Apple essentially demanding that browser vendors relocate their iOS browser development teams to the EU. The next episode of malicious compliance:
theregister.com/2024/05/17/app…

OH: 'Every problem in my life can be directly traced back to a billionaire, and none of them can be traced back to a refugee.'

This. I'm so tired of npm and docker, dependency hell, weird ways to avoid learning or using real CSS, shitty JS components instead of <details>, and then daft ceremonies estimating 'storypoints' over Microsoft Teams, and Slack's AI snooping on me. I'm going back to stripping.

Hurray for Slack training its AI on your messages, files & direct messages, requiring you to opt out. But they have various technical measured to ensure your data doesn't leak, so what could possibly go wrong? slack.com/intl/en-gb/tru…

Another example of an 'accessibility' feature going mainstream.

Doubtless Apple will spin the innovation of deleted photos randomly returning from the dead with today's date as being for your comfort and security, as usual. macrumors.com/2024/05/15/ios…

Did you know that some schools are teaching children Arabic numerals?

This is proof that the woke multicultural invasion has failed. Your children’s future is at risk.

'A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models.' platformer.news/google-io-ai-s…

Fucking hell, all! the! AI! upspeak? And then the robocunt bloke says 'yaaaah'. Nuke it all.

Now reading 'Prophet Song' which won the Booker and is probably great, but the author is too damn cool for paragraphs or punctuating speech, so I have to re-read to see where one piece of reported speech ends and narration re-starts, which is needlessly disruptive and intrusive

Oops, another accidental bug and definitely not malicious compliance from Our Friends In Cupertino.

Big Tech to EU: 'Drop Dead' eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

Is it the App store's careful curation of fart apps, or its careful curation of sanction-busting Russian bank apps that you most appreciate? appleinsider.com/articles/24/02…

'CSS-in-JSON-in-HTML-comments-in-a-PHP-file.' dbushell.com/2024/05/07/mod…

Any takers for Neil’s request here?

Typical MSM, covering up the Space Chemtrails
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

HTML is open-ended and always evolving, and frameworks should tweet it that way.

Special lists of elements and attributes are a terrible code smell.

My brats are 25 and 23 and it would fuck my shoulders up something awful.

Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia archive.is/askdb#selectio… (Financial Times) 'Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow the EU and US in trying to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google'

Reading List number 318, you luscious lahmacuns brucelawson.co.uk/2024/reading-l…