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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by hans_castorp »

xp84 wrote: post #260
chrismorgan wrote: post #200

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The trouble is that popups like this don’t even comply with the relevant legislation. (Which is the ePrivacy Directive after the 2009 amendment, though people largely ignored this part of it until the advent of the GDPR which came into force in 2018. Simplified, ePD says “most cookies must be opt-in”.) If anything, putting such wildly non-compliant popups should make you more liable to punishment, because it undermin…

If these silly laws were enforced, you'd have to shut down the whole Internet anyway.

> If these silly laws were enforced, you'd have to shut down the whole Internet anyway.

No, the tracking across sites will stop. None of those "silly" laws prohibit the use of e.g. session cookies.

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Post by mulmen »

blantonl wrote: post #95
mulmen wrote: post #83

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Is this tradition even new? Drawing things in the sky seems to be a well established aviation tradition.

Not at this extent, and the ability for the general public to be aware of it.

Skywriting seems visible to me? This is just an evolution of the same idea. This is a Looney Toons gimmick.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by mulmen »

tobinfricke wrote: post #124
mulmen wrote: post #83

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Is this tradition even new? Drawing things in the sky seems to be a well established aviation tradition.

> Drawing things in the sky seems to be a well established aviation tradition Not really... This level of high-precision and publicly-available flight tracking is pretty new.

I don’t think it is. Boeing has been doing it for years. They did it in 2014 for sure and that wasn’t new. That was nearly a decade ago.

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Post by nathancahill »

gtirloni wrote: post #269
AlexandrB wrote: post #190

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They could just... not use tracking cookies. Then no banner is required. The real idiocy is every website wanting to hoover up data.

The popup is about any cookies, right? Cookies are a basic building blocks of websites. If you login to a legit website, there's a cookie in your browser for that.

No, login cookies are specifically exempt.

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Post by t-writescode »

varenc wrote: post #287
aendruk wrote: post #139

Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmcjrYXR934QZqBuMHioRdcZEmo... On small displays this is otherwise obstructed by a cookie popup that offers only an “accept all” button. What’s even the point of the popup then?

> What’s even the point of the popup then? If you're in the EU you'll see a "Reject All" option. To confirm this, set a breakpoint in their JS, change your country to an EU one, and the option to "Reject All" cookies appears: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a... Here's a screenshot of where I set the breakpoint and changed my country to France: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ju41dpj14p…

They chose to spend developer time on that rather than treat their users well.

Wow.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by t-writescode »

culi wrote: post #241
stubish wrote: post #224

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Fun is a good thing to spend some of our CO2 emissions budget on. We need fun. A joyless society isn't worth saving.

some fun is more expensive than others. That's ~2.24 years of energy usage by the average US household

And a sendoff to the hard work of tens of thousands or more people.

Oh. No.

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Post by runarberg »

gorgoiler wrote: post #320
runarberg wrote: post #314

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This reads like its from a questionable research paper funded by an HR group with the sole aim of gaslighting workers into working harder for less money. I’m not buying it.

It is certainly questionable research, but from the lived experience of a superannuated engineer (me!) not an HR group. As for gaslighting? Well, my aim is indeed to make you work harder. Not only that, but for you to have more money not less. At all levels — our society, the sector in which we work, our businesses as a whole and each team in those businesses — your success has a positive effect on everyone else as w…

If your boss or—worse—your shareholders are making significant money from your work, and spending it on furthering the climate disaster (like most bosses of large companies do) then I would argue that, no, your work is actually making the world a worse place.

This wealth gap that keeps increasing is not good for anyone (except for bosses) and it is literally destroying our climate, even if it makes your personal net worth increase, that isn’t good enough if it increases your boss’ net worth 100x that.

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Post by UberFly »

harry8 wrote: post #167
supernova87a wrote: post #46

I find it just really endearing that at companies, regardless of how many other issues they have or the dysfunctions and bland corporate culture, there are people who keep the pride of purpose and "olden days / traditions" in their memory and do things like this. Or are able to call on institutional memory of something bygone, that reappears once in a while. (whether it's a big gesture like this or small cultural day…

I basically wear zero visible labels on my clothes because why would I wear advertising? I own a t-shirt with 747 on it and a picture. It's one of the great pieces of human engineering. Many of us, even those who have never had anything to do with it beyond seeing one in the sky and occasionally riding on one love it like any other great work of creation. There would be people who think like that who joined boeing in…

Nice. I love it. It's like the trendy NASA shirts you see. Now there's a logo to flaunt regardless of the reason.

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Post by pmontra »

graphe wrote: post #209
protastus wrote: post #73

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Every complex project lives and dies by a relatively small group of true believers. From the outside, we don't know who they are, but sometimes we get a glimpse of their passion.

How true is this? In civilizations past such as the Romans you could cut off the heads like the emperor and it would be unchanged for millions. In china when the communists defeated the Manchus, some villagers were amazed these people defeated what they thought was the Ming dynasty. Khomeini was killed, Trump isn't president anymore and Iran's military and the right haven't died. In tech, Bell Labs is 'demonopolized'…

Khomeini was killed is news to me. It's been a long time and I don't remember the details so I checked Wikipedia. It seems he died by hearth attack in hospital at age 89.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini

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