“Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”

• Niven, Larry. “Cloak of Anarchy.” <u>Analog</u> Mar. 1972. 26 Mar 2026 <<a href=“https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml”>https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml</a>>.

Yeah, it’s a story set in San Diego, not San Francisco, but no science fiction fan will fail to make the connection. It’s all there: hippies, repurposed freeways, drones, anarchists, gangs.

Wrote my own digest of NOAA text products. It’s a URL: Gnashtooth’s Weather. Needs US Zip Code. Then bookmark the details page to return. Also, there is a current-conditions page:

    LAFAYETTE PURDUE UNIV AIRPORT (KLAF)
    Temperature:    24.1°F
    Dewpoint:       12.0°F
    Wind:           NNE at 3 mph
    Visibility:     Unlimited
    Sky:            Mostly clear
    Barometer:      30.44 inHg
    
    Recorded: Sat 07 Feb 2026 11:54 AM Etc/GMT+5 (Sat 07 Feb 2026 16:54 PM Etc/UTC)

    en: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLAF.TXT

And there is a one-liner. You can include the one-liner in your eMail sig if your mail user agent (MUA) allows a shell script. Just download and print:

    24° — Wind NNE at 3 mph. Sky mostly clear.`

Boy howdy, do I have just the script for you!

https://pypi.org/project/clanker_score/

Full disclosure: It doesn’t work. But the idea is nice: … that you could — perhaps in real life — identify AI-generated content. … so I wrote a framework that purports to do that.

Keyword density is not the only measure of gloss. There are others that have been developed to measure ratios between parts of speech. Unfortunately none of these distinguish sharply between pages that naturally convey genuine information and pages that have been designed to convey fluff for ulterior purposes. It is unlikely that combining measures of gloss will result in a tool that discriminates much better than keyword density by itself.

• Piskorski, Jakub, Marcin Sydow, and Weiss Weiss. “Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study.” Airweb '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Ed. Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, and Dennis Fetterly. New York: ACM, Apr. 2008. 25-28. ISBN:9781605581590. DOI:10.1145/1451983. 09 Nov. 2025 https://users.pja.edu.pl/~msyd/lingFeat08draft.pdf.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer2&hl=en-US

I’m always hiding my internet activity from others.

Me, too. What’s wrong with us?

I think the less stressful approach is limiting Internet activity altogether rather than obsessing about whether or not what I’m up to is hidden well enough. For example, you could write your own software. I, myself, obsess about whether or not my python scripts actually work instead of inveigling my friends to encrypt everything they put in the Cloud. See, for example:

• https://pypi.org/project/tonto2/

Tell me more about these cow orks.

The correct term is cow-orker (n. sing. masc.). See also, http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/cow_orker.html

I recommend my python script, Tonto2.

• https://pypi.org/project/tonto2/

What does Tonto2 do?

It keeps lists.

You can use lists to keep in touch with family, friends, and cow-orkers.

Tonto2 keeps four kinds of lists:

• You can use an address list to keep track of contacts’ phone numbers, mailing addresses, and eMail addresses.

• You can use a calendar to remind you about events and appointments including date, time, and duration. You can add notes about finding the location and other prerequisites to attendance.

• You can keep separate passwords in a password list for every website you visit and every piece of gear you own.

• You can keep links to favorite websites in a bookmark list.

Additionally you can make a list of bibliographic entries for writing research papers and for saving well-formatted footnotes for Web sites, but this is an arcane topic that will probably not be of general interest.

The information in these lists is at your fingertips.

You own it, and you can keep it. You can share it piecemeal with other people and computers without having to trust anyone or any thing with the whole enchilada. This is the idea of Tonto2.

What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

There’s always RetroShare.