kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

I just realised that implicitly I built a FLOC tester :D

Want to check if your browser implements FLOC? Just go to https://shivering-isles.com and if a banner shows up warning you about FLOC, your browser is affected. Amazing!

While a lot of people decided to set a header to opt-out from FLOC tracking for their users, I decided to embrace it and let people make up their own mind.

For those interested in the banner, here are the implementation details:

https://git.shivering-isles.com/shivering-isles/blog/-/commit/7896142b66a57de4a960487bc3ea5fcec187d2e2

It's kept simple and efficient. It'll only show up, when your browser implements the API. Enjoy!

#FLOC #privacy

@kawaiipunk @davidoclubb

what really pisses me off is many 30/40 something Brexit voters had fun in their own youth travelling to Ibiza or teknivals (raves held in European countries) making use of free movement - and cops in the countries where the events happened turning a blind eye to rampant drug use, dealing and drug driving from the UK folk (many of whom were only doing it because UK had clamped down on these things), and yet they voted against positive bits of European integration..

@kawaiipunk @piggo @davidoclubb

exactly - they won't have to "abandon" their second homes, no more than people from Russia or China or Singapore would.

However they will have to comply more with immigration and tax rules and a lot of Brit expats set up home in a foreign country to try and avoid these (and were very often also trying to use the "common EU citizen" status whilst still being a "foreigner" (but a rich one) as a get out to avoid complying with various domestic regulations))

@feditips
Direct/private messages are NOT end to end encrypted on #mastodon, don't use it for anything sensitive - https://microblog.shivering-isles.com/@sheogorath/105374055398321836

You'll have to manually encrypt messages using pgp or something if you want #privacy on DMs. If you're concerned about this, just try to let the #devs know. An ideal solution would be to implement e2ee on the #activitypub protocol itself, so that all #fediverse platforms and future platforms get it. This way, even cross-platform DMs would be encrypted.

Google is now tracking your visitors for advertising purposes even when you’re not using Google Analytics or Google Ads.

I took a closer look at Google’s FLoC initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer

https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc

Z @adalowicz braliśmy udział w dyskusji "Jak odpuściliśmy fejsa i zaczęliśmy robić coś z sensem". Wyszło nie do końca tak jak miało, ale jestem ciekaw waszej opinii; co poprawić, jak jaśniej wyjaśnić, co zupełnie nie trafia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOqnB3h1tUs

***FOR FOLLOWERS IN THE UK (PLEASE BOOST IF YOU HAVE UK FOLLOWERS)***
I have a voucher for a free vehicle MOT at a Halfords auto centre to be redeemed before the end of May. It’s of no use to myself or anyone else that I know and it would be a shame to waste it.

The first person to send me a DIRECT/PRIVATE reply will get the voucher and I’ll update this thread publicly to confirm it’s been taken.

Thanks!

A month ago, I released a prototype of a little game about digging up and assembling fossils. If you're interested in seeing an early version of what my take on Minesweeper would look like, give it a go :) #gamedev #indiedev https://cheeseness.itch.io/bonesweeper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiW4770dkOQ

In case you didn't know at least in western countries tire dust, and road wear are the largest source of atmospheric plastic pollution.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/12/airborne-plastic-pollution-spiralling-around-the-globe-study-finds

Cars are poisoning us. Walk, bike or take a train.

It’s very fucked up that people disappear or even ‘die mysteriously’ in countries like #Russia when you have a critical view on mr Putin himself for example.. He’s nothing more than a mad dictator like Kim and Xi Jinping.

I HATE dictators.
Fuck you Putin and fuck you Xi Jinping