Bruce Lawson

@brucel.bsky.social

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Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1.

Farage and Andrew tate posing together
Me putting the talismans in a tin with the iPhone, and shutting the lid
A screenshot showing a webpage completely obscured with ads.
me drinking from a massive metal cup trophy, with a union jack flag behind me
Kilian's post on my blog
Krystal Hosting's bluesky bio reading "working to make the world a better place"
A naked Trump lying staring at his own reflection in a pool, in the style of John William Waterhouse.
email from Apple. "Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly private. Safari fights tracking with machine learning."
A group of people - young, older, a woman in a wheelchair - are chatting on a closed street in the sunshine
Placards lined up against a wall: "Woman against the far right", " More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish", "Stop the yachts", "Birmingham says no to fascism" and "Fascists do not speak for me"
Me and Dave onstage wearing owl masks while Heydon does a banging Web Components
Ana and me, with Eric Meyer photocrashing
Daily Mail headline from 2019: Prince Andrew hails the power of women in industry as his Pitch@Palace project to encourage entrepreneurs celebrates its fifth anniversary • SafeToNet, designed by mother-of-four Sharon Pursey, 51, stops teens 'sexting'
Me, being beaten up by Lewis and Dawn, some feral competition lawyers from Guarriges.
A superlatively glamorous middle-aged man looking breathtakingly gorgeous in a t-shirt that has the words "maliciously compliant" in a typewriter font.
Vivaldi onboarding screen, with options to import from Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc and Firefox
Video of Google IO, where loads of Bossdroids say the word "A.I.", followed by a cut to Vivaldi's HQ in Iceland. Vivaldi founder stands in front of a glacier, and says "it's not A.I.", then walks off.
Headline in The Telegraph: "Forget the manosphere. It’s angry Leftie women we need to worry about. Radicalised by the likes of Greta Thunberg, young females are spurning marriage and capitalism – society as we know it is at risk"
Me, with my back to camera, wearing a t-shirt reading "Big Tech? Big No!"
me with hands outstretched, holding a pet triceratops
Screenshot : The Telegraph. "Charles Moore Sex-crazed nudists are running wild and the authorities decline to act A swinger's dream has become a villager's nightmare in the tiny East Sussex village of Whatlington"
Me with cardboard cutout of star wars character
Me in front of a futuristic circular building
as mock-up of terrible AI Trump-posted art. Me as a Jesus-like figure laying my hands on the head of a sleeping Winston Churchill, surrounded by George Formby playing his ukulele, frida Kahlo and Hattie Jaques from 'Carry on Matron'. In the background is a stylised cityscape of Birmingham. In the sky is a celestial shining HTML5 logo, and 3 angry birds are flying.
Indiana Jones, fording a stream, but he's a hedgehog.
The Beatles, except George Harrison is replaced by a hedgehog (with a trademark Beatles fringe)
We have engaged extensively with Apple on the criteria for assessing interoperability requests. We acknowledge the uncertainty stakeholders expressed with respect to the ‘alignment with Apple’s platform priorities’ criterion. Apple has added some additional detail to clarify that this criterion refers to the broad set of features and functionalities that Apple decides to prioritise or not for the year. We consider it reasonable that Apple keeps its roadmap for feature development confidential as it may contain legitimate business secrets. However, Apple’s commitment to explain in any rejected requests how it applied the assessment criteria, coupled with our close monitoring, will help us understand how the criterion is applied in practice.
Or, based on their implementation of the EU Digital Markets Act, they will continue with BLACK BOX compliance where they will provide an option for interoperability that no one would want to choose. I believe that, without a requirement from the CMA to support competing browser engines, Apple will never choose by their own criteria to do so. So I believe it is very important the CMA requires Apple to allow competing browser engines, provide the platform APIs required to implement one, and prevent the kind of loophole in the EU DMA that has allowed Apple to implement it with BLACK BOX compliance. Browser vendors should be allowed to use their browser engines in the UK even if they are not based in the UK and without having to sign up to a scheme that charges them extra
me, lying on a thin bed, with a Useless french bulldog next to me and a useless greyhound at my feet
Me with a hood up, with a rainy street behind me and several advertising signs on their side.
A gold statue of a marching figure holding a mighty spear
A blurry selfie of me looking nervous at the front of a room of 200 people
Me, Jank Archibald, Ana Rodrigues, Sophie Koonin and Stuart Langridge, in the pub
