The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Does that mean I know have to unit test my text-only websites?

I fixed the infinite redirections from Hell bug. And again, like most bugs, it was an easy fix—just don't redirect if you come from http://flummux.org/. It feels weird to think of having to test a text-only website, but there is a form of programming involved, so it shouldn't be as much of a surprise as it is.

Sigh.


“We're a local newspaper run by a non-local company, we don't care about European readers”

I was reading Conman's latest article, and he linked to a page called «Transilvania Times». I wanted to see it, but for the first time since the vote of the GPDR my visit was denied because I'm European.

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The “GPDR” is a typo—the author actually meant the GDPR. And it pains me to see something like this happen. Here's someone from Europe who was interested in reading a story about a person in a small US town and yet, they couldn't because the owners of the news website (which isn't owned locally, but instead by a larger company in another state) probably doesn't care about European readers. The company does have a policy for California readers, so I don't see why it can't be extended for the GDPR. This is just so short sighted.

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