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by wlll 8y ago
I haven't signed up for an account or given them any data (and specifically made sure that I don't share usage or diagnostic data with them). They are a German company very much covered by GDPR, so I think it's relatively saf
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by wlll 8y ago
Back in 2000 people used to do this sometimes (but with jpegs). Exports from MS Publisher seemed to the worst culprit. They used image maps for navigation ( https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_map.asp ). edit Clearly
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by wlll 8y ago
The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive. My experience of the web is abo
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by wlll 8y ago
I feel like the GDPR is working for me to help prevent companies treating my data like it belongs to them. I guess I'll have to check under the bed for my missing billions. > Also with targeted ads you don't have to hear/r
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by wlll 8y ago
No, if you say you need the information for tax purposes (say) then the user will complain to the data protection authorities. These authorities will then accept or reject the complaint, and if accepted will help you to come into compliance
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by wlll 8y ago
update books set total_sales = total_sales+1;
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by wlll 8y ago
> Thank you for saying this, another thing that is ridiculously difficult is to delete specific user from all your backups. You have to do very little if you're keeping backups for less than month, simply delete from the DB and wait
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by wlll 8y ago
You have a month to delete data under GDPR: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... I'd suggest this is a reasonable safety/compliance balance.
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by wlll 8y ago
You think you're being funny, but it took silicon valley to invent a machine to press juice of proprietary only bags of pre-chopped fruit, so I think you look rather foolish now!
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by wlll 8y ago
This may well be harder to get right than just deleting the data. Just as in the saying (and this is a terrible paraphrase) goes: "Anyone can design a lock that they themselves can't pick" If you think you have anonymi
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by wlll 8y ago
Yep, you have one month. If you are storing backups for longer than this then perhaps you have to ask yourself why. For instance, the last company I worked for deliberately didn't keep database backups past 30 days and had that policy
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by wlll 8y ago
Half a world, but only 100ms.
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by wlll 8y ago
> if yoi tell me your birthday how can i forget it? That's not really relevant. GDPR doesn't ask people to forget things out of their minds . So let's rephrase to a more relevant example: > if yoi provide me your bir
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by wlll 8y ago
> At what point does one's right to be forgotten supersede another's right to remember? > > If Alice knows something about Bob because of their personal interactions, as he asks her to forget about it, but she still reme
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by wlll 8y ago
GDPR is happening because for the last several (10s?) of years companies have been playing fast and loose with people's data. They've had their chance and they've blown it fairly comprehensively. The people (by and large gove
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by wlll 8y ago
I feel like starting from scratch GDPR really isn't that hard to handle. If your business is based around exploiting user data however it might be a lot harder, but then that's the point of GDPR, to prevent people exploiting user
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by wlll 8y ago
Perhaps someone could link an article about why these (IMO relatively trivial) design ideas are even patentable? Well before the iPhone 1 existed I had a phone with apps (or what passed for them back in the day) in a grid on the home screen
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by wlll 8y ago
This: > Apple’s design patents -- covering the rounded corners of its phones, the rim that surrounds the front face, and the grid of icons that users view is bullshit. It's either implementation details, or design I've seen on
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by wlll 8y ago
I haven't butt-dialled anyone since I got swipe to unlock on my iPhone. A 6 digit unlock code/fingerprint would make it seem even less likely to happen again.
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by wlll 8y ago
> Data Protection Officer He doesn't need one > Crashes So don't send the users IP with the crash report? > Push I don't know enough about this, but: "APNS push tokens are associated with devices which can be tr
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by wlll 8y ago
I did an Amazon search for "biodegradable bin bags" and it turned up some stuff that seemed to be relevant here.
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by wlll 8y ago
I've always wondered if that was a realistic way of taking a drone down, it seems the risk to the birds from the spinning propellers would be substantial.
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by wlll 8y ago
I just started using Jupyter a couple of days ago as I'm starting to learn ML. I'm really impressed by it. Would love something similar for Ruby.
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by wlll 8y ago
May be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669131
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by wlll 8y ago
It's based on context. So something like a scale that makes sense when going about your average human business. For instance, the sun is 150 million miles from the sun. It's not, it's slightly less, but for "normal"
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by wlll 8y ago
> him I think we're probably talking about national chains here. I would imagine stores will use the loyalty cards to profile users, and if they've every stored any of the profiling data then this data will be the data you will
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by wlll 8y ago
It's a sphere in human scale.
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by wlll 8y ago
I thought that initially, but then I considered that for users to be bulk unsubscribed then the link would surely have to be the same for every user, at which point the each user gets the same unsubscribe link, and then when they click on i
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by wlll 9y ago
> The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors. The invisible work force!
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by wlll 9y ago
Right. What I'm saying is that people seem to be shoving "passion" into places where it doesn't belong, so to speak, as a way of reducing compensation.

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