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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • While you’re right conceptually, this isn’t what the wording means in terms of consent dialogs. Legitimate interest means they can assume, legitimately, that you have an interest in aspects of the site (by you being there) that require X cookies, basically. Ie their product is providing functionality they can assume you’re interested in just by being there, and they’re “pre approving” the tracking/storage for that functionality.

    I concur that it’s rubbish and used almost always in a manner that reeks of illegitimacy.



  • Yep. He took a massive ego trip early on and immediately came across as someone I don’t particularly want to side with.

    I’m a web developer and fundamentally disagree with his take on what JavaScript can do on the client side. I see what he’s getting at but I think he’s wrong. JavaScript can certainly detect access to resources (ads in this instance) without violating any enforceable policies. Half the internet does error handling with JS for things that won’t load - how can this be construed as violating eprivacy? Nonsense.

    That being said I’d love for this feature to go away and would be happy to see YouTube and Google go pound sand… but this feels like a stretch. It was inevitable enshittification imo.







  • I must be in like some weird alternate reality because my boss recognises that the office is a distraction, and doesn’t go there often himself. We go there very seldomly, primarily to catch up with colleagues, but not to work on our tasks.

    I get maybe 15-20% of my normal work done at the office.

    Granted this might increase over time if I came in regularly but it’d never touch how productive I am at home. This rhetoric about losing productivity working from home is dangerous and bullshit.





  • I run a second Unraid server with a couple of backup-related applications, as well as Duplicati. I have my main server network mounted and run scheduled jobs to both copy data from the main pool to the backup pool, as well as to Backblaze. Nice having the on-site backup as well as the cloud based.

    I occasionally burn to 100gb blurays as well for the physical backup.






  • I’d highly recommend these - they’re not all strictly electronic but I feel there’s overlap at least:

    • Sasha - Scene Delete
    • Jon Hopkins - Immunity
    • Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
    • Bonobo - Black Sands
    • BT - This Binary Universe
    • Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest
    • Hugo Kant - Far From Home
    • Bicep - Bicep
    • Sub Focus - Sub Focus

    Bonobo spans genres but he’s probably my favourite artist right now. His Late Night Tales entry (not electronic) was one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.