@wilander

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Hacker Fiction Author + WebKit Privacy & Adtech
Author websitehttps://hackerfiction.net
My latest novelhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F6KMY5N5

Safari 26.4 is here!
https://webkit.org/blog/17862/webkit-features-for-safari-26-4/

Grid Lanes. WebTransport. Keyboard Lock API. And _tons_ of fixes & improvements. Please read the introduction to our article to learn what we’ve been up to…

WebKit Features for Safari 26.4

March has a way of bringing a lot of new things to WebKit — and this year is no exception.

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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/newly-purchased-vizio-tvs-now-require-walmart-accounts-to-use-smart-features/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
My next newsletter issue will feature photos and impressions from my trip to Hong Kong, a.k.a. Cyberpunk Ground Zero. I went to the grounds of Kowloon Walled City, the Monster Building, and the skyline and water from the diving scene in Ghost in the Shell. Don't miss out! Subscribe here: https://hackerfiction.net/subscribe/
CNAME Cloaking and Bounce Tracking Defense

This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in Safari 14 on macOS Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave, iOS 14, and iPadOS 14 to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.

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I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team at Apple! We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. It's systems programming in C++ and Swift and the team is local to Cupertino. Please retoot so that people looking for a new job can see this. 🙏🏼 https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200651137-3401/webkit-privacy-adtech-engineer
WebKit Privacy & Adtech Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a WebKit Privacy & Adtech Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

@jwilker Neat trick indeed.

Have you written about your views on this topic? It's a hard one. LLMs are obviously really useful. And it's unlikely that the world would retract existing models. So what do we do? Each book is a very small piece of the training data so some kind of royalty would be very small.

@jyasskin Eleventy (https://www.11ty.dev) and then an HTML form post to a payment provider if actual money is involved. Zero tracking. 👍🏼
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator

Eleventy is a simpler static site generator.

Eleventy
"A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation (…) She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law." https://apnews.com/article/iran-adoptee-deportation-4a68978053c29bfd6df152392ab73211
Woman adopted by American war veteran faces deportation to Iran

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States. She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a legal loophole. The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter this month ordering her to appear for removal proceedings. She has no criminal record. The letter says she is eligible for deportation because she overstayed her visa in 1974 at 4 years old.

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@jwilker Happy birthday!

I reflected this morning on the fact that I so seldom hear comments on Friday 13th anymore. It was much more present when I grew up.