Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:39:00 UTC
Ifølge Siumuts formand burde Mette Frederiksen have ventet til den nye regering officielt er godkendt.
Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:54:00 UTC
Siden i går har strandgæster tæt på Følle kunnet opleve et specielt syn i vandkanten.
Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:37:00 UTC
I takt med at topdirektører bliver mere og mere synlige, stiger truslen mod dem også
Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:04:00 UTC
Vælgerlussing til Inuit Ataqatigiit, mens Demokraatit vinder frem, da 21.559 gik til stemmeurnerne.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:07:57 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/meetbryce/vibe-saver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43552254 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:22:46 UTC
Article URL: https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551934 Points: 126 # Comments: 79
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:39:00 UTC
Sikkerheden for læger og sygeplejersker skal øges, siger formand for Region Hovedstaden.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:22:03 UTC
The Blue Lagoon and the town of Grindavik were ordered to evacuate after earthquakes hit the area.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:12:00 UTC
Flere gange den seneste måned har kongen italesat den aktuelle verdenssituation.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:54:50 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-FUSE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550202 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:50:39 UTC
People are being evacuated as a volcano erupts in south-west Iceland, threatening a town.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:35:39 UTC
Marine Le Pen has said a "nuclear bomb" was used against her party to stop it getting into power.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:16:10 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/lispking/browser-json Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549258 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:58:12 UTC
The soldier was part of a team of four who disappeared a week ago while conducting military drills near the border with Belarus.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:53:00 UTC
Det er blevet forbudt at slå skægkræ ihjel, lyder en af de mange aprilsnarre.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:42:21 UTC
Russia calls up 160,000 men aged 18-30 as it moves to expand the size of its military.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:27:00 UTC
Flere træer forsvandt på mystisk vis i Odder Kommune sidste år
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:33:00 UTC
Mens nogle medier har droppet aprilsnarren, så vælger andre stadig at holde traditionen i hævd.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:03:32 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-exFAT Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547646 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:01:52 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Patches-Hide-Turds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547622 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:00:00 UTC
En ny undersøgelse konkluderer, at Norddjurs Kommune har begået tre lovbrud i forløbet op til knivdrab.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:54:32 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/scbenet/git-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547528 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:39:00 UTC
Den dyrere vintertarif er ude af elregningen, hvilken kan spare en gennemsnitlig husstand for mange hundrede kroner.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:37:15 UTC
Article URL: https://www.filestash.app/2025/04/01/mcp-feature/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547301 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:35:09 UTC
Grant Paterson was on a break in Rome when the B&B in the city's Monteverde area collapsed on 23 March.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:10:51 UTC
Article URL: https://news.itsfoss.com/onepackage-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547001 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:00:00 UTC
Efter dagens møde mangler der stadig 35 millioner kroner i budgettet for det nye stadion i Aarhus.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:29:00 UTC
- Stigende priser på brændstof og lønninger har gjort ambulancekørslen til en dårlig forretning, siger direktøren for PreMed
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:20:00 UTC
Reglerne for alkoholsalg til unge ændres fra i dag som om en del af regeringens forebyggelsesplan, der blev vedtaget i 2023
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:52:34 UTC
Article URL: https://algol-for-linux.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545251 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:06:59 UTC
A nationwide vote would be difficult, but some say there are good reasons to hold one soon.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:04:00 UTC
Nyindkøbte franske Mistral-missiler skal bruges til den danske hærs kommende kortrækkende luftværn.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:26:00 UTC
Folketinget bør hæve afgifterne markant, så nikotinprodukter bliver meget dyrere, end de er nu, mener organisationen.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:04:27 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Perf-Tools-Latency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544467 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:07:00 UTC
Som et led i at få flere unge til at vælge en erhvervsuddannelse, får 8
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:05:00 UTC
Flere unge i Danmark ryger e-cigaretter, men især de 15-17-årige er hoppet på den skadelige bølge, viser ny undersøgelse.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:56:32 UTC
European rightwingers have voiced support for the French far-right politician after she was banned from running for public office.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:26:00 UTC
Nye regler forbyder salg af stærk alkohol som for eksempel shots til unge.
Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:09:00 UTC
Maskine kan fjerne gamle skinner, sveller og skærver, mens den lægger nye.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:06:21 UTC
Helsinki has become one of the top five cities in Europe for investment in defence and security technologies.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:30:44 UTC
Article URL: https://medium.com/detee-network/automating-website-deployment-3ffe257e4c7e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540201 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:42:38 UTC
The woman told police she was sexually assaulted and raped by the five men in September 2023.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:55:30 UTC
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:37:38 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/mediar-ai/uniOCR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536962 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:32:44 UTC
The far-right National Rally leader's sentence jeopardises her chances of running for president in 2027.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:57:43 UTC
Norwegian athletics coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen tells a court he "loves" his children and was just an "overly protective" father as he denies abuse allegations.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:50:18 UTC
In its first response to Trump's criticism of Putin, the Kremlin tried to play down the tensions between the two leaders.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:15:34 UTC
Four others were injured in the blast at the mine in Asturias, northern Spain.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:59:51 UTC
I made this tool to easily share an entire git repo with an LLM.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:10:39 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samsung-TV-Cameras-Linux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533181 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:26:33 UTC
Article URL: https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~srsarangi/osbook/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531410 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:24:38 UTC
Revelations are made in a new BBC Northern Ireland four-part documentary series about the crime family.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:06:14 UTC
Russian aggression and US isolationism push a once hesitant Germany to invest heavily in defence.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:29:12 UTC
Article URL: https://is.muni.cz/th/zjyql/?lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530173 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:39:10 UTC
Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:27:47 UTC
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-IO_uring Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529287 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Published: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:35:53 UTC
This is about finding a good linux distro for my parents to use.
