VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts. We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists... We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.

Apparently the whole NY State of health system is down, so once again I cannot buy health insurance.

🙌🙌 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217...

I will never understand why Finder defaults are so bad, this is what you see when using a File input in browser. You can't navigate up or down the directory tree, just a dropdown select. If you have multiple directories with same name, you just have to guess??

🚨🚨🚨 NEW YORK TIMES TECH GUILD STRIKES 🚨🚨🚨 Please help hold the picket line digitally too ✊: • No reading or linking to NYT articles • No Games: you don't need that Wordle streak • No Cooking, Athletic, or Wirecutter either

The New York Times Tech Guild is on strike, and are asking the public to supporting them by avoiding using the NYT’s games or cooking apps. I plan to observe the picket line for the duration. Solidarity is more important than a streak. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you couldn't make it to Berlin earlier this week, you can watch my Public Interest Internet talk online: streameth.org/web3summit/w... The tl;dr is: • Doing tech right means doing democracy. • Democracy isn't what you think it is. • Don't shred squirrels.

Excited to see Noēma publishing this from @mariafarrell.bsky.social and I (with a much bigger contribution from Maria). The internet, and us with it, suffers under extraction & monoculture. We can revitalise it by applying lessons from conservation ecology. www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

the underlying web platform infrastructure and environment to make things like this more reasonably possible has been slowly but surely progressing. here's a summary of the state of custom protocol support in browsers/engines today. there's some interesting stuff in the works.

The official Redux docs link to tweets from Dan Abramov, He restricts his account, so these discussions are now limited. This would be a good case to use Pin Tweet to IPFS chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pin-t...

How did I miss this www.w3.org/groups/wg/au...

We've launched our fundraiser shop for Don't Forget the Streets Harm Reduction! shop.dontforgetthestreets.com For more info on the org checkout our Open Collective opencollective.com/dont-forget-...

"Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex" by Sophia Giovannitti Powerful, wide-ranging memoir/theories from the illuminating perspective of selling art and sex. I'm looking for a way to say "all over the place but in a very good way."

OH: "who's the GG Allin of open source?"

Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement. berjon.com/bigger-brows...

Asmr

If you're looking for transcripts for the most important antitrust trial of our time: thecapitolforum.com/google_antit...

“Why did we get PredPol? I guess we wanted to be more effective when it came to reducing crime...I don’t believe we really used it that often, if at all. That’s why we ended up getting rid of it.” -Captain David Guarino of the Plainfield PD Read this scathing investigation into predictive policing:

New York City will deploy the K5, a "fully autonomous" security robot, in the Times Square subway station, the city's busiest underground transit hub. Armed with four cameras, the K5 is part of Mayor Eric Adams's push for more law-enforcement technology. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/n...

506 days, 275 comments and thousands of build failure emails later... @ipfs.tech address support merged in curl. github.com/curl/curl... thanks Mark Gaiser, Badger and many others.