GitHub Pages "blocks" Google's FLoC now by adding the opt-out header.
I don't think this is any reason to celebrate. #Google pulled two tricks here:
1. It identified all websites that are against this standard, making it easy to rank them worse.
2. Provided a technical solution to a social problem making all the tech elitist feel good by adding a header instead of protesting.
All in all, I feel this header legitimises the standard more and more "because you can opt-out". #FLoC #privacy
I have been using @gnome 40 on #Fedora 34 beta since last 3 weeks now. The horizontal workspaces have definitely improved the way I use them. Moving windows across workspaces is much easier, you actually get a quick view of all the windows/applications with overview and probably much more, I don't even remember how it was before!
Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 1400 IST. More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/april-2021/
Plausible has opted out of Google FLoC!
Visits to our site will not be included when Google determines a cohort to share with their partners for personalized advertising purposes.
We recommend other sites to opt out of FLoC too!
Help @plausible test an upcoming version
https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/901
New #Fedora Accounts is finally here! https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/introducing-the-new-fedora-accounts/
We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
See the release highlights at https://forty.gnome.org/
Or view all the details in our release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/
Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 1400 IST (UTC+5:30). More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/march-2021/
TIL Target-specific Variable Values in GNU Make. The values set for a target are also passed to all the prerequisites of the targets.
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Target_002dspecific.html
build:
@echo "$(FEATURE)"
deploy: FEATURE = enable
deploy: build
@echo "$(FEATURE)"
This will print:
enable
enable
I started self-hosting fonts for my website. Wrote about it here: https://geeksocket.in/posts/self-hosting-fonts/
Instance admin just lost their job, might need help
Mstdn.social is one of the largest and nicest instances on the Fediverse, run by an enthusiastic admin called @stux
Unfortunately Stux has today found out that they are fired from their day job 😞
However, by happy coincidence, Stux had just set up a hosting company. If you need web hosting, domain names etc please consider using Stuxhost so that Stux can continue working:
Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 1400 IST. More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/february-2021/
How do we defend against dependency based side-channel attacks at @securedrop project https://kushaldas.in/posts/defending-against-side-channel-attacks-via-dependencies.html #Python Let me know what do you think. #Security
Illustrations done in #krita & Inkscape for MTV India's reality television show promotion campaign.
More details here - https://raghukamath.com/works/splitsvilla/
FOSDEM is kept free as in beer, sponsor us by getting a unique souvenir from our shop!
https://fosdem.org/2021/tshirts/
Wrote a blog post on how to setup Emacs as a basic Go programming environment with LSP Mode and gopls
And then, for each sequence of slides, the questions are:
What did this person believe before we got here?
What do I want them to believe after they see this?
Brick by brick, step by step, your slides conspire to cause this change to happen.
The font you choose, your grammar, the size of the letters, the quality of the picture–each of these tactical decisions has a purpose. What’s the change I want this element to contribute to?
https://seths.blog/2021/02/strategy-and-tactics-and-powerpoint/
#presentations #mjbpresentations #strategy
Publish. Consistently. With patience. Own your assets. Don’t let a middleman be your landlord. Yell at Google for blocking your emails and hope it’ll work eventually. Continually push for RSS and an open web. With patience.
Getting picked is great, when it works. Someone needs to be in the spotlight and it might as well be you.
In the meantime, catch your breath, show up and contribute.
It all adds up.
Free software enthusiast. Emacser. Kubernaut. Gopher. Pythonista. Author of GeekSocket. Tech Enthusiast.