06 Oct 2024 Search

Intent IQ Has Patents For Ad Tech’s Most Basic Functions – And It’s Not Afraid To Use Them (Wait a minute. If Firefox is part of the Open Innovation Network’s Linux System definition, and Firefox has ads now, does that mean OIN covers this?) 🍿

New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. Community-owned broadband networks provide faster, cheaper, better service than their larger private-sector counterparts. Staffed by locals, they’re also more directly accountable and responsive to the needs of locals

So It Goes GHQ is a board game invented by Kurt Vonnegut in 1956. GHQ is to WWII what chess is to the Medieval battlefield.

The Other Bubble While SaaS is generally a good deal for small-to-mid-sized companies, the inevitable sprawl of letting SaaS into your organization means that you’re stuck with them.

Oskar Wickström: How I Built “The Monospace Web” (fun with CSS, cool vintage style serious-looking design)

Posse: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Rather than publishing a post onto someone else’s servers on Twitter or Mastodon or Bluesky or Threads or whichever microblogging service will inevitably come along next, the posts are published locally to a service you control.

Best practices in practice: Black, the Python code formatter I don’t have to explain what they got wrong and why it matters — they don’t even need to understand what happens when the auto-formatter runs. It just cleans things up and we move on with life.

EPIC Publishes Model Privacy Bill as Practical Solution for States (everyone ready for the 2025 privacy bill season next year? There are still some practical problems with this draft—I can see how opting out of every company that might have your data getting to be a big time suck under this. Needs to be simplified to the point where it’s practical IMHO.)

What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam (you know that thing where you add reddit to your web search to find honest reviews?)

Valve Steam Deck as a stepping stone to the Linux desktop Thanks to the technology behind Steam Desk, however, you can now play Windows games on Linux without any fuss or muss. (of course, all the growth hacking on Microsoft® brand Windows might help, too)

A layered approach to content blocking Chromium’s Manifest v3 includes the declarativeNetRequest API, which delegates these functions to the browser rather than the extension. Doing so avoids the timing issues visible in privileged extensions and does not require giving the extension access to the page. While these filters are more reliable and improve privilege separation, they are also substantially weaker. You can say goodbye to more advanced anti-adblock circumvention techniques. (Good info on the tradeoffs in Manifest v3, and a possible way forward, with simpler/more secure and complex/more featureful blocking both available to the user)

(If you’re still bored after reading all these, how about trying some effective privacy tips?)