While Mastodon promises to solve some of the problems of centralized social networking – and may inevitably create new ones in the process – the sudden popularity of the ActivityPub protocol led me to reflect about how I want to partake in that. I ended up connecting this blog to the Fediverse […]
November 2022
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Ah, this is just down my alley regarding technology non-use, 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, control, or nostalgia […]
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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 efficiently blocked) which instantly recommended […]
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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 resources on the topic. What I really […]
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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 admin, aims to be a Data […] -
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 articles should they really vanish into the […]
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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 today, that appears to be “engagement when […]
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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 with pure CSS. This makes for lighter code […]
theguardian.com 
ctrl.blog 
amyhupe.co.uk 
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