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torgo

@torgo@mastodon.social

Open Source Strategist at Samsung and general Open Web Curmudgeon.

W3C @tag co-chair; https://front-end.social/@openwebdocs co-founder; https://social.lfx.dev/@openssf TAC member; Gov UK Open Standards Board member.

Immigrant, UK/US Dual National; Film, MST3K, Science Fiction, Anime, #GenshinImpact & #HonkaiStarRail fan; anti-fascist & card-carrying “tofu-eating wokerati.”

Photos at https://pixelfed.social/torgo. He/Him.

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Excited to see how this is developing https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WebInstall/explainer.md (from @diekus). We need better across-the-board support for web app installation and lifecycle management.

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I don't always reply to pointless threads on mailing lists. But when I do, I top-reply.

torgo, to random
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“W3C, a respectable global standards organization” - Wired magazine. https://www.wired.com/story/metas-threads-could-make-or-break-the-fediverse/ Put that in your pipe and smoke it, ISO nerds.

torgo, to random
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Came into the office in my hoodie. Some engineers asked me “what was Firefox OS?” Oh boy. Let me tell you a story.

torgo,
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@patrick_h_lauke I have no regrets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJxYJ_QgQnE

torgo,
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@mattwilcox :) Actually I don't have a story ready to roll but maybe I should put together a blog post.

torgo,
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@mattwilcox positives and negatives. Commercially, was not a success. It should have been Mozilla's opportunity to remain relevant to the modern web and modern web users. When it wasn't immediately successful, Mozilla unfortunately went for a scorched earth policy. On the positives side, a lot of learnings came out of that work that were plowed into the work on progressive web apps, the webapp manifest, service worker, notifications, etc... FirefoxOS continues to reverberate.

torgo,
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@aral KaiOS is the spiritual successor: https://www.kaiostech.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

torgo,
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@aral at least partly https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g it's under MPL? But yes it looks like some of it is proprietary.

torgo, to random
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Made an executive decision that the next @tag virtual f2f will be "hosted" in Mos Eisley.

torgo,
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@patrick_h_lauke cannot unsee. 😂

torgo, to fediverse
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Call me crazy, but it feels to me like the approach to moderation, although messy, is actually ... working?

torgo, to random
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Registered for @w3c TPAC. https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/

torgo, to random
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Oh look Threads launched and it doesn’t actually have federation or ActivityPub support what a an amazing surprise.

torgo,
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…and it's app only. 🤷

torgo,
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…having snarked that, if Threads ever does get around to federating, I will likely follow people there (from here) who otherwise don't have accounts in the rest of the Fediverse.

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That really says it all. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/04/threads-app-instagram-twitter-competitor-meta-to-launch-rival

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Made an amazing spaghetti carbonara last night and still pleased with how well it turned out.

torgo,
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@ada Kind of an adaptation of https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ultimate-spaghetti-carbonara-recipe. I used 100g of guanciale cut into thin strips, 100g of pecorino, 2 eggs, 2 garlic cloves and at spicy red pepper. Sautéed the guanciale with the garlic and pepper. When spaghetti was done, combined everything in a big bowl and tossed it. And voilà.

torgo, to fediverse
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Sometimes I feel that the is going to implode under the crushing gravitational weight of its own home-cooked controversies.

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What's the deal with open source, open data and open standards licensing? I've been running into multiple situations recently where people are confused about this issue or are applying an inappropriate license. I've tried to pick it apart in this blog post: https://www.torgo.com/blog/2023/06/whats-the-deal-with-open-source-open-data-and-open-standards-licenses.html

torgo, to random
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I'm running into multiple situations where people are confused about the differences between open source licenses and open data licenses and whether the restrictions on data use in an open data license also apply to open source projects that might want to consume that data. Open source and open data are different things. (And both are different from open standards.) I think a blog post might be in order here.

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Posted! https://www.torgo.com/blog/2023/06/whats-the-deal-with-open-source-open-data-and-open-standards-licenses.html Many thanks to @neil @jorydotcom @Edent for your awesome review comments and suggestions.

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Emacs is my comfort zone. It's my squishy sofa. It understands me.

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There goes my streak.

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