janosd

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by janosd 2y ago
AFAIK it's not enough to write it in your privacy policy. Art 21 of the GDPR makes this explicit: > (4) At the latest at the time of the first communication with the data subject, the right referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be
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by janosd 2y ago
I'd say unlikely, games do a lot of work within graphics cards that are not as easily dumpable/restorable as memory.
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by janosd 2y ago
Precisely zero sites have a legal obligation to post a cookie notice under the GDPR/ePrivacy directive if all they do is use cookies for technically necessary purposes. If they want to track people on the other hand, that's a diff
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by janosd 2y ago
After having written probably over 100k lines of Go code, my impression is that Go is simple, but not easy. The language has very few features to learn, but that results in a lot of boilerplate code and there are more than a few footguns bu
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Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
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by janosd 3y ago
If you do, you can use the application as a library and most of your code will also be easier to test.
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by janosd 3y ago
I'm torn because on the one hand, having a large gap after only 1.5 years of employment is a bit of a red flag. On the other hand, you do want to stand out. So let's put the first one aside for a moment. If I were looking at your
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by janosd 3y ago
No. The cookie banners have nothing to do with cookies per se, they are a consent / information popup required if companies want to store and use personal data beyond what's required to serve you with the website content (GDPR) or
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by janosd 3y ago
There was a discussion on the BabylonJS forums back in August about this. [1] TL;DR the GPU may now be available, but having to download several gigabytes of assets to download and sit in your browser cache may be a bit problematic. Also, t
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by janosd 3y ago
Corrupt politicians win elections in non-GDPR countries a whole lot too, unfortunately. I'm no political scientist, but I think it has a lot to do with people being unwilling to learn about and engage with the political system, among o
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by janosd 3y ago
Which would be covered by point 3 in my post. Also, the GDPR is not the only law that can have international ramifications.
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by janosd 3y ago
The page is broken in several places in Firefox Mobile. One more point to add: if you sre collecting the details of EU residents, read up on and obey the GDPR, otherwise it may get very expensive. This goes way beyond just not sending spam,
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by janosd 3y ago
Even if you can justify something with legitimate interest, which is a huge if, the data subject must be informed and have the option to object.
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by janosd 3y ago
Obligatory warning: check your local laws regarding dashcams. They are not legal everywhere and some countries impose very severe fines on using them.
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by janosd 3y ago
My wife and I started learning game development a year ago after 15-ish years in the software industry. UE is one of our main drivers. It is probably the hardest to learn when compared to Unity or Godot, but you also have some insane capabi
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by janosd 3y ago
I got banned directly after signup. I got an email 1 second after signing up that I violated the community guidelines. The algorithm didn't like my Firefox/uBlock Origin combo I guess. Now my phone number is tainted and I can&#x27
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by janosd 3y ago
A bunch of this stuff you have to do anyway if you want to be GDPR compliant. It's unfortunately not as easy to launch a new service these days as it used to be. But maybe that's not a bad thing given how much data we are being as
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by janosd 3y ago
I assume you are interested in the Letsencrypt part. Basically, I'm running an Ansible script on my computer, which creates an account key, the server key and requests a certificate. The server key and the certificate are then distribu
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by janosd 3y ago
I find it really sad that these efforts always stop at working in language X, but no formal specification exists that would make it possible to create an interoperable version in a different language. I love TypeScript, but for various reas
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by janosd 3y ago
Go is a weird mix. It doesn't even let you create an unused variables, but happily lets you ignore errors or return variables. That makes no sense and is on Go, not on the admittedly quite excellent tooling provided by people who are n
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by janosd 3y ago
Go's error handling is a horrible mess: 1. It's easy to ignore returned errors without any compiler warnings. You have to rely on third party tools such as golangci-lint to report missing error handling. 2. Errors don't carry
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by janosd 3y ago
Because it's not just about cookies. There are two laws at play, the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive. It's a mix of cookies, local storage, allowing the browser to load third party tracking scripts after information/consent,
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by janosd 3y ago
Right now, 90-ish, but I used to have many more. Lately, I'm religiously deleting accounts (which I finally am able to, thanks to GDPR).
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by janosd 3y ago
I can still remember the horrors of page state. The server would keep track of what the client has and only send HTML fragments to the client. Early-days ASP, Prado and the likes did this and it was a terrible idea. HTMX sounds very much li
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by janosd 3y ago
At Red Hat, it was. The culture was such, for the most part, that you never had to be worried about getting fired unless you really badly messed up. People felt safe. Many said that Red Hat would never do layoffs. There were many boomerangs
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by janosd 3y ago
DNT died the moment Microsoft decided to enable it by default in IE10. That was more than half a decade before the GDPR.
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by janosd 3y ago
You may be able to argue a GDPR Art. 6 lit 1b (necessary to perform a contract) or a 1f (legitimate interest) reason to track, but you will need to, at the very least, inform the user. Storing data on the user's device (cookies, local
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by janosd 3y ago
IANAL, but this is not entirely correct. For example, if you have server logs, that's processing personal information, most likely under GDPR Art. 6 lit 1f (legitimate interest). Under Art 13 the user must be informed of this. Because
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by janosd 4y ago
Microsoft is in a difficult position here. Just taking the GDPR, they are presumably the data controller and they are passing on potentially personally identifiable information to OSM without a data processing agreement. They are vulnerable
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by janosd 4y ago
All of these are US companies, in which case the GDPR explicitly states that I need to have additional contractual clauses to transfer the data to the US, which would be nice to avoid. Furthermore, recent court decisions have stated that I,

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