Nick Doty / is on Nostr

I fight for human rights online. I work on technical standards. I like wildflowers. I take public transit.

previously:
@npdoty@twitter.com (2007-2016),
@npd (2017-2023)

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2024-09-26 01:36:10

W3C is celebrating 30 years of the Consortium and standard-setting for the Web.
#w3ctpac
Livestream here: https://www.w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/w3c-30.html#memento
I'll speak as briefly as I can on human rights in Web standards.

2024-06-14 15:20:52

Referring to adding a new token to your `robots.txt` as an "opt-out" is strange. Opting out generally means an ability to withdraw participation. But I haven't heard any generative AI training company suggest that they'll delete the data they crawled and update their models to make sure they're no longer using that content for inferences.
From a copyright -- and much more importantly, privacy -- perspective, does "we already trained on your data and will never forget it", seem like opting out?

2024-06-11 21:13:03

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@npub102v…jtrj CityMapper has mixed routing options. I've mostly seen that for either before or after a transit leg rather than both (bike to the station and then take the Metro; or, take the Metro and then rent a scooter).

2023-12-08 16:36:58

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1c98…dnw0 describes that as an urban legend, but it has always seemed so explicit and obvious a reference to me, that I've taught it in lectures.

2023-10-13 15:20:15

@npub19mz…d86c the first statement on passkeys.dev says "passkeys use your fingerprint or other biometric to log you into your websites", but that doesn't appear to be universally true.
(I just logged in for the first time with a passkey created by 1Password, which required me to authenticate with my passphrase, but without a biometric.)