Jeremy Cherfas

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Digging into how withknown creates RSS feeds, I can see two things.One is that for a status post, which has no title, title is a truncated version of the post content, although the level of truncation seems to vary. Not sure why.The other is that even status posts, with a truncated title, have a full description that includes p-name and e-content and even entry-content.But micro.blog does not seem to read description at least not when it is coming from my withknown RSS feed.Puzzling.

Is there, anywhere, a definitive guide to how micro.blog truncates posts it receives via RSS?

Strange question, I know, but … Is there any way I can restrict access to a post in WP without having to make people jump through any hoops to see it?

There are lots of solutions that allow only registered users to see a specific post. What I want ideally is a link I can give people that will work for them and not for anyone else. A page hidden from anyone who does not have that link.

The idea is to give email subscribers and other supporters access either exclusively or well in advance of the general public.

Just read a horrible coinage: autonomobile. Cars were never automobile without a driver. We are still waiting for a truly automobile means of transport.

#Http://agro.biodiver.se/

The moral is, in a way, obvious: it’s a confirmation of Bruce Schneier’s original observation that “surveillance is the business model of the Internet”. Being a pedant, I would have said “of the Web”, but since many people can’t distinguish between the two, we’ll leave Bruce’s formulation stand.

@dullhunk Very good question. Who is milling their own wheat and baking 100% wholewheat in the UK? I know twitter.com/e5bakehou… and a few others on Instagram. twitter.com/RealBread must know.

This is worrying. I received a message from Fastmail saying I had reached my sending limit for the day. Impossible. I raised a ticket and 8.5 hours later got confirmation my account had been compromised. I’ll say this for Fastmail; the recovery process is superb. The worrying part is that I know I did not reply to any phishing expedition. So how did it happen? Brute force, maybe. Pwned, maybe.

The one question I really wanted @npr to ask about Chinese tariffs on American nuts: will it make those nuts cheaper for Americans?

Gratuitous, but fun:Ernst Mayr, a prominent figure in biology had opined that hybridization was an unimportant factor in evolution, as far as I can tell for no particular reason at all. For equally mysterious reasons, people paid attention to him.

Not that he needs it, but let me offer @matigo as my Micro Monday suggestion.

#sourdough #bread

As I start work on my monthly review, it occurs to me that despite having signed up for @belle’s excellent roundup of reviews, and checking my spam folder, I’ve never received a single one.