Einstweiliger Rechtsschutz gegen #Tracking-Cookies erfolgreich. #Microsoft verliert in zweiter Instanz. § 25 TTDSG/TDDDG zeigt Zähne. Glückwunsch an meine coolen Kolleg:innen bei Spirit Legal. Dieses Urteil ist ein Meilenstein.
#TeamDatenschutz #PrivacyLitigation

rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meld…

#BVerfG #Rechtsstaat #Demokratie #noAfD

Zwei Aspekte scheinen mir bei dem Projekt zur Absicherung der #Unabhängigkeit des BVerfG besonders bemerkenswert:

- die demokratischen Kräfte haben sich in einer sehr komplexen Problematik auf sachliche Kompromisse geeinigt + treten gemeinsam dafür ein

- alle haben darauf verzichtet, "Pakete" mit Themen zu schnüren, die nix damit zu tun haben.

So geht Demokratie.

Hier die Zusammenfassung der geplanten Regelungen :

lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/b…

So wollen Ampel und Union das BVerfG stärker schützen

Das BVerfG soll vor politischen Kräften geschützt werden, die lieber ohne seine Kontrolle regieren wollen. Eine zentrale Regelung wird nicht abgesichert.

^{Legal Tribune Online}

Here’s what parenting can look like.

When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).

Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”

You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.

That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.

There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.

There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, infinityplus.co.uk/stories/bli… about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).

Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".

But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.

Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.

There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.

But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!

My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.

24px? 44px ? Wait, 48dp on Android, hu? What is the size of an accessible button exactly?
Well, it depends (haha). @eric clarifies a lot of miss conceptions around the minimum WCAG-conformant interactive element size.

Short answer:
- For 2.5.5 (AA), your target must be 24px, you can use padding (extend the size) or margin (add spacing) to achieve it. This doesn’t apply to link in blocks of text.
- Same for 2.5.8 (AAA) except you need to achieve 44px.

#curl 8.9.0 is out: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/07/24…

2 CVEs fixed
11 changes
260 bugfixes

by 80 contributors, out of which 47 authored commits

in 63 days since the previous release

Hanna sat down with Henry from @techlore for an in-depth talk about #privacy, #encryption, and #email!

You can watch the full interview here 👉 youtu.be/0wgpuiIoG_g

> Fast forward to 2018. OpenAI releases GPT-1, and suddenly, the future of content creation becomes crystal clear. AI-generated content, indistinguishable from human-written text, is on the horizon.

> (…)

> I'm sure that a vast amount of valuable content is being overlooked. Information that you might search for may never appear in Google's results. Not because it doesn't exist, but because Google has chosen not to include it.

vincentschmalbach.com/google-n…

Big Tech eating itself.

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach

Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.

^{Vincent Schmalbach}

"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."

propublica.org/article/baby-fo…

#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade

Under Biden, U.S. Officials Fought Baby Formula Regulations Around the World

U.S. officials have challenged baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries, sometimes after manufacturers complained. Critics say the efforts are undermining public health.

^ProPublica

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They had the signs printed in advanced. Hired a graphic designer. (Wow he did a good job.) Handed them out. Waved them proudly on television. Like they say "Lower Taxes" or something.

There is no neutral way to read this sign. It's about getting rid of people because of who they are. There is no gray area. No fig leaf. Just eliminationism.

It doesn't even say WHO or WHY.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938

arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

^arXiv.org

WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) are getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.

#CME #Boom #protons #SOHO #Spaceweather #FullHaloCME

It's amazing to see how many buses a single subway rail line needs to be temporarily replaced for track construction.

#mbta rail replacement buses for the red line. Full buses every 2-3 minutes, bus berth full of buses. And that's only one line!

Don't underestimate the capacity of a subway train system!

A statement that does not inspire confidence:

"Our [Honeywell] Level-6 [Minicomputer from the 1970s] has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom." — ricomputermuseum.org/collectio…

Honeywell/Ultimate Level-6

Our Level-6 has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.

^{www.ricomputermuseum.org}

There's now an implementation of the reading-flow property behind a runtime flag in Canary! As part of the work to implement this we need to make some decisions about how to handle elements with display: contents, and I've written a post to ask for your feedback and use cases.

developer.chrome.com/blog/read…

Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.

^{Chrome for Developers}

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switzerland-… by @sjvn

Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

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Big model release today: Meta AI's Llama 3.1 series, including Llama 3.1 405B which appears to be the first openly licensed model that genuinely competes with current top proprietary models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* FluxTube: Ad-free YouTube client using piped API

Oh, and the #Magisk repo had some updates as well as 1 added module:

* AshLooper: Boot Loop Protection

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Immer öfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.

Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts für #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefügt:

codeberg.org/cExplorer/nautilu…
Ein Rechtsklick genügt 🎉
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen 🤔
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource

nautilus-scripts-audio-video

^Codeberg.org

Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…

chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/pra…

Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat…

^{Chris Coyier}