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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>Usual caveats that I'm not a diplomat, don't have all the facts, etc etc., but this doesn't seem like a rational move for Finland or NATO. The UK just yesterday agreed to protect Finland in the event of an attack This pac
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>However, adding new members requires unanimous consent from all existing members, so it's not guaranteed to be smooth sailing. I highly doubt that any of NATO's members will veto an application from Finland (or Sweden).
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Precisely.
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>Is having both a normal social media account & a federated version okay ? Of course it is. There will always be a small number of [insert thing here] purists, it's best to (mostly) ignore them when they moralise about only u
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
All sorts of articles get nominated for deletion for all sorts of reasons, why is this one being posted here ?
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Surely it has to be profit sharing - split a healthy chunk of profit between employees as an equal percentage of their base salary. Everyone is incentivised to make the company more profitable, no individual/team/department/d
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
The English edition of Wikipedia blacked out, but IIRC other language editions did not. Plus there was a huge community discussion - and vote - that was held in the days before the blackout. It wasn't the WMF making a unilateral de
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Somebody is DDoSing Amos' site, presumably because of all the Go controversy NH generated over the last couple of days
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Wikipedia is somewhat federated, just not in the same way that the fediverse is. Each language edition of Wikipedia is its own little island that connects with the others. Then there's Wiktionary, Commons, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wiki
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EU Data Protection Supervisor launches pilot phase of two social media platforms(edps.europa.eu)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
I'm sure the millions of dollars he'll get from the sale of his Twitter shares have nothing to do with this...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Yes and no... Each instance has a local (instance) timeline and a federated timeline in addition to one's own personal timeline. The local timeline only shows posts from accounts on that instance. The federated timeline shows posts fro
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
It's not, though. In fact free speech is in direct contradiction to other rights, and these have to be balanced against each other for society to function. Take the right to privacy, for example. My right to privacy necessarily ent
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Neither the BBC nor Channel 4 are state broadcasters. They are both editorially and operationally independent from the government (which is why this government hates both of them).
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>They can do that even with a union. The difference with a union is that they can collectively stop working if the employer violated a clause like "union members must be fired with reasoning pre-approved by the union", and then
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Everyone loves unions, somehow they overlook the outrageous power of police unions to keep terrible people in their ranks. Unions represent their members' interests, that's the entire point of unions. It says more about the en
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Well at least where I live (the UK), it's illegal to film in a polling station and the staff in the polling stations should be looking out for that and reporting it. More importantly (with both postal voting and in-person voting) it&#x
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Yes, which is why I also dislike postal voting and want to minimise its use.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> Electronic voting systems using zero knowledge proofs are superior to paper votes because it's possible to check for yourself that your vote was actually counted and not ignored. Which means somebody can hold a gun to your head an
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>If it passes, the text will become a EU directive which needs to be incorporated into national law by the member states. The DMA is a regulation, not a directive btw.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>If it passes, the text will become a EU directive which needs to be incorporated into national law by the member states. The DMA is a Regulation, not a Directive. It doesn't need to be transposed in to national law in member states
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> Yes, but that does not change the incorrectness of the statement: "There is nothing in the GDPR about cookies." I disagree, but it's a matter of semantics. I think we can agree that the operational part of the GDPR, th
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>For example, setting a cookie called "hello" with the value "world" on the browser of every user does not require consent, as long as this is not used to identify specific user, of course. No, that needs consent beca
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Are you under the assumption that the GDPR requires consent for all processing of personal data? Because it doesn't. There are six legal bases for processing personal data in in Article 6 of the GDPR. Consent is the first one, but th
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>At this point it's largely semantics. The ePrivacy directives were included in the same piece of GDPR legislation. What? No. That's backwards. The ePrivacy Directive referenced the Data Protection Directive. The GDPR replaced
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Quite, that's why the ePrivacy Directive is more generic with it's language of "[storing] information or to gain[ing] access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user".
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
That's a recital, it's not part of the operative text. Recitals are the justification for the legal instrument (here, a Regulation), and are used as an aid to interpretation but they're not legally binding.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Is it strictly necessary for the provision of your service? Then the ePrivacy Directive says that it's okay. Otherwise, you need consent.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Enforcement action must be "proportionate", so even if you are pulled up by a supervisory authority it's unlikely they're going to give you a massive fine straight off the bat - especially if you are trying to comply a
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
You can actually sue under the GDPR and get compensation. Article 79 explicitly gives data subjects "the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed

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