Monty Williams

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Retired software geek.

Interests: food/wine, technology, foreign language detective shows (watch.mhzchoice.com/acorn.tv)

I think Tatort is the best dramatic series on TV. Diverse (often dysfunctional) characters, investigative styles, and locales. Episodes deal with social issues such as immigration, poverty, drugs, and child pornography.

#mhzchoice #tatort

Here is an AI generated description:
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/describe-the-tv-show-tatort-4nMi25mmTPOJOk_Ukl64lA

I'm on a history rant today.

History I was taught in school was primarily names, dates, and places of major historical events. There was almost no context to help understand how and why things unfolded the way they did. Nothing that would yield insights like these:

https://collabfund.com/blog/five-lessons-from-history/

Five Lessons from History

The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other…

Collaborative Fund
@a Similar plugin, but either paste a URL or hit cmd-shift-e with cursor inside a URL.
https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title
GitHub - zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title: Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links

Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links. Contribute to zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@a I don't do typescript, but if you could obtain the archive URL in typescript/javascript you'd only have to change:

return `[${title}](${url})`;
to
return `[${title}](${url})[archive](${archive_url})`;

@a It seems like this plugin could be modified to do what you want if you select text containing the URLs.

https://github.com/zfei/obsidian-url-namer

GitHub - zfei/obsidian-url-namer

Contribute to zfei/obsidian-url-namer development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@a I don't think that automation is possible. Too many chances of conflict between typing, auto-saving, error detection, etc.

It would be safer to run a script when you exit Obsidian that checks for missing [archive] links in files in your vault and adds them.

@a I thought the shortcut was a great idea.
@a I'm not an Obsidian user, but there appears to be a plugin to run shell commands. https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands
GitHub - Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands: Execute system commands via hotkeys or command palette in Obsidian (https://obsidian.md). Some automated events are also supported, and execution via URI links.

Execute system commands via hotkeys or command palette in Obsidian (https://obsidian.md). Some automated events are also supported, and execution via URI links. - Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands

GitHub

@a I don't know your exact situation, but you can use curl to find out if the link is archived, e.g.

curl -s https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx\?url=https://pdx.social/public/local | tail -1 | cut -d " " -f 2

if the result is empty, open https://web.archive.org/save/https://pdx.social/public/local

In the field of information security, there’s a kind of vulnerability known as the evil maid attack whereby an untrusted party gains physical access to important hardware, such as the housekeeping staff coming into your hotel room when you’ve left your laptop unattended, thereby compromising it.

Github is immune to the current "A billionaire bought Twitter" nonsense. Code stored in Git has no canonical location, so it can relocate freely.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-elon-musk-open-source-platforms/

Billionaires Are A Security Threat

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a case study in destruction. It doesn’t have to be this way.

WIRED