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Binding Decision on processing personal data for behavioural advertising by Meta

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Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?

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Utrecht Builds Car-Free Neighbourhood

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svl
·2개월 전·discuss
This might be country specific? Specifically dependent on laws in the fields of consumer-protection and keeping things universally accessible.

I don't own a smartphone. I have never owned a smartphone. There are inconveniences, and big organizations definitely try to push you toward the way of doing things which has the lowest costs for them - but there are no actual blockers. There is always a path involving actual humans, and regular phone calls (or emails or paper forms).

Reactions tend to be wistful variations of "I wish I could" or "but how do you?" - and it's really always about the most trivial inconveniences.
svl
·6개월 전·discuss
FWIW, it's reported in Dutch news - https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/26/dertigduizend-doden-sla... - with reference to this time.com article - https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-... - and a lot of caveats about how the figure can't be verified.
svl
·7개월 전·discuss
duckduckgo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+configure+arducopter+g...

Optionally with a custom CSS rule to block the starting video block: [data-layout="videos"]
svl
·10개월 전·discuss
Sadly they explicitly don't support that. :(

> Now that there is a Steam Deck Native build, is Baldur’s Gate 3 supported on Linux?

> Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supported on Steam Deck.
svl
·2년 전·discuss
No discussion about roundabouts can be complete without a mention of the (mostly) Dutch "turbo roundabout", where the lane you take going into a multi-lane roundabout depends on where you want to exit, and you can't / are not allowed to switch lanes while on it:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:roundabout%3Dturbo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts

https://www.arcadis.com/en-us/knowledge-hub/blog/united-stat...
svl
·2년 전·discuss
> I'm "pulling this from" the settings on my browser. When I look at the check box in preferences it's unchecked and greyed out.

The setting being greyed out indicates that the entire functionality is disabled, and the value of the setting is irrelevant. That's a common pattern in Firefox settings when some other setting invalidates the current one. In this case, it's most likely because you have "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" unchecked.
svl
·2년 전·discuss
Direct from the source: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-d...

The full PDF with the investigation results e.a. as sent to clearview: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...
svl
·2년 전·discuss
Source with detailed info: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...
svl
·2년 전·discuss
If you care to read deeper, including comments by many of the principal parties involved, there's no better place than https://file770.com/ (also linked to from this news article). It's hard to follow if you come in fresh, as it's a very active blog, with many pages of insightful comments on each post, but worthwhile.

Here's the list of all posts from the last month which are primarily about this. (There are also daily roundup posts, and lots of small and relevant tidbits in there, too.)

  https://file770.com/chengdu-worldcon-releases-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics/
  https://file770.com/2023-hugo-nomination-report-has-unexplained-ineligibility-rulings-also-reveals-who-declined/
  https://file770.com/chengdu-hugo-administrator-dave-mccarty-fields-questions-on-facebook/
  https://file770.com/hugo-controversy-hits-mainstream-news-a-chengdu-vice-chair-comments-in-social-media/
  https://file770.com/zimozi-natsuco-guest-post-the-hugo-awards-evil-fall-is-a-watered-down-affair-and-certain-issues-to-watch-out-for/
  https://file770.com/dave-mccarty-makes-statement-about-his-facebook-responses/
  https://file770.com/worldcon-intellectual-property-announces-censure-of-mccarty-chen-shi-and-yalow-mccarty-resigns-eastlake-is-new-chair/
  https://file770.com/decoding-the-tianwen-project/
  https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/ (the big one)
  https://file770.com/2023-hugo-awards-related-statement-by-kat-jones/
  https://file770.com/diane-laceys-letter-about-the-2023-hugos/
  https://file770.com/glasgow-2024-announces-kat-jones-resignation-as-hugo-administrator/
  https://file770.com/chengdu-worldcon-wont-account-for-sponsorships/
  https://file770.com/cheryl-morgan-dave-mccarty-resign-from-wsfs-hugo-award-marketing-committee/
The original nomination statistics dropped on January 20th (already bizarre; usually these are released as soon as the Hugo awards are awarded). In the month since then, fans have been puzzling together just what happened. Chances are that more will come to light in the coming weeks.
svl
·2년 전·discuss
As others have said, between competing bids for who'd host Worldcon in 2023, China got the most votes (from registered fans at an earlier Worldcon).

However, there was also controversy about this, as a very large number of those votes lacked an address (a minimal safety feature to give some indication that votes belong to distinct people). The responsible committee decided not to count them, but was overruled. If it wasn't for that, Chengdu wouldn't have won the bid.
svl
·2년 전·discuss
Please note that Kevin Standlee is a good egg here, and was not involved with this iteration of the Hugo awards and everything which went wrong with it.

His only fault was saying something impolitic at the wrong time, which people feared would be misunderstood due to his position as Chair. (You can see the difference in censured/reprimanded and in the reasoning behind it, but it's easy to skip over that and just retain the list of names. Kevin does not deserve to be lumped in with the others!)
svl
·3년 전·discuss
browser.history.maxStateObjectSize and places.history.expiration.max_pages (both accessible through about:config) should be the settings to modify. Do a web search for those properties to get more information on how they interact.
svl
·3년 전·discuss
In Firefox you can set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config which will natively prevent most of this type of annoyance.