Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

September 2014

@RubenVerborgh Out of interest: why callbacks & no promises? LGPL may cause trouble w/ industry contexts. IANAL, but enforced by HDT C++?!

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~RT @RubenVerborgh: HDT for Node.js—here’s the backstory: http://t.co/Q0z6BArf7n #JavaScript #SemWeb #RDF // This looks very promising!

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ydn An Animated GIF is Worth a Thousand Words | Yahoo Engineering bit.ly/1uz5FOy

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RT @grayops: @PatrickMeier FireChat poses security risks in this context. See: https://t.co/JZ6u0aOi01 Lots of other alternatives http://t…

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@russellsavage Thanks, hope it is useful. We certainly do appreciate your freeadwordsscripts.com over here :-) Great symbiosis!

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@AmrapaliZ Congratulations, cand. Ph.D. Zaveri :-) Enjoy your vacation!

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RT @mischat: And for all you #osx users who didn’t want to patch their #bash manually http://t.co/9bgKaiyBz1 #Shellshock

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Created a simple remoteStorage API for @AdWords Scripts, closely modeled after localStorage in browsers https://t.co/1lpOuQKp9D

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“There’s a gun in their hands, but an umbrella in our hearts.”—彼らの手には銀æˆ’ã@hkdemonowãpic.twitter.com/EhwBNOpCNCyCentral (via @hkdemonow) http://t.co/EhwBNOpCNC

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Super useful #CSS outline debugging console snippet or bookmarklet: https://t.co/of7wjjszmK. Thanks @addyosmani, @aemkei, @p01.

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gccaedits I’m now running on the Wikimedia Tools Labs shared anon instance! tools.wmflabs.org/anon/

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RT @paul_irish: Advanced Debugging w/ Chrome http://t.co/ahObKs8Kpm Slides: http://t.co/PSk3q39vfk JS debug & blackbox, monitoring & render…

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@damiano10 Catching this tweet only now… Felicidades, Dr. Damiano :-)

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ndiakopoulos Interesting API that aggregates crisis data: crisis.net

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“Bad news on Fridays” announcement over at @Yahoo: they’re shutting down #Yahoo Directory http://t.co/e3QMF6ZvYr and https://t.co/HOKxABxW2Q

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Streisand—cy project worth keeping an eye upon, esp. before trips to Internet-censoring countriegithub.com/jlund/streisandaL H@nelsonon

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>$ env x=’() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c “echo this is a test”

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RT @cramforce: So, yeah, it is worth working at Google at least once if only to checkout Memegen https://t.co/sdMECynPhk

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@glennjones They may survive (acquisition, details pending). For #Twitpic backup, check http://t.co/yuMrzRV2az.

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Stanford Law School’s CIS promises not to use Google funding for #privacy research http://t.co/3E30a67tdK. Also see http://t.co/2KFBrcR3ws.

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Introducing structured snippets: http://t.co/ZwWrIt5E7c

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The @JSConfEU projection mapping explained by #JSConf co-curator @cramforce: https://t.co/QSimR6J3IW. Quite sets the tone :-)

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If you’re a programmer, spend these 20:13min on @philip_roberts’ event loop talk: vimeo.com/96425312

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“float” is a JavaScript reserved word, so el.style.float won’t work in apparently just Firefox. Use cssFloat instead https://t.co/ORi8k2h3oK

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Great @NYTimes article on Google’s and general Internet business in China. Also loving the illustration. http://t.co/ZUXSR2eNvZ

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Nightly <track>s misery w/ ‘load’ events only firing sometimes & mode attrib. ignoring ‘hidden’ state (‘disabled’ instead).

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RT @scorlosquet: Looks like @github just started to use http://t.co/opkVjqdGvx actions with JSON-LD in their notifications emails! http://t…

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Run any #Android app on the desktop (Mac, Win, ChrOS) w/ chromeos-apk: https://t.co/ZpujJTmQ03. Interesting hack by @vladikoff.

