Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 12

@privacylab "Oh you want to disable location tracking?

I'm sorry, I cannot let you do this, Dave..."

Ok, so, can we shout on browsers to bring back the "Subscribe to RSS/Atom feed" button in/near the URL bar?

I mean, clearly people are still using RSS/Atom. And they get annoyed they cannot find an easy way to subscribe.

I am considering implementing all the decentralized ways to distribute my blog I can get my hands on. Onion Service, obviously; DAT; IPFS/IPNS; Zip+torrent/webtorrent...

So, two questions:

1. Any other decentralized distribution channel I should consider?

2. Tracking how much interest there is in what gets published is easy on plain old web; it's way trickier on the decentralized side of things. Yet I'd like to know if the decentralized channels are actually being used. Suggestions?

#WhyIJoinedMastodon
Always been a decentralization advocate, had an identi.ca StatusNet account for years before "pumpioification". Since then I was looking for an alternative, and Mastodon provided one.

#WhyIGotIntoMastodon
All the old friends from early StatusNet days started to show up, or simply were already there. Many new friends were made.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon
Well, I stay on #Fediverse, Mastodon is an important part of it, and for me the gateway to it. But I stay on Fediverse.

Please stop using Gmail.
Attachments sent through Gmail seem to be uploaded to Google storage and converted into links in a message and so they never reach my server as part of your email message. If Google goes away one day, your attachments "sent" to me disappear too.

@rysiek wait is that the entire USA train network????

@rysiek Sad innit? There used to be more. Entire metros with like millions of people are wholly inaccessible via amtrak.

Today in #infosec: The new version of Chrome will now explicitly mark HTTP pages as insecure

(old blog post from feb explaining the issue: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html)

"When we tell you to apply updates we are not telling you to mend your ship. We are telling you to keep bailing before the water gets to your neck."

After reading this article, I can't imagine infosec people sleeping at night at all. Not knowing any of this was a bliss indeed.

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

#infosec

@rysiek Just found this really nice article layouts by Jo Franchetti

https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/common-responsive-layouts-with-css-grid-and-some-without-245a862f48df

It goes into some great examples with grids and other flexible layouts. Should help you get started on yours

when in excel...

#when #excel #johntravolta #wut #pulpfiction #confused #animatedgif

@rysiek It's really nice. Amazing browser support as of 2018 and makes so many things more concise

The bad news is converting existing layouts is a bit of a pain, but depending on how complex it is, I'd say it's still worth it

Reminder to all the people writing wannabe top replacements in node or python or ruby right now:

A performance monitoring tool which is the biggest CPU hog on your system is fucking dumb