Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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The 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55592332
Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.
His speech came an hour after he’d tweeted: “They are trying to steal the election”.
He hadn’t won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn’t matter, and still don’t.
Sixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of “Stop the Steal” groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.
On Friday 8 January – some 48 hours after the Washington riots – Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.
Then came the big one – Mr Trump himself.
The president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.
The violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.
The idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.
The message behind it was clear – Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment “deep state” had stolen it from him.
Mr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.
But some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a “civil war” or “revolution”.
By Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.
The idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register “boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote”.
Ms Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.
When they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.
As it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden’s win, the language towards them became vicious.
Online discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled “free speech” social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.
On Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.
Early on he encouraged supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”, but he ended with a warning. “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.
“So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we’re going to the Capitol.”
Arrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe – a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.
No matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.
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200,000 People Thought This Was A Real Planet, Here’s A General Rule For Spotting Fakes
https://www.iflscience.com/space/200000-people-thought-this-was-a-real-planet-heres-a-general-rule-for-spotting-fakes/
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Opinion US politics & policy
The American republic’s near-death experience
Donald Trump was just a symptom and the US is still in danger from those who peddle lies in place of truth
https://www.ft.com/content/c085e962-f27c-4c34-a0f1-5cf2bd813fbc?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6
Here is what has happened. US president Donald Trump asserted for months, without evidence, that he could not be defeated in a fair election. He duly attributed his defeat to a rigged election. Four in five Republicans still agree. The president pressured officials to overturn their states’ votes. Having failed, he sought to bully his vice-president and Congress into rejecting the electoral votes submitted by the states. He incited an assault on the Capitol, in order to pressure Congress into doing so. Some 147 members of Congress, including eight senators, voted to reject the states’ votes.
In brief, Mr Trump attempted a coup.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digivallankumous.fi/myyntia-ilman-tyrkytysta/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Trumpin potkiminen somesta oli PR-temppu, jolla on vaikutuksia sinunkin internetiisi – 6 asiaa jotka sinun pitää tietää
Voit tulevaisuudessa todennäköisesti nostaa oikeusjutun, jos oma tilisi poistetaan somesta.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11738815
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I’m a free-speech champion. I don’t even know what that means anymore.
What’s next for tech and free expression?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/11/what-is-free-speech-today/
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“Qanon” is Propaganda, and we know who’s responsible
https://blog.usejournal.com/qanon-is-propaganda-and-we-know-whos-responsible-faa133fb6acd
The influence of perception is one of the defining features of modern life. Ever since Thomas Barratt used a nice painting to make Pears Soap more appealing, people have competed to change our minds about things. De Beers created the idea that their product, diamonds, were an essential part of marriage. Edward Bernays put cigarettes in the hands of marching suffragettes to make them “Torches of Freedom”.
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Lehti julkaisi salaliittoteoreetikon mielipidekirjoituksen – päätoimittaja myöntää ylilyönnin
https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/mediasekaantuja/lehti-julkaisi-salaliittoteoreetikon-mielipidekirjoituksen-paatoimittaja-myontaa-ylilyonnin/?shared=3150-7a6fa7da-999&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1611130155
POHJANMAALLA ILMESTYVÄ kaupunkilehti Epari julkaisi päätoimittajan siunauksella hämmästystä herättäneen mielipidekirjoituksen, joka sisälsi moneen kertaan kumottuja salaliittoteorioita ja paikkansa pitämätöntä tietoa.
Tapauksella on laajempaa merkitystä, sillä se osoittaa konkreettisesti, miksei vastuullinen media voi julkaista mitä tahansa kritiikittä edes mielipiteenvapauden nimissä.
Journalistin ohjeet pyrkivät suojaamaan yleisöä tietoiselta disinformaatiolta. Suojakilpi ei ole täydellinen, mutta se toimii myös jälkikäteen, kuten tämä tapaus osoittaa.
”QAnon-moskaa”, kommentoikin eräs lukija Facebookissa.
QAnon on Donald Trumpia kannattavien salaliittoteoreetikoiden kultti, joka on levittänyt juuri näitä samoja väitteitä ennen Yhdysvaltojen vaaleja ja koronapandemian aikana.
