On CMA’s proposed NFC access conduct requirement for Apple’s iOS, by me. (Yes, I know the title is perhaps not the most enticing, but it's encouraging, I promise!) https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-cmas-proposed-nfc-access-conduct-requirement-for-apples-ios/
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Just imagine if Orange, Mitsubishi, All Nippon Airlines, the Port of Rotterdam, Dutch football association KNVB, the 5 largest Dutch political parties, the BBC, and the governments of UK, Finland, France, Japan, Czech, Belgium and NL each put between 100K and a million a year into paying people to maintain the free software they use. https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/factbox-governments-companies-take-websites-offline-over-php-flaws
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I just popped round to the Londis for a loaf and some milk, and was high-fived approvingly by the local teenagers. Apparently the latest youth slang for something cool, edgy and dangerous is "PHP", e.g., ""Have you heard that new record by "Mandy, Indiana"? It's well PHP, innit, bro". They call me "Poppa PHP" now.
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I've just submitted Vivaldi's shortest-ever response to a regulator's consultation: 156 words, including our address and the date.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/117478513592567880
"A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after the company was found to have misled users about its privacy practices". But ignore that, they're making a new even better in-app browser. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/21/tech/meta-25-billion-new-mexico-judgment
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I just had a scary trip to the local Tesco Express. People glowered at me, muttering "Happy now, PHP developer?". One woman shielded her kids, shrieking "Don't go near the nasty server-side man, kids". And when I got home, someone had posted a ColdFusion manual through my letter box with a message in cut-out newspaper text saying "learn to code, loser".
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Birmingham folks: can anyone find a good use for a Sooty puppet, and a Sweep puppet? Free to a good home - I just want them off my hands.
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The UK competition regulator has published conduct requirements to make Apple open access to NFC on iOS. Access was *technically* allowed 2 years ago but no-one has used it because of Apple's Ts&Cs - just like with browser engines.