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by rovek 8y ago
Any company I didn't give my data to directly and have never heard of is a concern. Many companies sending out GDPR emails need to learn that processing data is a liability they should avoid if possible.
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by rovek 8y ago
Oh this is definitely true of the Twitter website but I would assume any barrier implemented is illegal, however ineffectual.
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by rovek 8y ago
Blocking on Twitter also prevents the blocked user from view the blocker's timeline, which means Trump would be preventing US citizens from viewing his "public statements" Edit: Is this being downvoted because of some inferre
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by rovek 8y ago
I think the spirit of GDPR is to target the multinationals who also have tax dodging subsidiaries the world over. E.g. The EU could calculate global revenue for Facebook and then fine Facebook Ireland (or wherever) the resulting sum; which
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by rovek 9y ago
This prompted me to research UK political advertising regulations, or rather the fact that there are none at all for non-broadcast content. That is insane.
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by rovek 9y ago
This might be an interesting read if you haven't already, still doesn't go into too much tech detail unfortunately. > What the email correspondence between Cambridge Analytica employees and Kogan shows is that Kogan had collect
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by rovek 9y ago
A major part of Facebook's culpability here is that they knew for 2 years that tens of millions of their users were being profiled as part of a political propaganda war on their platform and their response was practically nothing. Edit
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by rovek 9y ago
I would argue Amazon doesn't even "do search" of their own inventory. Anecdotally, unless you're looking for something very specific (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S9 128gb) the results become worthless beyond the first handful, p
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by rovek 9y ago
> the wall, tariffs, and now the death penalty for drug dealers? I think this backs up djsumdog's point that Trump's purpose, or the one for which he's being used, is misdirection.
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by rovek 9y ago
I'd be interested to know how widely used these gateways are, since the conventional wisdom on HN is so frequently "vote with your wallet/feet/personal data". As they say: Use it or lose it.
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by rovek 9y ago
Articles like this help me realise why people in the UK so frequently misunderstand each other's meaning; the common usage language is a blunt instrument. It's disappointing to witness and I'm certainly guilty of mediocre art
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by rovek 9y ago
> invading and annexing Crimea This is one of few times I've seen "invade" used to describe Russia's actions in Crimea. I find it strange that even western media talks about "annexation" when they usually em
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by rovek 9y ago
> When you add the 89% of the users being "private individuals", and that the next biggest category, 4.4%, is minors, it seems most of the requests definitely fall within the purpose intended Not necessarily, from the article:
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by rovek 9y ago
When looking for a new job I typically run a few applications at a time since companies are so unreliable and, frankly, I don't have the time or inclination for * 5 x 45 minute phone screens * 5 x 2-3 hour coding test (some of which wi
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by rovek 9y ago
> ...the chances of someone breaking into her physical house for it are pretty slim I find this to be quite an under-represented opinion whenever I encounter password security discussions. How many people's threat models need consid
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by rovek 9y ago
My main dislike is that it now uses an algorithm to populate my "friends" section, hiding arbitrary friends from me. I have no confidence that I can see all my friends' stories because of the exceptionally poor UX. On top of
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by rovek 9y ago
The only Microsoft hardware you can buy is a Surface, this scope seems like an insignificantly narrow topic of conversation.
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by rovek 9y ago
My reaction too, and quite a visceral one. Does this kind of lazy projection actually work to make people care about whatever journalists feel like writing about?
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by rovek 9y ago
Right. This isn't gig economy, it's a huge company's intentionally abusive contracts
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by rovek 9y ago
This is a cool idea, I'll definitely keep an eye on it. One comment on the layout: the line breaks in comments are quite jarring because they break on letters rather than words. (word-break) e.g. https://www.acho.io/pos
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by rovek 9y ago
You're right about subdomains but they are stripping both query and path, so 123.a.b.tld/foo would become 123.a.b.tld. It's fair to assume most misplaced sensitive data will be in the path or query, rather than the subdomai
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by rovek 9y ago
This may be my ignorance, having an iPhone 7, but doesn't Face ID "unlock" to what everyone previously called the Lock Screen? So not only do you need to point your phone at your face (which, I'm more conscious than ever
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by rovek 9y ago
In fairness to the author there really isn't much to say. I guess they could have just shared the court ruling straight up though. I was expecting some interesting analysis of how dating platform subscriptions affect different demograp
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by rovek 9y ago
Also fairly confident that many unsubscribe links have little effect. I often wonder if I'm losing my mind thinking "I swear I unsubscribed from this last week"
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by rovek 9y ago
Referencing irrelevancies invites the assumption that you have an ulterior message. The race of an undesirable employee is not relevant unless you intend to imply causation.
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by rovek 9y ago
My gut told me this would be downvoted the moment I saw the section you quoted. Engineer Colin McMillen seems to be surprised that rules apply to him.
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by rovek 9y ago
Taking away people's agency because it's perceived they can't look after themselves is rarely well-received, with good reason. Shows are for the audience, not the artist, so if 1/4 of the audience are using their phones
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by rovek 9y ago
I relied on Grab in MY and SG, both app and drivers were excellent, but if we needed a distilled example of how out of touch and tone-deaf tech can be then we need look no further than this article.
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by rovek 9y ago
That sounds like the vast majority of users expect more functionality from browsers than can be achieved without javascript. Do you think they would be willing to part with that functionality to achieve engineering perfection?
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by rovek 9y ago
Seems a broad law considering * Expectation is subjective and this forum are the minority * History-jacking done badly is not a reason to throw out a technology Random JavaScript hate is so last year

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