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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> In Germany, the concept of "Public Domain" does not exist. (EDIT: It may exist 70 years after the authors death). IANAL. Works are "gemeinfrei" (approx. "public domain") 70 years after the author's de
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
It's a bit more complicated: The US adopted[1] the international regimen (life + 70) with an exception that US statute of limitations from before 1978 continue to apply to works published in the US before 1978. So the US adopted everyb
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
They all start like that and then fan out into more customization both on the hardware and the software. According to the coreboot sources Starlabs now have their own open source EC firmware in addition to coreboot support which usually isn
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Regulators are massively understaffed. Except maybe the DPA in Ireland, that office seems to have enough resources to rubber stamp whatever comes their way from outside the EU.
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Think "before blogs". Windows 3.1 rose to dominance when the Internet wasn't a factor for the vast majority of computer users (and even less for everybody else). How could they possibly have acquired customers back then?!?
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Not having updated the system (within reason: it _can_ take a week, but it should _not_ take a year) is gross negligence as far as vendor liability would be concerned. But by all means, let's limit the minimum liability for software ve
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Interpol notice - at least that'll restrict their movements
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Make insecure software the problem of its producer, so that except for gross negligence by the user, the software vendor is on the hook (reimbursing customers) and will want to prevent ransomware from being a thing in the first place.
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
"wealthiest 10%" != "10th percentile income" You can be part of the wealthiest 10% while having no income at all (not forever, but...)
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> It's a space ripe for disruption. I want to add that disruption is what huge unions excel at, so if anybody wants to keep them out of tech, the best approach might be to fill the space they'd otherwise sweep into unchallenged
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
When politicians say "government is wasteful" or "government can't do things as efficiently as the private sector", what they're saying is that their management style is wasteful. Would somebody asserting that
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> A private company (Apple) successfully did something in a few months that the regulation couldn't in years My point was that Apple started that effort only due to GDPR. And given that such work takes a while (the UI might be simpl
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The DNT spec offers these three states. It also doesn't say anything about it being global, so a browser UI could have a default + overrides. The general sentiment seems to be that "if you want it, you want it, and who would want
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> Well that clearly doesn't seem to be working. Those "privacy score cards" for apps on both iOS and Android, filled out for 1st to 3rd party apps? GDPR in action. The ability to reject tracking (which might cost money for
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
As mentioned in a sister thread, europa.eu uses the browser's DNT header ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN... ) to see if they should bother asking for tracking. Brow
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
I'm browsing europa.eu a fair while now (in a private browser session to avoid any old cookie from maybe interfering) and the only banner they show is "An official website of the European Union - How do you know?" There are t
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
One nice feature of winget that I discovered after the Win11 update is that it doesn't bother with any restrictions on uninstalling Edge, XBox Game Bar, "My Smartphone", Maps and all the other useless fluff that is supposedly
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
"In a study published by Springer-Verlag, anyone who constantly handles BPA receipt paper is prone to be exposed to an estimated 71 micrograms of BPA which is 42 times less than the tolerable daily intake." ( https://pan
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
If with "biased" you mean that they (europa.eu) are the official online resource which publishes the treaties in question, verbatim, you are correct. It's an unusual use of terminology, though.
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Sorry, I don't follow. Is that the Chewbacca defense?
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Depends on the federation: Federal Republic of Germany? I'm paying taxes so I guess one could consider me an agent. But more than that: I also worked and work for organisations aligned with them in various capacities (currently I'
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
If it quacks like a duck...
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
You're moving goal posts: The original statement of yours has been "no one on patriots is an extremist", classifying site users. Now you're at "you'll concede that Reddit is an extremist site right?", clas
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The "one instance" thing only applies to that "patriots" site because you asserted "No one on [Patriots . win] is an extremist". It also doesn't show that the site is an "extremist site", only th
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
I don't know them, so if you assert that they're an edgelord and not an extremist, I can only imagine that you do know them. Lacking any other information, and given a relative unimportance of that person to me, I'll take you
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
So we're not arguing if any service is about free speech and how that pertains to extremism, but only which kind of edgelord is worse? Boring.
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I wonder if there are any actual free speech services out there: Would any of them tolerate being swamped (as in 90%+ of the content) with insults hurled at their owners and operators? My guess would be that there's already a limit to
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Ah, the edgelord defense, a Tried and True practice. One issue is that the entire thread is _only_ edgelords in that model. I couldn't find anybody on that page speaking out against the ideas espoused by the poster. As for "commen
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The good thing about "no one on $site is an extremist" is that there's a pretty clear way to disprove it: find one specimen. https://patriots.win/p/13zg9agFHB/instead-of-eliminating-hun... promotes
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Next best measure and much more easily advocated for: not have kids.

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