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Chris puts on a Brave face about Google's AMP project, Ned adopts a basset hound and names it Istio, and we all get progressively more confused about VMware and SD cards.
Show Notes
Poised for Data Dominance
Episode: 7 Published: 05/03/2022
Look I don’t know how much of this AI-enhanced microwave called Magnetron story is true, and how much is theatre. And frankly, I don’t give a damn. Go feed your eyeballs and top up your mirth meter.
Stories
Google AMP sucks, and a LOT of people are trying to ditch it
NED: Good god man, I thought you told me no one reads the show notes. Why did you put so many links?
CHRIS: Because Bratwurst.
NED: Bratwurst? What the? How does..? OH. I GET IT. LINKS.
CHRIS: Any more stupid questions?
NED: [SIGH] No.
CHRIS: Then get back to scrubbing.
Links:
- 2015 was the prime time to do it, as average phone data speeds around that time were abysmal
- A 16-state lawsuit claiming antitrust violations by google
- A number of web content producers including Vox and BuzzFeed are thinking of ditching AMP completely
- Brave put out a blog post that said AMP is “harmful to privacy”
- In 2020 Brave threw a complaint into the EU���s court
- Google getting sued for stacking the deck in favor of it���s own Google Shopping product
- DuckDuckGo browser apps will convert any AMP links to the original publisher���s webpage before being displayed
- Also it���s worth noting that DDG has a privacy plugin
- Google is working on a new user tracking system called FLoC
- FLoC is so hip, it even has a github page
- There is significant concern around FLoC, as the EFF helpfully points out
- The famous example of Target knowing the state of a pregnancy based only on purchase patterns alone
- Mozilla evaluated FLoC when it was announced, and determined it was wanting
- Web sites have rejected access to applications based on the browser being used
- There is a humorous history of the user-agent string
Lightning Round
- Speaking of terrible browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer is still a thing, until June 15
- Atlassian Provides Exhaustive Summary of Incident
- VMWare clarifies the ESXi boot-from-SD card situation for the millionth time
- Couldn���t have happened to a nicer fella
- Pixel watch prototype ���found��� by review site. It seems .. fine?
- Istio to join the CNCF (finally!)
The Elon Addendum
Elon continues to be a very silly man who has no idea what he���s talking about, but cannot seem to stop talking. Perhaps if he did, he���d actually have to think about what his words mean. And therein lies madness. Tech Crunch continues on their streak of calling out Elon���s bullshit.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
