byron @byronalley@mastodon.social

Disabling Pocket in Firefox should not require going to about:config and clicking past a warning that would scare off non-technical users.

#mozilla #firefox

10 years later people actually think that it was #Google who nobly entered the browser wars to fight #Microsoft dominance.

https://lobste.rs/s/2jyxva/ex_edge_developer_blames_google_tricks#c_xuqcsq

As if #Mozilla didn't exist for the 10 years before that, keeping the very notion of multi-browser #web alive and gaining share from <1% to ~30%. #Chrome was a late-comer.

which isn't to say that new technology doesn't alter displace creative labor, because it obviously does that (and has for thousands of years). but there's a reason that it takes twenty minutes for the credits of a pixar movie to scroll past, and I think it's at least partially because the availability of automated tools opens up larger possibility spaces for sophisticated and interesting creative choices

Reminder to take your meds if you haven't! Take care of yourselves.

This is a portrait made entirely from vanilla HTML and CSS - no SVG, no frameworks. It's crazy good.

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-pink

Australia rushes its anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive opposition https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/australia-rushes-its-dangerous-anti-encryption-bill-into-parliament/

You can now give the profile directory feature a test run on mastodon.social! To opt-in, navigate to "edit profile" and check the box "list this account on the directory"

If you have any hashtags in your bio, your profile will be listed under those. Directory page:

https://mastodon.social/explore

Be aware it's very new and there might be bugs. Feedback welcome, hopefully this feature will be useful!

Tech debt is a very real thing. We tend to think of it as purely bad, but debt isn't bad when you're borrowing to buy a house. Same with borrowing a little tech debt in the name of shipping quickly. The key is to understand how much you're borrowing.

Mozilla's take on the Edge news.

"By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google... We compete with Google not because it’s a good business opportunity. We compete with Google because the health of the internet and online life depend on competition and choice."

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/

#Tinder : des millions de données intimes vendues par un Data Broker

Tinder, #OkCupid, Match.com, Plenty of Fish... les données personnelles de millions d'utilisateurs de sites de rencontre sont en vente sur le web.

https://www.lebigdata.fr/tinder-data-broker

#privacy #infosec #donneespersonnelles

Here Are the Most Outrageous Incentives Cities Offered Amazon in Their HQ2 Bids https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-hq2-finalist-cities-incentives-airport-lounge

Canonical extends Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS support to 10 years!

These news elevate Ubuntu to even more enterprise-friendly Linux distribution. LTS= Long Term Support.

Businesses care about stability; the latest and greatest features not so much.

They care about once something is set up and working that it keeps working for as long as possible.

Smart, Canonical, now that Winblows 10 just keeps destroying itself.

==> https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html
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#Ubuntu #Canonical #LTS #Linux #10yearsupport

Russia: Now everyone who uses a messaging app must be identifiable

New decree means messaging services will have to check users' registration data with their mobile operator.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-now-everyone-who-uses-a-messaging-app-must-be-identifiable/

#privacy

attention to people dual booting windows 10 with linux: windows 10 is doing a fun thing where if windows update needs more room for said updates, it will *delete other partitions on the hard drive*

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-update-delete-linux/

Hey, qualitative researchers! Try out the first release of this *FREE* and *OPEN SOURCE* qualitative research tool, Taguette!

This is the first ever release of Taguette and dev is ongoing. You can read more: https://taguette.fr/ & look at the roadmap: https://gitlab.com/remram44/taguette/issues

Installers for macOS and Windows are here: https://taguette.fr/install.html and so are installation instructions for folks on Linux!

From the article :

On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps...Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue... most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest.
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In a democracy, it is difficult to win fellow citizens over to your own side, or to build public support to remedy injustices that remain all too real, when you fundamentally misunderstand how they see the world.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/

#qoto #reachacross #uspol

20GB+ of completely free reference photos. Use 'em for commercial or personal projects. No attribution required.

gum.co/reference

« Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World by @glynmoody. We need a free software mobile operating system. Is it eelo? »

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/now-time-start-planning-post-android-world

#android #eelo #mobile #freesoftware #FOSS #opensource #Linux