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bpfrh
3y ago
>So the functionality is correct, but not in a way the author would like it to, therefore it's a lie to claim it works. Eh? It's fine to criticize that the implementation isn't any good, of course, but employing such narro
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3y ago
No, the phone number needs to be known by the other party and you need to accept the "friend" request. It prevents the creation of an unlimited number of signal accounts by a single user with no cost to the user but cost to signal
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3y ago
Yes and in 1900-2000 pills and vaccines where killing people because the manufacturer either didn't follow any quality standards or didn't test it on pregnant women but still sold it to them. That was the time the fda got far mo
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3y ago
I don't think that is ambitious: With the aim of not hampering innovation: (i) free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of commercial activity [1] You are only in a commercial activity if you sell that pr
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3y ago
As far as I understood it it would be ok to have a option for donating. But I have no real basis for that, I would assume that based kickstarter and co also getting money from consumers without having to abide by any consumer rights. I assu
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3y ago
I don't :/ I searched for that document for about 10 minutes and then gave up and assumed that the EU press statement was accurate. Then somebody linked it in a comment below and then it was fairly easy as I knew what to search fo
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3y ago
Sorry, at first I thought I couldn't reply to this comment. I don't understand why you want to know what the provider is? For the purpose of liability and open source the definition is that any open source free of charge software
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3y ago
Maybe the article but the EU explicitly says opensource free of charge software is fine. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20231205IP...
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3y ago
Because the software isn't regulated but commercial activity is, which I would imagine is also done in the US. You are still free to write and release any software you want, but as soon as you sell that software you are liable for dama
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3y ago
The law pertains to commercial software, see: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20231205IP...
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3y ago
Why would you be? Did you sell the user the app? If not I can't see how it would be commercial
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3y ago
I don't understand your confusion. If you sell a product e.g. a car and the brakes don't work you are liable If you sell a product e.g. a medical software which calculates and runs your insulin pump and it responds to a division b
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3y ago
You can't. Product liability excludes non commercial open source software, see: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20231205IP...
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3y ago
"Our results point to a gap between expected and realized costs stemming from low resilience to time- and site-dependent construction conditions." Couldn't that be paraphrased to "last minute changes"?
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3y ago
I don't get your problem, couldn't you store it like this: table timetable: open | close | store 6am | 6am | default 7am | 12pm | store1 table stores: name | address store1 | xyx NYC If you can't find the sto
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3y ago
That was for sending SMS via Signal, not for verifiyng users via sms and they did remove that. https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/ edit: wording, forgot the word remove
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3y ago
In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. I do think that it is a rare case that a company decides to not use the official appstor
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3y ago
Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies. It seems that companies don't want to risk users not install their apps because the installation is complicated. If there is re
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3y ago
Could you expand on that? The EU effort to standardize phone connectors led to nearly every phone manufacturer adopt micro usb and then usb c. I don't see any reason that apple would be unable to use usb c after a everyone else uses it
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4y ago
Treating those people cost money, in the long run probably more than rerouting the stream
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4y ago
The hand signature could also be taken from a picture and then drawn by a cnc/engraver, without ai. This doesn't really help you though, because for important things you need witness a for your signature.
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4y ago
thinkpads do have issues... S3 was disabled on some models which meant for the first 6 months of release you couldn't go to sleep. The new thinkpad yoga x gen 10 uses a intel webcam which uses a special binary blob and doesn't wor
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4y ago
I liked this: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html It explains the boot process from the cpu initialization to a the end of the linux kernel initialization.
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4y ago
That could be bad, I would have never thought of that implication. I'm not sure that would happen wouldn't most telcos be interested to allow as many users on the network as possible?
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4y ago
I couldn't find that regulation and looking at wikipedia regulations about that are country specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock#European_Union It seems sim locking is legal, but unlocking has to be al
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4y ago
No privacy can also be that you vote for measure x but nobody knows that but you, e.g. you can have an opinion/hobby without anyone knowing about it but you and people you trust.
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4y ago
I had a flu and now have a chronic illness because of that. I think you always take your chances, but vaccine are tested better than a virus that mutates in the wild.
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4y ago
The vote abstention should be right, I searched on the greek voting system and I don't see any requirement besides[1]: * having the greek citizenship * being older than 17 * Not being dissalowed by the court to vote All citizens get au
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4y ago
Because the GDPR isn't about any specific technology, but concerns any processing of personal data: https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/ Edit: Huh, I stand corrected I don't know if this would count as personal data
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Autonomous millitary drone can search Buildings
(washingtonpost.com)
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