Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

September 11th, 2021

@ArleyM Keep questioning! Too many sites want access to device sensors without having any justification.

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@cramforce @DasSurma I recall a fight with a ticket inspector who insisted scanning the screen didn’t work for _technical_ reasons. After several minutes I finally convinced him to just try it—of course it worked. Luckily these days are over, now you

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RT @gordonbrander: Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? My attempt to answer @Altimor’s question. https://t.co/Ti1YPIaq9g

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Apple @webkit folks are looking for use cases for `SharedWorker` that Safari currently doesn’t support (yet?). See the quoted tweet by @jensimmons ⤵️ for details.

(In case you’re unsure what they are about, the HTML spec has a good introduction:

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@Nyr0 According to https://t.co/eq9GIxkEDB it’s not initially supported on Android. Feature detection (`’EyeDropper’ in window`) should fail.

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Love how @MSEdgeDev innovate when it comes to the install prompt! 💏 See the screenshot in the quoted tweet ⤵️ for details. Pin to taskbar, autostart on login,… They really dig PWAs! https://t.co/rlMwXv9H6b

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@jonathanmayer @propublica @yaelwrites They fixed it: “We’ve altered language in the story to make clear that the company examines only messages from threads that have been reported by users as possibly abusive. It does not break end-to-end encryption

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@simevidas @miketaylr From a DevRel perspective, we try to show the paper trail of outreach to other vendors we left. A concrete sample is https://t.co/CGtWKHqZ3p, which links to https://t.co/qf7u2Gy3aS & https://t.co/zcGJboK9Ui. This paper trail doesn’

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If you were wondering what the @openuicg work is all about, be sure to watch this video (quoted tweet ⤵️) with @soMelanieSaid and @gregwhitworth. I’m very excited 😆 about this effort and can’t wait to see all of it land in browsers. https://t.c

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@_zouhir @ChromiumDev @slightlylate We can make it happen. Also, thanks for the kind words! 😊 Good to read that someone out there likes my writing!

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