Peter Krautzberger

Never betting against the web.

IE on ARIA WG
used to work for MathJax
runs mathblogging.org & BoolesRings.org

home: https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/contact/
work: https://www.krautzource.com

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2026-09-30 06:59:26 GMT

laber, laber ... LLM
(PS https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemanit#Dehydratation)
https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/117353960567676618
#note1nq5…ljpy

2026-09-30 06:24:49 GMT

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finally listened to it. Good stuff. And the paradoxical last two lines just cracked me up. 😆

2026-09-24 17:32:28 GMT

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uff. I remember interacting with Steel when I was working for MathJax. It was always a friendly and productive exchange.

2026-09-15 08:45:59 GMT

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making video previews is not easy either 🫣
https://bonn.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/274/171/923/523/649/original/1af39bf4583799c3.png

2026-09-13 14:40:35 GMT

@npub1hr7…jxyc would you happen to have a recommendation for software to salvage damaged graphics files (photos)?

2026-08-30 11:03:52 GMT

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as always, thank you for sharing your perspective. I hope one day, Europe is an option - but I suspect we first need to fix the EU.

2026-07-20 10:54:27 GMT

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woohoo! I would love to hear more!

2026-07-08 14:20:35 GMT

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I haven't written this in a long while so: thank you for sharing so many interesting links, Baldur!

2026-07-01 10:27:32 GMT

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FYI the same is true for my work machine (which is running linux).

2026-07-01 10:25:01 GMT

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I gave it a spin on FF 152, macos 26.5.1
I did have the fallback emoji font work ok. When I disabled the `font-varian-emoji: emoji` declaration. I did get blanks.
According to the dev tools fonts tab, it was using Apple Emoji font. Curiously, when I had disabled font-variant-emoji, dev tools said it was using the Arr font.
The network tab said the fonts arrived as application/octet-stream instead of font/woff2. Maybe that's a place to continue.

2026-07-01 08:22:16 GMT

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sounds like it's not a PUA situation. You don't happen to have reproducible test to share?
@npub1agr…9xth @npub1gly…x4dg

2026-06-30 13:52:51 GMT

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If the font doesn't show up there, then firefox is unable to use it (whether because of a font bug or a firefox bug, I don't know). If it shows up, then it's maybe a rendering bug.
Ugh I'm not actually helping, am I. Sorry for the noise!

2026-06-30 13:49:10 GMT

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in the tab panel where you have layout and computed styles there's a (frequently hidden by overflow) tab "fonts" which shows you all the fonts used in an element's text content.
https://bonn.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/839/369/528/382/506/original/71511afed65ced77.png

2026-06-30 13:18:34 GMT

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😅 never.
The PUAs are unicode ranges that are left undefined forever. They can be used for things that are not (to be)standardized. Like company-specific letter-like material.
But I looked up examples in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#Vendor_use and Apple has a whopping 1280 characters specified there.
Anyway, sounds more like a simple bug or maybe font variant shenanigans. Do the dev tools indicate if the custom font is used in the page?

2026-06-30 10:45:49 GMT

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did the font file store the custom emoji in the unicode private use area? [Edit: sorry, I overlooked that it's FF+MacOs specific]

2026-05-15 14:53:46 GMT

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"like my ancestor Auður Djúpúðga who were Christian a century before the rest [in the year 1000]"
@npub1hr7…jxyc what a flex! 😆

2026-03-20 07:53:46 GMT

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apologies for the drive-by reply.
In German, "offenbar" can also mean "obvious" https://dict.leo.org/german-english/offenbar

2026-03-09 08:36:23 GMT

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right. I don't know enough about current PWA capabilities. Super hacky idea: the PWA could (offer an opt-in to) change all links to web share API calls.

2026-03-09 08:17:04 GMT

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just to check: you don't mean one-off workarounds for users, right? (E.g. how on Android you can tap&hold on a link to get a context menu that offers 'open in chrome".)

2026-03-05 11:13:48 GMT

@npub1hr7…jxyc random question. Have you come across anything discussing the potential for de-anonymizing LLM users from whatever info providers retain?

2026-02-24 15:47:41 GMT

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and the thread.

2026-02-24 15:47:25 GMT

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totally understand (and did the same). But... did you notice that he's on the list?

2026-02-24 15:40:35 GMT

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did you check read2.0? 🫣

2026-01-29 08:42:58 GMT

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I liked this one a lot. Thank you!