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Started my first ever Google Python change list commit message for dremel.py w/ “Please pardon my Python”…

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@ShinNoNoir Fool me once… I guess they’re part of a falling ecosystem that isn’t needed/wanted now. I stayed out of loyalty. Will switch :-/

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@o2de OK, Danke! Netter Support auch spät abends noch :-)

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@o2de Jepp, mehrmals. Seit gestern geht abends nicht mehr viel :-( Tagsüber war die Verbindung schnell, wie sonst auch immer…

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@o2de Moin! Gibt’s im Raum 20355 seit dem Netflix-Start bekannte DSL-Probleme? Internet kriecht nur noch :-( FRITZ!Box behauptet 14.1Mbit/s.

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~RT @mrry: Well, so long Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. It was nice while it lasted. // Apparently the whole lab just got closed!? :-(

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KaTeX by the @khanacademy folks is a fast, client & server side JavaScript lib for math rendering on the Web: github.com/Khan/KaTeX

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@RubenVerborgh has put together a lovely Developer Workshop: iswc2014.semdev.org/program/ ♡ “[D]inner w/ developers. Pizza probably.”

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@RubenVerborgh It’s the quickest hack that worked (for me) and didn’t get caught by their anti-scraping measures. Feel free to improve :-)

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Created a trivial #TwitPic backup script to save your photos: https://t.co/O89QNk5mBR. #CC0. http://t.co/26LInj3wdm

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RT @janjongboom: Slides from my talk at @jsconfeu “Abusing phones to build the internet of things” here! http://t.co/sBd8KQzZBe

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RT @mkuehnel: Thanks to @philip_roberts I finally understand why setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes is useful: http://t.co/7Nh1OJlfh3!!! #eventloo…

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RT @benschwarz: http://t.co/FoHzVTGaCq, by @thedeftone, presented at @jsconfeu —

FUCKING MIND BLOWING.

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@mafintosh Thank _you_! Open source plus permissive licenses FTW :-)

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All of @mafintosh’s GitHub repo is a treasure trove: github.com/mafintosh (peerwiki, peerflix, torrent-mount,…nf

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P2P Wikipedia browsing w/ BitTorrent based on @mafintosh’s peerwiki: https://t.co/MNH5vMlfnS #JScon CC: @WikiResearch

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@boxcar Thanks! Finally :-) notificationUsefulness++;

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Deep-linking on dynamic pages: for each <p>: get hash by taking first letter of first 3 words of first & last sentence. @donohoe at .

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HTTP Strict Transport Security #HSTS browser extensions https://t.co/nIqEXwb1gw relevant for @freddyb’s security #JSconf talk.

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RT @mathias: @jsconfeu Slides and notes for my presentation on JavaScript, Unicode, and ECMAScript 6: http://t.co/pUnwqxAHc8 #jsconf #👩

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@jsconfeu Will you release the transcripts?

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.@mathias remembers the dark ages where Twitter due to a Unicode string length calculation bug didn’t let you tweet 140 piles of ðŸ’Sconf

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Neat (#iOS8) trick used by @michaelpoltorak to project his iPhone to the #JSconf audience: http://t.co/HzAuG7Esfl

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@jsconfeu Twitter power search query: ( OR OR OR OR @jsconfeu OR @jscon) -“RT “

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RT @rtroncy: IIIF Image and Presentation API v2: http://t.co/TtMt1ObVpX. It promotes the usage of @w3c #mediafragments URI for your annotat…

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RT @rtroncy: #HyperTEd is one of the 13 entries in the @linkedupproject Vici competition Read http://t.co/maws1emf44 and play with http://t…

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@jsconfeu Ah, I see :-) No worries then, thanks! See you on Friday evening.

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@jsconfeu For those traveling back on Sunday night, will the boat anchor in between or return to its origin?

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@stilkov LOL, calling the bullshit card.

