Tantek elik Tantek elik inventor connector writer runner scientist, more. Search Kilauea volcanos currently active eruption in Hawaii https://www.youtube.com/live/mKJ7ZyIdjeQ The bright orange eruptions, orange streaks of lava flow, orange lit clouds of smoke & steam all contrasted against the black sky and land are quite the visual ASMR. Paired with the ASMR wind from the mountain, the effect is quite calming and peaceful. Putting this on a projector is quite the night light to fall asleep to (requires YouTube Premium to avoid noisy ads interruptions that harsh your mellow) #Kilauea #volcano #eruption #Hawaii #orange #lava #lavaFlow #ASMR #wind #video #USGS #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 00:56 on 2026-08-13 1982 TRON prescience: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. Walter 2026 students: How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it. * https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1vkw6by/how_do_you_know_an_assignment_is_ai_proof_because/ I assign a profile essay. Have for 30 years. Student interviews a person, records it, writes a paper based off the recording. Citations are timestamps. Should be pretty easy. Has been easy pre-AI. Now, students cannot do it. Snippet from professor/student dialog: ==== Prof: Start with what you found interesting. Student: How do I know if somethings interesting? Prof: Youre asking me how you find something interesting? Student: Yeah. ==== Chatbots / LLMs are not just "the latest tools" like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic yourself. Students are being robbed of curiosity, learning to discover and notice novelty, how to find something interesting. This isn't cognitive enhancement, this is a tool causing brain rot (loss of curiosity), even a developmental disability. Unclear if it is reversible. TRON quote citation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/quotes/?item=qt0406255 #TRON #TRON1982 #AIproof #interesting #chatBot #chatBots #LLM #LLMs #AI #brainRot #AIbrainRot #disability #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 00:01 on 2026-08-13 watching NASAs 2026 Total Solar Eclipse, 1h28m44s on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w Helpful links so far: * https://go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety * https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses #NASA #eclipse #solarEclipse #totalEclipse #totalSolarEclipse #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 22:14 on 2026-08-12 watched and finished the rest of Silo season 1 and all of season 2 over the weekend. Superbly well written. Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/218/t1/watched-episodes-silo #Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 22:36 on 2026-08-10 Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise. In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month Since then, Bing has added Copilot LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilots summary can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display below the fold as it were. Solution: add " -ai" to your query. E.g. assuming youve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox) Type this into your Firefox address bar: b 2026 sep -ai or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as Im writing this) selected in the displayed month. Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024: * Day 252 day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026. * Week 37 Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026 * 31 days later Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th). * < [ Sep v ] > little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month * [ Start Day v ] a new Start Day drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display. #search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month #CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia. #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 13:05 on 2026-08-09 Today is my blogs 24th blogiversary! I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post: https://tantek.com/log/2002/08.html#L20020808 No Javascript. No CMS. No SSG. No GitHub. Just BBEdit and SFTP. Im still using BBEdit with my current blog, and now scp instead of SFTP. Previously: * 6th: https://tantek.com/log/2008/08.html#d08t1923 * 5th: https://tantek.com/log/2007/08.html#d08t2359 * 4th: https://tantek.com/log/2006/08.html#d08t2359 * 1st: https://tantek.com/log/2003/08.html#L20030808t2359 This is post 14 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb #blog #blogs #blogiversary #staticHTML #HTMLCSS #NoJS #NoJavascript #NoCMS #NoSSG #NoGitHub #BBEdit #SFTP #SCP #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 https://tantek.com/2026/219/t1/open-web-free-content 17:14 on 2026-08-08 In reply to cyberplace.social user khleedrils post @[email protected] your question does not make sense. My post was about the open web and free content, being freely accessible (viewable). If you want to post a comment, you should do so on your personal site, and notify the original post via the Webmention protocol (a good CMS or content hosting service will do this automatically). One advantage of using open standards like Webmention is there is no need to register with other sites to use them on your own site. You should own your replies, rather than expecting other websites to host them. https://indieweb.org/own_your_replies #indieweb #Webmention #openWeb #openStandards #webStandards #ownYourReplies #ownYourData 16:34 on 2026-08-08 In reply to mastodon.social user ennedias post @[email protected] all the examples in my post support https. I suspect that a lot of that "content" assertion is an outdated misconception. Do you have any specific current examples? Also, if you do find any non-https sites/pages, since they are likely very old and uncomplicated, you can access them with https via Internet Archive (or ask it to save a copy https://indieweb.org/Internet_Archive#Trigger_Archive_in_Browser) 16:14 on 2026-08-08 The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed. A few examples: * blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with the exception of sites hosted on content services that show ads without the consent of the blogger). Personal blogs are free to read because its a hobby and a way of keeping up with family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, people weve met once at a conference, people that inspire us. * Wikipedia is free, largely donor supported, partly via donation banners. * Open Street Maps is free, similarly. * Internet Archive is free, similarly. * Government sites are free, supported by taxes. * Public library sites are free, similarly. * Museum sites are free, supported by their donors, and in-person visit fees. * University sites are free, supported by endowments and student tuitions. There is plenty of free content on the open web, sustainably supported by non-toxic and non-surveillance models. The open web as a whole does not depend on any particular business model. Previously: https://tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web This is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #openWeb #freeContent #blog #blogs #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy https://tantek.com/2026/220/t3/24th-blogiversary 22:20 on 2026-08-07 watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled The Flamekeepers. #Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 23:36 on 2026-08-06 Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed AIs joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content. The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be AIs. Now we have an AI policy page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of: * individual personal websites * community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust) * contributions to the IndieWeb wiki * participants in IndieWeb meetups https://indieweb.org/AI_policy Do you have an AI policy on your website? Add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section. Does your community have an AI policy? Add it to the Community Examples section. Incident documentation of what happened at that particular meetup: * https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-05-hwc-asia-pacific-incident This is post 12 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb #AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #AIpolicy #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 https://tantek.com/2026/216/t1/hashtag-proposal-datetags https://tantek.com/2026/219/t1/open-web-free-content 23:58 on 2026-08-05 Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb In summary by example: * #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post * #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post * #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months. I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (e.g. #Mastodon etc.) and #ATProto (e.g. #Bluesky etc.). Examples of posts 10 years ago and this past week that use datetags: * https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june monthtag and datetag * https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax normal and ordinal ISO8601 dates. Additional possibilities to explore: * yeartags hashtags for entire years * timetags hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times After several web searches I didnt find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal. Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples! This is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags #August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy 18:00 on 2026-08-04 watched The Dark Knight on Blu-ray, still holds up. I saw it in the Metreon IMAX theater when it came out in 2008. About 28 minutes of it was filmed in 70mm film using IMAX cameras. The movie switched aspect ratios when it switched from IMAX to normal …