This would make for very interesting testimony in a case about Google's abuse of dominance in search.
Quoting a tweet by @SpecialProjects ↗
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September 2017
300 tweets
Replying to @skdh
Are we doing so badly with our children?
Paris ain't that bad, either.
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Replying to @edasfr
J'avoue, dans la catégorie triplex à Montmartre, c'est pas mal.
Replying to @julien51
I wish!
Madame Brovary #RuinABookTitleInOneLetter
Replying to @edasfr
Du coup, il commence à y avoir du boulot pour les gens qui posent des questions.
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @CMU_DietrichHSS
Is this going to lead to some output one could read?
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Tantalising leads and ideas underlying this thread for people thinking about how to make open source/standards better human places.
Quoting a tweet by @SimonDeDeo ↗
Replying to @temptoetiam
Ça me rappelle le vieux classique youtu.be/kb6bWsa_LdQ
The Paris subway has some knowledge to impart.
Replying to @sandhawke and @benwerd, @mattervc
It’s not *that* much of a challenge, there are quite a few countries where that’s the baseline. The key is that productivity shoots up.
Replying to @sandhawke and @benwerd, @mattervc
I don't know the magic! In France it happened basically in incremental steps over the 20th century.
Replying to @null and @CABINETPLENITA
Ah c'est la rentrée? Vous allez peut-être pouvoir vous sortir un doigt et arrêter de raconter n'importe quoi à vos clients?
If you needed a reason to visit a city with one of the best gastronomic traditions, here goes!
Quoting a tweet by @complex_nets ↗
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Facebook: We're gonna build the best AI!
Me: *uploads a static gif"
Facebook: Ooh! Let me convert that to a video!
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Replying to @yoavweiss
If its were animated, yes. Instead this is now a black frame with video playing affordances overlaid, and overcompressed text. So no 😏
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Replying to @null and @nojhan
L'autre jour j'ai rêvé que ça devenait intenable et qu'on n'arrivait que à élever des batteries de moustiques pour compenser.
Du coup il y avait des moustiques partout et tout le temps, c'était infernal.
Replying to @tobie and @github
Well, not for everything obviously. You'd use CSS Variables for that!
Replying to @maco_nix and @LeaVerou, @svgeesus
I find K9 really bad at replying, you can't even edit what you quote.
Replying to @LeaVerou and @svgeesus
Recommended to me (but I haven't tried them yet): AquaMail and (yes) Outlook. Screenshots didn't leave me hopeful much, though.
Replying to @LeaVerou and @svgeesus
The vast majority of people think twenty emails a day is a lot and fifty is overwhelming. The quality of clients reflects that.
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Replying to @LeaVerou and @svgeesus
Also, only Cthulhu-level elders recall the art of email editing. Civilisation has collapsed.
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Yeah, it's like W3C meets WHATWG meets the Medellín Cartel in one swell box!
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Replying to @bfluzin
C’est horrible ce que tu racontes.
Replying to @erickolb and @Really_Tall, @punkeel, @IdoNaor1, @nite0wl
That it's chess related does not mean it should not be accessible, though!
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@rnewson Real sorry to bug you but we've been emailing Cloudant for *weeks* to try to buy sth but getting no reply… Anyone we should ping?
Replying to @RIngthorss and @YouTube
Excellent, but I still have a fond weakness for youtu.be/v2F4hONEAkk
Replying to @edasfr
Il n'est pas trop tard ☺️
Replying to @edasfr
Et n’hésite pas à inviter des gens, etc.
Replying to @drob and @SimonDeDeo
Curious: is this purely by tag or do you aggregate related topics? I ask because you exclude jQuery, which is JS (I guess React, etc too).
Replying to @drob and @SimonDeDeo
Right, I was wondering if there was an inflection at which a language is so commonly known that questions about its libraries dominate.
It's a common complaint in the JS community that people know the libraries better than they do the language.
Replying to @cepcam
Pas bientôt: l'éthique des systèmes automatisés est un domaine trendy depuis quelques années, et ça grossi encore.
Expliquer une décision de prêt, prouver qu'un choix n'est pas illégalement discriminant, établir qu'une pseudonymisation est suffisante,...
