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by stiray 6y ago
Foreplay: I know that you don't like what you read but this is a diction of GDPR, so before you start down-voting, please - Rec.74; Art.24 and read [1]) as the "entity" that obtained the data. Let me shed some light. Facebook
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by stiray 6y ago
The issue is that Firefox HAS created a new rendering engine, but people don't switch. It has nothing to do with technology, people wont even try to switch. Some for fanboyism, some because they would have to adapt, some don't eve
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by stiray 6y ago
Lets do things in some proper order: Dismantle google to smaller companies and separate all the parts (from android, search engine to google earth) away from advertising part. Prevent them from sharing data. Dismantle facebook. Separate it
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A Lifehack – Stop Inventing Words(grantainsley.com)
2 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
The idea to have something like this is great but I would love to see an implementation that would be done as a single binary with no dependencies (like ruby) and as lightweight as possible. Download, run, configure something and use it.
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by stiray 6y ago
Due to cache abuse I have all caching disabled on firefox and this is a nice move (even if I will continue to use it without cache). Anyway one more thing that I can observe on Ubuntu 20.04. Firefox has become noticeably faster. I dont know
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by stiray 6y ago
Exactly. And SEO optimized garbage is already what we get currently.
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by stiray 6y ago
> way too serious bunch of ideological zombies ranting into microphones at the Student's Union about the latest crimes against humanity perpetrated by 'Thatcher' Just to inform you. Reagan and Thatcher have literally f* up
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by stiray 6y ago
An interesting debate: - Democratically elected government of a sovereign country decides to regulate its market. - An foreign entity is trying to blackmail the government to listen to non Australian entity how they should have their market
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GDPR: 150M euros in fines and 331 breach notifications per day in 2020(dlapiper.com)
2 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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BMW is going all-in on in-car microtransactions(theverge.com)
2 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
This is whitepaper, it is not implementation of closed source application. Let me explain how this works in PR world. You publish (with all the bells and whistles) that you have end to end encryption and explain protocol that uses asymmetri
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by stiray 6y ago
If you are trusting facebook in any matter, you are misunderstanding something. Whatever they say, they have the keys to decrypt it. It is like trusting the thief to guard your house. I dislike this "ZuccNet" as the real goal shou
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by stiray 6y ago
I have noticed this article during the "Parkinson's law of triviality"[1] meeting (within phase where technical guys are typically silent) and almost started laughing when someone asked about "over the thumb effort estim
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by stiray 6y ago
> I got my higher education for free. I expect to save nothing for my children or their education. I expect to have to put aside very little for retirement. Exactly this. European social democracy allows people to have relatively calm l
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Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (hoax, 1997)(anzon.it)
3 points by stiray 6y ago|0 comments
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by stiray 6y ago
> In some countries, you're almost applauded if you manage to screw over your boss / company, by simply getting paid without doing much at all. For many, it's the dream situation - to just clock in at work, do nothing, get
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by stiray 6y ago
I am sorry but this seems like a conflict of interest. Googlers are earning most of their paycheck from spying on people. This is a fact. And everything about google is moving into direction of earning even more - stock owners demand it and
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by stiray 6y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean. He means this on a global scale: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18595347 And they were (are) using only User-Agent. Now imagine that google calculates some "wealth"
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by stiray 6y ago
You dont need to, I got myself cosmo communicator[1] and running linux (but still waiting for them to support camera to stop using the android phone completely). I am sick of androoogle ecosystem and touch keyboards :) [1] https:/&#x2F
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by stiray 6y ago
For me hackers keyboard is still far best keyboard found, the only thing that annoys me is that it has no smileys button, for everything else it fits great. I use ssh a lot and all the suggestions and other bells and whistles of other keybo
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by stiray 6y ago
> How does this data sharing fit in with GDPR in EU? It actually doesn't fit at all. As long as "payment" for usage is based on agreement to share personal data it is illegally obtained consent. Either they are ignoring th
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by stiray 6y ago
Just a small detail about cryptographic hash: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natu
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by stiray 6y ago
Beautiful :D https://www.ioccc.org/2020/tsoj/prog.c
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by stiray 6y ago
Sure, I have never argued with that. Meanwhile (since 2012) Trump happened, race unrest's, police brutality, corona handling fiasco, Google/FB/Amazon public image is going down, USA public depth has roughly doubled [1] and ge
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by stiray 6y ago
You have actually addressed the actual issue here but from wrong perspective. Culture is the issue here. EU tries to live, USA tries to earn. If the only thing that interests you is money then yes, probably USA is the right direction. Of al
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by stiray 6y ago
> is just how easy it is to create bureaucracy-intense workflows in JIRA and make management believe these are absolutely necessary Omg, finally someone has said it, I thought I was weird. This is the imperative problem with JIRA, it is
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by stiray 6y ago
> using Facebook and entering into a contract with Facebook is optional It just doesn't work this way (please search for implications bellow, it was nuked during the USA daylight by people who think that lowering the visibility will
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by stiray 6y ago
It looks like Austrian court didn't do their homework. An interesting quote from GDPR authors: (This is quote from official document. It wasn't written by me and no down-voting will change it (but it will potentially hurt people b
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by stiray 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't notice it, thank you for reminder, I have added manual breaks.

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