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I was just handed this old but beautiful essay and I can't agree more:
"Cool URIs don't change"
www.w3.orgHypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.
PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation.
Tom's Hardware · PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
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Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
Scott LogicIn-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssemblyThe WebAssembly build of FFmpeg allows you to run this powerful video processing tool directly within the browser. In this blog post I explore FFmpeg.wasm and create a simple client-side transcoder that streams data into a video element, with a bit of RxJS thrown in for good measure.
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#ActivityPub #W3C #NonDisclosureAgreement #EmptyPromises
Yes, I wonder if there is at least anything which Jay Graber did not promise to anyone!
You’re literally the standards body of surveillance capitalism. Shut the fuck up about privacy. The corporate members that fund your existence violate privacy as the core driver of their business models.
Fucking hypocrites doing fucking PR.
#W3C #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #BigWeb #PR https://w3c.social/@w3c/114551380634183119
w3c.socialWorld Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."
Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy
Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
Das W3-Konsortium #W3C hat ein Richtlinienpapier zum Thema #Privatsphäre und #Datenschutz (#Privacy) veröffentlicht. Es beginnt gleich mit einer knackigen Liste an Richtlinien, die beim Entwerfen und Entwickeln von Apps, APIs, User Interfaces, Admin Interfaces, Plattformen usw. unabhängig von geltendem Recht immer beachtet werden sollten. Mit der Liste kann man auch gut bestehende Anwendungen prüfen - und dann gegebenenfalls nachbessern. Sicher auch eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre für das #BMDS.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
www.w3.orgPrivacy PrinciplesPrivacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions
for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy
principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using
the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this
document is written to work with both.
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Ermahgerd it gets worse. I got an email from their web support person who said that their site only works properly in… *drumroll*… Chrome and Edge.
No, your company's slightly cheaper rates for workers comp insurance is not enough to induce me to download spyware browsers from shitty companies I'm trying to disconnect from.
I'd imagine that #W3C or someone somewhere has promulgated some standard for web applications to be browser-agnostic, right? Can someone point me to that? I want to send it to this guy.
"We launched in Sep/2024 with a bold mission: to foster an #open, #decentralized, and #usercentric #socialweb. In just the few short months that remained in 2024, we made meaningful progress. Our participation at #W3C #TPAC and collaborations with major stakeholders like #Mastodon, #Ghost, and #Automattic have helped spark momentum for a healthier, more resilient online ecosystem.
Today we are proud to publish our 2024 #AnnualReport– the first of many."
#SWF
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/06/reflecting-on-our-first-year-the-social-web-foundations-2024-annual-report/
Social Web Foundation · Reflecting on Our First Year: The Social Web Foundation’s 2024 Annual ReportWe launched in September 2024 with a bold mission: to foster an open, decentralized, and user-centric social web. In just the few short months that remained in 2024, we made meaningful progress. Ou…
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On the #W3C #SocialCG a related issue. For a good bottom-up standardization process that guarantees an open and inclusive #ActivityPub related ecosystem, there should be good alignment with the #FEP Process.
GitHubWhat is the scope of the SWICG / SocialCG? · Issue #43 · swicg/general
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@davatron5000 Let's just ship https://github.com/trusktr/html-includes?
Where my implementors at? I know DOM Core just got some new members over at @mozilla
GitHubGitHub - trusktr/html-includes: A super simple spec concept for composing HTML files together. Live example:A super simple spec concept for composing HTML files together. Live example: - trusktr/html-includes
Internet Standards Almanac: Who’s really shaping the internet? Our new tool helps answers three key questions:
- Who leads? Which actors dominate formal leadership positions, including chairing various working groups and committees.
- Who speaks? Which actors dominate discussions and mailing lists.
- Who publishes? Which actors author the largest number of technical standards.
https://www.article19.org/resources/internet-standards-almanac-whos-really-shaping-the-internet/
I am tickled to see this bit of web trivia listed in @TheSeattleTimes “Today in History”. I represented Boeing to the #WorldWideWebConsortium (#W3C) for years. That international Web standards org was made possible because @timbl and @CERN generously gave the initial web code to the world for free — apparently on April 30, 1993. Many of my friends here are from that connection. I am deeply grateful for that experience. And of course that we have the Web!
During our @w3c #Games #Community #Group meetup happening on March 25th we’ve formulated the idea of a brand new Community Group being created specifically around the concept of Loading and Control API.
A #VisionForW3C
"This document articulates #W3C’s organizational principles and the values that underpin its #mission; in other words, our vision for W3C as an organization in the context of our vision for the Web itself. The goal of this vision is not to predict the future, but to define shared principles to guide our decisions."
From: @tantek.com
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2025/100/t1/vision-for-w3c-please-vote
fed.brid.gyI’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:
Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/
Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/
If your company is a W3C Member^1, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative^2 to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)
Thank you for your support.
#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)
^1 https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
^2 https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link) - Tantek
I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:
Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/
Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/
If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)
Thank you for your support.
#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)
¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)
www.w3.orgVision for W3C
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#DigitalSovereignity needs #StructuralPower
"Who enforces digital standards such as those that come from the #IETF or the #W3C?
In a few cases, it is state power (e.g. accessibility in some jurisdictions) but that's rare. In some other cases, it's market discipline… But most of the important areas of the #digitalsphere have stopped being open, competitive markets over a decade ago so that the market no longer has a credible disciplining function to enforce #standards. What matters is who has the #structuralpower to deploy the standards they want to see and avoid those they dislike."
@robin
Robin BerjonDigital SovereigntyDigital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
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>> Twenty-five years ago I was part of an effort… to develop a standard environment for the exchange of business documents called #ebXML. It was an open-standards internet follow-on to #EDI. … an environment in which all the actual business transactions were between machines, without the need for human…
Then, @timbl and #W3C invented the #SemanticWeb and #OWL reasoners, which I can't help but see as a precursor to the current AI push, and a continuation of that way of thinking
With WAI and WCAG the @w3c is arguably one of the biggest accessibility rights advocates out there.
W3C is also incorporated in the USA which seeks to abolish accessibility programs.
Asking the inconvenient questions:
Is W3C safe from Trump’s and Musk’s thug gangs currently overtaking the US government?
Is it time to consider moving the W3C to a less fascist place? I’ve heard the EU is still kinda ok. You might even consider going “true neutral” in Switzerland.
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