So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!!

It’s not the law that mandates the awful UI of those popups… it’s Google. I’m an adwords publisher, on my blog and a couple of (formerly!) popular web-apps. My sites were all compliant with the legislation, but not with Google’s policy for adwords publishers. Their algorithm sent me an e-mail threatening to cut off my income unless I implemented one of their “approved” cookie scripts. As any fool knows, it’s simply not possible to contact a real human at Google, so I was forced to do as they wished. So now all my sites have pointless, annoying cookie popups.

Everyone hates those popups, but don’t blame the legislation - blame Google for forcing the whole Internet into malicious compliance.

They missed my personal favourite:

SHIFT + INSERT … paste the content of the PRIMARY select buffer (currently selected text).

I fucking love Cory Doctorow

I certainly want a MicroSD slot and a headphone jack on any phone I buy. These are features I use. A lot.

How many of the RARBG torrents are still seeded?

I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

I’m in the UK, and I use Telegram. It’s far superior to WhatsApp, and has somewhat better ethics (for now).

I attended a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf. He broadly said that he didn’t care about making good tools, and thought that anyone who was concerned about PHP’s byzantine mess of an API was, in essence, just a drama queen.

That was the day I decided to stop putting any of my time and effort into PHP.