🤖 Ever heard of a browser that works without a screen?
That’s a headless browser — your invisible ally for scraping, automation, and testing at scale.
In our latest Uncomplicate Series, we break it down in plain language.
✨ No jargon. Just clarity.
đź”— https://tinyurl.com/42n266cn
#WebScraping #Automation #HeadlessBrowsers #OpenWeb #UncomplicateSeries #PromptCloud
Wedding planner switches from DIY website to professional hosting → 340% increase in monthly inquiries
The technical differences that matter:
- Load times under 3 seconds
- Mobile-first design
- Professional email hosting
- SSL certificates for trust
- Daily automated backups
The math: One additional booking per year pays for professional hosting. Everything else is profit.
Learn more for wedding professionals https://solutions.webhostingm.com/wedding-website-hosting-boost-bookings.html
Bots from the likes of #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Oracle, #Tencent, #Russia and countless others are destroying the #OpenWeb. The latest casualty is Ric Ford’s legendary #MacInTouch. So terrible and disappointing. #apple #news #internet #capitalism #bullshit https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/29/macintouch-paused/
Bots from the likes of #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Oracle, #Tencent, #Russia and countless others are destroying the #OpenWeb. The latest casualty is Ric Ford’s legendary #MacInTouch. So terrible and disappointing. #apple #news #internet #capitalism #bullshit mjtsai.com/blog/2025…
The #4opens vs. liberal tokenism in #openweb tech hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-v... The #4opens isn’t just an appeal to values, it’s a functional way of judging developers and projects. #KISS
The #4opens vs. liberal tokeni...
The #4opens vs. liberal tokenism in #openweb tech https://hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-vs-liberal-tokenism-in-openweb-tech/ The #4opens isn’t just an appeal to values, it’s a functional way of judging developers and projects. #KISS
🗞️ Today’s Ohmbudsman is live.
Highlights include:
🛡️ Total Defense in the Nordics
📉 U.S.–China education fracture
🛰️ China arms its space station
🔓 ASUS routers compromised
🌊 EU security hub in Black Sea
Full read: https://ohmbudsman.com/thursday-may-29th-2025/
#Ohmbudsman #Geopolitics #Privacy #Decentralization #OpenWeb
Telegram is dieing
Telegram partnering with Elon’s #AI to distribute #Grok inside chats is a clear line crossed. This matters because private data ≠training fodder, bringing Grok (or any #LLM) into messaging apps opens the door to pervasive data harvesting and normalization of surveillance.This is an example of platform drift: Telegram was always sketchy (proprietary, central control, opaque funding), but this is active betrayal of its user base, especially those in repressive regions who relied on […]#Development #Approaches
Web design and the browser · Websites are meant to be built by anyone https://ilo.im/1647z8
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#Democratization #OpenWeb #Website #Browser #Frameworks #Design #UiDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend
Is there a protocol, something rss like, to subscribe to, that allows the announcement of your various internet presences? Something that would allow feeding landingpages such as linktree, but also for integration into all kind of other endpoints, from media players to comic readers?
#protocol #rss #question #landingpage #linktree #discovery #referral #opensource #openweb #www
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#FreeDocumentMaker #AItools #PDFeditor #NoCode #Fediverse #OpenWeb
"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search.
Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves.
As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”
Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.
I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future.
Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google.
Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel.
If Google can use AI to censor a travel website from the web arbitrarily and without opportunity for appeal – it can do the same to any source of information it wants.
And American citizens and Internet users everywhere will be worse off for it.
So while you may not really care about the plight of some random travel website getting censored, everyone should care about the way Google is deploying AI to build a censorship cartel that lets it control the flow of information online.
What follows is a lengthy summary of my experiences and my opinions as an independent publisher trying to survive in a monopolist’s information economy.
To start, let me explain how we got to this point where Google has the power to do this:"
https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/
#Google #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #OpenWeb #Monopolies #Antitrust #Competition #BigTech
#Development #Launches
Good Internet Magazine · A print and digital magazine for the non-corporate web https://ilo.im/1623f6
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#Magazine #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Business #Website #Blog #Design #WebDesign #WebDev
“Use and abuse” is a good strategy for dealing with the #dotcons while they continue to dominate our digital and social infrastructure. Why? Because refusing to engage with these platforms outright is the equivalent of shouting into the void - or living in a cave. And caves, while romantic to a certain type of purist, are never effective social solutions.
The truth is this #dotcons are still where the #mainstreaming people live, and mainstream attention is power, even if borrowed. As radicals or progressives, using their platforms to push counter-narratives, while simultaneously undermining their legitimacy and building our own #openweb independent infrastructure, is both necessary and strategic. Think of it as exiting from within by using their reach to grow the seeds of our native alt-path.
Comment améliorer le LCP sans toucher au contenu ? En jouant sur la priorité de chargement des scripts.
Weston Ruter explore une piste : déprioriser les scripts d’interactivité API pour libérer de la perf. Subtil et prometteur.
Ă€ creuser !
https://weston.ruter.net/2025/05/26/improve-lcp-by-deprioritizing-interactivity-api-script-modules/
"I don’t doubt that Google has been thinking about this stuff for a while and that there are people at the company who deem it strategically irrelevant or at least of secondary importance to winning the AI race — the fate of the web might not sound terribly important when your bosses are talking nonstop about cashing out its accumulated data and expertise for AGI. I also don’t want to be precious about the web as it actually exists in 2025, nor do I suggest that websites working with or near companies like Meta and Google should have expected anything but temporary, incidental alignment with their businesses.
(...)
But I also don’t want to assume Google knows exactly how this stuff will play out for Google, much less what it will actually mean for millions of websites, and their visitors, if Google stops sending as many people beyond its results pages. Google’s push into productizing generative AI is substantially fear-driven, faith-based, and informed by the actions of competitors that are far less invested in and dependent on the vast collection of behaviors — websites full of content authentic and inauthentic, volunteer and commercial, social and antisocial, archival and up-to-date — that make up what’s left of the web and have far less to lose. Maybe, in a few years, a fresh economy will grow around the new behaviors produced by searchlike AI tools; perhaps companies like OpenAI and Google will sign a bunch more licensing deals; conceivably, this style of search automation simply collapses the marketplace supported by search, leveraging training based on years of scraped data to do more with less. In any case, the signals from Google — despite its unconvincing suggestions to the contrary — are clear: It’ll do anything to win the AI race. If that means burying the web, then so be it."
#Google #AI #GenerativeAI #AISearch #OpenWeb #AdTech #AdTargeting #OpenAI #News #Media
WordPress wird 22 Jahre alt. Ich bin mit @linuxundich seit 2006 dabei und trotz der Attraktivität statischer Generatoren wie #Hugo, #Jekyll und Co. bis heute geblieben. Was sich technisch bewährt hat, wo es hakt und warum auch die Community zunehmend Kritik übt 👇
https://linuxundich.de/webhosting/wordpress-wird-22-seit-2006-bin-ich-dabei/
Challenging “liberal trolls” and #encryptionist blindness hamishcampbell.com/challenging-... the path of the #openweb depends on striking a balance between openness and security, grassroots experimentation and mainstream scalability, and decentralization and coordination.
Challenging “liberal trolls” a...
Challenging “liberal trolls” and #encryptionist blindness https://hamishcampbell.com/challenging-liberal-trolls-encryptionist-blindness-for-the-broader-openweb/ the path of the #openweb depends on striking a balance between openness and security, grassroots experimentation and mainstream scalability, and decentralization and coordination.
The stage has been set for the growth of small social media #social #openweb #personalweb https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/stage-set-growth-small-social-media-cheapskate?utm_medium=feed
