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by pluma 8y ago
The most infuriating part for me with the local transport agency in Cologne (KVB) is the verbosity. They use a 90s style unbearably slow ticker display. So if you catch a glimpse at the wrong moment you're stuck reading all the unimpor
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by pluma 8y ago
Show me a front-end developer that has mastered every aspect of front-end development, or a back-end developer that has mastered every aspect of back-end development. Everyone else only gets to pick a somewhat arbitrary subset of those aspe
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure but good luck using KeePass across a team on multiple devices.
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by pluma 8y ago
BitWarden works fine. I'm using Linux/Firefox as well, the rest of the time is on Windows/Chrome. It's 100% open source: https://bitwarden.com/
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, I guess somehow these ideas are still divisive in the year 2018: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." "No one shall be subjected to torture
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by pluma 8y ago
Also this story linked elsewhere in a thread: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/migrant-seeking-asylum-say...
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by pluma 8y ago
I can vouch for this. As a freelancer I actually had exactly this happen: I was working for a client with a time-limited contract. The contract expired on New Year's Eve and they failed to renew it so I expected to have been terminated
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by pluma 8y ago
Not sure how this works in other jurisdictions in the EU but in Germany a work contract can be silently renewed if both parties act as if it had been renewed even if the contract itself says it has to be renewed explicitly and in writing. I
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by pluma 8y ago
> I am not. The US is still the top destination for migrants. Is it? Most numbers seem to compare individual countries, which disproportionally overrepresents the US due to its sheer size. However by comparison, in 2016 [0][1]: * 1.49 mi
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by pluma 8y ago
1. Stop believing in your own propaganda. There are nicer places to immigrate to than the US. 2. The only way to be granted asylum is if you're already in the US. The only way to enter the US legally is using an intentionally overloade
551.
by pluma 8y ago
I don't know. "Does it violate the UN Convention on Human Rights?" is a good start. Also "Does it violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?". Or, y'know, the Kantian Imperative.
552.
by pluma 8y ago
That's not entirely true, though. Affirmative asylum seekers have been deported aggressively as well: https://eu.freep.com/story/news/2018/05/17/troy-cile-preceta...
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by pluma 8y ago
It doesn't matter when the leak happened, it only matters when it was formally discovered.
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm using the two phrases synonymously because the GDPR protects personal information, which is the superset (the distinction of PII as a subset seems to be more relevant in the US). The GDPR is concerned with privacy. If you derive in
555.
by pluma 8y ago
I would have considered myself a "hacker" in my teenage years when I was teaching myself programming by digging through language specs online and looking at other people's code to understand what makes it work. However it see
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by pluma 8y ago
IP addresses combined with time stamps are personal information if there's only one person using that IP address at that moment in time. If you don't want to personally verify that the IP address was used by more than one person a
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, it was seen as a social faux pas at the time but mostly because the web was much more personal: companies had no need to do anything nefarious with your data, so they wouldn't have cared, but a lone individual running a random we
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by pluma 8y ago
Keep in mind you still need a privacy policy, even if it just says "we store anonymised access logs which we delete after X months and that's all" (paraphrased). EDIT: Not sure why the downvotes. Prove me wrong if you disagre
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by pluma 8y ago
If you're using Google Analytics, you're paying for the analytics by letting them abuse your users. You can get some protection by using their anonymisation setting and signing a data protection addendum. If you really want to be
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by pluma 8y ago
> Though I'm deeply disappointed in how many large sites have interpreted "opt in" as spending 5 minutes vigorously unchecking boxes with ambiguous meaning, hopefully that will bite them hard. The fun part about that one i
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by pluma 8y ago
Your computer belongs to you. My data belongs to me. I can give you my data and you can keep that data if you tell me what you are going to keep it for and how you are going to use it and when I agree with all of that, but you don't ge
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by pluma 8y ago
Skype was acquired by MS in 2011. At that point Skype had already gone through the hands of eBay and several investors. Additionally -- unlike GitHub or LinkedIn -- Skype was acquired for its technology. Microsoft used Skype to replace both
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by pluma 8y ago
StackOverflow has a fairly bad reputation despite its widely perceived usefulness (the community is often seen as toxic and hostile to beginners). Microsoft would have to severely invest into SO's PR and community management. Compare t
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by pluma 8y ago
The problem isn't that Node supports this error code. The problem is that it's used by the registry. Heck, technically the problem isn't even that it's used by the registry, the problem is the npm client is a broken unte
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by pluma 8y ago
Npm Inc is a company. Their products are npm enterprise and npm orgs. Both of these are only useful in combination with the npm client. Npm enterprise likely wasn't affected by this (although related problems may have affected npm ente
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by pluma 8y ago
I see no reason why "they've screwed up before so it's okay if they're being dismissive and intransparent" would ever be a valid argument. The point of excusing past mistakes is that they are learning opportunities.
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by pluma 8y ago
Looks like his talk wasn't recorded[0]? He published the slides but they're sadly not very informative[1]. To be honest I can't believe the registry is still using CouchDB under the hood. It's not a good fit for the prob
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm guessing they used 418 to mean "I have no idea who you think you're talking to" (not entirely unfitting as 418 was proposed to indicate the coffee pot you're talking to is actually a tea pot), considering it was
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by pluma 8y ago
Looks like the example uses that because it would otherwise be overridden by the variant=primary (which seems to be the default) so explicitly overriding that variant would probably be more intuitive and not require the !important hack.
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just trying to be objective rather than judge the two models based on my opinion. My opinion would be that the US system is the result of Friedman free market capitalism trumping civil rights over

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