trashHeap @trashHeap@anticapitalist.party

Does anyone else feel like W3C work like local file access in HTML5 is kind of gunning for one of the last bastions of local offline application development?

HTTP/3 is an attempt to build a transport layer (QUIC) ontop of UDP and to marry it to HTTP. Because its tied to HTTP this transport layer isn't going to be available at a OS level for other protocols.

Which would seem to further indicate that cultural the net is moving to HTTP for all traffic.

HTTP(s) is becoming the dominant protocol for all new applications. A lot of people have pointed out the rise of things like Matrix in the face of established protocols like XMPP is in part because non-HTTP(s) protocols are out of fashion.

Anyone know if HTTPS everywhere still uses the EFF SSL Observatory to check for man in the middle attacks?

What does that look like in practice, when it detects something?

Anyone know how that plays out with corporate SSL Inspection?

Signing up for a #gopher hole on circumlunar.space. It appears to be the froodiest place to do so right now.

Going to have to figure out what the gopher client options are for #RiscOS so I can katamari all my recent retro computing impulses into one big lump.

I find it really weird that the efforts to get HTTP going over UDP are being branded as HTTP/3

Mainly because UDP isn't available on or suitable for a lot of network environments. It also can't be backwards compatible to legacy software or hardware.

Meaning HTTP/3 is unlikely to supersede HTTP/2 and therefore HTTP/2 is likely to have further revisions on the TCP side.

Meaning we're kind of boxing ourselves in with our HTTP version numbers.

Just got back from my local library's discard book sale. I didn't know there were spelljammer novels. I hope their decent but for $0.50 cents a piece they seemed worth a gamble.

Picked up a mid 90s copy of the old borderbound print shop complete with all documentation, mostly out of nostalgia. At $0.25 the giant mid 90s clip art reference book might be worth it alone.

#library #DnD #retro

Jaron Lanier often points out that 90s tech culture's desire to have everything be gratis; intersected with the popular love of tech giants to create the space for modern behavior modifying empires of advertisers.

I mostly agree with him there, though we differ on the solution.

He consistently indicates the mistake was to make everything free; and proposes many solutions to this.

Where as I truly believe the real mistake is the tech giants themselves. The solution is to phase them out.

MAN occasionally it seems appealing to just switch to lynx or netsurf and just ignore any part of the web which wont work with that.

Anyone know of a firefox extension that allows you to control media.autoplay.enabled on a site by site basis?

Ive enjoyed leaving it disabled for months but there is a small fraction of websites I find useful where it breaks things.

I've always been more of a Jack Kirby fan than Stan Lee guy. In fact ive got some beef with Stan Lee.

But man hearing of his passing still hurts, for a guy who used to be a Marvel kid anyway.

Accidentally wore my "no one puts baby in a corner" hoodie on a day I have to meet with a faculty committee to discuss important professional things, in a fancy conference room.

Would feel better about it, if this was one of those times I was doing this sort of thing intentionally.

Probably not rip these library audiobooks to my phone anyway.

How the hell do you play down your relationship with your pick for acting attorney general and claim the russian probe had nothing to do it; when you broke established precedent to select him?

The default course of action would be for rod rosenstein to become acting AG.

Obviously then the president had a prefrence against rosenstein or for whitaker.

Logically it has to be one, or the other or both. .

Thank you local library, you saved me from impulse buying yet another book I dont really need to own.

Man I wish Graham Nelson could be persuaded to liberate Inform 7's source code entirely, in between bouts of constantly rewriting the whole damn thing over and over again.