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jmcs··on Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
When is the blackwall going live?
jmcs··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
Backend developers are already conditioned to use Linux VMs when developing in Mac OS.
jmcs··on Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
The "interesting" part is that the mine closing will significantly reduce the water supply to Berlin on its own, and filling the pit will probably raise the issue to possibly catastrophic levels: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/spr...
jmcs··on Google says iMessage is too powerful
And with iMessage you need to have an Apple account, at least for carriers you have choices.
jmcs··on Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?
He got an exemption the Victoria state rules, this is the same as you getting a paper from Florida saying you can travel freely there and trying to enter the US based on that paper.
jmcs··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
It would depend if Tiktok Editor is legally considered a derivative application or not. If it is, then it's in breach of GPLv2.
jmcs··on Using a VPN could become a criminal offence under new CFAA interpretation
The UK already deported one of their citizens to the US over hacking (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/jul/07/news.usne...), so it depends on how much of a backbone your country has.
jmcs··on Show HN: Combining UTC and local times (time zones) in one new clock
It's like UTC but worse. If people need to learn something new, it's better to teach the basics of ISO 8601 to everyone.
jmcs··on Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
Can you imagine if retail stores where made in a way that 3% of customers couldn't use them?
jmcs··on Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
"The Services are offered from the United States of America and, regardless of your place of residence or access location, your use of them is governed by the laws of the United State of America. Right Dao makes no representations that the Sites are appropriate for use in other locations or are legal in all jurisdictions. Those who access the Sites from other locations do so at their own risk and consent to the transfer and processing of their data in the United States of America and any other jurisdiction throughout the world."

That's half the reason I don't use Google right there and they pretend to follow European laws. So, yeah, right, no thanks.

jmcs··on Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
There's no such thing as your Windows PC, at least for home users. There are only Microsoft's Windows PCs and they are very open about it.
jmcs··on Systemd Home Directories
> It’s particularly popular in the web communities, which hopefully should make it easy to link user credential data from the web and from local systems more closely together.

Was this written by a CSI or NCIS screenwriter?

jmcs··on Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
Maybe after people stop using the user agent for stupid reasons it can be made useful again. User agents should be stuff like "Firefox 71.0" or "Chrome 79.0.3945", not "Mozilla but really AppleWebKit disguised as KHTML, but no really I'm Chrome but maybe I'm Safari"
jmcs··on Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
That goes without saying, content providers are shooting themselves in the foot with an atomic shotgun with the current fragmentation and lots of content is not legally available anywhere.
jmcs··on No to Chrome
I've used Here WeGo in several European countries and it didn't fail me yet. I would use OpenStreetMaps but I couldn't find any OSM app with public transport included as an option.
jmcs··on Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
There are places with Beyond Burger in Berlin and it's one of the best patties I tried, to the point were some non-vegetarians friends choose it when available.
jmcs··on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
The european union provides a FAQ for the GDPR so you don't need a lawyer if you have a small business: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

The "best practice" you mention was already illegal if you have European users, the right to be forgotten was already a consequence of existing laws and directives (just ask Google).

As for startups the GDPR already takes company size into account, so unless their business is literally being a private NSA/Stasi/etc. they don't have much burocracy to deal with (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)

jmcs··on Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’
You don't need national ID if every state issues a real ID document. There's no European wide ID but national IDs of all EU countries are accepted everywhere by law and it works.
jmcs··on Why I left
Aeternety website says they are based in Lichenstein, even if their police was corrupt (which I seriously doubt) you could literally run to Switzerland or Austria. The way he talks about his allergies and they would be handled makes it seem he was in a 3rd world country which makes me question the veracity of the whole thing.