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Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.
Boom!
No cookie notice necessary.
What’s that?
But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?
Good.
Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.
Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works:
* Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.
whether or not this is technically correct it totally nails how I feel about cookie notices. They're obviously compliance theatre. I hate them all, especially when you have to accept 'necessary cookies' or else you get them all (you probably get them all anyway). Plus which data privacy gaslighter even needs cookies now? They've probably moved on to even more invasive methods. Oh, did I mention I hate cookies and their stupid fake notices?
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve.
No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU.
The problem is that no such regulation exists.
@writingslowly There’s a problem with point 1 - who decides what “can be built”? For instance: Many legislators want companies to implement encrypted communication in a way such that they - and only they - can listen in. Numerous experts believe such a system can’t be built (at least not securely).
If I’d run a company I’d rather not end up in court where a lawyer explains to me what can be built and what not.
Yes, regulation, like any legislation can be good or bad. That said, if you run, say a construction company, a lawyer does explain to you what can and can’t be built. You don’t just get to dig up a park and put in luxury apartments because you feel like it. You don’t get to construct a factory and dump your sewage into the sea. Or, more to the point, if you run a cinema, you don’t get to put cameras in the bathrooms. There are many things you don’t get to do if you run a company because they would infringe on the rights of others and your right to make a profit doesn’t supersede that.
I hope you’re teaching your students that they should be thoughtful in what they build so that it benefits humanity. We don’t need more things, we need more things that improve human welfare. And the last thing we need are more libertarian techbros who think they can do whatever they want in pursuit of their gluttonous profiteering and that rules don’t apply to them. That’s how we end up with technofascism.
@yahe @marix yes, we would. The mentioned ePD covers also non-personal data, thus is not necessarily lex specialis to the GDPR. This is why the ePD e.g. covers all cookies, not only tracking (or browser fingerprinting, or ..., and also responsive Design (but does not mandate aquiring consent for that as it is functional for the service requested by the user)).
@codinghorror Are we sure that Jeff Atwood isn't an early LLM experiment? The straight-up overconfidence as he spouts completely incorrect and ignorant shit feels an awful lot like ChatGPT and its coterie of concussed digital parrots.
Oh, wait. The "voice" of these is modelled after what techbrodudes think sounds smart. I may have put the teleological cart before the horse.
Exactly. And his "all websites" particularly grates because I could point him at a bunch of websites I've been involved with that don't have any cookie notice for the reasons you say.
@fabienmarry @codinghorror Yes. I’d be completely fine with legislating that every browser reinstate that feature, have it on by default, and compel sites to obey it without asking again. That would also solve the problem.
they are even almost never compliance as most of them don't follow requirements for being compliant by making it hard to refuse all, and by having so much information and "partners", that makes it impossible for any human been to actually be informed by all of them, and therefore, can't ever exist informed consent.
@jenesuispasgoth @knud I work in e-commerce in Europe. Mostly the banners are there because such websites do use a lot of third party services for purposes that range from marketing campaign monitoring to user session recordings (for debugging). Apart from developing everything in house or hosting the tools, there aren’t a lot of ways to avoid the banners.
@knud but even if you sold something, you would not need to put up a cookie banner : to sell something you require some information to complete the sale (address where to ship, and/or info about the means to pay for the good or service sold). None of that would be illegitimate.
I didn't read the 🦷 from Jeff. I fully understand the no tracking and I'm glad I live in the eu and privacy is taken seriously. But I also understand the need for cookies , at least for analytics and I think the cookie consent ux is awful. I get cookie consent blind and click allow all ... Usually the default.. to get to the content. It could be super nice if the cookie-banners could steered by request accept headers as standard. In that way I would only need to set the browser settings
@praerien 1. You don’t need third-party cookies for analytics. Services exist that provide analytics without third-party tracking.
2. The “UX” (design) of cookie consent banners is anti-pattern implemented by the adtech industry exactly to invoke this reaction and misdirect your ire from the tracking itself to the law meant to protect your rights.
3. Your suggested solution would, indeed, nip this in the bud. This is why the surveillance industry made sure to remove Do Not Track the moment they realised it could be used for this purpose. (After all, it has served Mozilla/Silicon Valley’s purpose of delaying regulation for a decade and now had become a liability.)
True, load Vivaldi.com or our forums or indeed any site we run. No cookie banners. We have been asked before how we manage to do this but it ain't rocket science.
