Ivan Herman

@ivan_herman@w3c.social
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Retired; emeritus W3C team member, still active in digital publishing, semantic web, data, verifiable credentials; also interested in history, arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), photography, international politics, literature, music (mostly classical).
Home pagehttps://www.ivan-herman.net/
Lives inAix-en-Provence, France
Githubhttps://github.com/iherman
Ivan Herman12h ago
European News 🇪🇺1d ago

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

(https://archive.ph/bYVVj)

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

EUobserver
Ivan Herman1d ago
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽1d ago
The Trump regime is engaging in ethnic cleansing. We need to say it aloud.
Show threadIvan Herman3d ago

@koalie @osm_lyon

Même si on oublie la partie modification, c'est une super app, aussi bien dans un browser que comme Web App sur mon iPhone.

Ivan Herman6d ago
JA WestenbergJul 2
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
Ivan HermanJul 2

If you make EPUB documents, or build tools for EPUBs, do you think EPUBs should continue requiring the XML syntax for HTML? Tell W3C what you think by filling the simple survey by the W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group. 4 questions, responses anonymized:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/1/epubhtml/

#publishing #ereader #ebook #kindle #kobo #pocketbook #boox #nook

Information needed to answer Survey on the usage of HTML syntax in EPUB - Web-Based Straw-poll and Balloting System

Ivan HermanJul 1
daniel:// stenberg://Jun 30

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

Ivan HermanJul 1
Natasha JayJun 30
They are starting to get it ...
Ivan HermanJul 1
World Wide Web ConsortiumJun 30

The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.

This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-mathml-core/

Ivan HermanJun 30
Daniel AppelquistJun 30

Digital Identities that Benefit Humans

Today I’ll be traveling to Geneva to attend the Global Digital Collaboration Conference which seeks to “foster wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.” I want to make sure that whatever comes out of this discussion really does benefit humans, and is therefore rooted in human rights. I have spoken publicly about how we incorporate ethics into our standards and specifications in order to make sure we ground them in human rights and “avoid […]

https://www.torgo.com/blog/2025/06/digital-identities-that-benefit-humans.html

Digital Identities that Benefit Humans – Dan's Blog

Ivan HermanJun 30

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI

#ai #publishing

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5449166/authors-publishers-ai-letter

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World Wide Web ConsortiumJun 30

The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.

This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-mathml-core/

Show threadSpaceLifeFormJun 30

@w3c

I would not say the proof is 'easy'.

Show threadDopeGhotiJun 30
@SpaceLifeForm @w3c Why do we need a Math Markup Language when TeX already exists?
Show threadSpaceLifeFormJun 30

@DopeGhoti @w3c

It would be good to be able to render it in a browser without a dependency upon Javascript.

Show threadDopeGhotiJun 30
@SpaceLifeForm @w3c
If TeX maths notation were a W3C standard JS wouldn't be needed, would it? (:
Show threadBill ZaumenJul 1
@SpaceLifeForm @w3c I'm not sure the proof was easy for Karl Weierstrass, who proved the validity of an assumption made by Leonhard Euler,. who suggested how to prove that this equation is correct. You might want to throw in Riemann zeta functions as well as
the value of the sum is ζ(2).
Show threadSpaceLifeFormJul 1

@bzdev @w3c

As I said, I would not consider the proof 'easy'.

But, this is a good walk-through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls

Why is pi here? And why is it squared? A geometric answer to the Basel problem

YouTube
Show threadBill ZaumenJul 2
@SpaceLifeForm @w3c A video may be a reasonable way of walking you through a proof, but you need the steps described on paper - otherwise you can fool yourself. Regardless, the proof that Euler started and Weierstrass finished (100 years later) is far more useful in terms of advances is real and complex analysis.
Show threadLevkaJun 30

@w3c

Pi are not square. Pi are round.