Has there actually been any attempt at drafting a version of Web Bluetooth that tries to address concerns shown by WebKit and Mozilla? I did a quick draft at something similar to CORS but for devices.

@eurosky.social PDSes have arrived!

so #00000080 on #fff = 127 and #ffffff80 on #000 = 127.5! that makes more sense now, thanks! I also found it in the spec for others interested! www.w3.org/TR/compositi...

The formula is: (foreground * alpha/0xff) + (background * (1 - alpha/0xff) foreground = 0, white=0xff So (0 * 1) + (1 * (255 - 128) = 0 + 127 In other words, the max is 255 and not 256, and what's multiplied is the background with the inverse, so you get 127 and not 128.

The 32 bit color system in short hex form. 1 byte / 8 bits for every channel (red, green, blue, alpha) 8 bits = 2^8 = 256 (0 to 255) Short hex form in CSS color duplicates every hex digit when resolved. #1234 = #11223344 (rgba)

This is wrong. USA needs to get their shit together and we need to stop relying on you. I guess I really should start moving away from Apple devices once and for all.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Trump with a straight face: Denmark can't claim Greenland just because "they had a boat land there 500 years ago"

When you have a president that necessitates these kinds of laws, then it’s not exactly a good state of affairs

NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...

Has it always been like this? That polarization, generalization and accusations is the name of the game in every scenario where more than one view, perspective or opinion can be had? It’s like arguing with a marketing ad “I’m the best, everyone else are the worst. I have only benefits. They none.”

If Donald Trump / USA don’t “need” international law and cooperation then the rest of the world don’t need or can rely on Donald Trump / USA. This is damaging for California, New York and other engines of the US economy and its becoming a moral and existential obligation for them to act / withdraw

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The true modularity will come when we have a modular system that’s backed by more than a single vendor. Framework, Fairphone, these, maybe even Raspberry Pi and MNT Reform – they should collaborate on defining open vendor neutral standards for laptop modularity.

Cue the “AI is killing OSS” takes… I get the sentiment, but as much as we should push back the corporate rhetoric of “AI layoffs”, we should also refrain from using it as a scapegoat, to be consistent.

If there are any tech journalists with credibility, they could prove it by asking Apple and Google if nonconsensual fake porn imagery is allowed in the apps in their stores. And if not, ask why the X app is still there.

This feels at odds with open source principles?

Longevity 🥳

We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events. Take a look and tell us who else should be there. go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9

Same here, people should be able to infer that it’s me who is writing it anyway and if they can’t, then so be it.

'This is already the Putin model: authoritarian rule that enables smash-and-grab oligarchy by those in the regime’s good favor. Trump is making it unusually explicit that in this sphere of influence, Trump-approved oligarchs will be enriched" newrepublic.com/article/2049... via @newrepublic.com

Spoiler: no. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq6vg2j6pndo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Dev Containers are a really great thing, especially in large teams and complex setups. Too bad MacOS still doesn’t provide native good containerization.

This is a good move

I mainly blame the addiction to complexity in today's software. Something simple is not sexy and doesn't appeal to stakeholders. 🫤 www.saismo.at/writing/comp...

It’s crazy how something as simple as independently sharing a playlist as a file has become practically impossible today, no streaming apps making it easy to import playlists like that?!

This is 100% how I feel too. Absolutely extraordinary how self-destructive the entire American right is right now, and how determined they are to take us all with them.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control.

No matter Trump’s stupidity/ dangerous behavior and how that affects us over here, we are not flawless ourselves, preparing to start putting kids into prison and such preparations includes making sure to “allow teddy bears” in the kid’s prison cells. Yep, our current government is also pretty crazy

Publicly traded companies are kind of enslaved to the stock market’s valuation of them, but the stock market’s valuation is I guess based on high frequency trading predictions and other algorithmic and AI based predictions, so in a way they are enslaved – at least partially – by AI itself.

A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis sparked by Trump over Greenland. Danes told me that the US can already do whatever it wants on the island. Their conclusion: Trump just wants the U.S. to look larger on a map www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

More countries really need to outlaw ministerial rule (“ministerstyre”) as Sweden and Finland does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministe... It’s not enough to ban ministers from interfering with the judicial system, they should not interfere in day to day matters at all, only laws should govern that.

Trump is using USA to great great precedents for Putin and other totalitarian regimes. With allies like that the rest of the western world needs no enemies. I hope all Americans truly realize the extent of damage that Trump is doing to the respect for international law etc.

«Expert on US attack on Venezuela: 'We should be enormously concerned in Denmark'» «we in Denmark should be extremely concerned when we see how far the Americans are willing to go militarily.» Nobody is looking at this as an ally, everyone is looking at this as a potential target.

“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News

”För omvärlden är det en bekräftelse på att USA inte är att räkna med som en uppbackare av folkrätten, utan har sällat sig till Kina och Ryssland i en internationell ordning där stormakterna fördelar världen mellan sig i inflytelsezoner.” Läs Michael Winiarski: www.dn.se/varlden/mich...

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Genuinely wonder how European and Irish leaders do respond to this. How are Denmark, Greenland or indeed the people of Ukraine and Taiwan feeling too?

1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination. 2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan. 3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.

My question is who the fuck is next? If he’s now just doing this shit without any oversight at all, and with absolutely no one stopping him, why *wouldn’t* he invade Canada? Why *wouldn’t* he invade Greenland? Why *wouldn’t* he take back the Panama Canal?!

Generated a @littlesnitch rule group from the VS Code docs on common hostnames + made it PR me when I need to update it: https://github.com/voxpelli/lsrules

Happy new year from the Baltic Sea and yet another ”not-at-all-hybrid-warfare-by-shadow-fleet” damage to underwater cables!

”Do you translate Swedish words to English to help you out as a non-native English speaker?” Well, I do translate English words to Swedish as well because I forget how to express it in Swedish 😂

DRM-free game platform GOG is spinning off from CD POJEKT. Founder Michał Kiciński is acquiring GOG and will run it as a standalone company, while continuing to partner to offer CD PROJEKT RED games, among others. www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-...

A good reminder that eg Mastodon / ActivityPub has clear heritage dating back to @chrismessina.me, @willnorris.com and others in 2007/2008 and with people like @tantek.com.web.brid.gy, @blaine.bsky.social and many others also being active in discussions etc

Stumbled upon an old export of my Google Buzz posts (which seems to mostly be the articles I shared with commentary in Google Reader back then) and one nugget was this @devongovett.me post from 2010 about checking out that new npm thing:

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

In the context of this it can be wise to remind ourselves that after Edge and Opera ditched their own browser engines in favor of Chrome’s we currently only really have three main browser engines: - Safari / WebKit - Firefox / Gecko - Chrome / Blink We need them all to focus on improving the web

We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.