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by drchaos 8y ago
> Without the law, Google takes whatever it wants without asking Google News does not automatically take your content. You have to apply explicitely to get it included. For regular search, there's always robots.txt. Claiming that th
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by drchaos 8y ago
They do have a legitimate interest (in the sense of article 6(1) of the GDPR), namely providing an internet archive.
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by drchaos 8y ago
The GDPR only cares about personally identifying information. So you might be able to ask me to remove your name from the archived blog post, but not the post itself (as long as it does not contain other PII). This is very important, as oth
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by drchaos 9y ago
It is a valid strategy to invest a small amount into a lot of ICOs, hoping that a few will rise very high and therefore make up for the loss of the rest. That's actually more or less what many VCs do, after all. As long as the majority
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by drchaos 9y ago
If it is tasty and affordable, why not? Almost everything we eat nowadays is already highly optimized through selective breeding over thousands of years, so adding lab-grown meat does not make our food less "natural" than it is al
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by drchaos 9y ago
Here's an article which describes how to store data in the blockchain, along with some interesting (legal/SFW) examples: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...
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by drchaos 9y ago
The bus never went away in Europe, it's called Multivan nowadays and pretty popular over here, albeit somewhat expensive (50-70k€ for a decent model). https://www.volkswagen-nutzfahrzeuge.de/de/modelle/multiva
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by drchaos 9y ago
While this approach is reasonable and practical for credit card data, I doubt it's possible (let alone practical) for most businesses to do the same with what the GDPR considers personal data. You'd have to avoid email addresses,
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by drchaos 9y ago
> More generally, this is an example of "all regulation bad" thinking "any regulation good" is a fallacy as well, and just because data protection is a good thing, not all regulations claiming to achieve that are good
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by drchaos 9y ago
It's not possible to listen for "Hello Siri" or "Okay, Google" when the microphone is not active.
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by drchaos 9y ago
> Ubuntu doesn't much like the 4k screens This is not really Ubuntu's fault, but mainly a problem with GTK2. Everything based on GTK3 scales quite well nowadays, the same is true for QT. Unfortunately, the Gimp and Inkscape are
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by drchaos 9y ago
This affects DNS as well, since domaindiscount24 (a rather large registrar in Germany) happens to host all three of their nameservers with OVH. Just in case you wonder why your sites don't work, even if you host them somewhere else.
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by drchaos 10y ago
As a German paying a whopping 23,55 Eurocent (~0,25$) per kWh for electricity, I'd really like to know how and when those miraculous savings will finally materialize for me. Unfortunately PWC's "spreadsheet calculations"
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by drchaos 10y ago
> Would you still want one if the data showed it was more dangerous than driving yourself around? We don't yet know if it will be While we might not know yet whether self-driving cars are /already/ safer than human driver
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by drchaos 10y ago
> would you still welcome self-driving cars had this incident been caused by a malfunctioning self-driving car as apposed to a reckless driver Absolutely yes. Because if a malfunctioning self-driving car will cause an accident, this will
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by drchaos 10y ago
> they get renewed without debate every year That should simply not be allowed. It's the legislative equivalent of handing out an inspection sticker without actually inspecting the car.
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by drchaos 12y ago
> What happens if it falls on someone? Or someone climbs it and a piece breaks off? How exactly does covering it up help with that? I agree that there are valid reasons for wanting to remove it, but covering it up before that is just r
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by drchaos 12y ago
there is: https://peppr.it/
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by drchaos 12y ago
> the whole point of free market capitalism is to ensure the price of a product is as close to its "free market value" as possible You forgot competition. In a healthy market, a big difference between manufacturing cost and fin
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by drchaos 12y ago
> the problem in the article is the result of government interference in the free market. Exactly that. This has nothing to do with free markets, it is just simple rent-seeking through abuse of regulations, which can easily be fixed by f
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by drchaos 12y ago
there's a tool for that ;) http://www.extramaster.net/tools/downloadFromSlideshare/
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by drchaos 12y ago
> shaming ISP which still haven't gotten their act together Deutsche Telekom: requires customers to switch to a new contract (with worse conditions) in order to get a native v6 prefix Kabel BW: requires customers to give up their ro
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by drchaos 12y ago
> If anyone can recommend a tunnel provider other than SixXS he.net just works, using this for 6 months now, did not notice a single outage. SixXS is an unprofessional kindergarden, I would not recommend using them for anything relevant.
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by drchaos 12y ago
> The real question is what we can do to fight DRM. The best way to hit them is to hit them in the wallet, which means pirating on principle. Don't buy DVDs or BluRays, cancel cable, Netflix etc., learn about alternatives like TPB a
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by drchaos 12y ago
It probably will be once DRM/EME is available in every browser. At least the chances are increasing, and that's exactly why making DRM ubiquituous and easily accessible is such a bad idea. The problem is not that Mozilla implement
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Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game(alexnisnevich.github.io)
3 points by drchaos 13y ago|1 comments
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Darkmarket: the world's fastest response to a govt takedown of digital markets(github.com)
3 points by drchaos 13y ago|1 comments
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by drchaos 13y ago
Access to the source code is one thing, but you'd need also developers who are familiar enough with the source to be able to actually make changes. With OSS, there is a large community from which you recruit these folks, with Windows,
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by drchaos 13y ago
I do the following: * don't accept mail for non-existing recipient adresses * don't accept mail where the sender domain is one of my domains, except when whitelisted manually * don't accept mail from hosts on the NiXSpam list
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Unveiling “ Careto ” – The Masked APT(securelist.com)
1 points by drchaos 13y ago|0 comments

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