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jish  

I'm just posting this as a test for myself.

I wanted to see what HTTP Referrer and User Agent are set from various Mastodon clients. Feel free to ignore this link

httpbin.org/headers

Have a nice day! 🙂

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Eugen  

I'm just thinking about this blog post I wrote in 2018. Because even when Twitter makes a good decision, the first sentence comes to mind: Why does the entire world have to wait on the CEO of one US company to make a decision?

blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/03/

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Mr. Matt :fedora: :linux:  

What is the difference between the US Capitol and Mordor? 

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Thanks, reddit!
reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ks

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Peter O  

"Don’t use URL shorteners. And if you click on a link from a URL shortener, [use] tools like the Temporary Containers Firefox extension to limit the scope of ad tracking."
ylukem.com/blog/url-shorteners

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Thomas, Computer Wrangler  
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jish  

Ruby 3.0 was released on Christmas as usual.

> "With Optcarrot benchmark, which measures single thread performance based on NES’s game emulation workload, it achieved 3x faster performance than Ruby 2.0!"

ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Facebook says it fights for small businesses—but studies on the shadow business of behavioral advertising show that this is just not true. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/face

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jish  

Battle tested, mature, robust technology usually beats out whatever new technology is trending this month.

Remember there are a lot of people using "old" technology that works for them, since it just works they don't necessarily talk about it every day.

"Old is Solid; New Gets Talked About"

css-tricks.com/old-is-solid-ne

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Jos Yule  

Just spent some time figuring out how to optimize the images on my blog. Have been thinking about low-bandwith/power folks and how i can make my site more palatable to those with those kinds of needs. Just resizing got me an order of magnitude size improvement. Because i was lazy, i just put up the full size images, and displayed them smaller. No longer -- full sized images available via a click on the smaller ones. Thanks to @neauoire , lowtechmagazine.com and solarpunks for the insight.

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jish  

"Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline"

I totally agree, performance and accessibility aren't afterthoughts. If they're missing they're a sign of negligence.

css-tricks.com/accessibility-a

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jish  

“ If you updated your switch to 11.0, you are now sharing data through Google Analytics (again). You can change this in your profile in the new NSO applet.”

Good thing I put my Switch in airplane mode a long time ago and forgot to turn it off 😉

reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/co

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:ted: Ted Hart-Davis :breadified:  

yeah I use Arch btw

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jish  

"Why the release of Ruby 3 will be monumental" It's really just the next point release, but it represents so much progress since Ruby 2 in 2013.

ruby3.dev/the-art-of-code/2020

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jish  

Standard Ebooks looks like a pretty cool collection of public domain ebooks:

standardebooks.org/

> "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free."

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Stefano Zacchiroli  

Street art in #Paris is weird these days.
#Debian #GNU/#Linux

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jish  

This SaaS company made their homepage cookie-free: blog.leavemealone.app/no-more-

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Vortex Egg  

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the youtube-dl takedown also screwed over journalists who relied on it for archival and analysis purposes:

freedom.press/news/riaa-github

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Eugen  

#youtubedl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

github.com/github/dmca/blob/ma

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jish  

Wow, add this to the list of reasons to de-Google your life: “Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings” lapcatsoftware.com/articles/ch When this person closes Chrome, data is cleared for other sites, but retained for Google and YouTube domains.

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I've never heard the term "Social Cooling", but I have definitely felt a chilling effect and changed my behavior online out of fear of being monitored socialcooling.com/

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