How to Set oEmbed Max Width in WordPress 3.5 with $content_width
Today, we saw the release of WordPress 3.5 which came with tons of amazing features. As we upgraded one site after another, we noticed an issue on one of the sites we manage. The embedded video size were changed, and the embedded videos were a lot smaller. We went in the settings to find that the option to specify oEmbed max width and height were removed. In an attempt to simplify the admin panel, the core team got rid of the oEmbed max width and height settings screen. In this article, we will show you how to set oEmbed max width
The Domain Fellows program brings together a cohort of incoming freshmen, current students (sophomores, juniors, or seniors during 2017-2018), and DKC tutors. These students are working throughout the 2017-2018 academic year to develop their own proficiency with Domain of One’s Own while also serving as ambassadors to the rest of the UMW student community for the project. Fellows meet several times a semesters, attend an participate in events (such as Club Carnival and Domain Days), work on their own domain projects, and share updates on the Domain Fellows Web site.
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal court to compel them to make the records they collected about her community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.
How to Build a Delightful Loading Screen in 5 Minutes
Does this look familiar? If yes, that’s because you’ve seen this somewhere — Slack! Let’s learn a few things by recreating this with just CSS and some good ol’ HTML. If you’re excited about writing some code, get on Codepen and create a new pen.
Paul-Olivier Dehaye and the Raiders of the Lost Data – CITIP blog
With the recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal and the GDPR knocking at the door, we seem to be witnessing a watershed moment in data protection online. In the last year or so, people have been made increasingly aware of their data subject rights (of access, explanation, erasure, etc). Paul-Olivier Dehaye has been at the forefront in this battle of reclaiming control over personal data.
Two-thirds of links on Twitter come from bots. They’re mostly bland. - Vox
If you’ve ever wondered whether social media is just a vast network of bots interacting with other bots, congratulations: Your worldview may be dystopian, but it’s not exactly wrong. A new study has determined that on Twitter, at least, two-thirds of all links shared on the platform are done so by automated tweets powered by bots. The Pew Research Center studied over a million English-language tweets posted over a 47-day period in 2017 to determine the nature of Twitter’s link-sharing infrastructure — and to glean more information about the behavior and scope of bots on the platform. The study analyzed 1.2 million tweeted links, which were all generated by just 140,545 Twitter accounts. Of those tweets, 66 percent were generated by bots. The most frequently linked subjects: porn and sports. Ninety percent of all links to adult content and 76 percent of all links to sports-related content were generated by fake humans.
Twitter bots are, essentially, computer programs that tweet of their own accord. While people access Twitter through its Web site and other clients, bots connect directly to the Twitter mainline, parsing the information in real time and posting at will; it’s a code-to-code connection, made possible by Twitter’s wide-open application programming interface, or A.P.I. The bots, whose DNA can be written in nearly any modern programming language, live on cloud servers, which never go dark and grow cheaper by the day. This broad accessibility, magnified by Twitter’s laudably permissive stance on the creation of new accounts, has created fertile ground for such automated shenanigans, like proving our susceptibility to certain typos and making Newt Gingrich seem popular. If you use Twitter, you’ve probably met your share of one kind of Twitter bot, spambots. They have nonsensical burner handles, and blast messages like “truly $$$ work opportunities” at anyone who so much as mentions an iPad. “Click this link,” they beckon, “so I might seize your identity and use it to hawk Panama’s finest generic Ritalin.” Hardly a compelling sales pitch, but at least it explains why they’re always awake. Of greater interest—the signal to the spammers’ noise—is the growing population of creative bots that consume, remix, and contribute to the broader culture churn of the Internet.
12 Weird, Excellent Twitter Bots Chosen by Twitter’s Best Bot-Makers
Bots can be the absolute worst part of Twitter. They can also be the best. In the last few years, artists and programmers have turned Twitter bots into an internet-native art form, producing bots that are often hilarious, usually weird, and sometimes unexpectedly poetic
How Twitter Bots Fool You Into Thinking They Are Real People
When a group of researchers made a small army of Twitter bots, many of the fake accounts amassed relatively large followings and high Klout scores. Here’s how they’re fooling us.
Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like.
This website is a Turing test for poetry. You, the judge, have to guess whether the poem you’re reading is written by a human or by a computer. If you think a poem was written by a computer, choose 'bot'. If you think it was written by a human, choose 'not'.
A protest bot is a bot so specific you can’t mistake it for bullshit – Medium
What, in this landscape, is the 21st century equivalent of a protest song? What is the modern version of a song so specific in its details, its condemnation, its anger, that it could not possibly be mistaken for bullshit? One answer is the protest bot. A computer program that reveals the injustice and inequality of the world and imagines alternatives. A computer program that says who’s to praise and who’s to blame. A computer program that questions how, when, who and why. A computer program whose indictments are so specific you can’t mistake them for bullshit. A computer program that does all this automatically.
IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 20, No. 1 (Spring 2018) - Tending the Digital Commons: A Small Ethics toward the Future -
In the years since I became fully aware of the vulnerability of what the Internet likes to call my “content,” I have made some changes in how I live online. But I have also become increasingly convinced that this vulnerability raises wide-ranging questions that ought to be of general concern. Those of us who live much of our lives online are not faced here simply with matters of intellectual property; we need to confront significant choices about the world we will hand down to those who come after us. The complexities of social media ought to prompt deep reflection on what we all owe to the future, and how we might discharge this debt.
