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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 23h

choices. If there's anything you would have expected me to add to this list and I haven't, then I probably missed it (there are a lot of proposals!) so let me know

Ranked proposals (top = most important)

Customizable/stylable <select>
Not including <select multiple>.

Web Bluetooth API

Payment Handler API
A standardized set of functionality for web applications to directly handle payments, rather than having to be redirected to a separate site for payment handling.

Improve interoperability of the view transition API

Web Share API
Invokes the device's native sharing mechanism and passes text, links, files, and other content to share targets.

Web NFC API

Cross-document CSS view transitions
@view-transition sets whether a document opts-in to transitions between documents in a multi-page application.

CSS ::before and ::after on replaced elements
Such as <input>, <img>, and <video>.

Allow CSS transitioning/animating display between none and other values
Useful for delaying display: none until an exit animation completes.

CSS interpolate-size property and calc-size() function
Allows animating to height: auto and other intrinsic sizing keywords.

CSS Typed OM
CSSStyleValue and its subclasses represent CSS values as distinct types instead of only strings.

Resolve CSS scroll snap differences across browsers

JavaScript top-level await
Largely supported, but some implementations have race conditions in simple cases that cause modules to fail to load.

JavaScript Temporal
A modern and extensive date/time API to replace Date.

Improve interoperability of the HTML <details> element

Permissions Policy
Similar to Content Security Policy but controls features instead of security behavior.

Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 1d

This is good. I tried to do it as "rank the ones I actually have been affected by and need implemented/fixed", and to leave out things that seem like a good idea but which I don't know that much about or haven't actually tried to use. Acting as a web dev rather than thinking about strategy for once.

firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 1d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 10d

We all have a choice.

The Internet is ours.

We all have a choice

Taking action and Doing The Right Thing is often difficult, always exhausting, but it is what we must do, together.

whitep4nth3r.com

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SocietyWorks @societyworks.org · 3d

Along with our parent charity @mysociety.bsky.social, we're pleased to now formally sponsor OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN – two key external pieces of digital infrastructure that help us to run our services.

www.societyworks.org/2025/10/07/w...

We are now sponsoring OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN

Along with our parent charity mySociety, SocietyWorks is now formally sponsoring OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN – two key external pieces of digital infrastructure that help us to run our services.

www.societyworks.org

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 4d

Awh, thank you. People do find the search useful, I think. And I enjoyed the summary of C4E1 too; very useful!

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 4d

OK, Critical Role campaign 4 is now available in the CR transcript search archives (www.kryogenix.org/crsearch/).
Well done CR team for creating a playlist for it so I can make this work. Also well done past me for making it so I can add a new campaign easily. There are more names now!

Critical Role linked transcript search

www.kryogenix.org

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 4d

I rolled 6-1-8-7, so here's someone new!

Phanias of Halicarnassus obituary

Natural philosopher of Doric Hexapolis best known for the alchemical construction of the tomb of Mausolus

When the Hekatomnid monarch Artemisia II of Caria (praise her name) ordered construction of an enormous tomb for her deceased husband and brother Mausolus in year 13 of Poseidon II, the creation of her vision seemed impossible to the architects of Halicarnassus. Fortunately, a once-exiled native son of the city came to the rescue with an invention that may fundamentally change the way sacred buildings are constructed long into the future. The invention was vis solis, the culmination of the life's work of Phanias, son of Aristomenes of Halicarnassus.

Born in the garden district of that city, Phanias was the elder of the two children born to Xantha of Lesbos and Aristomenes. His father was an influential alchemist in his own right, being the first to render augmented silver from the pure metal, and Phanias's childhood was one of comfort and privilege alongside his sister Adora. He studied his father's profession and was considered a “hard-working but not brilliant” student according to tutors, and had begun a relationship with Myroneus, second cousin to Hecatomnus himself, ruler of the city. Tragedy struck when, in an unauthorised experiment, Phanias attempted to distil the rays of the sun into an energising force and caused a fire which destroyed the family house and gardens, resulting in the death of his sister Adora, his collaborator and partner Myroneus, and severe burns to Phanias himself, who from that point frequently kept the left side of his face hidden beneath a mask to hide the scarring. The death was considered by the council of assessment to be reckless manslaughter (reports at the time suggested that the severity of this punishment owed a lot to Myroneus's kinship to the king) and Phanias was condemned to exile.

