The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted

As blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social media

Repairable Shoes: Step into Sustainable and Lasting Style

Repairable Shoes Lead the Way: Discover here, a Sustainable Footwear for Eco-Conscious Stylish Comfort.

Cobblers on the secrets of durable shoes: no plastic, stitched soles and no flimsy zips

High-quality footwear is easy to repair and will last a lifetime when cared for properly. But it is also becoming more difficult to find

The Weekend Boot | Sustainable, Eco-friendly, all-weather hiking boot

Our award-winning Weekend Boots are a unisex and a modern outdoor essential. They are comfy, sustainable, and super easy to clean. These boots are your daily walking boot, hiking boot, rain boot, and winter boot all rolled up into one. #BeOutside in our Weekend Boots. They're good for you AND the planet.

No idea how long the material lasts, or how well it breathes.

South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature

Han, whose works include The Vegetarian, was praised for her ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’

A collaborative platform where you can find birdwatching spots almost anywhere in the world. Initially, the site is dedicated to Europe and Middle-East, but there are sites listed all over the world. It's a collaborative site. So it's up to everyone to enrich it by entering places where birds can be observed that aren't yet on the map.

Birdingplaces |The free online guide to birding!

Where to watch birds? On Birdingplaces birders can find birdwatching sites very easily. With detailed descriptions, maps and the birds you can see there..

Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds

Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties

Pluralistic: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy (20 Sep 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: It's easy to greet the FTC's new report on social media privacy, which concludes that tech giants have terrible privacy practices with a resounding "duh," but that would be a grave...

Webdave normally gives access to a cloud version of a file from a local computer.  However, it is also possible to set up a 2-way sync over webdav, using either of the following 2 programs; one of which is paid and the other free.

http://www.re.be/webdav_sync/index.xhtml
works from the command line using Java (free)

http://www.pincette.biz/davbox/index.xhtml
a paid version costing 15 euros (15 day trial).

We’re living in the age of rage. I’m a psychoanalyst – here’s what we need to do to calm down

Anger has come to define the public mood – felt in the posts of social media warriors and harnessed by populist agitators such as Trump and Farage