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Web Development

The Cascade
A website about the past, present, and future of CSS.
A quote from Erich Gubler
[On WebGPU in Firefox] There is a lot of work to do still to make sure we comply with the spec. in a way that’s acceptable to ship in a …
Garbage collection and closures
GC within a function doesn’t work how I expected
A handful of reasons JavaScript won’t be available
HTML Standard
What we got wrong about HTTP imports
Designing a module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. Here are some issues we encountered and how we solved for them.
Theme-aware styled console logs

Accessibility

ChanceyFleet (@ChanceyFleet@mas.to)
As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn’t experience. If you’re wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

Gaming

Supper Mario Broth
All graphics in Super Mario Bros. fit into a single 16x16 table of 8x8 pixel sprites and an equally sized 16x16 table of 8x8 pixel background tiles. The above image provides a view of the entirety of…
Brezn’, Wolpertinger und Lederhosen: Bayrischer Rundfunk nutzt Minecraft zur Kulturbildung
Mit Alpcraft veröffentlicht der Bayerische Rundfunk eine Mod, welche Spieler in Minecraft in die bayerischen Alpen eintauchen lässt.
Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app stores
Epic is also removing Fortnite from Samsung’s app store.
Humble Games Lays Off All Employees, Carries On In Name Only - Aftermath
“No one from HG survived the layoffs, nor will they have anything to do with game launches moving forward”

Privacy

Ausspioniert mit Standortdaten
Spitzenbeamte, Soldaten, Nachrichtendienstler: Recherchen von BR und netzpolitik.org zeigen, wie fremde Staaten Mitarbeitende deutscher Sicherheitsbehörden ausspähen können - mit Standortdaten aus Smartphone-Apps, die im Internet gehandelt werden.
Third-party cookies have got to go
The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.
iOS 17: Von einem iPhone kontaktierte Domains
Aktueller Stand der Liste: 23.07.2024. Nachfolgend eine Liste von Apple Domains, die iOS 17 (17.5.1) regelmäßig kontaktiert. Die Domains werden…

Security

Rabbit Says Breach ‘Not Caused by a Breach,’ Is Fault of Malicious Employee, ‘Hacktivists,’ Journalists
The AI assistant company is blaming everything but its own security practices for a June security breach.
Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million
Bastian told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, “We have no choice.”
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Keys were labeled “DO NOT TRUST.” Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.
CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
Hello, Today I am doing a quick post to cover the recent CrowdStrike incident that is estimated to have disabled 8.5M computers and caused more than $5.4B in damages since last week. Now a common q…
Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.
You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

Typography

Inter 4.0: A Big Font Update for UI Design - Pimp my Type
Three crucial changes to the popular UI font Inter. What got better, and what got worse.
Coconat Family
Coconat is a two style non-conventional type family: a flared fair-proportioned regular style which changes completely its impact in the extended bold version. …

Linux

nmbl: we don’t need a bootloader
We are working on a new scheme to replace the GRUB bootloader with a fast, secure, Linux-based, user-space solution: nmbl (for no more bootloader), and we need your use cases, feedback, and help. w…

Machine Learning & AI

Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.
AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
AI companion Friend appears to have spent most of its funds on buying friend.com.
AI crawlers need to be more respectful
Eric Holscher: > At Read the Docs, we host documentation for many projects and are generally bot friendly, but the behavior of AI crawlers is currently causing us problems. We …
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.
Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now thanks to AI deal
This is depressing. As of around June 25th [reddit.com/robots.txt](https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt) contains this: User-agent: * Disallow: / Along with a link to Reddit’s [Public Content Policy](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy). Is this a direct result of …

Tools

GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines - quickemu-project/quickemu

Misc

Analog girly
I like being able to do things without relying on the algorithms and connections in the world!
Friendly Google and Enemy Remedies
The DOJ brought the right kind of case against an Aggregator, which stagnates by being too nice; the goal is for companies to act like they actually have enemies.
Historisches Urteil in den USA: Google droht Zerschlagung wegen illegalem Monopol
In einem historischen Urteil hat ein US-Gericht erstmals seit knapp zwei Dekaden bei einem Techunternehmen ein Monopol festgestellt.
Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life
Michael Orlitzky was sick of the washer and dryer machines in his building. So, he found an alternative to paying.
Building the Micro Journal
I built myself a digital typewriter!
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector
A big boost to the open-source community and an inspiration to other public sectors!