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by rtsil 4y ago
The problem is that the prosecutor can issue a blanket order that forces any person, company or organization to hand over to the police any and all digital information and data that may be related to the investigation. And as with all blank
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by rtsil 4y ago
Warning: IANAL. Sanction here does not mean punishment, it means approved (the law itself says "upon request") That article of the Criminal Code refers to two chapters of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which covers the two types
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by rtsil 4y ago
The irony is the goal of taking Twitter private was precisely to avoid the tyranny of quarterly reports.
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by rtsil 4y ago
The best employees is no employee.
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by rtsil 4y ago
AFAIK the company didn't lose $4M/day until the advertisers halted their ad buys because of the uncertainties brought by the new management.
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by rtsil 4y ago
> Because security questions are nuts! I mean those ones are extra nuts but in general the whole idea of taking either immutable pieces of data like your mother's maiden name or enumerable questions like the make of your first car o
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by rtsil 4y ago
The EU's biggest contribution is the power it gave me, a simple citizen, to force* billion-dollar companies to not share and even delete my personal data if I want to, without a complicated procedure. *And I mean force, not request.
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by rtsil 4y ago
Remove the unwanted video from your history and it will no longer affect your recommendations.
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> with very little to show for. The billions of people whose food and personal safety rely on data from weather satellites should at least count a bit above "very little". So do the people like me who can't use a paper map
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by rtsil 4y ago
Sacrificing yourself for your teammates is allowed and legal in F1 and road cycling. Deliberately losing a game is forbidden and illegal in badminton.
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by rtsil 4y ago
I'm not aware of any dumb TV manufacturer after over a decade of smart TVs. I'm afraid the demand for dumb devices is simply not sustainable. People get accustomed to the new normal very quickly.
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Why don't they buy a contract-less prepaid SIM card? Do these not exist in Japan? Sure, it's a prepaid subscription that costs more than a normal subscription, but I don't think that's an issue for Yakuza bosses.
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by rtsil 4y ago
> A VPN is what you need. What I needed was to use a different search engine. DuckDuckGo gives me a toggle to include or not French results.
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> There is no exchange of ideas, its just the guest being able to say whatever they want without any pushback. This is precisely why I listen to his podcast. I am not interested in Lex's ideas (beyond maybe AI), I am interested in t
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by rtsil 4y ago
I learned a foreign language (English), I search Google in that foreign language. My browser's language is set in that foreign language. My search parameters are set to only show results in English. I use Google.com, not my localized v
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Joni Mitchell's story and Pat Martino's story are remarkably similar (brain aneurysm). The question is, did they regain access to the part of their brain that allowed them to play guitar, or did they really re-learn? In Martino&#x
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by rtsil 4y ago
And when I have to modify the code a couple of years down the road, after working on completely different codebases, I would hate my past self if he left me 100 LOC that I have then to decypher by having to remember all the context instead
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by rtsil 4y ago
The blatant case of forgery described in the article. Manipulating images to make something that do no exist appear real is as blatant and as forgery as they come.
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by rtsil 4y ago
> ... be it corporations, governments, or individuals. The emphasis on only one/some of these is a matter of country culture. Some countries have more reasons to distrust corporations far more than the government, some distrust the
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by rtsil 4y ago
The CNIL's page says that standard contracts do not offer adequate protections and as such are insufficient.
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Considering that all uses of GA are illegal under GDPR except for a handful of specific derogations that do not constitute its main usages, an apt comparison would be heroin, which is illegal, except in a very few regulated cases.
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One problem the amount of press and hype that these type of research receive in the mass media (same thing for the "cancer cure breakthrough"), likely promoted by researchers and labs looking for funding, and which generally amoun
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by rtsil 4y ago
The car may send the request to play, but the OS decides to play the same song again and again and again...
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by rtsil 4y ago
> The EU probably can't break up Google or Apple The default remedy isn't break up, it's 10% of the total worldwide turnover (20% for repeat offenders). The EU can very much fine Google or Apple (and already did so). If br
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by rtsil 4y ago
And yet transparency is a major element when dealing with bad actors in the physical world in democratic countries. If a suspected murderer is brought to the courts, they have the right to be informed what charges are brought against them,
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uBlock Origin stops blocking ads on Youtube for at least a day every time Chrome is updated, unlike on Firefox, which is consistently blocking ads.
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by rtsil 4y ago
You can use Vimeo or Wistia. Of course, they aren't free.
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Never, ever depend on Google for anything that you can't afford to lose and/or can't replicate in a short time. And yes, that applies to GCP.
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If a company's answer to 100K of its users having insolvable problems is "it's scale, deal with it", maybe that company has no business being so large. And yes, that applies to Google and all the others as well.
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I am not sure the context makes it less worse. If they alter the domain status to pendingdelete, as stated by the OP, the domain is de facto expired. And the same Domain Registration Agreement gives them the unlimited right, at their sole d

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