Notices by Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time) (brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net)

LICENSE.TXT (needs sounds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUleKnUUaGI (hat-tip @sil

Ban tracking and personalised advertising https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/tracking-verbot Chaos Computer Club calls for European Commission to propose legislation that would ban personalised surveillance advertising. "The advertising industry already has sustainable, proven concepts for effective online advertising that do not require targeted tracking and personalisation (e.g. contextual advertising)".

The Fediverse - the road to an open social web https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/ I interview @evan, ActivityPub co-author and Research Director of Social Web Foundation

"There’s no doom scrolling in an RSS feed.

That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect." https://manuelmoreale.com/the-social-web

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon

Given a certain social network owner's role in recent events, I'm particularly interested in the Fediverse - the network of social networks connected via the ActivityPub standard. In this edition of @Vivaldi's "For A Better Web" podcast, I interviewed @evan, a co-author of the ActivityPub w3c spec, and research director of the newly launched @swf https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/

Is there a tweetdeck-style desktop thang that integrates mastodon, bluesky and threads and allows cross-posting?

Americans stockpile abortion pills and hormones ahead of ‘reproductive apocalypse’ under Trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/nov/07/us-election-2024-live-updates-donald-trump-victory-kamala-harris?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-672cb3a08f0808f2b62a551c#block-672cb3a08f0808f2b62a551c

I flipping love RSS - getting content I choose, rather than being force-fed by an algorithm, and reading it when I choose. In version 7 last week, we've improved Vivaldi's built-in Feed Reader https://vivaldi.com/features/feed-reader/

While we launched Vivaldi 7 for desktops yesterday and rejigged the website a bit, I took the opportunity to write up why we're fighting for a better web: https://vivaldi.com/for-a-better-web/

Forbes: "Vivaldi 7: The Best Web Browser Just Got Even Better' https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/10/24/vivaldi-7-the-best-web-browser-just-got-even-better/

"Sustainable Futures: Funding the Web Ecosystem" - this talk by @seaotta keeps running through my brain this week https://2024.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/stephanie-stimac/

@evan yes! Happy birthday.

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ (Oct 13 1994)

Exclusive: Rival browsers allege Microsoft's practices on Edge unfair, should be subject to EU tech rules https://www.reuters.com/technology/rival-browsers-allege-microsofts-practices-edge-unfair-should-be-subject-eu-tech-2024-10-03/ "Microsoft gives its Edge web browser an unfair advantage and EU antitrust regulators should subject it to tough EU tech rules, three rival browsers and a group of web developers said in a letter to the European Commission."

What the AT&T Breakup Teaches Us About a Big Tech Breakup https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/what-att-breakup-teaches-us-about-big-tech-breakup

I just heard my friend Gavin died from an overdose of indigestion tablets. I can't believe Gav is gone.

FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance
Report recommends limiting data retention and sharing, restricting targeted advertising, and strengthening protections for teens

Vivaldi (and I) are delighted to sponsor the State of the Browser conference, a grass-roots inclusive live-captioned web standards conference.

Languages with accents on letters should just stop it. If letters were meant to wear hats, or other ostentatious ornaments, they would have been born with them.