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By Fred Vogelstein and Om Malik @Onmyom:
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the technology revolutions that followed five years after 1996 and 2007 reshaped [..] business and society at large.Without the leverage of the free open source software on generic x86 servers, you don’t get [..] Google, Amazon, and Meta.
Without cheap hard drives to go into iPods, and cheap broadband to download music, you don’t get Apple's resurgence.
"""https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/what-to-expect-from-us-in-2025/
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David Beckham on Hot Ones:
"I love Lego"
I'm not into soccer, and enjoyed the look into what it's like to work for 20 years traveling the world and appreciating local foods.
Also covers how the "Be honest" meme came to be.
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Stratechery on Microsoft technology decisions in relation to Crowdstrike:
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3rd-party developers could do anything, including “patching the kernel” [..]
Two of the companies seizing this opportunity in the 2000s were Symantec and McAfee;
"""I find particularly interesting the way failure modes differ, fail closed vs fail open.
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The Great Flattening by Ben Thompson.
Ben makes the case that the Internet and various Apple products, aren't reductive, but rather empowering and positive. Decentralisation is at the core.
I believe this wasn't just Jobs-era marketing but a reality, one I and my family grew up benefiting from. GarageBand!
But, does Apple still believe that today? It seems with every release, my devices can do less with things I own, music, files, etc
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Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
Sam Kriss for the New York Times:
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According to the data, post-ChatGPT papers lean more on words like “underscore,” “highlight” and “showcase” than pre-ChatGPT papers [..] And “delve” [..] shot up by 2,700 percent.
"""#EmDash #linguistics #overfitting #ElaraVoss #LLM #NYTimes #SamKriss
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Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.
Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting
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Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.
Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting
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Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.
Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting
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Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.
Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting
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I maintain "Practical implications" lists where I map desktop/mobile devices/OSes to browsers they can reach.
This translates Safari 13+, Firefox 74+ to
* Moto 4, Pixel 1 (2016),
* iPhone 6S (2015),
* macOS 10.9 (2013-2016) with Firefox 78.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix
https://github.com/jquery/typesense-minibar#browser-support
See also these tables:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_operating_systems
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_operating_systems#browserstats #browsersupport #crossbrowsertesting #sustainability #RightToRepair
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This explains why an Android device from 2015 can't connect to modern sites secured by a Let's Encrypt cert.
But a much older 2010 MacBook or 2013 iPad, still can.
And that's with default built-ins, before we get to strategies like replacing IE/Safari with Firefox ESR (which can even enable Windows XP to browse the modern web), or replacing Google Android with PostmarketOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS
#PostmarketOS #LetsEncrypt #retrocomputing #LongTermSupport #PermaComputing
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Compare this to Apple, e.g. an iPad from 2013:
* ships iOS 7,
* runs new major iOS 12 from 2018,
* support updates to 2023.a MacBook or iMac from 2010:
* runs new major macOS release from 2016,
* with support updates to 2019.That's 5 new major releases you'll see, and 10 years of long-term support, e.g. a new TLS root cert for Let's Encrypt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_Mini_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_Apple_operating_system_releases
#LongTermSupport #AppleHistory #retrocomputing #oldIpad #PermaComputing
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Oatmeal is selling... what I can only call: an XKCD 303 re-enactment kit.
Foam sword and all!
("My code's compiling")
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Making The Indian Rupee Work For Humans and Databases
Marco Gaspari, at Etsy:
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Technically, the rupee is like the US or Canadian dollar: it has a fractional denomination equivalent to the penny, called a paisa. But paisa are [..] no longer in circulation.In practice, the rupee is more like the yen, its own (non-fractional) denomination.
"""https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/indian-rupee-users-database
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You'd think Google, having launched schema.org, knows how to produce valid schema.org metadata and HTML5.
YouTube: How about a `<span>` inside the head, and `<link rel=alternative>` inside the body?
HTML5 parsers:
Thanks, I'll take that span as your implied end of `<head>`, and raise you an implied start of `<body>`. Everything that follows is now part of the body.Context:
https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/902#issuecomment-2990075755#NetNewsWire #WebStandards #whatwg #HTML5 #schemaorg #google
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I maintain "Practical implications" lists where I map desktop/mobile devices/OSes to browsers they can reach.
