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Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 13, 2017

I've decided to consolidate to one Mastodon account, so I'm gonna be over at @peter. (I'll enable the redirect from this account just now). Please follow me there! :)

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 13, 2017

Doesn't fill me with a huge amount of confidence, South Western Railway... https://mastodon.social/media/cTgoCUWPFI4loMZqrDM

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 12, 2017

Ada Rose Cannon Dec 12, 2017

I am very excited to publish this article!!

My last few months have been looking at some really cool Web technology which have really inspired me about the future of the Web. #WebDevelopment

https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/raindrops-on-roses-whiskers-on-kittens-declarative-web-apis-and-truly-serverless-web-endpoints-50d733e6d867

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, declarative web APIs and truly serverless web endpoints

Here are a few of my favourite things you may not have heard of.

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 11, 2017

"An estimated $500bn is withheld from public coffers each year by multinational companies... [They] should be taxed on where they genuinely do business – not on where they artificially shift their profits"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/11/tech-giants-taxes-apple-paradise-corporation-avoidance

The tech giants will never pay their fair share of taxes – unless we make them | David Pegg

Multinational companies should be taxed on where they genuinely do business – not on where they artificially shift their profits, writes Guardian reporter David Pegg

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 10, 2017

Nolan Lawson Dec 10, 2017

"Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages" https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Customer-Service/Are-you-aware-Comcast-is-injecting-400-lines-of-JavaScript-into/td-p/3009551

Good time to remember that the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere extension is a great way to avoid ISPs tampering with HTTP pages: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Are you aware? Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages.

I just learned of this dispicable Comcast practice today and I am livid. Comcast began injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript code in to pages I requested on the internet so that when the browser renders the web page, the JavaScript generates a pop up trying to up-sell me a new modem. When you call th...

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 10, 2017

"Unfortunately... the online world has been structured by what I view as the perverse financial incentives of the advertising model into exactly the opposite, where people are corralled into these groups that are made to be as annoyed as possible with each other."

Good interview. HT @nolan

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/8/16751596/jaron-lanier-dawn-of-the-new-everything-vr-interview

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet | The Verge

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 8, 2017

(Sorry not sorry) https://mastodon.social/media/_saculJhpAWZT25f8nA

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 8, 2017

"Repressive governments originally treated Facebook with suspicion... But authoritarian regimes are now embracing social media, shaping the platforms into a tool to wage war against a wide range of opponents—opposition parties, human-rights activists, minority populations, journalists."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodrigo-duterte-turned-facebook-into-a-weapon-with-a-little-help-from-facebook

What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?

It’s social media in the age of “patriotic trolling” in the Philippines, where the government is waging a campaign to destroy a critic—with a little help from Facebook itself.

Bloomberg

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 7, 2017

@abbenm @peter Ah a peer to peer browser? I don't remember Opera Unite explicity, but I think you could do similar things with WebRTC in most browsers these days? peerjs.com might be a good place to start, it you haven't come across that...

Peter O'Shaughnessy (moved)Dec 7, 2017

OK I'm gonna belatedly do my #introduction / #introductions ☺️ Hi, I'm a web developer from the UK, into technology and innovation. I work in Samsung's web browser team as a developer advocate, which means I get to help web developers as my job. I post most of the web development stuff over on my other account at @peter.

I also sometimes draw sketches, come up with bad puns, and draw bad cartoons based on bad puns 😄