Ethalis

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[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Voyager adding a cake picture next to your name for this comment is pretty great. Also, happy lemmyversary

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, 1917's Germany, obviously led by radical leftist Nazi emperor Wilhelm II

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

I think Putin's very glad to see the West tearing itself apart by litteraly covering up a genocide and aiding a war of agression

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 152 points 1 month ago (33 children)

Apart from the obvious "arresting a senator for asking questions" thing, is whatever's happening on this picture standard procedure for arresting an unarmed, unthreatening person in the US? It looks like they're arresting a terrorist or a dangerous suspect

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You can do it but only once

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 8 points 1 month ago

Wait, when they say "Bob SquarePants" they mean it as an answer to that question? Honestly that seems a bit far fetch, you're reading into the lyrics too much

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On her way to the "How french can you look?" contest

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly I don't think it's that complicated. I'm convinced he just threw a temper tantrum because his ego couldn't handle being let go of his position has head of DOGE, and since Trump's ego is just as big as his things just escalated from there

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 276 points 2 months ago (33 children)

Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It's certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 78 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's basically gambling on the nerdiness of the question's writer. Do they think HTML is a programming language? Do they know that people think it's a programming language and trying to trap them? Do they know it's not a programming language but also know most people would think it is one and so are using the common, loose definition of a programming language in order not to trap people?

My brain would melt

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just so you know: GDPR has (mostly) nothing to do with those cookie banners. It's a very broad text that doesn't go into specifics like that.

What you're seeing is a result of the 2002 E-Privacy directive that has been reinterpreted by data privacy authorities in light of the new definition of consent brought by the GDPR.

Basically, since 2002, websites are required to ask users for consent before depositing cookies. The issue was that there was no definition of what this consent meant. What the GDPR did is simply to define the concept of consent as a free expression of will that must come from a positive act (i.e. it must be explicit rather than implicit).

The GDPR was supposed to come out with a sister regulation called the E-Privacy regulation, but due to intense lobbying that text was buried. Local data protection authorities in Europe then decided to reinterpret that old directive in light of the GDPR to fill the gap.

All in all, blame the lobbyists, not the GDPR

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