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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • Eeeeeeee brbrbrbbrbrll gzzzd
    Ding-ur-ding-ur-ding brrp
    cshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsh…

    Actually I quite liked that bit. It was reassuring and familiar and you knew it was working.

    What I didn’t like was taking 20 minutes to download a tiny video, anyone picking up the phone instantly killing your connection including the software download you’d been watching download for the last 15 minutes and the cost per minute and unreliability that taught me to connect, download my email, open my messages page, on the forum, disconnect, write all the forum replies in notepad and email replies in my client, then dial up again, hit sync on the email client and paste all my replies back in the forum.




  • Are you sure about this? Do you have proof?

    When Google explains in their privacy policy that their Fonts API collects your browsing data, I believe them. Without proof.

    https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

    When I embed Google Fonts in my website via the Google Fonts Web API, what data does Google receive from my website visitors?

    When end users visit a website that embeds Google Fonts, their browsers send HTTP requests to the Google Fonts Web API. The Google Fonts Web API serves the Google Fonts Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and subsequently the font files specified in the CSS to the users. Such HTTP requests include
    (1) the IP address used by the respective user to access the Internet,
    (2) the requested URL on the Google server, and
    (3) HTTP headers including the user agent describing the website visitors’ Internet browser and operating system versions as well as the referer (i.e. the webpage on which the Google font is to be displayed).


  • Fun fact: if the website you’re visiting includes a free font hosted by Google, the website and page you were accessing are sent to Google alongside your IP address. Google assert that they don’t use that data to personalise your ads, but they don’t mention not using it for other purposes as far as I recall, and Google also dropped their “Don’t be evil” motto. At first I found that funny (who proposes that in a meeting and how do you come to agree to drop not being evil?!), but increasingly I realise that it wasn’t just an absurd decision but a serious policy shift.


  • …in that you can go to prison for expressing support for proscribed terrorist organisations as determined in UK law, and “Palestine Action” recently became one of them. For the avoidance of doubt, I tell you this purely for information and warning purposes only, and to help you, if you’re British, avoid ending up in prison for expressing support for the proscribed organisation “Palestine Action”.

    Also to be clear: personally, I don’t know much about that organisation beyond what’s clear from their name and that they recently became proscribed.

    Don’t for a minute think that that doesn’t include anonymously online. It absolutely does include what you write on the internet. It also includes (with lesser sentences) wearing clothing that supports a proscribed organisation or posting a picture of such clothing online or in print.

    Historically there never was a right to free speech in the UK, although that changed somewhat with the introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights (which we helped draft post war and which has been extended since), but it is definitely illegal in the UK to express support in any way, including online, for proscribed terrorist organisations.

    You can read more about the 84 proscribed organisations and sentences of up to 14 years in prison here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version

    The list includes organisations assessed by the UK government as terrorists, such as a lot of Islamist organisations, some far right groups and a handful of separatist movements.

    Offenses include being reckless as to whether you might encourage others to support a proscribed organisation. So be careful about what you say and how you say it. Consider carefully whether you might encourage support for a proscribed organisation and don’t do that.