Mastodawn

@web_goddess There is often a skill gap, as many people have gotten so used to dynamic content that static web versions are so out of the box thinking. Add in the challenge that people often shutdown their long term projects under a heavy stress, when the short term priorities rule over the longer term thinking. I also hope that more sites would do archive versions, but it's difficult to see how many would have energy for that in a financial crisis situations.

Daniel Schildt Nov 23

Kris Howard Nov 23

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.

Uni Watch

I was doing my daily archive pruning today and discovered I'd linked to Uni Watch way back in 2006. Uni Watch is/was a niche blog about sports uniforms, and I read on Daring Fireball (and other places) recently that it's shutting down. It sounds like the owners are doing what they can, but it's just

web-goddess

Daniel Schildt Nov 6

Zack Whittaker Nov 6

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

Thousands of North Koreans have secretly infiltrated US and European companies as remote IT workers

North Korea's secret remote workers are a major threat facing U.S. and European businesses today, taking jobs in Fortune 100 and smaller companies alike. Here's how to recognize and combat the threat.

~this week in security~

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Daniel Schildt Sep 29

@rachelnabors Oh, and even a cup of tea!

Daniel Schildt Sep 27

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

How does YouTube verify student’s educational status?

Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes …

Daniel Schildt Sep 27

Terence Eden Sep 27

The book "Anti-fragile ICT Systems" is available for free.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-30070-2
As mentioned in the Security through Diversity session.
#EuroBSDCon #ebc25

Anti-fragile ICT Systems

This book introduces a novel approach to the design and operation of large ICT systems. It views the technical solutions and their stakeholders as complex adaptive systems and argues that traditional risk analyses cannot predict all future incidents with major impacts. To avoid unacceptable events, it is necessary to establish and operate anti-fragile ICT systems that limit the impact of all incidents, and which learn from small-impact incidents how to function increasingly well in changing environments. The book applies four design principles and one operational principle to achieve anti-fragility for different classes of incidents. It discusses how systems can achieve high availability, prevent malware epidemics, and detect anomalies. Analyses of Netflix’s media streaming solution, Norwegian telecom infrastructures, e-government platforms, and Numenta’s anomaly detection software show that cloud computing is essential to achieving anti-fragility forclasses of events with negative impacts.

SpringerLink

Daniel Schildt Sep 20, 2025

daniel:// stenberg://Sep 17, 2025

#GitHub tip: go to your profile => settings => passwords and authentication and in there, make sure to disable SMS for 2FA as it might otherwise have remained enabled.

Daniel Schildt Sep 14, 2025

Elizabeth Ayer Sep 14, 2025

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...

Daniel Schildt Sep 10, 2025

W3C Developers Sep 10, 2025

Is your website missing out on one of #HTML’s easiest yet most powerful tools? The lang attribute takes just seconds to add, but it makes a massive difference for #accessibility, SEO, and how your content displays. @webi18n

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

🎬 https://youtu.be/G3OwTPJo_Kw

Daniel Schildt Sep 8, 2025

Steve Troughton-Smith Sep 8, 2025

I know Apple has got used to making its share of Microsoft-scale screwups lately, but taking the two best UI frameworks ever made, UIKit and AppKit, and throwing them under the bus for something designed to build watch apps really does take the cake. In hindsight it seems hard to believe a company whose bread and butter is consumer software would make a decision that reckless and stupid. It hasn't made for better apps in any way, shape, or form. I hope, with time, that madness passes

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