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
Have a nice day! 🙂
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?
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/03/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility/
What is the difference between the US Capitol and Mordor?
One does not simply walk into Mordor.
Thanks, reddit!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ksy0qs/whats_the_difference_between_the_us_capitol_and/
"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."
https://ylukem.com/blog/url-shorteners-set-ad-tracking-cookies
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!"
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/
Facebook says it fights for small businesses—but studies on the shadow business of behavioral advertising show that this is just not true. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small
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"
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.
"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.
https://css-tricks.com/accessibility-and-web-performance-are-not-features-theyre-the-baseline/
“ 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 😉
"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.
https://www.ruby3.dev/the-art-of-code/2020/11/12/ruby-3-monumental/
Standard Ebooks looks like a pretty cool collection of public domain ebooks:
> "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."
This SaaS company made their homepage cookie-free: https://blog.leavemealone.app/no-more-cookies/
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:
https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/
#youtubedl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
Wow, add this to the list of reasons to de-Google your life: “Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings” https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html When this person closes Chrome, data is cleared for other sites, but retained for Google and YouTube domains.
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 https://www.socialcooling.com/