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> YouTube eventually restored both videos

Okay, nothing to see here then. Just some sensationalism around a content moderation mistake.


To the authors of the site, please know that your current "Cookiebot by Usercentrics" is old and pretty much illegal. You shouldn't need to click 5 times to "Reject all" if accepting all is one click. Newer versions have a "Deny" button.


Weirdly this site also requested bluetooth access on my mac.


That would be the browser fingerprinting in action. I often get a lot of requests to use widevine on ddg's browser on android (which informs one about it) for I suspect similar reasons.


Interesting, I'm on Brave and have never had a site request bluetooth access before, so much so that I'd never even granted Brave bluetooth access, hence why it popped up as a system notification this time around.


Doesn't Brave disable WebBluetooth by default via a flag?


Brave indeed does block WebBluetooth by default, but it can be turned on by the user using flags.

It's by no means a new feature, but the privacy concerns outlined in this post are still valid 10 years later: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/w3c-web-bluetooth-api-privacy...


Interesting. Is this fingerprinting in action? I have Widevine disabled on Brave desktop (don't recall if this is default), occasionally I get Widevine permission request on some sites.


Just set up your browser to never even load that BS.


I cannot audit and report GDPR violations if I do that.


Or you could just reject all third party cookies, see no sites break and enjoy your privacy.


Doesn't spare you from having to interact with the popup. This is probably the single dumbest law to ever have been made. It wastes everyone's time, and not insignificantly. While the browser is and always was in full control of cookies, nobody checks whether the popup actually even does what it says. And since it's a waste of your time in the first place, who takes the time to report illegal ones, much less has any interest to do so, because where you saw it is where you will likely never visit again anyway.

If anything browsers should be simply rejecting all cookies by default, and the user should only be whitelisting ones they need on the few sites where they need it.


I don't think the lawmakers planned for the level of malicious compliance that would be deployed.


I didn't see a pop-up on the site at all.


Single dumbest law ever made? I think that’s underestimating the stupidity of many laws.


Possibly. I just can't think of other stupid ones that have a comparably wide impact.


Not at all, look at Tiktok


I use PlantUML because it renders in GitLab's markdown, including wikis, MD docs and even PR comments. However, I have to use Mermaid for projects hosted on GitHub.

The hassle of tweaking the layout in puml, such as pairing elements with an invisible connections and groups, adding or removing dashes from the arrows in class diagrams... is gone because Mermaid is simply inferior in that sense.

Mermaid always feels like it's in beta and I don't understand why GitHub ignores the request to support puml (1). It seems that adoption of diagrams as code is tied to what is supported by major vendors and they don't care enough. Or maybe it is because mermaidchart made an official vscode plugin, who knows.

While I agree that improvements are needed, I'm not convinced that creating a third standard is the answer. What I would like is to be able to assign weights to my elements and let the renderer do the work (not set x and y coordinates like in oxdraw).

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10111


Oh yes I'm completely with you on wishing Github would support PlantUML. It's almost trivial implementation wise, it's highly embeddable.

It's precisely because I do like it that I want it to scale up better to more complex diagrams. I basically can't push it forward as a universal standard in my org because it fails above a certain complexity threshold and I really can't push for teaching everybody a thousand ways to tweak the diagrams to coax it into doing the right thing (and even then, one small change and it may completely rearrange the output).


It's not about wanting sympathy. In peace and prosperity times, people has more time to reach adulthood and explore themselves, they don't have to suppress pain in order to survive. Not saying everyone, but many.

I'm no expert either, but for sure there are psychology and sociology studies about generational differences, openness, and things like that.


It is called sortition.


Discord uses Zendesk (1). However in the press release they don't name the third party that was compromised, and Zendesk denies that it was their service.

What other third party was Discord using if not Zendesk? Who's reputation are they protecting?

[1] https://www.zendesk.fr/customer/discord/


I don't understand how we allow these companies to protect each other even in the face of egregious malpractice.

This might even be a PR move. They fucked up and can merely say "a third party" did it. Who's gonna verify this?

Unless we have whistleblowers we will never know. What a disgrace.


The wording Discord used leaves open the possibility that a ZenDesk account was compromised through no fault of ZenDesk.

Kinda feels like Discord is lying by omission.

Edit: Actually my bet is their support staff just sold them out.


vx-underground claims to have communication with the group, and this post of theirs adds to the support agent theory: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/1976238815665856646

> they were able to compromise Discord Zendesk by compromising a "BPO Agent" (outsourced support).

> Of course, as is tradition, it is also entirely possible they're lying


Do you happen to have a link to Zendesk's denial?


Yes, it is the mountains. Tunnels are very expensive. The French TGV lines only reach the Spanish border at Hendaye on the west coast and Perpignan on the east. The fast line to Barcelona is quite recent.

In northern Spain, there is a slow train line that connects Barcelona with Galicia called the "tren estrella," but it stops everywhere and uses old infrastructure, so it is slow. Traveling to Madrid is always fast with the newer AVE lines, and more are being built.

No idea about Portugal. I guess that it is the same situation, and those routes are covered by buses.


See the Copyright Act of 1976. That battle was lost long ago and judges can't ignore statutary damages.


The lesson of the 2020s is that judges can do whatever the hell they want.


This again? The site is from 2012, does not use https, and has not changed since it was posted last time (7 times already)



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