Also look at all the Mastodon sites, no banners, unlike X, Threads, etc. How? We all know how. 😉
1. Every browser needs to, by default, be set to allow "strictly necessary cookies" only. 2. Every site that wants to serve EU users must honour this setting. 3. Impose massive fines on sites that don't do this or that choose to interpret "strictly necessary only" in "creative" ways.
So that anybody who does not want other cookies has to do exactly nothing to achieve that.
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve.
No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU.
The problem is that no such regulation exists.
Really the main problem of this enforcement is that it came too late, when (almost) everyone was already dependent on collecting private data. That made it easy for the industry to collectively decide that intrusive popups would be the simplest way to comply.
What were people going to do, take their business to the competition? Doesn't matter, they do it too.
If regulation had come earlier, then the first ones to use popups would have been seen as obnoxious assholes and lost visitors.
My own criticism of that EU law is that they didn't bother to check if there were ever any reason to let yourself be voluntarily tracked - there isn't. The whole thing should've been a law that makes it illegal.
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve.
No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU.
The problem is that no such regulation exists.
I'd argue they're actually malicious non-compliance, since every implementation I've worked with uses third-party cookies to save user's "choice", & many would run ads using third-party cookies until prompted otherwise, & many would ignore user input altogether.
@jenesuispasgoth @knud it is partly possible indeed; thing is, it costs much more money in initial setup and recurring upkeep, with less flexibility and no tangible benefit in a market where users have "accepted" the ubiquity of the banner.
So in your world, how do you sell a customer a thing, without having to have a salesman call them? Oh wait, phone numbers can't be collected either, without permission... Yes, many sites are using it for adverts, but lots are also trying to sell a product that isn't the browser.
@Dss In my world, which the same world you live in, if a person provides their phone number to have a sales person call them, they are consenting to have the sales person call them and you can use their phone number for the purpose of having a sales person call them which is what the person has given you permission to do.
Do you need a cookie notice for that?
No.
(That said, it’s not my job to fix toxic business models.)
Lin et al. found that ad blocker users are more satisfied with the products and services they buy than non-users. There _is_ a theoretical economic role of advertising but surveillance advertising is failing at it
Lots of pro-surveillance advocacy from academics, but they don't cite some of the best sources in their own field, or some of the best points in the body copy of the papers they do cite—even Google refers to de-personalizing the ads as a "protection" blog.zgp.org/advertising-perso…
@fabienmarry @codinghorror That's a better solution, and then you only meet the committee notice when you add something to a basket, or log in, or whatever. A bit like auto blocking those "Follow this website?" notifications until you at least interact with the website!
I think every instance has questionable people on it. If you see misinformation please report it, the moderators and instance owner @/jerry take it very seriously
this was DNT and DNT was killed by BROWSERS. Because lumpsum unintelligible data collection notices allowed to continue all evil practices with just a change on a web notice. So the argumentation of @codinghorror is particularly torn.
I wrote something like this a couple of times here. People don't understand that there is no need for cookie banners for the technically necessary cookies the website need to function, only for the optional shit that usually is tracking. And that those banners are full of dark patterns, made to annoy users so they click on "agree to all".
That’s the problem with theory and practise : in real life an army of lawyers and „experts“ advice you to behave exactly like all the others. And all the public services provide bad examples since they behave exactly in the same wrong way.
In reality, GDPR brought the opposite results of what we wanted to achieve.
@hey Yes, aggregate analytics – what you describe – does not constitute tracking.
(That is different from anonymised data; anonymised data can be deanonymised using other data sets – a common practice within the people farming industry.)
What I *do* think should be a browser feature if we're really serious about doing away with cookie notices is having an option to either auto-accept, auto-deny, or for you to actually have to click every single gods damned notice. Since most of them already have a "necessary cookies only" option, that alone would get rid of 90% of the banners. And even then, devs could write something to parse more needlessly complicated menus for that. The only way to get around that, which I don't even know if this is in compliance with GDPR, is for websites to en masse get rid of the option and do what some have done where it's just a popup that says "We use third party cookies. Don't like it? Hit the road then." But again, I'm not even sure if those actually comply with the GDPR
@disorderlyf This feature already exists. It is just that ad-tech ignored that users were sending a do-not-track request and instead they opted for trying to nudge everyone into accepting their surveillance, by making obnoxious cookie banners.
@uncanny_static @disorderlyf It’s worse than that: this was a feature spearheaded by Mozilla (Silicon Valley’s acceptable face) and it had the very real effect of staving off regulation for a decade (“look, we are self regulating”). The moment people realised it could be used to communicate consent within the framework of GDPR, the feature was deprecated.
