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You have to click on one of the links to find out what this actually does in addition to Cloudflare’s 1^4 DNS server: > Enter our own WireGuard implementation called BoringTun. The…

> The absolute, invariable first rule in tech writing is to know your audience. While that’s definitely true for tech writing generally, I feel it’s usually not the best advice for…

Totally agreed! It’s a bit ambiguous, but the Apple App Store guidelines seem to require you to be able to opt-out from marketing push notifications, while still keeping other noti…

> Also, subscribe to a channel, get recommended their entire repertoire of the last decade. I have stopped subscribing, and I'm actively unsubscribing from most channels except the…

This was indeed a very deliberate choice by Google, and they have been blogging about it since at least 2011[0]. There are quite some blog posts by Google and others discussing the…

This is pretty common in Europe. This may be different because regulation is usually a lot more flexible here regarding car lights (e.g. adaptive headlights) than in the US (althou…

I think it’s actually the kind of simplistic analysis you are referring to that got us into this mess. If we would have put a bit more belief in the epidemic models and acted accor…

Wirecutter is owned by the New York Times Company and explicitly says they don’t get paid by manufacturers (except through affiliate links to Amazon) and recommendations are purely…

Looks like an interesting project! But I feel like you are asking your users to put a lot of confidence in you to take everything you’re saying for granted. I’m not implying bad fa…

> Accessing material that has been deemed illegal enough to be the subject of a country-wide block is generally going to be a criminal offense. That’s not the issue discussed here,…

It’s actually exactly the other way around: countries don’t comply with other countries’ copyrights, but they must offer the same level of protection to authors of works created ab…

I’d take this one step further: the whole system in Europe is designed to keep everyone at “average” wages across the board. Due to the (extremely steep) progressive tax system, th…

> Game of Thrones* has shown hollywood that there is an appetite for epic storytelling, and that people are willing to sit through 7 season of shows to be entertained by an engagin…

Buying only 25% sounds good from Notion’s perspective but is absolutely the worst possible deal for Automate’s shareholders. The value of the remaining 75% Automate shares would ta…

I feel like they keep falling for the centralisation/decentralisation pendulum trap, which goes like this: 1. Teams in the organisation create some good products that solve specifi…

I think a lot of sites are conflating cookie consent and GDPR consent. You only need GDPR consent when processing personal data, so you don’t need consent just for storing settings…

What a dystopian world we live in when people/companies can just plainly and publicly say that they don’t agree and won’t comply with a binding law with supervision mechanisms and …

But why ask for consent right away when someone just visits your website for the first time? Imagine that you walk into a shop and the owner starts harassing you right away, blocki…

That’s actually the entire point: this should not be standardised. That would make it useless. The purpose of GDPR is that, in principle, you need consent to process personal data.…

I really don’t think Apple is consciously allowing these apps because they get profit either way. They’re very well aware that the long term success and profits of the App Store an…

The maintenance service is not checking for updates. It is still Firefox itself that checks for updates, but instead of launching the updater.exe (which triggers the UAC dialog), F…

That’s the right to full erasure. Revoking consent for processing your data for marketing purposes should be possible at any time and as easy as giving consent: “The data subject s…

No, the underlying issue is the US DMCA assuming that a takedown claimant holds valid copyright until disputed by the alleged copyright infringer, and absolutely zero real risk of …

It seems like you and GP are agreeing on the fact that right now we don’t do too many preventive checks because the cost of testing is higher than the benefits (mainly because fals…

Pretty sure Google would have forked KHTML or even Gecko themselves if Apple had not forked KHTML to become WebKit.