BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 5y ago
HTML is accessible by default. Screen readers or similar tools are good at making sense of HTML that provides fallbacks (such as alt attributes) and doesn't stray too far from the standard. As for tools, for example, there is https:
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Consent is insufficient. Exclusively storing data on servers physically located in the EU is insufficient. As soon as a business has dealings with a US-based company or an EU-based company owned by a US-based company that potentially might
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
That's the argument made by the recent ECJ ruling on the matter, not by shady players. As a business, technically you're simply not allowed to have dealings with US-based companies anymore if you want to be GDPR-compliant. It does
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
First, I'm not a large organization and I don't have volunteers who do my work for me for free. Secondly, hosting videos is not my core business. The shop around the corner doesn't run its own payment system either, after all
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
No, that wouldn't work either because that EU subsidiary would still be controlled by its US-based parent company.
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
> I mean, they have EU datacenters That doesn't matter anymore. According to the relatively recent ECJ ruling mentioned in the article you're not allowed to transfer any PII to companies that are in any way affiliated with a US
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
I keep hearing that claim, yet it is never backed up by any substantive evidence or actionable advice as to which of these apparently abundant exclusively EU-based services to use for solving a particular problem. Well, other than the usual
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
In some instances, yes. For the most part, however, this simply is not realistic. There's no viable exclusively EU-based video conferencing service, for example. Currently, the only GDPR-compliant solution in that case is to self-host
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
I think this decision isn't helpful or beneficial - like many other decisions, rules, and provisions related to GDPR (the fundamental idea of which is good, it's just that the implementation and execution is ... less so). Decision
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> people with the vaccine presenting at hospital are more likely to survive than those presenting without In my opinion, that logic is flawed. The currently available COVID-19 vaccines vastly reduce the likelihood of developing severe sy
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
International law simply is what countries agree upon, either bilaterally or multilaterally. Even if countries disagree and international law indeed favours one party, in most circumstances there's hardly any recourse if that party is
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
How exactly would you do that? EU institutions are notoriously unaccountable. Besides, EU bodies just make the rules. They don't need to provide actionable alternatives or even have to comply with those rules themselves.
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Fair enough, but until then, EU companies just won't be able to do business anymore?
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The problem with EU legislation in that regard - or rather the current lack of pertinent agreements since the EU–US Privacy Shield has been declared invalid - is that it doesn't just apply to US-based services and US companies. Having
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Tying yourself to a location creates a hard dependency on local circumstances and conditions, specifically policies and politics. Only since fairly recently have people in the tech industry been able to make a living independent of their lo
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
You might want to look into Atlassian. I know someone who went from Europe to Australia to work for Atlassian. They're huge and growing and they sponsor visas.
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
"URL" is commonly pronounced as an initialism, rather than an acronym, i.e. the letters are pronounced separately (same as in "USA", for example): you - arrr - ell
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Hack Design is a design course as well as a curated list of resources and tools: https://hackdesign.org/ It's not limited to web design (though resources relevant to web design make up a large part of the course) but a
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
That condition seems to be fairly widespread right now already. It's even encouraged under the moniker of "social distancing" (which itself is a telling misnomer; "physical distancing" would've been a much more
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
In a way, some of them already are contributing to solving climate change because they provide the infrastructure required for moving work environments from the office into the cloud. Unnecessarily moving people around for the sole purpose
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I took a few courses on legal English at university. These courses predominantly approached the subject matter from a linguistic, rather than a professional point of view. I find the language of common law, its ri
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
People might be seeing this through slightly rose-tinted glasses. Yes, you could use Excel 95 by just double-clicking on an icon. However, not only did you have to buy and install the software, which back in the day often meant going to an
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
The question is, why would they? At the moment, the M1 constitutes a competitive advantage for Apple. Licensing that processor to other manufacturers and for purposes other than building Apple hardware would only dilute that advantage. &quo
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
You'd be hard-pressed to find an actual city anywhere in the world that's entirely car-free for personal transport. Venice probably is the only place that matches that criterion. On Malta, there also is Mdina, which is largely car
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Malthus' assumptions and conclusions have been empirically proven wrong, and resoundingly so. An abundance of resources leads to slower population growth instead of a continued geometric growth. Paradigm shifts such as the industrial,
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
- Socialism (as in: actual socialism, not the European / Scandinavian variety that for the most part still builds upon a free-market economy), when implemented, will inevitably fail. In most cases, because it'll devolve into an au
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
In secular countries, citizenship often is considered to be something of almost sacred value. Citizenship also comes with very tangible benefits such as the right to vote or - in many cases - entitlement to social security benefits. That&#x
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
The thing with GDPR is that it mostly affects legitimate, ethical businesses without their own legal department, i.e., those that won't engage in activities GDPR is supposed to protect against anyway. Fly-by-night companies often simpl
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Pandemics have worked as an accelerator or even as a catalyst for technological change since at least the Black Death and this one certainly is no exception. However, remote work didn't become a trend because of the pandemic, it became
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Sure, they do. That has little to do with phonetics, though.

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