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by vman81 2y ago
I really don't want to be snarky or sarcastic, so I'll just be plain. Many people are unwilling or unable to understand a problem that doesn't affect them directly. Like - "UTF is woke" kind of people. They are ou
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by vman81 2y ago
Computing has improved massively over the last 50 years, not least because it now can accommodate peoples diverse languages.
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by vman81 2y ago
Jones' lawyers at one point forwarded a full phone dump of Jones' phone by accident to opposing council. They of course notified Jones' lawyers immediately to ask if this was a mistake that they should delete/disregard,
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by vman81 2y ago
That may result in is icloud account being locked out, apparently. I'm sure he can take them to court over that, but losing access to your files and services for an indeterminite amount of time is a big deal for most people.
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by vman81 2y ago
If I didn't have manpages or the option to google I'd probably just use head or tail after doing 'wc -l' to determine line count. head filename -n `wc -l filename`
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by vman81 2y ago
> The GDPR is specific that consent must be as 'easy to withdraw as to give' We all know what it means, but it isn't specific enough. "Single click no" or something to that effect. And don't get me started
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by vman81 2y ago
Hey, as long as they don't have those dark pattern cookie consent forms, I'm a happy camper. The EU should really have specified that accept all/decline all should be a top level choice instead of "Accept all" wit
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by vman81 2y ago
XKCD did a flowchart version of this: https://xkcd.com/1688/
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by vman81 2y ago
This doesn't make "food" more expensive. It makes specific food options more expensive. The options that tax the environment deserve to be taxed.
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by vman81 3y ago
> It's actually a bit ironic to ask visitors if it's ok to track them. If they say no, you have to track them to at least remember that choice. Not really - basic functionality like you describe does not require consent, AND an
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by vman81 3y ago
RHEL 9 should give you a guranteed X11 experience until 2032 at least.
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by vman81 3y ago
> I downloaded the latest Apache OpenOffice and it did open the file The last decade of Apache OpenOffice can VERY generously be described as "maintenance mode". Most of the pull requests are grammar and dictionary tweaks.
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by vman81 3y ago
What if a manufacturer produces a tool, like a screwdriver that is shaped exactly like brass knuckles? Or some sort of similar extremely obvious dual use widget where the illegal use is readily apparent? I'm arguing that it's not
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by vman81 3y ago
I'm reading that to mean a disaster like the Brandenburg airport in Berlin
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by vman81 3y ago
You can keep a copy of every track of music on spotify on a single 4U server, 20 drives or so. That's ~100TB, assuming 5MB per track. Every movie or tv show episode is another couple of PB in 720p or so. Extrapolate the last 20 years
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by vman81 3y ago
Ahoy did a really good deep dive into what should count as the first video game on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc
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by vman81 3y ago
Anecdotally, I did. At least, I am no longer buying 400L of oil for my furnace every month, and our cars are cheap(ish) EVs. So at least for direct oil usage I went to zero.
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by vman81 3y ago
> which the UE considers to be incompatible with privacy guarantees. Well, the whole "global jurisdiction" is iffy for the rest of the world.
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by vman81 3y ago
> Andrew Tate was the most internet famous person for a period of time I think this may just be your recommendation bubble - most people only heard about him when he was arrested.
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by vman81 4y ago
As with all poisons, it's a question of concentration. Greed and nationalism are bad, in the same way that eating a kg of table salt is bad. That doesn't mean that salt in and of itself is bad.
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by vman81 4y ago
The analysis also seems to show it veers to one side of the liberterian/authoritarian spectrum. Excellent. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner 2006
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by vman81 4y ago
Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect If a market like the EU requires you to set-up specific capabilities to be GDPR compliant, like data export and opt-in flows for cookies, it is often cheap
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by vman81 4y ago
There are also legit use cases for leaving all your doors unlocked. But they usually aren't really worth considering when you are installing your doors/locks.
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by vman81 5y ago
If you just stop assuming anything it works pretty well. High grade pricey cables or TB cables with PD in the backpack, always. That's half the problem. The fact that I can charge 90% of the devices in my house with my PD charger is wo
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by vman81 5y ago
> They overthrew a functional government in Libya That's not really an argument in itself tho.
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by vman81 5y ago
Well, is Adsense GDPR compliant?
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by vman81 5y ago
You are free to share any data with Google that you wish. Google is however not free to take said data from users without explicit consent.
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by vman81 6y ago
Seems like they placed the controller right under where the left shift button is on ISO layout, so no, not without some significant redesign.
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by vman81 7y ago
A 10cm3 cube of neutron star would weigh about a billion tonnes, comparable to a cubic km of water ice. I wonder how all that mass would behave if left to expand with all the exotic physics involved - if it would just sort of... vaporize t
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by vman81 7y ago
> We tried to breach the paywalls of the publishers listed using Chrome’s current browser (v. 75), in Incognito Mode. Without fail, the websites detected the intrusion attempt and prevented access to the content. Intrusion attempt? Excus

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