Daily Tech News 25 November 2024

• RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header. (5SNB)
  
  An idea whose time has come.

  Over the last 50 years, advancements in peripherals have allowed websites to stab users. A number of industries have popped up to provide SaaS (Stabbings as a Service). Some users have expressed discomfort when a knife is plunged into their chest, and this header allows those users to express their personal preferences.

  A user preference can, of course, be ignored by bad actors. However, most stabbings are not done by malicious actors, they are simply law-abiding companies which will gladly stop stabbing you if you ask. This standard provides a method for a user to easily opt-out of all stabbings, except those mandated by law, and ones that the company wants to do anyways.

  Seems entirely fair. Who could possibly object to this?

  Syntax

  The header has only one form, Do-Not-Stab: 1. This is because the lack of a header indicates a clear preference that the user wants to be stabbed.

  Understandable.

  Defaults

  A user-agent MUST NOT adopt Do-Not-Stab: 1 as the default preference. If a user-agent were to do this, web services SHOULD ignore the preference and stab the user anyways.

  This is of course a parody of... Well, pretty much everything the big tech companies do these days.
  
  Or is it?

   

   

• This website is hosted on Bluesky. (Daniel Mangum)
  
  Well, not this one. And not the one linked above, either. But the one linked in the article linked above.
  
  I mean, sort of. It requires jumping through several flaming hoops and is entirely pointless, but... Not sure there is a but.
  
  
  
• Outlandish recursive query examples with SQLite. (SQLite)
  
  Like solving Sudoku with a database query. Or plotting the Mandelbrot set... With a database query.
  
  
  
• Yes, we seem to have run out of tech news.

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