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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cuu508@toot.lv ("Pēteris Caune") wrote:

@mathew @mkj @praerien @aral

I made a script that tracks Latvian websites that have the "load cookies first then ask for permission" problem: https://sīkdatnes.lv

For problematic sites, I send an informal email explaining the problem and asking to fix it. In case of no action, I send a formal, signed complaint. And then in case of no action, I report them to our country's DPA.

In quite a few cases the informal email is enough, and the issue gets acknowledged and fixed.

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

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New: “We (Don't) Care About Your Privacy” 🚩

Privacy Washing Is a Dirty Business 🧼

Privacy Is Like Broccoli 🥦

How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon 🐘

Privacy and Security on Mastodon :mastodon:

All Em's Privacy Guides articles 📚

Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data 💔

You Can Say NO 🙅

Stay Safe, but Stay Connected 💚

Selling Surveillance as Convenience :2001:

The Importance of Data Privacy For The Queer Community :rainbow_heart:

Your Online Life Is IRL :crt_w_prompt:

KeePassium Review: A Flexible Password Manager for iOS and macOS 🔐

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 👁️

Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy 🪪

In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor :tor:

Encryption Is Not a Crime 🔑

Interview with Micah Lee: Cyd, Lockdown Systems, OnionShare, and more :birdsite:

Privacy Means Safety :neocat_comfy_happy:

KeePassXC + YubiKey: How to set up a local-only password manager :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others 💛

How to Reset Your YubiKey and Create a Backup :terminal:

The UK Government Forced Apple to Remove Advanced Data Protection: What Does This Mean for You? 🍏

No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset 🔒

CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs 🛡️

The Future of Privacy: How Governments Shape Your Digital Life 🌐

Using Tails When Your World Doesn't Feel Safe Anymore 💜

Personal blog (older articles): 👇

The Solutions to Proctoring Software 🎓

The Problem with Proctoring Software :dumpster_fire_gif:

The Mastodon’s Guide to the Fediverse :mastodon:

Easy Practical Privacy Tips for Everyone :neocat_laptop_owo:

The Importance of Using Messaging Apps With End-to-End Encryption, Which Ones to Use and Why :signal:

Improving Your Privacy Using Compartment­alization :neocat_box:

#Blogging

Boosted by jwz:
Shine_McShine@neopaquita.es ("Shine McShine 🐌") wrote:

cuando me preguntan que por qué no me voy a bluesky

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

As a status update: quite a few people recommended Mint (Ubuntu sans snaps), which is pretty tempting. Pop_OS! was another recommendation in the same vein. Fedora was also confirmed as a good choice for artists.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Contemplating which Linux to install on my teenage kid's laptop. Ubuntu is out, as I don't want to touch snaps ever again (been using Ubuntu myself for the past 20 years, thank you). So I'm thinking @debian, @fedora or @elementary.

She's an artist (so Krita, Shotcut, Inkscape), and she'll probably get used to any DE pretty quickly. What I do care about is drawing tablet support and color management. Is Wayland ready for this yet? Any artists care to share their setups?

#linux #art

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

The latest OK Go video uses Blender. Very specifically.

#NowPlaying

OK Go — "Impulse Purchase"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzbIUffcR4

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he’s a genius.” - Nariscene proverb

quoted in ‘Matter’ by Iain M. Banks

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Serious-Shanns - monospaced Comic Sans for programmers

this is really a very cute font

https://github.com/kaBeech/serious-shanns

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.

Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Enough pixels to feel somewhat groovy about at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
human3500@ottawa.place ("Human 3500") wrote:

@ridetheory @pluralistic During the height of COVID, my dentist called and reminded me about my appointment.

Then they asked a bunch of screening questions including if I was vaccinated against COVID. I answered them all.

Then I asked them the same questions. She wouldn't answer because it was private information.

So, I declined my appointment opting to go later when things had calmed down.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Opportunity for a new ride at Florida theme parks: “The Petri Dish”.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Amid the turmoil at the CDC, three US states jointly launch the West Coast Health Alliance. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A couple people asked how the case is configured inside. The padded cubes are really flexible. Here’s my 4 lens configuration.

