Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Austrian federal court decides that use of reCAPTCHA is not “essential” and therefore the cookies it sets are in violation of GDPR/EPD, thus reCAPTCHA is illegal

2024/12/05
I remain perpetually amazed how often the same people are one moment calling for “open APIs” and “access to data for research” and the next are “what do you mean you let just anybody scrape the locations of all rental bikes in New York City?”

2024/12/05
“So when is the earliest that UK users could now benefit from options to verify their identity?” | …clearly that’s what’s lacking in the UK: social media sites must vet us

2024/12/05
Sometimes I imagine that there is an alien race watching and discussing us, and they’re saying “…these humans aren’t *really* intelligent, it’s all just pattern matching and stochastic parroting”

2024/12/04
Proof of the universality of the “safety activist crusades to undo demonstrable technical benefit to all because of fringe issue…” trope

2024/12/04
Here is a picture of me using giant, mega marshmallows for their zero-rated VAT approved purpose as an ingredient, in this case for rice crispy cakes

2024/12/03
EU GPSR: General Product Safety Regulations

2024/12/03
“So, in response, many NSA employees were like, ‘No, fuck off, I’ll play Pokémon Go all over base’” | …and yet Australia expects to successfully ban teenagers from social media?

2024/11/30
Honestly thinking that Australia has just done a “Leeroy Jenkins” to Government efforts to “save children from themselves” by banning them from Social Media

2024/11/29
Electric Dreams | Tate Modern | …I’m here and waiting for the inevitable backlash about “algorithms cannot create art”

2024/11/28
History of “ping -a” (audible ping) on FreeBSD and MacOS, by @brucewmurphy on Threads

2024/11/27
Runa Sandvik: “Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security” | Global Investigative Journalism Network

2024/11/27