If you live in Canada, this site provides a way to communicate with your MP about why Bill C-22 threatens the safety, livelihoods, and national security of all Canadians.
@ruthvik947 - Thanks... but now I have the option to either "Create account" or "Sign in". How do I know that I even want to create an account and check it out? It would be great if there was a way to see at least some of the information so that I could decide whether I want to do that step of creating an account.
How do you get into it to see the site? I'm offered the options of signing in with Google or entering my email address. When I enter an email address, it says "Couldn't find your account"
Correct, but the ActivityPub plugin has been available for a long time for open source WordPress. This news today now makes it available to the millions of people who host their sites on WordPress.com - and without them having to install a plugin or anything else. It's just now part of the WP.com hosted platform. And that's rather awesome!
My understanding from reading a number of articles about this "helpful content" update from Google is that they want to get rid of pages like what you describe and instead prioritize pages that get right to the point. So perhaps you'll get what you are asking for.
I find it frustrating to read articles like this. To me, I see encrypted messaging helping keep children safe from having their information intercepted and mis-used by others. I think it's a matter of what you think are the greatest threats.
For more information about this transaction, please see this post from one of the Internet Society Board of Trustees members who voted for the sale (as did they all unanimously) - Why I Voted to Sell .ORG - http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191127_why_i_voted_to_sell_o...
DNSCrypt and other solutions typically involve changes to the DNS resolver in the underlying operating system. That's a lot harder to get changed and deployment can take a long time.
DOH can be implemented directly inside of the web browser application, since those browsers are obviously already doing everything over HTTPS. So the browser developers just have to build in a DNS client. From their perspective, I would see that being much simpler. And deployment is as easy as the next browser application update.
Yes, it works quite well to get a sense of the room. The advantage of humming is that people can change the volume to match their level of agreement with the question being asked. If they strongly agree with the question, they can hum very loudly. If they only weakly support it, they can hum quietly. The chairs of thesession can then get an audible sense of the level of agreement (or not).
Often in the sessions I've been in, there may be two hums taken - one for those in support of a question, and one for those opposed. Often there can be a clear distinction - but sometimes the results can be inconclusive if both sides seem to have equal volume. (But that, too, is helpful to the chairs as they can get a sense that the people in the room are divided.)
What a fun - and educational - post about the full and complete journey from the moment someone starts typing “I love you” on a phone to when it gets read on the other end. That was great!
This post captures so many of the thoughts I've had about how it is NOT a simple answer of "going back to self-publishing on our own websites", because the nature of running websites is no where near as simple as it was. I have continued to write on my own blogs since 2005 ... but with all the ever-present security issues - and the need to do constant updates to my servers/vms, it's hard to keep up. The siren call of simple, centralized systems that take care of all of that for you is indeed a strong call!
1) Things app on my iPhone/iPad/Mac ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ) - it's a quick place to jot down quick thoughts or notes when I'm in the middle of doing other things. (I use it for my "to-do" lists - and it syncs beautifully across my other Apple devices.)
2) MindNode ( https://mindnode.com/ ) - if I have a group of thoughts, or if I have a few minutes, I'll often create a quick mind map with MindNode and collect my thoughts there. (It also syncs beautifully across all Apple devices.) I also have a couple of specific mind maps for tracking projects or article ideas, etc. So if my creative thought falls into one of those, I'll open up the mind map and add it there.
3) Evernote - For longer lists or ideas, I'll typically create a note inside of Evernote. I've been using it for years... although with many of the UI changes and general uncertainty about the company's future direction, I'm considering migrating my collection of notes/notebooks to something else (so I've been reading this HN discussion).
I'll note that I'll use these three tools together. Often I'll jot a note into Things... and then later expand upon that into a MindNode mind map or an Evernote entry. So one is more "short term" capture of thoughts, while the other two are for longer term - and longer form - capture.
The challenge of using 3 tools is, of course, that there's no easy way to search across all of them.
P.S. And many times when I'm going to events, speeches, conferences, etc., I'll bring a pen and a notebook as that can be the fastest way to capture ideas.