On the OONI blog today is a post looking at Brazil’s recent block of Whatsapp. Another reminder of how much of the average user’s Internet experience has shifted from the web browser to mobile apps.
Links
Seattle Open Data Day
As covered by the CS department blog, and on twitter at #SeaOpenData.
DPRK Intranet
Technology in the DPRK is in the news cycle
again. I’m excited to talk a bit more in depth on what technology in Pyongyang looks like next week at CCC.
Webrtc-Adapter
WebRTC continues to develop towards an evolving standard, requiring some additional leg work to use it in projects. In yet another attempt at bridging that gap, I’ve been working on maintaining an adapter lessening some of the deviation from standard in current browsers.
https://www.npmjs.org/package/webrtc-adapter
It currently fixes
- Response of format of getStats in Chrome
- Translation to ‘url’ from the standard ‘urls’ when configuration is passed to Firefox
- Emission of the ‘negotiationneeded’ event when a data channel is created in Firefox
The main hope is that this will be easier to include in projects than previous attempts.
BBC
DPRK Roundup
I recently answered questions on reddit about spending the fall in Pyongyang. It was really rewarding to get to share the experience with so many interested people.
Business Insider has also publicized a bunch of instagram pictures I took over the fall.