Published: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:22:36 UTC
Article URL: https://nostarch.com/introduction-system-programming-linux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526763 Points: 207 # Comments: 40
Published: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:32:45 UTC
The Spectrum rocket's first test flight lasted 30 seconds but researchers say it will still provide useful data.
Published: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:19:31 UTC
Many in the Danish territory feel bullied by the US, Andrew Harding finds on a trip to Nuuk.
Published: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:07:04 UTC
Karol Nawrocki is facing derision after it emerged he donned a disguise to promote his own book on TV.
Published: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:45:52 UTC
President Zelensky asked what he wants to see after the war ends
Published: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:31:44 UTC
The three occupants of the two Alpha Jets that collided ejected and were "found alive and conscious".
Published: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:16:04 UTC
The BBC's Mark Lowen is on the ground in Istanbul, as the protests in the country continue for a sixth night.
Published: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:30:00 UTC
Aral presented on the Small Web at October’s Dub|Sec social. Visit the Small Web at Dub|Sec event website.
Published: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:00 UTC
Aral presented a computer science colloquium on Small Web. Visit the Small Web at University of Groningen event website.
Published: Thu, 23 May 2024 19:11:00 UTC
In this video, Aral demonstrates the new features added to Kitten in May: including the new Interactive Shell (REPL), Multi-page Settings, and backup and restore (data portability). Read 'New Kitten f
Published: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:19:25 UTC
Draw Together is a little collaborative drawing toy made with Kitten on a Saturday night. You can play with it on the page and watch a video where Aral takes you through the making of Draw Together, s
Published: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:15:20 UTC
Kitten has a new experimental workflow for creating web apps called Streaming HTML that Aral introduces you in this video and accompanying article. Kitten, uniquely, enables you to build Small Web app
Published: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:11:00 UTC
In this hour-and-a-half long Small is Beautiful live stream recording, Aral shows you how WebSockets, authenticated routes, and public-key encryption work in Kitten and uses them to create a centralis
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 19 May 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:00:00 UTC
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Published: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:00:00 UTC
This month we presented NodeKit and Domain updates and reviews of our recent talks. Streamed using our own Owncast instance.
Published: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:00:00 UTC
web3 is bullshit (long live web0) and wtf is NodeKit? This month, we extend a friendly middle finger to web3 with the web0 manifesto, talk about Laura’s presentation for Ikea on ethical design, and i
Published: Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:45:00 UTC
web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit. Read 'The web0 manifesto' on web0.small-web.org.
Published: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:52:00 UTC
How to send an email by speaking SMTP interactively to an email server.
Published: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:00:00 UTC
Out with the old, in with the new! Laura and Aral said goodbye to an old friend while also celebrating the inclusion of Catts as the default task switcher in elementary OS and the launch of Comet, Ar
Published: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:56:00 UTC
Better was a privacy tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Published: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:16:00 UTC
Comet is a distraction-free Git commit message editor with spell-check, first line character limit warnings, and emoji support. Comet version 1.0 is now available to install on elementary OS 6. Read '
Published: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:00:00 UTC+01:00
A rotten Apple We’re finally back with a Small is Beautiful livestream.
Published: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:24:00 UTC
Aral contributed a new, more usable task switcher to elementary OS 6. Read 'Contributing to elementary OS' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:00:00 UTC+01:00
One bad Apple Small is Beautiful took a break last month but we are back and raring to go! What Apple is doing with its plans to scan content on your own devices and notify third parties is an attemp
Published: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:48:48 UTC+01:00
If Apple goes ahead with its plans to have your devices violate your trust and work against your interests, I will not write another line of code for their platforms ever again… Read 'Apple is trying
Published: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:06:33 UTC+01:00
From today, in addition to my work at Small Technology Foundation, I’ll be working with Stately on developer and designer relations as a contractor. Read 'Working with Stately' on Laura’s blog.
Published: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:25:54 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 30th June 2021, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, fixed three sites and blocked five new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:46:35 UTC+01:00
Can the Small Web be as easy (or easier) to use than the Big Web? (Spoiler: Yes.) Livestreamed on Thursday, June 18th, 2021.
Published: Tue, 25 May 2021 17:15:21 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 25th May 2021, Laura blocked three blocker blockers, fixed five sites and blocked four new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 20 May 2021 20:37:17 UTC+01:00
Independent and ethical video and streaming with Small Tech. Livestreamed on Thursday, May 20, 2021.
Published: Tue, 11 May 2021 10:01:26 UTC+01:00
The organisation was co-founded by me, Laura Kalbag, and Aral Balkan.
Published: Mon, 10 May 2021 16:01:07 UTC+01:00
They have a word for Twitter on the fediverse. They call it ‘hell site’. It’s very apt. When I first joined about 15 years ago, at the end of 2006, it was a very different place.
Published: Sat, 08 May 2021 16:38:45 UTC+01:00
There’s been a lot of research into “Ethics in AI” recently and it’s being sponsored and led by… checks notes… surveillance capitalists like DeepMind. Similarly, lots of people are working on “Ethics
Published: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:28:00 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 29th April 2021, Laura blocked a blocker blocker, fixed eight sites and blocked four new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:15:57 UTC+01:00
National Rail Fail: lessons to be learned on privacy and accessibility. Livestreamed on Thursday, April 15, 2021.
