mastodon 4.7.3Founded by @jon@henshaw.social, Coywolf focuses on modern web technologies and online marketing strategies to help technologists and entrepreneurs adapt and thrive in an ever-changing digital landscape.
In a wide-ranging interview with @Gargron@mastodon.social, creator of the decentralized social network @Mastodon@mastodon.social, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why #ActivityPub and #ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the #Fediverse.
Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out.
With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, @signalapp@mastodon.world leadership, @Mer__edith@mastodon.world and Udbhav Tiwari, are sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated.
LinkedIn is a centralized, career-focused social platform that many feel they must be on, whether they like it or not. But what if there was a better way? One that didn't control your feed, that respected your privacy, wasn't full of cringeworthy posts, and was completely open?
https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/what-would-a-linkedin-alternative-look-like-on-the-open-web/
TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS by @nileane@nileane.fr that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines.
The German government's @sovtechfund@mastodon.social has awarded hundreds of thousands of Euros to @Mastodon@mastodon.social to address key infrastructure challenges faced within the fediverse ecosystem.
Why not learn while you also doomscroll? This demonstration of how social media algorithms work is also fun to use.
https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/you-can-now-doom-scroll-wikipedia/
Google's AI Overviews, AI Mode, and other AI search results will start returning more links to sites relevant to queries and chat prompts.
https://coywolf.com/news/seo/google-ai-search-experiences-will-soon-show-more-open-web-links/
Google says AI agents only need well-coded semantic HTML, good accessibility, and clean rendering to comprehend and interact with sites.
Managing apps and services on macOS with the command-line interface (CLI) tool Homebrew just got a lot easier with Taphouse, a graphical user interface (GUI) for the popular package manager.
https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/homebrew-gets-gui-with-taphouse/
@Mastodon@mastodon.social now has an official share button for sites
https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-now-has-an-official-share-button-for-sites/
Customers of Fathom Analytics can now connect to and associate Google Search Console data with their sites, and report on Google referrer data directly in their dashboard.
Google is adding the next-gen JXL image format back to Chrome after controversially removing it in 2022. Will re-adding it breathe new life into the format, or is it too late?
https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/jpeg-xl-jxl-is-coming-back-to-chrome/
There's finally a device that securely connects all your devices to your home internet while traveling, without configuring a VPN.
All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript.
AISI research shows that AI can assist with basic tasks in the workplace but falls short on tasks that require higher-order thinking.
https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/new-study-reveals-where-ai-excels-and-fails-in-the-workplace/
Why Claude has @jon@henshaw.social's attention
https://coywolf.com/newsletter/why-claude-has-my-attention/
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@joost@joost.net announced that FAIR will no longer focus on WordPress and will instead invest its resources in TYPO3. Those who no longer want to use FAIR's connector plugin but still want the feature that serves avatars locally rather than from Gravatar can do so with a new standalone plugin.
ReportGarden sold its analytics platform, Gauges, to Fathom Analytics. Fathom will leverage its experience in creating a GA4 importer to migrate Gauges' historical site data to its real-time, privacy-first analytics platform, providing Gauges' customers with a viable path forward.
https://coywolf.com/news/startups/exclusive-fathom-analytics-acquires-gauges-from-reportgarden/
After the Publishing Maintenance Working Group surveyed publishers, tool developers, reading system developers, independent authors, ebook retailers, social DRM providers, conversion vendors, distributors, and readers, they determined that adding HTML to EPUB was too challenging for now.
https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/epub-wont-support-html-anytime-soon-and-heres-why/
@signalapp@mastodon.world announced a new feature allowing people to transfer messages and media from the last 45 days to new devices.
https://www.coywolf.news/social/signal-adds-the-option-to-transfer-messages-to-new-devices/
The latest version of Google's Chrome browser improves navigation management for progressive web apps (PWAs), and installed apps are now more visible in the address bar.