Designer, developer, all things creative. Has opinions, few facts.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116159366316414482
If you live and/or do business in the UK, please take a minute and check this out - and if you agree that Apple's and Google's proposals are too weak (understatement), *please* write to the CMA and tell them.
Great video, must watch imho
If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.
These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?
/cc @pluralistic
@lalage @elmine Apple vereist dat alle browsers op iOS gebruik maken van de WebKit engine die Apple met het besturingssysteem levert. Onder de motorkap draait elke browser dus op dezelfde engine. Apple bepaalt daarmee wat browsers kunnen en welke web features worden ondersteunt. Ze bepalen de hoogte van het plafond, als het ware (En Safari loopt behoorlijk achter op de engines van Chrome en Firefox wat betreft web features, dus het plafond van web op iOS is lager dan elk ander besturingssyst).
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
@firefoxwebdevs VirtualKeyboard API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VirtualKeyboard_API
If you had to pick _one_, which web platform feature would you like in Firefox that isn't part of the Interop 2026 effort? https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/launching-interop-2026/#new-features
On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.
While it's good that the CMA has chosen to include interoperability requirements, the requirements that Apple has laid out are simply too weak to possibly be effective.
On Apple’s pinky promises to CMA https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/ (I've calmed down - a bit - after yesterdays grumpiness at Apple taking the absolute piss.)
> So if Apple denies your request to access AirDrop (or whatever) because allowing you to compete isn’t “in line with its commercial strategy and priorities”, that’s OK, according to commitments which the CMA thinks “could address our concerns”?
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https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/
[NL] "Het TOOI: een geheime politiedienst in Nederland waar je waarschijnlijk nog nooit van hebt gehoord. Maar als je weleens meedoet aan demonstraties of een XR-sticker op je koelkast hebt, dan bestaat de kans dat zij jou wél kennen."
A bunch of Chromium Notifications API issues were updated with the following message this week:
> Notifications is now on maintenance mode only, considering only P0s and P1s.
> Low priority bugs will be moved to a backlog, to be triaged if they become a higher priority.
I hope this doesn't mean that Chromium has given up on the API? It's a vital for the web's ability to compete with native...
@tomayac is there anyone I can/should reach out to?
"The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy"
I was waiting for this one. Michael Spicer is 👌
So I see #Nolto doing the rounds as a supposed #OS #LinkedIn alternative
Judging from the Codeberg issues [1] and the self-professed ignorance of the prompter about fundamentals of federation and software dev [2], it seems highly likely that Nolto is vibe-coded
Superficially feature-rich but lots of loose ends and basic errors, this is a privacy and security disaster waiting to happen — I would not touch this with a barge-pole 😬
[2] https://codeberg.org/Tensetti/Nolto/issues/31#issuecomment-10292844
"The web is an abstraction that holds the power to liberate our computing in-situ, removing superfluous gatekeepers from the loop an increasing fraction of the time [...] They know this, and that's why they're trying to keep the web from winning."
"No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features."
No AI, no crypto, no big tech.
Adam F's music is pretty much unavailable via streaming services (god knows why). It took me 20 yrs to find the albums Colours and KAOS, but now I have them. On CD. (And also safely backed up and available as lossless flac via my Plex server).
I also love how the remaster of Colours is a complete redo of the original songs (not just a remaster).
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