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I wonder whether Twitter or M365 is more hostile towards users...

Spoken English is completely different language from written English. Even more so with native speakers.


And if done with a truck, recipient might be in for a surprise ;)


Did NSA steal them?


Why would they do that? They've got access. In fact, Microsoft might want to ask them if they have backups they could borrow.


Only in the case the reverse proxy does not handle bare 0a newlines?


There is little hope to get it disabled when an ad company is running running the most popular ad platf... Erm, the world wide web browser.


The Referrer-Policy header lets a server tell the browser how much referrer information to pass on when following links, all the way down to nothing at all if desired. Chrome does respect that, and they also followed other browsers in changing the default to "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" a few years ago which truncates the referrer path when leaving to a different domain, so they only see the domain the visitor came from rather than the specific page like they used to. Can't really fault Google in this case.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...


How often carpenter needs to study while constructing what is the correct method to build to wall, and while doing that, try to find out whether the client wanted the wall or a floor, or even both of them?

Try to give any proper estimations before actually starting that kind of project, when the scope is not known and there is no buy-in to spend half of the time just to plan all little details.

It is not just "give an estimation", but a whole procedure to complete.


If you don't know what you are going to do, of course you can't estimate. Then you timebox a research phase and let that outcome be the basis for the estimate.


> print food if tasty?

Ruby is nice.


Maybe I'm in a minority, but I genuinely dislike conditions placed afterwards.

They feel great to type out when you're in the flow, but coming back and reading them grates on my nerves. Seeing the condition first means I load a logical branch into my mental context. Seeing the condition after means I have to rewrite the context of what I just read to become part of a logical branch, and now the flow of reading is broken.


Try thinking of it as prefix if and infix if?

And in any event it’s a very natural language pattern if you know what I mean.


Ostensibly, code is read more than it is written. I'd rather stick to forms that favor staying in a flow.

Natural language patterns are conversational, and / or use pacing to create emphasis and imply meaning.

With code, we aren't reading a natural language. Injecting natural language conventions amongst things like some_string.chars.each { |c| ... } Is entirely unnecessary and unhelpful in my not very humble opinion.


I’m not really sure what you mean. Both prefix and infix if are both based on natural language conventions. So, for that matter, is reading code from left to right and any other number of patterns.

The infix if form is as if not more readable than the prefix if in cases where only a single statement is guarded.

I mean we could code without any pesky natural language at all by using some kind of lambda calculus with de Bruijn indices, but I think most people would find that considerably less readable.


Microsoft has a history of re-enabling privacy violating settings after a while, so I would be concerned too.


You still need to ask permission for storing identification data, regardless whether user's browser is told to save cookies or not.


Yep. The legislation has nothing to do with cookies, it’s about storage of unique identifiers. The actual method of storage is largely irrelevant.


For GDPR yes, but there is also a separate and older EU regulation that is specifically about cookies (among other things).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive


Yep, I mentioned PECR in another comment here


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