2026-04-13T08:08:09Z https://yabu.me Mark Nottingham https://yabu.me/npub1djpwzjj94vkt0hy9eesvgcekq3dee8x0vewt6knax7xa4qe4zt5s07ept4 https://techpolicy.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/362/783/603/335/264/original/a44408e51e09c45c.jpg https://techpolicy.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/362/783/603/335/264/original/a44408e51e09c45c.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgdwujgjn8dmdtr3ntg7lnpcg6lmpk8hjnn5tqalrnhxw0zsdy8ygzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj6gg2vw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyvj65pk48vu88y5r4ecgud3x9v90rek0p864z3nm8n4enwpyn3xcf427hs'>nevent1q…27hs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hmm. Examples? 2026-04-23T12:52:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrd2ul2qcjfslqafyywpnlwvvltwjft6ylcspkcn2rytmrdxaecgzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjyve4h3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs84dz2hnzvfuj898s07vtrjscmfqpvzq96wrnu28alp057taut5rg6k7yus'>nevent1q…7yus</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the thinking there is to use HTTP content negotiation, rather than repeat content in the document in different languages. Generally sites that are sophisticated enough to have translations can do this. 2026-04-23T11:49:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvmptypzvqgd420zyj3cpmp5ceh5046peem30jjmtvelpq2d80y4gzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj2s3j4s Playing around with a new way to discover feeds on a site; feedback most welcome.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-feed-menu-00.html">https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-feed-menu-00.html</a> 2026-04-23T11:27:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx3jgfu7m49r46w70st7q2h9eguc5lrntdvr6wrw5talz44hj3dtczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjsa9a9e More belated introspection from the adtech industry. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/">https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/</a> 2026-03-09T06:53:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfc974dqtt358chwqlwg88umy4xsapthppqsk9z4t7efafc70xp3czypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjuswvv4 The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be not play the game. Let&#39;s take a look.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no">https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no</a> 2026-02-13T06:49:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9vhjsywsevp9pfj74ycme86qhcfjvkwean7d6vfxtr8g6yy8x79gzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj3qq6te Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/10/26/equitable-meetings">https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/10/26/equitable-meetings</a> 2025-10-26T05:55:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2y40yssjkadyqeyaqsugzcftwajx22n3gc3y22um0fqhj2q95jngzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjqyrr0w &#34;AI hucksters [...] will tell you that there is only one way that this technology can be used: to fire a whole ton of workers and make the survivors do their job at frantic Lucy-in-the-chocolate-factory cadence. While it’s true that this is the only way that their companies could possibly be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into them (so far), there’s no iron law that says that investors in tech bubbles should always turn a profit.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/">https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/</a> 2025-10-26T05:49:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstnvh7rhp8qehqe8xrz49z358njtmcxp9dlwlh56fgevn4aqtgljczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjtrm43a RFC 9842 is HTTP Compression Dictionary Transport -- this is a big one!<br/><br/>Congrats <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub18040wphnjmltlunkw8ed6yscmdm9zm978ehvq6cnyrwc9dc0dacs8tka24" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Yoav Weiss</span> (<span class="italic">npub1804…ka24</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15a45rwr668ldr0h2xmdv6k56t5rtkpanmufckr3gtl0nk96fal5q0lrewk" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Patrick Meenan</span> (<span class="italic">npub15a4…rewk</span>)</a></span> !<br/><br/><a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842.html">https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842.html</a> 2025-10-01T06:07:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9wp6m3g76x27yh44ekz3tt2f5e63mh8h2jprn5p8nz64a6tlpjuczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj4ye3t7 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> perhaps the amount of power that monopolists amass scares even those with masses of power. 2025-06-28T13:51:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp42ppy2lxaxepd8z7qe38n2zumtulmtzjrpws7nvwn60sdev0f4czypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjvah0kf So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.<br/> <img src="https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/543/096/428/519/955/original/399a76e96ec39435.png"> <br/> 2025-05-21T00:55:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsztvcjhn63ttqr60t8xh6kwnkewy8ll7y6n9qvlk3xqpajv67cvaczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjz7hzre &#34;We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/">https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/</a> 2025-03-28T04:27:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfkcp0fcdkluc937d2663gaqqhtxxv7ne7qcyt2c8jlk69qczsj3szypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj55k4wj Well this looks useful. