Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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The part that I find is often ignored is that the definition of consensus at w3.org/Consortium/Process#Co… requires support from a substantial number of individuals.
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They're sometimes discussed in charters such as w3.org/2019/05/webapps-chart… , or perhaps implied by provisions on asynchronous decision making in other charters...
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What does "danger zone" mean to the user? Does it mean the web app is just as dangerous as a native app?
If so... doesn't your "I don't trust THEM" then apply?
If not... what's the difference and how do you enforce it?
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The severity of the security concerns can differ by orders of magnitude. The right answer for the most severe ones is almost certainly "don't add the feature". We can argue over where the line is, but I think there has to be a line.
It might not be the case -- but if not -- I think it's up to the proponents of WebUSB to do a proper security analysis of the USB protocol to show that it's not.
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It's not clear to me that that's the case. I'm not an expert on what it's possible for an arbitrary USB device to do to a computer, but it's possible they're pretty close to equivalent, given a USB device with bad security vulnerabilities.
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input type=file is good permission handling -- the user is clearly choosing to give a *particular* file to the site. Yes, they might not understand all of the implications.
Would you consider a USB permission grant enough to give the site access to *any* file on the disk?
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Two underlying problems here:
1. devices might not be hardened to accept arbitrary input from the web (like the security hardening needed to put a server on the public internet)
2. the browser doesn't know what the device is/does in a way that it can explain to the user
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So when the browser warns the user, what do we say to a user who doesn't know what USB is beyond "a cable"? Is it OK for a webpage to send firmware updates or security exploits to a USB device that change what type of device it is (say, from storage to keyboard) or brick it?
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I somehow suspect neither of these is correct, although new construction is probably mostly above-moderate.
I think Palo Alto does have substantial rental housing stock that meets the definition of affordable to moderate incomes, but it's generally older.
In 2014-2017, Palo Alto counted all ADUs and rental apartments as moderate income. (Based on footnote in 2017 report.) 2018-2019 they were all counted as above-moderate income.
(Without that switch, Palo Alto would have been subject to SB35 streamlining at 10% affordable.)
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Not only left-to-right but also the combining mark is in the wrong place (should be directly under the aleph, אַ).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We Don't Need Cops to Enforce Traffic Laws vice.com/en_us/article/g5pvg… via @vice
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The memo signals that HCD will treat "the proportion of parcels in the previous housing element that were developed during the previous planning period" as the presumptive probability of development for current inventory sites, absent other information. /9
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compare to SoCal:
1298 Imperial
224 Los Angeles
206 Riverside
189 San Bernardino
163 Santa Barbara
132 Kern
111 Orange
97 Ventura
90 San Diego
61 San Luis Obispo
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Though cases/100k for last 14 days has pretty wide variation within the Bay Area:
349 Marin
103 Solano
77 Alameda
68 Napa
66 Contra Costa
66 San Mateo
55 Sonoma
53 San Francisco
43 Santa Clara
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The LA Times has a bunch of useful per-county breakdowns of California data at latimes.com/projects/califor… , though not one exactly matching the chart above. (I'm most interested in the cases/100k population for the last 14 days.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Job shaming! Awesome! I’m in. Great idea. This CANNOT go wrong.
Let’s rank the virtue of every profession and if your state has too many workers in the bottom 20% you get kicked out of America.
Who wants to start??
COTTON on #DCStatehood: "Yes, Wyoming is smaller than Washington by population, but it has three times as many workers in mining, logging and construction, and ten times as many workers in manufacturing. In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state."
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