convert TTF to WOFF2 on Fedora Linux

WOFF

For the older WOFF format (which I needed in order to have the font show up on a really old browser) the tool is sfnt2woff-zopfli.

Install and run with:

sudo dnf install sfnt2woff-zopfli 
sfnt2woff-zopfli example.ttf 

References

Converting TTF fonts to WOFF2 (and WOFF) - DEV Community (covers cloning and building from source)

How to Convert Font Formats to WOFF under Linux (compares several conversion tools)

typefaces that aren’t on this blog (yet?)

Related

colophon (This site mostly uses Modern Font Stacks but has some Inconsolata.)

Bonus links

The AI bill Newsom didn’t veto — AI devs must list models’ training data From 2026, companies that make generative AI models available in California need to list their models’ training sets on their websites — before they release or modify the models. (The California Chamber of Commerce came out against this one, citing the technical difficulty in complying. They’re probably right, especially considering that under the CCPA, businesses are required to disclose inferences about people (PDF) and it’s hard to figure out which inferences are present in a large ML model.)

Antitrust challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ finally wraps in Germany — with Meta agreeing to data limits Meta has to offer a cookie setting that allows Facebook and Instagram users’ data to decide whether they want to allow it to combine their data with other information Meta collects about them — via third-party websites where its tracking technologies are embedded or from apps using its business tools — or kept separate. but some of the required privacy+competition fixes must be Germany-only. (imho some US state needs a law that any privacy or consumer protection feature that a large company offers to users outside the US must also be available in that state.)

IAB, Others Urge Court To Reconsider Ruling That Curbed Section 230 10/10/2024 (Some background on this one: TikTok Inspired Child Suicide Prompts a Sound Reading of Section 230 The problem with this case from TikTok’s point of view is that Big Tech wants to keep claiming that its recommendation algorithms are somehow both the company’s own free speech and speech by users. But the Third Circuit is making them pick one. Given the Supreme Court’s observations that platforms engage in protected first-party speech under the First Amendment when they curate compilations of others’ content via their expressive algorithms, it follows that doing so amounts to first-party speech under § 230, too.)

California Privacy Act Sparks Website Tracking Technology Suits (This is a complicated one. Lawsuit accuses a company of breaking not one, not two, but three California privacy laws. And the California Constitution, too. Motion to dismiss mostly denied (PDF). Including a CCPA claim. Yes, there is a CCPA private right of action. CCPA claims survive a motion to dismiss where a plaintiff alleges that defendants disclosed plaintiff’s personal information without his consent due to the business’s failure to maintain reasonable security practices. In this case, Google Analytics tracking on a therapy site. I have some advice on how to get out in front of this kind of case, will share later.)

Digital Scams More Likely to Hurt Black and Latino Consumers - Consumer Reports Compounding the problem, experts believe, is that Black and Latino consumers are disproportionately targeted by a wide variety of digital scams. (This is a big reason why the I have nothing to hide argument about privacy doesn’t work. When a user who is less likely to be discriminated against chooses to participate in a system with personalization risks, that user’s information helps make user-hostile personalization against others work better. Privacy is a collective problem.)

ClassicPress: WordPress without the block editor [LWN.net] Once installed (or migrated), ClassicPress looks and feels like old-school WordPress.

Google never cared about privacy It was a bit of a tell how the DV360 product team demonstrated zero sense of urgency around making it easier for some buyers to test Privacy Sandbox, let alone releasing test results to prove it worked. The Chrome cookie deprecation delays, the inability of any ad tech expert or observer to convincingly explain how Google could possibly regulate itself — all of these deserve renewed scrutiny, given what we now know. (Google Privacy Sandbox was never offered as an option for YouTube, either. The point of janky in-browser ads is to make the slick YouTube ads, which have better reporting, look better to advertisers who have to allocate budget between open web and YouTube.)

Taylor Swift: Singer, Songwriter, Copyright Innovator [R]ecord companies are now trying to prohibit re-recordings for 20 or 30 years, not just two or three. And this has become a key part of contract negotiations. Will they get 30 years? Probably not, if the lawyer is competent. But they want to make sure that the artist’s vocal cords are not in good shape by the time they get around to re-recording.