...et le classique savoir pourquoi ta voiture a choisi d'écraser un facho plutôt que l'autre piéton sont des problèmes pressants!
This is has been circulating as a screenshot, here is the text: The importance of stupidity in scientific research
jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11…
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I wonder if you could track gentrification by mapping the repeal of uniform policies school by school.
Lots of great stuff in the #CCS17 programme: easychair.org/smart-program/… (and, for some reason, yours truly).
Replying to @LeaVerou
You get used to it though, it's not too bad.
Replying to @temptoetiam
Respect.
Replying to @ElieSl
C'est drôle, je les ai vus dans la même configuration il y a deux mois à Brooklyn!
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This may come as a surprise to some, but entire modern countries run with no credit bureau. They are totally useless leeches.
Quoting a tweet by @justkelly_ok ↗
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Replying to @trekonomics
WTF is @nytimes doing getting a Brexiteer to discuss European politics?
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Singular for "Buffy".
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Kinky afterlife.
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
It made someone on things side happy 😊
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @nattyover, @JannaLevin, @tegmark, @ylecun
Would more copies really make sense if you can increase your own extension and resilience through other means?
Replying to @nattyover and @SimonDeDeo, @JannaLevin, @tegmark, @ylecun
Natalie: I’m assuming you would care about your own continuation. So you need a way to survive local catastrophe.
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @nattyover, @JannaLevin, @tegmark, @ylecun
Simon: Ah, but are those not meatspace assumptions? Does further alterity not increase the risk for conflict?
Kin altruism might not mean much if you can reprogram yourself at will. Assuming it would mean anything long at a 50µs reproductive rate!
I would further assume that a superintelligent AI would understand evolution at least as well as we do. Could it not benefit from it…
…through internal simulations better than through extrinsic reproduction?
There are good scaling/distribution reasons why in meatspace twice of you beats you twice as big — I’m not sure they hold so well for AI.
Gender? Fuck that shit.
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Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @nattyover, @JannaLevin, @tegmark, @ylecun, @NautilusMag
I look forward to it; I hope they pull through long enough to publish it!
If you've been meaning to get me something but had been wondering what...
museumize.com/collections/ar…
Replying to @danbri
It works in 2D :-)
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
OMG that looks wonderful! How can I not have heard of it? Is it good?
Replying to @nattyover and @SimonDeDeo, @JannaLevin, @tegmark, @ylecun
But if it's the smartest thing around, wouldn't it do more good by staying alive?
I guess it depends on how "super" it is. Beyond some point we're just rehashing Leibniz's God :-)
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Waffle House Church
tmatt.net/columns/2017/8…
Wasn’t «Aurora» supposed to be phased out as a Firefox channel?
Replying to @jwajsberg
Ah! So it's basically Beta just calling itself Aurora? I guess changing the label might be a bit clearer :-)
Highest level Web expert and viciously imaginative tester. You want to hire this guy.
Quoting a tweet by @zcorpan ↗
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Replying to @csarven
Ooh, dirty dirty. Metadirty.
Replying to @csarven
It's a matter of perspective. If I parse a file's content its name is meta, if I process the directory it's data. Not a strong distinction.
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Replying to @csarven
The TAG made IMHO a terrible mistake while it defined "Authoritative Metadata". It's a dangerous practice and confusing notion.
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Replying to @csarven
Like much of the TAG's work, it is relatively well hidden ;-) (Admittedly less than other bits, though.)
Replying to @azraiekv and @violetailik, @csarven
If it's needed to provide meaning, it's not meta.
Replying to @briankardell
Drusilla!
I haven’t presented since 2015 — has some decent slide system, ideally without 8GB of JS, emerged since?
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Replying to @patrick_h_lauke
I remember finding issues with it, like, a century ago but I’ll give it a new shot — ta.
Replying to @null and @nhoizey
You are 1) funny, and, I think, 2) wrong :) msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine…
Replying to @briankardell
That’s what github.com/w3c/midgard was for. It’s still up on labs.w3.org/hatchery/.
