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zeepzeep
5y ago
> And behind every popup is a company that decided that ruining your experience was the correct thing to do. Yes, of course, they want you to think "uugh privacy just means lots of work and popups I'll just click accept"
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zeepzeep
5y ago
The do-not-track header is just another bit for fingerprinting you, I don't believe any ad-company actually honors it. Also, why trust that they do, when there's a solution that doesn't need trust?
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> I like writing code, not plumbing together bits of other people's code with bizarre config files I don't like reinventing the wheel every time I build something
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> The law would have to specify the exact shape of the cookie dialogue down to the pixel Sounds good to me. > I still would expect Google to find a way to fuck it up. Sure, then we change the law again and/or sue Google.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Forcing 3 companies to change their browsers is a lot easier than forcing millions of shady US businesses to do anything
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Tracking can not be solved by this, today many ad companies get subdomains on the websites they track on, so they are technically not "third-party"
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> Yes, privacy regulation do make life complicated if you choose to ignore their core Yes, 100%, it is relatively easy to just not track your ~~victims~~ customers every move.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> formed perspective I do not think I really qualify but hey. > What is a general vector of European policy on the internet? Generally the EU is very pro-privacy but sadly companies like Facebook bribe our "data protection office
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> so behind to today's fingerprinting Yes that's the sad thing, they do not need cookies anymore.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Other idea: make browsers have a proper cookie banner and not one that tricks me into selling my soul, I never got why pages would need individual banners.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
but look how cheap the amazon echo is...
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Yes, sadly it's not on sci-hub it seems :/
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Ironbci: Open-Source Brain Computer Interface
(github.com)
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zeepzeep
5y ago
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Contextual ads were generating revenue before google had access to every single http request
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> "IDEs and compilers should ignore character-direction codes when looking at source files." No I think some people would disagree, arabic coders for example. People just need to be aware of this when using unicode in their pro
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zeepzeep
5y ago
The good old SexyHexe.pdf strikes again. These problems won't go away for a while, unicode is fucking hard. Almost every app I ever tried it had at least some problems with %u202E (the right to left overwrite),
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Wait brave indexes what you browse? How has there not been some bug yet? Can't imagine that going well...
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Just return random status codes that still render html on every page to troll bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3pNLB3Cq24
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Sadly crypto currencies do not solve the problem of money distribution. (It's not the problem of the money, it's how we as society use it)
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Depends on perspective. > the fact that you had time to build it means you need to keep the job at the company you work with ;)
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> Ideally, an sql interface You could use Google BigQuery to write such queries for the whole internet (or parts you chose)
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zeepzeep
5y ago
Yeah but they can't do that fast enough, as we've seen. One of the many points where pure captialism fails.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
We don't have to, we just need to keep the numbers low enough that hospitals function properly
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zeepzeep
5y ago
You are allowed to work still...
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zeepzeep
5y ago
We should get rid of passwords. Maybe everyone has 1 password to unlock their hardware password manager / login token.
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> I don't want to sign up again for a million different forums like the old days. "Sign in with XYZ" exists on every serious website. > I also love the new threads feature by Discord to keep convos more concise and isol
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zeepzeep
5y ago
> I embed all the html/css/js/images files into a binary and serve everything from memory. Zero disc reads. It's blazing fast. I do that too. A friend "stole" that idea from the tour of go, I really like it.
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Googles Tech Writing Course
(developers.google.com)
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5y ago
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zeepzeep
5y ago
What the actual **? This is end level dystopian stuff. Okay guess I need a VPN to access it: > Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons.
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RFC 1337
(rfc-editor.org)
1 points
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zeepzeep
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