:13

🪶 This is only my opinion, but it is one I strongly hold: Tom Bombadil is equal parts omnipotence and ADHD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil

2024-05-12 16:48:14

🔗 Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz report at The New York Times that:
"The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT. The product’s use of generative artificial intelligence, which can write poetry, create computer code and answer complex questions, made Siri look antiquated, said two people familiar with the company’s work, who didn’t have permission to speak publicly."
Apple can’t be serious here. My earliest IFTTT recipes made Siri look antiquate... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/05/12/apple-will-revamp.html

2024-05-07 16:10:56

🔗 Does the Statute of Limitations Ever Apply in Legal Malpractice?
Hey look, my employer has a blog about the kind of work I do, and I wrote a thing for it.
https://professionalliabilitymatters.com/legal-malpractice/does-the-statute-of-limitations-ever-apply-in-legal-malpractice/

2024-05-05 17:38:31

I wore transitions (™️?) lenses for a year and half in my late thirties and no one close to me loved me enough to punch me in the face and force me to replace them. I’m not saying I don’t take responsibility, or that I’m not loved at all, just maybe not enough.

2024-04-30 00:55:22

😠 Google’s connected speakers and hubs are actually useful (unlike Alexa and Siri…), but it’s really hard when you’re super angry about something and have to mumble “Hey Google …” through gritted teeth. Just let us change the wake phrase.
(Yes I know some devices/command combinations don’t require a wake... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/04/29/googles-connected-speakers.html

2024-04-27 09:02:01

🔗 Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book | Books | The Guardian
I’m not quoting from the review or her memoir because Noem is deplorable, and because, somehow, it’s worse than the headline suggests.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

2024-04-24 20:13:54

Bunker Hill Environmental Education Center.

2024-04-24 20:13:52

Bunker Hill Environmental Education Center.

2024-04-18 04:01:59

Antimemetics Division Hub - SCP Foundation
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

2024-04-08 10:07:44

😠 If your iPhone on iOS 17 becomes unresponsive, be warned:
You may lose that day’s photos if you decide to force a reboot before getting them off the phone.
This happened to me today. I lost three photos of my son being cuter than any other son in the world.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1apdktl/a_couple_of_photos_gone_after_iphone/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/116940

2024-03-13 00:12:06

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013 https://joeross.me/2024/03/12/the-hobbit-the.html

2024-03-13 00:12:06

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012 https://joeross.me/2024/03/12/the-hobbit-an.html

2024-03-06 21:47:35

⚖️ It is an uncharacteristic misstep, in terms of both litigation strategy and public relations, for Apple to poke the EU bear by terminating Epic’s developer account. Whether Apple is right about Epic's intentions is irrelevant. This move looks petty and, worse, calculated to avoid exactly the kind of co... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/03/06/it-is-an.html

2024-02-23 19:40:44

😔 Yahoo is accelerating its enshittification of Engadget, in a move that really surprises absolutely no one because, well, it's Yahoo:
""Engadget, which is operated by Yahoo, will lay off 10 employees, according to people with knowledge of the situation who say staff were “blindsided” by the decision. In addition to cutting staff, the editorial team will split into two sections: 'news and features' and 'reviews and buying advice.' The news teams will focus on traffic growth, while the reviews teams will report to commerce leaders.""
This is sad. I have been an Engadget reader since the beginning, a... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/02/23/yahoo-is-accelerating.html

2024-02-18 04:08:54

Chris Geidner at Law Dork has the best explanation of why the 5th Circuit’s jurisprudence has become so, to use a legal term of art, whacky:
"At the end of the day, there are essentially three groups of active judges on the Fifth Circuit: There are “mad vibes” judges, legally conservative judges, and legally moderate (or more left) judges."
Geidner is so insightful and prolific that, and I mean this as a high compliment, it irritates me a little.
https://joeross.me/uploads/2024/98be885a3b.png https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-mad-vibes-judges

2024-01-31 03:05:24

The top seven free apps in the news category of the iOS App Store are a mix of proudly user-hostile mismanagement, fear mongering, hyperlocal hate, and Nazi monetization.
https://joeross.me/uploads/2024/65e3024697.png

