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by sc11 7y ago
Typical apartment door locks are very easy to change yourself, at least the kind that's most common here. Requires some relatively simple measurements and screwing in/out a few screws. Hiring someone to do it costs ~150-200€ (130-
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by sc11 7y ago
> the ability to immediately remove previous tenants access to the home This doesn't really require a smart lock. In Germany it's common to replace the lock immediately once you rent a place and put the original lock back in wh
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by sc11 7y ago
It's often just security theatre meant to please the law & order voter base more than anything else. They might catch some minor criminals but as you said, if you really want to "move" data across a border, there are plen
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by sc11 8y ago
> But basically a bunch of MEPs just didn't think it was that important to pay attention to the details, phoned it in, and screwed up badly. Indeed. Epicenter.works published a table[1] to make it easier for people unfamiliar with t
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by sc11 8y ago
It's not unlikely that at least some of them claim it was a mistake to avoid taking responsibility for their vote because they're aware of how unpopular it was. After being in parliament for at least ~5 years, it's hard to be
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by sc11 8y ago
EDRi[1] attempts what you describe in your first point. It's an association of European NGOs to unite efforts on a European level, with an office in Brussels. They recently funded travel costs for citizens to go to Brussels to talk to
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by sc11 8y ago
> I'm not sure what a good way of distinguishing between the two would be. GitHub Pages makes it easy to create a separate website for the first use case, which you can link to on the very top in the description. Then the README can
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by sc11 8y ago
> It then needs to be passed by the parliament, where votes are proportional to population. Votes in the parliament aren't directly proportional to population in order to prevent large countries from dominating votes. Germany has 1
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by sc11 8y ago
The same applies to VPN providers. You're just moving around who you trust.
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by sc11 8y ago
The proposal for the ePrivacy regulation (not the same as the old ePrivacy directive) is supposed to do that but unfortunately there hasn't been much movement on it in the last year. Can find a short overview of it here: https:/&