Published: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:00:29 UTC+01:00
Introducing the Svelte Nano Donation component An unscheduled Small Is Beautiful episode for the Svelte Nano Donation component release with Laura and Aral. We covered: using it with SvelteKit using
Published: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:54:24 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 31st March 2021, Laura blocked a blocker blocker, fixed a site and blocked ten new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:10:04 UTC
HEY, let’s talk about small tech! From Aral’s Twitter on 27th April 2021: “Read this [open letter to Jason and David, the founder-owners of Basecamp from Jane Yang]. To say I’m disappointed is an un
Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:43:47 UTC
New blocking rules! On 26th February 2021, Laura blocked three blocker blockers, fixed six sites and blocked six new trackers.. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:10:57 UTC
Distributed and decentralised social networks Join us talking to Paul Frazee about his new decentralised social network project, CTZN, he’s building on the Hypercore Protocol. Hosts: Laura and Aral.
Published: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:48:34 UTC
In our Small is Beautiful #2 livestream, I spoke about how I spent a lot of last year creating a Hugo starter theme for Site.js.
Published: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:10:34 UTC
The public stack and how to fund it We need “open, democractic, and sustainable digital public spaces.” In other words, we need what Waag calls “the public stack.” The Small Web that we’re building a
Published: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:10:21 UTC
New blocking rules! On 27th January 2021, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, fixed five sites and blocked five new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:00:19 UTC
Live streaming on a budget This video was live-streamed on the 21st of January 2021 at 5pm Irish time. We take you through our live streaming setup.
Published: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:06:32 UTC
Free and Open Education with Pine64 and elementary OS This video was live-streamed on the 14th of January 2021 at 5pm Irish time. We were joined by Nicolas Vivant, CIO of the city of Fontaine, who ov
Published: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:06:32 UTC
Our recent work at Small Technology Foundation This video was live-streamed on the 7th of January 2021 at 5pm Irish time. We talked about Laura’s work on Better Blocker and Site.js Hugo templates, Ma
Published: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:40:00 UTC
New blocking rules! On 24th December 2020, Laura blocked three blocker blockers, fixed five sites and blocked five new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:00:27 UTC
Introducing Elementary OS This video was live-streamed on the 10th of December 2020 at 5pm Irish time. In our inaugural live stream, we spoke to special guest Daniel Foré, founder of Elementary OS. T
Published: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:00:00 UTC
Aral gave an online keynote titled “Towards a Small Web”. Visit the Howest 2020 event website.
Published: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:00:00 UTC+01:00
Live Event A live talk by Aral presented to students studying design/development at Howest academy in Kortrijk, Belgium on Friday, December 4th, 2020. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded vi
Published: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:39:52 UTC
New blocking rules! On 29th September 2020, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, fixed five sites and blocked eight new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:28:27 UTC
Laura gave an online keynote titled “This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You”. Visit the SmashingConf Freiburg 2020 event website.
Published: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:11:14 UTC+01:00
Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: The
Published: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:00:00 UTC+01:00
Main talk Question and answer session Opening chat Note Please note that the poor quality of the visuals is because these videos were recorded by Zoom in 640 x 360 (for some reason).
Published: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:00:00 UTC+01:00
Details This talk was live streamed from this page on Thursday, 16 July, at 15:00 German time, 14:00 Irish time. Like this? Fund us! We are a tiny, independent not-for-profit. We exist in part thank
Published: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:17:43 UTC+01:00
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Published: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:08:21 UTC+01:00
A sneak peek at hosting a web site on a PinePhone using Site.js 14.2.0 Alpha. Read 'Live Stream: A web site on your phone with Site.js' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:30:50 UTC+01:00
Laura and I will be mentoring teams developing civil society applications at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Online Hackathon. Read 'Mentoring the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Online Hackat
Published: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:39:33 UTC+01:00
Laura was interviewed about ‘Using the web for social good’ for Hey! Live. Visit the Hey! Live: Using the web for social good event website.
Published: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:30:00 UTC+01:00
Details This is the talk on moving beyond surveillance capitalism with alternatives, stopgaps, and the Small Web that Aral gave at Creative Mornings Istanbul on 26 June, 2020. The recording of the li
Published: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:25:56 UTC+01:00
TL; DR: Use Jitsi or something else instead Read 'How to use the Zoom malware safely on Linux if you absolutely have to' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 13 May 2020 12:44:51 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 13th May 2020, Laura blocked one blocker blockers, fixed five sites and blocked two new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:28:45 UTC
Laura gave a keynote titled ‘Defying the mainstream: building technology that respects our rights’. Visit the New Adventures 2020 event website.
Published: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:38:14 UTC
TL; DR: Apple have been in touch and offered us a way to migrate to our new not-for-profit without impacting the experience of existing Better Blocker customers. Read 'A happy ending to the Better Blo
Published: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:13:59 UTC
Last time on Dances With Drones, Apple had accepted the iOS version of Better Blocker but rejected the macOS one because of invalid app metadata even though both apps had the same metadata. Read 'Appl
Published: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:48:42 UTC
Yesterday, I wrote about how Apple’s refusal to update a couple of fields in their database has impacted the future of Better Blocker, the tracker blocker that Laura and I build at our tiny two-person
Published: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:19:06 UTC
Aral has written a detailed blog post about the logistics of moving our app, Better Blocker, to our Irish organisation. In brief: we have to re-publish the app under Small Technology Foundation, which
Published: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:17:52 UTC
Over the last few days, we closed the Ind.ie forum.
