Timo Tijhof @krinkle@mastodon.technology

Firefox Privacy: 2021 update

https://privacyguides.org/blog/2021/12/01/firefox-privacy-2021-update/

Closing the open redirect vulnerability in the Libravatar ecosystem
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/libravatar-open-redirect.html#src=mastodon

Well, this is interesting:

UK orders Facebook to sell Giphy, rejects Meta’s proposed merger conditions

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1816906

Announcing chat.sr.ht: a persistent IRC session for sourcehut users

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-11-29-announcing-the-chat.sr.ht-public-beta/

I started some notes about what it would take to get rid of this from PHP, code-wise it's literally one line. But of course the real battle is convincing people it's a misfeature that is actively harmful.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Legoktm/0

“Complexity is killing software developers - InfoWorld”

Related to my Software Crisis 2.0 essay. Dev in general has taken a wrong turn. Possibly several. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html

Daniel’s weekly report November 26, 2021 https://bagder.github.io/log/
Microsoft, oss-fuzz, Baldur's gate3, hyper headers, hair-tearing, curl-www, proselint.

And now it's… Springtime For Crypto

You've heard of the AI Winter, right? The period where funding for AI dried up due to products failing to meet their hype. I think we're now in Springtime For Crypto1 - named after the musical "Springtime for Hitler" from movie The Producers - where scams abound.

You should take a couple of hours to watch The Producers. Either the 1

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/and-now-its-springtime-for-crypto/

#/etc/ #blockchain #crypto #NaBloPoMo #scam

Users of linux distros, what is your preferred package format when not using your distro's repositories?

If you prefer something not listed please reply.

Boosts welcome.

International expressions for something that happens rarely:

* Once in a blue moon (English).
* Once in a Hungarian year (Czech).
* Once in a Russian year (Polish).
* Once between the harvest of grapes and the harvest of pears (Spanish).

* Every death of a pope (Italian: "ogni morte di papa").

😅

H/T @ladsgroup
#english #word #linguistics

[Full-time] Test Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10759/test-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs

WordFest Live’s call for speakers is still open and we need your pitches. You do have a story to tell and it doesn’t matter if that story is technical, beginner level, advanced or anything else. It’s valid. Submit it here and tell the world. https://www.wordfest.live/2022/march/call-for-speakers/

Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages

Link: https://searchengineland.com/twitter-rolls-back-amp-support-no-longer-sends-users-to-amp-pages-376168
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29268438

I wasn't sure what to expect. Was Marc going to colour in his political views on-air? Was he going to attack cancel culture? Or defend it?

I was quickly pleased to realise it's neither. 'Twas rather a refreshing depolarizing chat about what stuff means, what's changed, and what hasn't changed throughout the 1900s and late 1800s. History matters. Not to justify actions today, but to understand what worked, what didn't, what got better, and what hasn't (yet). #podcasts

https://overcast.fm/+c5X5gLewo

The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/

#unicode #js #security

This might be one of my best shot yet

@ajroach42

Some current #podcasts I enjoy:
- Akimbo.
- More or Less.
- Song Exploder.
- Cortex.

Past timeless podcasts:
- 13 Minutes to the Moon, by Kevin Fong.
- 50 Things Modern Economy, by Tim Harford.
- Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins.
- You're Wrong About.
- David Tennant Does A Podcast.

🔗 The Twelve-Factor App

Each time I come back to this doc I appreciate its advice even more. https://12factor.net/