This translates Safari 13+, Firefox 74+ to
* Moto 4, Pixel 1 (2016),
* iPhone 6S (2015),
* macOS 10.9 (2013-2016) with Firefox 78.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix
https://github.com/jquery/typesense-minibar#browser-support
See also these tables:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_operating_systems
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_operating_systems#browserstats #browsersupport #crossbrowsertesting #sustainability #RightToRepair
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I maintain "Practical implications" lists where I map desktop/mobile devices/OSes to browsers they can reach.
This translates Safari 13+, Firefox 74+ to
* Moto 4, Pixel 1 (2016),
* iPhone 6S (2015),
* macOS 10.9 (2013-2016) with Firefox 78.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix
https://github.com/jquery/typesense-minibar#browser-support
See also these tables:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_operating_systems
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_operating_systems#browserstats #browsersupport #crossbrowsertesting #sustainability #RightToRepair
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I maintain "Practical implications" lists where I map desktop/mobile devices/OSes to browsers they can reach.
This translates Safari 13+, Firefox 74+ to
* Moto 4, Pixel 1 (2016),
* iPhone 6S (2015),
* macOS 10.9 (2013-2016) with Firefox 78.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix
https://github.com/jquery/typesense-minibar#browser-support
See also these tables:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_operating_systems
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_operating_systems#browserstats #browsersupport #crossbrowsertesting #sustainability #RightToRepair
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I maintain "Practical implications" lists where I map desktop/mobile devices/OSes to browsers they can reach.
This translates Safari 13+, Firefox 74+ to
* Moto 4, Pixel 1 (2016),
* iPhone 6S (2015),
* macOS 10.9 (2013-2016) with Firefox 78.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix
https://github.com/jquery/typesense-minibar#browser-support
See also these tables:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_operating_systems
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Supported_operating_systems#browserstats #browsersupport #crossbrowsertesting #sustainability #RightToRepair
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Regarding there being no :closed besides :open, see also
* :focus, and not focussed
* :checked, and not checked -
Huge amount of activity around @ircv3 and ecosystem, write-up by Ilmari Lauhakangas.
https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2024/
#irc #ircv3 #liberachat #UnrealIRCd #thelounge #pidgin3 #IRCCloud
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Huge amount of activity around @ircv3 and ecosystem, write-up by Ilmari Lauhakangas.
https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2024/
#irc #ircv3 #liberachat #UnrealIRCd #thelounge #pidgin3 #IRCCloud
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Huge amount of activity around @ircv3 and ecosystem, write-up by Ilmari Lauhakangas.
https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2024/
#irc #ircv3 #liberachat #UnrealIRCd #thelounge #pidgin3 #IRCCloud
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Let's Encrypt transitions revocation program from OCSP to CRL.
Why? Browsers have also switched browser-side checks (back) to CRL, after 10 years trying OCSP. It's all about privacy and performance.
Until recently, your browser had to request data from the CA (eg DigiCert, Sectigo), which means they can know your sites and browsing/device habits. CRL solves this.
https://letsencrypt.org/2022/09/07/new-life-for-crls
via https://letsencrypt.org/2024/07/23/replacing-ocsp-with-crls.html
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The semiannual PHP ecosystem report by Brent Roose just dropped!
:php:
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(Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org)
Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.
Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)
At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.
Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/-/snippets/247 -
I mean this reaks of desparation. It's not too surprising given their marketshare (at least among Wikipedia readers) is a below Firefox, which is already pretty low.
Wikimedia pageviews, July 2024, Desktop:
- Firefox: 14%
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📝 Blog post: Browser adoption rates.
Ever wondered how quickly browser releases are actually adopted in practice? What percentage of clients is on the latest version? I analyzed Wikipedia's #opendata to find out!
https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/browser-adoption/
#browserstats #wikipedia #opendata #firefox #safari #chrome #edge #android #ios #mediawiki
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Recall 10-second Tom? Background character in "50 First Dates", the 2004 rom-com starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
He's a punchline to comfort the main character who "merely" has a one-day memory.
But, do you know the real story of Clive Wearing? British music producer who has severe retrograde amnesia for over 20 years. He has a 7-second memory...
Watch the first three minutes to get the gist.
https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?feature=shared