Yllättävää on, että tällainen hölynpöly päätyy Seinäjoella ilmestyvän, vastikään palkitun lehden palstantäytteeksi päätoimittajan näennäisen tasapuolisuuden vuoksi.
Eparin päätoimittaja Tero Hautamäki perusteli saman päivän pääkirjoituksessaan pupun julkaisua sillä, että hän oli saanut aiemmin eräältä lukijalta moitteita ”lehden kautta yksipuolisesti ajetusta totuudesta”.
”Tein mielestäni silloin oikein. Nuo sanat ovat kuitenkin jääneet sen verran mieleen, että päätin raivata sivulta 19 palstatilaa koronailmiön ’toiselle totuudelle’, joka tunnetaan myös salaliittoteoriana”, Hautamäki kirjoittaa.
Hautamäen mukaan tekstin lähettänyt henkilö esiintyi yhteydenotossaan fiksusti ja on kirjoittanut jutun omalla nimellään.
”Sellaista käytöstä tekee aina mieli kunnioittaa, vaikka vakavasta asiasta olisikin täysin eri mieltä.”
MINUSTA ON ERIKOISTA, että vaikka päätoimittaja ilmoittaa olevansa kirjoituksen sisällöstä eri mieltä, hän antaa ymmärtää, että kyse on toisesta totuudesta.
Kyse ei ole totuudesta, ei ensimmäisestä eikä toisesta, vaan valheista.
Kerroin Hautamäelle, miltä tapaus näyttää Journalistin ohjeiden näkökulmasta, ja kysyin, onko hän tosiaan sitä mieltä, että myös totuuden vastaisia mielipidekirjoituksia on tarpeen julkaista ”tasapuolisuuden” nimissä.
”En ole sitä mieltä, että totuuden vastaisia mielipidekirjoituksia on tarpeen julkaista minkään nimessä. ”
Aiotteko oikaista tekstin sisältämiä asiavirheitä?
”Kyllä. Tekeillä on juttu, jossa oikaistaan kyseisen tekstin räikeimpiä asiavirheitä.”
TÄNÄÄN 20.1. ilmestyneessä Eparissa on päätoimittajan kommentti (s. 21, Epari 20.1.), jossa Hautamäki vielä perustelee julkaisupäätöstään, selostaa omaa ja lehtensä mielipidekirjoituksesta poikkeavaa kantaa ja pahoittelee ratkaisuaan.
”Nyt olemme tilanteessa, jossa mielipidesivulla on julkaistu mielipide, jonka esittämiä väittämiä ei voida minkäänlaisin perustein pitää paikkansapitävinä. Pahoittelen tapahtunutta lukijoille”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://into-digital.fi/palvelumuotoilu-ja-maarittely-verkkopalvelun-ostajan-opas-osa-3-10/
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Has Social Media Ruined The Idea Of Friendship?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/irabedzow/2021/01/13/has-social-media-ruined-the-idea-of-friendship/
While blaming social media for ruining democracy may allow for an easy scapegoat, it does not identify the true role that social media has played in our arrival to where we find ourselves today as a country. If we want to understand the relationship between social media and democracy, we need to understand how social media changed the meaning of the word “friend.”
We all have friends—or at least we did before we uploaded our identities to our social media pages.
Technology has made it easier during the pandemic to keep in touch with friends and family while maintaining social distance. It has also allowed us to start new friendships with people we might never have met, but who share our beliefs or values—and, most importantly, our need for connection. Yet our use of social media has also come with major consequences.
First, online communities are replacing familial and communal relationships. These online communities remove the ability for people with different views and varying life stories to find commonality based on a shared life. This is because, unlike actual communities, which are composed of people you encounter as you go about your day, online communities exist by virtue of a shared purpose or function. Friendships in this space, therefore, do not grow for their own sake, and individual members are not valued for who they are. Rather, their value depends on their loyalty to the group’s mission statement.
As social media communities grow at the expense of the relationships we once had with our neighbors, the common bonds of civil society will loosen to the point where the only communication available is protest and the emotions that rise to the top are frustration and anger. We may already be there as a country.
