SomeGermanGuy

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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
The law was made public two years ago, to give companies time to get compliant. It actually goes into effect next friday.
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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
Because nobody gave a duck, because there was no fine (or they were laughable). Now that we have a single law for a 500 million customer market with a substantial fine, things start to shift to the better.
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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
> we need to agree that the bulk of the last 20 years of startups business models are broken I agree. If a startup is build on selling my data, I am more willing to pay a fee then to have them sell my data. If we could go back to WhatsAp
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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
What does competitors stop doing that now? No business is 100% compliant in any law. If they want they can just for the sake of it bury you in legal work already. See Google vs Oracle. Apple vs Google.
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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
I have the same experience. All those forgotten accounts. Now I can just go on and delete them. Super basic stuff.
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by SomeGermanGuy 8y ago
Thanks for this article. I wholeheartedly support your stance of: > In that case please shut down or do not serve EU customers
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by SomeGermanGuy 9y ago
For the last few years I have been a big fan of the Motorola smartphones. I just bought a Moto G5 Plus. Basically has everything you wish for, but the removable battery. It is nearly stock Android and has a good mix of specs. I have everyth
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by SomeGermanGuy 9y ago
Input a picture and a song and create a gif/video... That would be crazy great.
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by SomeGermanGuy 10y ago
It is not allowed to listen to radio transmissions you aren't the destination of in Germany and apperently in the UK. So listening to policeradio, AirTrafficControl or anything similar is prohibited by law. https://forums.li
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by SomeGermanGuy 10y ago
There is a open source alternative: https://www.nsupdate.info You can roll your own or just use the one they setup. https://github.com/nsupdate-info/nsupdate.info The project is well maintained and they foc
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by SomeGermanGuy 11y ago
These are very good points here.
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by SomeGermanGuy 11y ago
This looks great, I will try it when I switch to letsencrypt.
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by SomeGermanGuy 11y ago
Isn't it either way best practise to better be sorry than to be safe? So the second approach is as far as I can see favoured by the community, because it declutters the code and keeps it simple.
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Asshole Driven Development and others (2007)(scottberkun.com)
8 points by SomeGermanGuy 11y ago|1 comments