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  • towerfultoTechnology•Are cookie banners illegal?English
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    2 天前

    I’ve always been amazed how the data processing consent has morphed incot cookie banners.
    And I’ve seen Devs argue that tracking & data processing without cookies doesn’t need consent.

    It’s always been about data processing and user privacy.
    Cookies were just the “plastic to paper straws” that placates but annoys the masses, making it seem like progress. Even though the tracking and data processing still happens, your user profile is still traded, and nothing really changes.

  • towerfultoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Volume [Mr Lovenstein]
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    2 天前

    I swear there was a phase where shakey-cam had just become the in-thing.
    I remember watching a TV series or a movie or something where shooting had clearly wrapped before shakey-cam was popularised. And it looked like they had just added it in post. It was unnatural movement (so, not like someone was holding the camera), and there was too much of it. I had to skip a lot of the shakey-cam scenes

  • towerfultoProgrammer Humor•Never trust the windows api docs!
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    5 天前

    Trying to disable the windows key hotkey that opens the start menu, so the game The Witness can pause stuff, minimize, open the start menu and release the block on the windows key (IE do a more controlled start menu hotkey, instead of having windows rudely interrupt everything and break the game).

    Started with a 5 second hang whenever a debug breakpoint was reached. The dev started digging into the issue.

    Games use RawInput to get better mouse interactions, but that breaks the Microsoft recommended way of disabling windows key (as all input goes through RawInput instead of whatever the other windows API is).
    In the documentation for RawInput, it specifically states the flag to disable the windows key doesn’t work. So the Dev that was debugging the issue didn’t try it. Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

    The linked article is quite a good read, actually.
    I had to use one of the mirrors in the SO answer

    Edit:
    The mirror I used https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0006

  • towerfultoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Nobody takes a train from Germany to FranceEnglish
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    5 天前

    I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it’s better for the environment, it’s easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).
    I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.

    And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.
    I’d rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts

  • towerfultoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing?
    10·
    7 天前

    That’s a great rundown with decent logic & examples behind each point.

    I think the biggest point is the takeoff weight.

    If the impact/evac/safety aspects can be addressed, the only way I can see it working is to add a “cattle class” that’s like $10 cheaper than current economy and has something like 40 “seats”.
    Then increase the price of what is currently economy class by $10-20.
    You lose $400 because of the new cheaper class, but gain $1,200 to $2,400 by increasing the price of economy (considering a 160 seat plane, and convert 40 seats to standing). So, net gain $800-2000. Let’s you advertise new cheaper fares, and the price increase isn’t hugely egregious when the 40 seats sell out instantly.
    I guess it doesn’t work on less busy flights if only the 40 cheap seats sell