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Replying to @null and @nhoizey
Don't forget I wrote one of the most complete Word to HTML converters. I have some shocking Office knowledge to share if provoked ;-)
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Replying to @null and @nhoizey
Ah l'enfer, sans XProc et tout, ça a dû être un cool projet :-)
Replying to @null and @nhoizey
So far only Shower is getting mentions. I'm surprised no one has pimped LaTeX on me yet. They must be getting old.
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Replying to @briankardell
Remember the Modern Tools stuff? It was talked about there. @dontcallmeDOM would know more about status.
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Replying to @xchaotic
Not wrong per se, I'm just tired of never-ending npm install for a slide system.
After some weeks in Europe you really get reminded how nice it would be if the US had internet providers.
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Replying to @jaffathecake
Ha! That was *exactly* my feeling when I got admin access to the org 🙃 Devilish whisper: "Go on! Fix that horrid shade of green!"
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Replying to @MaelB
C’est ce que j’utilisais avant, mais le coté 80MB de JS à chaque présentation me saoule…
Now I remember why I have so often wanted to roll my own presentation framework (to the point of doing it a few times)… 😭😵💀
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Replying to @null and @dauwhe
It’s Doves Type — a font with a fun history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_Pre… :)
Replying to @null and @dauwhe
The old drawing is a manticore (because it’s about hybrids), from the Rochester Bestiary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester…
Replying to @null and @dauwhe
I almost went with the Met’s manticore, but the people there don’t know me, I didn’t want to scare them _too_ much metmuseum.org/art/collection…
Replying to @teleclimber
Buggy (or missing) presenter modes, keyboard shortcuts that conflict with browser, bad (or inexistant) docs…
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Classic US pre-K curriculum:
* alphabet, sight words;
* basic counting;
* being nice to others;
* lockdown procedures in case of shoot-out.
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Replying to @null and @amyvdh
At least they do a good job of not scaring the kids with it.
Replying to @plinss
So… you’re saying this is sort of traditional and if it vanishes it’ll be replaced by some other scary thing?
Replying to @tobie
Really? It’s not like terrorism is new…
Replying to @frivoal
There are ways in which that’s less scary, though…
Replying to @plinss
Isn’t that just supposed to make you buy t-shirts? teepublic.com/t-shirt/407509…
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Replying to @tobie
Han 😢
Facebook making money off nazism. Classy.
Should we look forward to @cziscience financing eugenics next?
propublica.org/article/facebo…
The Web is proof that robustness can emerge at scale and the closer you look, the less obvious it is why.
Quoting a tweet by @aprilmpls ↗
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I mean, the code that handles the very first line of every single HTTP response in a browser, every day, is not reliably interoperable.
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It's not totally broken per se but it's nowhere near the level of quality you'd expect. I mean, anything critical running on this Web thing?
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Some days the Web really feels like a planetary-scale zombie.
- Srsly, you should be dead.
- *shrug* Whatevs. BRAAAAINS!
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Replying to @kzwa
Best life hack this semester. I'm definitely growing mine out from now on.
Replying to @kzwa
I look forward to your tips on Surviving Picture Day, and the right cocktail of drugs for school trips.
Replying to @mcnees
Right. They can detect the slightest hint of nudity in a picture, but identifying "burn Jews" as hate speech in text is hard… 🤔
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Replying to @briankardell and @mnot
Sadly, due to my laziness, berjon.com is currently offline. But it's real, there are witnesses. It involves elephants.
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Replying to @hober and @briankardell, @mnot
There — I pulled the finger out and got my site back up. Enjoy this anonymous historical artefact! berjon.com/http-range-14/
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Based on this, who would you trust most to take your interests as a user into account?
Quoting a tweet by @Reza_Zadeh ↗
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Searing critique of consciousness as "the hard problem" by Manzotti. I like much of it. #ZombiePower
nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/…
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Replying to @jacobmischka and @mozilla
Heh. Who'll be around for how long?
Depressing, and yet very much expected given how we produce Web content.
Quoting a tweet by @stopsatgreen ↗
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Racism is good business, and not just for Facebook: given money, Google is just as happy to help you spread the hate.
Quoting a tweet by @kylegriffin1 ↗
This is your regular reminder that Google Search is not a requirement: both @duckduckgo and @QwantCom offer excellent alternatives.