Published: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:14:30 UTC
In my previous blog post, I asked Apple for a little help with a problem we had with Better Blocker after moving to Ireland and setting up a new not-for-profit here… Last week, we got a definite “comp
Published: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:18:33 UTC
As we enter a new decade, humankind faces several existential emergencies: The climate emergency The democracy emergency The personhood emergency In no small part thanks to Greta Thunberg, we’re def
Published: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:11:41 UTC
Dear Apple, We’re a tiny two-person not-for-profit.
Published: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:25:33 UTC
As part of my research for Hypha, I just completed the Kappa Architecture Workshop and I’m continuing to dive deeper down the stack to brush up on the fundamental concepts I need to be comfortable wit
Published: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:24:31 UTC
Last week, I gave three talks in Belgium, starting with one titled “Dear regulators, please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” at an event on The Future of Internet Regulation organised by t
Published: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:49:36 UTC
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand.
Published: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:16:34 UTC
Introducing @small-tech/https, a batteries-included drop-in replacement for the Node.js https module. Read 'Introducing @small-tech/https' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:09:42 UTC
Laura gave a keynote titled ‘8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking’. Visit the ffconf event website.
Published: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:20:44 UTC
Site.js version 12.10.2 introduces automatic updates in production. Read 'Site.js: now with auto updates in production' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:22:26 UTC
Site.js version 12.9.7 brings the second developer experience improvement to Site.js in as many days with an integrated auto reload feature that responds to source code changes on dynamic sites. Read
Published: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:30:59 UTC
I just released version 12.9.6 of Site.js with live reload support for static pages. There’s also a fix for the update command, so please update to this version so that you can keep updating using the
Published: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:28:00 UTC+01:00
Laura gave a talk titled ‘Accessible Unethical Technology.’ Visit the Accessibility Scotland: Accessibility and Ethics event website.
Published: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:30:29 UTC
Yesterday, I asked folks following me on my Mastodon1, if they’d help me blow up my Raspberry Pi Zero W… Read 'The little Raspberry Pi that could (serve a web site)' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:30:11 UTC
I just released Site.js version 12.9.5.
Published: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:29:46 UTC
Yesterday, I released Site.js 12.8.0 which brings initial ARM support for Linux. What that means is that it’s now easier than ever to get a static or dynamic (Node.js) web server up and running on a R
Published: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:29:30 UTC
This weekend, I released Site.js version 12.7.0 with improvements to its WebSocket interface.
Published: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:34:39 UTC
X is giving/gave a keynote titled ‘’.Laura gave a keynote titled ‘Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice. Visit the Nordic.design event website.
Published: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:16:23 UTC+01:00
Last week, I bought a refurbished 7-year-old ThinkPad 440p so I could test Site.js under Windows. Long story short, Windows is still shit.
Published: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:14:22 UTC+01:00
About a month ago, Aral and I launched Small Technology Foundation.
Published: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:12:30 UTC+01:00
Over the last five years or so, I’ve been sharing links to insightful articles with a critical view of technology.
Published: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:47:08 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 2nd October 2019, Laura blocked adtech on one site, and blocked five new trackers.
Published: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:13:25 UTC+01:00
A few weeks ago, I chatted to James Jeffrey for a BBC article on Why much of the internet is closed off to blind people.
Published: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:26:02 UTC+01:00
Aral took part on a panel on Human/Body/Rights. Visit the Reading Bodies! Cruising Corpoliteracy in Arts, Education and Everyday Life event website.
Published: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:26:02 UTC+01:00
Laura gave a talk titled ‘Accessibility For Everyone’. Visit the State Of The Browser 2019 event website.
Published: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:47:13 UTC+01:00
Today, Laura and I want to introduce you to Small Technology Foundation, where we will be continuing the work we started at Ind.ie five years ago. Read 'Introducing Small Technology Foundation, Site.j
Published: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:57:10 UTC+01:00
Aral gave the opening keynote. Visit the UX Australia event website.
Published: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:42:57 UTC+01:00
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Published: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:44:28 UTC+01:00
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Published: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:43:25 UTC+01:00
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Published: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:39:44 UTC+01:00
Rough design system This page should contain all the markdown/HTML elements and common components/partials used on the site.
Published: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:03:02 UTC+01:00
Laura presented a keynote titled ‘Accessibility For Everyone’. Visit the Loupe 2019 event website.
Published: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:38:02 UTC+02:00
This summer/autumn, I’m speaking at conferences in Amsterdam, London and Edinburgh.
Published: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:36:02 UTC+02:00
I wrote a little essay for Smashing Print #1: Ethics & Privacy titled ‘This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You.’ It covers different types of tracking and how it came to exist, as well as r
Published: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:56:28 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 5th July 2019, Laura blocked adtech on one site, fixed one site and blocked two new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:58:56 UTC+01:00
Who should you thank for Facebook’s Libra? “One of the UK’s leading privacy researchers” University College London The DECODE project And, if you’re an EU citizen who pays their taxes, -You. Surpris
Published: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:27:37 UTC+01:00
To privacy activists Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag, we don’t need brain implants to become cyborgs; we’re already jacked in.
Published: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:40:45 UTC+01:00
Today, I had the need to experiment with rerunning cloud-init on a virtual machine created with multipass.
Published: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:42:02 UTC+01:00
Research & Development 💕 We’re building the Small Web. In a digital network, public space is not a place; it is the interconnections between individually-owned and controlled places. The Small Web is
Published: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:39:44 UTC+01:00
Contact Us We’re available for speaking engagements and media interviews about our work. How to reach us Via Email Email us at hello@small-tech.org. Fediverse Laura’s Mastodon Aral’s Mastodon Follow
Published: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:28:43 UTC+01:00
Thank you for your one-time donation! We really appreciate your support. Read 'Thank you for your one-time donation!' on .
