Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. To recap: Users can freely choose desktop browsers with differing features, search engines, privacy and security attributes, and underlying engines. Party Time!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Our data teams also invest in building more transparency around our security and privacy to support progress in reducing threats and hazards faced by our micro-services or internal stakeholders. Security Events Platform See open source project such as StreamAlert and Siddhi to get some general ideas.

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Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. It is available both as open source and as a commercial version.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Before we get into it, let's make the subtext of the proposal explicit: Libraries provided this way will be as secure and privacy-preserving as every other browser-provided API. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug. Which way should the policy go? Spoiler: it's gnarly. Common Sense #.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity "WebKit couldn't compete if it had to." Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity #. A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 A slightly different UI ? WebKit Is No Charity #.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Misdirections often derail the debate around browsers, the role of the web, and App Store policies on iOS. Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In enterprises, we’ve seen everything from wholesale adoption to policies that severely restrict or even forbid the use of generative AI. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Suz Hinton's talks on WebUSB show the through-line: as the web gets more capable, whole classes of software suddenly benefit from frictionless deployment, increased safety, better privacy, and more meaningful user controls. Together, they make software better. We started down this path with Project Fizz in '14. 15] [16] [17].

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. We might also see the responding to user inputs after load gaining more weight, along with security, privacy and accessibility (!) There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Large preview ). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!” And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Luckily, multiple companies have been working on open-source QUIC and HTTP/3 implementations for over five years now, so we have several mature and stable options to choose from. As such, many firewall vendors currently recommend blocking QUIC until they can update their software.

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