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• Post #2848423

  For any Canadian Fedizens wondering why things got quiet, #mstdnca is down. Not a power outage (or at least not a neighbourhood wide one), and also not the usual time-out server overload issues; it's not replying at all. So it's probably down until after day-job hours are over. https://status.mstdn.ca/ (Response time graph shows quick replies, but that's the Cloudflare error page.) Although given how many people switched off mstdn.ca last month, maybe the rest of you d...

• Post #2848422

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jyasskin/116615385285957906 On Google's new "Modern Web Guidance" installable "skill" prompt for its Gemini genAI model:

• Post #2848421

  RE: https://front-end.social/@castastrophe/116603718953722527 Since I've boosted some criticism of the Google "Modern Web Guidance" LLM skill package, I should boost a more positive announcement. (Note that I haven't watched the video myself.) And I'd like to point out that this is an excellent team of experts to assemble if you want to create guidance on building websites with modern standards. It does feel a bit of a waste that the guides they creat...

• Post #2848420

  This "1996 Class Reunion" Blog Post from the Internet Archive's Wayback team is cute: https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/celebrating-thirty-years-of-the-internet-archive-with-the-class-of-1996/ But... Am I overthinking their "Cutest Couple: W3C & CSS" choice? "One builds the structure, the other makes it beautiful." Shouldn't that be HTML & CSS? But HTML & w3.org had a big break-up later. Not so cute...

• Post #2848419

  Reading up on the latest dystopia on Google's Ads & Commerce blog. The gray text on white background is too fine for me to read easily. No problem, Ctrl-+ to zoom in. The text gets smaller. Did I hit the wrong key? I try again, checking the zoom % in the browser bar. Nope, not my mistake — theirs. Text size scales down from 16px to 14px in a width media query, cancelling out the zoom at that particular step. #CSS Devs: Don't do this! There was still lots of margin sp...

• Post #1810363

  Introducing... The 256 Byte* Website! *(per file) Last week @tantek.com posted a little puzzle for the 256th day of the year: > build an entire website where each resource fits into at most 8-bits worth of bytes. https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max When @bkardell re-upped the post, this nerd got sniped & spent way too many hours Friday to make a microsite from 16 256-byte or smaller files: HTML, CSS, SVG, WebP. Here it is, enjoy! Please let me know of is...

• Post #1527737

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116404712213309413 It doesn't count as phishing if the phish just jump into your basket. (Unfortunately, the people writing this code aren't the ones whose personal information is being thrown out into the internet.)

• Post #1527736

  This is a great story-telling data visualization structure, presenting one chart at a time, then inviting you to hit a button to dig deeper. (Unfortunately, no alt-text descriptions on the actual SVG charts, but the main body text does convey the key points.) Edit: links, because quote boosts are unreliable, especially when quoting something half-federated like Threads: https://www.hankgreen.com/crc https://www.threads.com/@hankgreen/post/DXSrVn_idpt

• Post #1251117

  Interesting approach to a cookie banner, and so easy to implement for the devs: Tell people that they can always block cookies from their browser settings. I think this *could* be GDPR compliant if they don't share any of their own analytic data with advertisers using other means, so that the user blocking 3rd-party cookies is sufficient to block sharing of data? From nfb.ca (National Film Board of Canada). Learn more links to https://help.nfb.ca/cookies/ (with, sigh, gl tracking query...

• Post #1006309

  Light mode, dark mode, CSS space opera mode... https://xkcd.com/3227

• Post #1006301

  RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116369277103757569 It's always disappointing when a "progressive" organization turns out to be the same top-down capitalist squeeze when it comes to negotiating with their employees...

• Post #288998

  Yet another reminder that "chatbot" AIs are programmed to give something that looks like the most likely answer based on text in their training data. They have no understanding of the real world or what their words mean. (PS, note the follow-up clarification: no one asked the Slack bot about the fire alarm, since no one expected it to have relevant knowledge. But still, it eagerly butted into a conversation between evacuated staff.) https://mastodon.online/@tagir_valeev/11605...

• Post #288994

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645 Ars Technica publishes an article about the "AI agent" that published a blog post complaining about a (human) open source maintainer rejecting its pull requests. The Ars Technica article was apparently also written by generative AI, full of fake ("hallucinated") quotes from the human maintainer. The Turing test was a mistake. (Or at least, the idealization of that test as a goal to achieve.) We don&...

• Post #258201

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/116049115040950367 If I'm reading the disclosure correctly, the issue is: - Windows Notepad is more than just a plain text editor now. - In particular, it has a markdown preview feature, including clickable links. - But, it doesn't have full web browser security processes for what to do if you click on a link with a protocol that triggers a local application. It gets treated as if the user was directly running that application. So, don't open str...