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Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by anigbrowl »

coldpie wrote: post #42

It blows my mind that these godawful cookie banners is where we ended up. Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this. Go back to the drawing board and do better.

I find it absurd that you complain about the cookie banner while ignoring the absolute trash advertising on the actual page (which appears even though I am running an adblocker). I like cookie banners, I get to set my preferences and if a website serially abuses them they don't have the excuse that I consented by surfing to the page or something. If they really engage in abuse, I can take part in legal action.

Meanwhile trash clickbait advertising is semantic and psychological pollution that actively makes the internet (and by extension the world) a much worse place for profit. Your priorities need recalibration.

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by Eupolemos »

coldpie wrote: post #42

It blows my mind that these godawful cookie banners is where we ended up. Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this. Go back to the drawing board and do better.

There's about 4 themeparks of regulations and "we hope this is an adequate ritual" packed into all the stuff those banners need to check and keep up to date when regulations (or the way they are enforced) change.

So third parties specialize in it, and we buy the banner have the company behind them trawl our sites and pull in the info about all the cookies we don't even keep taps on.

And when we've installed them, we all try not to get involved with them again. Because it is the least fun and rewarding area of any web dev day and tinkering with them just might get you invited to a whole series of GDPR review meetings.

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by pessimizer »

zulban wrote: post #63
Archelaos wrote: post #18

The article is somewhat sensationalistic. Finding an octagonal type bronze sword ("Achtkantschwert" in German) from that period is rare, but we have quite a couple of them. Since bronze does not rust, the conditions of such swords are often quite good (and typically far better than that of medieval iron swords, for instance). Here is a map of the distribution of octagonal-hilted swords in Europe: https://www.research…

>somewhat sensationalistic What a cynical comment. The title doesn't even say rare, and there's only a few dozen found in "all of Europe", ever. What could possibly be seen as sensationalist here? Thanks for your excellent sources, however. I know it's trendy to say sensationalist, and it's often true. Just seems like a lazy thing to write in this case.

"Somewhat sensationalistic" ranks somewhere around "slightly uncomfortable" or "a little misleading" on the cynicism scale. I know it's trendy to write entire comments responding to a single, passing word usage in someone else's comment, but...

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by rTX5CMRXIfFG »

anigbrowl wrote: post #71
coldpie wrote: post #42

It blows my mind that these godawful cookie banners is where we ended up. Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this. Go back to the drawing board and do better.

I find it absurd that you complain about the cookie banner while ignoring the absolute trash advertising on the actual page (which appears even though I am running an adblocker). I like cookie banners, I get to set my preferences and if a website serially abuses them they don't have the excuse that I consented by surfing to the page or something. If they really engage in abuse, I can take part in legal action. Meanwh…

I just spit my drink through my nose seeing that someone actually feels the need to defend cookie banners, lol. You have a fair point on how the inline ads themselves are trash, but I wouldn’t choose one over the other—I’d have neither of them.

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by 34679 »

coldpie wrote: post #42

It blows my mind that these godawful cookie banners is where we ended up. Web devs, you clowns need get your shit together. No, the law doesn't require you to do this. Go back to the drawing board and do better.

It blows my mind that people still browse the web without an ad blocker. Install Firefox + uBlock and the problem goes away.

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by rocketbop »

ryandrake wrote: post #66
kokanee wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.

To be fair, the web developers are the ones actually typing in the code and deploying it. They must share at least partial blame. This whole "Don't blame me! Boss told me to do it" attitude is rampant in software.

I also agree with you. And the legal or marketing team that asked for it all have bosses too asking them for certain things.

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by TSiege »

Archelaos wrote: post #18

The article is somewhat sensationalistic. Finding an octagonal type bronze sword ("Achtkantschwert" in German) from that period is rare, but we have quite a couple of them. Since bronze does not rust, the conditions of such swords are often quite good (and typically far better than that of medieval iron swords, for instance). Here is a map of the distribution of octagonal-hilted swords in Europe: https://www.research…

The "exceptional" part is literally a quote from the top expert of preservation for the region.

> The sword and the burial still need to be examined, said Conservator General Mathias Pfeil, head of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. “But we can already say: the state of preservation is exceptional!”

This article has more photos and compared to the sources mentioned here does seem much better preserved. The entire sword doesn't even look corroded https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article245860994/Archaeologie...

Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by werds »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #40
dabluecaboose wrote: post #36

>A man, a woman and a youth were buried in it. It is still unclear what relationship the people may have had to one another. Yeah, real puzzler that one

Rag tag group of friends obviously

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Re: Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

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Post by pessimizer »

ryandrake wrote: post #66
kokanee wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.

To be fair, the web developers are the ones actually typing in the code and deploying it. They must share at least partial blame. This whole "Don't blame me! Boss told me to do it" attitude is rampant in software.

Pretty easy to say, but if someone is going to quit their job because they think the cookie banner they've been ordered to program will annoy people, they're either absurdly privileged or comically stupid.
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