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by pieno 4y ago
You have to click on one of the links to find out what this actually does in addition to Cloudflare’s 1^4 DNS server: > Enter our own WireGuard implementation called BoringTun. The WARP application uses BoringTun to encrypt all the traff
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by pieno 4y ago
> The absolute, invariable first rule in tech writing is to know your audience. While that’s definitely true for tech writing generally, I feel it’s usually not the best advice for someone wanting to improve their technical writing. Tech
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by pieno 4y ago
Totally agreed! It’s a bit ambiguous, but the Apple App Store guidelines seem to require you to be able to opt-out from marketing push notifications, while still keeping other notifications. From guideline 4.5.4: “Push Notifications should
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by pieno 4y ago
> Also, subscribe to a channel, get recommended their entire repertoire of the last decade. I have stopped subscribing, and I'm actively unsubscribing from most channels except the very small ones that post twice a year and I don&#x
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by pieno 4y ago
This was indeed a very deliberate choice by Google, and they have been blogging about it since at least 2011[0]. There are quite some blog posts by Google and others discussing the evolution in online maps from the high contrast design focu
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by pieno 5y ago
This is pretty common in Europe. This may be different because regulation is usually a lot more flexible here regarding car lights (e.g. adaptive headlights) than in the US (although I understand the US is catching up, and there are obvious
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by pieno 5y ago
I think it’s actually the kind of simplistic analysis you are referring to that got us into this mess. If we would have put a bit more belief in the epidemic models and acted accordingly from the beginning, we would be a lot better off righ
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by pieno 5y ago
Wirecutter is owned by the New York Times Company and explicitly says they don’t get paid by manufacturers (except through affiliate links to Amazon) and recommendations are purely based on editorial testing. NYTCo really can’t afford to li
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by pieno 5y ago
Looks like an interesting project! But I feel like you are asking your users to put a lot of confidence in you to take everything you’re saying for granted. I’m not implying bad faith here, but privacy conscious people typically like to see
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by pieno 5y ago
> Accessing material that has been deemed illegal enough to be the subject of a country-wide block is generally going to be a criminal offense. That’s not the issue discussed here, I think. We’re not talking about someone circumventing c
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by pieno 5y ago
It’s actually exactly the other way around: countries don’t comply with other countries’ copyrights, but they must offer the same level of protection to authors of works created abroad as they give to authors of works created locally (I.e.
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by pieno 5y ago
I’d take this one step further: the whole system in Europe is designed to keep everyone at “average” wages across the board. Due to the (extremely steep) progressive tax system, there’s a lot of friction in (serious) pay raises. Why give so
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by pieno 5y ago
> Game of Thrones* has shown hollywood that there is an appetite for epic storytelling, and that people are willing to sit through 7 season of shows to be entertained by an engaging story. I really want to believe this, but I’m afraid Ho
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by pieno 5y ago
Buying only 25% sounds good from Notion’s perspective but is absolutely the worst possible deal for Automate’s shareholders. The value of the remaining 75% Automate shares would tank after that deal because Notion basically owns you with th
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by pieno 5y ago
I feel like they keep falling for the centralisation/decentralisation pendulum trap, which goes like this: 1. Teams in the organisation create some good products that solve specific discrete requirements, such as an email client, a doc
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by pieno 5y ago
I think a lot of sites are conflating cookie consent and GDPR consent. You only need GDPR consent when processing personal data, so you don’t need consent just for storing settings in a cookie (as long as those settings do not contain perso
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by pieno 5y ago
What a dystopian world we live in when people/companies can just plainly and publicly say that they don’t agree and won’t comply with a binding law with supervision mechanisms and penalties, and still have the general public believe t
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by pieno 5y ago
But why ask for consent right away when someone just visits your website for the first time? Imagine that you walk into a shop and the owner starts harassing you right away, blocking your path and your view and nagging you whether you conse
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by pieno 5y ago
That’s actually the entire point: this should not be standardised. That would make it useless. The purpose of GDPR is that, in principle, you need consent to process personal data. The consent must be specific both in terms of what data i
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by pieno 5y ago
I really don’t think Apple is consciously allowing these apps because they get profit either way. They’re very well aware that the long term success and profits of the App Store and the Apple ecosystem are based on users’ trust and friction
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by pieno 5y ago
The maintenance service is not checking for updates. It is still Firefox itself that checks for updates, but instead of launching the updater.exe (which triggers the UAC dialog), Firefox will start the maintenance service and tell the servi
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by pieno 5y ago
That’s the right to full erasure. Revoking consent for processing your data for marketing purposes should be possible at any time and as easy as giving consent: “The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any ti
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by pieno 5y ago
No, the underlying issue is the US DMCA assuming that a takedown claimant holds valid copyright until disputed by the alleged copyright infringer, and absolutely zero real risk of liability for invalid takedown claims by copyright holders.
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by pieno 5y ago
It seems like you and GP are agreeing on the fact that right now we don’t do too many preventive checks because the cost of testing is higher than the benefits (mainly because false positives could lead to risky and invasive follow-up tes
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by pieno 5y ago
Pretty sure Google would have forked KHTML or even Gecko themselves if Apple had not forked KHTML to become WebKit.
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by pieno 5y ago
> If you agree to the statement that any accountant which uses Excel formulas to do bookkeeping is also a software developer They are as much a software developer as they are a writer because they write e-mails; a presenter because they
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by pieno 5y ago
I think it’s actually the other way round. The IRS, banks and insurers design and mandate use of their own forms, and if you you deviated one bit from their form they happily deny your request, or they will even just plain ignore you. They
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by pieno 5y ago
Not the GP and I agree that as a mere user you’d not easily violate the GPL. But even as a developer it’s less free than you seem to imply: the GPL actually requires more than just distributing the source: you must also license the modifi
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by pieno 5y ago
I used WPF a few times when it just came out. Really enjoyed it (definitely compared to what was available at the time). I think a lot of people felt the same way but then Microsoft really killed it by being ambiguous on its future and not
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by pieno 5y ago
The risk of a coup is already covered to some extend in the GPL itself[0]. Article 14 which also governs the “or later” spec says: “Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new

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