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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/7561562

There is hardly any discussion on this trending variety of web enshitification where a website needs to give physical locations to people. Many web devs are starting to spotlight their profound incompetence in accomplishing this very simple task. They throw up an interactive map which requires the full utilization of fancy GUI browser frills that excludes all but those who “chase the shiny”. A 1990s high schooler to do this better in plain HTML.

Doesn’t this screw over blind people? How does a screen reader handle a map?

My hardened low-bandwidth browser can’t handle this absurd degree of putting fancy above access equality. When this shit happens on a vendor’s website and I’m trying to locate them to give them business, the answer is easy: they can fuck off and lose my business. But it’s sad when a government does it and the information has medical relevance.

There is hardly any discussion on this trending variety of web enshitification where a website needs to give physical locations to people. Many web devs are starting to spotlight their profound incompetence in accomplishing this very simple task. They throw up an interactive map which requires the full utilization of fancy GUI browser frills with 3rd party js enabled, which excludes all but those who “chase the shiny”. A 1990s high schooler could handle this better in plain HTML.

Doesn’t this screw over blind people? How does a screen reader handle a map?

My hardened low-bandwidth browser can’t handle this absurd degree of putting fancy above access equality. When this shit happens on a vendor’s website and I’m trying to locate them to give them business, the answer is easy: they can fuck off and lose my business. But it’s sad when a government does it and the information has medical relevance.

I noticed a library that has ethernet ports, which I must say is quite impressive. So many libraries strictly expect people to use wifi which has downsides:

• many (most?) wifi NICs have no FOSS drivers (ethernet is actually the only way I can get my FOSS laptop online)
• ethernet is faster and consumes less energy
• wifi radiation harms bees and other insects according to ~72 studies (update: separate discussion thread here which shows the research is heavily contested)
• apparently due to risk of surrounding households consuming bandwidth, 2FA is used (which is inadvertently exclusive at some libraries)
• enabling wifi on your device exposes you to snooping by other people’s iPhones and Androids according to research at University of Hamburg. Every iPhone in range of your device is collecting data about you and sending it to Apple (e.g. SSIDs your device previously connected to). From what I recall about this study, it does not happen at the network level, so ethernet devices attached to the same network would not be snooped on (and certainly SSID searches would not be in play).
• (edit) users at risk to AP spoofing (thanks @NoneYa@lemm.ee for pointing this out)

I don’t know when (if ever) I encountered a library with ethernet. Is this a dying practice and I found an old library, or a trending practice by well informed forward-thinking libraries?

BTW, the library that excludes some people from wifi by imposing mobile phone 2FA is not the same library that has ethernet ports, unfortunately. If you can’t use the wifi of the SMS 2FA library then your only option is to use their Windows PCs.

When viewing a timeline in #Lemmy, the count of responses will show “(1 new)” immediately after you add a reply to someone.

We don’t really care what’s new; we care how many comments are unseen which cannot include our own comments.

#LemmyBug

/cc @nutomic@lemmy.ml

The #GDPR protects everyone inside the EU (regardless of citizenship) + also EU citizens who are outside of the EU.

So what happens when you have:

EU citizen outside the EU → Cloudflare (the closest server) → EU website

?

CF’s closest server would usually not be in the EU in this case. The GDPR generally bans personal data being stored outside the EU. As far as anyone knows this is data in transit not storage. But we really don’t know that. We don’t know what Cloudflare collects and stores.

In principle, European websites that use Cloudflare should have the proxy server restricted to EU locations and under EU regulation. Correct?

Some people use https://libretranslate.com/ thinking they are gaining some privacy by avoiding Google Translate. This web service is proxied through Cloudflare, thus exposing potentially sensitive text to a privacy-hostile US tech giant. #Libretranslate uses words like “libre”, “free” and “open” to gain people’s trust. No mention of Cloudflare, so quite deceiving.

A CTO in Czech Republic was considering using Libretranslate on sensitive medical and personal data of people. Yikes! His only concern was whether the Libretranslate admin kept logs of the translations.

Czech is an EU member, thus subject to the GDPR. But I actually cannot think of a GDPR violation here in the general case. Everyone is free to outsource. And Europeans would likely be routed to a CF server in Europe.

When visiting this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/https://www.businessinsider.nl/cloudflare-ceo-suggests-people-who-report-online-abuse-use-fake-names-2017-5

the #WaybackMachine said the page is not archived. But in fact it was (and still is) here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171024040313/www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-ceo-suggests-people-who-report-online-abuse-use-fake-names-2017-5

This attribute got added to the end of the URL at one point in the process: ?international=true&r=US so it seems the #WaybackMachine is not wise about useless parameters. Perhaps it’s too complex for it to drop params and compare.

This is what it looks like when a Tor user attempts to fetch a file or even just obtain the size of a file from a Cloudflared resource like #LemmyWorld.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/7212221

Keeping $1k in a bank for 1 year is equal to the CO₂ emissions of flying New York to Seattle. Because banks invest in fossil fuels.

I’m considering building a directional FM antenna for an FM station that has almost no signal in most of the house. Otherwise I must put the receiver near the window and put the antenna in a specific position. (related thread)

At the same time I am also tempted to build a omni-directional FM antenna that would also suit DAB frequencies (if possible). Since I would prefer to only run one coax cable throughout the house I guess I need to know if the directional and omni-directional antennas can simply be spliced together to share the same coax.

Is that feasible?

In #Brussels, #Belgium there are ~75 DAB stations and ~25 FM stations. None of them seem to be jazz. I’ve only found a couple non-jazz stations that occasionally play jazz:

• Bruzz
• VRT Klara

Klara seems to play some jazz, sparsely, in their programs “Music Matters”, “Django”, and “Undercover”, but AFAIK no programs that are solid jazz. The Bruzz schedule is unsearchable. I’ve heard jazz but cannot find a scheduled time where jazz is likely.

So if anyone knows of other non-jazz stations that have a jazz timeslot, please mention it here. Thanks!

The immersion style of teaching a language in the purest sense involves refusing to use other languages to aid in teaching the target language. So if you take a French class in France, you might not hear a word of English. Whereas if you take a French class in the US, some teachers will speak English at least in the first few stages.

I find the immersion approach extremely slow and error prone. E.g. if the teacher holds up an image of a red firefighter hat and speaks French, you might not know if she is saying “hard hat”, “red”, or “fire fighter”. You have to guess and if your guess is wrong it feeds into negative training.

There is an audio tape where a Brit teaches French. He said for the most part English words ending in “…tion”, “…ly”, “…ize”, “…ise”, etc are also French words. There are exceptions of course but in just one sentence of English I instantly learned hundreds of French words trivially.

Not sure how thoroughly this has been studied but I suspect immersion language teaching works better on quite young (highly neuroplastic) brains. As an adult it’s very frustrating.

A professor once told me: you don’t need school to learn. You can learn anything by teaching yourself by reading and experiencing the knowledge. But what school does for you is accelerates the learning by structuring it for fast consumption in an organized way. I agree. And I think that the most accelerated way to learn French is to use existing knowledge of English as a tool. Whereas learning by immersion is comparable to learning by experience (the hard way is slow!).

So my ultimate question is whether this as been studied on adults. Does an adult group reach fluency quicker or slower if they learn by immersion? A lot of people say immersion is more effective, but it always seems like this guidance is blind. They never say or imply it’s supported by research. It seems like an indoctrination that people just accept. Different brains are different. An adult who only knows one language will probably be more hindered by immersion because their brain perhaps relies more heavily on associative memory (making connections with existing language knowledge).