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jeremiahleeon Israel could be bringing back the death penalty – but only for Palestinians

Israeli government officials wearing golden noose lapel pins is…quite the fashion statement.

jeremiahleeon European Union Public Licence (EUPL)

The compatibility clause seems to be confusing several commenters. There is official documentation explaining the license compatibility.

Visually: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/li...

Matrix of licenses: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/ma...

jeremiahleeon Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters

Related: Zdenek Nemec's talk "APIs for AI: Have we failed?" from Nordic APIs 2024 is an insightful articulation of AI agents as a distinct persona to accommodate in platform and security decisions.

https://nordicapis.com/sessions/apis-for-ai-have-we-failed/

jeremiahleeon RFC 9635 Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (GNAP)

GNAP could be considered the successor to OAuth 2.0

https://oauth.xyz/

jeremiahleeon Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

JavaScript is a registered trademark. It would be easier for everyone if Oracle released the trademark registration than for the letter signers to file a legal petition requesting the USPTO cancel the registration.

jeremiahleeon Little white lies about blue light

Hi, I'm the author. I read over 20 studies before writing this post and stand by my conclusion: there is not conclusive evidence blue spectrum light specifically is worse than other illumination.

I only linked to the most interesting outliers that could not reproduce the most cited study's findings. I also linked to the most rigorous study (3 groups: using Night Shift, not using Night Shift, not using phone at all in a natural setting instead of lab) with the largest sample size (167 people) and duration (7 consecutive nights) that found no observable benefit from using Night Shift, only not using a phone before bed.

Here's another rigorous study in a lab setting with similar conclusions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561503/

jeremiahleeon Dispatches from the future: The first year of Chat Control

Hi, I'm the author. The use of AI OSINT is another consequence I will consider for a followup. Thanks for sharing.

jeremiahleeon Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

Just tested with Zen v1.0.0-a.26. User agent reports: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Exact match with Firefox v129.0.1: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

jeremiahleeon Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

Website getting hugged to death for a second day. Direct link to downloads from the GitHub releases: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases

jeremiahleeon Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

Sweden's parliament just voted to support chat control in the Council of Ministers at EU level.

https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/112637416326793501

jeremiahleeon Ask HN: EU/GDPR Compliant Postgres Hosting

Check out the list at https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/managed-databases

jeremiahleeon Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security

EU citizens wanting to oppose the current eIDAS proposal can use my edit of the open letter to send to their Members of European Parliament: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/2023-eu-eidas-feedback/

jeremiahleeon Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe

Meta’s monthly average revenue per user in Europe was $5.96 as of 2023-Q2. $14/month is quite the premium to opt out of its privacy invasion. Does Meta really think it is worth more to people than Spotify or Disney+?

ARPU source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

jeremiahleeon Molly Holzschlag has died

Absolutely worthy!

jeremiahleeon Molly Holzschlag has died

I remember the first time I met her at a Web dev conference. She chatted with me for a half hour, telling stories of browser rivalries and HTML5’s renegade group that saved us all from XHTML. We ran into each other several times over the years. She always was kind, encouraging, and genuinely interested in what I had to say. She gave us all so much. Her suffering over the last decade was a cruel fate.

jeremiahleeon Docker Hub Registry IPv6 Support Now Generally Available

GitHub Pages supports it: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-enabling-ipv6-suppo...

The rest of GitHub is still MIA: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

jeremiahleeon Docker Hub Registry IPv6 Support Now Generally Available

Meanwhile, I still can't buy native IPv6 support in Stockholm, Sweden at home and GCP's IPv6 support for GKE is still too broken to use.

jeremiahleeon Natives in Tech asks Apache Software Foundation to change name

It would seem to make a difference to the 3 Indigenous software engineers who wrote the article.

jeremiahleeon Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

Excited for this, especially after Mozilla removed my and several other add-ons that simply loaded Google Translate's JavaScript library onto pages in 2019. https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/page-translator-is-dead/

Sadly, no support for Svenska (Swedish) to English yet.

jeremiahleeon Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little

This is what excites me about the proposed W3 Web Monetization standard. I don't want to establish a billing relationship with every creator whose content I value.

Have a wallet that's loaded with value, send out payments for every second you spend with a creator's work.

https://coil.com and https://WebMonetization.org

jeremiahleeon 80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming

I really wish Deezer's user-centric payment system would get traction. It would apportion royalties based on a subscriber's listening instead of all plays across all subscribers. https://www.deezer.com/ucps

jeremiahleeon Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

The Tor Project discussed the advantage a little in this blog post ("Part four: what do we think about an https cert for a .onion address?"): https://blog.torproject.org/facebook-hidden-services-and-htt...

jeremiahleeon Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers

Annddd Medium paywall, so I guess I'll never know.

Anyway, I hope the WebMonetization.org standard catches on to help more writers earn money from less committed readers. I am seeing the Coil icon in Firefox light up on more sites every week.

jeremiahleeon Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

Now, one of them just needs to provide certs for .onion domains.

jeremiahleeon Sweden Covid-19 Update

Also, Sverige still does not recommend people wear face masks. It recommends people not go to gyms, but does not force the gyms to close. It would be comical if so many people were not suffering. (I am an American living in Stockholm.)

jeremiahleeon The Republican Party’s Last Burp of Hope

correction: largest generation of voting age adults, not majority

jeremiahleeon The Republican Party’s Last Burp of Hope

I presented much data on how Republicans are failing to adapt to Millennials' beliefs and how Millennials will require the Republican party to adapt.

I agree parties have evolved greatly over time. The point I state in the article is that the Republican Party does not seem to be making any accommodation of younger and racially/ethnically diverse electorate that are now the majority of voting age adults for the time in a presidential election.

jeremiahleeon The Republican Party’s Last Burp of Hope

I cited a study in the article showing Millennials have gotten more liberal over the first (almost) 2 decades of adulthood.