Infr 1330 (2014) Basic Introduction To Game Design « The Acagamic
This course introduces you to the basic concepts in game design. The course was taught every year at UOIT by Professor Nacke and includes the creation of several non-digital games. Topics that we will cover are: a game designer’s role in the development team, formal and dramatic game elements, narrative design, system dynamics, skill and chance, conceptualising and communicating game design ideas, social play, games as culture, economic systems in games, level design, functionality and balance of games, simple playtesting and quality assurance.
Why Equitable Maps Are More Accurate and Humane - CityLab
Too often, men. And money. But a team of OpenStreetMap users is working to draw new cartographic lines, making maps that more accurately—and equitably—reflect our space. OSM is the self-proclaimed Wikipedia of maps: It’s a free and open-source sketch of the globe, created by a volunteer pool that essentially crowd-sources the map, tracing parts of the world that haven’t yet been logged. Armed with satellite images, GPS coordinates, local community insights and map “tasks,” volunteer cartographers identify roads, paths, and buildings in remote areas and their own backyards. Then, experienced editors verify each element. Chances are, you use an OSM-sourced map every day without realizing it: Foursquare, Craigslist, Pinterest, Etsy, and Uber all use it in their direction services.
(9) Plan, Practice, Improvise - Understanding the Three Types of Play in Games - Extra Credits - YouTube
Successful game design requires focus, which means the designer must understand what types of play best suits their game and make sure that all the game mechanics support it. Planned gameplay allows many different solutions but gives players time to review their options, practice gameplay encourages strategic thinking within fixed maps or rules, and improvised gameplay forces players think on the fly to adapt to random elements.
(9) What Is a Game? - How This Question Limits Our Medium - Extra Credits - YouTube
What makes something a game? Ultimately, the answer is too complex to be used as a neat and tidy, gatekeeping classification between genres or types of players.
Handheld History : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
A handheld game console is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls, and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the console, screen, speakers, and controls in one unit, allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place. In 1976, Mattel introduced the first handheld electronic game with the release of Auto Race. Later, several companies—including Coleco and Milton Bradley—made their own single-game, lightweight table-top or handheld electronic game devices. The oldest true handheld game console with interchangeable cartridges is the Milton Bradley Microvision in 1979.
This Mesmerizing Animation Consists of Google Earth Satellite Photos
Photographer Páraic McGloughlin took Google Earth satellite photos and strung them together into this extremely fast-paced animation titled Arena. The lines and shapes seen from a bird’s-eye view are used to create movement in the frame. “It was quite a monotonous process of searching for specific images,” McGloughlin tells PetaPixel. “The animation itself was relatively easy, but the searching took time!”
Migrating Wikispaces Content to Wordpress - Random Bits & Bytes Blog
When we found out that Wikispaces was shutting down in the near future we decided to start looking at alternatives. We both did a lot of research and I did a lot of installing of various wiki’s in an attempt to try to import our wiki into them, with no success. In a few cases a person more well-versed in a particular wiki format and command line options for its obscure import software may have been able to do the job but I was not.
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent ones—collected users’ personal data without even trying. But one worth revisiting today, in the context of the scandal over Facebook’s sanctioning of user-data exfiltration via its application platform. It’s not just that abusing the Facebook platform for deliberately nefarious ends was easy to do (it was). But worse, in those days, it was hard to avoid extracting private data, for years even, without even trying. I did it with a silly cow game.
Is Your Empathy Determined by Your Genes? | Greater Good Magazine
In this divided world, there is a growing interest in cultivating empathy—in populations ranging from preschoolers to police officers. And for good reason: Studies suggest that, besides increasing kind and helpful behavior and making the world a better place to live, empathy contributes to our relationships and career success. But where does empathy come from? Is it mostly taught by parents, teachers, and community? Or is it an innate personality trait determined by genetics? A recent study, conducted by Martin Melchers of the University of Bonn, Elisabeth Hahn of Saarland University, and colleagues and published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, sought to answer these questions. By using multiple ways of measuring empathy in 742 twins and adult siblings, the study provides some new insights into empathy’s origins.
Accessible tips for people to protect their privacy
Conversations about privacy and security often focus on technology and give scant attention to the human, non-technological factors that affect personal privacy. This post covers a range of concrete steps we can all take to regain control over what, when, and with whom we share. Some of the things we discuss will involve technology, and some of them won't. The majority of the suggestions we make involve tools or practices that are freely available. The vast majority of things we suggest are also designed to be accessible without a large amount of technical knowledge. The steps we outline here are intended as a solid starting point, and not a comprehensive solution, but with that said, the steps we define here minimize or eliminate many common issues.
Developing the Star Wars opening crawl in HTML/CSS
Even though Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a divisive movie (which is not the point of this article, I promise), it inspired me to develop the most useless thing of all: the franchise's famous opening crawl using solely HTML, CSS and a little bit of Javascript (but for a cool reason).
It's not your average video game. Imagine it's 1979. Revolution is brewing and you're on the streets of Tehran experiencing it all from the perspective of a young photographer named Reza. The game 1979: Revolutionis one of a growing number of so-called empathy games that aims to give players a real understanding of what it's like to get caught up in a revolution, or live life as a transwoman, or have a young child with cancer.