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-au/102471">https://support.apple.com/en-au/102471</a> 2025-02-09T09:51:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswtsle5lar0yqeu7shcm2407wq39s5m2ly5k3wnhlryv3mp6r7qkgzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjdwpx57 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstswwkf6j8pvr9jn27qynp7sj66y5lwj52ecspl8n3pygn7jkppgcm4smgd'>nevent1q…smgd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it sounds like your page is generating the POST upon page load, in which case this would not be Microsoft&#39;s fault. A POST needs to be initiated by a user action -- and clicking on a GETable link doesn&#39;t count. 2025-01-23T20:58:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0hz20y5w3cnnu3k5h0ja8ard25dwgv9z6ga4plevedayetzqcnygzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjkyl7xp All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet. 2025-01-14T03:18:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswsltpv6q63z6fpkc6ykh4m3eh40k5q8uvaza3gztjs6vq0np6rnczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjut2eeq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvrpa7dtelh0dtwu56lym9au342ja49kdv5khrzqxnc2d7nuwjarcv8pufp'>nevent1q…pufp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>my initial thought is that no one cares about filesystem benchmarking any more because it’s perceived as a solved problem for most purposes. 2024-12-04T20:41:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsddpxs6kt7ykxvnmqq4e6e7s2fgvykr57upzds0ymhazhhx8uxj3gzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjnrfd8m A new book explores an intriguing idea: that there are core processes in some platforms that naturally tilt the table towards being implemented in a single company.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/11/29/platforms">https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/11/29/platforms</a> 2024-11-29T00:38:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdlm83us92hvqcc42akhwdlxxd7tmgq32grajl44zs46qrh9ypu9qzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj2csvwh If you need cheering up, watch this video. Run, nazi, run.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/neo-nazis-pepper-sprayed-after-attempting-to-disrupt-refugee-rally-20241022-p5kkh3.html">https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/neo-nazis-pepper-sprayed-after-attempting-to-disrupt-refugee-rally-20241022-p5kkh3.html</a> 2024-10-22T21:57:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs03hyczj9xlsetjh4hp409jpq3nwyyrl40pvrx2va3pxwc45jej5gzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjh90gnd Katherine Kemp summarises the dismal state of privacy law reform in Australia. <br/><br/><a href="https://theconversation.com/long-overdue-australian-privacy-law-reform-is-here-and-its-still-not-fit-for-the-digital-era-238214">https://theconversation.com/long-overdue-australian-privacy-law-reform-is-here-and-its-still-not-fit-for-the-digital-era-238214</a> 2024-09-12T07:00:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy3zmmpkw4nhgmlk9gvspl8q96wq8h8d58wq5vwe5avdc32c9mgtqzypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjj42cj8 Recent statements by authorities in Australia make this worth repeating. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power">https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power</a> 2024-09-05T08:28:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr6txs036cnvmdccnm4wpv9rsezayysneuwc9w43dhskfuesmxhpszypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwja3nqz2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxaxjvyfkas24g9nhj7fykqxrv5n9m2cv9eylylerncdaaeeq7kgdmz3m8'>nevent1q…z3m8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sure. The aspect of this that is interesting to me is that the adtech industry makes a lot of arguments that imply that a larger ad market is always better. 2024-09-04T02:33:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgdshlg4wascz58xp96zcyza37qq0llxcgt95jr8cpgxq7gryslcszypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjgay5vn People say that AI is killing the Web, but content farms existed and were a problem king before AI took off. <br/><br/>What they both share is a profit motive this is satisfied by automated, large scale advertising. <br/><br/>So it’s more accurate to say that unrestricted advertising is killing the Web. 2024-09-03T21:16:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsppvppyklacvk33azewhwlny45ajwse7rerpds7dkw5catt5gtq3czypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjaq0tgc Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/08/25/feeds">https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/08/25/feeds</a> 2024-08-25T06:13:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0dtffmms3c75s5a4dz57pt73cuxgnvfg006le9nq8v0pu8g38nkczypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwjkttc5x Just wondering: has a country ever denied accusations of ethic cleansing and then later been found to be innocent? 2024-08-11T01:08:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswk9jnhetp8m7a96y4rptqkk8w5h7wnqarnvpcpre069ltj8s5heszypkg9c22gk4jed7ush8xp3rrxcz9h8yuean9e02605mcmk5rx5fwj86gjy6 How do internet standards work? What role do the have in internet governance? I’m writing about these topics and more in a series of posts - feedback much appreciated!<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mnot.net/blog/series/internet-standards/">https://www.mnot.net/blog/series/internet-standards/</a> 2024-08-03T00:51:35Z