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by smarx007 3y ago
> Even if we had AT&T’s keys, I think it might be non-trivial to verify that they correspond to this data What I was trying to say is that if AT&T systems (or a backup) contain that exact encrypted value (no need for a decryption
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by smarx007 3y ago
I think encrypted DOBs and SSNs are the smoking gun. There may be no way to prove that '1996-07-18' DOB came from AT&T but it's quite hard to deny that the encrypted value '*0g91F1wJvGV03zUGm6mBWSg==' was produc
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by smarx007 3y ago
Bloggers, please replace Medium with anything now.
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by smarx007 3y ago
Not exactly. "dual-beam volumetric nanoscale writing [...] contained two laser beams [...] writing laser beam [...] energy per bit of information of 17 μJ [...] and a [...] deactivating laser beam [...] energy per bit of information of
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by smarx007 3y ago
At claiming a tax break. A tax write off is intended to help you when you suffer a loss. In this case, a company does not suffer a loss but inflicts it on itself by destroying its asset without even trying to liqudate it properly.
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by smarx007 3y ago
A simple test of the rules StackRanker3000 linkes to is whether you'd hold a PhD degree from those establishments in high regard independent of the field. If so, that's a universitet . If you'd only highly respect PhD degree
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by smarx007 3y ago
I fail to see how being a software developer in a financial sector or in healthcare is not a STEM career? Equally, having many STEM professionals move to management doesn't mean that a STEM degree is oversold. There are a lot of STEM m
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by smarx007 3y ago
Actually, as a chiefly Java/C# person, I was hoping for the article to cover how Bun helps lower the Total Cost of Ownership of Javascript projects by helping to get off the hamster wheel of infinitely deep npm dependency trees, wild w
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by smarx007 3y ago
I am sorry but this whole post seems like gaslighting. Looks like maintainers welcomed a patch bringing the old behaviour behind a flag [1]. Eshel Yaron then writes "Sure. I'm attaching two patches", while doing the exact op
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by smarx007 3y ago
Good starting libs for CLI development: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/commandlin... https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap
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by smarx007 3y ago
.NET always had simple console-only apps (that's what I started with more than 15 years ago). Now there is even a 'dotnet' CLI command. With first-class VS Code dev support and Linux support for SDK/runtime, you don&#x27
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by smarx007 3y ago
Haven't seen many .NET fanatics, only pragmatics. I'd say that's another argument in favour.
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by smarx007 3y ago
83 rps would be a challenge when hitting a Java EE app written to make use of tutorial-level ORM code without any caching or optimizations. An app where a request takes 300ms to resolve (pulling numbers out of hat for an average poorly writ
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by smarx007 3y ago
https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-tech-news-site-heisede-illega...
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by smarx007 3y ago
Which is... everyone who has ever opened a YouTube link? Though might make sense to not include it in the Zero series.
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by smarx007 3y ago
1) YES https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come 2) Consent vs legitimate interest is not for data but for data processing purposes. A company, say Paypal, may have a legitimate interest to process (and, the
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by smarx007 3y ago
I always mention in my GDPR requests/complaints that I would kindly like to get a response within a month, in line with Art. 12 GDPR. Not because it's a "karen legalese" but to let the company know that I am exercising a
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by smarx007 3y ago
Of course not. You have to go through a Data Protection Officer (DPO): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/gdpr...
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by smarx007 3y ago
Yup, there are lots of violations: https://noyb.eu/en And I do think Microsoft has good lawyers and believe they reviewed any activity prior to receiving consent quite carefully.
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by smarx007 3y ago
Articles 16 to 21 provide you, the end user, a range of grounds for a complaint: https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/ Article 12 requires a response in one month. However, you shall not post comments on a repo issue to get
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by smarx007 3y ago
Well, sure, it's just a general observation, so knock wood.
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by smarx007 3y ago
G.D.P.R., it says so in the thread. And Europe is not a litigious environment, we start with complaints first.
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by smarx007 3y ago
As a reminder, Pi 5 no longer recommends to use the 15W supply recommended for Pi 4 and suggests a 25W one instead.
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by smarx007 3y ago
Nice, congrats! What are the specs of the old server?
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by smarx007 3y ago
And because nobody wants to pay the namespace cost upfront, we all end up with vin, vin_no, viNumber, vinNum etc instead of iso3779:vin, for example. Every time we work with more than one API, it's prudent to try aligning the terms us
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by smarx007 3y ago
And what happened since to JSON and YAML? JSON schemas to replace XSD, YAML/JSON templating to replace XSLT, jq to replace XPath.
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by smarx007 3y ago
XML is a data format for correct exchange of information between computer systems. Human-friendly editing was never the no 1 goal for its designers. And with good tools like IntelliJ IDEA, I have easier time editing pom.xml configurations t
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by smarx007 3y ago
I am totally fine with my ISP seeing my DNS traffic (it is bound by GDPR & more; I trust it more than CF or Google). I want to ensure the DNS traffic info does not leave my ISP (other than to other DNS resolvers recursively). And as per
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by smarx007 3y ago
How can one avoid their browsing ending up in the passive DNS logs? For example, is using 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, or 9.9.9.9 (CF, Google, and Quad9, respectively) good or bad in this regard? For example, where does Spamhaus get their passive DNS
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by smarx007 3y ago
Interesting, thank you for introducing me to Netlify CMS, didn't know about it.

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