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I ricercatori di bioacustica che studiano il paesaggio sonoro del mare, hanno scoperto che questi ambienti in realtà non sono affatto silenziosi ma incredibilmente diversificati acusticamente.
Come sulla terraferma gli animali, una barriera corallina produce suoni sott'acqua, anche particolarmente forti, che possiamo immaginare come scoppiettii, cinguettii, grugniti e schiocchi.
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No se puede jugar un juego sin imaginación o ver una peli sin andar predispuesto a creerse mentiras
En otro toot he preguntado ¿por que la gente pasa por alto la cutrez de Star Trek? y al mismo tiempo creo que tiene q ver con jugar videojuegos bien
Jugar al jet pac sin imaginar que eres un astronauta mejor no lo hagas cabrón.
Jugar a Fallout sin creerte la historia y la de los NPCs y solo ver píxeles mal puestos, personajes trotando más q andando, ... MAL
Has de aceptar un pacto de irrealidad
sí, creo que va por ahí la cosa.
No he visto nunca Star Trek (aunque creo que me puede gustar) pero soy muy fan de Doctor Who. Y en las primeras temporadas de la serie moderna tenían un presupuesto de cuatro libras, más o menos, así que es un despliegue tremendo de cartón piedra. Pero uno con muchísima alma, con personajes e historias interesantes, que te hacen que olvides lo demás (e incluso que le cojas cariño).
Voy más allá: creo que la cutrez de esas primeras temporadas no ha envejecido tan mal. Es un descanso del cgi que suele verse en otras películas y series. Es cutre en un sentido entrañable.
también tengo la sensación de que el baremo con los videojuegos es diferente al de las películas y series. Con los videojuegos, afortunadamente gracias a los indies, se permite mucha más flexibilidad en cuando a la dirección artística y diseños. Puede salir un juego nuevo con dos ojos sobre un rectángulo y tiene posibilidades de petarlo mientras transmita algo nuevo y diferente.
Con las películas y series parece que actualmente solo puedes tener atrezo y efectos “prácticos” indistinguibles de lo auténtico o CGI hiperrealista, sin término medio o la crítica y público te van a funar. Mira, ojalá en la próxima película de Marvel salga Hulk con el sobaco desteñido por el sudor.
@guizans ya, en esos juegos creo que lo interesante no es ni ganar ni participar. En algunos juegos de mesa lo que mola es crear las normas, jugar al juego con otra gente pero sin seguir totalmente lo que viene en el papel.
Jugar al futbolín dando vueltas por ejemplo.
Lo interesante también es supongo ser participe, dialogar, ceder, llegar a acuerdos en lo que jugamos. El parchís por ejemplo lo juegas con terceros y esa parte es lo que hace diferentes al parchís de los videojuegos. Supongo.
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Labour's position on ECHR is now "we don't want to leave it, but we want to reform it"
Why would /any/ of the other State Parties to ECHR weaken their own human rights legislation just to appease the UK far-right?
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Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.
Boom!
No cookie notice necessary.
What’s that?
But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?
Good.
Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.
Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.
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Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
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It's often not even malicious compliance. Most of these banners don't even meet the requirements of the GDPR, specifically that you must be able to withdraw consent at any time and that you mist give informed consent (i.e. that you must know what you have consented to to be able to grant consent).
@noybeu is doing a great job going after some of these people.
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@writingslowly There’s an easy solution to that. We pass a GDMR and effectively outlaw their business model (don’t hold your breath).
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GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists.Aral Balkan
@writingslowly There’s a problem with point 1 - who decides what “can be built”? For instance: Many legislators want companies to implement encrypted communication in a way such that they - and only they - can listen in. Numerous experts believe such a system can’t be built (at least not securely).
If I’d run a company I’d rather not end up in court where a lawyer explains to me what can be built and what not.
@GeorgWeissenbacher @writingslowly I’m one of those experts.
Yes, regulation, like any legislation can be good or bad. That said, if you run, say a construction company, a lawyer does explain to you what can and can’t be built. You don’t just get to dig up a park and put in luxury apartments because you feel like it. You don’t get to construct a factory and dump your sewage into the sea. Or, more to the point, if you run a cinema, you don’t get to put cameras in the bathrooms. There are many things you don’t get to do if you run a company because they would infringe on the rights of others and your right to make a profit doesn’t supersede that.
I hope you’re teaching your students that they should be thoughtful in what they build so that it benefits humanity. We don’t need more things, we need more things that improve human welfare. And the last thing we need are more libertarian techbros who think they can do whatever they want in pursuit of their gluttonous profiteering and that rules don’t apply to them. That’s how we end up with technofascism.
@writingslowly What annoys me is that they've managed to give people the impression that the cookie banner nonsense is the EU's fault. GDPR has been a huge help, and these tantrums the tech industry is throwing is, as Aral says, malicious compliance.
@aral
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Not enough people understand how techbros choose horrible user interfaces and design/moderation decisions to turn people against even the most basic and essential customer safety regulations.
