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631.
by setquk 8y ago
Smoking might cure anxiety but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t give you lung cancer...
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by setquk 8y ago
The GDPR exists because everyone has been a dick because they know they can get away with it. By default the mentality is take take take. Now the business models built on that are being trashed. If someone keeps burgling your house they nee
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by setquk 8y ago
It does feel like that. We don't actually issue a signed copy now and we have had precisely one complaint and that was from an enterprise customer. We suggested they downloaded it themselves and gave them the sha256sum of the MSI and t
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by setquk 8y ago
Thanks for the link. I don't think it was that but I'm going to check it thoroughly anyway.
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by setquk 8y ago
Our EV cert shows an alert. Very fucking annoyed if I’m honest. And yes it was SHA-256. Several days and a pile of cash fucking around with WIX and signtool for what exactly?
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by setquk 8y ago
Q-tips
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by setquk 8y ago
Slightly off topic but I wonder how you handle time where dilation is present. For example if a spacecraft travels to mars and there is mars local time, plus time dilation from the journey, when does a transmission start from a reference fr
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by setquk 8y ago
Does this justify hashing user identification for later correlation with other products? https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/b45f1fb439b36872c249b07f1...
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by setquk 8y ago
It is. Future versions of powershell will ship with .Net core only.
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by setquk 8y ago
That's a blatant violation then.
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by setquk 8y ago
The average user clicks through privacy agreements and contracts without looking. It's up to us to promote good behaviour by technology vendors rather than say I told you so later which is the current status quo.
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by setquk 8y ago
It's more "something crashed, can we send this information to help diagnose the problem? Here's a big textbox from which you can review what we're sending if you want". Versus "screw you we're taking it an
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by setquk 8y ago
This is the correct way to handle it.
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by setquk 8y ago
And as we know from various recent events, private releases can become public releases without proper data control.
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes Java has been a perpetural problem, at least the official JRE and JDK. The JRE ships with junk and the JDK forces you to forge an agreement cookie to download it. OpenJDK is fine however.
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by setquk 8y ago
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
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by setquk 8y ago
And there's the money shot: "Hashed MAC address — Determine a cryptographically (SHA256) anonymous and unique ID for a machine. Useful to determine the aggregate number of machines that use .NET Core. This data will not be shared
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by setquk 8y ago
Maybe, maybe not. They record 3 octets of your IP address and the experience is opt-out rather than opt-in. ECJ ruled that IP addresses are PII but did not specify if using a partial address is OK. On the basis it is the 3 most significant
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Microsoft .Net Core telemetry is not opt-in(github.com)
140 points by setquk 8y ago|114 comments
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by setquk 8y ago
Never tried it under wine. Will have a go at that.
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by setquk 8y ago
That’s so incredibly evil that I love it :)
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by setquk 8y ago
Same. I wrote a horse racing program on the 82 that I sold to students so they could use it for betting. It was my first profitable software product :) It was lame as crap. Just used the PRNG to multiply one of 5 variables by 10 and then dr
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by setquk 8y ago
It is until you start treating the 6502 as a RISC CPU with 256 registers at 0x0000. I had that “ohhhhh” moment when I had a BBC master back in the late 80s. Zero page FTW. Z80 feels like wading in treacle after that. X86 is an abomination
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by setquk 8y ago
This is universally the case for hardware companies I’ve found, even suppliers. We get Farnell, CPC and RS outages at the weekend here in the U.K.
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by setquk 8y ago
Ah gotcha. That makes sense.
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by setquk 8y ago
LTspice is incidentally broken as fuck on windows 10 1803 so YMMV with that already.
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by setquk 8y ago
Surely 5th is down enough dB for that not to be an issue?
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes. The LT web site was gold. How it should be done.
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by setquk 8y ago
I wouldn't pay that to be offended by my relatives.
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by setquk 8y ago
I welcome the old days. Everything has been heading in the direction of data grabbing and market share focused turf wars between big tech companies all trying to establish the most profitable monopoly.

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