Reading List 324
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- Chrome iOS Browser on Blink – “The Blink-based port of Chrome iOS is a large and laborious project. Igalia has made significant contributions… we believe that we are on the right track for eventually replacing WebKit by Blink on Chromium related products for iOS.”
- Coalition for App Fairness Statement on Legislation to Address Online Platform Monopolies in Korea – “Assemblyman Kim Nam-geun introduced legislation to put an end to the abusive behaviors of Apple and Google on mobile devices.”
- Upcoming customizable select dropdown demo that falls back to a traditional select menu. (Chrome Canary, Experimental web flag)
- Bypassing airport security via SQL injection – “Anyone with basic knowledge of SQL injection could login to this site and add anyone they wanted… allowing themselves to both skip security screening and then access the cockpits of commercial airliners.”
- Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson “What hath we wrought? A case study, in which Alex Russell looks at BenefitsCal -the state of California’s recently developed portal for families that need food stamps. It’s a front-end catastrophe. “SPAs are ‘YOLO’ for web development.”
- What RSS Needs by Mark Nottingham
- Before Filing that Keyboard Bug… – Are you using a Mac or another Apple iDevice and think you found a keyboard bug? Try these settings tweaks first, says Adrian Roselli
- Misfire: We’re in a bad place when even the W3C TAG falls for Apple’s privacy schtick – “The TAG missed a critical opportunity to call for legislative fixes to the technically unfixable problems it failed to enumerate”, grumbles Big Al, legitimately.
- Apple trying to pressure WeChat into blocking a payment loophole; developer refusing – An odd fight to pick; “when Trump threatened to ban WeChat, analysts estimated it could cause global iPhone sales to fall by as much as 30%.”
- Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions – “When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,” he said. “We found emotional trust plays a critical role in how consumers perceive AI-powered products.”
- Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans – “Deep in the heartlands of Brazil, Indigenous creators are having to censor themselves to avoid getting banned on social platforms”. Because on the world-wide web, everyone should conform to prudish Californian social mores, of course.
Buy "Calling For The Moon", my debut album of songs I wrote while living in Thailand, India, Turkey. (Only £2, on Bandcamp.)