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Conservatives don't particularly care about courts that run counter to their ideology. There's a storied history of surveillance being introduced, being found illegal by courts, and those decisions being ignored.
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plus we got cookie banners because of German bureaucrats, who’s to believe they won’t succeed with this my mind still is boggled
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Apr 16, 2023 14:53
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No, we got those because webdevs are the dumbest, most feckless morons on the planet. None of my sites display one, and they don't need to either.
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Apr 16, 2023 14:56
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Yeah, plenty of times you can avoid making GBS threads up your users with cookie banners by simply ensuring that you're not vacuuming up data that you don't need and really have no business gathering.
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Apr 16, 2023 16:11
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It wouldn't surprise me if webdevs were the worst of the computer toucher species but are cookies really their fault or the bosses?
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Apr 16, 2023 16:17
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breadshaped posted:It wouldn't surprise me if webdevs were the worst of the computer toucher species but are cookies really their fault or the bosses? Both of these things are true. A lot of web programming, say in mid-tier outsource price bracket, ends up just copy-pasting giant building blocks, think buying another BMW to change a spoiler on your BMW, and so you end up with really overwrought websites that, e.g., need 20 cookies when they don't even use any tracked analytics meaningfully, or offer support for user sessions.
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Good on ya if your personal website only uses session cookies or whatever, but that's clearly not what people are upset about. What pisses people off is websites setting a billion tracking and analytics cookies and tricking users with dark patterns and nudging to give their consent.
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Apr 16, 2023 16:49
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I was not talking about personal websites. And the people who are at fault for the cookie and consent banners (and those are two different things) are the web developers who made them. It's not hard to get by without, but they chose to throw a tantrum instead. Here's a positive example:  Small popup that times out after a few seconds. Which is more than they need to do.
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Apr 16, 2023 18:31
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The best/worst ones are those US sites where when you decline tracking, they redirect you onto a pissy passive-aggressive minimalist site that goes like "okay then I guess you won't get to enjoy our wonderful content  ".
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Apr 16, 2023 18:46
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Perestroika posted:The best/worst ones are those US sites where when you decline tracking, they redirect you onto a pissy passive-aggressive minimalist site that goes like "okay then I guess you won't get to enjoy our wonderful content I like the ones where they just block any European visitor (usually local news) with a message like "Our European visitors are important to us, please be patient as we find a solution." and my brother in christ, it's been 5 loving years, you don't give two shits lol.
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Apr 16, 2023 18:58
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The best part is when you have to access .gov sites (mostly for state governments, like when I had to order a copy of my birth certificate) and they just straight-up don't work outside the US at all. Thank God for VPNs.
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Apr 16, 2023 19:36
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'oh okay let's put the URL into archive.is aaaaand someone saved a readable version, nice'
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Übrigens:Auf die Fresse posted:FDP regt Energiegewinnung durch Kernfusion an – SPD ist dagegen Yeah, all that Bürokratie around Fusion. And "überhaupt keine radioaktiven Abfälle", lmao. Hating the FDP is absolutely warranted.
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Why even bring up future tech we might not even conceivably see in our lifetime? FDP
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Because that's all they have. If you just entbürokratisier hard enough, suddenly a bright future of infinite energy comes into being, and how dare anyone doubt it. It's all smoke of course, they just want to do nothing but grandstand and point at the distant future, knowing they don't have to actually do anything concrete. Seriously, I can't get over the Bürokratie comment. It's so breathtakingly stupid.
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Eh, I genuinely believe the first grid ready fusion reactors will be available in around 15 years. It would absolutely suck if it takes 40 additional years due to buerocracy and nuclear fear. Acting like a fusion reactor is comparable to the radioactuve waste of a fission reactor is naive and honestley stupid. In fact the USA just (like this week) made a change so that fusion is regulated similar to a hadron colider, rather than a fission reactor, which honestly fits way closer to what's going on there. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:Eh, I genuinely believe the first grid ready fusion reactors will be available in around 15 years. It would absolutely suck if it takes 40 additional years due to buerocracy and nuclear fear. I really loving hope so. Technology seems to be coming along but commercial viability seems a long way off still.
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Well they'll be available maybe, but the big question is the economics of it all (and even with nuclear energy they are not good) - and for sure FDP wouldn't be the party to crowbar into the market to subsidise it. Also I think it's unlikely as-is we'll see it soon, the 2022 announcement had a lot of caveats when you look into it. But the FDP mostly just wants to look like it's different from the Green, it's not a good faith proposal.