2025-12-05 20:50:07 GMT

Look what the algorithm dragged in, it's @npub1hr7…jxyc !
https://youtube.com/shorts/YRI-2hhrisA?si=-9GjR3U2rOKsneU7

2025-11-13 08:17:40 GMT

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that's a terrific collection (primarily in the original sense of terrific).

2025-11-05 12:39:58 GMT

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ooh, interesting. What's the html/css quality like?

2025-10-31 12:58:36 GMT

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and obvs I didn't flinch at the Foucault&Derrida references.

2025-10-31 12:27:09 GMT

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speaking of channels. I have newsletter, rss, and mastodon so I don't miss it / to remind me. I read your writing in my rss reader, and comment here.

2025-10-31 12:24:03 GMT

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Feeling insulted by @npub1hr7…jxyc that I wouldn't have gotten idéfix. 🥸
He's right though. 🤣

2025-09-30 10:16:53 GMT

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I had expected "and bugs attract software developers" 🫣

2025-04-28 08:40:40 GMT

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this quote resonated with me
> It’s way less a way to solve problems than a way to keep busy feeling like you are working on a problem while doing something else.
Apropos nothing. The other day I saw someone around here describing how strava's AI feature reported a new personal best. They happened to know that that was incorrect and they could confirm that in strava itself. Then they described how this notification made them feel good despite that.

2025-04-22 15:03:34 GMT

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I'm going to guess that it's also even worse for Icelandic than it is for German?

2025-02-18 15:31:06 GMT

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they look wonderful!

2025-01-29 10:40:36 GMT

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meanwhile in Germany, the head of the government office for "jump innovation" tells me that, supposedly, Europe has 5-10 models that _just_ need a bit funding to scale up - but alas the VCs are not giving them funding so the government should.
My "favorite" part is he prefers calling new models supernovas - without any irony of course.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/deepseek-nutzen-und-risiko-klar-interview-m-rafael-laguna-de-la-vera-sprind-100.html
(German public radio this morning; should get a German transcript at least, eventually)

2024-09-29 16:02:17 GMT

Goddammit, now @npub1hr7…jxyc is making movie recommendations as well?!?! There are only 24h in a day, dude. I have a life, you know.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/newish-movies/

2024-09-15 12:34:46 GMT

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I had to
search again but I'm pretty sure I ended up following
https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html
since both devices were on their list https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html

2024-09-14 13:30:39 GMT

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I loved the idea way back when but no more chromeos in my life has been goooood.
Last year, I took two out-of-updates chromebooks and put ubuntu on one (for a family member) and batocera on the other. Much better 😉 Besides, removing the bios write protection screws and flashing them felt so 90s.
I also moved an older family member (from one of those) to a cheap-ass HP laptop with ubuntu+chrome on it. They barely noticed the difference.

2024-09-08 15:47:50 GMT

TFW energy saving mode kicks in, triggering dark mode, clearing input fields.
On the other hand, I won't retype my spurious comment to one of @npub1hr7…jxyc 's toots so I should probably thank it.

2024-09-02 11:43:00 GMT

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ugh. This doesn't feel like it was very hypothetical for you.😔

2024-08-23 08:29:20 GMT

@npub1hr7…jxyc random question but have you ever come across an epub reading system that had a back button of some kind? (I.e., something to go back to the original position after clicking a link within a book.)

2024-08-12 14:09:25 GMT

@npub1hr7…jxyc I've been meaning to ask: is it intentional that blockquote>p has a larger font-size than article>p on very wide viewports but a smaller font-size on small ones?
It always confuses me visually, when I read your stuff on a large display.

2024-06-20 11:37:52 GMT

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I also see the "self-eradication" of some developers (outside the mainstream), trying LLMs instead of learning, thus producing even more outdated (& unmaintainable) CSS.
I actually wished we had slower feature rollouts on the web (slower-but-simultaneous across engines). But I also wished we could do something about the long tail of engine updates.
On a related note: I just removed an instance of @supports (display: flex) from a code base at work 😉

2024-04-11 11:11:27 GMT

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well I had just deleted that but I almost want to read it (but won't 😆)

2024-04-03 16:17:33 GMT

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I can't figure out why I'm not unsubscribing. It seems to only have bizarro debates nowadays. And yet, I'm not. Not sure what's wrong with me. 😦