I believe the current age-gating outrage is astroturfed too.
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@marix You‘re correct on a wholly different level.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Actually, the GDPR isn’t relevant regarding cookies at all. But Regulation 2002/58/EC as lex specialis to the GDPR is.
@codinghorror Are we sure that Jeff Atwood isn't an early LLM experiment? The straight-up overconfidence as he spouts completely incorrect and ignorant shit feels an awful lot like ChatGPT and its coterie of concussed digital parrots.
Oh, wait. The "voice" of these is modelled after what techbrodudes think sounds smart. I may have put the teleological cart before the horse.
I'm running a website for a science consortium and we don't track, we don't sell anything, and we don't have to worry about visitor data storage and protection, and we do not need any cookie clicked on the site. Very simple, very relaxing.
It also prevents the need for a data protection responsible person, because no data is being collected.
Indeed.
Now, how to make Jeff Atwood and those who listen to him take heed?
Regrettably, I don't know...
🙁
@aral
It would be a start to tag
@codinghorror and/or link to his post
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@aral
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
As for some of the points raised in the linked thread…
GDPR article 21 paragraph 5.
In any sane world, that would cover DNT and GPC. So *any* web site which explicitly asks for consent when the relevant request has either of those request headers set to indicate to not track is *already* in non-compliance.
Of course, like you point out, there would likely be nothing stopping a site from offering visitors the *option* to be tracked anyway.
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this is why #GitHub was able to remove the banner back in 2020 - the good old days.
github.blog/news-insights/comp…
Funny enough, 5 years later the banner is back on $GitHub Blog, I guess being owned by $MSFT changes things...
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@praerien 1. You don’t need third-party cookies for analytics. Services exist that provide analytics without third-party tracking.
2. The “UX” (design) of cookie consent banners is anti-pattern implemented by the adtech industry exactly to invoke this reaction and misdirect your ire from the tracking itself to the law meant to protect your rights.
3. Your suggested solution would, indeed, nip this in the bud. This is why the surveillance industry made sure to remove Do Not Track the moment they realised it could be used for this purpose. (After all, it has served Mozilla/Silicon Valley’s purpose of delaying regulation for a decade and now had become a liability.)
@mathew @mkj @praerien
I made a script that tracks Latvian websites that have the "load cookies first then ask for permission" problem: https://sīkdatnes.lv
For problematic sites, I send an informal email explaining the problem and asking to fix it. In case of no action, I send a formal, signed complaint. And then in case of no action, I report them to our country's DPA.
In quite a few cases the informal email is enough, and the issue gets acknowledged and fixed.
Thanks for this response. That post pissed me off and I was wondering how long I’d have to wait for someone to call out the Benevolent Plutocrat on his bullshit.
True, load Vivaldi.com or our forums or indeed any site we run. No cookie banners. We have been asked before how we manage to do this but it ain't rocket science.
Also look at all the Mastodon sites, no banners, unlike X, Threads, etc. How? We all know how. 😉
exactly. The EU needs to mandate that
1. Every browser needs to, by default, be set to allow "strictly necessary cookies" only.
2. Every site that wants to serve EU users must honour this setting.
3. Impose massive fines on sites that don't do this or that choose to interpret "strictly necessary only" in "creative" ways.
So that anybody who does not want other cookies has to do exactly nothing to achieve that.
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GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists.Aral Balkan
Even simpler: Look at the DNT http header.
Only fall back to cookie notices when the browser doesn't send it.
It was interesting how quickly Mozilla deprecated the DNT header after an EU court ruled that yes, it is a valid answer.
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Really the main problem of this enforcement is that it came too late, when (almost) everyone was already dependent on collecting private data. That made it easy for the industry to collectively decide that intrusive popups would be the simplest way to comply.
What were people going to do, take their business to the competition? Doesn't matter, they do it too.
If regulation had come earlier, then the first ones to use popups would have been seen as obnoxious assholes and lost visitors.
all correct.
My own criticism of that EU law is that they didn't bother to check if there were ever any reason to let yourself be voluntarily tracked - there isn't. The whole thing should've been a law that makes it illegal.
@eseilt Couldn’t agree more.
ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one…
GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists.Aral Balkan
"Yes, you can naively argue that every website should encrypt all their traffic all the time, but to me that's a "boil the sea' solution."
Talk about takes that didn't age well
Yes, many sites are using it for adverts, but lots are also trying to sell a product that isn't the browser.
@Dss In my world, which the same world you live in, if a person provides their phone number to have a sales person call them, they are consenting to have the sales person call them and you can use their phone number for the purpose of having a sales person call them which is what the person has given you permission to do.
Do you need a cookie notice for that?
No.
(That said, it’s not my job to fix toxic business models.)