Our goal as citizens and as human beings, therefore, must not simply be to resist all forms of violence with nonviolence. To quote Dr. King from his “Statement to the Press at the Beginning of the Youth Leadership Conference,” “It must be made palpably clear that resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”
We must find ways to follow these words.
Second, social media has changed the way we see ourselves, not simply the way we see others. Experts and laypeople alike have meticulously manufactured their surroundings—using artificial lighting and purposefully positioned backgrounds—not only to convey a certain identity to people watching. It is also done to portray our own personal brand to ourselves. We use the tools at our disposal to create the personas we want to show the world. And we don’t only do this with our videos. We spend hours on Facebook, LinkedIn, and dating apps fostering an identity in the same ways that people build avatars in simulated life games.
Online, we can be whomever we want to be…except ourselves.
The crafting of our online personas has left us even lonelier than before. According to the Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index, 61% of adults report that they sometimes or always feel lonely. Not surprisingly, the study also found that people who use social media more frequently have greater feelings of loneliness. This sense of loneliness is much more than the distress that may come from being alone. It is true that as social and human beings, we cannot live without having a connection to other people.
Dr. King was convinced “that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other.”
We need to communicate with each other. But not by tweet.
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Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee prepares ‘do-over’
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-tech-bernerslee-interview-idUSKBN29H1JG
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide Web, wants to re-make cyberspace once again.
With a new startup called Inrupt, Berners-Lee aims to fix some of the problems that have handicapped the so-called open web in an age of huge, closed platforms such as Facebook.
Building on ideas developed by an open-source software project called Solid, Inrupt promises a web where people can use a single sign-on for any service and personal data is stored in “pods,” or personal online data stores, controlled by the user.
“People are fed up with the lack of controls, the silos,”
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You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdqjy/you-can-now-easily-download-all-cia-ufo-documents-to-date
The Black Vault has released hundreds of public PDFs containing CIA information on UFOs
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That’s it. It’s over. It’s really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We’re free. We can just leave
Post-Flashpocalypse, we stumble outside, hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/12/flash_is_dead/
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How To Reduce News-Related Stress For Better Mental Health
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2021/01/10/how-to-reduce-news-related-stress-for-better-mental-health/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Fifty-eight percent of European checkouts we analysed had at least three basic errors, adding unnecessary friction for customers
https://go.stripe.global/state-of-checkouts-2020.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=EMEA_NRD_EN_All_Traffic_EU_Marketplace_Static_LP_&utm_content=Static_LP_Technical_Checkout_Conversion&fbclid=IwAR17gajzAFw7QMQU6RKIpDYybwqBwSWFl_GnAT2ZPvVZZfOLgPRVb66TI3s
The majority of e-commerce websites we analysed in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and Sweden are not following best practices to maximise conversion. With nine out of ten lost sales in Europe failing on the checkout page, fixing these basic issues and reducing friction in the transaction process can result in significant increases in conversion and revenue.
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Conspiracy Theorists Think They’ve Found “Vaccine Implant” Schematics. It’s A Guitar Pedal.
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/conspiracy-theorists-claim-to-find-vaccine-implant-schematics-its-actually-a-guitar-pedal/
In a sea of ridiculous conspiracy theories that have festered throughout 2020, the one rising above the rest must be the 5G/COVID-19 vaccine microchip/Bill Gates insanity. As a quick recap, some internet users believe that the implementation of 5G networks is the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the vaccine will be used as a vehicle to insert 5G-compatible chips into the unsuspecting public for control, tracking, or population culling. All of this, apparently, has been orchestrated by the dastardly Bill Gates.
In the quest for the “truth”, some Italian conspiracy theorists are now claiming to have discovered the chip schematics that will be inserted with the vaccine. Labeled ‘COVID-19 5G CHIP DIAGRAM: CONFIDENTIAL’, the image has been circulating around Twitter and riling up supporters that believe they have cracked the secret conspiracy.
This was before Mario Fusco, a software engineer for Redhat, took to Twitter to reveal that this was not in fact a bio-implant – it was the electrical diagram of a guitar pedal.
