Pete Spicer

@DedalusDev @jendevca It just makes me angry these days. And I'm beginning to have real questions about what it's doing to other people based on what it's clearly doing to me. Have fun, I'm out for a bit.

@Arantor @jendevca I don't quit because I do share with a bunch of nice people and I help others as well

@benjamincrozat @m4jor101 I've never had an issue with the EU cookie rules. It's quite clear they want site owners to do the right thing, and all the cookie banners are basically malicious compliance because it's easier/cheaper/more profitable to screw you over than do the right thing.

@Arantor @m4jor101 I like first principle thinking, haha.

Unpopular opinion: Nobody gives a damn if you have a cookie banner on your hobby website or $3 MRR SaaS. Push back the implementation as far as you can.

@DedalusDev @jendevca Makes me wonder if it's time to quit Twitter.

@Arantor @jendevca The world is crazy Pete... It is not just here and there, it is everywhere.

@benjamincrozat @m4jor101 Or, you know, just *don't* in the first place. Again, this is a *choice* being made.

@Arantor @m4jor101 I'm wondering how easy it is to hide that you're reselling user data when an audit happens.

@Halcruttenden Given Trump's history of not paying for things, does he have the money?

Why can’t rich people behave like this nowadays? Imagine Elon Musk on the Titanic… or Trump…

@m4jor101 @benjamincrozat The EU didn't ruin anything. The companies that resell your data are the ones to blame. Next time you get a cookie banner, look how many different companies *your* data is being sent to. That's a choice the site made, they don't *have* to do that.

@benjamincrozat EU single handedly ruined web for whole world they should have consulted those who built on web and experienced with tech rather than some old fart ordering to introduce ugly popups and banners that ruins user experience.

@benjamincrozat @kayintveen The EU created this rule to encourage website authors to not hoard data and only take what they *need* but website authors decided their profits were more important than your privacy.

@kayintveen Well, I don't think the EU created this rule with respect for web users in mind. But yeah, it definitely shows maturity.

@benjamincrozat Thing is, you probably don't _need_ a banner in the first place. If your cookies are literally required to make it work (e.g. Laravel stock cookies for CSRF), no banner needed. Easy to be compliant if you don't share data with third parties.

@ThiaBallerina Inflation going down doesn’t mean the prices go down. It means the speed at which prices go up (as they always go up) is slower.

Can someone please explain to me in crayon how “inflation keeps going down,” but we continue to live in the most expensive timeline of our lifetime?

@DedalusDev @jendevca That’s a fair question, though I’d have some serious reservations about a guy who thinks armed forces aren’t real jobs because they’re not private sector. I’ve tried to follow why the Dems have made “such a mess” but I’m not finding clear answers what they’ve actually messed up.

@Arantor @jendevca Pete, our country is a mess thanks to the Democrats and Kamala Harris is part of the mess. It is difficult for people abroad to understand. I would ask the Dem the same question.

@Pandamoanimum Surely the wrong time of year for freezing breath on a window pane?

Apparently the world’s most liveable city is Vienna. This means nothing to me.

@DedalusDev @jendevca The reason I ask is that for me, I’d find it hard to vote for someone whose morals conflict that hard with my own, both in terms of personal ethics and professional dealings. I’m trying to understand why he’s so much better, in spite of the evidence.

@DedalusDev @jendevca Serious question: how much more bad stuff has to come out about Trump that you’d consider “actually I couldn’t vote for that guy”?

@DHuskytron Do I have to?

Have you seen the images coming out of Groks picture generator?... 🤦‍♂️

@Pixelmusement This option at least allows for a migration as opposed to simply booting the majority of people out of the ecosystem because the app goes away because it doesn't adhere to Apple's rules.

@Arantor Except again, if you have an iOS device, you have a web browser, you could just use the web browser. >_< THAT'S why this situation is so bonkers. There are so, so, SO many people who are gonna drop the app like a brick the moment they see a 30% Apple fee applied. D:

I got another response from Patreon, this time definitely not canned due to multiple grammatical errors, but it also STILL didn't answer the question and was basically just a long paragraph saying patrons can pay through whatever platform they want. >_>

@Pixelmusement Thing is, it's since come out that the iOS app is the *predominant* way people consume content on Patreon. It's not a 'oh this only affects 10% of the audience' deal. It's not about 'serving the popular glass', it's 'making sure the most popular glass is allowed to stay'.

They don't want to stop serving the popular glass because they want to ensure people have a choice, but they also can't keep serving the large glass anymore in order to offer the popular glass at all. Yes, this analogy is accurate and yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds. >_<

@eloffd @unclebobmartin Climate change has always happened. It’s just happening faster and harder than it probably should and it’s going to have all kinds of effects in the short to medium term that we are just not ready for.

People get really pissed off at me when I say that climate change is not a bad thing with a time horizon of tens of thousands of years. Another glaciation period would kill civilization. We grow most of our food at the latitudes that would affected. We'd probably respond by geo-engineering on a massive scale, like putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere on purpose (e.g. pumping natural gas straight into the air.) It's not crazy to imagine a future where we would literally dig up tar sands or coal just to burn them to keep winter at bay. The problem is the change is very fast, and that's difficult for humans and other life to adapt to, and it could trigger feedback cycles and go so far that it would be massively disruptive and damaging. Rising sea levels over the next 1000 years will necessitate rebuilding basically every coastal city further inland. But the concrete reinforced construction we do is only good for about 100 years anyway, we will rebuild everything many times over that period. A slow change like that is easier for us to adapt to. But on the longer time horizon, it's a good thing. And for Canadians, Scandinavians, and Russians, it is actually generally a good thing overall, so I selfishly won't cry over it. Those countries need some warming.

We are currently in an ice age, which is defined as any period during which there are ice caps. The current ice age began 2.5 Mya. It is suspected that the cause was the gradual reduction in CO2 caused by the weathering of the Himalayas, the migration of Antarctica over the South Pole, and the closing of the isthmus of Panama blocking ocean heat transfer at the equator. There have been over a dozen significant glaciations since the ice age began. They are likely driven by the orbital cycles of the Earth. In the last million years they’ve fallen into a regular pattern of ~90,000 years of advancing cold and ice, and ~10,000 years of retreating ice and relative warmth. We are in one of those warm periods now. It started ~12,000 years ago. Winter is coming.

@eloffd @RGBCubed I’m not carrying a second monitor to my living room, nor setting it up on my coffee table though. I’ve been a single screen dev since I was a kid, having a second screen never made me radically more productive.

@Arantor @RGBCubed I have a laptop, but I also have a desk with a second monitor. It’s not an either or thing.

@jacobherbstman Which bit of Europe, exactly? Makes a lot of difference.

I’ve been in Europe one week and their gdp per capita being half of the US immediately makes sense

@eloffd @RGBCubed Because I enjoy having a laptop too much where I can move around, between my office and my sofa.

@RGBCubed A second monitor is well established to boost productivity. It’s the cheapest and most effective productivity hack you’ll ever encounter. Why wouldn’t you do it? Makes no sense