Me and a woman next to a BCA banner
Me, risibly working out, wearing gold hot pants, a "Big Tech? Big No" t-shirt and a variety of stupid hats.
me doing a few half-hearted lifts of some very light weights, wearing a Vivaldi t-shirt and gold hotpants. I then turning to reveal the back of my t-shirt which has the slogan 'big Tech? Big no!'
Me in a "Big Tech BIG NO!" t-shirt and boxing gloves, punching a bag
toast, with baked beans, a fried egg, grilled tomatoes, 2 rashes of bacon and a slice of black pudding. Next to it is a cup of frothy coffee.
emu "carousel" ad on a website for 50 disposable plastic tongue condoms, a 'retractable disco ball mirror hat" and, just peeking out to the right, "Wet dreams: stories"
A desktop style computer in bubblewrap, and boxes containing USB keyboard, optical mouse, WiFi dongle, and a kettle lead.
Screenshot of Twitler: "Tommy Robinson BREAKING NEWS: I'M A PRIORITY TARGET FOR ISIS!!! I have now left the country, I need time to work things out for my safety and the safety of my family. I will probably have to relocate them. I will update you when I can."
Apple will announce any material changes to the Guidelines to developers on the same day such changes become effective. Apple will also explain the material changes alongside its announcement, and make resources available to developers to ensure they understand the relevant changes in a timely manner.
Commitments (1) Apple will launch a dedicated interoperability feedback channel for developers to submit interoperability requests to Apple. (a) The feedback channel will consist of a web-based guided questionnaire. (b) The feedback channel will be available to developers that are members in good standing of the Developer Program and whose account membership with the Developer Program is registered in the UK (“Eligible Developers”).
Some blue crocs with cloud prints, and some clipped add-ons: Win XP recycle bin, mouse pointer, msn butterfly, Clippy, Win XP folder and IE6 logo.
Me on my office chair. A brindle-coloured French bulldog on me.
Mock-up of Sex Pistols album cover: Never mind tech oligarchs, here's Vivaldi
Time Machine Time Machine backs up your computer and keeps local snapshots and hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups and any local snapshots are deleted as space is needed.
7. Vivaldi ***› Best build your own web browser with unique docking and tab-stacking SPECIFICATIONS Operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS TODAY'S BEST DEALS VISIT WEBSITE REASONS TO BUY + Highly customizable design + Comes with built-in productivity tools + Includes an email client, and a feed reader + Built-in customizable ad-blocker and tracker REASONS TO AVOID - Doesn't have extensions and add-ons of its own - No Al-powered assistant
prompt to "upgrade" to MacOS Tahoe with its "expressive and delightful" Liquid Ass UI, and more "Apple Intelligence" nonsense.
Trump sitting alone at a golf club table , slumped, asleep with mouth agape
Me and Stuart, in a pub. Looking dead glamorous
2.9 While in no way limiting Apple’s other rights under this Addendum or the Developer Agreement, or any other remedies at law or equity, if Apple has reason to believe You or Your Embedded Browser Engine App (Japan) have failed to comply with the requirements of this Addendum or the Developer Agreement, Apple reserves the right to revoke Your access to any or all of the Embedded Browser Engine APIs immediately upon notice to You; require You to remove Your Entitlement Profile from Your Embedded Browser Engine App (Japan); terminate this Addendum; block updates of, hide, or remove Your Embedded Browser Engine App (Japan) and/or other Applications from the App Store; block Your Applications from distribution on Apple platforms; and/or to suspend or remove You from the Apple Developer Program
A podium in front of a glacier, outside the Vivaldi Iceland HQ. Jon walks up to the podium, says "It's not A.I.", and then walks out of shot.
A document about the case and settlement, with a paperweight that is a bust of Shakespeare.
Alt text Case 5:25-cv-09704-NC Document 6 Filed 11/12/25 Page 3 of 22: "2. However, on or about October 10, 2025, Google secretly turned on Gemini for all its users’ Gmail, Chat, and Meet accounts, enabling AI to track its users’ private communications contained in those platforms without the users’ knowledge or consent. As of the date of this filing, Google continues to track these private communications with Gemini by default, requiring users to affirmatively find this data privacy setting and shut it off, despite never “agreeing” to such AI tracking in the first place (“When you turn this setting on, you agree . . . .”). 3. Despite users never giving Google informed consent to track and store their private communications, Google does just that, using Gemini AI to access and exploit the entire recorded history of its users’ private communications, including literally every email and attachment sent and received in their Gmail accounts."
Me wearing a white t-shirt with a blue logo reading "lawson station"