ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir
ICANN
ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
What would you do if you lost your Google account? https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/losing-google-account/
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help https://gist.github.com/mGBUfLn9/7cadffcf7c3c23b7376350165a67735f
Gist
history.txt
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/
TechCrunch
No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data protection law. That’s the unambiguous message from the European…
We Chat, They Watch https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
The Citizen Lab
We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019) https://baekdal.com/thoughts/the-original-cookie-specification-from-1997-was-gdpr-compliant/
Baekdal
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant
Cookies today are doing all kinds of bad things, but did you know that the original creators wanted to stop that?
Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone https://twitchroulette.net/
4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020 https://marctenbosch.com/news/2020/05/siggraph-2020-technical-paper-n-dimensional-rigid-body-dynamics/
Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models https://github.com/yemount/pose-animator/
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GitHub - yemount/pose-animator
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Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/
VOLE.wtf
Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font
A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically
Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think https://secondbreakfast.co/patio11-s-law
Second Breakfast
Patio11’s Law
@mmcgrana: Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.1
A few years ago, I woke up in Sunriver, OR, and went to make coffee. The house had one of those bed-and-breakfast-type coffee trays.…
A few years ago, I woke up in Sunriver, OR, and went to make coffee. The house had one of those bed-and-breakfast-type coffee trays.…
92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/pointing_out_how_much_power_few_people_have_gets/
Reddit
r/interestingasfuck on Reddit: Pointing out how much power few people have gets you removed from this sub apparently.
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