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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

In December 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union released its decision in the case of Russmedia.

It focusses on the data protection obligations of the operator of an online marketplace, in terms of the personal data contained in ads placed by its users.

I've finally found time to finish writing about it.

I am not playing the “this is the end of the web as we know it” card, but it certainly seems to impose some challenging requirements with potentially significant, far-reaching, consequences.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/02/russmedia-a-court-case-imposing-data-protection-obligations-which-many-website-operators-may-struggle-to-meet/

#GDPR #DataProtection

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

As billionaires try to life forever, it's worth understanding why they will almost certainly fail, and why our limited human lifespan is almost surely a good thing. Here's a deep dive into the science of life expectancy.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/02/11/the-human-lifespan-probably-has-an-upper-limit-and-why-thats-good/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

#EpsteinFiles #Paleontology #DinoCon

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I've said on here before, that I love the transformative power bikes have on how people think about interacting with each other🚴🏼‍♀️♥️

Having a bike stolen resets a white US person's understanding of what cops do and do not do.

Commuting on a bike resets a white US person's understanding of racist infrastructure.

I love bikes, especially cargo bikes and attachments for kids, because it's only about a 5 year learning journey for white folk from

👩🏼"I'm not political."

To

👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️"Hey Mekka! I bought a cargo bike! It's so much fun!"

To

👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️🥊"🤬Man, Robert Moses was a %!#!#&@)+ for real! $#&* him and his momma!"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@mnot I should add, as a co-author and signatory of the Extensible Web Manifesto, it was written at a particular moment & designed to prod the web community to address specific failings of Hixie-ist hubris.

I do not, in fact, care whether exposure of a new feature starts high-level or low-level; we must keep up the pace of capability additions, and plan to have *both* forms in the fullness of time. Where we start matters less than committing to finish:

https://infrequently.org/2020/06/platform-adjacency-theory/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

Twelve years later and this Beastie Boys / Daft Punk mashup is still one of my favorite quick aural pick-me-ups ⚡ https://coinsmakeyoudance.bandcamp.com/album/daft-science

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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

Reminder that this administration wants you to just fuckin' die, already

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00468-1#author-0

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you work on the web, you should read @mnot's latest:

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

It much more elegantly gets to the core of the pro/anti-progress asymmetry I tried to explore last year:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-invent/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@earthshine/116065265295058144

🔥

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason it is an act of rebellion, right?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
andrewrk ("Andrew Kelley") wrote:

big fan of @Codeberg manual merging copy pasteable command line instructions. way better than github's

plus that "manually merged" button? mmm! 🧑‍🍳 😘 👌

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

A handy chart into right wing ideology:

🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 = normal society
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿 = slippery slope
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿🧑🏿 = white genocide

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dovel@awful.systems wrote:

It seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good!The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.

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

best line I’ve heard yet on “Southland”:

“Look, I’m hormonal and I’ve got a gun. Don’t mess with me.”

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

👏build 👏death 👏camps 👏with 👏proper 👏zoning

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

If I were a notable person from the US, traveling to the rest of the world to promote things (as indeed I might later this year), I would at this point expect to be asked about the state of politics within the US. Fortunately for me, I've been very public about my "fuck these fascist fucks" stance so I don't think there will be any surprises were I to be asked.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/neil-patrick-harris-politics-berlin-sunny-bella-ramsey-1236504443/

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

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

@NfNitLoop no I appreciate it! I want to learn everything out there.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason Oh, totally agree on the approach. Not trying to FOSS-shame, just curious where y'all landed. 👍

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Don't laugh at how easy my quiz is. It's the best I can do, given a concussion and all these drugs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/13/an-easy-genetics-quiz/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, I totally get that using FOSS would be better in principle. But it's a matter of goal setting and making progress.

My goal (The Janky Web) is simple- to reduce the amount of collective time allotted to ad-tech platforms.

My method is simple, too—move people to apps they already have on their phones, and platforms that feel familiar.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

@NfNitLoop yup! For now at least, my goal is to just move them. If you find a co FOSS thing let me know I'll check it out

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason Are you just using Apple/Google Photos, or something else? (Wondering if there's some neat FOSS album thing I should investigate for my friends & family.)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, meaningless but, I kinda love that she has an acronym for a name. It's kind of badass so long as she likes it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Janky Web is any off-label implementation of a social media space where ad-tech can't reach your group.

For example, my family has a shared photo album where we post, like, and comment on photos.

Me and a couple of friends have a shared photo album exclusively for memes.

The goal of the Janky Web is to reduce our collective attention in ad-tech spaces.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, I don't know how I feel about the comments like "oh I like AOC but she won't win because of misogyny"

Sometimes it feels like the call is coming from inside the house. Also, the type of misogyny AOC faces is specific to her ethnicity.

If we can't identify the correct bias, how could we ever look inside ourselves to unlearn and relearn?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

We're so late in the game and so many of us still haven't identified the problem.

It's not that Democrats aren't fierce. Their affliction isn't a lack of will.

Democrats won't fight for Democratic Socialism, or any populist movement because they are red-blooded capitalists with a stock portfolio and corporate donors who dictate what they can and can't fight for.

So, we need politicians who share our morals and political ideals, fierce or not.

(AOC is the best of the worst so I'll take it.)