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I’ve been super happy with the black and white version although I do wish the display was a little higher res. Great piece of tech though overall.

> So, I figured I'd write a series of posts publicly exploring this dataset and sharing my findings.

> ...

> At the end, I'll have a single database of Telegram messages from the whole dataset. I'll be able to query it to, for example, show me all messages from Scot Seddon sorted chronologically. This will make it simple to see what he was saying in the lead-up to January 6, immediately after January 6, and then what he's saying about Trump these days, after he was re-elected.

There are more parts to come in this series, which is very clearly stated in the post.

I’m devastated by this. Being able to quickly capture todos and shopping list items, and then have them sync through Todoist, is one of the two or three reasons I’m still in the Alexa ecosystem. I suppose they’re in a “monetize or die” phase and the users are losing because of it.

I built the current and previous iterations of TorrentFreak’s WordPress theme (before ultimately leaving the WordPress consulting world five or so years ago). Ernesto was a gracious client and always full of ideas; easily one of my favourite folks to work with. Congrats on 18 years and may there be many more to come!

Yep, and the Breezometer homepage now redirects to Google’s map platform page (subpages still seem to work, such as https://www.breezometer.com/air-quality-map/air-quality/unit...) and they had previously announced plans to sunset the Breezometer app in September.

Breezometer is also the air quality data source for Apple Maps and I’m sure other weather apps too, so assuming the pricing is comparable there’s probably a decent business here just from existing customers.

The v1 devices never supported a real local API. The v2 devices like the Awair Element do have a local API built-in. It does have to be enabled via the app but it lets you hit the device's LAN address and get back real time JSON with the sensor data. Not to say they couldn't figure out a way to brick those devices in the future, but you could theoretically turn on the Local API and then firewall the devices to your network to prevent future firmware updates.

I was hoping for the same thing. It'd be nice to see some good FLOSS fonts in the stacks.

I wonder if there would be any merit to WordPress building native oAuth provider support into core? There are some plugins that do this, and WordPress.com offers oAuth provider support, but having it across the board would be cool. This would (hopefully) help mitigate situations like this.

Apparently the results of today's 400M Men's swimming individual medley were the lede for NBC Nightly News tonight... before NBC has even aired the race. Just when you thought they couldn't make things worse....

I wonder if they would have success by getting the product into community colleges and other two year schools (who might be particularly keen to save on Blackboard licenses). As students transferred out to larger four year colleges and were forced to deal with the mess that is Blackboard, they would probably be quick to talk up the (ostensibly) superior experience they had with Coursekit at their old school.