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Wait, what. Windows 10 sends info on USB devices plugged in directly to Microsoft?

And it does that using pure HTTP?
https://pastebin.com/ttYp5rLg

You gotta be kidding me.

#InfoSec

"The money that #Stockholm University saves at the cancelled agreement with large science publisher #Elsevier will be used to publish research in full Open Access journals.

According to Stockholm University, the transition to #openscience is slow and the publishing in hybrid #journals, where you publish separate articles Open Access in an otherwise subscription-based journal, does not urge the development quickly enough."

#OA #OpenAccess

https://www.su.se/english/library/about-us/press-information/2.42247/stockholm-university-gives-researchers-more-support-to-get-published-in-full-open-access-journals-1.392523

@aral have you considered using a clearer term than "RSS"? For me, I know when you say "RSS" you're really talking about a group of related syndication technologies that include Atom, but I wonder if others reading this without the historical context might come to the mistaken conclusion that deploying more non-Atom feed setups is a good idea.

@aral RSS is only relevant to blogs, and blogs aren't the Web. Blogs *ruined* the Web.

https://petermolnar.net/internet-emotional-core/

https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

@galaxis @aral There are ways around it, though. Leaner feeds (don’t go back far in time), add pagination via https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005#appendix-B and make sure client and server use HTTP caching (simple use of if-modified-since headers and 304 responses). These already help a lot. The next step is caching the RSS to a file and letting the web server handle it. I had to do all this for Emacs Wiki, years ago.

@aral Firefox still has the RSS feed button, it's just not in the default UI.

Also some (mostly commercial) sites do deliver tracking pixels linked from their RSS feeds, which kinda defeats the idea of not being tracked...

Some still publish their feeds through FeedBurner, providing usage information for the Google surveillance machine. Fat RSS feeds do create quite a bit of traffic on popular sites, as each client reloads the full file on each access... No real incremental updates...

@aral Really enjoyed your article. It's dawning on me email newsletters are like a really crappy implementation of #rss.

@aral Thanks for your post! I think it speaks to the best part of web culture how RSS is still around depsite the best efforts of large social media platforms to kill it.

Isn't it still good practice to put a <link> in your HTML too, to let RSS clients know where your feed is?

@z428 ActivityPub isn’t a replacement for RSS (it is orders of magnitude more difficult to implement). We can embrace both (and more – like https://datproject.org).

@aral

For anyone using #Friendica, you can follow any RSS feed as if it was another user, just add the RSS feed's address as a new contact.

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

.@Framasoft's crowdfunding for #PeerTube has just passed 100%, so it will definitely get funding 🎉 👏 🍾

There's still 12 days to go, so the appeal is going for a stretch goal to add even more features 😎

Well done everyone! 👍

#DeleteYouTube #Alternatives

Thanks for all the ideas yesterday! So, #peertube mascot, round 2: A, B or C?

Thx @22Decembre for writing the first draft of Peertube's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
This is a great way to contribute, both to #Wikipedia and #PeerTube \o/ !

ugh. another website under lock and key by an unresponsive developer.

This is why it's important for all the keys to a website be shared with organizers. Even if they don't fully understand the accounts and passwords they have access to, it prevents this kind of lock out from happening.

#serverannounce

New service on the mastodon.host galaxy:

Introducing https://meet.mastodon.host !

Yes I heard you, https://xmpp.mastodon.host has no audio/video chat, only chatrooms and 1to1... well here you go, on demand conferences, whereever you are, powered by Jitsi Meet !

sometimes I wish you could do a `git rebase` with toots.

After ranting a few minutes, and over a number of toots that others have replied to, go back and revise and combine into something coherent.

is anyone working on an #ActivityPub federated web 1.0-style webforum?

So folks, the #article13 and #linktax proposals will be going soon to the EU parlaiment, and if they pass they will become a serious problem for the #Fediverse:
* To automatically filter copyrighted materials, even badly, you need a way to reference those materials. Even our largest instances probably can't afford access!
* Our instances will not be able to afford licenses to link to news sites under the new #LinkTax rules.
Go make some noise at: https://saveyourinternet.eu/
(@gargron)

Two new posts this morning on my p2p blog:

* Giddy about CSS grid (didn't realise how easy it would be to make a three-column grid out of list items)

* Formatting an ISO 8601 date stamp in Hugo (niche? What means that word?)

Links:

* Old web: https://live.ar.al
* New web: dat://live.ar.al

(Use Beaker Browser https://beakerbrowser.com to browse the peer-to-peer/live/streaming version of the site.)

PS. I LOVE BLOGGING WITH THIS THING! … Uhum!… :) https://mastodon.ar.al/media/126KDW_cYsQNijgashs