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Every so often I appreciate how important key #opensource and open tech is to my life and work: #Signal #Wordpress #Firefox #ActivityPub #Mastodon - and even old-fashioned email.
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Happy Anniversary to RSS 2.0.
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“Technology is not just ripping apart the social fabric, it’s replacing our social fabric with something much more brittle.”
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Good: very important not to trade one silo for another: “Linux Foundation…to form the OpenWallet Foundation, developing open-source interoperability for digital wallets by Okta, Accenture, and more.” is.gd/y4Zu8c #crypto
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Wishing Steve Teixeira well as Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. Deeply want Firefox focused like a laser on privacy, freedom from ad tech, and performance. blog.mozilla.org/en/produc…
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This is cool, I had not seen this before when it was announced: “Firefox Translations: Firefox’s offline translate feature is making progress…” www.ghacks.net/2022/05/3…
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“I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already.” https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544
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Firefox 104 has been released and includes a handful of new features, including an option to analyze the power usage of specific websites. mzl.la/3AKhuJu
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Whistleblower: #Twitter misled investors, FTC and underplayed spam issues. t.co/wsNPpfhpy…
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“TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns..” A comparative analysis of major apps puts TikTok at the top for concerning behaviors…" techcrunch.com/2022/08/1…
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“Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap …‘Billions and billions poured into it and this is the result.'” https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerbergs-metaverse-crap?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=futurism
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September 18 is the 20th anniversary of RSS 2.0, the neglected heart of so many #openweb technologies…. scripting.com/2022/07/1…
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A feature no one (but the political advertisers and political spammers) want. #google www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Hope so: “With FIDO2, is a passwordless future on the horizon? ‘The solution seems to lie with a partnership between FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'” - thestack.technology/passwordl…
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“Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine….Russia has been pushing away from the global Internet at a rapid pace.” arstechnica.com/informati…
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Good. #Facebook/Meta has been gobbling up every VR company they can to keep them away from developing for the future Apple AR/VR device, whatever it will be… finance.yahoo.com/news/us-f…
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Because, of course, they did. “Report: #Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browsers' Anti-Tracking Measures.” tech.slashdot.org/story/22/…
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Agreed.
“My favorite forms of content discovery are still rooted in manually reviewing things:
- RSS (with @feedly)
- Newsletters
- Trusted friends who know your cultural interests
Anything surfaced via algorithms is hit or miss or served for platform-benefit reasons.”
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One more silo, on its way to dying. Bye, #Medium. So much better to go with open, indieweb, or federated solutions for long-form blogging. #microdotblog #writeas www.nytimes.com/2022/07/1…
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“Matt Mullenweg thinks #Tumblr can be a better #Twitter than Twitter ever was.” techcrunch.com/2022/07/0…
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“Everything written on the web is rotting away behind us at a staggering rate….53% of all New York Times articles from 1996 and mid-2019 had at least one link that no longer works. Another 13% of links point to content that is altered.” is.gd/KJDVci
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It was fifteen years ago today that the very first #iPhone first went on sale.
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“Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America…We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing.” https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/24/big_tech_post_roe_wade/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=article&utm_source=twitter
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1400+ #Opensource, and free #SVG #icons: tablericons.com
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“#Apple uses its power over browsers to strip-mine and sabotage the #web, hurting all engine projects and draining the web of future potential.” infrequently.org/2022/06/a…