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Replying to @mikeal and @redmonk
Good stuff. I'm trying to think of exceptions to figure out if they could pull it off. Java maybe?
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Replying to @Yascha_Mounk
It's too late to leak, they found that out with France. So I don't think it's option 1.
Replying to @skdh
If you use footnotes instead one can usually tell from the page context. Bonus: does not torture readers by making them jump back and forth.
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Jump to a completely different community all you want, there is no escaping CSS.
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"Intelligence is extremely costly. There is a big evolutionary advantage to being Donald Trump." — David Wolpert #CCS17
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«The biosphere's computational efficiency is orders of magnitude better than the best computer.» Wolpert, #CCS17
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One basic but in fact very useful value of conferences for autodidacts: learning to pronounce things right. #CCS17
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Is there work comparing today's attention economy to long-established nefarious attention leeches, eg. British tabloids?
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Network science is easier with cutlery than fingers, study finds. #CCS17
I’d love for Oparin’s «Origin of Life» book cover to be available as a poster.
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Replying to @GoodwinMJ and @epkaufm
I can't dig it up right now, but I read recently that one factor in male vs female suicide is not attempts but that former use more...
...violent means that succeed more often.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
The question I would ask is if it's a no-brainer why does it need the W3C to make it happen?
Either it is a no-brainer and we can just make it happen, or it's not and W3C might just have tried and failed.
Replying to @jyasskin
You would just get the same shit but without patent protection and (rather relative) transparency.
Replying to @xor and @EFF
If W3C didn't care this would have been ratified over two years ago. A good question is why, despite caring, the covenant didn't work.
And did EFF actually help or hinder.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I don't believe I have ever seen W3C management do such a thing. Such a bizarre claim would require evidence.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That doesn't require it to be at W3C. Nothing prevents a community-driven covenant.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
No. That's the optimal option, but not the only one. Nothing prevents a separate operation to drive signatures.
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Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I don't understand your point. Somehow the W3C could convince 400 companies to sign something but we can't get the same for small n?
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Most members don't make or use DRM tech, we don't need their signatures.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
"Love". Again, trolling language trying to hideous lack of evidence.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Clearly that purported leverage is not enough. The options are to try something or give up.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Getting commitment from even just one company is better than nothing. Positive image, name and shame, etc can add up.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
The leverage of Recommendation was already in play to try to get something better out of EME in 2014. It didn't work.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I say purported because you are imagining it stronger than it is. W3C is not passive, if they hadn't tried EME would have been Rec in 2015.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
If you insist on going for this comparison, then your idea of leverage is the Maginot Line.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Every decision is formally of the Director. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
You discover now that the Benevolent Dictatorship model has issues?
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I was in those discussions, it was my job to be. I can attest no one in W3C management pushed for DRM. It's just not true.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
No offence but that article doesn't strike me as sourced and unbiased...
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Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I cannot speak from fact in 2016-17, but before they essentially did not show up. A few messages, maybe. However, as I someone who gets...
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...politics in W3C, I really don't see how the MPAA could have any traction. They just don't have the influence. Netflix, more, but not...
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...anywhere near enough or pull something off on their own. This decision does not happen without browser vendors behind it, plain & simple.
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Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Can't give you that, it happened more recently. I can speculate though. The MPAA bogeyman theories don't hold water, IMHO.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I would expect many companies to object to a legally binding document they don't perceive as vital to them. It's asking for exposure...
...in exchange for a public good they don't feel strongly about. That alone could almost derail it. Add browser vendors and it's dead.
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
But they almost did not. It was a massive battle. And the IPR rules are directly useful to many companies that use the Web. Incentives!
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I don't think it's fatalistic. It was always going to be uphill though.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Absolutely. Were there any calls to boycott them and exert pressure where it mattered? I didn't see any...
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Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I'm not defending BDFL, just pointing out it's not new.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Now, imagine the Director passes the covenant. What happens when browser vendors start walking?
Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That are DRM vendors. One isn't.
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Replying to @wycats and @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Who’s fatalistic now? :) Browser qualities are within breathing distance of one another, it’s not like it’s a serious sacrifice.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That’s from @w3cmemes.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Is it not? Wanting something but refusing to touch one’s own comfort to move things isn’t exactly brillant.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
«I’ll give money to DRM, use Chrome, and let TBL just clean up!
