jmcs

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

That's were the ambiguity comes into play. The laws related to cookies want to allow things like cookies for fraud prevention and antibot protection, the problem starts when the business people say the personalised ad revenue makes it legitimate and the developers and product managers decide that having a bazillion trackers making their job a little easier makes it absolutely essential.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 23 hours ago

Bring back per mission time colour schemes, like the pink Spitfires for dawn/dusk missions in WW2.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rejecting cookies without asking every time requires a cookie and that is clearly legitimate interest. The problem with legitimate interest is that it's not well defined enough and then you have companies claiming that Adsense personalization is an absolute necessity for their website.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a big leap considering the article mentions this is about his position on an ongoing ethnic cleansing and not about his religious views - though I suspect his religious views are colouring how he views the acceptability of crimes against humanity when targeting some groups.

I have very little sympathy for religion in public spaces but I've even less for pro-genocide people.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 days ago

When you are talking about diplomats, very little.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If you put internal consistency above fun then what's the point?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

You don't buy an iPhone, you pay a tithe to remain in the cult.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Would accepting a pardon expose them to civil law suits?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago

Poor dude, he's illiterate and doesn't even have a radio or TV.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Taxis? You know, the regulated alternative that's not in the process of doing a bait and switch by selling services at a loss until competition dies and then increase the prices.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago

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An additional executive order meant to "protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public threats" is undeniably meant to apply to pro-Palestinian protesters across America, particularly on college campuses.

 

The driver ... came to Germany in 2006. But he is not an Islamist ... on the contrary: He was apparently a radical critic of Islam and sympathized with the AfD – and Elon Musk.

 

An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.

 

Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary

 

Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary.

 

A new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the satellites are emitting "unintended" radiation from the electronics onboard the satellites.

These low-frequency radio waves, are being picked up by telescopes designed to scan that frequency range. That's because this range also happens to be instrumental to deep space observations.

 

A Harvard behavioral scientist, who has extensively studied honest behavior, has been accused of fabricating study results — and yes, the jokes write themselves.

 

New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate's submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely played a role in the submersible's tragic demise.

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An Indiana Jones game, previously announced by Bethesda subsidiary MachineGames, was planned for multiple platforms – but the contract with Disney was amended following Microsoft’s buyout of the publisher. Confirmation comes as part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing court case regarding the Redmond firm’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

 

Microsoft is increasing the monthly prices of its Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions for the first time next month, which will see the base Game Pass subscription for console move up to $10.99 a month from $9.99.

 

Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Friday.

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