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by Rygian 2y ago
What the article describes is already very very hard to achieve legally under GDPR. I don't think new regulations are required.
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by Rygian 2y ago
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK
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by Rygian 2y ago
> > All white space in HTML and XML is preserved verbatim. > Do you mean "any change to whitespace in HTML or XML results in a semantically inequivalent document"? That's a perspective you can take, but it has pretty
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by Rygian 2y ago
Your comment relies on the broken assumption that outrage is caused by the outragee having stupid opinions/being stupid. It fails to account for the majority of outrage-inducing news where the stupidity is at the source.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Isn't that precisely what Mercedes advertises as a selling point with their self-driving technology? "Manufacturer assumes liability when Drive Pilot is on"
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by Rygian 2y ago
"Les Fourmis" (translated as "Empire of the Ants") is a fun read by French writer Bernard Werber.
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by Rygian 2y ago
due to round-trip efficiency, the running cost of green hydrogen will always be twice as expensive as just using the electricity directly for the end purpose. And where batteries are feasible, they are cheaper amortized than the equivalent
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by Rygian 2y ago
Preempting the "why not hydrogen" comments: Always a good time to refer to "The Hydrogen Ladder" (version 5.0 nowadays): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-ladder-version-50-mi... In this case,
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by Rygian 2y ago
I find myself in the same boat, where I am increasingly concerned that people will identify me in the political spectrum of current days based on the car I chose to buy in 2019.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Could you please develop your idea? I don't see the link between pencils and deepfakes.
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Gecos (General Comprehensive Operating System)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Rygian 2y ago|0 comments
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by Rygian 2y ago
Not sure to follow. My Nextcloud app on Android doesn't require location permission. And its job is not too geo-tag photos (that's for the camera app instead), but rather to sync whole files.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Why not from your phone? I wake up my kodi pc with a remote that supports WOL.
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by Rygian 2y ago
No cell-cultivated leather office chairs.
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by Rygian 2y ago
The remark on flagging mutex use was quite interesting. From afar, using mutexes in real-time code seems like asking for ~trouble~ formal validation.
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by Rygian 2y ago
As a layman on this topic, I understand that research does not need to work towards a predefined goal. But for the sake of my understanding and edification, I would have loved to see some mention in the Abstract explaining the usefulness of
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Valve Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf](steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net)
4 points by Rygian 2y ago|0 comments
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by Rygian 2y ago
The "Valve Handbook for New Employees" was an interesting read. I still don't know how much is fact and how much is fiction, but I liked some of the ideas there.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Why should my user have the right to shut down a production box? Having a tool to warn me that I'm about to do something I shouldn't be allowed to do is okay. Having proper access control would be better. (Fun: 'boulette&#x27
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by Rygian 2y ago
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels
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by Rygian 2y ago
There's a person whose job is to prioritize. If that person, and that person's management, think that security and privacy are a priority, then things get fixed.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Buggy phone? Unsupported codecs? As far as i can tell (on mobile) the video player is a plain html5 video element, no frills.
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by Rygian 2y ago
> Don’t buy shitty products, or soon there will be no non-shitty products The only way to fight enshitification is government regulation. Otherwise, for the 0.1% of market population able to make an informed choice, there remains a 99.9%
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by Rygian 2y ago
Paywalled. https://archive.is/PJqQA
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by Rygian 2y ago
Reflexes don't need to travel to the brain.
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by Rygian 2y ago
I guess you mean the taxpayer money that the taxpayers are currently paying, against their will, towards unwanted subscriptions that they haven't managed to cancel.
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by Rygian 2y ago
Fun times reviewing the masking logic of credit card data spewed out in system logs, in base64-encoded (or god forbid, EBCDIC-encoded base64-encoded) ISO 8583.
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by Rygian 2y ago
It's called "Perverse incentive" and Wikipedia runs an illustrative set of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by Rygian 2y ago
I also read between the lines something like "don't be surprised if we start to make our own chipsets and drivers, because current vendors can't be trusted to do a good job".
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by Rygian 2y ago
Folks at $dayJob keep a list of prefixes of credit card numbers that don't satisfy Luhn, currently there's 8 of them. And while we're at it, length of credit card numbers is not fixed, can go from 12 to 19 numbers (both Luhn

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