join south africa and (sorta) japan, use YYYY-MM-DD as a default - sorts well, zero ambiguity… at least until some joker starts popularising YYYY-DD-MM, anyway

this is the kind of thinking that gave us names like “pcmasterrace”. words mean things, their origins matter

step 1: go to your favourite search engine

step 2: type “origin of the term ricing”

step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym “Race Inspired Car Enhancements”

step 4: discover that “ricing” was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice

step 5: stop using the word in the context of “mods”

step 3 takes some nuance, fair enough

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your analogy between twitter employees not quitting because of Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and BMW workers not quitting because of BMW’s active participation in the holocaust isn’t just crude, it’s appallingly disrespectful.

I ask you again to think about whether you really mean that losing one’s job is “as bad or worse than” genocide.

I’d be happy to discuss with you, what I think someone could do if they find themself working for an organisation perpetrating atrocities (or encouraging them, as Twitter and Facebook are) - a sneak preview of my opinion is “they could certainly do more than sit there” - but I don’t think there’s any chance of it a productive conversation unless we can agree that being rounded up and exterminated is universally, objectively, worse than being fired from a job.

the word “rice” in this context has a super racist history and I beg you to look it up and then stop using it.

nice desktop tho

I don’t agree with your dichotomy, but ignoring that for a second, saying “the punishment as bad or worse than the crime” makes it sound like you think someone losing their job is “as bad or worse” than genocide - maybe reconsider

yes

correction: it was both! fedbook chat also supported xmpp at first, they never federated but you could at least use it with a jabber client. then when they had enough market share they killed it.

fun semi related fact is that, at least a couple of years ago, was using modified ejabberd (ie an xmpp server) as the backend - so arguably they helped with EEE too.

you might enjoy this https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-101-the-false-universality-of-common-sense

“Remember me” functionality doesn’t require a cookie banner:

The commonly seen method of using a checkbox and a simple information note such as “remember me (uses cookies)” next to the submit form would be an appropriate means of gaining consent

Tons of websites use non-essential cookies for various functions that have nothing to do with tracking, all of which would be covered under the GDPR and require a cookie popups.

I have never run into any website using “functions that have nothing to do with tracking” which require cookies. Could you give an example?

Expecting website operators to run we sites without any analytics and advertising is an absurd expectation. They have to bring in revenue somehow.

I’ve personally used two analytics systems that don’t require cookies, Plausible and Matomo.

Here’s a banner advertising service that doesn’t use cookies.

Even Google is dropping cookies.

I’m anti-advertising (I think there are better ways for websites to make money) but it’s totally untrue that cookies are the only way to implement advertising.

That’s what privacy and ad blocking extensions are for.

Which aren’t available on all devices or operating systems, and require more technical knowledge (and more time) than most people have.

The EU is far from perfect, but its cookie rules are a great example of regulation working as intended, and making the default better for everyone – just like this rule on removable batteries.

I don’t defend any war criminals. You could have saved yourself looking like a clown by taking a quick look at my comment history: https://lemmygrad.ml/u/triplenadir/view/Comments/sort/New/page/1

i hope nobody’s trying to invite that war criminal onto the fediverse…

(some might say that justifying the planned obsolescence practice of shortening phone lifespans by making battery replacement more difficult by saying it’s because it’s the only way to achieve features that people demanded - who asked people what features they wanted on phones, anyway? - is doing free PR for phone companies, but I think that point has been made way better than I could, in many other comments which you seem to have not read)

if you see a cookie popup, it’s because the website operator decided to use third-party tracking cookies on their site; they could have easily spared their users the banner by using privacy-friendly analytics, or no analytics instead. blaming the EU for inconveniencing users with these warnings is doing free PR for the worst parts of the advertising industry.

dessalines is one of the Lemmy core devs, if I understand right

dear comrades living and dead, please help give me the self control not to try arguing with all the “Lemmy is anti human rights” takes polluting the fediverse rn 🙏

in b4 the meta “redundant posts about redundant communities across the fediverse” 🙃

what do you mean? you only need to sign up on one, then you can follow and post in communities on any instance