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lrpublic··on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
And how much GDPR risk?

Is it not the case that sites using this would have to explicitly gain consent from visitors to capture data in advance?

lrpublic··on BBC – avoid microwave for better video conference
This kind of reporting damages the BBC’s reputation. Imagine if their medical correspondents reported to the same standard.
lrpublic··on LibraryBox: Portable Private Digital Distribution
Raspberry PI including Zero W seems to be supported by openWrt https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi
lrpublic··on Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
Seems to be apache licensed https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi/blob/master/LICENSE
lrpublic··on Supermicro server BMCs left exposed to remote attack by any USB device
The OVH IPMI access is pretty cool - needs to be initiated from the web console, no longer requires JNLP, just straight browser access and the web console supports three different two factor authentication methods.

My only regret is that it took us so long to discover and switch to OVH - there are a few wrinkles but it’s such fantastic value compared with colo, let alone AWS/GCP/azure

lrpublic··on LAN Manager Product Specification, 1987
I’m pretty sure dir \\server\share has worked in cmd.exe since os2 1.1
lrpublic··on Superhuman: Read Statuses
I was thinking, massive is the sense that any (business) user of the service might be considered in breach of GDPR for obtaining personal datan without consent.
lrpublic··on Superhuman: Read Statuses
Surely this a massive breach of GDPR ?
lrpublic··on GitHub is returning 502
need to update compiling excuse, https://xkcd.com/303/
lrpublic··on Ask HN: What ergonomic solutions are you using?
I’ve found ergorest forearm supports work, along with a keyboard without a number pad to reduce mouse reach.

I’ve swapped between various split keyboards over the years, starting with the beta version of the Microsoft Natural keyboard - sadly most of these have a number pad and that creates a mouse reach issue for some. These days I use a ten key less gaming keyboard.

Also small free weights to exercise arms frequently during the day at the desk seem to help.

lrpublic··on Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
https://nodeping.com - cheap, has an api, can graph a simple JSON response in addition to ICMP, http etc. Generally reliable and we’ve been using it as our backstop monitoring for hundreds of nodes for several years.
lrpublic··on Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
Look at Centos - it’s quite possible to follow Google’s releases stripping out the ‘evil’
lrpublic··on Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
Too little, too late. The cat is really and truly out of the bag.

As Microsoft did with Windows 10 Google have done with Chrome they have moved the capture of telemetry and personal data from their network to the users platform.

In the case of Chrome the community have the choice to fork our platform and thank google for their contribution, but say no thanks to thier continued stuardship of it.

Sometimes I wonder if senior execs really understand how precarious open source based business models are - like politics we can vote and change the leaders if they stop acting for the common good.

lrpublic··on Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
HHGTTG 42 times
lrpublic··on GDPR for side-projects? Blocking all EU traffic with Nginx in 3 simple steps
This seems to be flawed logic, many EU devices have IP addresses from non EU address blocks.

Assuming there is any significant adoption of your proposed solution to avoid GDPR rules the likelyhood is EU citizens will use VPN or Proxy services to bypass the restrictions.

I don’t think the use of a VPN would remove the GDPR obligations on the data controller or data processor.

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