Just how much longer will UK and Europe kick the can down the road over digital sovereignty, after Comb-over Caligula ordered a ban on US entities making transactions with the International Criminal Court, because its former judge Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (and she […]

All jabbed up against winter lurgies, and listening to HMRC's execrable hold music. I always do this at the end of a Friday, as I know I can have a glass of wine soon.

Next they'll saw heads off in front of a stars and stripes flag, or behead them in a public square. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o

Fort Hood shooter's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.

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The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat”... Hammami peppered his diatribes with the language of the manosphere […]

Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

Finally getting into the swing of speaking / hearing French again, after bafflong a couple of waiters on my first 2 nights by replying in thai and Turkish. Wish I could stay and practice more.

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

In the midst of a wasteland of flaky buttery monstrosities and sweet cakes, I have found a cafe filled with Arabic blokes and elderly French speaking men playing chess where real breakfast is available for 6 Euro.

It doesn't need to be this way, of course. IT's possible to imagine a world in which someone with hundreds of dollars to spend on a device is treated as adult enough to run the software they choose on it. Crazy, I know.

Brogrammers couldn't wrap their megabrains around not-a-real-language CSS, so decided to reinvent it and fight against the web platform for their own convenience. Who could possibly have predicted it would be crap for users and would need expensive surgery to lance the festering pus?

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GitHub.com has fully moved off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, resulting in 55% less server-side render time and 25% faster component init. https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/

Off to see what hideousness passes for breakfast in Europe. Probably "croissant" wallowing lasciviously in hot chocolate, while Marxists read Camus and snort absinthe to the strains of maudlin accordion music.

Paperback is a fast, fully accessible reader for ebooks, documents and audio books, written by a blind developer and tested with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver and TalkBack. Desktop are free downloads; iOS and Android apps are paid (source is MIT licensed if you would rather build them yourself) […]

Zut alors! I'm off to Brussels, home of Magritte, Brel and the only good beer on the continent, for 3 days of synergies with Europeans about Big Tech's abuse of dominance and general stinkiness. Wish me luck, open web fans! Keepez votre fingers crossé.

Meanwhile, in UK political discourse https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/26601027.blackburn-reform-councillor-accused-farting-rival/ (Although I may adopt this for regulatory meetings with Big Tech behemoths)

Chilling out and doing final tweaks to vocal harmonies on the last song for yet-untitled fourth album, before going to Brussels tomorrow for 3 days of meetings. (My previous 3 albums are available at https://cruellestmonths.com/)

the cruellest months

the cruellest months music project

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Last week I was in Laaahndaahhn at a regulatory/ legal event (recommended: much better lunch than Web events) and got a chance to catch up with Harry Godfrey, Lord of Little Tech Association and interrograte him about how he's pushing against Big Tech in Washington D.C., Trumpistan […]

Knackered after a day-long meeting at CMA, MC-ing s special London Web Standards meet-up and then the last train to Birmingham.

Rappin' with regulators

I'm ay Kilburn tube station, which seems to be the place to buy heroin or participate in a gun fight.

See your open web heroes in the actual flesh tomorrow, Laaahndaaahn, free! Gasp in wonder as Big Al Russell, Alex "OWA" Moore, Tommy "The Fish" Fish and Kush "Krusher" Amlani take to the @webstandards stage to spin tales of glory, valour, blood, betrayel, and closely-argued meetings with […]

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Orf to fakkin Laaaaahhhnnndaaaaahhn (you slaaaaaaag) for SINNERgies tonight and a Suitfest tomorrow. (Hopefully I’ve booked a better hotel room than the rabbit hutch last week)

Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. https://inoti.fyi

File Notification Attacks

Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. Accepted at The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 15-19, 2026 — The Hague, Netherlands File-notification systems tell applications when files change, e.g., opened, closed, written, deleted. With only read permission on a file or directory, an attacker can watch these notifications and reconstruct user behavior. We find generic issues similar on each of Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS.

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Someone just mailed me with the subject "London Marathon 2027 applications closing tomorrow". All this surveillance capitalism, and their profiling is so, so wrong.

"Companies don’t push apps because installing one improves your spiritual wellbeing." https://webdesignerdepot.com/nobody-wants-your-damn-app/

Nobody Wants Your Damn App

Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped trying to ruin it.

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Today marks three years since we released Vivaldi for iOS. Hurray! We released Vivaldi on Android seven years ago. So what explains the iOS delay? Quite simply, Apple caused the delay. Here's a look at how we're working with other browsers and groups to liberate all platforms so you have the […]

grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(min(100%, 22rem), 1fr)); = the best bit of CSS ever. Thank you, new layout algos.

70% of Americans think that AI is bad for society and 73% of Americans think the costs of datacenters outweigh the benefits, according to a survey https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/sep/27/democracy-ai-datacenters-power

Confidence in Big Tech Continues to Slide https://news.gallup.com/poll/712436/confidence-institutions-remains-near-time-low.aspx#:~:text=Confidence%20in%20Big%20Tech%20Continues%20to%20Slide Confidence in large technology companies has fallen steadily from the 32% recorded when Gallup first […]

Exchanging billets-doux with Apple's compliance department, yet again.