65 posts tagged ‘Web’
Storing Times for Human Events
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Simon Willison: What’s wrong with calculating the exact UTC time the event is starting and storing only that? […] It’s surprisingly common for countries to make decisions about DST with very little notice. Turkey and Russia and Chile and Morocco are four more examples of countries that can often cause short-term chaos for software developers […]
FTC and CFPB Reining in Data Brokers
FTC (tweet): The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from selling sensitive location data, including data that reveals the identity of an individual’s private home, to settle allegations the data broker sold such information without taking reasonable steps to verify consumers’ consent. Under the FTC’s proposed settlement order, Mobilewalla will also be […]
Google Page Annotation Links
Barry Schwartz: When you are browsing a web page in the Google App native browser, Google can “extract interesting entities from the webpage and highlight them in line.” When you click on them, Google takes you to more search results.I don’t think this is a new feature, I mean, I’ve heard of this before from […]
Losing “Podcast”
Dave Winer: We’re losing the word “podcast” very quickly. It’s come to mean video interviews on YouTube mostly. Our only hope is upgrading the open platform in a way that stimulates the imagination of creators, and there’s no time to waste. If you make a podcast client, it’s time to start collaborating with competitors and […]
Let’s Encrypt Is 10
Josh Aas (in 2014, via Hacker News): For many server operators, getting even a basic server certificate is just too much of a hassle. The application process can be confusing. It usually costs money. It’s tricky to install correctly. It’s a pain to update.Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation […]
DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android
Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address […]
Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors
Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the article. Something similar is now happening in India, where the Indian […]
Google Drive Blackout in Italy
Andy Maxwell (via Hacker News): After blocking Cloudflare [link] to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians, wasn't just a hapless IP address blunder. […] The domain/subdomain blocked in the image above […]