Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

Repost to delay silksong one final time.

It has begun #HollowKnight #Silksong

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.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

When your code works but no idea how

[accidentally entering a rap battle]

I uh, I got flows like oauth

chat control? isn't that when you dom a french catgirl...?

ah yes... the good, the bad, the ugly, the base, and the rust

Elegoo are apparently violating the GPL:

https://freethecode.lol/

Bonus lols:

"Health checks ping servers 10+ times per minute"
"Printer generates 70GB+ of traffic per month while idle"

#3dprinting

After careful consideration and extensive financial analysis, I am hereby formally submitting a bid to @google to acquire the Google Chrome browser project for the sum of $10.00 USD (ten dollars).

This represents a significant premium over current market conditions and demonstrates my serious commitment to browser innovation. Payment can be made via Venmo, PayPal, or cash.

My qualifications/plans include:

I have used Chrome before when i was 6
I promise to keep the dinosaur game
I will make it foss

This offer stands until end of business today (5 PM EST, negotiable).

#Chrome #GoogleChrome #BrowserWars #TechAcquisition #SeriousBusiness

MRF to randomly insert typos into 1% of your posts

📢📢📢 Urgent call for action against Chat Control!

The EU still wants to pass the infamous "Chat Control" law, that would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and can transform EU into a digital Gulag. Currently only 3 countries oppose this law, while 15 member states support it and 9 remain indecisive.

This means, the balance can still be shifted! It is very important to influence at least those who are in doubt. For instance, you can contact a MEP (Member of the European Parliament) and demand to oppose to Chat Control.

There is a tool that automates the process of writing and sending such letters:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Please check it out and send at least one letter!

#StopChatcontrol

kurwa