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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Zenie@piaille.fr wrote:
I love that you don't like it.
Stop tracking people. Problem solved.
Tracking is not necessary. It is immoral.
It is tracking that ruins the internet, not cookie notices.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
taziden@mstdn.fr wrote:
@codinghorror
Nope, only those who monetize user data tracking
@javier
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:
I started coding an SMTP server and now I'm trying to validate DKIM and I'm starting to think this is more than a weekend project
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mkj@social.mkj.earth wrote:
@aral As for some of the points raised in the linked thread…
GDPR article 21 paragraph 5.
In any sane world, that would cover DNT and GPC. So *any* web site which explicitly asks for consent when the relevant request has either of those request headers set to indicate to not track is *already* in non-compliance.
Of course, like you point out, there would likely be nothing stopping a site from offering visitors the *option* to be tracked anyway.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
joost@freesewing.social ("Joost De Cock") wrote:
FWIW: Palestinians are welcome at freesewing.social
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:
https://xkcd.com/2347/ recursion
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:
@codinghorror No, if you are not tracking you have not broken any law and you will not be sued.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:
@codinghorror That's a myth perpetrated by adtech industry. There is no EU obligation to spam cookie notices. There's an obligation not to track without explicit consent, and everyone illegally uses the cookie nag popups as a basis for claiming consent (which it's not). A legitimate, non malicious site has no need for cookie nags. Ever.
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Genocide denial (the last stage of genocide; constitutes complicity in genocide): https://skeptics.social/@Derisor/115122396020622064
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
And here’s the same person openly calling for mastodon.social @staff to ban accounts from Palestine like Bluesky is doing.
Translation: “The #Fake Accounts from Gaza, with which anyone collects donations, are becoming more and more dubious. Either "journalists" or young women. Donation account never in Gaza, but always middlemen abroad. After Bluesky consistently blocks the accounts, they now come to #Fediverse. / @staff @diessoli”
Are there fake accounts? Yes. Are they all fake accounts? Not by a long shot.
Some of us are taking the time to help verify the accounts of Palestinians who rely on the fediverse to survive. I’ve personally had video conversations with several people in Gaza on Signal and will be holding more.
Do not listen to these heartless bastards who are trying to cut off what is the last lifeline for Palestinians trying to survive a genocide.
Tell the world that #PalestiniansAreWelcome on the #fediverse.
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@staff We also need a list of servers that are safe for Palestinians to be on.
We cannot take the risk that mastodon.social will do what Bluesky has done and ban them.
Banning the account of a Palestinian who is using the fediverse to fundraise for food in the middle of a famine created by Israel’s genocide is tantamount to a death sentence.
Is there already a list?
If not can admins for instances that are safe for Palestinians please reply to this point and submit their domains?
Please share. Thank you.
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
And who is the kind of person trying to get @staff to ban the accounts of Palestinians who are using the fediverse as their last lifeline to literally get funds to eat as they’re being starved by Israel in a genocide?
The same kind of person – an anonymous coward furthermore – who paints the freedom flotilla as “Hamas”.
Do not let these Zionist propaganda accounts take hold on the fediverse.
https://skeptics.social/@Derisor/115117445805682816 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115122378758416385
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@Derisor @joynewacc @palestine @staff @diessoli “Derisor”, if you took a minute to research things, you’d know that the people being starved in Palestine in Israel’s genocide cannot open accounts and all of the fundraisers are run in the same way. There are ways of verifying people so we can help them (and protect them from the fraudulent accounts) but this is not it. You’re clearly more interested in attacking the victim rather than any exploration of truth. Please go away and pick a different target for your ire. Preferably one who is not already the target of a genocide.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
One of the hard things we deal with every day is baking bread.
We light the fire using things like paper and cardboard.
But we're happy and thankful because at least we are now able to get a loaf of bread.
Please support my family via the following link ❤️
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Can someone explain to me how Hungary is still in the EU? https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115122322237273111
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
Good morning my dear friends ❤️
This is a reminder that despite the exhaustion, hunger, fear, displacement and loss, we still have hope.
We still love the life and we wait a better tomorrow ❤️
Please keep us in your thoughts and support us
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gunchleoc@mastodon.scot ("GunChleoc") wrote:
I am still getting posts in my timeline about people being unsure whether the mastodon "verification" scam is a genuine message.
I have just used the announcement function on my server to notify my user in addition to a post to hopefully reach and warn more users about these fakes.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
Drink Special @ House Music Pop-Up: Preexisting Condition -- House Vodka, Tropical Red Bull, and Orange Juice
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
Drink Special @ Latin Night ( Reggaeton & Latin House): HERMIT KINGDOM: Casamigos Mezcal, Soda, Lime, Salt Rim.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
kiwix ("Kiwix") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:
Dealing with Google or Apple to publish an app on their stores seems to be a such a loss of energy, that I will never try to create an app for #iOS or #Android.
In my job, I've written a Progressive Web App (for professional usage of my customers), and it is a good way to avoid apps stores.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
#Meta is gonna swoop in with the Compliance Cloud(tm).
Maybe we learn that open-sourcing the protocol layer isn't as decentralized as we thought it be.
Maybe we notice that #Threads looks more and more like a siphon than it does interpolation.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Nundrum@theatl.social wrote:
Saw this at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens today. Even amongst all the orchids it commanded attention. A sign around the corner revealed it to be a "bat flower".
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:
Moebius did a series of ads for Maxwell House in the late 80s. This one is my favorite.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:
Weird that I can't think of this off the top of my head but... who on the fedi is based in the PNW and is an implementer of / contributor to Fediverse software?
(small projects fine! tinkerers too! technical role or not! just trying to consider who I might be able to wrangle together to talk about stuff because I feel professionally isolated sometimes)
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I spent my Saturday evening covering a Van Morrison song (or perhaps more accurately, covering a Bryan Ferry cover of a Van Morrison song). Experience me in my baritone range!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
marioguzman ("Mario Alberto Guzmán") wrote:
A while back, I reported feedback for FaceTime on macOS because the Settings window was so long and not resizable, some controls would be behind the Dock and were inaccessible.
I finally got a reply that it should be addressed now in #macOSTahoe... This was their solution.
Did Apple forget their own HIG for macOS app layouts? You might be saying, "but it is Catalyst." So. And? They make this technology, it should be perfect.
This isn't the Apple I remember. :( This is... sloppy at best.
Mastodon Feed@cratermoon The only realistic cartoon villains have ever been from Scooby Doo. https://jwz.org/b/yiws
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I tried separating out this swarm of bold jumper spiderlings -- a lot of them escaped and are now living in my office.