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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
I think it's even possible to get a sick leave from a business you own in some European countries. But how about if you run the business on your own, and you're concerned that if you take two weeks off the business will lose many
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
There's a cluster in Singapore that spread at a church. But what does it mean? In Berlin or Paris it could suddenly spread on the trains, or at a spectator sport event. Being secular isn't going to stop you from breathing in air t
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
My citizenship can't identify me individually. If I use a VPN that makes me appear like I'm in China, I'm still in Europe so I think my data should still be treated as if I'm in Europe. My location/residency is a ma
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
I was referring specifically to the limited case of executables. As I mentioned, executables in Windows have a resource that is the icon. There's probably no real security issues in having a photo show up with a Word document icon. Win
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
We're seeing prices for electricity as low as 0€ or less because people aren't using it efficiently. Part of that is because there is insufficient storage capacity, preventing it from being used when there's more demand and l
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Your point (1) is the point of the article. If the market price of electricity is 0€/MWh, the retail price is still bloody expensive because there's a ton of taxes, most of which do not relate to source of the energy nor its cost.
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Even Windows has resources, including icons, inside the exe file. Obviously a bit different (it's not in metadata, it's in the actual executable) but the idea that a single file named PerfectlyHarmlessPhoto.jpg.exe could have an i
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Democracy works slowly. You don't get what you deserve at each election. Indeed, you can get utter slime without realising it till later.
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
We ask for your information to improve our service. We know that you opted out by selecting the "opt out" button in your web browser, but we're going to ignore that and try to trick you into opting in, since we're so spe
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
It's true, it's weird the NHS should be up for grabs considering it's older people who would be most hurt by changes to the NHS who voted for the Brexit. But it's also a bit weird. I mean, I guess the issue with the NHS
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Was the parent post edited? Otherwise it agrees with you. They don't mention citizenship. Surely my physical location is no less part of my data than my citizenships? I guess if it's being processed immediately when it's coll
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
I recently moved to the EU, since the GDPR came into existence. Is Spotify and Google only subject to the GDPR for my data they collected since I moved here?
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
If that were the claim, it wouldn't work. It could only work if the citizens could live without it. If it's necessary, then it will simply mean a little more money for a few more features (needed for France and Germany anyway) wil
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
It doesn't say the literal opposite of it. Your quote says "British privacy rules would continue to apply to [UK government] requests for data". This is very different from British privacy rules applying to private requests f
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of a "world player". By GDP, it goes something like US, EU, China, Japan, India, UK, Brazil, Canada, Russia, South Korea, Australia. There's a fairly large gap (more than double) between
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
What's the point of a number plate if it's not to allow a stranger at a distance to identify the car? It seems that Anti-ALPR plates are indeed a bug, although plates may be a misfeature.
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
> Because they are harmless fun? Many hours of road trips were spent trying to spot a license plate from every state. In Europe that's possible too. Aside from collecting all the countries, you can collect the cities. For instance,
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Actually I kinda think the European ones seem quite squished. They're certainly wider, but the letters are smaller to fit the shorter vertical height. A matter of what you're used to? (Incidentally, in Australia, you can get three
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
> I've completely given up on the mobile web since I can't block things the way I need to. Can't you just use uBlock Origin with Firefox Mobile and run it behind a localhost VPN like Blokada? It's not perfect but it s
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
*For non-Simpsons watchers The word was created as a joke in a Simpsons episode, a word used in Springfield only. It is described as "perfectly cromulent" by a Springfielder, which is evidently meant to mean "acceptable"
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
The alternative is your ISP suddenly decides that google.com directs to one of their servers.
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Well, you convinced me. It's an interesting project idea. Concerning user interface, I think the ordinary user interface of such a system would have to be application based. Rather than increasingly impure desktop metaphor, you simply
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Wow that statement is completely untrue. It links to several RFCs. RFC-7158 and RFC-7159 differ only in (a) that one is RFC-7158 and the other is RFC-7159 (b) that one is dated in March 2013 and the other is March 2014 (c) that one obsolete
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
> its usefulness is going to be questionable as no application developed by others is going to be able to open files directly from that database anyway Don't most operating systems provide for some kind of vfs nowadays? So you can i
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Well, I don't want to say anything about the utility, longevity or appeal of yaml/json, but I somehow think a user is going to upgrade their entire operating system before they upgrade my little app. And if they're inclined t
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
I work on a monolith. It was written by never more than ten developers, mostly fewer, in maybe 15 years. It contains just more than a million lines of code (1,074,010). This figure excludes other code bases those developers worked on (for
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Yes. If you're trying to develop Linux software from Windows, Nix works to the extent that the rest of your software works. But the experience of working on WSL is not the experience of working on Linux. And it isn't likely to hel
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Will it? Nix solves a unixy problem in a unixy way. The Nix/WSL story might get happier at some point to solve a problem for Windows based developers of Linux based servers, but that's effectively just "running nix in docker&
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
Google barely even touches podcasts. I'm not sure if there's a "default podcast app" on Android.
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by squiggleblaz 7y ago
The people who produce podcasts think that podcasts are the shows they make. Why should your technical/implementational definition take precedence over that? It's not obvious that a photo is a JPEG file and it's not obvious t

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