Have at least one instance where one gets in the way of two characters having a conversation while trying to see each other around it.

And the whole “try but back down if it isn’t going so well” strategy is the worst part of it all because it helps them without even if a judge would laugh them out of court over it because of the set of people that would back down or be happy with a lesser settlement, which is probably larger than the set of people that would fight it anyways, plus there’s the subset of people that would want to fight anyways but don’t have the resources to do so.

That’s why I hate the whole system of “treat it as if it is all good until someone (who was specifically harmed by this) takes it to court”. And that’s even before getting to the part where the decision in the end rests in the hands of a single or maybe a small group of judges.

Out of curiosity, are you in a region that requires age verification for porn/social media? No need to be specific about which one, I’m just curious if they are limiting these checks to where it’s required by law or if they are pushing it out more broadly. This “requirement” from social media sites is one that the data mining ones are all too happy to have forced down on them.

I wasn’t seeing it when people started complaining about it, but I do see it now in Canada.

I wonder if the language selection is similar to how they use bad grammar specifically to filter out people smart enough to see bad grammar as a red flag when it’s supposed to be a professional communication.

It finally wanted me to log in yesterday, so I closed those tabs for good. Not even upset, the time I spent lurking there was just wasted.

They are tougher than bones.

Think about how much it must upset shoe makers!

Yeah, a lot of these fingerprinting capabilities seem like things that should be behind permission requests, if not outright disabled entirely.

Like ok, I get that if someone wanted to make a browser-based audio editing tool, it might be useful for javascript to be able to sample the output side after effects have been applied. But I don’t want every single fucking website to have that capability by default. I’m not even sure I want websites to be able to play audio at all without permission.

By default, it should be a one way pipeline. Whatever they put into the pipeline gets displayed or played but they can’t see any of the system-specific results. I’d prefer the standard be designing pages to work with any resolution instead of letting them query the exact pixel dimensions, which varies per device and I suspect fingerprinting was the reason they were designed like that in the first place.

There should be standard TOS clauses that are approved based on their legality and enforceability that click or use based “contracts” should be limited to. Or at the very least, they should need to be legally ratified rather than only looked at closely if legally challenged.

Like that whole “you waived our liability for real world shit by using Disney+” should have resulted in the disbarment of any lawyers that wrote, approved, and tried to argue it in court when it came up and punitive damages to Disney for even trying.

I nominate them to do a census.

I think I did associate mp3 files with media player for a bit. To prevent double clicking an mp3 from opening winamp and overwriting my playlist while I was maintaining it by hand. It would save on exit (maybe even on change as I don’t recall losing changes to crashes, though they were rare), but if you loaded a different playlist (or a single mp3 “playlist”), then the previously loaded one was gone so hopefully you remembered to save.

Later on I just used the library and my star ratings for each song, plus some filters, to auto generate my playlist and no longer needed WMP.

Do they have any worth the effort?

Not the kind of housing market crash the people were hoping for.

Scale is right, too. Just need to fix the rotation.

Lol took a moment to parse that the “Dishonored” in the headline was talking about the game, not a reference to some scandal.

Everyone? The group of people that includes those who can’t use their computer after their desktop icons get sorted?

It still takes some skills, but those skills might just be “desoldering chips to stick them in a chip reader device” and doing that on the storage chips. Or maybe tapping a trace to read the signals that are sent over it to grab a key or something. “Not hard” doesn’t mean “you don’t need skill to do it”, it means “someone who has some skills won’t have difficulty applying them”.

Wasn’t it more like a receipt with an url on it that may or may not still be the image that was at that url when the purchase was made. Or maybe you could do a hash of an image, at which point changing a single pixel or cropping it would change it into an image you don’t “own” and most people won’t have any idea how to even check it.

Really, with the lack of tech savyness out there, the best way to own an NFT would be to just lie about buying one and what it is.

That horse has two front-facing eyes. If you see it, run. It is a predator.

Just looked it up, there happens to be a 50% sale for it on steam right now.

Edit: I was dumb and that sale appears to have been because of cached pages in the search. Either that or the sale ended between then and now.