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How to Use Adobe Flash in 2021 and Beyond
https://www.howtogeek.com/707830/how-to-use-adobe-flash-in-2021-and-beyond/
Adobe Flash is officially dead, and that means you should stop using it. But what if you have to use it? How can you run .SWF files or play online games from the good old days? Here’s what you need to know about running old Flash content.
Is Flash Gone for Good?
Just in case you hadn’t heard, Flash has officially been retired. Flash has security problems and doesn’t run on mobile platforms like iPhone, iPad, and Android. Modern websites have replaced Flash with modern web standards. In fact, Flash is the last browser plug-in to vanish, following in the footsteps of Oracle Java, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Shockwave, Apple QuickTime, and others.
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https://www.columbiaroad.com/blog/roadie-highlight-deep-dive-into-complex-data-pipeline-project-for-city-of-helsinki
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Brave browser makes a bold step toward allowing a decentralized web
By Naga Pramod
Posted 7:32 pm
Brave has integrated IPFS.
https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-ipfs/
Brave, one of the most secure and fastest browsers, has now taken crucial steps in extending its support to a decentralized web. Brave is now going to offer native integration with a peer-to-peer networking protocol and is the first mainstream browser to do.
The browser makes use of the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) technology to improve upon the existing HTTP protocol, while also increasing the speed of accessing content. Generally speaking, HTTP obtains information from a central server. But IPFS, however, obtains information from a network of distributed nodes.
Simply put, using IPFS is more or less like downloading from BitTorrent instead of downloading from a central server. So each time you access a website from Brave browser, the website content is obtained from various distributed nodes.
IPFS not only helps lower server costs for website owners and content publishers but also helps make web content more immune to censorship, promoting internet freedom.
Brave has already been offering early support of IPFS since 2018; but with the latest 1.19 version, users can now use IPFS directly. URLs must either be started with ipfs:// instead of http:// or a “full IPFS node in one click” must be installed.
“IPFS gives users a solution to the problem of centralized servers creating a central point of failure for content access,” said Brian Bondy, CTO of Brave.
Molly Mackinlay, IPFS project lead, said that the usage of decentralized web can help beat “systemic data censorship.”
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Google’s new Chrome 88 update improves dark mode, removes FTP and Adobe Flash
Chrome 88 is rolling out this week
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22240301/google-chrome-88-release-download-dark-mode-ftp-adobe-flash-removal
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Pirated Academic Database Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
https://www.coindesk.com/pirated-academic-sci-hub-handshake
After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake.
The pirated database of academic papers is now accessible directly through the service’s portals as well as through NextDNS, a privacy-focused, cloud-based domain name service resolver which converts IP addresses into domain names.
the censorship-resistant DNS will help keep Sci-Hub accessible even as the legacy domain name system applies pressure.
Sci-Hub is a worldwide database of academic publications, which pulls the research papers from under the paywalls of academic magazines and uploads them to the internet for everyone to download and read. It’s maintained by a single coder from Kazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan
How does Handshake work?
Handshake is “is effectively a decentralized domain name server,” Roquerre said. Instead of using the web-standard certificate authority to authenticate user connections to a server, Handshake stores references to the IP address of the websites registered in its system. Namebase is a platform that offers users access to the Handshake network.
That way, if certificate authority firms try to censor Sci-Hub’s domain name through the legacy system, then people who want to access the site still can through Handshake’s records.
“If you get censored at the server level, you can switch servers. But if your domain name gets taken down, no one can access your site. As long as the name is intact, you can point it to any server,”
To register a Handshake domain, anyone can propose a website name and place a bid for that website on Handshake’s marketplace with its eponymous HNS token. After a two-week auction period, the highest bidder wins the domain (whose blockchain footprint acts like an NFT, Roquerre said) and the tokens are burned.
Roquerre said Namebase does not issue tokens and it is instead mined through Bitcoin-esque proof of work.
Building the decentralized web
A decentralized domain name system like Handshake could be a significant win in the fight for the decentralized web.