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#DBpedia 2014 (v3.9) is out. Stats: http://t.co/NojHsqJQVo. New type inference algorithm: http://t.co/197THnqGZU [PDF]

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@lechatpito This is very much a feature and working as intended: http://t.co/MVpfJlzvj5 #FreeSpeech

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csoghoian The only thing I want to purchase from Twitter is a pro-account with no sponsored tweets. Take my money, please.

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RT @Streamweaver: “Notes on XKCD’s “Pixels”” http://t.co/jHOlCgxUjs

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Wanna put today’s 1418 into horse (xkcd.com/1418/), get @RubenVerborgh’s & my xkcd 37 bit.ly/xkcd37 extension!

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.@googledrive client just burnt my data plan’s allowance when tethering laptop to phone :-/ Can GDrive somehow detect tethered WiFi & pause?

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#SchemaOrg Actions (http://t.co/m37ljjhClu) in action, overview blog post by Google’s Sam Goto: http://t.co/Bk72yH9wiV

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RT @oliviercure: Biperpedia, a search ontology defined from Freebase, query streams and web texts. 30*bigger than DBpedia:http://t.co/hQ15p…

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@wjarek @RubenVerborgh Yeah, we had Sam Goto as keynote speaker at @wsREST, w/ @mamund et al. in the audience. Small world.

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aaranged .org update from @danbri presented at 2014 - bit.ly/1lDjto7

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RT @stephestellar: Love that someone is plugging @internetarchive’s applicability on this thread re: Twitpic https://t.co/D0AgvdytXa via @t…

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Good discussion on Hacker News following ’s shutdown notice: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8269553

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~RT @noaheverett: […ic’s shutting down—rbit.ly/WgmIpAqIm8 for more info. > Here goes yet another part of the old Twitter ;(

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RubenVerborgh Demo of Linked Data Fragments querying at 4pm on . Come test it yourself!
If not in Leipzig, use client.linkeddatafragments.org.

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Brilliant comic again. Click through to xkcd.com/1416/ and scroll up over the image.

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If there’s one thing to be learned from , then it’s that 2-factor authentication matters. For Apple: support.apple.com/kb/ht4232.

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@dret s/leaked/stolen/ Apart from that, +1 to your point on Exif.

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RT @wjarek: I just published “Towards machine-understandable service descriptions at Web scale” https://t.co/PgpHbS6lae > CC: @RubenVerborgh

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@rtroncy Nice, hadn’t seen this before. Thanks for sharing.

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Nobody’s interested in the Semantic Web anymore? Seems so… #semantics2014 http://t.co/eyRBc2mthg

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RT @mnot: “@arstechnica: How a new HTML element will make the Web faster http://t.co/piNnqkqIthâ… @WHATWG your mission is clear - MOAR ELEME…

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@rtroncy In your inbox already. Cheers!

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@edsaperia Hi Ed. Thanks for the kind words. I’m occasionally traveling to differing locations ;-) Best reach me via tomacATgoogleDOTcom.

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More on the anonymization flaw https://t.co/V4nbTfY7HM from @hfmuehleisen’s recent @Medium post. #Privacy is hard, yet #OpenData is good.

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New York City’s top-10 taxi drivers by @hfmuehleisen https://t.co/a9SXvKzYe9. Also: #OpenData anonymization gone wrong… #MD5

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Yay, my two workshop papers got accepted :D iswc2014.semdev.org Semantic hypervideos & natural disaster monitoring.

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For the record: I _condemn_ #TheFappening. @WikiLiveMon & @mediagalleries can’t, they’re just data-analyzing bots: http://t.co/lCOOwBb0Xh

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I’d like to recall the mechanics of @WikiLiveMon arxiv.org/abs/1303.4702 & @mediagalleries arxiv.org/abs/1403.4289 esp. content sources.

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page on ’s deleted by now. @WikiLiveMon/@mediagalleries still have caught the “news” event pic.twitter.com/2z01AR5jeV

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