“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.
@purplepadma I’m not at all sold on how long that will be the case for. Bluesky aren’t doing this out of an insatiable curiosity about who people are, they’re required to under the Online Safety Act, as is any site with a “significant” (no, that’s not defined) proportion of UK users where people can communicate with each other. That absolutely brings Mastodon instances into scope as well beyond the very smallest ones where the operators personally know every user.
@mattl @CatherineFlick assuming it was under my control and I had some visibility into what/who I was blocking at a more granular level than “AI”, sure.
@mattl @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.
Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.
“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.
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Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
(From https://websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream/)
We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.
@gsuberland yeah, RE7 was just from the peak Beige Shooters era. I’m so glad we got past that and games are allowed to be fun again.
It finally happened, I ended up on my arse while bouldering, via my elbow. Not ideal because it hurts, and I wanted to climb more, but it does mean I’m pushing out of my comfort zone. Also I got back on and kicked that boulder’s arse before the adrenaline ran out and I noticed quite how sore i was.
@anon_opin it’s a film about a physicist, how much action were you expecting?
@dave on mine it seems to be under the More fold put under the assorted mail folders (of course, why wouldn’t you put it there rather than settings?)
@dave I forget where bit buried in the settings is a list of all the bulk email sources in your inbox with unsubscribe buttons next to them. I massively dropped my email volume in minutes with that thing.
@anon_opin how tight are your socks? You need to buy a bigger size.
@0xabad1dea we live in a weird timeline. “The US government gave up funding overseas aid so people into playing video games as fast as possible have picked up the slack”.
@jonathanhogg @jonty hacker as in Growth Hacker. Or as I sometimes like to call them, sociopaths.
@q I like the idea a bunch of Geordies are going to pile off that very confused because the driver took a wrong turn.
@anon_opin I mean we could pick a government that acknowledges that fact and leans into it rather than obsessing over whether we have nuclear weapons.
Grabbed some stuff out the bottom of my bag, and look who came along.
@pikesley as a nation we have a long history of appeasement which must be upheld.
@blitter @0xabad1dea I’ll never understand why the US banking system is so antiquated but it is amusing when the startups adding layers to make it less antiquated try to launch in the rest of the world and everyone looks confused because we can already do everything from our phones via real banks.