The project is part of a crop of so-called Web 3.0 applications vying to create a less centralized, censorship-resistant internet. Handshake, for example, has a complementary browser to create an uncensored internet search experience.
Urbit, still another web 3.0 hopeful, is more than a decade in development and relies on Ethereum to construct a platform for decentralized personal servers.
As evidenced by Sci-Hub’s own problems, the decentralized web is being built out of fears of deplatforming. As the internet’s access points are increasingly centralized in the hands of a few actors, certain applications – most recently, Twitter-alternative Parler – have faced censorship at the hands of web server providers, app stores and DNS certificate authorities.
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Suomalaisten haluttomuus maksaa uutisista yleistyy ja maakuntalehtien huolet kasvavat
https://tekir.fi/suomalaisten-haluttomuus-maksaa-uutisista-yleistyy-ja-maakuntalehtien-huolet-kasvavat/
Algoritmit ja data ohjailevat kilpailua silmäpareista entistä enemmän, ja siksi tarinallisuus korostuu entisestään myös uutiskerronnassa, kirjoittaa Tekirin Niko Vartiainen.
Viime vuonna uutissisällöt koostuivat hyvin suureksi osaksi koronaan liittyvistä aiheista. Vaikka saammekin seurata ”korona-liveä” vielä tänäkin vuonna, olemme kuitenkin mitä todennäköisimmin siirtymässä koronan jälkeiseen aikaan. Näin syntyy tilaa myös muille aiheille.
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Tiede- ja teknologiakasvatuksen merkitys korostuu poikkeusoloissa
https://mfg40.fi/tiede-ja-teknologiakasvatuksen-merkitys-korostuu-poikkeusoloissa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2020/12/personal-qr-code-with-text-in-the-code-pattern.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bookofjoe+%28bookofjoe%29
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/20/quiz-chinese-propaganda-or-american-journalists/
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Facebook’s Oversight Board will review the decision to suspend Trump
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/facebook-oversight-board-trump-facebook-suspension/?tpcc=ECFB2021
Facebook announced Thursday that its newly established external policy review group will take on one of the company’s most consequential acts: The decision to suspend former President Trump.
On January 7, Facebook suspended Trump’s account indefinitely. That decision followed the president’s actions the day prior, when he incited a violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, leaving American democracy on a razor’s edge and a nation already deep in crisis even more shaken.
Facebook VP of Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg called the circumstances around Trump’s suspension an “unprecedented set of events which called for unprecedented action”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead — Bluesky is still seeking a project lead — Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019.
Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward
Bluesky is still seeking a project lead
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242718/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-media-team-project-update?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The Bluesky team released a review of the decentralized web ecosystem and said it’s hoping to find a team lead in the coming months. The review follows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussing Bluesky earlier this month, when he called it a “standard for the public conversation layer of the internet.”
The review outlines a variety of known decentralized systems. It includes ActivityPub, known for powering the social network Mastodon; the messaging standard XMPP, which powers WhatsApp and the now-defunct Google Talk; and Solid, a decentralization project led by World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The report covers how these systems handle key social network elements like discoverability, moderation, and privacy, as well as how services based on them can scale up, interoperate, and make money.
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Why all of Trump’s tweets and other social media posts must be archived for future historians
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-all-of-trumps-tweets-and-other-social-media-posts-must-be-archived-for-future-historians/
There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s reach as president has been magnified by Twitter. WIth the suspension of his account, it’s critical that the National Archives preserve the content of all his postings.
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Google agrees to pay French publishers for news
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/21/tech/google-pays-french-publishers/index.html
Google will pay news publications in France for the use of their content online in a landmark agreement that could soon be replicated elsewhere in Europe under new copyright laws.
The tech company and APIG, which represents French news media, said in a joint statement on Thursday that they have agreed on principles for how news publications should be compensated for the distribution of their content on Google (GOOGL) platforms after months of talks.
Google has long tussled with publishers over how it displays their content, with media companies arguing the search giant should pay them for the privilege.
When new rules went into effect last year in France requiring publishers to be paid for snippets of news stories displayed in search results, Google announced it would only display headlines. In April, the French competition authority ruled that Google had abused its market dominance and ordered the company to negotiate with French publishers.
