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by josefx 4y ago
The problem with Android based "alternatives" is Googles licensing. The licensing agreements for Googles apps require that Google gets to decide which android forks device manufacturers are allowed to sell if they don't want
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by josefx 4y ago
The crux is that in most cases the EU subsidiaries are not even set up to prevent that. They just roll over. Someone else tracked down the AWS GDPR compliance document the court case cites a few times, any governmental agency can request da
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by josefx 4y ago
There was a treaty how to deal with data protection between the EU and US, it was killed by a court decision best known as "Schrems II". Trying to get the EU data protection laws and the US governments need to collect all the data
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by josefx 4y ago
> It doesn't matter if there are safeguards, technical, or institutional preventions in place. Except the American company made it clear that no such safeguards will be in place and that it will transfer the data out of its EU serve
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by josefx 4y ago
This https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/459/ says that just entering a building with the intent to commit a crime counts as burglary even if no force was required.
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by josefx 4y ago
Money often represents opportunity, sometimes its lack can cause significant distress. Say you want to go on vacation but find that all your bank accounts are in the red, you are not going to make that vacation, instead you are probably goi
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by josefx 4y ago
He clearly took payment in advance for it and knew spending time would be part of it if he was caught. So he basically signed up for it himself.
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by josefx 4y ago
So it is okay when we exchange captivity for money? So if we converted the money he stole into an hourly rate we could stick him into prison until the sun burns out and call it a job?
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by josefx 4y ago
> For many years, Sun refused to provide the TCK to certify Apache Harmony as an official Java (donated to Apache by Sun's erstwhile foe, IBM[1]). Are you implying that GCJ was any more certified than Harmony? Because I would be sur
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by josefx 4y ago
So the people stuck sorting out his mess, having to spend weeks in office going through the paperwork generated by one shell company after the other, should also file charges against him for aggravated assault?
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by josefx 4y ago
With Java their playbook was to sell licenses for the embedded world and that only caused problems for everyone involved. Some Linux Distros ended up actively sabotaging Java with GCJ because of FREEDOM(TM). Various companies where blocking
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by josefx 4y ago
> What may surprise people is how and when these expressions are evaluated since they differ between languages. What could possibly be surprising about reusing the exact same object on every function call, especially when you default to
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by josefx 4y ago
It is bad enough that it fucking talks. First time I encountered that it screamed at me from the other side of the building because someone at Microsoft decided greeting new users with speakers turned to eleven is welcoming.
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by josefx 4y ago
Even if you are allowed to keep data I wouldn't be surprised if you have to move it out of the production system. If I remember my lessons on data protection right then you have to restrict access to people that need it and in the case
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by josefx 4y ago
> and haven't heard complaints about it from friends who tried it. You mean the same friends that "just stopped using it"? There is something weird about the combination of purely positive feedback and everyone you know dr
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by josefx 4y ago
> I wouldn't call Stadia a joke What kind of gaming platform randomly bans high profile game devs. because an automated Youtube bot told them to? A bad joke of one. > It does in fact work quite well. Didn't they fake high re
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by josefx 4y ago
> They’ve literally had years. Almost exactly 2. The last agreement between the US and EU was nuked by Schrems II mid 2020. > What does it say about the credibility of the EU that it passes laws it doesn’t even enforce? Companies have
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by josefx 4y ago
> 1. I don't think ip address alone constitutes PII but needs to be combined with other data to be applicable According to courts just the IP is considered enough: The decision says IP addresses represent personal data because it&#x
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by josefx 4y ago
No need to decode the C++ names when you use valgrind/callgrind/kcachegrind for C, that works just as well for C++.
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Delivering "something" and delivering specific items at a fixed rate are different things.
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> Which is why it's the product owner's responsibility to prioritise. The company didn't seem to have issues prioritizing the authors tasks into no mans land. So they seem to have that part down great already. However I fi
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> I can count on finding in Chrome Not like they have any ulterior motives to ensure your users have to ping Googles font service every time they open a page. None at all.
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They broke that with python 3. print "Hello World!" no longer works and import antigravity now only links to the comic.
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As opposed to holding the view that earth was also created 10.000 years ago. You can believe in one part without having to believe in the other and this study explicitly only checked for human origins. Someone made a family tree for everyon
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Qualified with "of human origins".
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Me fail english, where in that line does it mention earth?
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by josefx 4y ago
Yes, it will do fun things like turn 1.0f + 1.0f into (1.0f,0,0,0) + (1.0f,0,0,0), that is better than having to deal with the old floating point stack, but doesn't really exploit the full potential of SSE instructions.
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by josefx 4y ago
Not surprising, after all C doesn't have vector math. There is no way to make sensible use of these instructions without the compiler significantly altering the program flow first.
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Interesting, how did the Roman Empire suppress advanced civilizations developing in China and America? Assuming that Asian cultures outside of the influence of the Roman Empire already had nuclear weapons, how did the Empire survive their i
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by josefx 4y ago
> clearly referred to him as "George Frederic Handel" That doesn't fit either of the spellings of Frideric used in the linked text.

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