Reading List 340
This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We just released Vivaldi 7.3, which has Proton VPN integrated into Desktop. So try it, unless you enjoy having a browser that’s like a data-mining tortoise.
- Serving streaming video that adapts to bandwidth from your own website – by Stuart Langridge
- Europe seeks to break its US tech addiction – that nice Raziye Akkoc from AFP quotes little old me!
- Tech industry sharks circle as DOJ pushes for Google Chrome selloff
- Break Google’s Search Monopoly without Breaking the Web – by my chums at Open Web Advocacy
- In search of the perfect way to layout images in a website by Andrew Betts
- Big Tech fines just got political, whether the Commission likes it or not – “Tying DMA enforcement to EU-U.S. trade dispute undermines the legal integrity and credibility of the DMA itself”
- Vivaldi’s statement on yesterday’s Apple and Meta DMA anti-trust fines
- CSS boilerplate: A default CSS structure for projects of any size – by Manuel Matuzović. It comes with a detailed explanation how it uses cascade layers
- I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license
- IKEA’s web fonts – IKEA expanded business across Asia and the Middle East, and found the supported languages of Verdana were lacking. So they made a Noto IKEA
- Talking of fonts, the font used in the ‘you wouldn’t download a car” anti-piracy ad was a pirated version of a commercial font
- HTML Oddities: Does the order of attribute values matter? asks Tezza E
- Structured Headings, the headingoffset & headingreset attributes, and the :heading pseudo class is being implemented by Keith Cirkel, who now works for Mozilla
- Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet – this is why I use mastodon
- 14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500 – “After discovering that digital braille readers can cost up to $20,000, a 14-year-old boy named Yash Mehta has created his own version for less than $50.
- In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google – “In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country’s anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.”
- Europe’s race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online – “For more than a decade, big tech’s clumsy, revenue-optimised algorithms have accidentally pushed Europeans (and everyone else) to extremism.”
- New report: How Meta is monetising the migrant crisis – “Meta’s surveillance advertising model enables vulnerable people to be targeted with disinformation, fraudulent ads and divisive content.”
- OpenAI is building a social network – Because even more fascist AI slop microblogging is just what the world needs now.
- Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time – “The app, designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping regular screenshots of employees’ screens, left over 21 million images exposed in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, broadcasting how workers go about their day frame by frame.” Whoops!