koalie

koalie, 15 days ago to random

Very well-delivered talk by @w3c colleague and @tag co-chair @torgo last week, which takes the listener on the journey of designing technology according to principles.

#WideReview gets you there.

Because "Technology without ethics makes social inequality worse."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRrj48CRE0&t=230s
https://mastodon.social/@torgo/112348281989520155

koalie, 1 month ago to random

Today I updated the visual 1994-2024 timeline of @w3c organizational highlights and most notable technical work.

For additional context I added the number of websites and Internet users every few years, as well as a layer noting a selection of other sites, products or services.

It's a lot of data in one representation 🤓
https://www.w3.org/comm/assets/graphics/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024.html

koalie, 1 month ago to random

All you've ever wanted to know about what me and my team do in Communications at the World Wide Web Consortium @w3c in one single evergreen slide deck!

The March 2024 update has the full-time equivalent rise from 2.80 to 2.90 😅 and updated bios slide.

https://www.w3.org/Press/slides/marcomm-support/

#w3c

robin, 1 month ago to random

For the avoidance of doubt: at no point have I or will I ever give an interview in my capacity as vice-chair of the W3C's Board of directors. Any indication to the contrary is disingenuous.

koalie, 1 month ago to random

On the same day, today, the European Parliament passed the #AIAct and the @w3c team published an analysis of the systemic impact on the Web of AI systems, and how Web standardization might mitigate that impact! What a great timing 👌

https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/managing-the-impact-of-ai-machine-learning-on-the-web/

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law

koalie, 1 month ago to ai

My colleague @dontcallmeDOM wrote with input from the @w3c team our understanding on the systemic impact on the Web of AI systems, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact.

If you are curious or concerned about how #AI might change the Web as we know it, please take the time to read our take on the ethical and societal impact for people. And then please, comment 🙏

https://www.w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/

koalie, 2 months ago to random

Thanks to @tomayac for precisely explaining what Apple is going to break in the European Union for those who use home screen web apps, once the Digital Markets Act comes into effect on March 8, 2024.

https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/02/28/so-what-exactly-did-apple-break-in-the-eu/#you-previously-added-an-app-to-the-home-screen-with-safari

... and for concluding by drawing attention to the open letter from @owa

koalie, 2 months ago to random

I am a fast typist, but a damn slow writer 🤓

E.g., I regularly take notes transcribing what people say as they say it (more or less verbatim).
Fast typing is over 70 words per minute.

BUT, when I write (in particular ghost-write) I progress at glacial pace!
E.g., I wrote 755 words in 5 hours and 20 minutes yesterday.

That’s 4 minutes per word! 🤦🏻‍♀️

koalie, 2 months ago to random

#FediAdmin question

An account marked as "bot" on an instance made the same report 355 times between 2:18pm CET and 2:31pm CET.
The 355 reports included the same toot (a regular, non-spam, valid tool), for reason "other".
At the peak of the reporting wave, this bot account made 85 reports per minute.

It took me 50 minutes in the /admin/reports web interface to resolve each of them.

I've suspended that instance to prevent further DDoS death by bot fake reports.

Anything else I should do? Thx

torgo, 2 months ago to random

Something I worked in in @tag (the Ethical Web Principles) was quoted in a UN report on human rights in technical standards: https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/53/42. It's nice to see our work picked up here, and it's also nice to see that there is a rising awareness across the board that ethics and human rights need to be taken into account in the technical standards process.

koalie, 3 months ago to random

I'm gathering information (and thoughts) on #i18n for a piece I'm going to write, and I wonder if or how Internationalization aspects factor in the #WebCompat activities and processes in place at browser vendors.

cc: @karlcow

koalie, 4 months ago to CSS

#CSS level 1 by @bert & H&kon became a @w3c Recommendation 27 years ago🎉

#OnThisDay in 1996, a foundational aspect of the web became a standard!

> CSS1 allows authors and readers to attach style to HTML documents [that] is human readable and writable.
> One of the fundamental features of CSS is that style sheets cascade; authors can attach a preferred style sheet, while the reader may have a personal style sheet to adjust for human or technological handicaps.
#css #w3c
https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217

koalie, 7 months ago to random French

Le rappel annuel.

« Bonjour Coralie MERCIER,
Cela fait maintenant 24 ans que vous êtes à W3C. Est-ce correct ? »

– Ouaip. Mais j’y ai eu plusieurs jobs, alors ça semble pas aussi long !

koalie, 7 months ago to random

As first-time attendee of the @w3c #w3cTPAC mid-September 2023, @patrickbrosset wrote a very interesting --and refreshing-- first impressions and explanation of how the "sausage is made" when it comes to web features and web standardization.

https://patrickbrosset.com/articles/2023-09-26-my-first-tpac-conference/

koalie, 7 months ago to workersrights

Rare picture of me writing a @w3c press release.
Oftentimes I’m stuck while my brain processes all that has to go in.
#work

koalie, 8 months ago to random

Ah, if @w3c were a wealthy consortium, we staff members could be doing meaningful work AND be better compensated for our specialized skills 🤷🏻‍♀️

From: @lencioni
https://mastodon.social/@lencioni/111031883888855442

koalie, 8 months ago to random

I swear, someone is being an accessory to my attempted murder.

Death by Title Case. I hate Title Case with the heat of a thousand suns. Sentence case is a lot more legible. It rules. Let's ban Title Case please pretty please!

BUT, wait, there's a twist! Worse than Title Case: inconsistent Title Case mixed with sentence case.

I'm now assembling the might of all my zen to continue my proof reading.

#werk

evan, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Should we have a fediverse meetup at #tpac ? #w3c #w3ctpac #tpac2023 #w3ctpac2023

timbray, 8 months ago to mastodon

In which I offer an overview of where Mastodon stands now in 2023/08; what’s good/bad, keeping an eye on the alternatives, etc. Not terribly technical (social-media technology is boring, it’s the “social” parts that are interesting).

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/08/12/Mastodon-Checkin

#mastodon #fediverse #bluesky

koalie, 9 months ago to random

I just had a look at the @w3c mentions on https://w3c.social/@w3c/110825877090092616

BIG MISTAKE. My blood pressure sky rocketed instantly.
Irrelevant bad faith dismissal comments and barely just one or two on topic responses.
That's not conducive to interaction. That's not conducive to positivity.

koalie, 9 months ago to random

A core principle that all #W3C work group must follow is to allow access across disabilities, country borders, and time.

It hinges mainly on excellent minuting and record-keeping, on W3C's persistence policy (that's why the number of resources we put on the web is so huge).

This allows all participants –present and future– and observers to participate and understand the rationale and origins of decisions, and to guarantee long-lived access to published documents.

https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#tooling

andy_blum, 10 months ago to random

Following Twitter's lockdown of tweets, a lot of sites have seen their embedded timelines break.

If you're looking for a way to embed mastodon posts, I've just created a new project that lets you embed your timeline of toots.

🪶 It's lightweight (<2kb).
🙈 No tracking of any kind.
💅 Fully style-able with CSS
📦 One simple web component

Feature requests & contributions are welcome!

https://github.com/andy-blum/fed-embed