Back in early January I did a talk at PHPSussex about Drupal and a demo of the distribution I work on, LocalGov Drupal.
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Intermission
It’s fair to say 2020 has been a strange year, and a busy one for your blog author. Covid has changed a lot of how we relate to the tech space, more commentary here to follow.
Dot org domain sold
Recent news reports in the last week that the top level domain recognised and used by charities and non profits has been sold to a private equity company. The Internet Society (through Public Interest Registry) have operated the domain since 2003, before that the domain was operated by Versign. They announced the sale on their …
WordPress buying Tumblr
WordPress.com owner Automattic that has last week been reported to purchase rival Microbloging site Tumblr. The deal is being reported to be below $3 Million, far below the hyper valuation of $1.1 Billion that Yahoo paid in 2013. Back then Yahoo was buying lots of start up companies as part of a revitalisation drive by …
Goodbye to DRM eBooks form Microsoft
Did you buy books from Microsofts eBook store, well now you can’t read them anymore. Actually, I wasn’t aware that Microsoft had an eBook store, though this is not surprising as many of the tech companies have been diversifying in the past to try and move into content, and lock you into their platforms. This …
Mozillia an Internet Villain for supporting DNS over HTTPS
An odd story popped up on my social media feed over the weekend. The Internet Services Providers’ Association has nominated Mozilla to be an ‘internet villain.’ This seemed rather odd given that the Firefox web browser is the only mainstream browser currently being developed independently of any company*. Looking closer at their reasoning, ISPA writes: …
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Twitter to now disclose when public figures break the rules
They won’t remove them though… This follows up a post back in 2018, that Twitter would not block world leaders. Whilst not naming a particular politician, I think we all have an idea on who they are referring to, Twitter will hide by default, but not remove tweets which break their rules. From Twitters blog post …
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Microsoft Edge to become Google Chrome based
What could be described as an end to an era, especially to those of use who knew Internet Explorer 6 as all that was, Microsoft announced last week that it changing the underlying component (Rendering Engine) that powers its current web browser, Microsoft Edge, to use the same one used by Google for Chrome. The …
Help, My WordPress editor has changed!
Note: this applies to self hosted version of WordPress, not to the version that uses WordPress.com. Last week, the new version of WordPress was released. After many delays, the self hosted WordPress 5.0 brought the new Gutenberg editor. This has been controversial with a lot of people in the WordPress community. The new editor changes …
Flickr going back to its old subscription model
However for free users this will mean that photos will be deleted. Back in April, Flickr was acquired from Yahoo by Smugmug, this represents a major change in direction for Flickr under them than Yahoo, and a return to Flickrs subscription based roots. Originally, Flickr would let you upload 200 photos on free accounts, then …