Ondřej Pokorný @ondra@unextro.net
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#openWeb #PWA #ChromeOS #openStandards #science #future #cyberpunk #minimalism
Joined Sep 2018
All #ChromeDevices launching in 2020 and beyond will receive automatic updates directly from #Google for at least 8 years since the device platform release.
I wish that was the norm with phones, TVs and other electronics as well.
Longer warranty, support and SW updates especially should be the subject of next big round of legislative push around the world.
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This week's @tag meetings included:
• Web Transport, to improve games and live streaming
• Proposals for APIs to measure clicks (like on an ad) -> conversion (like a purchase)
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2020/telcons/01-13-agenda.md
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What copyright maximalists do: publish rare #RollingStones recordings in a crippled way on YouTube for a few hours so they can claim another 20 years of ownership? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/03/mystery-of-rolling-stones-tracks-posted-briefly-on-youtube?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Another great animation by Steve Cutts
The Turning Point:
https://youtu.be/p7LDk4D3Q3U
The clean room #web #browser engine #Flow launched in May 2018 is already able to render most of the full desktop Gmail.
Apparently, it's still possible to develop a browser from scratch. And not just possible but useful, since Flow claims to "deliver over twice the frame rate of other browsers".
https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/full-google-mail-in-a-clean-room-browser/
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It turns out that since Mastodon 3.0.1 only the first four hashtags in a pinned hashtag search column actually work.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12453#issuecomment-557809857
There's no warning, no error message, and no limit to the number of hashtags you can put into the box. It just... fails silently.
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I got reports that a couple of instances where their federation stopped working. I suspect others also might have a slower federation because of jobs stuck in their Sidekiq queue.
I have done some debugging and came up with a patch https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/12171 that I will start installing in a minute.
You should expect around a 15 second downtime during the patch installation.
This patch will strip metadata from audio files. This was the only way I found to solve this issue until a fix is issued.
🇨🇿 in czech
🇨🇿 in czech
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When even after several years large portion of the general public still doesn't understand the benefits of #Chromebooks, #Google recruits #BillNye for their new ad campaign to talk about irrationalities involved...
#ChromeDevice #ChromeDevices #ChromeOS #statusQuoBias #sunkenCostFallacy
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As a model for micro-payments to sites (which can replace the need for ads), I find this compelling: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-revenue-model-for-the-web/3785
Explainer: https://github.com/adrianhopebailie/web-monetization/blob/master/explainer.md
Disclosure: I have chatted with a couple folks behind it.
🇨🇿 in Czech, Hrabiš
#Tesla already started selling #Model3 to #Czech customers, inviting those who pre-ordered it for test drives. (It still has to be imported from Vienna.) #TeslaModel3 #CzechRepublic
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Announcing ActivityPub Conf 2019! September 7th & 8th in Prague, immediately following Rebooting Web of Trust. https://dustycloud.org/blog/activitypub-conf-2019/
Space is limited, see post for details. We are also soliciting talks.
Hope to see you there!
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I have convinced the European Parliament administration to add this fediverse account to my official profile page (though they don't have a fediverse symbol yet): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197431/PATRICK_BREYER/home
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@marketkag, Mikuláš Peksa, @patrickbreyer, and I officially formed a delegation of European Pirates in the European Parliament yesterday. Now, I have the honor to be the head of a delegation that spans across two countries, which is unconventional in the European Parliament.
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Freelance Technology Consultant
#openWeb #PWA #ChromeOS #openStandards #science #future #cyberpunk #minimalism
Joined Sep 2018
