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by warpspin 6y ago
Wow, thanks. There's the level of support I wish to have from some commercial software providers :D
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by warpspin 6y ago
I really liked the idea, but the layout jumping during initial page load (used the Firefox version) was really annoying me so much, I had to deactivate it again.
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by warpspin 6y ago
Yes, it is a totally plausible mistake. The fault was "only" ignoring it after it was reported.
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by warpspin 6y ago
I guess I might be one of the few people here who actually have been regulated under the GDPR by a supervising authority. When that happens, you have to do insanely stupid seeming stuff like explaining in your privacy policy even, why your
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by warpspin 6y ago
It's not as simple as that. Art. 4 GDPR (1) clearly makes the (ip-address, visited domain) tuple personal data Art. 4 GDPR (2) defines "processing" data, and the pure "collecting" of data, even if immediately thrown
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by warpspin 6y ago
This was not about search results, where their favicon webservice is in fact privacy increasing, but about the privacy browser and the favicons it displays, where it is privacy decreasing as it involved sending information about visited sit
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by warpspin 6y ago
I think what angered people was actually that a company saying to hold privacy high was simply refusing to change something after a mistake was pointed out and instead kept on defending it with a technical argument, which makes no sense at
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by warpspin 6y ago
If it is an unnecessary request to another service, yes. IP-adddresses are considered personally identifying information. TCP requests transmit IP addresses. Under the strict interpretation of the GDPR, a lot of things which are common outs
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by warpspin 6y ago
You are completely right about the not "freely given" aspect. But well, it already breaks down at the "informed" aspect. Their appstore pages link to the generic privacy policy of the company instead of for the browser s
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by warpspin 6y ago
In fact I think what they do here is illegal by GDPR. It does not matter that they say they do not collect the information, it is enough it is unnecessarily sent to their servers to make the whole function illegal. The transmission of ip ad
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by warpspin 6y ago
I liked what I saw but would hugely favor an on-premises service or even better, a client which could properly do this stuff over IMAP and maybe syncs the things like notes over WebDAV.
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by warpspin 6y ago
All that curation stuff is hugely overrated. I simply want content. If I need curation, I'll check the movies on IMDB first.
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by warpspin 6y ago
I can sympathize with that. Actually I miss the times where you could just drop a script into your project and have it work and still change it if necessary without having 40MB of build time dependencies.
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by warpspin 6y ago
Halfway correctly ;-) There were a handful of pointers to the routines to use for BASIC execution in RAM starting at address $300, which could be pointed elsewhere for BASIC extenders or to redirect IRQs. Apart from that, most syscall addre
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by warpspin 6y ago
See, regarding the issue at hand, you are most probably right. It is anecdotal as I already said, and especially, simply far too early to judge "permanent" damage. Even with Sars 1, while there are minor lasting damages reported t
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by warpspin 6y ago
> This is completely contradictory. You should stop reading fake news or social media reports The report he linked was Italian state media (quoting Austrian doctors). Not exactly well known for "fake news". The report is anecdo
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by warpspin 7y ago
> (i.e. their action was "correct" but not "correct enough") because their neighboring countries (e.g. Germany - not technically a neighbor but within Schengen Zone) failed to act. The Italian cluster most likely stem
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by warpspin 7y ago
Always hated checked exceptions because there seems the basic assumption underlying them, that exceptions can usually be handled as near to the code throwing it as possible, while in every real world project I ever was involved in, 90% of t
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by warpspin 7y ago
> (Ex. manufacturing moving back to home from China, and maybe lights out manufacturing). Badly chosen example, though. Looks like a case which can be handled through configuration alone in SAP ;-) In general, automated physical processe
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by warpspin 7y ago
Configuration IS typically called customization in SAP. "The Customizing" is SAP speech for the sum of all configuration settings and it IS DEFINED THAT WAY IN THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION, even in the english version (the differenc
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by warpspin 7y ago
While I share your general notion that companies better adjust to the process of SAP, I still want to comment on the "impossible to upgrade" part, as that is simply not true. First off, in SAP speech, "customization" is
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by warpspin 7y ago
Regarding the second question, it is not comparable at all. ERPs are still "standard" software, despite what the article implies. The difficulty is not so much on the software side, but on getting the software actually agree with
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by warpspin 7y ago
A bit unfair. In fact most of the SAP books unfortunately are a waste of money because 99% of the content just repeats the help on their webpage. If there is something I would complain about, it is that their help pages are a convoluted mes
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by warpspin 7y ago
Accidental Empires is probably THE classic, absolutely worth a read. I also enjoyed "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik and "Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows
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by warpspin 7y ago
A pity it does not support at least once or exactly once delivery for the Vector sink. Also, the documentation seems to miss information about which sinks support TLS? We're currently looking for a distributed-over-the-internet logging
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by warpspin 7y ago
Worst practice? Seems to be a pretty standard website ;-)
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by warpspin 7y ago
The hardest thing in IT is naming things :D
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by warpspin 7y ago
Where's the exact source for the 50 degrees theory? I've head of a domino effect for 5 degrees, but never for 50. Or has this just been a typo?
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by warpspin 7y ago
After reading the article, I still do not know what is actually meant by "legalizing" gangs. Exactly in which way was the mere existence of a gang, compared to maybe the crimes it did perform, illegal before in Ecuador? The only s
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by warpspin 8y ago
I'd happily license more (web)fonts if more of them would be available with perpetual licenses without display volume licensing. At the moment, I'm basically required to include traffic trackers for many of the best fonts.

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