Just discovered the concept of "small tech" / "small web" boosted by @laura and @aral :black_bloc_blob:
More interesting than "low tech" or "low web" fashion, powered by and for privacy, interoperability, inclusion with non-colonial nor non-commercial ideas.
Some fights and ideas picked from libre and ethical software movements, cool and mandatory nowadays :blobnomcookie:
I was surprised to discover that the DigitalOcean apps platform, through its use of Cloudflare CDN, injects a JavaScript file into my HTML pages. The script is small and hides email addresses from address-scraping bots, so intentions are good, but I find it unacceptable for a hosting provider to modify my content at their discretion. I guess I'm getting old.
I have removed all ActivityPub related plugins from my wordpress site yet when I post a link on Mastodon that includes any kind of normal link to my website, it crashes my website.
What is going on here? This is not good my friends.
Looks like tiketmaster was mixing up users' accounts during the Yoasobi concert tix sale. I'm guessing it's some kind of session mix up? What web technology can fail that badly?
The last time that I had encountered it was a site using asp.net.
Anyone familiar with the web stack Ticketmaster runs on?
The Verge's Nilay Patel chats with Wix CEO Avishai Abraham about the future of the web, adoption of generative AI technology and the impact of the Israel-Hamas war on content that appears on the Wix, which is based in Israel.
A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...
The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.
@classicalmusic
Maurice Ravel: "Boléro";
György Ligeti: "Concert Românesc";
Maurice Ravel: "Tzigane";
Györgi Ligeti: Violoncellokonzert;
Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'oye"
Anton Barakhovsky, Violine;
Sebastian Klinger, Violoncello
Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Leitung: Shiyeon Sung
I'm excited about these new additions to #Mastodon on #Android and can't wait for them to be on #iOS and #Web!
To build the #Fediverse into a safe place where everyone feels welcome, we must treat others with curiosity and kindness — even when we feel their behavior goes against norms here! Or we risk corroding this place from the inside out.
Take a deep breath and #BeKind before you reply. :)
kennt jemand eine Web-Software, mit der man Gutscheine verwalten kann? Das ganze soll idealerweise OpenSource, für Linux und zum selber Hosten sein. Wenn die Software ein paar Euros (50 .. 100 €) kostet, ist das aber vermutlich auch ok.
Kunde soll per Webformular Gutscheine kaufen, bezahlen, ausdrucken und verschenken können. Der Beschenkte kommt, löst den Gutschein ein und das Personal kann den Gutschein prüfen und damit entwerten.
So mal ganz grob, wie ich mir das Prinzip vorstelle.
Weiß da einer von euch was oder kennt jemanden, der was wissen könnte?
Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.
If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, and the promise of the internet that got so many of us excited was disintermediation - getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Cope is a museum technologist who's worked on lots of critical digital projects over the years, and in this talk, he addresses himself to the difference between the excitement of the #GalleriesLibrariesArchivesAndMuseums (#GLAM) sector over the possibilities of the #web, and why he doesn't feel the same excitement over the #metaverse, and its various guises - #XR, #VR, #MR and #AR.
The biggest reason to be excited about the web was - and is - the openness of disintermediation.
It seems like there is a huge split between how #Passkeys are implemented currently. Some sites have used them as a password replacement, while others have used it as a MFA replacement. Which is correct? #Web#Auth
Someone on hacker news thought to suggest that the influx of tech bros is partly responsible for bad design in modern web dev … can you guess how calm they remained over there?
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Tor Browser 13.0 Release is an Exciting Upgrade for Privacy-Focused Users
The Tor Browser is one of the popular ways to access the Tor network, it has been the first choice for many who want to circumvent restrictions placed on them, or even those who are privacy-conscious.
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