• 🔗 Sydney bakes as heatwave sets in, with no end in sight beyond New Year’s Eve

    Roads are melting, beaches are full to bursting and air conditioners are getting a serious end-of-year workout as residents in Sydney and across the state swelter through heatwave conditions, with no end in sight until 2019.

    Are we still debating whether Global Warming is an actual thing or not? 🤦‍♂️

  • 🔗 Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations – The Verge

    while the uniforms are meant to encourage attendance, it seems that there’s nothing stopping administrators from using them to track students out of school, at least technologically speaking, which is certainly concerning

    That is one super slippery slope!

  • I’ll preface this with saying I am decidedly against likes on Micro. – Josh Sullivan

    that brings up the question, if you don’t want to write about it and cannot find a single sentence worth quoting or directly bring others attention to, is it worth sharing?

    Personally, I think “simple” liking is the scourge of the social Internet and adds little to no value to anyone, unless you’re using “liking” as a bookmark type thing, which is what my wife does instead of using an actual bookmarking service.

    That said, I often “like” other peoples posts using Indigenous, however, when they Micropub to my blog they do so “Privately” and I can then choose to add a comment or pull-quote later, and then publish it publicly.

  • 🔗 How to Follow Twitter Feeds? – Feedly Blog

  • I’m thinking about making my New Year Resolution all about education, both getting and giving as of it as I can. 👨‍🏫

  • Damnit, I can’t get past Zapdos in Pokemon Let’s Go. 5 failed attempts so far…

    I’m desperately trying to level up some Rock and Electric types before my next attempt.

  • Watching: WarGames (1983) 📺

    A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

    💻

  • Does anyone know if there’s a way to re-import the Facebook export back into Facebook, for the purpose of re-generating my Facebook account so I can re-export it in JSON format instead of the shitty HTML version?

  • Trying to find a decent plugin to sync from my live WordPress install to my localhost one, but just like the App Store, all of them want me to purchase a subscription!

    Any suggestions?

  • @cleverdevil, is there a way to use your Ditchbook app with Facebook’s html export? I cocked up and forget to select json! Argh!