…
Wait. What went wrong?»
🤔
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
W3C can *never* do anything without the community acting in the same direction. That’s *precisely* why WHATWG happened.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
There is no Web police. It’s not that the onus is on activists — it’s on everyone who cares.
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Replying to @roessler and @BrendanEich, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That much is entirely true. And it would deserve a post-mortem.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
I'm not blaming, it's just facts on the ground. My hindsight take is that W3C should have organised the community again browser vendors.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That's a bloody risky path though, but I see nothing else that might have worked. I know I personally shied away from it.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Ok, and what happens next? Say, in the wake of that decision Apple leaves. EME goes to a separate consortium, without IPR. Is it a win?
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Because it would have been the XHTML 2 of legal agreements?
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
So win morally but die as an organisation? Maybe. Again, I’m not sure there is a win in there.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
That happens a lot in Web standards, as you well know.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
Of course it could have. It boils down to whether tech that is key to the Web experience should be without IPR, a11y, etc.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
The net result would be just the same in DRM penetration, but worse off eg. for a new entrant.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @littlecalculist, @wycats, @TedMielczarek, @0xabad1dea
At the end it boils down to a calculus over the value of a purely moral victory that carries pragmatic cost.
Replying to @wycats and @tabatkins, @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek
Just assume rationality: what would cause an org that has fended off DRM for ages to agree to a form of compromise?
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Replying to @wycats and @tabatkins, @BrendanEich, @TedMielczarek
I’m not sure what that even means.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
Brendan — you don’t need to explain that to me. If you have the magic wand that would make it sail past the membership, don’t tweet — do it.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
He’s not my boss, I left years ago. I’m not refusing to hold anyone to account. Were there mistakes? Sure. Poor negotiation? Very likely.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
Would I have done some things differently over the past two years? I lack internal knowledge, but it’s certainly possible.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
What I am objecting to is the disproportionate degree to which W3C is expected to solve a problem but not those who cause it.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
If nothing else it’s simplistic and won’t help prevent the next DRM attack on epub (rejected by W3C — so far). What could we do differently?
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
My primary interest here is in making sure this ends now — & yes, I don’t think it can happen without the Web community pressuring upstream.
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek
With that, I don’t think we’ll go much further here; I’m actually at an interesting (unrelated) conference; so I bid you a good day!
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek, @rocallahan
Yup. I specifically threatened no Rec over the CDM issue. It led to a long stare-down that was still ongoing when I left.
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Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek, @rocallahan
Yes, and CDM was discussed all the way into 2016, IIRC. You know, the time-scale of standards and all that :)
Replying to @BrendanEich and @wycats, @tabatkins, @TedMielczarek, @rocallahan
And I defended it. Mike Smith & I threatened EME to stay stuck in CR if CDM interop wasn’t addressed. It was not enough.
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I wonder if we could use @w3c’s massive discussion archives + sentiment analysis to apply @C4COMPUTATION’s work on macaque fights to humans.
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Quantum information: best enjoyed with a bottle of the means to interfere with yourself. #CCS17
Replying to @Sniperovitch
Han la chance.
The interesting question becomes: what cyberpunk trope has yet to be realised?
Quoting a tweet by @Noahpinion ↗
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Replying to @Sniperovitch
Oh non, c'était ma cantine...
Replying to @Sniperovitch
Et c'est moins bon? Toujours le même patron?
"We heard at least three evil plans today, so obviously there's hope!" -- Agnieszka Rychwalska, #CCS17
Has anyone ever organised a game of werewolf at a CCS conference? It's a great way to study consensus formation under pressure :-) #CCS17
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Replying to @ElieSl
LIBÉRÉE! DÉLIVRÉEEEEEEEEE!
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
J'imagine qu'ils sont quelque peu ironiques?
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
Certes, certes, mais pas au premier degré?
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
Je sais, ms ça n'a quand même pas l'effet de te rendre plein d'énergie avec une gueule de bois ou de bien choisir tes romances du nouvel an?
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
Non parce que sinon je file acheter l'Assimil.