Sadly, some folks still think Mozilla are the good guys.
Minor nitpick: the cookie banners are not even malicious compliance since they tend to rely on consent without meeting the requirements for said consent. More like performative non-compliance then.
If I hosted my own private analytics tracker (something like Matomo (née Piwik), e.g.) just so I could have funny numbers to look at because I like to look at numbers but do nothing meaningful with them, would that require a cookie banner?
I'd pondered about just having a static notice in the footer of my site that just says "This site uses some functional cookies and one (1) tracking cookie for a self-hosted analytics dashboard because I like to look at Numbers™."
I had a brief and regrettable stint at a German ad tech firm while GDPR came into force. The conversation in the room was literally "how do we make this as inconvenient as possible for people so that they just click accept?" Advertising should be illegal.
The hilarious part was that this WAS a browser feature, dnt, but the industry didn't like that everyone enabled DNT so they refused to use it and use cookie pop ups instead. He doesn't even know that basic history either.
@david_chisnall @urlyman @noybeu Indeed. And yes they are but enforcement of GDPR should fall on the shoulders of more than one small law firm. Good thing they exist but it also shows how messed up the system is in general.
@urlyman It's often not even malicious compliance. Most of these banners don't even meet the requirements of the GDPR, specifically that you must be able to withdraw consent at any time and that you mist give informed consent (i.e. that you must know what you have consented to to be able to grant consent).
@noybeu is doing a great job going after some of these people.
Misleading. If you implement first party cookies for your own analytics to improve your website (like... what content is more popular, what pages are broken from UX standpoint), you still have to show the cookie notice.
Whether it's first or third party is not part of the equation.
@codinghorror I remind you that this is Jeff Attwood you are finger wagging at here. He is wrong on this take. But if you really think this invalidates his critique of capitalism or his significant charity work then I think you might consider reappraising your position.
Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its platform. Thanks to this, starting today, GitHub.com
@codinghorror @andrewrk I think what people are trying to tell you is that you’re part of the problem.
You’re not just any “user of the internet”, you’re a developer. You have agency. Don’t like cookie banners? Great! Lead by example: remove them from the sites you own and control (i.e., stop tracking people on the sites you own and control. Find other ways to make money.)
@codinghorror @andrewrk the first linked comment especially leans towards the businessperson perspective - sure, content creators want to make money off personal data by selling ads, but nobody is entitled to get that data unobtrusively. If you want it, you need to put up the banner.
@codinghorror Look, Aral Balkan, we could have a very juicy and polarizig conversation about this, but it wouldn’t help the cause. 🤓 And the cause, as I understand it, is to advance the privacy of citizens, with fully informed consent and as little hassle as needed. I believe that a large portion of the cookie banners on the web are presented just because that’s the default. 1/4
@mathew @mkj @praerien 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.
@mathew @mkj @praerien some do, some don't. Some don't because they're oblivious, some intentionally.
You can check in Chrome: load a page in Incognito window, then press F12 to open developer tools, then go to Application > Cookies, and see if there's _ga, _fbp, or any of the other usual suspects.
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Προσπαθουν Φινλανδοι, BBC να πεισουν οτι η σβαστικα της αεροποριας τους, ειναι συμβολο απο το 1918, πολυ πριν το 3ο Ραιχ, κ οτι δεν ειχε πολιτικο χαρακτηρα... Αυτο που δεν λενε βεβαια ειναι οτι η σβαστικα δοθηκε απ τον χορηγο τους σουηδο Eric Von Rosen, ο οποιος ηταν εθνικοσοσιαλιστης πολυ πριν το 1933, ιδρυτικο μελος μετεπειτα του ναζιστικου κινηματος στη Σουηδια στα 1930. Και του οποιου το αεροπλανο με τη σβαστικα χρησιμοποιησαν στον εμφυλιο το 1917 εναντια στους κομμουνιστες Φιλανδους
Ισοθερμικά Lunch box και παπαριτσες . Ένα τοστ μας έφτιαχναν της κακιάς ώρας το τύλιγαν με μια χαρτοπετσέτα και 3 κιλά αλουμινόχαρτο και το έριχναν στην τσάντα . Μετά το ξετυλίγαμε αλλοιώναμε τα ραδιοκύματα της γειτονιάς με τα αλουμινόχαρτα και μασούσαμε και λίγο χαρτί για την κυτταρίνη . #greece
I sent mails via a Python script and SMTP. can I verify somehow whether the mails arrived with the recipients or whether they got filtered? I tried to make SPF and DKIM work.
