Nick Doty
npdoty@techpolicy.social
<p>I fight for human rights online. I work on technical standards. I like wildflowers. I take public transit.</p><p>previously: <br />@npdoty@twitter.com (2007-2016),<br />@npd@octodon.social (2017-2023)</p>
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Post #4395334
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board @ab@w3c.social has published their recommendations for supporting human rights in web standards. https://www.w3.org/TR/furthering-human-rights/ Aligning technical standards with human rights has been a long project, involving privacy standards, long-running groups, horizontal review processes, numerous workshops, and even some reports from the United Nations. (And I’m glad that @CenDemTech@techpolicy.social has been supporting that work for th...
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Post #2086978
Call for participation in the Online Safety Community Group at @w3c: https://www.w3.org/community/online-safety/2026/04/30/call-for-participation-in-online-safety-community-group/ While many stakeholders have a particular interest in bolstering safety for vulnerable populations such as children, safety is important to all users of the Web. This group will discuss mechanisms for age-based restrictions to content, but also other online safety measures, and the potential impacts to privacy, free ex...
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Post #1685748
the only way to stop centralization is for everyone to stop learning anything about technology and instead outsource all practical understanding to a small number of tools
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Post #1685747
“The only point [of these age-verification laws] is to restrict access to content,” says @riana, quoted in _Papers, Please: The toll of age verification laws on digital sex work_ https://thebaffler.com/latest/papers-please-mcgrady More and more I see work on privacy and free expression as so directly aligned. When the goal is restricting access to disfavored content (in this case, most directly, porn), the mechanism is invasive data collection, and the side effect is comprehensive surveillance...
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Post #1685746
the wiring to my ebike&#39;s integrated headlamp snapped, while I was installing a rack and basket. do bike shops like to fix that kind of electrical thing? or am I an adult that should just relearn the skills to solder/heat-shrink/whatever wires back together?
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Post #1685745
stepped out to the burger stand for lunch / passed a press conference about the local children kidnapped by ICE