Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 55

@david_ross @cathal Thank you for the info! I am new to Firefox, I've been using Opera for years, so apologies if I am pointing at things that are already known. :)

@eloquence I also grew up with Sierra games, but the very early ones that weren't point and click! Our first family computer was an IBM XT rescued from a skip at my dad's workplace and we used to spend hours on King's Quest. :)

@david_ross @cathal Something else that they might want to take a look at:

1. Select "Never" for third-party cookies
2. Change the radio button to "Block all cookies and site data"
3. Change back to "Accept cookies etc"

The "Always/From Visited/Never" option for third-party cookies silently flicks back to Always. It is probably an oversight but it feels a bit dark pattern-ish.

The new #GDPR seems to have led to US websites posting lengthy screeds of marketing copy that you have to OK before you can read the content. I clicked a link to TechCrunch, and got four full paragraphs of obfuscation with an OK button.

None of this is compliant with GDPR.

@charlag @h Some of the anti-Russian stuff in the British media is getting a bit much. I saw a newspaper front page referring to "Russkis" the other day, which seemed a bit off.

By all means the media here should quite rightly criticise the Russian government, but some of it is getting dangerously close to being racist against all Russians.

@h To be fair, it's a school holiday week in the UK and quite a few of the regular presenters have been replaced with cover.

The BBC is largely excellent, especially the domestic UK radio networks, which is why it sticks out when standards slip a bit. One brief listen to US news/talk radio makes me realise what we have here.

@omnipotens We have a whole instance at radiosocial.org :)

@cute_weeds I always thought the upside down smiley face was cute and funny and I used it a lot and then someone told me it meant I was being mean to everyone :(

I always listen to the BBC World Service when I'm washing up. In ten minutes I've heard someone use the 'word' 'ironical' and another presenter say "and from one Spanish country to another" when seguing from an item on Spain to an item on, er, Italy. Standards!

This article is funnier if you replace all mentions of "vaccines" with references to the band The Vaccines.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/drone-delivery-becomes-a-reality-in-remote-pacific-islands

@mayel I agree, I always want to smash my radio when Capital is on, it always plays the same ten songs in a loop

(sorry)

@mayel I agree, Capital is rubbish. It always plays the same 10 songs on a loop

(sorry)

On the radio: "It's hoped a new campaign will stop any more Barnsley fans committing suicide."

I know they got relegated, but they can't be that bad.

@mkwadee I grew up really close to it and everyone knew everyone in Cheshire back in the day (before it became a Desirable Address) so I got a tour of the non-public bits when I was a kid. :)

@david_ross @cathal I've changed it to Never. Does it break anything other than creepy advertising trackers when you have it set to Never?

This looks brilliant - an exciting new discovery centre at #Cheshire's new World Heritage Site, Jodrell Bank:

https://confidentials.com/manchester/jodrell-bank?id=5b0378c0627aa

@ghost_bird Trending Now? Jesus wept. Whose idea was that?

@david_ross @cathal I moved away from Debian mostly because they ship an ancient ESR version of Firefox from before all the Quantum improvements, and it's pretty unusable on my aging laptop.

I tried downloading and running the version from Mozilla but it has a really, really annoying issue in KDE - hard to explain, but the right scrollbar doesn't reach the right hand side of the screen? If that makes sense. There's an irritating window border meaning you have to be super accurate on the bar.

@theoutrider Fair enough, I stand corrected, I have noticed all that chav benefits stuff on my EPG and thought it was 4. I don't watch a lot of broadcast TV!

Point still stands though, the "compete for stuff" bullshit needs to stop - city of culture being another case in point. We're a small country, pulling together is better than this naked 'divide and rule' crap from Westminster.

@theoutrider Isn't it the channel that has all the Scouse Gypsy Chav Bailiffs on Benefits type programmes?