Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub: github.blog/2020-12-17-no-…

Late last year, Apple enforced App Store 'privacy labels'. For the first time, it's easy to compare how much data an app links to your account Looking at messaging apps, the contrast is quite stark

RIP stock photography openai.com/blog/dall-e/

Thanks to this new milestone by Brave and IPFS, lots of new people are getting to hear about the #decentralized & Open Web for the first time🎊 So, let’s welcome everyone by doing a quick recap: Why is it important to rebuild the web, a thread 🔥👇 x.com/IPFS/status/13…

End-to-end encryption in the EU is at risk. We support the joint statement by Proton Mail, Threema, Tresorit & ឵ opposing a Dec 2020 resolution paving the way for encryption backdoors. "Data is either encrypted or it isn’t". protonmail.com/blog/joint-sta…

Argos: Comparing the Energy Consumption of Two Web Stacks. Does an app in #NodeJs consume more energy than the same app in #Rails? What about #WebComponents vs. #React? #sustainability #benchmark by pem marmelab.com/blog/2021/03/0…

Estimating AWS EC2 Instances Power Consumption: For the first time, a study reveals the power profiles of AWS compute instances (from which one can deduce CO2 emissions). A great step towards #GreenIT and #Sustainability, kudos Teads Innovation! medium.com/teads-engineer…

When confronted with the toxic potential of its recommendation algorithm, YouTube’s routine response is to deny and deflect. That’s why we conducted the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into YouTube’s algorithm. #YouTubeRegrets foundation.mozilla.org/regrets

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Browsing the web, 2021

💻🌍 Is there anyone at GitHub who would like to work on a new GitHub Action trigger. Instead of: on: schedule: - cron: '21 10 * * *' Let's do: on: schedule: - carbon: low It fires off when data center carbon grid intensity is at its predicted lowest for the day.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are all down, because it appears their whole BGP table got withdrawn from the internet. Because they host their own DNS servers, and those routes have disappeared, they can't bring the routers back up because they can't get into them remotely. 1/

😱 Is Google Analytics illegal in your country? Find out why Google Analytics users are under fire for transmitting personal data outside of the EU... isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com

When people ask where they could use Elixir #MyElixirStatus

Anyone else find themselves uninstalling iOS apps because they don't like them hijacking URLs? I had to remove the GitHub mobile app because it's very important to my processes and workflows that clicking a link to a github.com page opens in my browser, not an app

According to a new study by David Rozado, there has been a big increase in news headlines suggesting fear, anger, disgust, and sadness since 2000, and especially since about 2010. Journalists are pushing your buttons.

We are excited to announce the release of Stable Diffusion Version 2! Stable Diffusion V1 changed the nature of open source AI & spawned hundreds of other innovations all over the world. We hope V2 also provides many new possibilities! Link → stability.ai/blog/stable-di…