The United Kingdom has just delivered the world's most expensive demonstration of why throwing technology at social problems doesn't work. After two years of ignoring expert advice and billions in compliance costs, the UK's Online Safety Act has achieved the opposite of its stated…
Reading in Servo's latest weekly report that it's now passing 1.7 million Web Platform Subtests, I started wondering: How much investment would it build it into a competitive, independent browser, in the context of all this talk on digital sovereignty? Servo is an experimental web…
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has just released a new report titled: "From Software to Society: Openness in a Changing World" by Dr. Henriette Litta and Peter Bihr (I was also interviewed for it). The report talks about what openness means in our digital ages, both from the history…
Originally, I meant to write a blog post diving deep into the hole Mozilla has been digging itself into with its "privacy-first" advertising push, perhaps even exploring the background work at organizations like the W3C and the IETF that led to this moment. I still may do that…
The Border Gateway Protocol is an important part of our internet infrastructure. It's essentially a big set of rules that govern how data is routed around the many networks that form the internet. If DNS is the address book of the internet, BGP is the Autobahn. For the…
I attended a meeting for a newly proposed working group called SCONEPRO where some interent service providers like comcast and at&t and large video content platforms like youtube and tiktok want to work together to make the controversial practice of traffic shaping work slightly better.…