Technology

Among today’s links are markdown editors Notenik and Yank Note. We also look at: Mini Diarium, an encrypted journal; Bean, a versatile word processor; and, Inc, an incremental note-taking system.

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #Notenik #YankNote #MiniDiarium #Bean #Inc

This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic – PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb – it’s #closedweb in a mask, when people ignore existing commons is easy to see the red flag.

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A new feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will remotely revert problematic drivers without any manual intervention required.

https://archive.ph/2026.05.13-143034/https://www.404media.co/war-and-data-centers-are-driving-up-the-cost-of-fiber-optic-cable/

Among today’s links are markdown editors Upnote, Seychl, HedgeDoc and Apostrophe. Plus we look at Deckless, a markdown to slide presentation tool that turns its back on the world of proprietary formats, and DokuWiki, which is going native on us by introducing markdown support

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #wikis #slides #Upnote #Seychl #HedgeDoc #Apostrophe #Deckless #DokuWiki #Joplin

https://archive.ph/2026.05.12-050231/https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1

From techcrunch:

This time around, the site is focused on ranking news - specifically, AI news. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.

It scrapes x.com and uses that to decide what's newsworthy.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

Today’s links include markdown editors Brainio, Tokyo Notes and Nota. Plus a look at MarkMello, a markdown viewer with a built-in editing mode, and Zim Wiki, which is described as a graphical text editor

Researchers find proxy services discreetly swap AI models and log everything.

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/

Today’s links include markdown editors Plain Text Editor and Clearly, plus Herbert, a writing environment for long-form content. We also cover Blank, an open source blog app, and Quik, which allows you to speak your notes and export them as markdown

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #staticsitegenerators #PlainTextEditor #Clearly #Herbertapp #Blank #Quik

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

The company that wanted AI regulation under Biden may have gotten its wish, just not on its own terms.

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.