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Jon Wood

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@anon_opin anyone who complains about people eating popcorn in the cinema needs to reassess quite how picky they are about how people behave in public spaces.

@LevelUp @fesshole I dunno, sounds like the going south was so good they missed the entire capital shutting down.

@fesshole dickhead. I wouldn’t mind if you found a bin along your way.

I got a pop up ad on a Sainsbury’s self scan thing today. Is nothing sacred?

@benc I don’t think it’s even conspiratorial to say delay compensation forms are always designed to be as user hostile as possible so people decide it’s not worth the hassle.

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Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access

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When your online order doesn't show up.

“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.

@purplepadma I’m not at all sold on how long that will be the case for. Bluesky aren’t doing this out of an insatiable curiosity about who people are, they’re required to under the Online Safety Act, as is any site with a “significant” (no, that’s not defined) proportion of UK users where people can communicate with each other. That absolutely brings Mastodon instances into scope as well beyond the very smallest ones where the operators personally know every user.

@mattl@social.coop @CatherineFlick assuming it was under my control and I had some visibility into what/who I was blocking at a more granular level than “AI”, sure.

@mattl@social.coop @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.

@mattgrayyes while looking out over the sea from a cliff?

Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.

“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.

Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."

(From websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-

We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.

@gsuberland yeah, RE7 was just from the peak Beige Shooters era. I’m so glad we got past that and games are allowed to be fun again.

It finally happened, I ended up on my arse while bouldering, via my elbow. Not ideal because it hurts, and I wanted to climb more, but it does mean I’m pushing out of my comfort zone. Also I got back on and kicked that boulder’s arse before the adrenaline ran out and I noticed quite how sore i was.

@anon_opin it’s a film about a physicist, how much action were you expecting?

@dave hmm. It’s above Manage Labels for me. The URL ends which you could try.

@dave it’s called Manage subscriptions

@dave on mine it seems to be under the More fold put under the assorted mail folders (of course, why wouldn’t you put it there rather than settings?)

@dave I forget where bit buried in the settings is a list of all the bulk email sources in your inbox with unsubscribe buttons next to them. I massively dropped my email volume in minutes with that thing.

@nikitonsky why does that button element even need a btn class?

@anon_opin how tight are your socks? You need to buy a bigger size.

@0xabad1dea we live in a weird timeline. “The US government gave up funding overseas aid so people into playing video games as fast as possible have picked up the slack”.

@jonathanhogg @jonty hacker as in Growth Hacker. Or as I sometimes like to call them, sociopaths.