2024-01-19 02:22:54

🔗 Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
Bill Toulas, writing at Bleeping Computer:
"Targeting open-source software developers tends to backfire for companies, as others fork or clone the code repositories to prevent the projects from disappearing."
"At this time, the Haier home assistant plugins have been forked 228 times, many occurring since the news of the legal threats."
Now?
1,462 forks.
These were niche plugins for niche software for a niche audience before Haier let the lawyers loose.
Hey Haier, Ms. Streisand called… she wants her effect back.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

2024-01-14 09:49:38

☄️ I’m watching this Yaccarino interview very long after it occurred, but time has not dulled the stings of how uninformed and naive she was about Twitter and Musk.
It’s hard to believe a seasoned executive fell so far so fast, but there’s no denying the descent when you’re standing in the crater…
http... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/01/14/im-watching-this.html

2024-01-13 17:41:14

Stop turning awesome apps into internet noise machines https://joeross.me/2024/01/13/stop-turning-awesome.html

2023-11-09 17:52:24

Kapadokya Mediterranean Grill.

2023-10-31 01:06:04

Finished reading: Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 📚 — ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
"Skip and dance, jump and prance! Go down through the orchard and stroll in the woods! The world is a wonderful place when you’re young."
It sure is.
What a hell of an amazing book to relegate to the unjustly dismissed “children’s” shelves. This book gets five stars, no question about it.
White manages to address, in my opinion, so many of The Important Things We All Should Learn About Rather Young If Possible, including misogyny/clueless men, bullies, transactional acquaintances, competition, the joy and sorrow of freedom, the d... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/10/30/finished-reading-charlottes.html

2023-10-24 09:06:58

📱 Someone please tell me which non-leather bifold wallet case to get for an #iPhone 14 Pro, preferably in pink. Extra points for MagSafe compatibility but it's not required.

2023-10-21 20:42:33

🤖 Don’t bother giving your three-year-old a comprehensive 10-minute explanation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early career up to The Terminator, featuring one of the absolute BEST accent performances of your LIFE, because, honestly, they aren’t going to appreciate it at all.

2023-10-14 03:36:55

😕 Thanks to Casey Newton mentioning it on the #HardFork podcast and my having no judgment regarding the apps I try, I downloaded an app called bonk. Join the whatever this is and find me at https://bonkbonkbonk.app/friend/joeross …
https://bonkbonkbonk.app/friend/joeross

2023-10-12 09:17:01

iPhone as geek guardrails https://joeross.me/2023/10/12/iphone-as-geek.html

2023-10-06 22:20:10

Western conifer seed bug - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_conifer_seed_bug

2023-10-01 16:16:14

🤨 Is it true that despite paying for the special upgrade I can't set the #ChatGPT iOS app to default to 4 instead of 3.5?i

2023-09-30 15:38:00

Princeton Public Library.

2023-09-20 16:50:27

Dear Lawyers Still Manually Numbering Paragraphs:
Stop it.
Here’s a tutorial:
Place your cursor where you intend to begin the numbered section of your pleading.
Click the numbered list button in your word processor.
Repent, and feel your soul become lighter.
Yours, scoldingly,
Joe

2023-09-19 16:11:58

🎮 Bluey: The Videogame, for real life?!
Yup.
https://youtu.be/S-PYqMxXKKk
https://youtu.be/S-PYqMxXKKk

2023-09-16 16:09:26

⌚ Audio recordings are an overlooked way of keeping memories with your kids. Mine are both under 4 and, while pointing a phone camera at them often changes their behavior, a surreptitious audio recording is easy to do. I've got some great stuff that I'm almost certain an attempt at photos or video would've... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/09/16/audio-recordings-are.html

2023-09-04 22:10:11

⚖️ Okay maybe I'm just a hopelessly biased defense lawyer but can anyone read this and tell me with a straight face that the plaintiff didn't set this up...
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2023/08/29/warren-olive-garden-rat-foot/70702454007/

2023-09-04 11:06:15

⁉️ I’m curious: has anyone else recently seen excessive outgoing #DNS requests on their network from #Wyze cameras? This was a known issue a while ago but I thought they had fixed it.
I've noticed unusual spikes in the past 60 days or so, and when I blocked Wyze and its related domains using NextDNS, log... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/09/04/im-curious-has.html

2023-09-02 15:06:51

🎸 I’ve played an acoustic guitar for and with my two kids since my oldest was born a few years ago, but today I plugged an old electric of mine into an amp for the first time in maybe ten years and the kids loved it, and it reminded me that there’s music-making at the core of me.

