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I absolutely love that zip-tie mounting solution, it's the kind of thing I wish I saw in more homelab setups.

People joke about linux.exe, but there was such a thing as andLinux/coLinux

As a note, the EU requirements for cookie banners actually have a few interesting requirements.

So they engineered the consent mechanism to be as high-friction as possible to say “no”, while the “yes, violate my privacy” choice is always a single click.

A consent dialog needs to offer a "decline" option that's at least as easy to access as the "agree" option. If they try to coerce you to give consent simply to avoid tedium, then that consent mechanism is in violation of GDPR.

Also a fun tidbit;
Ended up sharing a table at a speakers dinner in 2019 with a guy who worked for the same advertisement company that caused the Target scandal (among others). He had some interesting things to share about how such things happen, and also how the advertisement industry works internally.
It's got a remarkable amount of parallels to high-frequency trading.

I really do hope that Funkwhale get their 2.0 release out soon, should make self-hosted Spotify-like stacks simpler to do, and the fact that it works for creation and distribution as well is great.

I think the login-redirect system is just broken for ADFS, it feels like it adds all the SSO-logout URLs for all systems you're logged into to the redirect queue when it times your session out.
Which means you'll have to log in enough times to exhaust that queue before it finally reaches the actual system you're trying to log into.

But that's just an assumption.

Added an edit with the filter line

I actually recently added the Microsoft logout page to µblocks domain filter at work, since it would every now and then trigger a logout the very first page load after I'd log in to the email there.

This has also somehow caused a bunch of other AD-connected systems to suddenly behave a lot better when it comes to session termination.

Edit: Since people were asking for it, this is what you need to add to the "My filters" tab in your UBO config;

||login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/logout^$document

This will prevent any requests from redirecting you to log out, timeouts etc will still invalidate your session.

No longer an assumption - from itch themselves: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

Assuming that this is due to pressure from VISA/MasterCard - like it's been with Steam.

It's patently bizarre how a company whose only purpose is transferring money from account A to B can then arbitrarily decide what people are allowed to buy and sell.
It's one thing to refuse to be an acceptable payment method for NSFW games, but to forbid the store from selling them at all? That's just megalomania, and a great pointer to why monopolies (and duopolies) are A Bad Thing™

For sparkling, it's commonly referred to as "homeopathic lager" among colleagues - i.e. without any active ingredients.

One has super cow powers, the other one doesn't.

They actually did a study on it after rolling back to Windows, and it turned out to not have failed due to technical difficulties at all.
If I recall correctly they stated that something like 80-90% of all issues reported during the period were due to badly designed processes - processes which were the same as in Windows, and the number of technical issues actually dropped.

Certainly, the fact that Microsoft promised to build a fancy new HQ in the city if they switched back to Windows can't have had anything to do with the choice to roll back...