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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’ve just released Vivaldi 8 for desktop, with our biggest UI overhaul to date, and Vivaldi 8 for Android and iThings. All are free from Big Tech’s snooping and its AI-pooping.

• Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
• The Goldilocks customizable select height – ” I realised there’s a sizing ‘pattern’ that’s almost always the-one-you-want, but it took me a long time to figure out how to do it in CSS” writes Web Standards hunk Jank Architect
• County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ – “Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.”
• Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners
• Neko – a browser to run other browsers
• Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses – Remember, although it’s still unfixed a year after it was reported to Apple, your privacy and security remain Apple’s absolute priority. Honest.
• US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers– “US Supreme Court decided the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times”.
• What’s missing from SVG – glamorous Patrick Brosset tells all
• Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency
• Experimenting with random() in CSS by ‪Kilian Valkhof‬
• Data Transfer Initiative’s regular regulatory roundup
• Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacy ^[PDF] by Signal
• The Siren Song of ariaNotify() – a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader
• How good is Browser Support for the ARIA Notify API?
• NFC access on iOS – CMA call for evidence – “We are continuing to work on the full design of any potential intervention to ensure fair and reasonable NFC access on iOS”
• Google and Apple’s Anti-DMA Lobbying Strategy Goes All-in on Security and Privacy – As the EU starts to press Big Tech to open their operating systems to competitors’ services, you’ll hear a lot more handwringing from them about privacy and security. Most is FUD. Look at their record for privacy and security, especially of their own single-platform (“native”) apps and app stores.
• The Slow Death of the Power User – “This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.”
• How AI reduces the world to stereotypes – Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images (“an Indian person,” “a house in Mexico,” “a plate of Nigerian food”, etc) to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.
• Wiggly/Wavy Input Range Slider – almost certainly useless; great fun

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