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Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

"It’s like saying I have to sell my left foot. It’s very valuable to me, but of no value to anyone on its own." - blimey! I agree with Gruber. daringfireball.net/linked/2024

Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

I flipping love RSS - getting content I choose, rather than being force-fed by an algorithm, and reading it when I choose. In version 7 last week, we've improved Vivaldi's built-in Feed Reader vivaldi.com/features/feed-read

Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

New Values and Functions in CSS alvaromontoro.com/blog/68062/n - gob-smacking things coming in CSS, detailed in this v nice article by @alvaromontoro

Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

'The Verge said that the iPhone is now “more fun” in the EU. Noted iOS expert Federico Viticci wrote that the EU version of iOS “is the version of iOS I’ve wanted for the past few years,” and that “we can finally use our phones like actual computers.”''
macstories.net/linked/the-risk

Thomas Sturm

@brucelawson What the hell are these people doing on their phones? Just because I can run an emulator on it doesn't make iOS any better.

Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

I found this (provenance unknown) in my 'temp' folder and it made me chuckle.

A still from the oppenheimer movie of Einstein (labelled 'HTML'), oppenheimer (labelled JS) with Ryan Gosling from the Barbie movie wearing a garish pink shellsuit superimposed, labelled 'CSS'
Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

'Apple doesn't oppose regulation; Apple loves regulation, so long as they're the ones doing the regulating. They want to be able to shape and define the digital market, backed by the power of the state, but without any input from the state. In modern corporate orthodoxy, the state is an enforcer for corporate will." pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/pri

Angela Scholder

@brucelawson Yep, last week I got the "Pay an extortion fee, or agree that we can ignore EU laws" message again. So, I just closed the browser...

Tane Piper ⁂

@brucelawson @plexus the last few weeks for me have been sitting in workshops about all of this stuff. It's still unclear how we are going to comply with it all, but we want to - but if every company comes knocking at our door demanding access to Smart Home data on behalf of their users that could get tricky - here it would be good to have standards for this IoT and customer data (we are currently investigating Data Pods)

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