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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> certain people (who will recognize themselves) They probably won't.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> What can you be sure will "never happen" Because there are ~25 existing sets of laws on the same topic [based on GDPR's predecessor framework, but evolved in different ways] that GDPR normalized into a single, common mod
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Or even multiply that by 2 or 3 for punitive purposes The only place and time where the concept of punitive damages and GDPR overlap is the United Kingdom between May 25, 2018 and March 29, 2019. [edit: and Ireland. They might want to
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> It says something when tech-savvy people agree to sacrifice time and effort and probably profits to protect their users from their own software. Or the competitors' software. Consider some business that was doing what GDPR require
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
That's approximately a /17 worth of IPv4 addreses, recovered over multiple years going through all the low hanging fruit (eg the original /8 networks). 9 million addresses for 2 years is a burn rate of ~375k/month. Anoth
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
The great-grand-poster: "Android even lets you turn off AGPS, which collects anonymous location data to update itself. As far as I know, this is not even possible on iOS." AGPS is GPS, assisted but still GPS.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
The complaint above was about login screens "knowing" about people's locations. When you log in to a service (eg. Google), the device doesn't "silently" communicate with the servers, you asked it to. It sends a
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
Yes, but not through GPS, or the location information compiled about my logins would be way more accurate than it is (often off by 100-200 km in any direction). Probably IP based geo location (that would naturally trigger with VPNs that giv
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
For that, see https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/terms That stuff is kept separate from all account data (like with Google DNS[0] and fonts[1], too): no common cookies, "unauthenticated" (ie.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
Since neither the blocking functionality nor the actual blocking rules are shipped with any browser, that's somewhat hyperbolic. Users can still decide which code and data ends up on their computer. If they trust Eyeo more than Axel Sp
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Why should Google indemnify users when MPEG-LA isn't willing to do so for their licensees? (see the mess that HEVC is in now, or even good old MP3 with Sisvel)
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> Microsoft tried to make apps for Google's services Where "apps" means "app", and "Google's services" means "YouTube".
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It's probably maintenance effort they want to save. Once the service is locked and statistics are off (ie mid-2019) the entire site could be replaced with an exported set of static files.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
You get a bit more speed out of the C64 if you disable parts of the video chip. It also avoids cycle inconsistencies every 8 scanlines (where normally, the chip would block the bus for an additional cycle). To avoid making it a dull monochr
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> some fringe PC zealots who got their XT to display a different shade of green http://8088mph.blogspot.de/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mo...
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> As an example, they discuss Germany, which legalized prostitution in 2002. The minimum estimate of sex trafficking victims in the country increased from 9,870 in 2001 to 11,080 in 2002, to 12,350 in 2003." Careful, such numbers ty
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Shariff – Give Social Media Buttons Some Privacy(github.com)
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Most CMSs have this functionality built in. Which is a big problem for German (and potentially European) publishers due to privacy laws. One major German IT publisher therefore developed an open source privacy preserving tool that stri
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Islam as is has very little desirability to convert for non-Muslim The successful pitch of a certain variant of Islam seems to be "structure": That it tells you what to do and what not to do down to the tiniest minutiae (and
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
Addendum: > Point me out a single piece of human knowledge that was gained via pure belief instead of via evidence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
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Just because societies become "less religious" according to some popular metric (for Europe mostly: "Christian, Jew or Muslim?") doesn't mean that people are more rationally minded. And I don't see any of that
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
Assuming for a moment that atheist are the friendlier folks in general, what makes you think that people become atheists after leaving christianity behind? When taking an atheist perspective (I'm not an atheist, but I hope I can fake i
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Is first-world Europe now a "foreign mission," in the way that third-world countries were in the previous centuries? Local churches are ramping up their efforts for a local mission (instead of assuming "Christianity as d
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Matthias Schulz. Teaching Your Wireless Card New Tricks: Smartphone Performance and Security Enhancements through Wi-Fi Firmware Modifications. Dr.-Ing. thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, February 2018. might be coming
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
I'm less concerned with the amount of money flowing to YT, but the logistics. The hassle free "upload stuff, and if you're popular there's a button to add ads" model wouldn't work. The first interaction with Yo
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> how YouTube operates today You mean, paying for the infrastructure with ads? As soon as most of that money is routed elsewhere, YouTube has little other option than to invoice operation costs with creators (or shut down the service). T
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> Are there tools that can detect the spine in the middle, de-skew the image, adjust discolouration, detect text, and OCR? https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper provides a partial solution. https://mz
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> The point here is clear - you don't jump up and argue Wall St analysts deserve better pay and more annual leaves Nowhere did the grand-poster do that for the Huawei folks. And Huawei paying "outrageous" money doesn'
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
> argue for their rights. Pointing out such semantic plays isn't fighting for their rights, it's calling a spade a spade. Which can be entirely self-interested, given how such schemes are imitated wherever possible.
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by pgeorgi 9y ago
Verlag means "publisher", it's not part of a name. (There are two publishers going by "Springer" though, you were referring to J. Springer, not A. Springer)

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