Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

March 7th, 2020

@johnwilander The @nytimes has more profound background on the practice of “geofence” warrants, with an ace data journalism section (subheading “A new approach”) by @Rich_Harris: nytimes.com/interactive/20….

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to johnwilander

intenttoship Blink: Intent to Ship: Screen Wake Lock API groups.google.com/a/chromium.org…

via Feeds for @intenttoship (retweeted on 10:10 AM, Mar 7th, 2020 via Echofon)

AaronGustafson Notifying users of changes to your is hard. We’re thinking about ways to make it easier by enabling you to include a version number and point to an HTML change log, RSS/Atom feed, or similar from within your web app manifest. Feedback appreciated!

github.com/MicrosoftEdge/…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:04 AM, Mar 7th, 2020 via Echofon)

Some more detail on @brave’s randomization approach to prevent browser fingerprinting: github.com/brave/brave-br…. twitter.com/brave/status/1…

via Echofon

slightlylate Pretty sure I’ve pointed this out before, but the architecture that @philwalton outlines in this post is the platonic ideal for nearly every content site in 2020. If your tools don’t support getting to this architecture, get new tools:

philipwalton.com/articles/small…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 9:52 AM, Mar 7th, 2020 via Echofon)

johnwilander DuckDuckGo just released their own tracker list, ready to be used by privacy tools such as content blockers. They even open sourced the code that generates it, bringing transparency to how domains end up on their list: spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tra…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:46 AM, Mar 7th, 2020 via Echofon)