Uni Watch - https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89150

I was doing my daily archive pruning (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/53658) today and discovered I’d linked to Uni Watch (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/6224) way back in 2006. Uni Watch is/was a niche blog about sports uniforms, and I read on Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/01/uni-watch-rip) (and other places (https://www.metafilter.com/210885/Uni-Watch-1999-2025)) recently that it’s shutting down (https://uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/uni-watch-1999-2025/). It sounds like the owners are doing what they can, but it’s just a crappy situation.

I’m with John on this though:

> …I don’t understand why sites don’t leave their archives standing when they close down. It shouldn’t cost much to keep the domain name registered and a static version of the site’s archive online.

It’s another blow for the open Web. More content disappearing; more link rot; and nothing else to take its place but AI generated slop.

New, by me: I wrote ~3,700 of my finest words on North Korea's remote IT workers, who have infiltrated businesses across the U.S. and Europe and aren't slowing down. Probably the most pervasive cyber threats today.

Here's my primer on how to recognize & combat them. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/thousands-of-north-koreans-have-secretly-infiltrated-us-and-european-companies-as-remote-it-workers

New blog post:
https://blog.autiomaa.org/2025/09/28/how-does-youtube-verify-students/

Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes data between educational institutions, advertisers, and governments.

#infosec

Talking to friends in software orgs recently, I've been struck by commonalities across countries and sectors:

Executives are driving "efficiency," by which they mean maximizing time spent on direct value-creation activities.

BUT there's a tacit, industry-wide assumption that writing code is the only value-creating activity and that all coding generates value.

It's like everyone has prioritized instantaneous boat speed and abandoned navigation and maintenance.

Such a reckoning coming...

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In this video, @xfq, who leads @w3c's #Internationalization activity, breaks down exactly what the language attribute does and demonstrate why skipping it can have real consequences. @webi18n

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