2023-08-31 05:52:49

🤢 It's not a great headshot. I look so... unfamiliar with the "Smile!" command. And thanks to a moment of poor judgment, and Gravatar, it'll be all over the internet until I decide to change it again. Which will likely be soon...
(Yes, I know it's not attached. That was intentional...)
https://en.gravatar.com/joeross1

2023-08-31 05:44:27

It’s not a great headshot. I look so… unfamiliar with the “Smile!” command. And thanks to a moment of poor judgment, and Gravatar, it’ll be all over the internet until I decide to change it again. Which will likely be soon…
(Yes, I know it’s not attached. That was intentional…)
https://en.gravatar.com/joeross1

2023-08-27 00:14:03

⚠️ So I’m going to do a real blog post about this when I find the time, but today I discovered that my router’s admin panel is accessible via a combination of selecting the right IP and appending a string of numbers to the name of the HTML page that contains the admin panel. The string is the same across a... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/08/26/so-im-going.html

2023-08-25 08:30:31

🐎 Julia Glassman, writing at The Mary Sue (with major #spoilers for the newest batch of episodes):
"What makes this show so great is that it isn’t afraid to employ writing that’s savvy enough for adults to enjoy. Bluey navigates real conflicts, while her parents—the delightfully flawed Bandit and Chilli—work through believable, thoughtful issues of their own. This isn’t your average children’s show."
" And now, with ten new episodes having dropped on Disney+ earlier this summer (they came out in Australia a whole year ago), the show is getting positively meta."
I dare even people without kids to ... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/08/24/julia-glassman-writing.html

2023-08-16 13:13:06

Introducing Quicklinks.lol https://joeross.me/2023/08/16/introducing-quicklinkslol.html

2023-08-16 07:56:43

😑 So if one had, hypothetically, selected all of the files in the .txt/.markdown notes folder in their iCloud Files all, and mistaken the “duplicate” button for a “copy” button, is there an app or solution to de-dupe the folder from iOS?

2023-08-15 15:50:21

The Web Worth Paying For https://joeross.me/2023/08/15/the-web-worth.html

2023-08-13 23:51:28

Grounds For Sculpture.

2023-08-13 21:08:11

Rat’s Restaurant.

2023-08-10 08:35:36

So, 40 commits later, you can star my insomnia on GitHub. I should have been cleaning, or sleeping. Instead, I made a webpage. Then I made a second webpage, identical to the first, except links open in the same tab, for all the weirdos out there who like that sort of thing.
https://joeross.me/uploads/2023/screenshot-2023-08-10-at-04-23-46-quicklinks.png https://github.com/joeross/QuickLinks/ https://joeross.dev/quicklinks https://joeross.dev/quicklinks/sametab

2023-08-08 05:46:31

💻 The MacBook Air I'm posting this from is older than I'll admit in polite company, so I've been eyeing the new 15-inch Air, and today Amazon is selling the base configuration - in all colorways - at a $200 discount.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7638G25?language=en_US

2023-08-07 19:37:02

👍 Apropos of my earlier post about considering migration to a different Mastodon server: Notes from a Mastodon migration - Erin Kissane's small internet website
https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration

2023-08-07 16:39:36

🚆 Right now I do ActivityPubs primarily from mastodon.social. But I’m researching migration and reading about other folks’ experiences. I love omg.lol as a whole and social.lol is where I probably belong, but it’s daunting to move. If you decided to migrate here from another server when social.lol launched... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/08/07/right-now-i.html

2023-08-07 16:03:47

2023-08-06 23:00:38

💬 So the Gummi Bears show from 1985-1991 was both something I think I saw in its entirety during its original run (I was born in 1983), and something I completely forgot had ever existed.
https://trakt.tv/shows/disney-s-adventures-of-the-gummi-bears
https://trakt.tv/shows/disney-s-adventures-of-the-gummi-bears

2023-08-06 22:51:04

💬 So the Gummi Bears show from 1985-1991 was both something I think I saw in its entirety during its original run (I was born in 1983), and something I completely forgot had ever existed.
https://trakt.tv/shows/disney-s-adventures-of-the-gummi-bears https://trakt.tv/shows/disney-s-adventures-of-the-gummi-bears

2023-08-05 20:16:01

Avon-by-the-Sea Beach.

