One of the largest science funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will cease paying journal “article processing charges” and instead asks funded researchers to publish their work as preprints. This is fantastic. The costs of the current publishing system drain research funds and exclude too many scientists solely due to financial constraints. Funders are in a much better position to rock the “publishing” boat than researchers.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

#academia #OpenScience #research

How are all the cool kids generating #css color palettes for their #designsystems these days?

In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️

In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎

👇Read our regulatory submission
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

Just booted an ancient computer for the first time in years. The apps open immediately, even with no internet connection. There are no popups, logins, 2FA, ads, or AI. They just work, fast, and will as long as the machine does. I miss that world so much.

Building a @glyphsapp plugin that lists languages your font doesn’t support yet. Add missing glyphs for any language in a click!

I’ve been imagining a tool like this ever since @rosetta published their Hyperglot Python library, which powers this tool.

Okay, top trolling, facebook.

@svgeesus Congratulations, Chris, you have nerd-sniped me. Not the existing, implemented font you asked for, but a hypothetical variable typeface design that can be used to start discussion about how it should be implemented and why.

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3125#issuecomment-2016559702

Creating color palettes with the #CSS color-mix() function: "Working with colors on the web just got more interesting! In this article, we’ll explore how to use the CSS color-mix() function to create variations in color palettes." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/color-palettes-css-color-mix/

Dear typographers of Mastodon:

Do any variable fonts exist which support both italics and obliques, in the same font?

(This is not a challenge to go make one. I'm also not assuming that intermediate forms (ugh!) would exist; just that the one font could produce either on demand).

Please boost for reach; #css would like good data before designing solutions to non-existent problems.

Comments welcome at

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3125

I've finally managed to get relative CSS colors documentation published on MDN. This was a complex beast to tackle, and I'm proud to see it out! Get started at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_colors/Relative_colors; also see the color function pages to find out what relative colors look like in each.

Sadly, compositing still takes place in an unidentified color space. A glance at the equations would lead you to assume it is sRGB, but in practice implementations pick whatever RGB space is used for display.

This mainly relates to hardware support for compositing.

Yes, there should be a linear-light option.

New working draft of Compositing and Blending

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CRD-compositing-1-20240321/

A fairly modest set of changes, but it had been a while:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CRD-compositing-1-20240321/#changes

#css

New working draft of #css Typed Object Model

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-css-typed-om-1-20240321/

Lots of changes since the last (2018!!) working draft

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-css-typed-om-1-20240321/#changes-20180410

Trump says any Jewish person who votes for Democrats ‘hates their religion’ and ‘everything about Israel’

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-antisemitic-jewish-people-israel-support-netanyahu/index.html

I say any Christian person who votes for Trump hates their religion and everything about America.

How good is this? It's the first family workstation in a Canadian academic library (https://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/visit/spaces/family-workstation). The parent can work at the desk, and the infant can work in the contained area.

Or, if the research starts going very badly, they can swap.

Latest comic: Electric vehicles gone wrong

I'm fine with the soft, whirring spaceship sounds that some EVs emit as a safety feature to alert people that they're moving. The new Dodge Charger EV comes with a deafening 126 dB roar, which is just plain obnoxious.

#cars #ev #evs #transportation #gender #marketing

Eight year old meme still slammin'

I just visited a website.

The top half was a popup about GDPR.

The rest of it was a popup about cookie consent.

When I cleared both of those I got a popup about a newsletter.

When I cleared that I got a popup about an offer.

When I cleared that I got half an article then a paywall.

The internet, 2024.

Gove is following Goebbels’ advice https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/03/14/gove-is-following-goebbels-advice/. Goebbels suggested a propagandist should accuse their enemies of doing the very thing that the propagandist was promoting. Gove would seem to be doing the same thing with his new definition of extremism.

Just a thought: Instead of TikTok, how about we ban assault weapons first?