“There is no EU cookie banner law”
But also because, while people think terrible banners are legal requirements enforced from the EU, most cookie banners are actually… illegal according to the EU law.
“Auto-margin works with absolute positioned elements | Stefan Judis Web Development”
I used to call myself an Apple fan, but I’m clearly not unhinged enough to qualify these days.
Apparently their latest thing is to claim that nobody has ever in the history of governance tried to regulate access to market-making private infrastructure
🤦🏻♂️
Just seen somebody describe Gary Marcus as “critical” of AI, which is very 🤨
Gary Marcus is a career AI guy who is very, very pro-AI. He’s just not completely irrational. That people are describing him as critical just for pointing out the obvious is yet another sign we’re in a massive bubble
“require(esm) in Node.js | Joyee Cheung’s Blog”
Kind of interesting to think how sometimes it only takes a single person to make a change that substantially improves things for an entire dev ecosystem.
“Amazon buys nuclear-powered data centre from Talen - Nuclear Engineering International”
The other big customer of that nuke-powered data centre? A crypto miner.
Basically, “AI” and crypto are sucking up capacity that could have been used to wean society off carbon fuels
We’re so screwed.
As if I needed more reasons to hate Shopify.
(Trying out Ubuntu and hadn’t updated Firefox. There is no reason on earth why an ecommerce system wouldn’t work with a five month old version of Firefox.)
“The growing backlash against AI”
In this way “AI” is deeply dehumanizing: Making the spaces and opportunities for people to grow and be human smaller and smaller
“The most important goal in designing software is understandability”
Whenever I see a pundit claim you can’t make a good Progressive Web App implying that Apple’s middling support is doing us a favour somehow, I get the urge to go all-in on the Chrome-only Fugu APIs just to show what could have been done in an alternate universe where Mozilla hasn’t given up
“Today’s AI is unreasonable. - Anil Dash”
I still fundamentally distrust Anil Dash’s judgement after his misguided “web3 is too big to fail” thread (read it twice,mind boggling on each read) but this post from last year is correct
“Volcanic eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula - RÚV.is”
As always, the best places for accurate updates on the eruption are either the national broadcasting service’s English language page (this link) or the official met office page.
“FTC inquires about Reddit’s AI deals, ahead of IPO”
Acquiring user’s personal data for one reason and then using it for another isn’t always allowed, even in the US
In one earlier case the FTC jumped on a dating app dev who pivoted to facial recognition training their model on uploaded photos
“This invasive and manipulative service is out-competing our domestic invasive and manipulative services, so we’re going to force it to sell to a domestic fund that outright gives retired gov officials a cut of the loot”
… is not a good look for a country that occasionally cosplays as a free market
I’m guessing this means springs not here yet…………
“Report: Most Subscription-Based Apps Do Not Make Money - MacRumors”
the median monthly revenue for apps after one year is less than $50
I’m sure this is fine and not an example of a completely dysfunctional and unsustainable market that has been micromanaged to death by Apple
“Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology”
Always post when somebody finds Gunpei Yokoi and discovers a kindred soul
How would anybody notice if Google “crippled search in the EU”? Dysfunctional is already its default state.
“Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss”
Hard to see how this isn’t an extinction event for for-profit web media. Y’know… the outfits who do the reporting and writing those generated results are actually based on.
“Following Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
I always try to follow links. You always end up somewhere interesting.