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geewee··on Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?
I honestly don't think it's that bad. I've used both Slack and teams simultaneously for a few years, and I honestly don't see a lot of differences.
geewee··on 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
I'm reusing the same key per machine - but it's mostly just due to convenience and laziness.
geewee··on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
Well then you don't have it anymore ;)
geewee··on The Future of E-Bikes
I think it's true that it depends highly where you are and how your cities are designed. I'm in Denmark and I've never owned a car, and I get by on a (non-e) bike just fine for a daily driver. Certainly sometimes you'll need to do ridesharing in cars or rent a car, but that's less than 10 times a year.
geewee··on ImageGlass added malware with this commit
Reading the issue it seems to have been removed in the latest version.

On a semi-related note: Woof, issues like that make me want to never do open source again. Did that guy make a mistake? Obviously. Was it in good faith? It seemed so. Were people jerks even after he fixed it. Absolutely.

geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Yeah but I think this goes bigger than this. We might see Google Analytics now, but we're going to end up seeing problems with European companies using AWS, Azure etc. later on. _That_ might be big enough to warrant it.
geewee··on You Feel Like Shit
Yes that is what I was referring to, and anecdotally I haven't seen anyone actually have a Treo in their home for.. well years.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Geo-based cross continent data storage isn't enough. The fact that the parent company is a US entity still makes it illegal, no matter where the data is stored.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
This is true - but courts have been going in this direction for a while now, and noyb has filed 100+ similar suits. Expect most of the legal landscape to agree with this in the not-so-distant future.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
This is only sort of a half-truth though. The SCC's are created by the European Data Protection Board, and it works for transfers to third countries because the companies legally say "ok we won't do anything shady with your data" - but you have to actually prove that they can't be compelled to do anything shady under local law - which you can in the US.

So the SCC's are a perfectly fine tool, but you just need more than that.

geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Technically maybe but in practice using zero-knowledge encrypted services if you want to calculate aggregates or do large-scale calculations isn't really technically feasible.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
The writing's been on the wall about this for a long time, and anyone following the space has seen this coming. I'm glad that we're starting to see some judgements now, so people have something to point to when arguing to not send PII to america.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Nope. I've heard some people talk about company constructions where you create a new officially unaffiliated company in the EU, that then just lends the IP to create a datacenter from the US-based companies, but I'm not sure if that's actually feasible.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Yeah, I also expect that after these 100+ cases we'll have a pretty clear consensus in most european countries about this.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
It almost certainly would. This isn't about cookies, this is about sending PII (which IP's are) to GA. I have a hard time imagining some safeguards that'll allow you to use GA, without ever hitting a GA server.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
Basically the GDPR considers anything that's accessible or marketed to EU residents (not citizens) under its jurisdiction. In practice this is (probably) pretty much every side that isn't a local business or specifically blocking visitors from the EU.
geewee··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
That's not true. Transfer to third countries is legal, as long as you _properly_ inform people of the risks that it poses, and it's completely voluntary:

> finally, if a transfer of personal data is envisaged to a third country that isn’t the subject of an Adequacy Decision and if appropriate safeguards are absent, a transfer can be made based on a number of derogations for specific situations for example, where an individual has explicitly consented to the proposed transfer after having been provided with all necessary information about the risks associated with the transfer.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

geewee··on You Feel Like Shit
Aspirin is extremely hard to get in Denmark for example, as it's seen as inferior to Paracetamol
geewee··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
Wonderful. It's nice to see that the regulation is (slowly working) where we went from.

- I don't have to tell you about tracking

- I'll tell you but assume you accept

- I'll ask you but make it extremely frustrating to opt-out

- (Hopefully soon-ish) I'll ask you and make it equally easy to opt-in and opt-out

geewee··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
You'd imagine(hope?) they might get more fines if they don't stop.
geewee··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
I've done a lot of compliance work, and the laws are _very clearly_ worded. This is definitely a case of "let's see what we can get away with"
geewee··on Why is my Rust build so slow?
Often when building compilers you trade the speed of compilation against the speed of execution[1], and Rust has (traditionally) chosen the speed of executiong over making the compiler fast.

This won't necessarily always be so, there's e.g. a new compiler backend called cranelift in the works, that makes compilations 30%ish faster, and in return the code isn't as optimized - which is good for a faster inner cycle.

https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity#rus...

geewee··on Features of a dream programming language
I don't mind indented code when writing or reading code. However I think indentation often becomes a pain when copying code from e.g. StackOverflow - the indentation is never quite right.
geewee··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
Google Analytics and similar has already in practice been outlawed in EU since Schrems II. This is just a long line of similar judgements that state the same.
geewee··on Django 4.0
What other migration engine have you used that's better? Anything non-django I've used makes me wish I was using Django
geewee··on Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
What does "a stream of wokeness" mean?
geewee··on Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags
I'm from Europe and I've never seen one either.
geewee··on Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates
Also if you're not US-based.. which nation?
geewee··on Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
Approximately the same story here. I'd had debilitating upper back pain for 4..5 years, gotten MRI's and a plethora of scans and nothing seemed off. Every time I got physical therapy it'd last for a few hours and then the pain would be back.

I tried accepting that it was more of a mental than a physical ailment, and although it was difficult and took multiple tries, I'm now finally pretty much pain-free for a few years after having tried everything for years on end.

geewee··on Buying an ebike
I had no idea. Thanks!
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