I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.
No, Safari is more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:
Apple keeps Safari on a starvation budget and blocks potential competitors while skimming *tens of billions* in profit per year from developer pain and user inconvenience. The result is a buggier, slower web. You do not have to hand it to them:
I just posted my keyboard collection online, in case that’s of interest to anyone! https://aresluna.org/my-keyboard-collection
[ rushing onto stage, trips over wire and faceplants into a pie, barely managing to deploy jazz hands anyway ]
CAPITALISM!
Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
RE: https://floss.social/@servo/116837878060600014
It is *so* cool to see @tvanderlippe making a big impact in Servo.
May in Servo…
🐢🎬 better compat with mp4 files
☢️🏥 Sanitizer now experimental
🎨📝 more on execCommand()
🙈📜 “Ignore source” in DevTools
⏩ faster DOM and layout
TIL about Betaflight, a PWA that uses Web Bluetooth, WebUSB, and WebSerial to configure and flash open drone boards; *so* cool:
No One's guide for classes of native app to avoid is incredibly thorough, but nowhere is the logic of "app makers" more distilled than this section:
The goal of app stores is to rob you of the agency that interoperability and portability through open runtimes (browsers) give you. The gains from that trade are then largely deposited with data brokers and their clients, and no native app store is good about this. Indeed, if the were, they would be ghost towns.
The Dem establishment freaking out about DSA candidates in primaries more than SCOTUS is an incredible tell. Shocking, even by today's degraded expectations.
RE: https://status.fberriman.com/@phae/116836683391176534
Mark your calendar now, SF friends!
As a corollary, a useful guide for regulators to know if they're on the right track is the extent to which Apple and Google and Samsung and Qualcomm squeal, falsely claiming the consequence would be mass-scale insecurity.
The more they do, the more correct the policy is.
The idea that users have a "choice" of brickware-from-day-one Androids, or brickware-from-date-of-revenue-collapse iPhones is a scandal, and the solution is legislation that legalises market forces to reassert themselves. That's not possible when hardware is held hostage to extractive OEM and carrier sales incentives.
Pro tip for regulators looking to do good by their citizens (a troublingly small subset):
The memorypocalypse (deflationary RAM pricing across multiple years) should put usable hardware lifetimes at the very center of the agenda; the best approaches are legislated bootloader unlocks from date of sale, firmware code-in-escrow (OSS'd + patent unencumbered for firms that fail to deliver security updates less than 6 years out), and legalising browser choice to extend app compat and enable alt OSes.
Google can't secure this shit because Google is effectively out of the loop; OS updates are carrier/OEM gated, and those parties DGAF about security -- or at least not when the alternative is selling users new devices:
11ty → `<del>`Build Awesome `</del>` `<ins>` Web Possum `</ins>`
missed opportunity, tbh.
The claims about Search are much less credible than those about alternative app install sources, but Google wasn't doing a good job protecting users via Play to start with.
The safe, open alternative is the browser; always has been.
1.) you should always take Heather seriously
2.) taking Heather seriously, this is a shocking indictment of Andoid and Google, and is 100% in-line with my critiques of DMA enforcement to date [1] and should be read by everyone as "In practice, Android is shockingly insecure and out of date":
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
If people want to help make this trending, there is an effort to ask the UK meteorological office to name storms after Big Oil to highlight the issue
- BigOil
- BP
- Equinor
- Exxon
- Shell
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
#activism
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChaos
#environment
#UnitedKingdom
Was walking home from a doctor's appointment, and my route took me down Valencia just in time to walk past the SF Dyke March. God damnit I love this town.
The fascists can't take our solidarity or the joy free people feel seeing others live free too.