2023-08-04 20:39:43

I saw The Toaster Museum linked to over at Hacker News and immediately thought of John Siracusa (@siracusa).
Here’s some great context for why I immediately thought of him, by his friend and Accidental Tech Podcast (@atp.fm) co-host Casey Liss (@caseyliss).
http://toastermuseum.com/index.htm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36992802 https://hypercritical.co/ https://mastodon.social/@siracusa https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters http://atp.fm/ https://mastodon.social/@atpfm https://www.caseyliss.com/ https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss

2023-08-04 20:39:41

Author and actor Miranda Keeling posted this on Mastodon, where she frequently posts interesting fragments of conversation she overhears in everyday life:
"Woman in a supermarket: Fake it til you can’t be bothered anymore, and then just be yourself."
This has been one of my core experiences of aging. A lot of faking/masking/figuring stuff out for the first 30 years, then the last ten years steadily moving toward where I am now: how could I possibly be bothered to be anything but myself?
I originally posted this to my Mastodon account.
https://www.mirandakeeling.com/ https://mastodon.social/@Mirandakeeling/110807760527453143 https://mastodon.social/@joeross/110807983371811693

2023-07-31 17:48:52

Associated Humane Societies.

2023-07-31 07:38:47

- reply

There are plenty of data out there about vaccines, and you can read it, too, just like I have.

2023-07-30 13:34:28

I have some more Bluesky invite codes.
But I’m 40 and married, so I don’t just hand a code to the first internet user that smiles at me.
Bluesky servers can use the invite tree in moderation decisions, so I do at least some vetting of folks before I send them a code. No hate/harassment/anti-vax etc.
https://joeross.me/uploads/2023/3773937202.png

2023-07-26 02:55:56

Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://joeross.me/2023/07/25/top-gun-maverick.html

2023-07-26 00:02:40

Threatening to take away your customers’ fake merit badges if they don’t pay more isn’t a business.
It’s barely a grift.
It’s how a lonely bully enforces the closest thing to social relationships he can possibly attain.
But at least we can call the post-mortem when this all explodes “the X-Files.”
https://joeross.me/uploads/2023/bd77e6dba0.png https://archive.ph/sGYgS

2023-07-22 01:57:36

Obviously this is incredible, full stop. But if you’re trained in the craft and the composers, this must be one of the most delightful things you’ve seen in a long, long time. And those animations!
youtu.be/WRfsibwR5…
The kicker? The performer, Joseph Castanyer Alonso, is the cellist of the Royal Stockho... blog.joeross.me https://blog.joeross.me/2023/07/21/obviously-this-is.html

2023-07-21 08:17:22

Prey, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://blog.joeross.me/2023/07/21/prey-contains-spoilers.html

2023-07-18 00:57:13

One bit of Casey Newton’s latest Platformer piece, on how Threads can survive the calm after the storm, must have many social media pros searching their feelings.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of social media managers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
https://blog.joeross.me/uploads/2023/a743cc09df.png https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still

2023-07-16 01:58:54

I need Mrs. Meyers to answer for the fact that her “Compassion Flower” handsoap scent has me routinely smelling like I think Axe body spray is a legitimate thing for a 40-year-old person to smell like.
https://blog.joeross.me/uploads/2023/image.png

2023-07-15 08:26:21

I was going to treat reddit like Facebook, visiting every 1 or 2 months to see what was going on. But reddit leadership are so hostile to the most engaged users that I think it’s time to delete my account, which sucks.
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts | Mashable
https://mashable.com/article/reddit-removes-live-chat-archives-messages

2023-07-15 06:19:27

💬 💬 Okay, I'm trying again to see if I can set it up so my updates on status.lol are imported to my Micro.blog and syndicated out from there.

2023-07-15 05:13:53

Elon Musk is the answer to the question:
What if we gave MRAs, incels and wannabe MAGA Big Deals™ billions of dollars and Peter Thiel’s cell phone number?

