I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪

The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.

No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.

My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.

Yours shouldn't either.

#Privacy #Cookies #PrivacyLaw

Kitty is such a good helper!

Valve announce limited edition blue Steam Machine, “It is a piece of Andalite technology that the Yeerks do not have,” Gabe explained, “A technology that enables us to pass unnoticed in many parts of the universe - the power to morph. We have never shared this power. But your need is great.”

I am an IEEE 754 NaN value. You are an IEEE 754 NaN value. We are not the same.

The frogs will continue until morale improves

#frog

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Nintendo Gamma Boy.

We are almost there folks hang in there

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SUPERMARKET CHECKOUT LINE: no one says anything but you catch a lot of weird looks. roll 2d6 to find out how much PSYCHIC DAMAGE you take

I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong

Security conference talks fall into two categories
* we designed a distributed entropy siphon to perform a black-box hypervisor side channel escape and chain-load a persistent rootkit into the CPU cache
* we looked behind the sofa and found an entire industry of products/services that have made no attempt at security at all and are therefore vulnerable to the most basic issues that we've been finding in everything for the past 30 years, and no-one else had bothered to look.

it must feel so good for the mech pilot to be intimately linked to the systems of a hundred-ton war machine,,,,,,,,

“It’s the quiet ones you need to worry about” is extrovert propaganda.

call me a linux kernel the way i panic when something unexpected happens

call me busybox the way i act differently depending on what you call me

I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.

Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.

#programming #poll #demographics #fediverse #age