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Daniel Davis. A geek in Japan with a ukulele.

Now at DuckDuckGo. Formerly W3C, Opera Software.

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Blog: https://blog.daniemon.com

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Wandr Benchmark: Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide and Deep

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Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

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Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk

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I am the best lightsaber fighter in Europe

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Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

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Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood

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Menopause linked to Alzheimer's-like brain changes

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3D-Printed Watchmaking Tools

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A 3D-printed watch-cleaning machine

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Fen's Law of Programming

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Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key

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My CSS Selector Strategy

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A woman who built an 'aidbot' for displaced people in Lebanon

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The retro hobby that can help boost your happiness

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Not quite.

- The 43% is peak drag reduction in the transition zone only, the bit between laminar and turbulent flow, not across all flight conditions.

- Aerodynamic drag is one part of fuel burn, not a 1:1 proxy. There's also engine efficiency, etc.

- This is skin friction drag on a wind tunnel model, not a full aircraft which has extra bits like windscreen wipers.

I still think it's exciting but I reckon fuel savings would amount to a few percent (aeronautical engineers, please correct me if I'm wrong).

Not the OP but…

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/healthline-media-agrees-to...

"Healthline.com provided an opt-out mechanism, but it was misconfigured and Healthline failed to test it, resulting in data being shared with third parties even after consumers elected to opt out.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65772154

"The company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it was accused of failing to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents.”

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/405635/califo...

"According to the [California Privacy Protection] agency, Todd Snyder told website visitors they could opt out of data sharing, but didn't actually allow them to do so for 40 days in late 2023 because its opt-out mechanism was improperly configured."

Side note: Thank you for your work! My non-technical partner was able to create and print postcards that had to be in CMYK format, thanks to Krita. You made her very happy :-)

That’s what Global Privacy Control (GPC)[0] is trying to do. So far it’s been referenced in California, Colorado and Connecticut state privacy regulations as an "opt-out preference signal” or "user-enabled universal opt-out method”[1]. Sephora paid a $1.2-million settlement in 2022 for not respecting the signal[2].

[0] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/ [1] https://redcloveradvisors.com/2023/02/21/what-is-global-priv... [2] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...