2023-07-12 10:33:46

List of Indie Dev Sales Events
Matt Corey put together a list of developers holding sales in an indie software version of Amazon’s Prime Day:
"Below, you’ll find a list of over 100 (🤯) Indie apps that are offering discounts for Indie App Sales, July 11-12! Each of these apps is developed by an Indie App Developer - that can mean a lot of different things, but generally speaking, these are built by very small teams, or individuals either full time or part time. Indie App Developers are the epitome of small businesses, and sure do appreciate your support!"
Via Jarrod Blundy at HeyDingus
https://github.com/mattcorey/indie-dev-sales https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/7/its-a-prime-day-to-try-an-indie-app

2023-07-11 01:10:43

Mark Frauenfelder, writing at Boing Boing:
"A recent study of sleep loss and depression found that one night of total sleep deprivation generally worsens mood and emotional regulation in healthy individuals, but induces a temporary lift in spirits for some individuals with depression.
. . .
The findings were remarkable: lack of sleep escalated negative mood among the healthy subjects, but eased depressive symptoms in 43% of the patients with depression."
Presented without comment. 😐
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/10/new-study-finds-sleep-loss-surprisingly-lifts-mood-in-some-depressed-individuals.html

2023-07-10 16:51:13

Firefox address bar modifiers - the tilde.institute wiki!:
"The address bar has become our entry point to the internet these days. Firefox in its default configuration does some sort of smart guess on what you type there. If it resembles a URL then the browser makes that request. If not, it sends the string you typed to your default search engine. It also includes some fuzzy search matches from your history and all that, which is fine 90% of the time, but sometimes you need a bit more control over what results it shows you."
I had no idea. These are super-useful.
(via Hacker News)
https://blog.joeross.me/uploads/2023/firefox-screenshot-2023-07-10t16-41-22.359z.png https://wiki.tilde.institute/w/firefox-address-bar-tips https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666116

2023-07-04 23:27:24

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Editor’s note: She’s only 3 years old!

2023-07-04 23:21:24

My daughter shushed me while we watched Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” today and I’ve never been more proud of anything than I was when she told me, quietly and politely, but firmly and resolutely, to “just be quiet for a minute and listen to the man talk about space.”
youtu.be/wupToqz1e…
https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g

2023-06-26 16:12:39

SkyBridge is a server that connects Mastodon to Bluesky, enabling the use of some Mastodon-only apps with your Bluesky account. Today I noticed that, at least in Ivory for iOS, you can access Bluesky feeds via the Mastodon lists screen.
(I still have some Bluesky invites if anyone’s interested…)
https://blog.joeross.me/uploads/2023/46157c91f6.png https://skybridge.fly.dev/ https://joinmastodon.org https://bsky.app/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

2023-06-21 07:59:06

Now I have three Bluesky invites. Let me know if you’re interested!

2023-06-03 17:24:29

Columbus Farmers Market. It’s a whole vibe.

2023-06-02 08:50:02

Oldest Search - Search for the oldest result on internet. https://blog.joeross.me/2023/06/02/oldest-search-search.html

2023-06-02 06:52:30

I verified myself on nostr which required logging into cpanel, creating a json file, editing my .htaccess, and using a CORS tester. It was exhausting. THEN I found out if I don’t give some guy on the internet like 1 USD worth of bitcoin from my lightning wallet, whatever the hell that is, I’ll be stuck on ... blog.joeross.me https://blog.joeross.me/2023/06/02/i-verified-myself.html

2023-06-02 06:45:08

What am I even doing?
@npub1tea…gq5u Verifying My Public Key: "joeross"

2023-06-02 05:12:29

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Hey thanks for the tip! I tweaked the htaccess based on the error explanation at codehappy and it looks like it worked.

2023-06-01 07:46:38

So I’ve got my nostr.json file in place but I think the wall I’m hitting for verification is the required permissions. I can’t set them at the file level because I’m in cpanel and I just have the usual permissions options. I added the necessary htaccess rule instead but I don’t think it’s working yet. Any help for a nostr-noob is appreciated!

2023-06-01 01:38:06

- Two letters away from your nose holes.
Working on nostr slogans.