miken123

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by miken123 3mo ago
> As a small developer, the cost to support something like this would be so overwhelming I wouldn’t consider supporting the EU officially. As a small developer, you wouldn't fall under the DMA.
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by miken123 6mo ago
> So far, the only sin archive.today has been accused of is retaliating against a guy attempting to dox them. I think you're missing that circumventing paywalls is unlawful in most parts of the world.
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by miken123 10mo ago
It is mentioned in their list of subprocessors: https://www.digitalocean.com/trust/subprocessors
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by miken123 1y ago
Because these companies never lose data, like during some lightning strikes, oh wait: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33989384 As a government you should not be putting your stuff in an environment under control of
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by miken123 2y ago
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Also, I don’t think that the parent comment was being serious.
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by miken123 2y ago
Many reasons: - They are not asking for consent, there is just an ok button. - They assume consent when you navigate further on the site, this is not valid consent. - Consent needs to be for specific, well defined purposes. “help personaliz
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by miken123 2y ago
Lovely that their blog with privacy propaganda has a cookie banner that is not compliant with any privacy law in any way. Says everything about their efforts, I guess.
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by miken123 2y ago
> Imagine 2007 and the following years already with the EU act in full effect. AppStore would be dead on arrival. No, it wouldn't have been, as the DMA only applies to 'gatekeepers' and if you're new, you're simp
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by miken123 2y ago
> Hotels are concerned that direct booking clicks are down as much as 30% since our compliance changes were implemented. These businesses now have to connect with customers via a handful of intermediaries that typically charge large comm
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by miken123 3y ago
Except that, you can actually disable them. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
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by miken123 3y ago
You're talking about the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will come into effect in the EU in about two weeks. It does exactly what you say, although Apple is still actively trying to sabotage it with a sloppy implementation. Hopefully t
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by miken123 3y ago
> A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn't have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa In the Netherlands we have BKR, which is less all-encompassing than SCHUFA, but also
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by miken123 3y ago
There is nothing in there about retroactively applying laws. If there is anything, it may be that the laws were(/are) unclear. The Irish DPC states they never approved anything (but there has been discussions between various European d
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by miken123 3y ago
It's great that you have a non-publicly available newsletter as a source, but if you read the DPC item [1] you'll see that it's just about the GDPR. What Ben probably does not understand, is that the fine is not about the TOS
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by miken123 3y ago
> Yeah, especially when in the case of the fine for consent about personal ads, the fine was for violations before the law was in place. Do you have any source for that, or are you just making up things on the spot here? (I can help you,
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by miken123 3y ago
But is it an optimisation to send the SVG contents in every request, instead of just letter the browser cache the image?
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by miken123 3y ago
> I could sell an app in the EU that just pinged my server once a day. As long as I wasn't keeping a record of who pinged what when, there is no PII. Data processing is not just about 'keeping a record'. Processing even fo
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by miken123 3y ago
> Anomyous telemetry is not PII. GDPR is personal data. How are you exactly going to submit it anonymously? Will it connect over Tor? Because if you just send it over your internet connection, it arrives with your IP address on the packe
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by miken123 3y ago
Expect 50 to 200% price increases within a year or so, it is what TWS has been doing with all hosting parties they acquired. For example, PCExtreme had simple dynamic hosting for 1.95 EUR/month before acquisition [1]. Current pricing a
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by miken123 4y ago
https://status.phoneburner.com/incidents/q55r8f62p437 I guess it was taken care of. > Our system is currently down due to upstream telephone carrier issues
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by miken123 4y ago
That's Max Schrems, founder of noyb, the NGO that filed the complaints. An image caption would have been useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
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by miken123 4y ago
A bonded/teamed interface usually load balanced based on a flow. Thus, over a single TCP flow you will only use one of the interfaces. On top of that MPTCP also offers advantages when it comes to handover in mobile networks: if your IP
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by miken123 4y ago
> even just asleep is fine, for a laptop Except that Windows never-ever-ever reliably sleeps. There is always something, some program, some driver, whatever, waking it up from sleep.
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by miken123 4y ago
> Unfortunately, the law treats negotiations between actual peers and large companies "negotiating" with individual customers the same way--it'd be hard to delineate distinct classes of actors that can and cannot enter int
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by miken123 5y ago
> What actual law, that they recognize, are they breaking? The current ICJ court case is about the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was signed and ratified by both parties. If that is proven, th
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by miken123 5y ago
I believe the webinterface signs with the icloud.com domain and not your own. Happy for you to update the article, no need for credits.
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by miken123 5y ago
I would say another main issue is that while they ask you to setup DKIM records, they do not actually DKIM-sign your emails. Hence your mails may be more easily flagged as spam. Several people have reported this to Apple, but AFAIK it still
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by miken123 5y ago
When you cancel GSuite you can enable Cloud Identity Free. That will keep all your accounts, just the GSuite functionality will be dropped. At least that was the way it worked a while ago.
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by miken123 5y ago
Well, the narrative is sort of what Amazon is asking for, heh? The whole us-east-1 management console is gone, what is Amazon posting for the management console on their website? "Service degradation" It's not a degradation i
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