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Stembestuurde gadgets en CommanderSong-aanvallen | Roel.io by Roel Roel (Roel.io)

Bij ons thuis staat al bijna een jaar een Google Home Mini klaar om te worden aangesloten. Maar ik durf het nog steeds niet aan. Misschien als we meer kunnen controleren, zoals Frank het aanpakte met een slimme stekker en Olisto.

Ik las ook het nieuws dat het mogelijk is om via muziek en playlists stemaanvallen uit te voeren op de praatpalen die in je huis staan. Het is zo dat ik een jaar geleden een Google Home kocht, maar inmiddels ligt hij al zo’n 11 maanden niet aangesloten in de kast. Ik vertrouw de apparaten…

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Painting with Pure CSS by Andy Baio (waxy.org)

Last year, I fell in love with Diana Smith’s stunning CSS paintings: Francine, Vignes, and Zigario. (I loved them so much, I asked her to speak at XOXO’s Art+Code event last year.)
This stunning illustration by @cyanharlow is pure HTML/CSS. Every element was typed by hand, drawing with only a te…

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The web is not dying

I’ve been seeing more tweets lately—particularly from Google Chrome developer Alex Russell—that the web is dying.
I disagree.
The web is a mess. Modern “best practices” are creating a slow, obnoxious experience for users. There a few big, influential companies who have a vested interest in subverting the web or creating a walled garden.
But that’s to say nothing of the platform itself.
The web platform, this beautiful thing that we build sites and apps on, is alive and thriving.

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CaringBridge: A Community Grown with Love – The History of the Web (The History of the Web)

Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles and pre-viral word of mouth. We may have large social network behemoths that loom over the landscape and dominate the market these days, but they are a far more uniform and manufactured experience, one that’s …

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The Evolution of Web Design | Part 1: The 1990s

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The Evolution of Web Design | Part 1: The 1990s (Dribbble)

What do chatrooms, Space Jam, and pizza delivery have in common? They all surfaced the web in the 1990s!
Take a trip down memory lane and get a run-down of how web design evolved in the first decade of its existence.

Ik heb een zwak voor dit soort artikelen. Alles rondom de evolutie en de geschiedenis van het web vind ik prachtig. Dus dit boek gaat op de wishlist voor december!

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Implementing Webmentions by Drew McLellan (allinthehead.com)

In a world before social media, a lot of online communities existed around blog comments. The particular community I was part of – web standards – was all built up around the personal websites of those involved.
As social media sites gained traction, those communities moved away from blog commen…

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Bookmark: Opinion: Ban Facial Recognition Before It’s Too Late

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Opinion: Ban Facial Recognition Before It’s Too Late (BuzzFeed News)

We are on the verge of a nightmare era of mass surveillance by the state and private companies. It’s not too late to stop it.

Company after company in Silicon Valley has been pushing furiously ahead with the development of face-scanning surveillance tools. They see money to be made selling this tech to governments, airlines, and other private businesses. Facing growing concern from the public and lawmakers, the industry has disingenuously asked for “regulation.” This is straight out of Big…

Bookmark: I’m Officially Part of the IndieWeb

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Er zijn zoveel redenen om je moederschip te hebben en te onderhouden. This is the Internet we have now. It’s different than I imagined it would be. It’s not a place where everyone looks different. It’s a place where everyone looks the same. It’s a place where a few corporations have trapped you and nearly…

Bookmark: Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone | Technology | The Guardian

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Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone | Technology | The Guardian (amp.theguardian.com)

Er is zoveel gaande over Chinese technologie. Ik vind het lastig. Aan de ene kant is het gemak en de prijs een verleidelijke reden om te kiezen voor de hardware. Maar je weet dat er iets met je data gebeurt. In bovenstaand artikel staat uitgelegd hoe technologie in China wordt gebruikt. There are QR codes…

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https://bix.blog/2019/10/17/nick-pickles-director.html (bix.blog)

Nick Pickles, director of Twitter’s public policy strategy, says that today’s speech by Mark Zuckerberg “will rightly be recognised as a landmark point in the debate”, which I suppose is true if we are building landmarks noting the obfuscation of that debate.
PIckles is concerned with “how…

"Zuckerberg’s conservative leadership team has made its design choice: disinformation is fine, because it serves their political interests." Ik heb de volledige speech en ondervraging van Zuckerberg not niet gezien. Ik ben heel benieuwd welke lange termijn gevolgen het kruisverhoor gaat hebben in komende jaren en met de presidentsverkiezingen in aantocht.

Bookmark: You can heal the internet

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You can heal the internet (Signal v. Noise)

The internet is hurting. It’s been colonized and exploited by a small cabal of tech companies. It’s taken most of us a while catch up to the gravity of the situation, but grave it is. Yet we all si…

"You don’t have to go cold turkey on everything Big Tech. That’s almost impossible at the moment. Such is the stronghold. But every little bit helps." Ware woorden. Start bijvoorbeeld met een andere zoekmachine. DuckDuckGo of Startpage. Als ervaringsdeskundige van plm 2 jaar durf ik wel te zeggen dat de verschillen in zoekresultaten met Google…

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Squandered Star Wars Characters (daverupert.com)

[…] while this exciting, I’m finding myself disappointed the characters are as disposable as characters in a George R.R. Martin novel.

The last couple of weeks I rewatched the Star Wars movies to get ready for The Rise of Skywalker. It was nice to see some old scenes again, re-read some of the backstories and catch the occassional goof every now and again. I somewhat agree with Dave about the sometimes shallow and empty characters. As…

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You should make a blog!

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You should make a blog! (Drew DeVault’s Blog)

Dit is een tof initiatief! This is an open offer to pay anyone $20 for starting a tech blog and writing their first article. If you write another 3 articles within 6 months, I’ll give you another $20. Ik heb er zelf nu even niet het budget voor maar ik kan me voorstellen dat een…

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https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/24/i-wonder-if-it-posted-just/ by Neil MatherNeil Mather (doubleloop.net)

Neil, thanks for your background explanation. I found out by trial and error that yes indeed, omit the title and make it a note, your full post (up to 500 characters) will be syndicated to Mastodon. I realized syndication != promotion. When I write an article, I don’t want to syndicate it on Mastodon ("here’s…

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Gophering along by Johan BovéJohan Bové (social.johanbove.info)

A screenshot of Johan’s Gopherhole
I’ve been spending way too much time on #Gopher servers in the last couple of days.
The Gopher Web is intriguing and fascinating and I totally understand the attraction of an ad-free, cookie-free, not-for-profit, underground(-ish) alternative to today’s crowded and…

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