09 Mar 2025

Pro tips: links for 9 March 2025

Jason Lefkowitz cövers höw to set up the Cømpose key (and make everything you type awesöme™), in Make special characters stupid easy: meet the compose key

switching.software offers Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software

Pro tip: avoid generative AI images in blog posts (even if your CMS says you should have one for SEO purposes) unless you want to make a political statement: AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism by Gareth Watkins

Got third-party tracking scripts or pixels on your site? Avoid legal grief, take them off. Caught with Their Hand in the Cookie Jar: CNN’s Privacy Lawsuit is Served Fresh and the Court is Taking a Bite by Blake Landis. (Highest priority is to get rid of the Meta pixel. That’s not just a pro-evil-dictator tattoo for your web site, it’s really easy for lawyers to check for.)

Add data poisoning for AI scrapers hitting your GitHub Pages site: Trapping AI from the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG)

Got a small business? Like riding bikes? Relocating to the Netherlands with DAFT

If you need an integer and all you have is four 2s, Eli Bendersky has some math advice: Making any integer with four 2s

Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep (Part of the Mozilla Monitor Plus service. Protip: check Have I Been Pwned directly)

Why you need a radio (yes, you!) by Audrey Eschright

The Linux kernel project can’t use code from sanctioned countries. Other projects need to check compliance with sanctions, too. US Blocks Open Source ‘Help’ From These Countries by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Jake Archibald covers The case against self-closing tags in HTML (you don’t need <br /> just <br>.

John D. Cook makes rounding numbers much easier (if you use balanced ternary) in A magical land where rounding equals truncation

Understanding the legal issues for small community sites under UK law: #2: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service by Rachel Coldicutt

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