Google and APIG said on Thursday that compensation will be based on criteria such as “the publisher’s contribution to political and general information, the daily volume of publications, and its monthly internet traffic,” they added. The statement did not provide details on how much publishers would be paid.
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Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search — As Google and Facebook face Senate committee, poll finds three in five Australians agree social media companies should prioritise news in feeds
Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threatens-to-shut-down-search-in-australia-if-digital-news-code-goes-ahead
Google and Facebook are fighting legislation that would force them to enter into negotiations with news media companies for payment for content
Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia and Facebook has threatened to remove news from its feed for all Australian users if a code forcing the companies to negotiate payments to news media companies goes ahead.
The move would mean the 19 million Australians who use Google every month would no longer be able to use Google Search, and 17 million Australians who log into Facebook every month would not be able to see or post any news articles on the social media site.
The two companies are fighting against legislation currently before the parliament that would force the digital platforms to enter into negotiations with news media companies for payment for content, with an arbiter to ultimately decide the payment amount if no agreement can be reached.
On Friday, Google delivered an ultimatum to the government, saying it would not be viable to continue offering search in Australia if the code goes ahead.
The company’s Australian managing director, Mel Silva, told a Senate committee the proposed news code was untenable and would set a “dangerous precedent” for paying for links.
“The principle of unrestricted linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia,” she said.
“Withdrawing our services from Australia is the last thing that Google want to have happen, especially when there is another way forward.”
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, said at a press conference in Brisbane the government would not respond to threats.
“Let me be clear. Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia. That’s done in our parliament. It’s done by our government. And that’s how things work here in Australia and people who want to work with that, in Australia, you’re very welcome.
“But we don’t respond to threats.”
Reset Australia, an organisation that is lobbying for the regulation of big tech companies, said Google was bullying Australia.
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/2600net/permalink/2942119069344532/
Lets be honest here. Google’s algorithms have turned it into a giant shit fest. Query specific car parts. Returns BS about politics.
“Before some wombat screams in a typical propaganda url. Stop and read before posting your emotions, as all outlets are propaganda in one form or another.”
Google threatens to REMOVE search engine in Australia if legislators force it to share profits with news content creators
https://www.rt.com/news/513286-google-threatens-remove-search-australia/
Australians could soon be deprived of Google’s ubiquitous search engine, with the web behemoth threatening to cut off service should lawmakers pass a hot-button measure forcing tech firms to cough up revenue to media outlets.
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Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol
Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-becomes-first-browser-to-add-native-support-for-the-ipfs-protocol/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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Twitter suspends Antifa accounts with more than 71K followers
https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/twitter-suspends-antifa-accounts-with-over-71k-followers/
Twitter has suspended several popular Antifa accounts with more than 71,000 followers combined following Inauguration Day riots.
At least four accounts tied with the militant group have been yanked offline
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Headless-ratkaisut ovat edelleen aika kuuma juttu markkinassa, ja Contentful on selvästi suosituin sisällönhallintaratkaisu näihin Suomessa. Moni digitoimisto on ihan kumppanoitunutkin Contentfulin kanssa virallisesti.
North Patrolin Mikko Jokela perkaa syitä siihen miksi Contentfulin kaltaisia työkaluja käytetään ja mitkä ovat tyypillisimpiä käyttötilanteita. Jutussa on myös katsaus siihen mitä asiakkaiden kannattaa huomioida kun toimisto tarjoaa Contentfulia tai vastaavaa headless-CMS:ää. Esimerkiksi kunnollinen sisältötyyppien mallinnus unohtuu usein, ja seurauksena on hyvin sotkuinen ylläpitoympäristö.