Nore the filtered blower bulb; essential for dust management!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rythur ("Rythur") wrote:

This is reminder that I have music coming out.

I'm very proud of this work.

So proud that I went out and convinced two others to join me in the madness.

Thank you, Simone (@m2m) for mixing and mastering this bad boy.

And thank you, Sandra, for making it all smell nice! You artist!

Tears of pride last night. Genuine tears of pride.

Elegant Wood should be playable now, so feel free to get to dancing!

PS -- I am barely sleeping I love this so much :-)

https://rythur.bandcamp.com

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooter.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Monmouthshire and Forest of Dean Freebooter") wrote:

Ellie Chowns takes on Starmer, new Green leader under fire

freebooter.uk/posts/ellie-chowns-takes-on-starmer,-new-green-leader-under-fire

Ellie Chowns, Green Party MP for North Herefordshire, went head-to-head with Prime Minister Kier Starmer over climate policy today (3 September 2025). Chowns slammed the Conservatives’ plans to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea, calling it…

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alecaddd ("Aleca") wrote:

It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.

A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.

It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".

People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.

I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
_stillwerise@threads.net ("Still We Rise") wrote:

Huffpost goes there with the headline 🔥

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
knowler@sunny.garden ("Nathan Knowler") wrote:

Composition with the Shadow DOM is more powerful than you think. You can do a lot with the default named slot assignment, but manual slot assignment is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural.

https://knowler.dev/blog/an-intro-to-manual-slot-assignment

#WebComponents #CustomElements #ShadowDOM #HTML #WebDev

Boosted by jwz:
AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot ("Alex Gallagher") wrote:

Congressman Jamie Raskin hands Nigel Farage his arse on a plate

Anyone in the UK care to plagiarize?

#politics #ukpolitics #farage #reform #bbc #jamieraskin

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• video: 09161420d669331d.mp4

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Also, the Nanuk cases are made in Canada, which feels vaguely virtuous to support these days.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

And no, I'm not "sponsored" to plug things.

Boosted by jwz:
anderseknert@swecyb.com ("Anders Eknert") wrote:

I don't know who did this, but, lol

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Rogeti tripod bag is another well-designed gem that makes it unusually usable for my setup. It has two lateral straps that let you slide the bag over the back of the roller case's retractable handle. It stays put as you wheel the hard case around. I haven't found any other tripod cases that inter-operate with a roller bag as well as this. Straps let you also use it as a shoulder bag or carry it backpack-style

Anyway, I was surprised at how much easier this combination made things.

4/4

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I can't tell you enough how great the large wheels are. And they pop off and stow in a mesh bag on the side of the case if I need to stow the case in a tight overhead bin. It's really nicely designed.

Inside the hard case, I use two Phase One/NYA-EVO modular packing cubes, which each have velcro padded dividers for the lenses and stuff. This lets me quickly take one out and put it a backpack if I want to go hiking or something without the hard case.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

"Some of the key findings from the poll about 8 to 12-year-olds include:

"Over one in four kids isn’t allowed to play alone, even in their own front yard.
"71% of kids have never used a sharp knife.
"45% of kids have never walked alone down the aisle of a store when their parent was in a different aisle."

Who are these parents

https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/harris-poll-kid-independnce

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

My current secret weapons for this are a Nanuk 935 hard case with the large wheel option and a Rogeti tripod bag. This combination, which incorporates some very specific and somewhat unique features, has been a game changer for my photo schlepping.

The 935 case is a standard roller carryon size Pelican-style case with an unusual option: large (and field-removable) wheels. The large wheels travel far more easily over rough, uneven terrain than the typical rollerblade wheels on such cases do.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

#photography nerditry:

I don't travel light, at least where my photo gear is concerned. I use a medium format technical camera system (Phase One/Cambo), and that means *everything* is big and heavy. My typical four lens kit (23, 32, 70, 138) plus digital back, camera body, filters, spare batteries, and assorted dodads weighs in around 35lbs, not counting my tripod and head. And I spend a lot of time on foot and public transit, especially when I'm traveling out of town.

How do I manage?

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