Standards

7.5: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Four Great Things We Take for Granted and Ought to Fight to Keep

In these dark times of (American) political backsliding/the general rise of fascism in the Global North, Ariel and Christina consider four things that we'd made great progress on, to the point of taking those achievements for granted. Let's take the time to acknowledge them and the danger we are in of losing them. Because how can we fight for what we don't recognize as being incredible yet fragile?

PS: We definitely didn't plan on this coming out on the day of the Canadian federal election, but so it goes. Go forth and fight the fascists at the ballot box, friends.

https://youtu.be/ryWvBAUElik

Somalia's Oil Ministry Launches Initiative to Ensure Fuel Quality Standards #Somalia #WestAfrica #Ensure #fuel #initiative #launches #Ministry #oil #quality #Somalias #Standards 
https://tinyurl.com/27wqbkcj

I agree with The Substack Post that a new #media order is emerging: "Many #publishers thriving on #Substack cut their teeth in #LegacyMedia, & they are carrying forward those values & #journalistic #standards. Others [are] from outside, bringing fresh #perspectives & #insight." https://tinyurl.com/bd3a4tyr

13 core principles to strengthen AI cybersecurity https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/25/etsi-ts-104-223-securing-ai/ #Artificialintelligence #securitystandard #framework #standards #News #ETSI

Delighted to see that the #SWHID standard from @swheritage has been confirmed as ISO/IEC 18670:2025 - many congratulations to the team!

This is very significant as it means we can now reference SWHID within #CRA harmonised standards.

And of course ISO wants money for it despite it being created and contributed freely.
https://www.iso.org/standard/89985.html

#WorldBookDay

"#War #Manifesto On #Compliance Frameworks:

Turning #Protocols, #Regulations & #Standards Into Monetization Weapons

(#BaselIII, #CCPA, #Dodd-Frank, #ESG, #GDPR, #HIPAA, #HITECH, #IATF16949, #IEC/ISO #9001/#14001/#27001/#45001, #NIST, #PCI #DSS, #SOC 1/2/3, #SOX & All Other Current/Future #Frameworks)"

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Why Standards Matter More Today: From Fear of Lock-In to Foundations for Choice
Looking Back to Look Forward
https://myfear.substack.com/p/why-standards-matter-more-today-from
#Java #Standards #AIML #MicroProfile #JakartaEE

Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that's been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him @djb .

If you're not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it's a must-read.

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html

My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.

Again.

Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).

Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST's current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.

[1] Some people think djb is "prickly", not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time

Mastering HTML: The Art of Minimal and Valid Code in Professional Web Development (AI Edition), by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:

https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2025/mastering-html-the-art-of-minimal-and-valid-code-in-professional-web-development/

Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications, by @npdoty and @tomrittervg (@w3c):

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-fingerprinting-guidance-20250321/

#War #Manifesto #Update:

Continuing my post—https://mastodon.social/@drhermansjr/114248960087077493.

Not much time left to get the #FREE 1hr, 1-on-1 session with me for all pre-sales of my 11th book before launch late #April.

Get the free session at https://ko-fi.com/s/0727fa33a1, to #destory & #rebuild all #compliance #regulation #governance #protocols #standards into #monetization #powers.

Welcome to the W3C's new "Exploration Interest Group" - where #standards are born and immediately put on life support! Instead of exploring space, let's explore the labyrinth of committees and acronyms that somehow make the web slower and heavier.
https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/join-the-w3c-exploration-interest-group-where-standards-start/ #W3C #Exploration #WebDevelopment #TechNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/join-the-w3c-exploration-interest-group-where-standards-start/

Ignoring Quality will be detrimental to a business as it will allow and cause a lack of standards to be met against the client/customer needs. #quality #ignore #business #customerservice #standards

@timbray on #URI schemes of the #Fediverse (and #BlueSky).

If he writes good pieces like that, we rather should listen and probably implement his suggestions as they are great!

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes

For the first issue (not being able to directly interact with a toot although web-logged-in), you can use browser add-ons like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon4-redirect/ that redirect fediverse-links to your instance.