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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • There was always a line though between “i’m sharing this personal information with you privately” (i.e. registering with your name and e-mail address), and “I’m sharing this information with the general public”. You also were able to remain somewhat anonymous, by registering with your real name but making sure other users only saw your screen name.

    While there was always the threat of someone finding your publicly shared photos or stories and using them for nefarious purposes, the idea of the company you’re giving them to analyzing all of that private and public data, across the entire web thanks to tracking cookies, and using it to manipulate you or packaging it up and selling it was never really a concern. No one had the capabilities to analyze that much data 10-15 years ago, and if they did it wasn’t yet profitable.

    The idea that you now have zero control over how your personal and private data is used, or who it’s sold to, is terrifying.





  • ActivityPub is a communication protocol. There’s nothing stopping anyone from implementing it and then adding their own ‘features’.

    Just look at how different companies have implemented the HTML ‘standard’. You end up with websites that require specific browsers to run properly. It’s gotten better over the past few years, but god damn anyone old enough to remember what a pain it was designing websites in the 90’s and working around all of Internet Explorer’s shenanigans will tell you it’s not a good time.



  • Yes this makes sense. I’ve been using terminals for years with the ‘copy on highlight’ feature enabled, and I’m pretty sure when I was on OSX it was a single buffer.

    I can see how having mouse selected text end up in the buffer on a non-Terminal app would probably not be the desired behavior.

    I found ‘autocutsel’ which will keep PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD in sync, however Gnome Terminal doesn’t seem to support ‘copy on highlight’ while Terminator does.




  • I nearly had a aneurysm when I hit up drive-thru for lunch today and they had a sign that starting July 1st the city of Edmonton will require a $0.15 surcharge for take-out bags.

    Never mind the fact that the fucking price of a burger has almost doubled over the past 3 years, better make sure we punish people for switching from plastic to paper.

    Single-use plastic shopping bags (including compostable or biodegradable plastic shopping bags) can no longer be distributed, and businesses must charge at least 15 cents for a paper shopping bag and at least $1 for a new reusable shopping bag.