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agbrrwon Some observations on the final text of the European Digital Identity framework

>Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs.

EU sites have the same amount of cookie banners as US ones. (ie, all major sites have one)

agbrrwon Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed

Real ads but not ads that are loaded from the internet.

agbrrwon DDG founder says Google's phone, manufacturing partnerships thwart competition

What you are saying is false, and on top of that, you can install a 3rd party browser on iOS and choose whatever search engine you want.

agbrrwon BMW Ends Combustion Engine Production in Germany

I don't see how it is uncomfortable. It would make me more uncomfortable if the anti-private transportation campaign started by the government and the media was working on the average Joe.

agbrrwon The first Spanish AI model earning up to €10k per month

>Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting.

Do you think those influencers spend a single second reading the comments/private messages wankers send them? Unless they pay of course.

agbrrwon Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down

Non-boys clubs give seats to incompetent workers to increase percentages in a report. Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable with no regard to those percentages.

agbrrwon The curious case of the abominable shower

Thankfully Joe has many other options than Walmart. But you only get one government.

agbrrwon The curious case of the abominable shower

It matters because if it happens to a private organisation that does not affect the average Joe. It's when it happens to governmental organisations that it matters because it means increased taxes and/or decreased useful public services.

agbrrwon The curious case of the abominable shower

The difference is that when this happens to a private organisation, it's not the taxpayer footing the bill.

agbrrwon I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)

>experience data corruption on crash / power loss

You mean on complete system crash, right? Your application crashing shouldn't lead to files being fulls of zeroes as long as you've already written everything out.

agbrrwon Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?

It was round in 4:3. The game doesn't adapt that well to being played in 16:9

agbrrwon Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?

I didn't know Vermeij was posting these, thanks for sending this link. All posts seem recent

agbrrwon Maryland will hand out 133k Chromebooks to the public

It fills with malware so much faster, too!

agbrrwon The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS attack since last weekend

They should consider using Cloudflare.

agbrrwon Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change

I am the same kind of person, and believe me, it's a lost battle to try to explain how impossible it is to get to do something every day. People who are normal in that sense will never understand. Their concept of laziness or of that "ah, it's going to be hard to get on that treadmill today" feeling is completely different from ours. Their brains are wired differently.

Just read the answer below

> The only thing ever stopping you from going out the door and running is putting on shoes and shorts, its easy to form a habit!

For people like us, this is akin to "if you are depressed, just cheer up!". It's ridiculous, bordering on the offensive.