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
Mais peut-être plus fréquemment en se réveillant avec un.e inconnu.e le dimanche après un week-end de Nouvel An?
Replying to @le_hasard and @temptoetiam
C'est tôt le matin en fin de conférence, on pourrait supputer que je manque de clarté sans trop s'aventurer.
Replying to @cepcam
C'est ce que fait Waze.
That's a weirdly specific ad, Elsevier.
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Replying to @JibberJim
Either that or it's telling me something about my subcutaneous adipose tissue.
Replying to @frivoal and @pkrautz
I would much rather go without email.
Replying to @Iza_Romanowska and @ccs17mx, @svalver
There is evidence that Python is growing fast: stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/pyt…, it looks pretty safe.
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Replying to @Iza_Romanowska and @ccs17mx, @svalver
(I have strong reservations about the comparison between languages in that post, but the trend is nevertheless credible.)
Replying to @Iza_Romanowska and @ccs17mx, @svalver, @StackOverflow
It is true that researchers are interestingly conservative in technology, eg. LaTeX, PDF still being used.
Replying to @Iza_Romanowska and @ccs17mx, @svalver, @StackOverflow
Indeed, that's why efforts like @swcarpentry are important!
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Cascading failure in project management due to deep activity dependencies. @ChristosEllina1 #CCS17
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Goodbye #CCS17, and thank you! Fascinating talks and wonderful community!
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Replying to @Iza_Romanowska and @ccs17mx, @svalver, @StackOverflow, @swcarpentry
Those rankings make little sense, though. Hard to see Java as a Web language, impossible that anything would top JS in that group, etc. :-)
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I’m very impressed by @NJTRANSIT: I honestly didn’t think it was possible to have a website worse than @MTA’s but they’ve delivered.
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Replying to @null and @dauwhe
Quit Pestering Yourself might be what best conveys the intent.
Replying to @null and @dauwhe
I don't really think there can ever be anything proper about endnotes.
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Replying to @null and @dauwhe
Hahaha, perfect :-)
Replying to @gsnedders and @tabatkins, @domenic, @annevk, @gregwhitworth, @bz_moz, @csswg
Historically: laziness plus unwillingness of WGs to block someone doing any work at all in the first place.
Replying to @LeaVerou
I just love that, should fly west every day.
Replying to @LeaVerou
That's weird!
Replying to @le_hasard
Faut arrêter le reggae 🙃
Replying to @le_hasard
Merde, si les mecs qui écoutent de l'électro commencent à passer aux baggies ça craint.
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo, @newsycombinator, @NautilusMag
I haven't heard the hacker ethic mentioned, let alone defended, in many years. It might have died with email etiquette and swearing by Eris.
Hacker friends of old, any thoughts on this thread and what went wrong?
Quoting a tweet by @SimonDeDeo ↗
Meritocratic naïveté was an issue, but it's nothing we can't turn around.
Replying to @Yascha_Mounk
Do you know if the CSU lost ground in the centre for going too far right?
This isn't a good day by any measure but I'm glad there's a country in which 13% fascism is still considered exceptionally disastrous #BTW17
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Replying to @null and @amyvdh
Yes, there has certainly been enough of that.
Fascinating review of "The Internationalists", a book on the effects of outlawing war in 1928.
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
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This is hilariously good! Why did we not have that for the #CCS17 party?
youtu.be/ydqReeTV_vk
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Replying to @null and @nhoizey, @ElieSl, @theystolemynick, @DamienJubeau, @borisschapira
Si je me souviens bien, ce genre de détail est bien couvert par le document des use cases usecases.responsiveimages.org
Replying to @null and @nhoizey, @ElieSl, @theystolemynick, @DamienJubeau, @borisschapira
Tout à fait, mais je trouve que la solution est beaucoup plus facile à expliquer en partant de ce document!
Replying to @null and @marcosc, @nhoizey, @ElieSl, @theystolemynick, @DamienJubeau, @borisschapira
All true, but they didn't 👤 to rendering offscreen!
Replying to @null and @marcosc, @nhoizey, @ElieSl, @theystolemynick, @DamienJubeau, @borisschapira
use ffs
Replying to @null and @marcosc
I don't have an iPhone either and I can confirm that RICG use cases is broken in ways that HTML isn't. Something's way off.