@romin do you let the credit card rot in your inventory as a keepsake or do you «waste» it on recruiting also dont let swagchen see this, but plana is cuter than arona tbh
@forcedinductionretard you don't exactly lose it, it gets replaced with a crumbled card item if you use it. Some people to try to meme recruit fat siroko during fes with it, I don't plan to use mine for the foreseeable future tho. Plana a cute agree
*sniffs, tugs at shirt* You know, the true perversity of Evangelion is not the obvious Freudian symbology -- the mother in the robot, the father who abandons, and so on and so on -- but rather how it stages the fundamental deadlock of the otaku subject under late capitalism.
*gestures wildly* Here you have Shinji, the perfect neoliberal subject: he doesn't want to pilot the Eva, he hates it, but he does it anyway! Why? Because of some abstract duty? No! Because he has already internalized the superego injunction to enjoy his own exploitation. "I mustn't run away" - this is not courage, this is the purest ideology!
*touches nose* But the real obscenity -- and here Anno is a true genius, whether he knows it or not -- is how the series presents instrumentalisation itself as traumatic. NERV literally dissolves the boundary between human and machine, mother and weapon, and what do we get? Not liberation but pure anxiety! The EVA units are the perfect metaphor for our digital predicament: we are told these technologies will extend our capabilities, make us posthuman, but instead we discover *laughs darkly* that we were always already instruments!
Gendo's Human Instrumentality Project is just making explicit what capitalism already does: reducing humans to pure exchangeable substance, orange goo, the ultimate liquidity!
*sniff* And the masterstroke is the ending - not the false happy ending of End of Evangelion, but the original episodes 25 and 26, where the budget runs out and we get pure interiority. *waves hands* "Congratulations!" they all say to Shinji. But for what? For accepting his place in the symbolic order? This is the ultimate perversity: the show literally cannot afford to show the apocalypse, so instead it stages the real catastrophe - the subject accepting his own subjection as liberation! The production committee pulls the funding, and Anno turns this material limitation into the perfect metaphor for ideological closure!
*adjusts shirt violently* You know what nobody wants to admit? Evangelion is not about robots or aliens or whatever -- it's about the impossibility of authentic action under capitalism. Every character is trapped in their own repetition compulsion: Misato drinks, Asuka performs superiority, Rei submits to erasure; and the Angels? The Angels are just the return of the repressed, the stupid insistence of the Real that says: your little techno-military complex cannot contain the trauma of existence!
If you're gonna get into anime, you need to be prepared to encounter the lolita complex as a theme getting explored and joked about. It's not just in moe anime or as intentional fanservice, it's in the critically acclaimed, film buff approved hayao miyazaki and satoshi kon stuff too.
Mind you, they aren't exactly voicing approval of it, the disconnect between anime creators and the western audience isn't that anime creators think pedophilia is A-OK, it's that anime creators consider lolicon to be an edgy topic that's on the table to make self-aware jokes and commentary about while the western audience tend to treat it as a taboo that shouldn't ever be brought up.
This makes western anime discussion kind of maddening to navigate if you have any degree of pattern recognition cus it's all just people taking a look at their favorite show and being shocked - shocked - that the teenage girls in it are depicted as having a sexuality.
They are watching a medium whose most long-running theme is the uneasy relationship between cuteness and sexuality and they are shocked to see that theme being addressed.
The Global Sumud [=resilience] Flotilla, which is sails with civilian ships in a few hours to break Israel's illegal siege against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip in Palestine, will hold its last press conference before departure soon here: youtube.com/live/MMzTxf8s8is
Last press conference before history's largest international civil humanitarian movement to break the siege on Gaza, open a maritime humanitarian corridor an...
A new flotilla of over 50 ships — the largest yet — is to set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip on August 31, members of the steering committee said at a press conference from the port ahead of their departure.
A brief explainer video from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is since earlier today en route with many civilian ships to break Israel's illegal siege against the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip of Palestine:
Global Sumud Flotilla, now: ───── A few months ago, on an Instagram livestream from aboard the Madleen, Bisan sowed the seeds for this mission, which has now become reality.
Thank you [Bisan Owda] for planting an idea so powerful it could not be contained. The Global Sumud Flotilla is living proof that Palestinian steadfastness, Sumud, is not only unbreakable, but liberating us all.
