Jed Hartman

Some note on the iPhone Duo’s durability: * There’ve been a few high-profile reports of the screen cracking (at the fold) after only a little bit of use. Here’s a pretty good overview of that situation: tech-insider.org/iphone-duo-d... 1/4

Some note on the iPhone Duo’s durability: * There’ve been a few high-profile reports of the screen cracking (at the fold) after only a little bit of use. Here’s a pretty good overview of that situation: tech-insider.org/iphone-duo-d... 1/4

* CNN has set up a “custom-made folding machine, the Fold-a-Phone,” which is automatically opening and closing a Duo 20,000 times a day; they’re livestreaming that on YouTube. (www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...) and (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Dj...). 3/4

Some note on the iPhone Duo’s durability: * There’ve been a few high-profile reports of the screen cracking (at the fold) after only a little bit of use. Here’s a pretty good overview of that situation: tech-insider.org/iphone-duo-d... 1/4

How to deal with papermail A foolproof procedure By Jed Step 1. Sort all the mail, making a stack of the most important/urgent pieces. Step 2. —SQUIRREL!

Interesting 2019 post from Sumana, talking about the movie _Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi_. 1/7

* “an old-fashioned patriotic saga told in the broadest of strokes, and with full nationalist fervor” 6/7

Interesting 2019 post from Sumana, talking about the movie _Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi_. 1/7

Content warning for mention of violence by and against specific religious groups in India. brainwane.dreamwidth.org/130374.html 4/7

Interesting 2019 post from Sumana, talking about the movie _Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi_. 1/7

It’s a good reminder to me that there can be layers of cultural context that I might be entirely oblivious to when I’m watching or reading something. For example, Sumana mentions that the movie has Hindu-nationalist subtext, some of which might be completely obvious to a viewer who has… 2/7

World Fantasy Convention is this weekend, in Oakland, maybe a 45-minute drive from my house. But I’m not attending. (This post is because a few people have asked whether I’ll be there.) 1/6

(Their code of conduct says “WFC2026 aims to create a safe, inclusive space for all to enjoy and participate in,” but I feel like that statement may not mean everything that I would like it to mean.) 5/6

World Fantasy Convention is this weekend, in Oakland, maybe a 45-minute drive from my house. But I’m not attending. (This post is because a few people have asked whether I’ll be there.) 1/6

(The policies that I’ve seen for most cons say things like “Masks are strongly recommended.” We have 6+ years of experience with phrases like that, and in my experience almost everyone interprets such phrases to mean “No need to wear a mask.”) 3/6

World Fantasy Convention is this weekend, in Oakland, maybe a 45-minute drive from my house. But I’m not attending. (This post is because a few people have asked whether I’ll be there.) 1/6

Re the PHP security issue: My impression is that the patches will be released a few hours from now, yes? (Morning of Oct. 21.) At which point everyone who uses PHP (including self-hosted WordPress sites) needs to update to using the new patched version of PHP, ASAP?

Or if you prefer, create a temporary static HTML page, and change .htaccess to say this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/static-temp-page.html RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example.com/static-temp-... [R=302,L] (Replace “example.com” with your domain name.) (Pls correct me if wrong!)

Re the PHP security issue: My impression is that the patches will be released a few hours from now, yes? (Morning of Oct. 21.) At which point everyone who uses PHP (including self-hosted WordPress sites) needs to update to using the new patched version of PHP, ASAP?

Reminder to self: If you want to post a non-joking comment on someone else’s post (a post that doesn’t have anything to do with you), but you realize that your comment would start out “I don’t know anything about this, but…”—that’s a strong indication that you shouldn’t post that comment.

Gavin and Kelly have bought the building that their bookstore Book Moon is in! They’re now running a crowdfunding campaign, asking the community to “help […] with increasing our loan payments so that the store can breathe a little easier.”

Campaign rewards include T-shirts, zombie stories, gift certificates, Tuckerizations, and stickers. And “A Book Moon of One’s Own”—having the store entirely to yourself for an hour.

I continue to add quotes to my “commonplace book” page on my website. 1/3

Some day I may provide some kind of browse-by-topic feature, or a pick-a-random-quote feature, or other approach. But for now, it continues to be just a long page of quotes, in alphabetical order by author’s *full* name (thus usually by their given name). 2/3