Deebster

I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don’t want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

I had to go to urban dictionary for wag = wild-ass guess.

Great news, congratulations Helsinki.

They mention electric scooters having their own challenges and solutions without going into any details. Do they treat them as bikes or bikes? Do they get their own lanes? The article ended too soon!

Oh of course, just like how Netanyahu reassured us that the (Israeli newspaper) Haaretz reporting of Israeli soldiers admitting war crimes was mere blood libel.

I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.

The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.

When I say I don’t accept, I don’t mean I live in denial, I mean I don’t acquiesce - I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I’m on cameras, but I’m not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

I’m assuming this is a young group, and they’ve grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

I’ve met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

Her death brings the total number of journalists killed by Israeli forces since October 2023 to at least 231, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

The Committee for Protecting Journalists has been tracking numbers of journalists killed and recently there’s been a massive uptick from the average of 80 a year between 2003 and 2022.

Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.

To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

It didn’t say in the article who the previous five were, so I looked it up:

• Belgium (2016)
• Austria (2020)
• Sweden (2020)
• Portugal (2021)
• United Kingdom (2024)
• Ireland (2025)

That’s using the source quoted in the article.

Another source has a longer list:

• Belarus (2015)
• Belgium (2016)
• Austria (2020)
• Sweden (2020)
• Portugal (2021)
• UK (2024)
• Slovakia (2024)
• (Ireland would be here if/when updated for 2025)

Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.

APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.

* surely that’s easy, right?

FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/