kuba-orlik's comments

Yeah... I think that one of the biggest "gotchas" with the web3 crowd is misunderstanding different levels of decentralization. Is it architectural decentralization? Institutional decentralization? Geographical decentralization? etc

The GDPR does not enforce the use of cookie banners. Cookie banners is an IAB idea. My suspicion is that they were created to make people angry at GDPR, but they have nothing to do with GDPR.

On most website that I've analyzed (and it's quite a lot - into hundreds), you can remove the cookie banner and the website would be just as GDPR (in)compliant as with the cookie banner.

Concurrency, concurrency, concurrency.

And scripting with JS/TypeScript. Kind of like emacs-ng attempted (https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng/)

Why would you need to re log-in into streaming services in a hotel? How does AVP alleviate that need?

Do you mean you watch it on a smart TV in a hotel? Then I guess you could connect a laptop to that TV with an HDMI cable and not have to re-log in, right?

I suspect Nintendo sees upscaling od existing switch games as competition, because they plan Switch 2's major selling point to be playing the old games in higher res/fps. Just a hunch. It would explain a lot, including the fact that they keep pumping new games for the seemingly EOL switch

> If a site does comply with the notice and consent requirements, it is not legally required to provide the service if a user declines tracking cookies.

That's simply not true. In order for consent to be valid under GDPR, the service should operate normally if you decline tracing cookies. Otherwise it's considered a "forced consent" and is not valid.

I guess it's to prevent scrapping, but good luck people who depend on a11y tools... :(

And you can't log in using a password manager

Ok so here's a linux question that's been bugging me for years.

I sometimes `less` to display/paginate a streaming stdout from another program. When I press `END` key on the keyboard, it brings me to the bottom of the stream, the latest data it has.

Then it says "Waiting for data... (^X or interrupt to abort)"

I want it to stop waiting for data and let me scroll up as it usually does when it's not waiting for data.

I've tried pressing Control+X and Control+C, but it just closes less immediately instead of just interrupting the wait for new data.

What do I press to make it stop waiting for data, not just close itself?

This would particularly useful for browsing `journalctl` output

Not sure how well that can scale. You'd have to provide more energy per square meter of land than the sun does, it seems?

Thanks! Do you perhaps know of any records of Apple's insistence in this matter?

I came to the comments to post exactly that link :D

I routinely use ffmpeg CLI and I see in top that multiple cores are engaged in the processing. Hadn't it been multi-threaded for years? What exactly is changing?

Couldn't the same thing be achieved with grep?

I seem to always have trouble with video freezing or very low quality audio+video. Jitsi just isn't reliable enough for me. We've switched to BigBlueButton on the same type of server and it runs gloriously, with HD video, crisp audio. I kept giving Jitsi a chance, but it disappointed us too many times

I've seen DPOs requesting sites to not load YouTube without consent because of the cookies

> I suspect the main reason why there is a "reject all" button is that Cloudflare folks rightly figured out that they are too big to get away with not providing one. Otherwise noyb.eu will say hello.

(Disclaimer: I helped deliver this feature)

We have never even for a minute considered not providing the "reject all" button. It was a user-respecting project from its conception. We actually consider being user-friendly a competitive advantage rather than something that we'd do out of fear of Noyb.

For some context, I'm a co-founder of https://www.internet-czas-dzialac.pl/, which can be described as a "Polish noyb" ;)

The ePrivacy directive dictates that you need to have consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary to serve the website and its basic functionality. If you were counting pageview stats without persisting any data on the client and without using any identifiers for users, I'd say you don't have to ask for consent, even under GDPR.

This consent manager does not interfere with necessary cookies. As under GDPR you don't need to ask for consent to necessary cookies, we left it out of the consent modal

(Disclaimer: I'm on the team behind this feature)

The problem with the "X" button is twofold:

1. It's usually hard to find and to touch on a mobile device

2. Many websites use the dark pattern where clicking "X" is actually a way to give consent (or so they claim, as such "consent" is not valid under the GDPR rules). Due to that, many users are habitually confused about what will happen to their data choices if they press "X".

(Disclaimer: I'm on the team behind this feature)

I think the research mentioned in this article points more to bad influence of margarine, not vegetable oils in general. In the first study, the group that did better consumed more olive oil, which is a vegetable oil