World Wide Web and Social Control Media
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Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting
The CSS Working Group is continuing a debate over the best way to define nesting in CSS. And if you are someone who writes CSS, we’d like your help.
Nesting is a super-popular feature of tools like Sass. It can save web developers time otherwise spent writing the same selectors over and over. And it can make code cleaner and easier to understand.
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Silly Customer Service
It’s understandable that the company is not planning to implement RSS feeds. Believe me, I know how many more ideas a company usually has than time it has to implement them. However, that second sentence poking me in the eye for even asking such a silly question seems rather unnecessary.
Now I’m certainly reading this unkindly. I simply find it infuriating when companies botch simple customer support so readily. It will be my downfall because it makes me naively believe that I could succeed at various businesses simply because I’d demand human, kind communication with customers.
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NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm
The SHA-1 algorithm, one of the first widely used methods of protecting electronic information, has reached the end of its useful life, according to security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The agency is now recommending that IT professionals replace SHA-1, in the limited situations where it is still used, with newer algorithms that are more secure.
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Your options for displaying status over time in Grafana 9
Once upon a time, there was a straightforward good way of displaying things like alerts over time or health check failures over time in Grafana, as I wrote about in How I'm visualizing health check history in Grafana. Unfortunately Grafana broke the (once) very nice Discrete panel starting in 8.4, either through an unfixed bug or through an incompatible API change (in a minor release). As of the current Grafana 9.3.1 (as I write this), I've managed to find only five potential options among first and third party panels, none of them excellent.
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Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon - The Verge
Twitter is blocking users from tweeting links to many major servers for Mastodon. The bans were enacted sometime after after journalists and Mastodon’s own account were unexpectedly suspended.
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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop. (The term "decentralized" has already been co-opted by all those bitcoin people, so I'm using "unbundled" as a synonym with less baggage.)
That's a pretty high-level view of things. Over the past several months I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what it looks like if you zoom in to the next level. If I had the ears of a bunch of people working on publishing, reading, and community apps, what features would I ask them to implement? What features should I implement in Yakread, my own reading app?