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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.

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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.

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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"]

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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.

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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...

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> 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.

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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...

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Source with detailed info: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...

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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.

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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.

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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Luckily I don't see any "encouragement to use aria" on that page you linked to, as that - and particular your example - goes directly against the first rule of ARIA [1] (paraphrased: "only ever use ARIA if you can't use native HTML").

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1

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Personal information about yourself which you have to include on your website, and how to register it, depends on the laws of the country you reside in (e.g. Germany has strict requirements on this), so I can't say anything about that in general, but I believe most countries have pretty lax rules here, which should make it totally fine to run your a personal website.

I can say something more sensible wrt your GDPR and "cookie" questions:

The GDPR has one overarching principle: "data minimalisation".

There are no requirements to preserve things like access logs, but rather the opposite: you should only retain personal information for as long as you _need_ it - and then once you no longer need it, you should remove it. And while you have the information, you should take meaningful steps to secure it, where the definition of that changes based on best practices over time.

The important thing here is that you think about what information you need, for what purpose (so something specific like "prevent abuse" rather than "it could come in handy at some point"), and then consider the tradeoff between privacy of your users and your own need for the information (and document this thinking in some way, so that you can later prove that you've done so).

So for those access logs, write down that you log e.g. ip address, timestamp, UA string, referer, visited page (possibly including querystring with search terms), that you retain this information for 2 weeks, maybe that you then aggregate it in some ways, and that you'll delete the information after this time. Your purposes for doing this are probably insight into usage patterns and detecting and fighting abuse. You're explicitly not connecting these logs to other data sources to identify specific visitors, nor sharing this information with any third party, so you believe the privacy impact for your visitors is minimal.

On your website, have a page (accessible from anywhere, so e.g. linked in the footer) that says the same. Specific wording effectively doesn't matter, but what does matter is that it's understandable by your average visitor.

As for cookies: "Functional cookies" (shopping cart, "remember me" function etc) you can set without any permission. "Tracking cookies" (advertising, analytics, etc), you can only set based on explicit and voluntary permission (visitors need to be able to say "no" as easily as you say "yes", without negative consequences, and if they say give permission, they need to be able to withdraw it just as easily at a later date, so one-click in the footer or somesuch - they also need complete and understandable information what they give permission for, so put that in the question, and link to a similar page as above for the GDPR).

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