Freezing? It’s so you can create a good screenshot, right?

They just randomly pick 2-3 trigger words to add to their headlines, don’t they?

Dammit. My AI needs work.

Systematically building electronics component inventory

Possible goal: self-hosting, possibly webshop. Possible future competition.

Concussion: nip in the bud.

Action: sending black ops team…

An email claiming you moved to the EU and went them to remove all your data.

Like many of my fellow lemmings, I already do most of what he suggests. But I also realise I only do it out of principle. I’m not hurting these companies. I’m not costing them anything. A visitor who rejects cookies may not help their bottom line, but that handful of extra page requests isn’t going to cost them a single red cent extra. A GDPR access request may make a smaller company scramble, but the larger ones have systems in place to handle it, and very probably completely automatically.

Sure, stop giving companies your data if you’re so inclined. Just realise it is more of an inconvenience for you than it is for them - even if it’s not really inconvenient for you, it’s even less so for them. Unless a significant portion of users starts doing it, it’s mostly symbolic.

This pretty much matches my feeling for the last 20 years or so. Passwords suck and are outdated technology. But every single alternative that has been developed over the years has sucked more, not less. They all have single-point-of-failure, vendor lock-in, assumptions about your “device”, etc.

Sock puppet porn.

But my itch to crush orph…. I mean, to help orphans always comes back.

Most people on the fediverse might not (although I have my doubts about that), but even among my fellow developers the majority use Google Chrome and Google search. Looking at my circle outside tech, it’s pretty much everyone.

It’s time we all start speaking lojban.

“You want the pizza to taste the same every single time.”

No. You want it tasting great. And that means fresh ingredients, which the cook knows well enough to vary their proportions compared to the others.

But people who are easily fooled by such things are exactly the ones who need extra protection. Many laws exist to protect the weaker members of society.

Yes but I’m sure you need at least 5 different Volts for it to work.

I love the passive aggressive ones that say “we love our European visitors” only to block all access to the site because they’re not allowed to sell our data.

IANAL but there should be no need to ask consent to know when users quit the signup process. You need to say that you use cookies, yes, but unless you process personally identifiable data there is no need for informed consent.

The word “duh” comes to mind.

Oh, another one: Syberia 1 and the 4th The World Before. They are point-and-click adventure games.

Siberia 2 is also good but IMO weaker than the first. The third is pretty bad.

Unfortunately Syberia 1 does not work well on modern systems. There is a remake which is a mixed bag. It went too far with adding helper features and changing some puzzles, but the camera and visuals are good.

When it comes to atmosphere and immersion, nothing beats Gothic 1 for me. The original from 2001 has very dated graphics and janky controls, but its immersion is unparalleled.

I have not tried the remake, but have heard mostly positive signals about it.

Another one that impressed me with immersion - mostly in its lack of UI and definitely its sound design - is Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Use headphones!

Isn’t that one of the new games? I mean it’s called “Return”! I remember when Wolfenstein was 2D sprites and paper thin walls.