Want to know what's worse than owning your browser and having monopoly over the market? That's right, owning the OS (CrOS) and the entire device you lug around in your pocket all day (henlo, deez arn't zhe droids yur lookin feh đź‘€)
fasterthanlime 🌌 https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime
Re: forced Chrome logins Don't need cookies if you own the browser!
Portland State opens homeless shelter for its students trib.al/Qa1B00u
Just over a week before #novembeat starts! novembeat.com
You are not guaranteed a jury of your peers. The “peerage” is unAmerican monarchist nonsense. You are guaranteed an impartial jury. If you write “jury of your/my peers” in your opinion piece, I know you’re a sloppy thinker and writer who lets obsolete cliches carry your ideas.

Have you found a soft spot during eternal Caturday?

So much tech has been announced/dropped recently but out of everything, which has you the most excited?
The TCP would include a service that uses AI to identify liberals by their social media posts called TCP Identify Progressives, or TCP/IP for short.
The pitch deck for 45’s new “TRUTH” social network contends that they will compete with Twitter, Facebook, Disney+, CNN, and best of all, AWS. Can you imagine a Tr...
The pitch deck for 45’s new “TRUTH” social network contends that they will compete with Twitter, Facebook, Disney+, CNN, and best of all, AWS. Can you imagine a Trump public cloud? Please, Twitter, let’s use our collective imaginations to describe Trump Compute Platform (TCP).
Led two #w3cTPAC breakout sessions this week:
* Environmental Concerns and #Sustainability (#s12y) of Web Technologies[1]
* What is the value of and are the values of @W3C[2]
and helped @seaotta with
* What is the WebWeWant.fyi[3]
Notes:
[1] https://www.w3.org/2021/10/19-sustainability-minutes.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/2021/10/22-what-values-minutes.html
[3] https://www.w3.org/2021/10/19-webwewant-minutes.html

Also participated in Accessibility & CSS (https://www.w3.org/2021/10/20-cssa11y-minutes.html).

Preparing for, speaking, facilitating, and participating in virtual TPAC sessions a second year in a row was very draining. Despite that, I thought the sessions went fairly well overall.

Most passionate and contentious was the session on sustainability, especially regarding what we should (or should not) do @W3C. There was a lot more alignment on the seriousness and urgency to act than I expected, and I was pleased to see that.

There was a lot of support for figuring out how to establish Sustainability as an aspect of Horizontal Review of all technical specifications, as important as Accessibility (a11y), Internationaliation (i18n), Security, and Privacy. This would likely require an explicit Interest Group, with a charter, discussed and voted on by the W3C’s Advisory Committe (AC).

Our shared sense of urgency made it clear we needed to start something sooner rather than later. A Community Group (CG) makes the most sense in the short term, chartered to work on both immediate horizontal review and the establishement of a more official Interest Group.

I created a #sustainability channel on the W3C’s Community Slack instance to start informal discussions to get a Community Group started.

Join us: https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1252972104456306688
#w3cTPAC #Sustainability #sustainability
Led two #w3cTPAC breakout sessions this week: * Environmental Concerns and #Sustainability (#s12y) of Web Technologies[1] * What is the value of and are the values of @W3C[2] and helped @seaotta with * What is the WebWeWant.fyi[3] Notes: [1] ... tantek.com/t5FN1
Prediction: we will see a #Facebook executive sacrificed before too long.

Saw one of my favorites last night, My Eat World.

Jimmy Eat World is always a great show, but this one was particularly fire. Great mix of Futures, Bleed American, and some songs they don't play live often, like “Blister.”

 

 

Progressive sales tax. Has anybody ever done that? The business would quote full prices (incl tax) to the consumer. Actual tax paid by biz to gov would be progressive, increasing with sales, determined in the quarterly sales tax return. Built-in antitrust it appears to me.
We gotta starting building these things, together, in a fashion that produces enough financial upside to be attractive to investors, while not screwing the customer.
What if Alexa was truly tailored for you, and just for you? A personal assistant that worked in your best interests, not the financial interests of a major corporation? ...
Bridgetown One (aka 1.0 alpha) is coming. Set your calendars to stun—er, that is, mark Monday, October 25, 2021. See you then!
🥂 Happy 20th birthday, iPod!

Are you investing in your dental hygiene during eternal Caturday?

What is your alert level during eternal Caturday?

Love this new caller id - so specific!