De l’usage du terme «anglo-saxon» aeon.co/essays/the-ang…
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Replying to @bortzmeyer
Han, c’est «sombréseau»? 😇
Replying to @bortzmeyer
Franchement, s’ils étaient plus inspirés je pourrais faire un effort, mais c’est comme s’ils ne voulaient pas qu’on s’en serve!
Replying to @seanmcarroll
It doesn't need to be applied perfectly to work, I've seen changes in baseline expectations of a community (Web standards) have real effects
For a grander point of comparison, this is an interesting read: newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
Replying to @null and @richardjpope, @slightlylate
What are you looking for in a public GDPR disclosure, just the commitment to adhere to it by the deadline?
The @nytimes is looking for a Governance Analyst and Technical Writer. Exciting projects ahead for this job!
nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DataInsi…
Replying to @null and @richardjpope, @slightlylate
If it’s to be structured, some form of template would help. I am soon to be doing a lot of GDPR — happy to talk!
Replying to @Masseuro and @borisschapira
Copains d'Avant ça existe encore! Ils m'ont envoyé un mail hier...
Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo
Short and occasional is manageable, concentration-wise. I've given talks with Twitter feedback streaming in and it works.
Replying to @brucel and @slightlylate
This also depends on where in France. I assume you’re in the South?
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Replying to @brucel and @slightlylate
And Italian-influenced, particularly in Nice. This also makes it one of the few areas of France where the coffee is decent.
Replying to @brucel and @slightlylate
Ah, but you are mischaracterising. Those are not traits of the South but of the upper class. It’s a blight on the whole country.
Replying to @brucel and @slightlylate
I’ll just stay away from the pastel sweater over the shoulders :)
Replying to @brucel and @slightlylate
You sweet talker you.
Replying to @0gust1
Je ne sais pas exactement ce que ça couvre.
Replying to @null and @borisschapira
Tu penses que ça ne couvre que des cas d'injures illégales, sur décision judiciaire?
Replying to @null and @borisschapira
Ce justement ce que j'essaie de comprendre en lisant le rapport.
Replying to @null and @borisschapira
Je voudrais savoir quelle proportion eux retirent.
Replying to @LarryRosenthal and @trekonomics
As presumably one of those post-literates I cannot fail but be reminded of: theonion.com/video/trekkies…
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Replying to @trekonomics and @CorComm, @NewYorker
I heard from credible sources that when Condé Nast bought the NewYorker they discovered a guy who'd been working on a piece for 20 years.
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He hadn't once in that time written anything else, just that. They didn't know what became of the piece.
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For 1st time, France overtook the UK as top EU country in VC fundraising this year: blog.dealroom.co/wp-content/upl…
I guess Brexit will be Brexit.
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Replying to @null and @SimonDeDeo
That would be neat as a linkable page somewhere.
Replying to @edasfr
Je pensais que tu parlais de Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience, ça avait l'air cool cette idée de passage de vitesse automatique!
Who is pushing back against that and how do we get their head on a stick, err, convince them I mean?
Quoting a tweet by @slightlylate ↗
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Replying to @slightlylate
Only point 2 has any substance, and I think it can be addressed with labelling. Eg. call the default, throttling version "Realistic".
Replying to @slightlylate
If you make it hard, people will disable once and never re-enable. On the contrary, a "Realistic/Unrealistic" toggles right there would do.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Make the "Unrealistic" state ugly, in your face, and noticeable over your shoulder from the a distance.
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I think this "French Kids Fart Rainbows" fashion will never stop cracking me up.
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Based on the blurb, in this book's fantasy universe only mothers seem to interact with kids... Are those red flags in the background too?
Replying to @JasonWilliamsNY
If wine solves your problems I believe my compatriot will concur that you can be considered French Honoris Causa.
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One has to concede that Trump does, on occasion, get his facts straight.
Quoting a tweet by @jcartillier ↗
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Replying to @edasfr and @MAIF
Assureur minutant?
Very much enjoying "Amani", by Evgenia Arbugaeva. It feels like a window into my brain, on a good day.