Published: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:26:11 UTC+01:00
About We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web. Read on to learn more about the foundation, Small Technology, and the Small Web.
Published: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:41:18 UTC+01:00
GitLab CE (the free/open source version of GitLab) has an import issues feature but doesn’t have an export issues feature (because, not enterprise, apparently). So if you fork a project and want to tr
Published: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:30:33 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 15th May 2019, Laura fixed two sites, and blocked four new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Thu, 23 May 2019 17:45:05 UTC
Aral and Laura gave a keynote together, titled ‘Peerocracy.’ Visit the Think About! Conference event website.
Published: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:39:59 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 15th May 2019, Laura fixed two sites, and blocked four new trackers. The rules will auto-update if the app is running.
Published: Sun, 12 May 2019 11:26:55 UTC+01:00
Yesterday, I was interviewed on Al Jazeera news about the Macron-Zuckerberg meeting (Warning: the linked page on Al Jazeera includes privacy-eroding trackers, including Facebook.)1 in which they appar
Published: Thu, 09 May 2019 15:53:10 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 9th May 2019, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, fixed two sites, blocked cookies for one tracker, and blocked seven new trackers. To get the new rules, choose ‘Update rules’ or
Published: Fri, 03 May 2019 17:49:06 UTC+01:00
Laura gave a keynote titled ‘Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice. Visit the From Business To Buttons event website.
Published: Thu, 02 May 2019 11:32:33 UTC+01:00
This is the original English version of an article that I wrote for Issue 32 of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (The German Federal Cultural Foundation) magazine.
Published: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:30:52 UTC+01:00
I just released Indie Web Server version 9.0.0. This is mostly a housekeeping release and nearly all the changes are under the hood. Read 'Indie Web Server 9.0.0: Housekeeping' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:09:19 UTC+01:00
Aral gave a keynote. Visit the EuropaCamp 2019 event website.
Published: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:42:35 UTC+01:00
I just released version 8.2.0 of Indie Web Server.
Published: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:35:58 UTC+01:00
I just released Indie Web Server version 8.1.1 which introduces a reverse proxy feature. Read 'Indie Web Server 8.1.1: Reverse proxy (local mode)' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:35:36 UTC+01:00
In the interests of eating my own hamster food1, I just switched this site from nginx to Indie Web Server. The only complication in the process was that I had to update the hostname of the server to m
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:45:38 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 17th April 2019, Laura blocked first-party adtech on one site and blocked nine new trackers. To get the new rules, open the app on iOS, or choose ‘Update rules’ from the menu on
Published: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:35:06 UTC+01:00
On April 1st (no joke), Indie Web Server 7.1.0 introduced the ability to set up a live static web site in seconds on any server that had Node.js installed. Read 'Set up a live static personal web site
Published: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 10:09:26 UTC
Aral presented for the motion “Enterpreneurs Today Do More Harm Than Good.” Visit the Straits Times Education Forum event website.
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:48:35 UTC+01:00
You have: a VPS with a domain name pointing to it and Node.js installed. You want: to deploy a secure, live static site. You do: npm i -g @ind.ie/web-server && web-server --live Hit your domain name i
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:31:37 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 1st April 2019, Laura blocked three blocker blockers, fixed one site, and blocked four new trackers. To get the new rules, open the app on iOS, or choose ‘Update rules’ from the
Published: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:45:34 UTC+01:00
What if links never died? What if we never broke the Web? What if it didn’t involve any extra work? It’s possible.
Published: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:46:58 UTC+01:00
I just released Indie Web Server version 6.3.0 with new default 404 and 500 error pages and support for custom ones. Read 'Custom error pages for Indie Web Server' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:43:54 UTC+01:00
In April, I will be speaking at two events, starting with The Straits Times Education Forum debate on entrepreneurship to be held at Singapore Management University on April 6th, 2019. Read 'Upcoming
Published: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:02:28 UTC
Aral gave the closing keynote. Visit the CPH:DOX event website.
Published: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:15:38 UTC
Aral gave the closing keynote. Visit the Grand Barouf Numérique event website.
Published: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:29:02 UTC
I just recorded a short video demonstrating just how simple and seamless Indie Web Server really is. Read 'Introducing Indie Web Server (video)' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:53:26 UTC
New blocking rules! On 13th March 2019, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, and fixed two sites. To get the new rules, choose ‘Update rules’ or ‘Check again now’ from Better’s menu. Read 'Better Blocki
Published: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:25:39 UTC
In GNOME, you can only set one key binding for a given action using the Settings app (under Devices → Keyboard) even though the settings data structure itself accepts an array. You can, however, set m
Published: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:55:46 UTC
Indie Web Server is a secure and seamless Small Tech personal web server. Read 'Indie Web Server' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:48:04 UTC
I’m giving two talks this month; at Le Grand Barouf Numérique in Lille, France on the 20th and at the Art, Technology, and Change conference at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film F
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:47:52 UTC
HTTPS Server is a development server that uses nodecert to automatically provision and use locally-trusted TLS certificates. Read 'HTTPS Server' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:47:45 UTC
Nodecert is a Node.js module and command-line tool that automatically provisions locally-trusted TLS certificates for your development environment using mkcert. Read 'Nodecert' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:11:49 UTC
New blocking rules! On 6th March 2019, Laura blocked two blocker blockers, fixed one site, and blocked seven new trackers. To get the new rules, choose ‘Update rules’ or ‘Check again now’ from Better’
Published: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:47:38 UTC
The antidote to Big Tech is Small Tech. Big Tech, with its billion-dollar unicorns, has robbed us of the potential of the Internet.
