You and your 152 partners can fuck right off. When you get there, you can keep fucking off.

It looks like we're doing "cookies" again, and the lousy experience that some site operators inflict on their visitors.

Here's a very useful GUI browser add-on, which I use on both desktop and mobile devices (in addition to uBlock Origin, obviously!):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/consent-o-matic/

It doesn't solve the policy nonsense, or the lack of enforcement, but it does make browsing more palatable.

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

I stumbled across this article while searching for informations about the future of some X11 window managers. probonopd created a good article about the differences between Wayland and X11 and the problems with Wayland (which perhaps could be fixed in the future)

Good to see that XLibre forked the X11 server so projects depending on X11 can go on further.

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

@probono

#wayland #xorgserver #x11libre #xorg #linux #bsd #linuxdesktop #windowmanager #freedesktop

How did I just learn about this today???

https://devilutionx.com/

You can play Diablo and Hellfire natively on most OSs (including FreeBSD!) with just the data files from the original CDs.

And it supports TCP networking, not just IPX like the original ❤️

#freebsd #Linux #gaming #retrogaming

political debates are basically powerpoint karaoke for sociopaths

Bin mal wieder sprachlos. Mein Sohn hat meine alte Fufifilm XT-1 bekommen. Dazu die analogen Minolate Objektive.

Mit manuellem Fokus. Und die Ergebnisse sind dermaßen klasse.

Und wird wieder bewusst. Ältere Kameras und Objektive liefern immer noch super Qualität. #photography

The end of August usually means two things in San Francisco (three if you count Burning Man): Summer is just beginning, and wildfires are peaking. This week has been mostly clear skies and warmer temperatures, so I went north to photograph the City from across the strait. The photos of the City from today aren't that interesting. However...

The Lime Point Lighthouse sits under the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and has been a beacon since 1883. Only the signal building remains after the residences were torn down following automation in 1961.

Sunrise was spectacular due to haze from distant fire. The air over the Bay, though, was crisp and clean. Pelicans were once again obliging the camera.

Couldn't pass up this photo of the Golden Gate Bridge during the blue hour.

#sanfrancisco #goldengatebridge #californiawildfires #landscapephotography #photography #longexposure #sunrise

The project: https://github.com/Bleuje/variograph
These color experiments are currently available on the branch color-experiments-2

I implemented a new way to get colors in the Variograph project. This taken from the 3D mode with rotating view in real-time.

retoot this if your retirement plan is essentially based on the idea that civilisation will probably crumble before you reach 65 and money will be meaningless anyway.

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

#internet #technology #tech #journalism #disinformation #socialmedia #oligarchy

Babes, wake up, the new #iMac just dropped 😳

Well, I guess that explains THAT, then

#Apple #LiquidGlass

New blog post "My Own DNS Server At Home - Part 1: IPv4" wherein I install and configure a basic BIND DNS server for my network at home. Part 2 will cover IPv6. It's quite hardcore. So if it feels a bit overwhelming, just read it as a nice story and not as a HOWTO. DNS with BIND is a bit demanding, but I find it fascinating!

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/My-DNS-Part-1/

Replies to this post will show up as comments under the blog post!

So I wrote some thoughts about why I don't trust privacy services like email, VPN, cloud services and so on.

https://iyer.ru/2025/08/30/why-i-don-t-trust-so-called-privacy-services/

It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-103/

#linux #podcast #opensource

Found 35mm black and white film roll from 1992 when I played with old Soviet reel-to-reel tape recorder - put new playback head, new amplifier on integrated circuit etc. and later even shifted left supply reel more to the left to fit large 7-inch reels #anaglyph3d #stereoscopic

"'mumpsimus' (from the 16th century): Someone who insists they're right despite clear evidence they are wrong" -- Via Susie Dent, https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1304320402399821824

there was a post in a group chat about that Copilot garbage theyre adding to Excel so i spent a while setting up this photo and posted it saying "i dont think i got the update yet" but everyone just ignored me. so idk maybe you will enjoy it

I have a daily “find joy” todo list, which sends reminders to me every morning. And I just realized how dystopian that truly is.