Tesla sales unexpectedly plunge after #Elon #Musk backlash:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4zp3z1p3o
And all of a sudden, and for absolutely no reason at all, I find myself humming a bit of Fats Domino:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pqs_WZdUdM&t=19s
A recent Fediverse interaction with @edsu about my musical explorations with the 90ies experimental computer music band Young Farmers Claim Future provided inspiration to resurrect our original website (mainly using @internetarchive snapshots) and make the two CDs we released available for download (on Bandcamp). All accessible via https://youngfarmersclaimfuture.info
22h agoWEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Writing-modes sideways values not implemented”
With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.
This means it's now possible to properly display horizontal scripts in vertical arrangements, such as table headings.
This is a significant step forward, and turns many cells green in the language matrix! See https://www.w3.org/TR/latn-gap/#issue11_writing_mode
＠鳥貴族 4, 5月限定メニュー、手羽先バンザイカレー味。
日本に来たら食べてほしいお店。100円均一ならぬ、370円均一です。
“Forever praised be Providence, which when the weak sight of mortals sees in it nothing but stern justice, then most of all is at work on a crowning mercy!”
Translated from the Italian by Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin, quote is actually in their introduction, from a private letter Vico sent on Oct 25, 1725.
#GiambattistaVico #vico #ricorso #TheNewScience #LaScienzaNuova
4/1/2025W3C tech in the news: "A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media"
"The energy around ActivityPub reminds me of the early days of the Web,” Mr. Nelson said in a recent interview, “where anything seemed possible, and innovation was around every corner.”
https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20250307210844/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
142857 x 1 = 142857
142857 x 2 = 285714
142857 x 3 = 428571
142857 x 4 = 571428
142857 x 5 = 714285
142857 x 6 = 857142
142857 x 7 = 999999
1/7 = 0.142857
2/7 = 0.285714
3/7 = 0.428571
4/7 = 0.571428
5/7 = 0.714285
6/7 = 0.857142
7/7 = 0.999999 [?!]
to be continued
#geometry #sacredgeometry #enneagram #nine #lawofseven #lawofthree #pi #Π
I propose Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Intergalactic Hyper-Agentic Socially-Aware Multiverse Knowledge Latinum Cases:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2025Apr/0001.html
@w3c Team, on second thought, do we need a new category of a W3C Group to take on this solution to a probable problem?
The WebAIM Million 2025 report is out:
https://webaim.org/projects/million/
I remain bemused to find that https://tink.uk is one of the million; number 792,234 by popularity, with a WAVE accessibility rank of 23,256.
0 #accessibility issues detected through automation 😅
De VRT vond het een goed idee om Vlaams Belanger De Winter te interviewen over de rechterlijke uitspraak tegen Le Pen.
3/31/2025The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) WG invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition). This document describes PNG, an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/updated-candidate-recommendation-portable-network-graphics-png-specification-third-edition/
We're looking for someone to join the @TetraLogical team as an accessibility Specialist.
If you're resident in the UK, you can apply on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4197046475/
Or directly:
https://misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2025-03-accessibility-specialist/
It's not what you look like
When you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin'
What you look like you're doin'
#CharlesWright #theWatts103rdStreetRhythmBand #ExpressYourself
3/28/2025The Web Real-Time Communications WG has published WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers as an updated W3C Recommendation. This defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow media and generic application data to be sent to and received from another browser or device implementing the appropriate set of real-time protocols. This spec is being developed in conjunction with a protocol specification developed by the IETF RTCWEB group
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/updated-w3c-recommendation-webrtc-real-time-communication-in-browsers/
3/28/2025The Data Shapes Working Group has published SHACL 1.2 Core and SHACL 1.2 SPARQL Extensions as First Public Working Drafts.
SHACL is a language for validating RDF graphs against a set of conditions.
The mission of the Data Shapes Working Group is to update data shapes standards in line with the versions of core Semantic Web standards that cater for RDF-star and to extend the applications of data shapes with new packaging and use specifications.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-drafts-shacl-1-2-core-and-shacl-1-2-sparql-extensions/
3/27/2025W3C published the Authorized French Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2.
@wai particularly encourages the development of Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.2 and other technical specifications to facilitate their adoption and implementation internationally.
The Lead Translation Organization for this Authorized Translation was Access42.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/authorized-translation-of-wcag-2-2-in-french/