Lin et al. found that ad blocker users are more satisfied with the products and services they buy than non-users. There _is_ a theoretical economic role of advertising but surveillance advertising is failing at it
Lots of pro-surveillance advocacy from academics, but they don't cite some of the best sources in their own field, or some of the best points in the body copy of the papers they do cite—even Google refers to de-personalizing the ads as a "protection" blog.zgp.org/advertising-perso…
@zbrando
#pluralistic calls it the "fatfinger economy" (deliberately redesigning an interface to increase the likelihood of clicking on the wrong thing)
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pluralistic.net/2022/05/15/the…
On occasion the consequences can be huge.
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Flash Crash - a human error magnified 100-fold by AI
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Fatfingering a cookie banner might also be a security flaw, can be used for ransomeware.
Flash Crashes and Fat Fingers: When Technology Disrupts Markets
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That’s the problem with theory and practise : in real life an army of lawyers and „experts“ advice you to behave exactly like all the others. And all the public services provide bad examples since they behave exactly in the same wrong way.
In reality, GDPR brought the opposite results of what we wanted to achieve.
small correction. You can still track people, just not share it with everyone and their dog.
If you have data in your system you're free to use it for analytics. As long as it's anonymized, so, properly aggregated.
No consent needed.
@hey Yes, aggregate analytics – what you describe – does not constitute tracking.
(That is different from anonymised data; anonymised data can be deanonymised using other data sets – a common practice within the people farming industry.)
And some are so malicious that there *isn't* an actual way to not say yes. "By clicking Accept or X on this banner [with no Reject or even Preferences button...]"
@disorderlyf This feature already exists. It is just that ad-tech ignored that users were sending a do-not-track request and instead they opted for trying to nudge everyone into accepting their surveillance, by making obnoxious cookie banners.
@uncanny_static @disorderlyf It’s worse than that: this was a feature spearheaded by Mozilla (Silicon Valley’s acceptable face) and it had the very real effect of staving off regulation for a decade (“look, we are self regulating”). The moment people realised it could be used to communicate consent within the framework of GDPR, the feature was deprecated.
Sadly, some folks still think Mozilla are the good guys.
Genuine question:
If I hosted my own private analytics tracker (something like Matomo (née Piwik), e.g.) just so I could have funny numbers to look at because I like to look at numbers but do nothing meaningful with them, would that require a cookie banner?
I'd pondered about just having a static notice in the footer of my site that just says "This site uses some functional cookies and one (1) tracking cookie for a self-hosted analytics dashboard because I like to look at Numbers™."
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it hasn’t changed anything because it does not address root causes. Users want everything for free, forever, and content creators want to make money to feed themselves and their families. Until we resolve THAT, we will be stuck in endless combat between these two opposing forces. And the money is going to find a way to inevitably win because it has to. You have to make a living somehow. Free everything is great and all but it is never ever ever gonna be “free.”
@codinghorror
you make money from ads on stack exchange so you are biased in the conversation.
switch business models to be ad-free and then I want to hear your perspective after that.
@codinghorror @andrewrk I think what people are trying to tell you is that you’re part of the problem.
You’re not just any “user of the internet”, you’re a developer. You have agency. Don’t like cookie banners? Great! Lead by example: remove them from the sites you own and control (i.e., stop tracking people on the sites you own and control. Find other ways to make money.)
@codinghorror @andrewrk
Misleading. If you implement first party cookies for your own analytics to improve your website (like... what content is more popular, what pages are broken from UX standpoint), you still have to show the cookie notice.
Whether it's first or third party is not part of the equation.
@matiasgoldberg Yes it is very much part of the equation.
A first-party functional cookie (e.g., to store log-in state): no consent necessary.
First-party *aggregate* statistics: no consent necessary.
@codinghorror I remind you that this is Jeff Attwood you are finger wagging at here. He is wrong on this take. But if you really think this invalidates his critique of capitalism or his significant charity work then I think you might consider reappraising your position.
And picking a better target next time.
Designing For Evil
Have you ever used Craigslist? It’s an almost entirely free, mostly anonymous classified advertising service which evolved from an early internet phenomenon into a service so powerful it is often accused of single-handedly destroying the newspaper bu…Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
Doesn't your proposal to inform users and discuss the issues also kind of depend on rational actors? But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting the EU should have done instead. Done nothing?
@codinghorror @grievousangel @aapis Yes as we as end users have to OPT OUT of everything but the most basic and innocuous of cookies.
So bad for us end users.
Not that it would make a difference as the companies running websites would then force you to view a cookie banner to try to encourage users to accept the data harvesting cookies.
These days when I meet a cookie popup that insists you turn off each of the 423 partners individually I leave the site and never visit that site again.
the market agrees with you. and you really mean that as a validation argument. sigh
it certainly agrees with charity washing operations to cover up its crimes, and expunging exploiter guilt.
the market agrees with the most brutal exploitation of people and resources it can force upon us. it agrees with discriminating to separate people, it agrees with climate collapse. it fucking agrees with genocide and war.
fuck the market.
if GitHub doesn't need a cookie banner, there's no technical reason for a site to have them, it's always a privacy reason
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GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners | TechCrunch
Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its platform. Thanks to this, starting today, GitHub.comFrederic Lardinois (TechCrunch)
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