Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 54

@Damage That envelope is amazing, I wish I knew who supplied it so I could send my stuff out in those.

@ND3JR The alternative, and the path I'm taking at present, is "use other websites if you're not wanted on theirs."

@ND3JR This is a total block, though. You can't get in by filling in a Captcha. It was actually a US radio-related website I was trying to visit at the time!

I've never used Cloudflare, but I assume it gives website owners a bunch of tick boxes to select countries or regions they want to allow/block.

Most of whom, if they came to have a go at me in person, would take one look at my home city and run off.

This thing is turning into Twitter - ie. post something and get dog's abuse from a bunch of randoms.

Wearing out my block button today.

@dtluna Charming

Cloudflare is now allowing lazy US website owners to block European visitors:

> The owner of this website has banned the country or region your IP address is in (GB) from accessing this website.

Great!

@tomas The version of Firefox included in Debian is so old that it doesn't have "television" in its dictionary

@Graham_Mitchell @h @Antanicus @mattcropp @samtoland In the UK, the first thing most people think of when they hear the word "co-op" is an expensive supermarket chain with dubious quality products and dated stores.

@woozle If we are going for obsolete Eastern European motors then there has to be a "harder / Lada" rhyme in there somewhere too.

"baby rev my motor in the back of a Toyota"

They are playing some rubbishy pop song on the radio that has the lyric "baby pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover".

A Rover seems a fairly unglamorous car to use in a pop song.

What next - "we'll do what we can muster in the back of a Dacia Duster"?

Hurrah for local news!

This isn't meaningful journalism, it's just gawking at horror. @Graham_Mitchell https://social.coop/media/j3LKjytJxCFAnAyv-a0

@samtoland An awful lot of the 'agreements' on US websites seem to imply that you have to waive your GDPR rights (by clicking OK) to continue using the site.

As far as I'm aware, you can't waive your rights under GDPR so it's all nonsense. Am I right in thinking this?

@sheogorath They probably wouldn't be interested in a report from someone in a country that is about to leave the EU, though.

It'd be interesting to know how centralised Mastodon is in terms of hosting. An awful lot of instances seem to be hosted with two French providers, OVH and Scaleway (aka Online.net).

If, for example, OVH suffered a catastrophe how much of the fediverse would disappear?

@switchingsocial I'm sure there is a ready-made solution but personally I'd probably write a Python script.

They just don't get it - you can't do this anymore. You can't share our data with 100+ of your "trusted partners", you can't store information on us like a creepy ex, you can't carry on with business as usual with just an OK button.

The second best thing would be for the US to come up with an equivalent to GDPR. The best thing would be for us all to stop using creepy USA websites and come up with our own solutions, like dumping Twitter for Mastodon.