Tootfinder

Idea: a service that sources and sells ONLY blood diamonds, marketed at a 100000x markup exclusively to billionaires

Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

Voor wie wel eens nieuwsbrieven maakt in HTML:
https://css-tricks.com/html-email-accessibility-report-2025/

HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025 | CSS-Tricks
Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its

@… SGML descended from GML, which descended from SCRIBE, which descended from ROFF. As described in “A Generalized Approach to Document Markup,” (1981) https://doi.org/10.1145/800209.806456

@… SGML descended from GML, which descended from SCRIPT, which descended from RUNOFF. As described in “A Generalized Approach to Document Markup,” (1981) https://doi.org/10.1145/800209.806456

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

Wow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn was already vanishingly low (one way to ensure I won't read something is to po…

On Website Technicals (2017-12) - Tech updates: allegedly too little markup, bad traffic, big hero, base download ms, service worker no rel, jump-to. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-7.html

On Website Technicals (2017-12)
Tech updates: allegedly too little markup, bad traffic, big hero, base download ms, service worker no rel, jump-to.

Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

At @oapenbooks.bsky.social, we have updated our #Metadata feeds, to better integrate our #OpenAccess #books into #libraries

A book is a book in any other markup language
Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds  Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website.    Metadata is information … Continue reading "A book is a book in any other markup language"

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

I just lost a days worth of work because I had the audacity to include an equation in MS Word. Somehow that corrupted the docx file. I guess it happens when word tried to translate latex style markup to whatever jank it uses under the hood to format equations.
Unbelievably frustrating but also sort of fascinating. In my lifetime I’ve watched word descend from the obvious best choice for writing on a computer to a pile of laggy jank that just isn’t as useful as other options. Or maybe …