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🔖 Bookmarked: Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube

“Youtube banning security disclosures doesn’t make products more secure, nor will it prevent attackers from exploiting defects — but it will mean that users will be the last to know that they’ve been trusting the wrong companies, and that developers will keep on making the same stupid mistakes…forever.”

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💬 Replied to: a post

“Which leads me to the question: Is there an easy way to determine the total load size of a webpage (including dependencies / includes like stylesheet images and such)?”

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I use the browser developer tools’ network tab to help determine the size of a page (usually accessed through the F12 key). Disable the cache before reloading, and most will tell you the combined size of every request which makes up the page, and the amount of data sent over the network. You can also (imperfectly) test the page under different network speed conditions if you want.

For example, Firefox says the post I’m replying to comes in at ~796KB, including all resources (uncached). 299KB of that is your header image, and 38KB is the HTML itself. My entire home page was 1.5MB, until I turned off embedding Tweets and Instagram widgets a moment ago. Now it’s around 492KB (but only text). It just goes to show you how much those external resources can pump the size up!

Page weight and excessive resources is something I’ve tried to stay conscious of when developing my site. Previous iterations have been better at this than what it is now – which is pretty far from “heavy” – but I’m still hoping to trim things back further.

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Reposting: Evil Kipper Hobby - Rob on Twitter

“For those curious as to why Lieutenant is pronounced as “Leftenant” in the U.K., it’s down to the early days of printing. ‘U’s and ‘V’s were often printed identically, so Lieu Tenant was pronounced with a V when it was first introduced to the English language.”

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💬 Replied to: IndieWeb Summit 2019

“I had the great pleasure of spending this weekend in Portland, OR for the 2019 IndieWeb Summit. IWS is my favorite event of the year, as it gives me the opportunity to spend time with so many smart, like-minded, principled people who are interested in using technology to make a positive impact on th…”

Thanks for the great write-up!

How did you pull the information for your Following page out of Aperture? I tried looking through the documentaion last night, but couldn’t find anything obvious to point me in the right direction.

Being able to do something similar could help me on a couple of ideas I have floating around my head.

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PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Broadly, my research is concerned with values, labour, and interoperability in communication technologies. My dissertation investigates these features in alternative web infrastructures. I combine qualitative and quantitative methods such as critical making, analysis of digital trace data, and interviews.