He settled in Cnidus and there continued alchemical research. Reports of this period of Phanias's life are fragmentary: what is known is that his experiments with capturing sunlight continued, but with little success. Herodotus has theorised that Phanias deliberately turned away from his fellow citizens and toward obsessive research to justify the terrible accident with discovery, but none such was forthcoming. An unconfirmed rumour that he received money from his mother Xantha (an act unlawful in Halicarnassus, where communication with exiles is forbidden, although this is a law frequently bent) may explain how he survived this period with no income; in later life, Phanius refused to confirm or deny this, being reluctant to speak of his unsuccessful years of research in Cnidus at all.

But the final culmination of his life's work came at the age of fifty-six. After the death of Mausolus, the rediant monarch Artemisia II required the construction of a wonder, a tomb for herself and her much-loved brother and husband. Two years passed during which little progress was made; the queen was told that her vision was simply not possible with contemporary building materials. Many sacrifices failed to remedy the impasse, before Phanias appeared at the gates to claim that he could make the tomb possible. He was granted an audience: none can say exactly what exchange took place but Artemisia gave orders that Phanias was to assist the construction (it is thought that his status as an exile was not revealed until later, which surely helped acceptance, although the truth of this may never be known). He provided a way to elevate the great stones from the ground to heights, which did not require the force of men: he named the vital essence of this way to be "vis solis", a name of his own invention, "the power of the sun". At first Phanias was met with much scepticism from the established construction industry of the city, but disbelief quickly became triumph as his vis solis techni…

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 5d

printer rules (IMO):
1. buy a printer designed for an office, not a home; office people won't put up with "now you have to pay £14.99 a month or we'll remotely stop the ink working" rubbish
2. buy a Brother
3. buy a laser printer

Mine is a Brother HL-L8260. I don't know if other models are better.

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 6d

Not sure what I did that was an offence in the eyes of God but it must have been something, otherwise why would I have woken up with The Right Stuff by New Kids On The Block stuck in my head?

(Worse, only the first verse. I couldn’t get the chorus; I had to look it up. The humiliation.)

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 6d

I don't know, and I'm open to suggestions. :-)
I can't start any sort of C4 indexing until the episodes start appearing on YouTube and in a C4-specific playlist anyway, which might happen on Monday (we'll see).
If you've got any good ideas for how to deal with the plethora of players, speak on...!

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 6d

won't it be strange when we're all fully grown

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

I rather enjoyed it :)

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

also that bloke who was playing on a bucket and singing the sea shanty about the wellerman

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

They broke my lift for six months.
Admittedly I’m only on the third floor, so not as bad.
I will say that at the beginning I hated the climb. By the end: I still hated it.

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

I assume the alt text for gifs is AI-generated and it's worthless dogshit and I hate it and I hate that they have done it bsky.app/profile/sil....

Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · Apr 19

Is there some setting somewhere that causes Bluesky images to be given really crap unhelpful AI-generated alt text? I keep seeing images captioned "a man in a red shirt strokes his own face" and then shouting in incandescent rage "it is CAPTAIN PICARD FACEPALMING, that's the POINT, this is USELESS"

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

I don’t know whether there are other lists: it’s worth looking at the copyright settlement site in detail to see how it thinks you should know whether you qualify, I reckon!

Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

I found that my books were included by looking here, although there may be other ways. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 7d

hey, tech people like me! If you've written books, you should do this too; it's not just for widely published fiction authors. Go fill it in.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

This is blame I'm happy to accept. Authors, check to see if you're eligible to receive compensation in the Anthropic Settlement and if you are, file that claim.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 8d

Sigh. Apple, it is very good that you are resisting the UK government's stupid demand to weaken encryption on your phones. Why ruin that stance by doing something like this at the same time?

Meanwhile, ICEBlock should be on the web, which about eight million people have already correctly suggested.

The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Apple pulls ICEBlock app from the App Store

ICEBlock reportedly has 1.1 million users.

buff.ly

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 8d

It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 9d

it took time to understand bin
I know bin so-o-o-o well

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 9d

ooh good luck with the next thing!

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 9d

I think there’s also pious handwringing at how civilisation will never recover equilibrium until this site also contains more people who hate everyone in it

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Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 9d

xfce4-screenshooter; nice mix of "the features I want" (copy to clipboard, grab a whole screen or draw a rectangle or get the current window, open in a relevant app) and not "six billion other features that clutter it up that I do not care about"

Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 9d

Why, why do they keep doing this. There are so many stupid tech decisions being made at high levels. Who are they listening to? (Should be you; isn’t.)