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by Silhouette 10mo ago
My point is that it was never the GDPR that required any sort of "cookie banner" in the first place. The cookie banner requirement is itself a widespread misconception because the actual rule is neither specific to cookies (it wou
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
Even with the fix that's still not really accurate - though it's a widespread misconception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
Not all banks, government services, travel and ticketing systems, and the list goes on. The unfortunate reality is that we have a duopoly in the mobile device market and having one of those devices are now a practical necessity to live a no
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by Silhouette 11mo ago
That's a true claim today. The defence industry moves surprisingly slowly for a field where more advanced technology is such an advantage so it probably will be true for close to another decade as well because Europe has no native fift
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Then no country should have legal authority over companies operating in the country but based internationally. But this is the real issue. To what extent is a company "operating in" a country where it has no staff and no physi
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by Silhouette 1y ago
If you feel you’re entitled to everyone else’s labor - I dunno what to tell you. You're perfectly entitled to keep your content commercial if you want. Just don't put it in the same place as the freely available material that ev
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Probably the most annoying thing on the web lately is Cloudflare and all the "mysteriously verifying that you're a real human" junk. Probably the second most annoying thing on the web today is when you click a link that looks
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by Silhouette 1y ago
I too have used Caddy on multiple production systems. It's a great bit of software. I try to avoid engaging in online flame wars but I will say that the developers - including Francis - have been nothing but helpful and courteous to me
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by Silhouette 1y ago
MS used to be legendary for its efforts to maintain backward compatibility. I think it has lost a lot of credibility after the way it has managed Windows forward compatibility and support recently though. It is apparently scrambling to
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Apple for hardware. Maybe a few orgs even try PCs running Linux as we've seen in some governments looking to save $$$. Google or countless smaller but established services for all the online stuff. The days when all businesses used Win
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime soon so they continue to get away with it. That is the traditional spin but if they pull many stunts like this how long will it conti
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Because voice recognition is horribly imprecise. If you're controlling essential functions for driving then you need controls that are efficient, predictable, and reliable.
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Voice recognition might be the only UI worse for safety and usability than a touchscreen for normal driving operations. Not that you're wrong about the privacy angle either.
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Talking with your phone because driving is boring as shit is fairly harmless It really isn't. Driving while distracted by a phone conversation is comparable in safety to driving while heavily intoxicated or while barely awake. This i
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Rational or not, people will feel less safe if all their messages can just be easily exported to plaintext. IMHO the point is that it's not rational. Signal is as vulnerable to the analogue hole as any other messaging platform that d
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Note that in all cases, Signal could/should still fully encrypt this data before pushing it to the provider; the backup wouldn't be expected to be "legible" to the user. That seems like an unhelpful limitation for a lo
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by Silhouette 1y ago
I appreciate Signal and that the Signal developers provide a very useful service to the community for free. I also know a large number of people who won't use it because it locks your messages up in its own walled garden. People use ap
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Yes - there's been a very obvious shift in the "official" React positions over the last 2-3 years. It's regrettable that they have moved so sharply away from the simplicity and "doing one thing well" philosophy
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by Silhouette 1y ago
You could just not watch Netflix. The digital hermit argument is not going to resonate with 99.9% of users. People buy devices because they want to do stuff. Telling them they shouldn't do what they want to do is never going to convi
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by Silhouette 1y ago
This is ultimately a form of collusion and anti-competitive behaviour - practices that we prohibit in other scenarios because we consider them harmful to our society. It's obvious why some large organisations would like more control ov
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by Silhouette 1y ago
That's a very convenient way to rationalize behaviour that is intrusive and potentially dangerous that the people at risk almost certainly didn't ask for or meaningfully agree to.
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Am I the only one who finds the branding and privacy policies around these AI services (possibly deliberately) confusing? For example Anthropic have an Anthropic Console that they appear to consider quite distinct from Claude.ai. Do these s
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Within a dedicated organisation you probably would disable it. If you're a supplier working with multiple clients then each might have their own policies on confidentiality and data sharing. Some of them might want you to manage inform
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by Silhouette 1y ago
If this report is accurate and the change is made quietly and automatically as it predicts then how does this not end up with the mother of all lawsuits? We have several clients in sensitive industries and contractually it is very clear tha
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by Silhouette 1y ago
Enterprises often have to pass audits and have regulatory compliance requirements. So do many smaller organisations. The market for prosumer/SOHO/SME tech is in a sorry state lately with many being pushed towards what is essenti
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by Silhouette 1y ago
It has broad public support. Preventing children from accessing porn has broad public support (as we might hope). That is very different to saying the OSA has broad public support though. The YouGov survey results that have been much disc
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by Silhouette 1y ago
The distinction is important because they are what makes the scale manageable, and it also provides resilience. Though it also leads to inconsistency and the "postcode lottery" problem where the quality of treatment a patient re
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by Silhouette 1y ago
We certainly have this issue in the UK right now. In dentistry in particular there is a problem that basically everyone agrees on which is that the NHS dental contract makes little sense for the dentists providing the care. In many cases th
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by Silhouette 1y ago
It really makes you wonder what's gone wrong in the UK, considering how much taxes British people pay. Unfortunately the main problem is chronic underinvestment by successive governments of all political inclinations. We tend not to
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by Silhouette 1y ago
There are some rules that exist for very good reasons - and which have been widely undermined by front-line healthcare services though this does at least seem to be improving a bit over time. There are also plenty of rules that exist for do

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