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by foxfluff 5y ago
Did I really say that? From any given era, you can find gems and garbage.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It's easy to forget how bad software was back in the '90s > Modern software is in fact more reliable than older software. Putting this as "90s vs now" is borderline strawman IMO. I genuinely believe the peak in t
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Should we assume that Google is on top of this and will "publish a fix" in order to become compliant? Powerful as though they may be, I don't know if Google is powerful enough to fix the US laws. I think the problem her
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm curious, are you working on such a C compiler? For the two decades I've used C, I've not had a compiler that resembles "portable assembly." The unoptimized code they generate is extremely naive and far removed
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Based on how many trash sites show up in search (even after search engines' algorithms try hard to downrank garbage), I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% of the web is there only to make a quick buck with ads. According to W
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I won't shed a tear if every ad supported site vanishes from the internet. Yes, I think the vast majority of them are useless, and the only reason I visit them is because someone else links them or, because of SEO, they end up in the
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> You think you are entitled to free pizza. When companies SEO-shove it in my face and almost literally beg me to take it.. oh I don't feel entitled but it's hard to avoid. Stop shoving it in my face and I won't take it.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
That could happen, but it is a nightmare scenario. It would essentially attack the agency you and your browser has; in effect, it would obligate your browser -- and your computer -- to do as a server tells. Having full control over your
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm disappointed that after starting a conversation you consider very important, you don't actually want to participate and argue in good faith.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yep. Most of the things you find with a Google search are obvious SEO trash even if you don't see the ads. The quality of the content reminds you that it's all trash.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> And who will fill the void when running a website is economically unfeasible? You mean who will fill the internet with SEO-optimized garbage and other trash that only exist to serve ad impressions? I sure hope nobody will.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> In exchange for being exposed to advertising at a restaurant, you get free pizza. Are you required to sign a contract for this exchange to happen? In that case, you would be breaching a contract, which is not the same as theft. If th
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I believe there's also a substantial cost as e-waste when people dump devices that are no longer powerful enough to display ad-filled garbage without terrible lag and stutter.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
As long as it is possible to make money with ads, the web will be full of SEO-optimized trash, clickbait, and other worthless "content" full of ads, and it will drown out anything of quality. If you're giving them ad views,
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And not enough people are fighting back. There's always someone who can come up with one legitimate use case for the complexity, and thus it has to be accepted.. somehow that use case is never weighed against the cost of complexity, o
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I believe GPC is considered legally binding under CCPA. The DSA proposal also has language that appears to be intended to make such headers legally binding: "In order to avoid fatiguing recipients who refuse to consent, terminal equipm
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm probably less informed. I don't follow the news (or really any mainstream media) because signal to noise ratio is too bad and there's too much negativity. I have no clue what our politicians are up to.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I don't trust myself to vote. I feel that being informed enough to make an informed vote is a full time job, and I don't have that "luxury". Otherwise you might as well roll a dice or vote the pretty face. Or just don
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's only a handful of examples, and to me it is far from clear whether account bans would be in scope of the law. It's not meant to be an exhaustive list of all the things that are covered. However, I could make the case that
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I didn't reach anybody, and you quickly realize how everybody else on the Internet just assumes you must either be lying or not telling the full story. I have observed the same. When I evaluate service providers, I'm curious
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Spirit of the law is a concept I would encourage anyone to think about when arguing about these things. I believe most people, and courts in particular, would not agree that a human rubber-stamping automated decision is in line with the sp
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I agree that it probably does not include the vast majority of automated bans.. but I'd prompt anyone interested to read the relevant guidelines to understand what might be in scope as far as legal effects or "significant effects&
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by foxfluff 5y ago
They are required to have agency and give a damn. Of course, it is hard to (dis)prove that they actually do.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think reading the part where they say "I don't know how well it fits the GDPR language" would answer your question.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> In Europe, I understand it as only legal to reverse engineer to fix bugs, thats it. Yep. AIUI doing such things as reverse-engineering to analyze malware (or to detect otherwise malicious behavior, such as breaches of GDPR) is not per
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> This ruling will never stand in higher courts imo, because it would break the internet through fear. It wouldn't break the internet. The internet was fine when the vast majority of sites hosted all their own content and didn&#x27
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Why is it not the author of your NIC driver who is responsible for the leak? Per default the driver isn't asking whether to send a packet to Google's IP address. Here's why: the driver is just doing what it's told to do
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by foxfluff 5y ago
By the same token, if you run a binary executable, you are knowingly using a piece of software that has, and has always had, the default behavior of autoloading any dynamic libraries, running any unprivileged machine instructions, making an
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Given freetype's long history of buffer overflows, I think disabling web fonts is a very good idea.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I have to agree. It seems ok for small & lightweight devices (ahem, phones..), but I would like something bigger and more rugged for larger devices. Another issue is I can't seem to find good cables. Most of the cables I have see

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