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Go, BentoPDF! A shame this stuff cost you time and energy better spent elsewhere, but it’s just a small hiccup for a project with legs!

That’s more or less how we ended up with Trump and Brexit: when you want the impossible, only the liar will satisfy.

Maybe it’s time to create some rules about data brokering? It’s not really about tracking and consent, it’s about who can sell what data about whom to what parties.

It’s become an enormous business, it deals with you and I, it delights in living in the shadows, and it is almost completely unregulated. I don’t really care if Toyota records my data, I care that it’s allowed to sell it or share it.

I think a reasonable first step would be that all data about a specific person belongs to that person and nobody else. We have rules about photos, we need to expand them to data brokering, because the problem is the same: if you can be identified and placed, you are at risk.

I forgot about those! Enter birth day: pops up monthly calendar of January 2026, and you cry trying to figure out how to scroll back in time.

I am pretty sure spin dials constitute torture according to the Geneva convention and Cruel and Unusual Punishment according to the US Constitution.

I am particularly salty at the stupid spinners for year when you have to enter birth year. I am old enough that it takes a minute to scroll to my birth year, and every second of it I hate the person that decided spinners are a great UI. Entering a date by keyboard takes 10 seconds, and the spinners multiply that time without providing any advantage.