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New comment by pluijzer in "Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari"

pluijzer — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:58:51 +0000

Honestly interested why this was downvoted, which yes makes for boring reading but I hope it results in some interesting argument. If you need a cookie banner it means you are collecting users' personal information. For many websites this is totally unnecessary. I do not like it if a website tells me how important my privacy is to them and then asks me to accept sharing all the information they can about me with other commercial entities. For no functional reason. I don't want to press accept that. As a insignificant little protest I want press reject. I want their statistics to show that some people don't like data being shared.

"I do not care about cookies", when it cannot just hide a popup will accept the terms and removes the option for this small protest from me. That is why I do not use it. Is this somehow wrong, offensive, off-topic?

New comment by pluijzer in "Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari"

pluijzer — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:01:32 +0000

That is nice. That is why I don't use 'I don't care about cookies'. I do care, I want to press reject, if for nothing else than to send a signal.

New comment by pluijzer in "Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari"

pluijzer — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:37:37 +0000

"Block nags to accept cookies and privacy invasive tracking"

Took me a couple of tries to parse the senetence. Is this blocking or accepting privacy invasive tracking? Guess the former but kept reading it as the latter.

New comment by pluijzer in "The Sound Proof Booths of Silence"

pluijzer — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:06:21 +0000

I guess the allure of physical events is twofold, to feel a connection with other fans and to feel a connection with the players. I wonder if this diminishes the latter. Maybe put the players somewhere else entirely and stream it in the form of these stage holograms.

New comment by pluijzer in "The Evolution of Vi and Vim"

pluijzer — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:18:21 +0000

Not my favorite language but I like how C# is C++++ (even though in musical terms C# would be inbetween C and C++).

New comment by pluijzer in "Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap"

pluijzer — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:51:06 +0000

I thought this was specifically not part of Wayland, am I wrong?

New comment by pluijzer in "Credit card debt collection"

pluijzer — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:43:58 +0000

The record can technically be correct but not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". In that case the negative record can be "corrected".

So, in my case. When I was a teenager I opened a second bank account with credit card. In only used the card once for something small and forgot about it. Throughout the years the cost of this card started to built up, messages to pay back where not received because I already had a different address and phone number.

Years later this resulted in a negative BKR registration for me. I explained the situation to the bank (that could technically let the registration be removed) but they refused. Later I had a lawyer order them to remove the registration, on grounds that me forgetting about a credit card when I was young was no reason to believe I wouldn't be paying my mortgage. The registration was therefor not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". The bank honored this.

New comment by pluijzer in "Credit card debt collection"

pluijzer — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:34:50 +0000

I got my bad debt scrubbed this way. This was in the Netherlands. It is not always possible, some sources here (in Dutch): https://www.vldwadvocaten.nl/blog/bkr-en-avg-bezwaar-en-verz...

New comment by pluijzer in "Credit card debt collection"

pluijzer — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:56:32 +0000

Just a heads up for people living in the EU, it is possible to have things like negative credit ratings removed on grounds of GPRD.

New comment by pluijzer in "How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain"

pluijzer — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:51:22 +0000

Are your sure this is the case? I see the word used in the original meaning all the time.

New comment by pluijzer in "Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads"

pluijzer — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:02:16 +0000

Brave gives me a strong negative gut reaction. I really doubt crypto goes well with ethics. Looking at some of Brave's past transgressions confirms it for me. Sure, you can turn it off, just like you can remove the pineapple from pizza, the pizza is still ruined though.

New comment by pluijzer in "How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?"

pluijzer — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:57:58 +0000

In a way it became the complete opposite of how it started. At first one OS for many users, ea with many processes. Now, with containers, micro services etc. we have an OS per service/process. Still the original abstractions work surprisingly well though makes it me wonder how a complete redesign of would look like aimed at modern usage.

New comment by pluijzer in "California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics"

pluijzer — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:56:25 +0000

I have used Magic Mushrooms on occasion. They provided me with very valuable insights that led to make meaningful changes and choices in live. Insights that have stops my panic attacks, made me more appreciative and empathetic to others. I really believe I am at a better place in live because of those experiences. I am however very careful with taking them. Only when I feel very stable mentally and physically. Only when me and my environment is well prepared and not too often. I had a friend that took them after he split up with his girlfriend and went to the fair on them. Yes, ... don't do that.

New comment by pluijzer in "Show HN: Host a Website in the URL"

pluijzer — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:03:31 +0000

I made a QR code from this link. It really isn't anything crazy. Isn't that cool, we can host websites from QR codes!

New comment by pluijzer in "TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens"

pluijzer — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:02:00 +0000

I now come to understand that the technobable in Star Trek wasn't that well predicted, in the future we will not be reversing polarities by alligning field cores. Picard will have us align our llamas with chiwawas to get an alpacafied chinchilla model.

New comment by pluijzer in "Plastic Money"

pluijzer — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:26:07 +0000

Starting from 1996 we had ChipKnip in the Netherlands. When it came out you could already pay with debitcards in most shops. The added benefit was that it was suited for small purchases and worked in places without a phoneline, like the bus. One problem is that if you break or lose the card your money will be gone. I remeber that when I was a child more then once I broke my card and had to tape it togheter in aome wild fashion in order to use my money.

New comment by pluijzer in "The Para Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds"

pluijzer — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 21:31:26 +0000

If you are on Android I can recommend Orgzly. It ties in with Emacs' org-mode but is fully usable on its own with a sensible very convinient UI. It is open source and everything is saved in plain text that can optionally be kept in sync with Dropbox or WebDAV.

New comment by pluijzer in "The physics of hand clapping"

pluijzer — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 11:37:29 +0000

Still doesn't explain the sound of one hand clapping.

New comment by pluijzer in "How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)"

pluijzer — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:05:30 +0000

This is the problem I have with long form articles. They are promoted as a counter reaction to short shallow articles without substance. Though most of these long form articles are just as shallow. Starting a articles on physics by the description on how a professor wiped his horn rimmed glasses that shimmered in the morning light only to have them steam up again by his first sip of chocolade brown coffee.

New comment by pluijzer in "An unexpected uptick in cigarette smoking in Germany"

pluijzer — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:27:28 +0000

If not the state, the free market will fill the gap and tell us what is for our own benefit, bet a lot more boundaries get crossed when the tobacco industry, pharmaceutical industry etc. get free reign.