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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • But they are useful and completely valid ways of dealing with the problem.

    It is not the end of the world if I have to click am extra once or twice to change the language. Hell most websites have much harder processes just to reject cookies.

    Personally I would rather err on the side of slightly extra work the odd time I’m not on a website not in my native language than have an extra bit of information that can be used to track me.

    Again take a look at the Gemini protocol, its a perfectly fine browsing experience without all the cruft.



  • Some widely spoken language I imagine, Chinese, Spanish, English I don’t care. Since .com is intended for commercial use, the language of the companies biggest market makes sense here as well.

    You’re also forgetting that the likes of google.ru, google.nl and google.every_other_country_code exist.

    Also there are plently of websites the have language selection in the site that overrides that header, look at Wikipedia.

    There are plently of sites in non english languages that cater to non English speakers only, not every site has or needs 10 different translations.

    At this point we also have translation engines in the browser so for pages in languages you don’t know, that you absolutely need to access, you can use it to understand the page to a decent level and/or be able to navigate to a version in your language if available.







  • Instead of going fedi I’m going minimal.

    Reddit -> Lemmy, with the caveat that time spent on here is minimal, to be reviewed at a later date.

    xitter -> nothing, nitter.net if I want to read a xeet linked by another resource. Ultimately for me micro blogging social media is a time suck with little return.

    discord -> still on it for a few different reasons, not sure if I’ll set up matrix just to do a bridge, privacy and minimalism are clashing here.

    YouTube -> nothing, invidious if I want to watch yt content. Short or low quality video content is another time suck, try and keep video streaming to a minimum for environmental and mental health reasons.

    Netflix and others -> the high seas (it is decentralised)


  • Gonna give you my honest two cents.

    You come across as a cunt whenever you police who can use neo pronouns based on how they look or act.

    Pronouns are something people should be free to explore.

    Hopefully being able to look into the topic without prejudice will allow people to discover their own queerness and/or empathise with people that do use them.

    Neverind that that is bad faith to argue that hexbear enforces neo pronouns, trad pronouns or anonymous can be used.