We will not stop until the siege is broken and Palestine is free. ─────
The plan against the human rights activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is a completely legal humanitarian aid convoy with civilian ships to break Israel's illegal siege against the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, is according to a plan by far-right National "Security" Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pending approval by the main genocide culprit PM Netanyahu to imprison them in facilities for terrorists for several weeks as a supposed "deterrent" against future morally imperative actions, as well as to steal their reportedly >50 ships and boats to make them "police assets" of Israel, according to a report today by Israel Hayom which I won't link to because they are disgusting.
Global Sumud Flotilla statement this morning: ───── GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA MISSION DEPARTURE DELAYED TO PRIORITIZE SAFETY AMID STRONG MEDITERRANEAN WINDS
September 1st, 2025 Due to unsafe weather conditions, we conducted a sea trial and then returned to port to allow the storm to pass. This meant delaying our departure to avoid risking complications with the smaller boats. Facing over 30 knot winds and the unpredictable nature of the Mediterranean, we made this decision to prioritize the safety and well-being of all participants and to safeguard the success of our mission. ─────
"Ten Finnish citizens have joined Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg on the Global Sumud flotilla of boats, which aims to bring aid to the Gaza region as well as break Israel's naval blockade of the enclave" Public Service broadcaster of Finland: yle.fi/a/74-20180456?origin=rs…
Note however that their current title for the article is incorrect. They titled the article "Ten Finns join Greta Thunberg's aid flotilla to Gaza", but it is not Greta's flotilla, it's its own organization out of which Greta is one of the Steering Committee members (globalsumudflotilla.org/about/).
Israel's Minister of National Security has threatened to imprison the flotilla’s activists under terrorism charges, but strong winds on Monday forced the vessels to return to Barcelona.
Global Sumud Flotilla, about 10 minutes ago: ───── STATEMENT ON LAST NIGHT’S WEATHER CONDITIONS
September 2nd, 2025 Due to extreme weather conditions last night, five of our smaller vessels turned back for safety reasons. We are relieved to confirm that everyone is safe and accounted for, and the mission continues.
When small civilian vessels must do the work that governments have failed to do, sailing to break the siege and end the genocide, challenges like these are common. If even one of the complicit governments sent their far more capable ships to Gaza, these obstacles would not fall on ordinary people.
We remain steadfast in our commitment to reach Gaza, to join with ships departing from Tunis, Greece, and Italy, and to stand united in breaking Israel’s illegal siege with a humanitarian and nonviolent mission. ─────
More from the Global Sumud Flotilla of ~50 civilian ships and boats with humanitarian aid currently en route to break Israel's illegal siege against the Palestinian People on the Gaza Strip of Palestine: ───── Over the weekend, thousands of people across the world took to the streets to support the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the liberation of Palestine.
These boats carry more than aid and people on them. They carry the spirit of a global movement outraged by what we see in Palestine and determined to act.
Mobilizations will continue as the flotilla sets sail towards Gaza. Stay tuned to be part of this collective effort for liberation. ─────
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Daniel Day Lewis seems like a really nice chap who, when acting, just gets on the whisky and let's some inner problematic self take over.
Right, hello Daniel love. Yes we're going to need you in this scene to play a complete fucking maniac.....red faced, sweaty and unpredictability violent.
Of course, darling. Give me a bottle of Bells and 40 minutes and I'm all over it.
"Things could be, should be, and must be better—but what kind of power do we want? ~ Dave, member of Haringey Solidarity Group ~ Power over people, or empowered people everywhere controlling their own lives? Is the top-down way our society is currently organised and run the natural “way things are”, and the only way? The post Today’s seeds are tomorrow’s future appeared first on
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As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, #Trump has deployed warships near #Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.
In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”
Just block and report the bastard (although that instance is full of them so might not be effective). We are truly in the late stage capitalism since the only way to feed people is by fundraising... #freepalestine
During these days, many people talk and comment abotu the murdering of the child Hind Rajab, but very few remember the names of the members of the Red Cross who tries to rescue her before being killed as well by the IDF:
Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun
This post is a homenage no only to those brave men, but also for those people in our society who heal, rescue, protect and die for us.
"When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; They'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn't just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law." - Brian Allen
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observations from the firing range: 85 year old man around 154cm with curved back, barely able to get out of his car. barely able to carry the rifle pouch. unpacks his stuff for half an hour. fires 8 rounds, getting obliterated by each recoil. packs his stuff again and leaves.
