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by starbugs 3y ago
If you don't allow other people to ask questions, then I think it's more likely that you are yourself politically motivated. This question might be asked by someone who has someone near them suffering said symptoms after having be
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by starbugs 3y ago
> You know a lot of people got Covid before the vaccines even existed... > So really you are asking if all the researchers are idiots No. I did not say either/or. I also don't think this is a productive way of having a conve
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by starbugs 3y ago
> There were a huge number of people who had long covid symptoms before vaccines were available. I didn't say either/or.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Honest question: How much is really known about long Covid and have there been studies investigating whether similar symptoms could be caused by the vaccines as well? (This is not a political statement. I am honestly interested in what the
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by starbugs 3y ago
I successfully trained myself to fall asleep using deep brown noise. This obviously is not a cure-all against sleep deprivation, but it's easy to try out and, at least for me, it made falling asleep so much easier.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Well, "unsupported pavement" to be accurate.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> The author states that security updates on earlier iOS versions give a false sense of security. The author links to this article which provides more detail: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apples-poor-patc
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by starbugs 3y ago
It's for your safety.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Yes. Unmaintained proprietary OS software is a manifestation of the paperclip maximizer. Maybe we'll soon be able to pave the whole planet with "unsupported" hardware (which actually works perfectly fine).
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Nobody is forcing anybody to do this Depends on how you define "force". My experience is that the source of all this is the fear of having a substantial disadvantage against the competition and having to defend your decision
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by starbugs 3y ago
You might be referring to some other law than GDPR? I was referring to the GDPR as pointed out in my comment. There even is a GDPR recital that explicitly states: "[...] The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may
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by starbugs 3y ago
> The sad part is that nobody in IT really complain nor tell them that it is creepy. Which may be because if you do, you will typically be called the "technical person" who "doesn't understand anything about 'nor
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by starbugs 3y ago
> [...] but if you're linking one page request to another by the identity of the browser that is requesting them, then that is crossing the line. Just out of curiosity: That would be crossing a line, because it might be potentially
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by starbugs 3y ago
A cookie used solely for counting anonymous visits without storing individual identifiers generally wouldn't be considered personally identifiable information under GDPR. At least that's what I was told. Having said that, this is
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by starbugs 3y ago
Your opinion is comprehensible from a user's standpoint. Once you have worked a while in business or marketing, you will see that it's not that easy unfortunately. There's a lot of pressure to provide certain numbers or at le
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by starbugs 3y ago
It doesn't matter what method you use. Saving the information on the user's device and making them potentially identifiable is what counts.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I was referring to the grey area of legitimate interest in the law and how I was briefed to interpret it ca. 2021. Things may have moved on and I am not a lawyer. You might be right and what the lawyers told me back then isn't true or
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by starbugs 3y ago
The cookie for saving the preference is technically required. Hence, it doesn't need consent.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I'd like to point out that I answered the question even if not using cookies is not an option. But to elaborate a bit: At least in Germany (and I believe this applies more or less everywhere) if you install a 1st-party tracking method
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by starbugs 3y ago
The question always is whether there's a negative consequence outweighing the "positive" incentive of trying to increase favorable consent decisions by using dark patterns. I had the pleasure to learn a lot about this while w
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by starbugs 3y ago
The best thing one can do is not use cookies -> no need for a consent banner. If that's not an option, the next best thing is to have an overlay that is as honest as possible and most importantly provides not only an "Accept al
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You can't control your data in the cloud(karl-voit.at)
85 points by starbugs 3y ago|35 comments
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by starbugs 3y ago
That's the only thing I am using it for and I'd prefer if it stays that way.
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by starbugs 3y ago
This title in particular encourages sharing the article out of context, because it is a bit sensational. That's why the title is so important. If an article is aimed at a particular audience only and could be misunderstood otherwise, t
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by starbugs 3y ago
I have seen many instances where people just out of habbit factor out a lot of linear code that will never be reused into separate functions. These pieces of code then often end up being private functions of a class. With state. Since they
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by starbugs 3y ago
The author qualifies this statement towards the end of the article where he also provides a short review of a few studies: > My personal view is this: If you view the current generation of LLMs as pioneering efforts in a long-term resear
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by starbugs 3y ago
So I did my first part in trying to support everyone who dislikes this as much as I do. I cancelled my Prime and I will try to not purchase anything from Amazon for a year. It's not much, but it's something. I invite everyone to d
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by starbugs 3y ago
Brave
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by starbugs 3y ago
This appears to be the same as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427227 Top comment on that one was: Key actionable info: to fix this, go to this URL: chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn
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by starbugs 3y ago
Clickbait title gets criticism, because it makes bold claims drawing the attention of people who when reading the article find that their time was unfairly wasted, because said claims are a pile of ... Excuse my French.

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