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by kmlx 4y ago
> hosting a plaintext news site requires you to get a lawyer involved if you want to serve EU visitors? you clearly have not dealt with GDPR. you have 3 options: 1. you do it properly. it will cost a lot of time and money. you will need
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by kmlx 4y ago
mazda still going strong, with toyota owning just 5% of it. excellent, as their mx5/miata is a gem of car. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-mazda-idUSKBN1AK0R... https://www.automotiveworld.com
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by kmlx 4y ago
sure, part of it might be this. but there are many issues in NL. for example they have different levels of citizenship. the immigrants from some of their former colonies are still treated badly. the gang shooting have been constant for deca
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by kmlx 4y ago
> So what? if your goal is more protectionism, then it’s great. but if you want to produce market leaders then it’s bad.
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by kmlx 4y ago
i foresee a fiasco in general, but a few stand out: > Share data and metrics with developers and competitors, including marketing and advertising performance data. with competitors? :)) > Allow developers to integrate their apps and d
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by kmlx 4y ago
for sure. but a newly established company with strong revenues in a part of the world where there are no rules? difficult to answer.
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by kmlx 4y ago
protectionism is not new, but it’s definitely in the eu’s dna. there are huge lobby groups that constantly want more protection in europe. and they almost always get what they want.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> great, just like in the mid-00's! funnily enough i was working on apps that did this back in the mid 00s. it was horrible. the standards simply couldn’t keep up. the clients couldn’t keep up. in the end it was better for the end u
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by kmlx 4y ago
> No more forced crappy webkit browser engine in iOS. you know this just means more chrome right? > Messanger interop is also nice, when done right: basically would need a shared standard like the web that is done by a messaging conso
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by kmlx 4y ago
depends on the company really. some might think a bit more about offering their products to eu countries considering (some of) these rules. which imo are quite serious, and some even ridiculous.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Apple was scanning local files. they only scan local files if you use icloud. because those files get sent automatically to their cloud.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Another common feature of a default app that Apple lacks is having multiple timers on the iPhone clock app. siri supports this. i mainly use it when cooking and need multiple timers.
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by kmlx 4y ago
i remember an episode from the sitcom “trailer park boys” [0] where one of the characters throws all their garbage in a local lake. his logic was that he never sees it again, so the lake recycles it somehow. i found the situation very funny
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by kmlx 4y ago
> I said the taxes aren't raised because rich people don't want them raised. no one wants taxes to raise. poor, middle, rich, you name it. because it just means less money at the end of the month.
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by kmlx 4y ago
from my understanding Dark Sky never had a network of weather stations. they collected data from multiple sources: https://darksky.net/attribution
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by kmlx 4y ago
> After covid what do you mean? are there still restrictions in NZ?
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by kmlx 4y ago
> ever since I read Anne and Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book The Population Bomb hasn’t that whole idea been proven wrong already? isn’t it a 70s myth that never materialised? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_over
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by kmlx 4y ago
> If we had 10x fewer people and kept 10x fewer cattle (and more generally, consumed 10x fewer resources), the environment would be doing just fine. why? and why would it not be worse? just because of the number of people?
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by kmlx 4y ago
so if i drive a super light car thru a red light can i get a lesser fine than 200 Euros? :)
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by kmlx 4y ago
> has existed most markets. which markets did Uber exit voluntarily?
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by kmlx 4y ago
> However, we had several external supply side shocks due to the pandemic, and Russia's war on Ukraine, which drove the cost of goods higher. just a sec. huge inflation started before Russia’s war. and it was due to the government p
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Browsing on iOS is unusable if you’re used to uBlock Origin. I can run that on Fennec/Firefox. I cannot do so on iOS. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027 this one works great on ios
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Don't tell web developers "Safari is rock solid"; for us it's the bane of our existence. i've been a web dev for 20 years. safari is rock solid but has quirks, yes.
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by kmlx 4y ago
> This change would mean most website couldn't be used by privacy concious people anymore wouldn’t the market react?
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by kmlx 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 > After introduction of the GDPR in EEA it became common practice for websites located outside EEA to serve HTTP 451 errors to EEA visitors instead of trying to comply with t
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by kmlx 4y ago
> as evidenced by Twitter existing on iOS there is no “evidence”. it’s a 17+ app with sexual accounts actively banned all of the time which you can’t even access if you’re not logged in, NSFW is disabled by default etc etc > There is
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by kmlx 4y ago
> you most likely will lose everything about your digital life. "everything"? why would you lose anything at all?
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by kmlx 4y ago
> Apple should not have this type of power. wait a minute, that's only because Tumblr wanted to be on the App Store. they've could've just as easily provided a web app and easily instructed their users to have a link on th
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by kmlx 4y ago
after cycling for more than 30 years across 3 continents, i have just one piece of advice for not getting hit by cars: get a driver’s license. you will then better understand the flow of cars around you, the various signs, the right of way
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by kmlx 4y ago
for reference, the online safety bill is in the committee stage: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137 so, a long way to go. the new Data Reform Bill has not even been submitted yet.

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