๐Ÿ”– Bookmarked: Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube

โ€œYoutube banning security disclosures doesnโ€™t make products more secure, nor will it prevent attackers from exploiting defects โ€” but it will mean that users will be the last to know that theyโ€™ve been trusting the wrong companies, and that developers will keep on making the same stupid mistakesโ€ฆforever.โ€

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarked:

This is really cool, and could be a great Discovery tool. Iโ€™ve had an idea kicking around my head for something similar; a directory of sorts, where sites opt-in via webmention. Any p-category tags in the webmention post would be used to classify the listing in the directory, allowing people to find sites by groupings. Add in some sort of Technorati-style search for an extra layer of power.

Iโ€™m teaching myself Laravel at the momentโ€ฆ this would make a good first project to prototype, I think.

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarked: Social Reading User Interface for Discovery by an author

โ€œI read quite a bit of material online. I save โ€œbookmarksโ€ of all of it on my personal website, sometimes with some additional notes and sometimes even with more explicit annotations. One of the things I feel like Iโ€™m missing from my browser, browser extensions, and/or social feed reader is a social layer overlay that could indicate that people in my social network(s) have read or interacted directly with that page (presuming they make that data openly available.)โ€

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarked: How to move from Chrome to another browser

โ€œDespite some new improvements to user privacy, Googleโ€™s popular Chrome browser has recently been lambasted in some quarters as problematical when it comes to privacy issues. These same articles suggest that if youโ€™re concerned about the security of your data, you should try an alternative browser, such as Firefox, Safari, or Brave.โ€

Make the switch. Iโ€™ve been using Firefox for several months, and I couldnโ€™t go back now.

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarked: Step 4 - Sending Webmentions using Webmention.app and IFTTT

โ€œWeโ€™ve previously enabled our site to receive Webmentions, but what can we do about sending Webmentions to other sites? Much like we use Webmention.io to handle receiving Webmentions, weโ€™re going to use Webmention.app to handle the sending. And the best bit is, we donโ€™t need to make any modifications to our site!โ€

Iโ€™ve added a new article to TextPattern which covers integrating with Remyโ€™s new Webmention.app service to enable sending of Webmentions for sites which donโ€™t have that capability natively.