Are you a safe kid? I’ve just had a memory of a past time in a library.

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Two newer meta-ish search engines for encyclopedias (about 30+ wikis):

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On math, magic, and mathematical grimoires.. As I was “speedrun reading” about MathML days ago, I discovered an amazing digital library of mathematical functions. Boring, but why amazing? Take a look at this function and hover click on any of the variables to view the definition, and keep clicking on more variables for even more… definitions. That’s a legit library.
See, now all of us can roleplay as mages and mathematicians on the Internet.

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Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)? I’ve thought about LaTeX/TeX strategies on the web for a bit ever since someone asked years ago about different approaches. I never got to poking around on my blog, but since then the masters have delivered unto us;
- MathML ( based web specification)
- KaTeX
- MathJax
In format conversion land we’ve been given; LaTeXML, make4ht, texmath, temml, and Pandoc.
MathML looks rather safe. After that, I’d imagine it’s mostly incompatability struggles, XML spooks, and making math “write easy”.

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I caught a glimpse of an interesting thing by chance.
Meta Platforms
Facebook hid the x
from their login prompt on
public pages–including government pages, then brought it back. ‘Twas on the
desktop before mobile and perhaps (who knows) for a subset (as a test). A “login
only public page” is for a near–distant future, set. Seriously though;
developer documentation will become my
final excuse to visit Facebook.

x
factor
Index: Cache · Source

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I came across a good
article on finding video feed links
from various (mostly western) sites. Odysee links have a funky format that are
prefixed with https://odysee.com/$/rss
+ channel.
So this (channel):
https://odysee.com/@andkos.music:1
Becomes this (feed):
https://odysee.com/$/rss/@andkos.music:1

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I poked around the Activity Stream docs a while back.
And… as a pretend expert :) started wondering: In the big bad messy real world (super serious business), how does one on such a decentralized (social) network thoroughly:
- Block specific users from viewing
- Block specific users from following
- Block specific users from interacting
- Delete previous local/remote content from specific users following
- Delete previous local/remote interactions from specific users interacting
ActivityPub is an open/transparent protocol (amazing) but for adoption, the expectation/reality of many users online anywhere (even public networks) is favourable discoverability not discoverability itself… however contradictory/debatable. That’s probably easy/possible centralized but stupid hard/impossible decentralized.

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The IndieWeb’s is a rather sophisticated syndication philosophy. Too bad I’ve got such a disdain for social media that I’d never explore it personally. It’s a good approach for working on other people’s stuff though: think Facebook’s (Meta) instant RSS articles (dies April 2023), podcast feeds, or any other (kinda) bi–directional site syndication mechanism.
The hypothetical outcomes/incentives of POSSE if it was done by everyone is an entertaining thought experiment.

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It seems that.. from talking to a few people via email, basic feed discovery with rel alternates are ineffective. Simple redirects work better for organic discovery.
- /atom
->
/path/to/real/{atom,rss}/feed - /rss
->
/path/to/real/{atom,rss}/feed - /feed
->
/path/to/real/{atom,rss}/feed

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I was reading web.dev recently and couldn’t help but
think that in tech circles/articles online it’s easy to get the impression that
Firefox is a major competing
browser. Firefox actually doesn’t even register. Firefox has an estimated 3%
points in
global market–share and
doesn’t even show up in
mobile market–share
estimates.
Users implicitly use Safari (Apple) and/or some derivation of Chromium (Google Chrome). When was the last time you saw someone using Firefox? Not recently if you’re outside the tech bubble.