Published: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:51:56 UTC
New blocking rules! On 21st February 2019, Laura blocked one blocker blocker, fixed one site, and blocked four new trackers. Read 'Better Blocking Rules Update 21st February 2019' on the Better site.
Published: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:54:47 UTC
This is a work-in-progress glossary of terms for Hypha. Read 'Hypha Glossary' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:01:17 UTC
Given the levels of institutional corruption in academia and in the regulatory bodies and advocacy institutions that should be protecting our privacy, very few things shock me these days.
Published: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:59:21 UTC
The first era of general computing was the mainframe era and it was centralised.
Published: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:50:27 UTC
Following on from Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 2 this spike aims to: Use persistent storage Evolve the sign up / sign in processes accordingly Read 'Hypha Spike: Persistence 1' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:52:39 UTC
In this episode Laura and Liz discuss Ethical brand design Toxic technology and dark patterns The need for tech industry diversity. Accessibility and inclusivity. How we can be more ethical as design
Published: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:39:23 UTC
New blocking rules! On 2nd February 2019, Laura fixed one broken site, blocked a blocker blocker on another site, and adtech on a third site. To get the new rules, open the app on iOS, or choose ‘Upda
Published: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:18:27 UTC
Following on from Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 1 this spike aims to: Simplify the node authorisation flow to a simple authorisation alert on already-authorised nodes. Read 'Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 2' o
Published: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:46:04 UTC
Laura gave a talk. Visit the Aracon 2019 event website.
Published: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:49:40 UTC
Following on from Hypha Spike: WebRTC 1 and Hypha Spike: DAT 1, this spike aims to explore: Explore the current state of multiwriter in the DAT world. Read 'Hypha Spike: Multiwriter 1' on Aral’s blo
Published: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:47:14 UTC
We are seeing more and more organisations starting to talk about ethical design.
Published: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:26:38 UTC
Laura was on a panel. Visit the Designing For Tomorrow event website.
Published: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:49:40 UTC
Following on from (and in conjunction with) the Hypha Spike: DAT 1, this spike aims to: Replicate a hypercore from browser-to-browser using WebRTC. Read 'Hypha Spike: WebRTC 1' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:49:40 UTC
Pulled out from Hypha Spike: DAT 1. Use Diceware for passphrase generation to ensure a high-entropy process. Use budo in the spikes to enable lightweight use of bundling/modules/etc. Read 'Hypha
Published: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:54:28 UTC
Following on from Hypha Spike: Diceware, this spike aims to explore: Creating an in-browser DAT data store using the keys generated in the previous spike Replicating that datastore over a web socket
Published: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:58:22 UTC
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong.
Published: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:56:40 UTC
Your identity – your self – is a sharded aggregate of information.
Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:01:11 UTC
Independent technology – ethical technology – must be as accessible as possible for its intended audience at every step of the process.
Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:01:11 UTC
Own and control your own identifiers. No privileged nodes. Effortlessly own and control your own always-on node on the Internet. Read 'Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:01:11 UTC
Hypha is an exploration of what personal technology means in the digital/networked age.
Published: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:14:03 UTC
Wait, what, we’re deploying Hypha – but we haven’t even built it yet?! Exactly. Read 'Hypha Spike: Deployment 1' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:17:42 UTC
Green Recorder is an app for recording your screen on Linux which, as far as I know, is the only such app at the moment that works with Wayland.
Published: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:16:24 UTC
I did a live interview on Al Jazeera News today on France pushing forward alone with a new tax on big tech companies. Read 'Al Jazeera News interview: French “tech tax”' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:19:23 UTC
Over the holidays, I found a Chromebook that Samsung had given me to evaluate about six years ago and which had been gathering dust ever since.
Published: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:21:33 UTC
I like the idea of a tiling window manager like i3 (or i3-gaps, or sway) not necessarily because of their lightweight nature when compared to a fully-fledged desktop environment like GNOME but because
Published: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 15:23:56 UTC
Hypha is not about building a single product.
Published: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:11:54 UTC
Kappa Architecture Workshop is an excellent online resource by Stephen Whitmore (of Cabal fame), Mathias Buus (one of the cornerstones of the DAT Project), et al., that gives you an introduction to Ka
Published: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:10:27 UTC
If you’re using the excellent Tilix terminal with the wonderful zsh shell (in my case, via oh-my-zsh), you might notice that opening a new session (e.g., splitting your current session vertically or h
Published: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:49:28 UTC
Recently, I recorded a video on surveillance capitalism with BBC Ideas. You can watch the video on the BBC Ideas web site and you can also embed it on your own site, as shown above… But what happens w
Published: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:47:50 UTC
New blocking rules! On 12th December 2018, Laura fixed two broken sites, blocked anti-tracking adtech on two sites, and blocked six new trackers. Read 'Better Blocking Rules Update 12th December 2018'
Published: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:44:31 UTC
New blocking rules! Laura fixed one broken site, blocked one blocker blocker, and blocked twenty-seven new trackers. To get the latest rules, select ‘Update rules’ from the menu in the Better app. Rea
Published: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:36:40 UTC
Five years ago, when I decided to devote myself to tackling the problem of surveillance capitalism, it was clear what we needed: convenient and beautiful ethical everyday things that provide seamless
Published: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:25:22 UTC
No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo.
