Daniel @da@mastodon.technology

Break up the YouTube Premium bundle, lower the price, and give me an ad-free only option.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/youtube-premium-unbundle.html#src=mastodon

Image retention/ghosting lasting up to 5 months on my Philips 4K monitor.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/philips-4k-image-retention.html#src=mastodon

Whenever a service promises “military-grade encryption”, just close the tab. It’s a meaningless phrase that is only used by services selling snake-oil.

Why I developed my own email newsletter system instead of using MailChimp or #opensource options like phpList. #selfhosted
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/email-newsletter.html#src=mastodon

World of Warcraft: Classic – Hell is other people.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/wow-classic-people.html#src=mastodon

Opera Unite tried decentralizing the web 10 years ago with a virtual fridge, file sharing, and other self-hosted webapps. #dweb #selfhosted
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/opera-unite.html#src=mastodon

How to use AddToAny as a fallback for the native Web Share API while preserving privacy-by-default.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/addtoany-web-share.html#src=mastodon

What should you <link rel=dns-prefetch> and when to use preconnect instead. Also, Firefox doesn’t support this performance optimization on HTTPS websites. 20% of HTTPS websites deploy it, though. #webperf
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dns-prefetch-preconnect.html#src=mastodon

Risks in renting your PC to FluidStack for “up to $50/month”.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fluidstack-cloud-residential-isp.html#src=mastodon

The Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cubbit-home-datacenter.html#src=mastodon

All the spam I’ve received in the last few days starts off with “Dear patrons”. I guess SpamAssasin and its cousins have been trained on that as a particularly non-spammy greeting.

Is it just me or does “The Unicode Consortium” sound like an evil and oppressive organization from a sci-fi novel? I’m all for their work, but they sound hella evil for being the group in charge of standardizing what (the characters, glyphs, and symbols) we communicate.

Evolution of the Scrollbar #UX #design
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/

Russia internet: Law introducing new censorship controls comes into force. #Runet
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50259597

Why pay for Grammarly Premium when you’re the one doing all the work?
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/grammarly-free-labor.html#src=mastodon

I can’t decide if I should set my pretty face as the profile photo here or not.

New feature in Firefox 71: It can now consume all my 32 GB of RAM when I double-click the address field while it’s also decoding a video.

Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based web recommendations.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/web-discovery.html#src=mastodon

This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
(reviewing the claims in VPN ads)