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by ddalex 7y ago
This is blatantly not true. > ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in partic
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by ddalex 7y ago
Tracking and advertising cookies are hardly personal information as defined by GDPR, which has a very specific and well defined meaning - name, phone numbers, addresses, government-issued IDs.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think somebody already used no-fallout small-yield tactical nukes in Syria, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbUYJsH_SI
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by ddalex 7y ago
hello Altered Carbon
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by ddalex 7y ago
educating is "this works like this and that, mind yourself" fear mongering is "you're in danger, buy this for us to save yourself" not exactly a thin line
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by ddalex 7y ago
> to simply not track your users' behaviour in detail that's unpossible
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by ddalex 7y ago
I doubt it has been tied, as in a contractual goal. The word you're looking for is "correlated".
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by ddalex 7y ago
Let's not anthropomorphize things, they don't like it.
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by ddalex 7y ago
So it was ok to publicly say that they're trying it out, and FB to benefit from the PR exposure but not ok to say it didn't work out at the price FB is asking. IMHO you're either silent about everything, or open about everyth
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by ddalex 7y ago
Ah that's fair, Google captchas VPN users, but I don't think it's recaptcha, it doesn't look exactly the same. Having done this in a previous life, they do this because they fight against scrapping their search results.
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by ddalex 7y ago
You don't need to scale. You're not Google, Amazon or FB to have a billion daily active users. And if you manage to make it to that scale, you can certainly hire engineers to refactor those systems. Fix the problem only when you e
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by ddalex 7y ago
> By modifying the start of that string In order to modify that string, even in RW pages, the attacker already has to have access, at which point the point is moot. It's like saying "if you can change memory, then you can chang
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by ddalex 7y ago
[DELETED because dups and all that; I guess I got over excited :) ]
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by ddalex 7y ago
reCAPTCHA is a Google product, but the owner site needs to actually integrate it, so it's a conscientious decision
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by ddalex 7y ago
I feel that's a super limited point of view of the whole affair. Starlink is here not because it makes a networking business (although it doesn't hurt). Starlink is here because on Mars you need reliable communication and positio
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by ddalex 7y ago
Can you please exemplify how you exploit a printf("Hello, World!\n") ?
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by ddalex 7y ago
Wayland doesn't have a chance anyhow because * Very few actually interesting programs run natively on it * As such the push to improve is largely political * Leading to low effort commitment outside the orgs that push it * Which deters
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by ddalex 7y ago
There should be an extension to automatically filter the reCAPTCHA-using sites out of the results of the search engines.
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by ddalex 7y ago
So about 3% mortality rate, I'd say that's pretty scary...
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by ddalex 7y ago
Thinking that the wild animals are more healthy
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by ddalex 7y ago
So the billionaires of this world, Bezos and MBS, exchange memes with photos of pretty girls. And Bezos reads The Daily Mail. Just like the rest of us, except having way more $$$.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Google doesn't force you to do AdSense an all pages. And Analytics, well, you can also skip on sensitive pages.
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by ddalex 7y ago
> it's tech types who make the decision to use GCP or not Perhaps at startups. At big companies, the call is made by directors and VPs that are well fined by sales people - and that's where the real money is.
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by ddalex 7y ago
TBH I dont understand the developers preference for laptops, generally. The laptops are good when you need to be mobile - but you can pry my multi-large-monitors desktop out of my dead hands, because I'm not giving that up for serious
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by ddalex 7y ago
The real reason is in numbers - how many people that could program a PC starting from bootstrap in assembly are out there, and again how many programmers that can paste Java(EE|script)? code together to make something work are out there? Th
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by ddalex 7y ago
but if you have a snail mail hard copy in your home, that's discoverable.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Even if tempted, they still would need to get warrants. They can't automatically search all accounts - they need to demonstrate the probable cause to a judge first.
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by ddalex 7y ago
80% of the drivers rank themselves in the top 20% of skill
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by ddalex 7y ago
Why not? How is this different from a warrant to search a home? Would you argue in that case that personal paper letters should be kept in a safe that's very difficult to open for law enforcement even if they have the warrant to do it?
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by ddalex 7y ago
How is this different from a warrant that lets prosecutors read your snail mail? I mean this passed the proper checks and balances of the law, and the only reason this is on HN is that's about electronic instead of paper mail, and it i

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