What’s an influencer, anyway? This is the question that rings out in my mind as I attempt to internalize the fact that I have been named one of the Top 100 UK Open Source Influencers for 2022 as part of their 2023 honours list #OpenUKHonours23. It’s definitely an “honour” to…

Today, as reported in the Guardian and elsewhere, Twitter suspended accounts of several journalists who had reported on Elon Musk and have also suspended accounts related to Mastodon as well as banning or “shadow-banning” people who talk about or link to their Mastodon profiles. Everyone should now be “reconsidering” their…

Consensus. It shouldn’t be a dirty word, but in some circles it seems to have become one. I was on an industry working group call the other week where someone presented a series of governance models and “consensus” was presented as the worst model for decision-making — something to be…

This blog is now a part of the #fediverse. I was inspired by the recent migration user growth on Mastodon and other federated social web sites to get the ActivityPub Wordpress plugin installed here and start federating out any posts I write here. For more info on how to get this working on your own Wordpress site, see The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips — An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I also had to muck around with my .htaccess file and this post was very helpful.

Apparently there’s been some confusion about my choice of hair color. Some people seem to have been under the impression that I chose purple to match the color scheme of Samsung Internet. So I want to set the record straight. Purple is my favoirite color, and I exclusively choose employers…

With 18.0, we’re building on the release of 17.0 which brought a consolidation and enhancement of privacy features as well as support for web authentication. We’ve also added a few new features and UI tweaks. Let’s have a look! Our new “text capture” feature available from the context menu will…

WebAuthN provides a way to use external security or on-device security keys as an alternative for SMS or App-based 2-factor authentication — Call it Web Authentication, Web Auth or Web AuthN, it’s coming to Samsung Internet Beta 17.0 and will be released in our 17.0 stable release planned for next month. We’ve been testing Web Authentication for a while, behind a flag, but now it’s ready to come out into the light. We’ll be featuring support for security keys connected by USB, NFC and Bluetooth — as well as on-device keys.

And something for the foldables… — In our 16.0 post we already told you about some of the great features coming to our latest beta, including better search experience, page zooming and enhanced Smart Protect. Our newest update (16.0.2) brings some additional exciting new features. You can install Samsung Internet 16.0.2 …

Enhanced tracking protection and a new search widget top the bill of new features for our latest version, rolling out now on our Beta channel. We’re constantly working to make your web experience better and more secure. This month we’re introducing our latest beta, 15.0, …