Published: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:13:25 UTC
New blocking rules! On 30th November 2018 Laura fixed three broken sites, blocked first-party targeted ads on three sites, and blocked fourteen new trackers. Read 'Better Blocking Rules Update 30th No
Published: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:53:00 UTC
‘Facebook is accused of undermining democratic institutions, but its CEO fails to face up to MPs at a hearing in London.’ Al Jazeera Inside Story featuring @aral. Read 'Can Facebook be forced to compl
Published: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:26:00 UTC
New blocking rules! On 23rd November 2018 Laura fixed seven broken sites, blocked three blocker blockers, and blocked twenty-three new trackers. To get the new rules, open the app on iOS, or choose ‘U
Published: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:44:07 UTC
Aral gave a dinner speech. Visit the Nordic Privacy Arena event website.
Published: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:18:12 UTC
The pushed the 1.0.6 release of Gnomit, my little git commit message editor for Linux, to the Flathub GitHub repo about two weeks ago but I’m only writing about it now as there was a delay with the up
Published: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:16:48 UTC
Laura and I are happy to announce that Better Blocker version 2018.2 is now available for purchase for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on the App Store and Mac App Store. Read 'Better Blocker 2018.2 release for
Published: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:50:27 UTC
Ads are the traditional funding source for social platforms; they take users' personal data and serve it to advertisers who want their ads to reach a specific audience.
Published: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:23:05 UTC
New blocking rules! On 3rd November 2018, Laura fixed seven broken sites, blocked four blocker blockers, and blocked twenty-six new trackers. To get the new rules, open the app on iOS, or choose ‘Upda
Published: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:02:08 UTC
I was supposed to be back in Cork right now but instead I’m staying an extra night in Paris and it’s all because I was using my Linux machine instead of my Mac at the airport… Read 'With this amazing
Published: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:58:56 UTC
One thing I find myself always having to look up is how to display version information in Linux.
Published: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:43:43 UTC+01:00
Aral gave a keynote. Visit the Blend Web Mix event website.
Published: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:57:31 UTC+01:00
New blocking rules! On 22nd October 2018, Laura fixed four broken sites, blocked six blocker blockers, and blocked six new trackers. Read 'Better Blocking Rules Update 22nd October 2018' on the Ind.ie
Published: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:54:19 UTC+01:00
In this episode we get to speak with Laura Kalbag: Author, Co-Founder and Designer at Indie.
Published: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:56:49 UTC
There’s a new version of Gnomit, my little commit message editor for Linux, thanks to the initiative of Sergey Bugaev who sent me a patch a few weeks ago. Read 'Gnomit 1.0.4' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:00:08 UTC+01:00
In this opinion piece, activist Aral Balkan says we’re living in a world where data companies have become factory farms for human beings. Read 'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia' on B
Published: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:10:31 UTC+01:00
Firmware upgrades were failing for me on my Dell XPS 13… A little online research led to me to a page on Debugging UEFI Capsule updates, which in turn suggested that I try the latest fwupdate from mas
Published: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:13:08 UTC+01:00
The unfortunately-named Hiawatha web server with its problematic logo is an independent, non-commercial, free and open web server built by Dutchman Hugo Leisink as a hobby project for the last 15 year
Published: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:55:31 UTC+01:00
Laura and I want to thank those of you who purchased Better Blocker last week.
Published: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:10:33 UTC+01:00
Today, we complete the roll out of the new design with the launch of the new Better Blocker for macOS.
Published: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:10:09 UTC+01:00
Better Blocker for iOS 12 is now available on the App Store. Better Blocker is our content blocker for iOS and macOS that protects you from privacy-eroding surveillance-based behavioural advertising (
Published: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:16:08 UTC+01:00
We’ve made the app simpler, easier to use, and just as effective as before. We’ve also made the app more affordable at $0.99, £0.99, €1.09—we want more folks to be protected on the web. Read 'Better f
Published: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:14:04 UTC+01:00
To open a window and make it appear on top of other windows on macOS, you can do the following: myWindow.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true) This works to show the window
Published: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:14:22 UTC+01:00
The iOS 12 version of Better is currently in review with a status of Metadata Rejected and I blame responsive design. Let me explain. Read 'Responsive design got my app rejected' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:14:36 UTC+01:00
Two weeks ago, in Better Blocker: two year review and thoughts on the future, I wrote that I was going to “radically simplify” the Better apps. Today, I submitted a radical redesign of Better Blocker
Published: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:15:40 UTC+01:00
Privacy Version 2021.1, as published on 17th June, 2021. We exist to protect your privacy. Our privacy policy is simple (and will stay that way).
Published: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 17:04:26 UTC+01:00
This post is a follow-up to What’s wrong with Twitter?. Mastodon started out as a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but has evolved with more features that show an ethical, progressive and in
Published: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 17:04:13 UTC+01:00
A couple of weeks ago I posted a quick note mentioning I now have my own Mastodon instance.
Published: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:50:21 UTC+01:00
One of the many cool features of Mastodon is that you can create custom emoji for your instances which can be duplicated and adopted by other instances.
Published: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:56:42 UTC+01:00
I was recently featured in an episode1 of a technology show called Codice on Italian national television channel Rai 1.
Published: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:25:47 UTC+01:00
TLDR; We now have usable RSS feeds! RSS feed for Ind.ie News (everything: updates and labs) RSS feed for Ind.ie Updates (posts about what we’re doing and why) RSS feed for Ind.ie Labs (more “technica
Published: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:50:58 UTC+01:00
I’m proud of what we’ve achieved with Better so far.