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Like yeah, there are some very cool fusion projects going on (Helion looks neat in particular), but those are still in a very uncertain stage. They absolutely should be funded and supported, but they 100% should not be relied upon in any capacity for any longer-term planning. We should still be very much continue to decarbonise our energy grid under the assumption that fusion won't appear just in time to save our asses. FDP is just doing its usual thing of pointing at at something shiny and going "surely this will magically solve all our problems, no need to actually take material action". Perestroika fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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EU DEMO isn't even close to being built yet, and many rather basic questions have not been answered. Perhaps the FDP should invest in education and Kindergrundsicherung, so we actually have a workforce able to work towards fusion in the future…
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Antigravitas posted:EU DEMO isn't even close to being built yet, and many rather basic questions have not been answered. yeah it's underappreciated with the whole nuclear energy discourse (which was a mistake) that at this point we lack skilled workers to operate nuclear reactors, but of course that'd mean it's a bit more than an easy cheap fix to just turn them all back on. (which is why the companies operating the nuclear reactors have gone on record they don't really want to be involved in nuclear here anymore)
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spankmeister posted:I really loving hope so. Technology seems to be coming along but commercial viability seems a long way off still. It's really an interesting field of research. ITER is pretty much a pit of money, because it is only trying to solve the problem with giant size and was already based on obsolete technology when it was covieved and will still take years to built. In the meantime, there are massive advancements in the efficiency of magnets to built such a tokamak (see SPARC by commonwealth fusion) or more creative solutions like the stuff Helion is cooking up. They still expect that their next reactor will spew some net electricity (not just energy) by next year. Also that stuff in the NIF last year where they had in some abstract technical sense a scientific net positive is pretty much ignorable, because that approach would never be useful in any way for generatimg electricity. But honestly, I think the real future of energy will be plain ol' solar. These things keep getting cheaper, more stable and the efficiency is growing too. The biggest issue is the lack of large scale grid storage. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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the grid storage is a concern, though hopefully flexibilisation of energy demand through smart technology, expansion of energy markets and greater HDVC grids should make it less relevant as using batteries is not a particularly efficient solution.
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I wonder what happened to the more than 100 000 people who worked in solar and wind before getting Altmaier'd.
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I just hope against hope that Germany will stop acting as if hydrogen is a way to store energy with any sort of efficiency. It may have some use in industrial steel production without coal, but other than that, it's just such a giant leak of energy, that I feel insulted whenever some politician suggests it as some magic bullet. Fusion may be some years in the future, but at least it is an actual energy source, rather than a really crappy version of batteries.
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Perestroika posted:The best/worst ones are those US sites where when you decline tracking, they redirect you onto a pissy passive-aggressive minimalist site that goes like "okay then I guess you won't get to enjoy our wonderful content Those are the best actually. No, please don't take away the banners and the auto scrolling corporate illustrations. How would I know how important the story is if I don't have to scroll past at least one page of header?
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I think there's not even an inkling of a chance of seeing a power plant generating electricity by Kernfusion before 2050 and the likelyhood is that we will be lucky to see one by 2060. If somehow this becomes an international race and sees cold-war levels of public spending than there is always the possibility. A big problem is with the ITER delays. The longer they keep pushing back "first plasma" the longer until we get answers to the critical questions like "Will some of these powerful instabilities just smash through containment and destroy our reactor walls the first time we switch it on?"
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Antigravitas posted:Übrigens: Excuse me, it says "hochradioaktive Abfälle" and there's a precise and clear definition when something counts as highly radioactive which you can find at C:\Users\Wolle\Documents\notthatbad-final2-final-FINAL.txt
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breadshaped posted:A big problem is with the ITER delays. The longer they keep pushing back "first plasma" the longer until we get answers to the critical questions like "Will some of these powerful instabilities just smash through containment and destroy our reactor walls the first time we switch it on?" 
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ITER? I barely know her!
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breadshaped posted:I think there's not even an inkling of a chance of seeing a power plant generating electricity by Kernfusion before 2050 and the likelyhood is that we will be lucky to see one by 2060. If somehow this becomes an international race and sees cold-war levels of public spending than there is always the possibility. One of the surprisingly positive things coming from ITER was the realization that the fusion plasma was a lot more energetic than predicted, which then lead to a lot of knock-on effects, like the shielding getting irradiated far faster, too.  But this also means that fusion reactors are also a lot better at creating energy than predicted. Good news for the future!
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Mr. ITER, smash these reactor back walls
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Blockchain, fusion, AI. These are the bold new technologies that will transform this country and finally overcome climate change. I applaud our FDP friends for looking forward, instead of back.
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Another huge and spontaneous strike incoming. I've had enough. Dismantle all unions which have influence over public transport. They're clearly abusing their power. So pissed off right now. gently caress it. Let's all just buy cars because clearly public transport is a myth. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Unbelievably bad post
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GABA ghoul posted:Blockchain, fusion, AI. These are the bold new technologies that will transform this country and finally overcome climate change. I applaud our FDP friends for looking forward, instead of back. to be fair, at least the FDP managed to hit one real tech on their march to fall for scams, though considering they don't really seem to understand fusion technology, I'll chalk this up to random chance
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Simply Simon posted:Unbelievably bad post Libluini posted:to be fair, at least the FDP managed to hit one real tech on their march to fall for scams, though considering they don't really seem to understand fusion technology, I'll chalk this up to random chance cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:I know, right? I am genuinely pissed that they are making me hate unions. Those are usually a great thing, but now they are losing me here. It's not like the people who get to decide if they get their raises have to rely on public transport. And the loss of two days of profits is neglectible compared to the huge disruption of public life. I guess fighting for better things is impossible if it personally inconveniences you, better just Sieg Heil the Bonzen then, Bozo
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Libluini posted:maybe we should just pay them more? But but but the wage price spiral! Which is totally a thing although inflation is primarily driven by energy prices while markets start to settle already (dairy farmers are fearing lower prices already). Totally!
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