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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog
How browser fingerprinting works and what you can do about it (if you use Firefox).
print-color-adjust - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
I love print stylesheets but I was today years old when I found out that print-color-adjust exists.
Chrome 108 beta - Chrome Developers
I think this might be the most excited I’ve been in quite some time about an update to browser support, which probably says a lot about my priorities:
Support for the
avoidvalue of the CSS fragmentation propertiesbreak-before,break-after, andbreak-insidewhen printing.
Finally!
supercookie • workwise
Favicons are snitches.
Accessibility Events | CSS-Tricks
If you’re using Apple’s VoiceOver, both your phone and your computer will broadcast your assumed disability to the entire internet, unless and until you specifically tell it to stop.
Apple’s new feature a step towards digital apartheid - Axess Lab
I also discussed this accessibility events feature with my friend who is a screen reader user herself. She said it feels like it’s a first step towards a well-meant digital apartheid.
Great Leap Years - Official site of Stephen Fry
I just binge-listened to the six episodes of the first season of this podcast from Stephen Fry—it’s excellent!
It covers the history of communication from the emergence of language to the modern day. At first I was worried that it was going to rehash some of the more questionable ideas in the risible Sapiens, but it turned out to be far more like James Gleick’s The Information or Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (two of my favourite books on the history of technology).
There’s no annoying sponsorship interruptions and the whole series feels more like an audiobook than a podcast—an audiobook researched, written and read by Stephen Fry!
So We Got Tracked Anyway
Even using a strict cookie policy won’t help when Facebook and Google are using TLS to fingerprint users. Time to get more paranoid:
HTTPS session identifiers can be disabled in Mozilla products manually by setting ‘security.ssl.disablesessionidentifiers’ in about:config.
The search for another intelligence (Upsideclown)
A wonderful short story from Matt. I can see this one staying with me.
bastianallgeier/letter: Letter is a simple, highly customizable tool to create letters in your browser.
A nice little use of print (and screen) styles from Bastian—compose letters in a web browser.
Instead of messing around in Word, Pages or even Indesign, you can write your letters in the browser, export them as HTML or PDF (via Apple Preview).
The Futures of Typography
A wonderfully thoughtful piece from Robin, ranging from the printing technologies of the 15th century right up to the latest web technologies. It’s got all my favourite things in there: typography, digital preservation, and service workers. Marvellous!
SpaceTime Coordinates Memento ~ your personal place in space by govy — Kickstarter
This is a rather lovely idea—a disc with eight rings, each marked with the position of a planet, the arrangement of which corresponds to a specific date.
Clearleft Letterpress Day | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This was a fun way to spend the day—getting my hands dirty with ink and type.
What’s the deal with copyright and 3D printing? by Michael Weinberg
Michael Weinberg’s follow-up whitepaper to “It will be awesome if they don’t screw it up.”
Medaler.com
I know have a visualisation of my public data in the form of 3D-printed snowflake, thanks to Medaler.
Why the Little Printer is good – aka, someone on the internet is wrong, a response. |
Dan makes a very good point about Little Printer: it’s not the “printer” part that matters; it’s the “little”.
3D-Printed “Magic Arms” - YouTube
3D printing an exoskeleton for a child with arthrogryposis — technology can be so fricking awesome!
BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers
You think that Digital Rights Management is bad? What about Physible Rights Management?
3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes - Anil Dash
Anil shares his thoughts on where there’s room for improvement in 3D printing, or as he calls it, teleporting.