I am presently sitting with nothing else to do. I enjoy writing so here I am again, back for another (short) blog post.
I added a colophon to my site earlier today. My colophon replaced my privacy page. I originally wrote the privacy page so that users of this site could learn about my thoughts on p…
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Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/30Aug2020.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/30Aug2020.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 Today’s links We don’t know why you don’t want to have public sex: But it’s probably not because of Arabian babblers. Big Tech welcomes (some) regulation: Monkey’s paw ju…
When you subscribe to multiple feeds covering the same topic, it’s often the case to see duplicates or near-duplicates in your feed. Usually, it becomes immediately obvious when you read your feeds within a folder. Consider the following case with two feeds from Ars Technica posting the same story…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Firefox matters. The other major browsers are all subject to a larger corporation’s business interests: Safari is built in the context of the App Store, Chrome must support Google’s ad targeting business, and Edge fills a gap in the Windows ecosystem. But Firefox is here to fight for the users: it s…
If you’re running WordPress and use the wonderful IndieAuth plugin to issue tokens for all of your IndieWeb services, here’s how you can automatically invalidate—destroy, in fact—these tokens.
Why? Some applications will automatically log you out after an hour or so, and request you again au…
