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by cseleborg 3y ago
This is interesting because it highlights the trust we've always placed in real-looking images. It brings real-looking images down to the same level as text. It's always been possible to write fake news. We've never had to ad
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by cseleborg 3y ago
> I agree with this. We recently removed all tracking (eg google analytics) from our homepage because we didn't want to have a cookie banner. The result: everything is going fine. Turns out we didn't need the tracking at all. S
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by cseleborg 3y ago
There are a bazillion unclear laws all over the world. It's common practice, really, to formulate things a little bit generally, and let practitioners (lawyers and courts) figure out the details. In this case, the unclear point is arou
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by cseleborg 3y ago
> The law is reason people think "Look, Why take a chance?" and build crap like cookie banners in. Really, no. Not being willing to let go of user tracking, and now realizing that it's against the law if you get it wrong,
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by cseleborg 3y ago
More interestingly, that article says: > We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com. A few pixels further down, on the cookie banner: > We use optional cookies to i
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by cseleborg 3y ago
This is very puzzling to me: How can such a small object generate enough gravity to retain a moon orbiting it with such a small radius (see the embedded animation lower down in the article)? The asteroid is only 790 meters in diameter, whic
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Moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought(space.com)
4 points by cseleborg 3y ago|1 comments
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by cseleborg 3y ago
Cool service! This, though, may prove to be a weakness of your business model. Having to sign up creates friction (I won't), which may lose you potential paying customers. What else could you be doing to give people a real feel for how
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by cseleborg 3y ago
I'm not contesting the legitimacy of YT fighting ad blockers. I'm merely pointing out that the claim here is that they are doing so using illegal means (by using what can be legally seen as spyware without the user's consent,
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by cseleborg 3y ago
That's not the issue here. The issue is that YT is (arguably) using illegal measures to enforce their own rights. Just because someone infringes on your rights doesn't make it legal for you to infringe back on theirs.
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by cseleborg 3y ago
There was a joke like that, it went something like: "Quitting smoking is so easy, I've done it so many times already!"
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by cseleborg 3y ago
Back when I was writing a software synth for fun (and also for getting hired in the audio industry), I found the book DAFX to be very helpful. It describes basic algorithms for doing digital audio, though not the state of the art.
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by cseleborg 3y ago
I recently landed on beeline's website (GPS navigation devices for motorbikes and bicycles). For bicycles, the tagline was "Simplify your ride". I strongly disagree. I feel like involving my smartphone into any activity that
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by cseleborg 3y ago
A friend of mine told me that the microphone on two different Fairphones broke from mounting them on their rather high-end mountain bike's handlebar (he realized it must be the handlebar after the second breakage.)
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by cseleborg 3y ago
Wait... You're talking about Git, right? Brilliant idea! You could sign a pull request, and once it's signed, you can then merge the businesses. But how do you show a diff of the signature? And what if it's not for a corporat
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by cseleborg 3y ago
In many cases, we should look at a civilization's institutions rather than at its individuals to judge its degree of "advancement". Institutions are often much closer to the ideals of a society than its people. For example, i
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by cseleborg 3y ago
Yes, I find that I not only can't easily recall what my own experience as a kid was like, I also reproduce a lot of my parents' behaviors.
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by cseleborg 3y ago
That doesn't prove anything. What it does clearly prove, though, is that the Earth is flat. Think about it: have you ever successfully landed with a parachute on a spherical object like a soccer ball or large marble? See?
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by cseleborg 3y ago
> s/he has been failing up until the previous day and is already giving public advice about how to do it better? This was my thought exactly. The internet is full of articles along those lines: I've been doing this new routine
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by cseleborg 3y ago
I guess the principle "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" will be more relevant than ever from now on.
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by cseleborg 3y ago
Go always felt like a fairly low-level approach to web-development. I'd love for it to see a higher-level, more-batteries-included framework as a viable alternative make it to mainstream. Here's me wishing good luck to the Pushup
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by cseleborg 3y ago
No, unscrupulous adtech businesses have ruined the internet. I had a business website that would not track users, and thus needed no cookie banner. If more business owners (especially the large ones) would stay away from shady practices the
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by cseleborg 4y ago
But small structures are the norm, or at least very common, aren't they? There are plenty of established, small to medium businesses out there. Someone for whom this is important can certainly find a job like that within one of those.
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by cseleborg 4y ago
One of my fears is that Google will shut down my account because some algorithm of theirs says so, and since there is no customer support to appeal to, I'd lose my primary inbox. That would be catastrophic enough, but I'd also pot
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by cseleborg 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but if a personal blog tracks users and sends data on them to someone else, as with GA, then it absolutely needs a privacy policy.
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by cseleborg 4y ago
Thanks for posting this. The issue I have here is that I would need to spend hours researching whether wrapping a single kind of produce is OK or not. It's a science! Another example: is it better to buy the non-organic, locally produc
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by cseleborg 4y ago
Germany exports most of its plastic waste. China stopped importing it a few years ago, so now it gets bought up by African countries. I think your assumptions about a functioning waste system do not apply to most developed countries I know,
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by cseleborg 4y ago
Is it a bit much, though? Unlike me, my children will never experience their home planet without microplastics everywhere, from the highest peak down to the deepest trench in the ocean. They will have to pay a hefty price for what we and th
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by cseleborg 4y ago
That was news to me, although I guess I'm not surprised. It's frustratingly difficult to buy groceries at the supermarket without plastic.
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by cseleborg 4y ago
I haven't bought a cucumber wrapped in plastic in years (I actively avoid them) and have thrown away maybe two cucumbers in the same time. At this point, I think any plastic is a problem, and it needs very serious consideration whether

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