Imagine solving a problem so cleverly that you win a $20,000 bounty—only to be told you can’t share your solution because of a law meant to protect creativity. This isn’t dystopian fiction; it’s the reality of DMCA overreach. When did owning something stop meaning you can actually use, modify, or repair it? The right to tinker isn’t just about convenience; it’s about preserving the spirit of innovation and ownership. Louis Rossmann’s cat has the right idea: ‘Pay attention to me’—because the real issue is that corporations are using digital locks to hold your property hostage. If a cat can understand the importance of autonomy, why can’t our laws? youtu.be/66j9dsPhAjE #RightToRepair #DigitalOwnership #DMCA #ConsumerRights
I just came across Louis Rossmann new video that highlights a significant issue for Android users. Google's latest move is a game-changer—or should we say, a game-breaker? Your $1000 phone now needs Google's permission to install apps. This isn't about security; it's about control. Like the DMCA issue—this is just another example of corporations dictating what we can do with our own devices. It's time to stand up for our right to tinker and true digital ownership. Watch and share: youtu.be/QBEKlIV_70E #Android #Google #DigitalOwnership #RightToRepair
I've quit the whole ecosystem. No more smartphones for me. Im not going to spend the next years of my life trying to figure out how to navigate increasing risks from companies who really don't deserve my business in the first place.
And who is the kind of person trying to get @staff to ban the accounts of Palestinians who are using the fediverse as their last lifeline to literally get funds to eat as they’re being starved by Israel in a genocide?
The same kind of person – an anonymous coward furthermore – who paints the freedom flotilla as “Hamas”.
Do not let these Zionist propaganda accounts take hold on the fediverse.
We also need a list of servers that are safe for Palestinians to be on.
We cannot take the risk that mastodon.social will do what Bluesky has done and ban them.
Banning the account of a Palestinian who is using the fediverse to fundraise for food in the middle of a famine created by Israel’s genocide is tantamount to a death sentence.
Is there already a list?
If not can admins for instances that are safe for Palestinians please reply to this point and submit their domains?
I don't know what the policies are on mastodon.social, but there are several scam accounts that ask for money. Usually, they claim to be either a Palestinian or a diabetic person. And I'm afraid that those scammy accounts also harm those who really are in need
And here’s the same person openly calling for mastodon.social @staff to ban accounts from Palestine like Bluesky is doing.
Translation: “The #Fake Accounts from Gaza, with which anyone collects donations, are becoming more and more dubious. Either "journalists" or young women. Donation account never in Gaza, but always middlemen abroad. After Bluesky consistently blocks the accounts, they now come to #Fediverse. / @staff @diessoli”
Are there fake accounts? Yes. Are they all fake accounts? Not by a long shot.
Some of us are taking the time to help verify the accounts of Palestinians who rely on the fediverse to survive. I’ve personally had video conversations with several people in Gaza on Signal and will be holding more.
Do not listen to these heartless bastards who are trying to cut off what is the last lifeline for Palestinians trying to survive a genocide.
Die #Fake Accounts aus Gaza, mit denen wer auch immer Spenden sammelt, werden immer dubioser. Entweder „Journalisten“ oder junge Frauen. Spendenkonto nie in Gaza, sondern immer Mittelsmänner im Ausland.
Somehow I am not surprised in the least that they are (most likely) German. Joined three days ago to lecture the Fediverse on the one true definition of antisemitism, and that Israel could not possibly be committing a genocide. But in a few years, of course, they will always have stood on the right side of history and/or couldn't have known what was happening.
@CadeJohnson I feel you’re overthinking it. Donating directly to Palestinian families keeps them alive for another day. It makes an immediate difference. And that matters in a famine. Aid agencies have aid lined up the border but they are not allowed in by Israel (it’s not compatible with the goals of their genocide).
@CadeJohnson Were any of those accounts confirmed to be legit? Between fraudsters and AI, you have to think ten times before donating to anyone these days. I completely agree with the point about this being akin to a zero sum game. There are trucks full of aid waiting at the border, so this famine is being deliberately manufactured. That creates a terrible ethical dilemma for each of us. Donating might save one person, but there's a clear nefarious outcome: the money gets diverted to smugglers and criminals. It’s a horrible thing to say, but it feels like you're being forced to choose who lives and who dies, all while funding the very people profiting from the crisis. Do the posts I see break my heart? Fuck yes. But should we be answering these calls for help with money? I'm just not sure. I pretty much despise effective altruism and believe individual people matter, but when all you have is a social media post... it feels like an impossible choice.
I just had a video call over Signal with @joynewacc from Gaza.
Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.
She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genocide being committed by Israel.
Please help her and her family afford food during the famine that Gaza is experiencing. Please donate if you can and/or share this so that it might reach others who might be able to:
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