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Could someone post an archive? It’s impossible to view this page without a giant cookie pop up asking one to pay or to consent to being tracked. Isn’t this coercion and illegal in the EU?

Impossible? It works fine with javascript disabled. In fact it works best with javascript disabled.

https://archive.md/oVJfd

FWiW from an Australian IP using latest Firefox and uBO no cookie pop ups appear, article is straight forward to read.


Hmm strange. iCloud relay has been consistently causing me to get geolocated in Switzerland. I’m in NYC.

Ublock Origin's element zapper or picker gets rid of it. Can't seem to reach archive.today/is/whatever sites today.

I don’t think ubo works on some mobile devices

http://archive.today/2026.03.23-234733/https://www.heise.de/...

It won't work if you use 1.1.1.1 for DNS. They're blocking it again.


I can’t believe we’ve allowed it to get so bad.

Every time I log into the FTB (CA tax authority) website I have to set a new password. I wish there were some affirmative guidance to stop doing this because at the moment governments still think forcing password changes makes it “safer”.

> I wish there were some affirmative guidance to stop doing this because at the moment governments still think forcing password changes makes it “safer”.

NIST SP 800-63B-4 [0] seems to be pretty clear “affirmative guidance”, though its only actually legally required in certain circumstances.

[0] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html @ 3.1.1.2: “[...] Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require subscribers to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence that the authenticator has been compromised. [...]”


Batteries swell


Ride the NYC subway for a few days, especially any overground segment, and you’ll see plenty of this.

right after I posted this someone at work was on speakerphone. ugh.


FWIW at Google I use it daily


Getting a python readability review seems downright impossible in my org.


Unfortunately that's normal in British supermarkets


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