Published: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:57:09 UTC+01:00
stringInstance.length in JavaScript is not Unicode aware. That means, for example, that the following code: "🤓".length Will return 2, not 1. If you want a Unicode-aware string length, use this functio
Published: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:01:22 UTC+01:00
Gnomit, my simple Git commit message editor for Gnome, is now available as a Flatpak bundle. Read 'Gnomit Flatpak bundle' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:59:59 UTC+01:00
Gnomit is a simple Git commit message editor for Gnome, inspired by the excellent Komet app by Mayur Pawashe that I was using on macOS. Read 'Introducing Gnomit: a simple Git commit message editor f
Published: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:14:44 UTC+01:00
I am very happy to tell you that the audiobook of Accessibility For Everyone is now available to buy on Audible. It’s thanks to the hard work of my brother, Sam Kalbag, who single-handedly edited, eng
Published: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:42:46 UTC+01:00
A while back I had a lovely evening chatting with the fabulous Shannon Fisher about Accessibility For Everyone.
Published: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:59:12 UTC+01:00
The Vala Documentation states that the Vala Reference Manual is available in HTML and PDF versions and “is also available for your installed version of Vala as DevHelp from your distribution, such as
Published: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:34:25 UTC+01:00
Aral was interviewed on stage. Visit the Smukfest 2018 event website.
Published: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:26:24 UTC+01:00
If you’re a person who is on Mastodon, you may be interested to know that we now have our own instances for Ind.ie, and I have my own instance for me. Read 'Ind.ie, Better, and Laura on Mastodon' on
Published: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:53:38 UTC+01:00
Just like you can use iCloud calendars on GNU/Linux, you can also synchronise your contacts as iCloud uses an open standard called CardDAV. Read 'Getting your iCloud contacts on GNU/Linux' on Aral’s
Published: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:51:12 UTC+01:00
iCloud isn’t just for your Apple toys. Since iCloud uses an open standard called CalDAV, you can synchronise your calendars to your other devices on other operating systems like GNU/Linux. Read 'Usi
Published: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:55:06 UTC+01:00
Dat is an exciting new technology that enables you to synchronise data privately and in a peer-to-peer fashion.
Published: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:58:28 UTC+01:00
GSConnect is a beautiful shell extension for Gnome Shell that integrates mobile devices that can run KDE Connect (like phones and tablets that run LineageOS) with desktop computers that run Gnome on G
Published: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:56:33 UTC+01:00
A cornerstone of Apple’s approach to seamless design is reflected in a feature they call Continuity.
Published: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:03:14 UTC+01:00
Writing a few blog posts last week, and cross-posting them in various locations, got me thinking about how meta information can be reused.
Published: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:00:45 UTC+01:00
When I wrote about owning and controlling my own content, I talked about trying to keep my “content” in its canonical location on my site, and then syndicating it to social networks and other sites.
Published: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:59:13 UTC+01:00
One of the ultimate goals we have at Ind.ie is owning and controlling our own data.
Published: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:46:06 UTC+01:00
For the last 12 years, my main development machine has been a Mac
Published: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:53:54 UTC+01:00
This was my opening introduction for Futurefest’s “Who Is the Internet For?” debate today in London.
Published: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:11:26 UTC+01:00
I’ve been getting more into blogging again, starting with a series on personal websites, my relationship with my own, and how they are valuable in a world of surveillance capitalism… Read 'Blog seri
Published: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:42:24 UTC+01:00
Aral and Laura participated. Visit the Public Stack Summit event website.
Published: Mon, 28 May 2018 15:09:40 UTC+01:00
On Saturday, we celebrated the victory for Irish people as they repealed the anti-abortion laws.
Published: Wed, 23 May 2018 15:06:25 UTC+01:00
This is the full video and text of my opening intervention at the General Assembly event in Berlin from November of 2017. Read 'My speech at General Assembly in Berlin, November 2017' on Aral’s blog
Published: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:17:36 UTC+01:00
Aral Balkan, digital activist: Yes, I’ve been warning about the dangers of surveillance capitalism and data collection by the likes of Google, Facebook and the entire adtech industry for years.
Published: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:07:37 UTC+01:00
The office planner on the wall features two reminders: “Technosocialism” and “Indienet institute”.
Published: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:52:40 UTC+01:00
${main} Read 'Dynamic Template' on .
Published: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:20:44 UTC+01:00
To kick off, we explore whether our privacy has been compromised by the tech giants whose business models depend on harvesting and monetising our data.
Published: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:51:12 UTC+01:00
This is not a post I ever wanted to write but it’s time to tie up loose ends before starting the new year.
Published: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:05:28 UTC+01:00
It’s been a few years since I wrote something for 24ways, but this year I’m back, making the case for semantic HTML.
Published: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:15:48 UTC+01:00
Speaking over Skype from a coffee shop in Malmö, Sweden, Aral Balkan is advocating a grassroots revolution against the dominance of such supernodes.
Published: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:49:49 UTC+01:00
For the past three years, Laura Kalbag has been writing a book on accessibility
Published: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:23:45 UTC+01:00
For the past four years, and with very limited resources, Laura and I – along with the help of some wonderful people – have been trying to make the Web, the Internet, and technology in general a safer
Published: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:48:31 UTC+01:00
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc) have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and Amber Rudd is asking them to quietly drop end-to-end encryption from the
Published: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 13:46:49 UTC+01:00
The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook.
Published: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:32:04 UTC+01:00
Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlines his vision for a centralised global colony ruled by the Silicon Valley oligarchy.
Published: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:28:31 UTC+01:00
This is the original English version of an op-ed I wrote for Zeit Online. Read 'The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age' on Aral’s blog.
Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:08:57 UTC
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