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601.
by corty 6y ago
In practically all cases it is against the exact letter of the law: "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent." Article 7 (3) 4. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
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by corty 6y ago
Data protection officials are generally understaffed and underfunded. GDPR has increased public awareness, scope and thereby caseload. The rest of the normal justice system isn't responsible to handle data protection cases and will jus
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by corty 6y ago
Having a Dockerfile that copies a few binary blobs into an age-old distro image isn't an improvement, it's a huge liability. And most of that stuff that no one knows anything about anymore is like that. Same as with an old VM or P
604.
by corty 6y ago
Well, one could argue Chromium is now more compliant with the spirit of Free Software because it doesn't use Google's proprietary, closed, spying bookmark sync service anymore
605.
by corty 6y ago
One could, but the Chromium sourcecode provided by Google is a quickly moving target. So your patch will need to be updated very often. Distro maintainers are already complaining about Chromium being a lot of work because of the rate of cha
606.
by corty 6y ago
It is not wrong, it is rather correct. Speed of propagation in semiconductor materials is at most a third of speed of light in vacuum. So the distance travelled is rather limited for a signal. Also, a signal might have to traverse a few tra
607.
by corty 6y ago
There is a reason those kinds of industries avoid "the west".
608.
by corty 6y ago
That's why ToS and privacy policy must be readable for John Doe. If it isn't clear what will happen with users' data, rumours and theories will grow. That will hurt your business like WhatsApp just shows (although I'm no
609.
by corty 6y ago
> My understanding was that cell phone companies sell data in aggregate but not for individual numbers. Santa Claus has a bridge to sell you ;) Even if there are no official channels, I'm sure there are informants willing to sell th
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by corty 6y ago
Having them wasn't a hindrance, luckily for intel. But using them to the full extent was far slower than not. E.g. call gates as a syscall mechanism have a far higher overhead compared to int80. Segments, when used in the intended fine
611.
by corty 6y ago
Everyone is standing up, sitting down only as a medical exception. Strict time limits. Everyone gets 30s, extension only of there is a question from the crowd. For the topics "yesterday, blockers, today" just make it 3 "words
612.
by corty 6y ago
Both are good reasons for "Hi, I need to discuss something confidential", "Hi, may I have your immediate undivided attention" or maybe a phone call. Just "Hi" doesn't convey enough of the intent.
613.
by corty 6y ago
because every time someone hits return, the messenger goes bling . Then I'll read what was sent because I was interrupted anyways. Then I'll discover it was incomplete and I can't make sense of it. I'll go back to produ
614.
by corty 6y ago
Asking if I have time for something unimportant is as inconsiderate as just saying 'hi' imho. I will still have to remember to call them back (so their problem is now a task more for me to remember) and I'll still have to con
615.
by corty 6y ago
Learn German, we have more vowels!
616.
by corty 6y ago
Depends on your definition of "stateless". A database is commonly considered state, so database queries are never stateless in some definitions. Answers to stateless queries can be cached indefinitely. Your examples can't. Yo
617.
by corty 6y ago
If I refuse to mate with someone, I also killed a few thousand people over the next millenium. That doesn't mean I will loose any sleep over saying no to his proposition.
618.
by corty 6y ago
You are moving goalposts. There may be people who misuse the term. But that doesn't mean it isn't well-defined or agreed-upon by a majority.
619.
by corty 6y ago
There is a definition by OSI who invented the term as a commercial-sounding touch to free software as defined by the FSF. OSI also certifies licenses as compliant with the definition. They also invented the term and the definition. So I who
620.
by corty 6y ago
Exactly. A lot of the whining can be avoided by a dual AGPL3 (maybe GPL3) plus proprietary "call for a quote and contract negotiations" license. Most big cloud shops will avoid AGPL, so they will pay, the rest will be as happy wit
621.
by corty 6y ago
Australia is small in terms of inhabitants, far smaller than France, the rest of the EU, BRICS and other relevant markets. The business impact of shutting down search for Australia will be relatively small. So Australia just volunteered to
622.
by corty 6y ago
Despite automatic updates, web developers are still stuck with Safari, IE, old android browsers and old edge. Automation doesn't help with bugs and functionality if there are just no updates to be installed that fix bugs and bring new
623.
by corty 6y ago
My irony detector is buzzing. You just described err vs. panic in go.
624.
by corty 6y ago
"signal doesn't store anything server side" is false, plain and simple. Signal stores certain kinds of data server side, just not everything. And they do some SGX voodoo dance to maybe protect it: https://signal.or
625.
by corty 6y ago
Encrypted private key isn't the purpose of signal's PIN. Signal's private key is actually used, discarded and possibly recreated quite nonchalantly by the application on your phone. The only purpose of the PIN is securing dat
626.
by corty 6y ago
No, not really. Extra PIN requirements make Signal unusable for lots of people. No proper chat backups makes Signal undesirable. That it mostly works the same might be true for you, but any minor difference is a problem for mom&pop.
627.
by corty 6y ago
I think we do need far more shaming of employees in unwanted companies like Facebook, Google or Palantir. Surveillance damages societies, so we need to act against those who would damage us, small wheels as well as the whole drive train...
628.
by corty 6y ago
Internal estimates are a political tool, not a technical, financial or scientific one: First, decide if you want to do it or not. Then do the estimate, high if you don't want to do it, low if you do want to do it. Any kind of reality d
629.
by corty 6y ago
> Why no design with a combustion chamber of some sorts? Thermal capacity. Gas stoves are great because they have none, so any temperature changes are immediate. Anything between the pot and the flame will destroy that advantage. Also, t
630.
by corty 6y ago
In Germany, fines go to the general state or federal budget, not the police budget. The only thing where there is a really obvious wrong incentive are parking violations, those go to the community, the community prosecutes and sets the loca

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