Ehkä se tärkein oivallus asiakkaiden kannalta on kuitenkin se, että Contentfulin käyttäminen ei vielä ratkaise kovin monia juttuja, koska se on vain osaratkaisu melko yksinkertaisiin sisällönhallintakysymyksiin. Headless-ratkaisuissa saattavat räätälöidyt osuudet muodostaa 90% kokonaisuuden työmääristä, ja näiden toteutukseen ei Contentful ota mitään kantaa.
https://web-ostajanopas.fi/2020/12/07/contentfulin-hyodyntaminen-sisallonhallintajarjestelmana/?fbclid=IwAR1_5jEbf_Xd-b3vlyvulbUOiCNO7ROCTRE7J5Ea76vaQ70yGdUb6O7K2GU
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Why You Should Sell on Multiple E-commerce Platforms
https://xales.io/whysellonmultipleplatforms/?fbclid=IwAR38BGUpCRjVXaP5kjyWezrzS5cCzk-JOQDjbtfqijD9pa4_0qzGyVmG4gA
Typically the biggest headache of an e-commerce player is caused by the efforts to acquire more traffic and generate more sales. All the possible SEO tips and tricks are already used, conversion optimisation gimmicks don’t make a difference, and investing more in paid advertising seem both inefficient and crazy as the price for acquiring a customer keeps on rising. Been there, done that.
How about twisting the whole idea and making your products available for bigger audiences at once instead of just trying to lure the audience to your own shop? That’s right, it sounds good and the answer is to start selling on multiple e-commerce platforms. By integrating your online shop with marketplaces such as Amazon, Zalando and CDON, you can tap into the massive demand already on the market.
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Google could shut down its search engine in Australia, but the government isn’t backing down: ‘We don’t respond to threats.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-australia-technology-regulation-law-2021-1?amp&r=DE&IR=T&__twitter_impression=true
Google has threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia.
Australian officials are demanding Google pay news publishers for content.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: “We don’t respond to threats.”
Google has threatened to shut down its search-engine service in Australia, as lawmakers push the tech giant to pay for the news stories it displays.
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After disabling Adobe Flash trains in Dalian, China could hardly open
https://verietyinfo.com/taiwaneng/after-disabling-adobe-flash-trains-in-dalian-china-could-hardly-open-technews-%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80-%E6%96%B0-%E6%8A%A5/
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“Those unhappy with the Section 230-based response to the Capitol riots need to realistically weigh the alternatives.” – Interesting take on the situation
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2021/01/22/the-parler-case-success-story-of-the-section-230-regime/
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Initially, civil liberties advocates (including us) were shocked at the speed and coordination with which Parler was taken down and Trump de-platformed. Now that the dust has settled, however, the charge of “private sector censorship” looks overstated. Indeed, the overall functioning of the legal and policy regime governing US platforms ends up looking pretty good in this case – especially when compared to the alternatives.
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2021/01/22/the-parler-case-success-story-of-the-section-230-regime/
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Google threatens to pull Search from Australia if Media Bargaining Code becomes law
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-threatens-to-pull-search-from-australia-if-media-bargaining-code-becomes-law/
Search giant’s local managing director said the company has assessed the impact of the legislation and come to the conclusion it would be an untenable risk for its Australian operations.
Google has said it may have no other choice than to pull its Search function from Australia if the News Media Bargaining Code goes ahead in its current form.
Google, alongside Facebook, has been engaged in a stoush with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) since August over the code that entered the House of Representatives in late December.
The bargaining code, according to the government, is necessary to address the fundamental bargaining power imbalances between Australian news media businesses and major digital platforms.
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Berners-Lee joins “father of the internet” Vint Cerf in opposing the draft legislation.
‘Unworkable around the world’: Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, is the latest internet all-star to slam Australia’s media bargaining code
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/unworkable-around-the-world-tim-berners-lee-creator-of-the-world-wide-web-is-the-latest-internet-all-star-to-slam-australias-media-bargaining-code/ar-BB1cU1Hk?ocid=sf
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, told a Senate committee that Australia’s proposed media bargaining code risks “breaching a fundamental principle of the web”.
His opposition lies in provisions which could compel internet giants like Facebook and Google to pay news publishers for hosting their hyperlinks.
The proposal “could make the web unworkable around the world,” Berners-Lee said.
In a submission to a Senate committee deliberating the proposed laws, Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web information management system in 1989, said he was concerned by the push to force internet giants like Facebook and Google to compensate news publishers for hosting links to their content.
