Notices by Ignas Kiela (ignaloidas@not.acu.lt)

@quad@akko.quad.moe I suspect that either the model number or the description is entirely redundant.

@pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz @wolf480pl@mstdn.io @piggo@piggo.space true

You can ignore that, but then it's painful for people watching.

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io @piggo@piggo.space peertube's live streaming is some horror mashup of webtorrent and conventional streaming

So I did the math, and thebad.space blocklist contains 52.72% of all users on fediverse.

Congratulations, it would be easier to build an allowlist than maintain the blocklist to keep the same people on.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club I mean, technically you could still do that, but you'd still need to get consent from the user (which teeeeechnically is what the cookie banners are trying to do).

@coolboymew@shitposter.club more that they just don't have the money or technical people to change the site in a way that adds GDPR banners to at least simulate compliance.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club eh, technically not, companies could choose not to serve the cookie banners to non-EU customers, but that's harder to detect and doing the cookie banner thing (not mandated by GDPR, arguably many are infringing it) to annoy everyone is a good propaganda against GDPR by advertisers.

Or they could just block anyone from EU from ever connecting to their website, a bunch of US news websites still do that.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club well, then comes a problem of enforcability and stuff. While US has an agreement with EU to essentially force US companies to comply with GDPR stuff (they may choose not to, technically, and get banned in EU for that), it only applies when it's actually an EU citizen doing it. EU trying to force companies to apply it to everyone is a very different geopolitical proposition, because that would essentially make GDPR a worldwide law, not an EU one. Which wouldn't go well in regards to global politics.

But yeah, still dumb.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club I'm honestly not sure if that's indeed legal, but I didn't really care at the time to try ratting them out.

Though I think for some services(like financial ones) that might indeed be justified.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club and actually isn't even fully compliant - you can have another countries citizenship, but if you live in EU, you can send GDPR requests all the same.

But basically, what the whole ordeal told me is that they want to keep your data as hard as possible, because the damn verification costs them about 1$, and I haven't even used the account since I was 12.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club lmao

I was on an account deleting spree once, and they wanted me to go through the bullshit verification purely because they wanted to know that I am from somewhere where GDPR applies, now I'm thinking that I should've just uploaded some fake ID.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club has been tried, as expected, horrible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxfPJZJtK0

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io I guess helps to make sure that ads are running

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io I guess verifies that JS is running

but that wouldn't even defeat scrapers so IDK

TIL WD uses a firmware update format so fucked, that even binwalk can't make sense of it (literally zero stuff found by it).

And they only provide firmware updates if you're using Windows, if you're not using Windows you have to do some extremely hacky, officially undocumented stuff (https://community.frame.work/t/western-digital-drive-update-guide-without-windows-wd-dashboard/20616) to update the firmware, and even then, you have to boot from a usb drive to do so.

And in both cases, it forces you to restart your computer, when the controller itself says that it has two firmware slots and can switch between them in 5 seconds. I could do all of this right from my system, live, if only it provided me the firmware image that I can dump on the drive directly. Or even better, just uploaded it to lvfs, which could do the bidding without any effort from both sides.

@Moon@shitposter.club tbh while I think that the state shouldn't concern itself with parenting, I think it should give the parents tools for it. Requiring all porn sites to have some metadata to identify that the content is pornographic in a way that would be easy for parenting tools to filter out automatically would be a better solution.

And like, while I don't think that children should be able to see everything on the internet, there's a point at which kids should be introduced to things, and for some goddamn reason people think that it all should be at 18, which is completely stupid. For what it's worth, Pornhub has better sex-ed content on it than basically any school provides, and there's plenty of good reasons why sex-ed is thought before 18. But blanket bans essentially prohibit the access to information that IMO is important for children to understand, and that's just dumb.

@coolboymew@shitposter.club @graf@poa.st @BigDuck@poa.st the original is "Doin it right" by daft punk, yes

but the lyrics here have been replaced, to a stunning accuracy of keeping the song flow the same

@coolboymew@shitposter.club @BigDuck@poa.st @graf@poa.st the beat is daft punk with different lyrics, but it's extremely well done

vid also pretty fucking cool as well

@coolboymew@shitposter.club @Moon@shitposter.club @chjara@snowdin.town (sadly) one of my favorite pieces of last year is on it https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/p/fear-and-self-loathing-with-the-merchants

@coolboymew@shitposter.club eat local

when the writing is otherwise so clean that a single mistake makes you think it's an embellishment