• The Google Play Store keeps banning a third-party web browser.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Not because Google hates third-party web browsers, but because this web browser keeps getting hit by nonsensical DMCA takedown notices.
  
  Like it containing "Properties of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc." when you load the Warner Bros. web site.  Which is kind of what a web browser does.
  
  I have a sneaking suspicion why this particular browser is getting hit: It integrates a file explorer, and is called Downloader.

• Just after fixing a security flaw with a severity rating of 9.8, ownCloud has a shiny new security flaw with a severity of 10.  (Ars Technica)
  
  ownCloud is a personal cloud server for individual users.  This is not the new Ubuntu system for businesses that want to run their own cloud solutions - that's called MicroCloud.
  
  
  
• The United Arab Emirates is playing host to the latest round of global climate talks this week.  It is using those talks as a springboard for new oil and gas deals.  (New York Times)  (archive site)
  
  I'm so proud.
  
  
  
• On Black Friday, Shopify averaged a million requests per second, delivering nearly 30 petabytes of data.  (Twitter)
  
  Using Ruby and MySQL.
  
  A lot of Ruby and MySQL, but still.

Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, November 29 2023 11:18 PM (oJgNG)

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 30 2023 12:18 AM (BMUHC)

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