Nov 2022

This website is now a Fediverse citizen

A mass exodus has seemingly started from Twitter, as people leave the sinking ship. I haven’t been active on Twitter in a long time, but with Mastodon/Fediverse gaining some traction I feel the appeal of embracing this “open web”-based way […]
2022

‘Meet the people clinging on to old tech – from faxes to VCRs

theguardian.com

Ah, this is just down my alley regarding , luddism and related perspectives: This article tells the stories of people who consciously resist new technology in favour of older versions. The reasons are manifold, but a lot of it has to do with ownership […]
2022

TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting

ctrl.blog

Browser manufacturers are in a constant battle of finding ways to protect users from being fingerprinted by websites they use. I just recently was very surprised to visit an online store (with emptied local storage, all cookies deleted, and trackers […]
2022

Why it's time to update our language about bad design patterns

amyhupe.co.uk

As much as I am fascinated by the subject, and passionate about promoting that it is an abuse of designers’ power of influencing people’s behaviour, I deeply dislike the term “dark patterns”. Enough so, to dedicate an entire page in my […]
2022

MastodonDataProtectionGuidance

codeberg.org

A collection of guides, templates, and tools for Mastodon and other Fediverse Admins / users, written from a data protection perspective.
This repository by Carey Lening, Data Protection Consultant, researcher, and Mastodon instance […]
2022

Robin Berjon on the risk of Twitter embeds

mastodon.social

Robin Berjon points out how having Tweets embedded in websites is – like most “embeds” – a risk in terms of security (for the end users, mostly, but in theory also for a website itself), but also carries the risk of extracting meaning from […]
2022

Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)

ar.al

Aral Balkan presents an example how the massive amount of communication involved with federation can turn operating a Mastodon instance into a liability.
[…] you see, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. And, on the fediverse […]
2022

Charts.css

chartscss.org

Charts.css is a modern CSS framework. It uses CSS utility classes to style HTML elements as charts.
A brilliant idea: Charts.css turns semantically marked-up data tables into visualizations using various types of graphs, and all […]
#design-for-all
2022