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Web and Net Leftovers
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Standards/Consortia
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The Register UK ☛ Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations
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Hackaday ☛ Linux Fu: Improving FTP
None of these conveniences change FTP’s fundamental problem: ordinary FTP is not secure. Usernames, passwords, and data can travel without encryption. If you’re designing a new system and control both ends, you usually have much better choices. But sometimes you don’t control both ends. If FTP is something you run into, ncftp is worth knowing about. Bookmarks, cached directories, recursive and background transfers, and especially the script-friendly companion commands turn an antique protocol into something that feels surprisingly at home on a modern Unix command line.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers
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Matt ☛ RSS/Atom Feeds are Critical - fyr.io
I provide some feeds for anyone who wishes to get an update on when I've published something. I provide a Title and Brief Intro feed, which is just the title of a post and a little summary or intro to the contents (most feed readers will happily fetch the full content with just this, too) and a Full feed, which includes the post contents in full. I fully expect that the wonderful people who consume the words I put out into the www via any feed do not touch my site outside of fetching that XML file, and I am totally happy with and supportive of that, as evidenced by the fact that I literally wrote the code to generate that file myself as the first addition to this little website after rebuilding it by hand and getting the content online. I did this because I wanted anyone to be able to read my stuff if they wanted to, without my messy opinion on how that content should appear to them (CSS) getting in the way. I would hope that a significant majority of other people who consciously provide a feed on their own websites would also feel this way. As far as I know, they do.
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Mozilla
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Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.16.0 and 2.16.1 Released
Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.16.1: [...]
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Digital Sovereignty
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APNIC ☛ Time: The cornerstone of digital sovereignty and independence
In the digital economy, the concept of sovereignty is often associated with data control or infrastructure localization. However, there is an invisible yet omnipresent element that serves as a true ‘pillar’ for the entire system: Time. Therefore, time control is not merely a technical necessity but the fundamental prerequisite for exercising genuine digital sovereignty.
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