“The ability to link freely – meaning without limitations regarding the content of the linked site and without monetary fees – is fundamental to how the web operates, how it has flourished till present, and how it will continue to grow in decades to come,” Berners-Lee said.
The computer scientist said the possibility of a mandatory code which compels sites to pay up when they share a relevant hyperlink could “undermine the fundamental principle of the ability to link freely on the web”.
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Berners-Lee added “there is a right, and often a duty, to make references” online, pointing to the importance of journalists and academics linking back to prior work.
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10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/9-vcs-say-interactivity-regulation-and-independent-creators-will-reshape-digital-media-in-2021/?tpcc=ECFB2021
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“We discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo
(https://www.sudo.ws/). This vulnerability:
- is exploitable by any local user (normal users and system users,
sudoers and non-sudoers), without authentication (i.e., the attacker
does not need to know the user’s password);
- was introduced in July 2011 (commit 8255ed69), and affects all legacy
versions from 1.8.2 to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0 to
1.9.5p1, in their default configuration.”
https://www.qualys.com/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156/baron-samedit-heap-based-overflow-sudo.txt
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Facebook predicts ‘significant’ obstacles to ad targeting and revenue in 2021
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/27/facebook-q4-earnings-2/?tpcc=ECFB2021
While Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings report included solid user and revenue numbers, the company sounded a note of caution for 2021.
In the “CFO outlook” section of the earnings release, Facebook said it anticipates facing “more significant advertising headwinds” this year.
“This includes the impact of platform changes, notably iOS 14, as well as the evolving regulatory landscape,”
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Facebook Will Permanently Stop Promoting Political Groups
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/01/27/facebook-will-permanently-stop-promoting-political-groups/
Facebook will no longer recommend political groups to users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday, amid criticism for how the platform was used by pro-Trump extremists to plan the attack on the Capitol earlier this month.
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Google Effort to Kill Third-Party Cookies in Chrome Rolls Out in April
https://uk.pcmag.com/browsers/131231/google-effort-to-kill-third-party-cookies-in-chrome-rolls-out-in-april
Google is also working on privacy features in Chrome that can stamp out invasive web tracking, including the need for sites to collect your computer’s IP address.
Google will debut its replacement for third-party internet cookies inside the Chrome browser this spring.
The change will start rolling out in April with the Chrome 90 release. The software will include a new on-off switch for the company’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, an attempt to phase out the third-party cookies with a Google-sponsored alternative.
Other browsers, including Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox, already block third-party cookies by default because they can let companies profile your internet activities. This is usually done to serve up relevant ads, but most web users aren’t particularly well-versed on how their activity is tracked.
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JavaScript Performance in the Wild 2020
We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild
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SEO trends for 2021 you need to be aware of
https://www.columbiaroad.com/blog/seo-trends-for-2021-you-need-to-be-aware-of
Search engine optimisation is a long term form of marketing living in a world of short term marketing tricks. It tends to provide relatively few easy wins, and instead requires long term work on tech and content creation. This is why it sometimes gets pushed aside in the modern short-term oriented business landscape. However, it is often a crucial factor in creating marketing efforts sustainable and creating the bigger, long term wins for your digital business.
Google updates its search algorithm hundreds of times a year and rarely announces these changes beforehand. Based on past algorithmic changes and Google’s own predictions and announcements, we have built this list of broad trends and changes to take note of if you want to maintain or grow your online business through SEO in 2021:
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3 Communication Strategies That Make The Bill And Melinda Gates 2021 Letter So Compelling
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2021/01/27/3-communication-strategies-that-make-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-2021-letter-so-compelling/
1. Use simple language. Real simple.
Most experts try to impress people with how much they know. They use big words and arcane jargon that few people outside of the field can understand.
2). Choose familiar metaphors.
Bill Gates focuses on how to prevent future pandemics. “First, we need to spot disease outbreaks as soon as they happen, wherever they happen,” he writes.
3). Share stories to support data.
“One of the things I’ve missed most over the last year is traveling to see our foundation’s work in action. I have photos all over our house of the women I’ve met on these trips. Now that I’m working from home, I see their faces all the time,” writes Melinda.