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Just found a protest thead on Github for Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187
A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity by th3maid · Pull Request #187 · chromium/chromium

A peaceful protest is underway against mega corporations attempting to impose DRM on the web, aiming to gain control over all content possible and making our lives worse.

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A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.

I have a 10GB hard disk on Google Cloud. I have used up all the space.

So I've now discovered that Chromium takes 300 MB of space.

And that was a great time to learn that `apt-get remove chromium-browser` actually requires *more* disk space to remove software.

Welp.

Ryan Gosling as geese.

A thread.

Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry about (imo very legitimately) was effectively already shipped by Apple in Safari last year: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

That means if Chromium ships it too, we could quickly move to 90%+ of browser traffic being attested. Not good!

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being...

A few days ago I learned about grub theming and this is where it got me.
The entire Star Wars Franchise was purchased for 40 billion dollars less than Twitter. I think about that sometimes.

DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable

https://lemm.ee/post/1265768

DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable - lemm.ee

https://dearrow.ajay.app/ [https://dearrow.ajay.app/]

If you need to be delighted by something this morning, I present the tree goats of Morocco.

I was driving near Essaouira the first time I saw this and literally slammed on my brakes because I thought I was suddenly hallucinating. But then you learn how common it is and after a day or two it's, oh, yeah, more goats in trees.

Normalize this

(Updated: I changed Twitter to X and User to Profile. I intentionally left out Bluesky because their approach to profile naming doesn't fit this paradigm and precedent.)

#X #Threads #Fediverse #News #Media