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Computing has improved massively over the last 50 years, not least because it now can accommodate peoples diverse languages.

Jones' lawyers at one point forwarded a full phone dump of Jones' phone by accident to opposing council. They of course notified Jones' lawyers immediately to ask if this was a mistake that they should delete/disregard, as was their right. Jones' lawyers promptly ignored this, or didn't understand what was going on, resulting it becoming fair game after X days had passed. This goody bag of text messages and pictures contradicted several points of Jones' defence regarding who he was communicating with and a bunch of incriminating evidence that wasn't produced during discovery. That was my understanding of that episode, I may have misunderstood parts of it. Oh, and they revealed this when Jones was on the stand, and it is available to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9RiRUF21A

That may result in is icloud account being locked out, apparently.

I'm sure he can take them to court over that, but losing access to your files and services for an indeterminite amount of time is a big deal for most people.

If I didn't have manpages or the option to google I'd probably just use head or tail after doing 'wc -l' to determine line count.

head filename -n `wc -l filename`

> The GDPR is specific that consent must be as 'easy to withdraw as to give'

We all know what it means, but it isn't specific enough. "Single click no" or something to that effect. And don't get me started on "legitimate" interest...

Hey, as long as they don't have those dark pattern cookie consent forms, I'm a happy camper. The EU should really have specified that accept all/decline all should be a top level choice instead of "Accept all" with the alternative being "learn more" leading to submenus for every one of the 891 "partners".

XKCD did a flowchart version of this: https://xkcd.com/1688/

This doesn't make "food" more expensive. It makes specific food options more expensive. The options that tax the environment deserve to be taxed.

> It's actually a bit ironic to ask visitors if it's ok to track them. If they say no, you have to track them to at least remember that choice.

Not really - basic functionality like you describe does not require consent, AND any cookie specifying non-consent is in itself anonymous.

RHEL 9 should give you a guranteed X11 experience until 2032 at least.

> I downloaded the latest Apache OpenOffice and it did open the file

The last decade of Apache OpenOffice can VERY generously be described as "maintenance mode". Most of the pull requests are grammar and dictionary tweaks.

What if a manufacturer produces a tool, like a screwdriver that is shaped exactly like brass knuckles? Or some sort of similar extremely obvious dual use widget where the illegal use is readily apparent? I'm arguing that it's not some sort of self-evident truth that manufacturers can't be held responsible, IF the illegal usage is well understood.

I'm reading that to mean a disaster like the Brandenburg airport in Berlin

You can keep a copy of every track of music on spotify on a single 4U server, 20 drives or so. That's ~100TB, assuming 5MB per track. Every movie or tv show episode is another couple of PB in 720p or so.

Extrapolate the last 20 years of HDD capacity growth (around 300x), and assume that will continue, every single piece of media will fit on a single drive.

I know those assumptions aren't a given, but it sure feels like we're heading towards a world where you can just have a local copy of everything always.

Ahoy did a really good deep dive into what should count as the first video game on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc

Anecdotally, I did. At least, I am no longer buying 400L of oil for my furnace every month, and our cars are cheap(ish) EVs. So at least for direct oil usage I went to zero.

> which the UE considers to be incompatible with privacy guarantees.

Well, the whole "global jurisdiction" is iffy for the rest of the world.

> Andrew Tate was the most internet famous person for a period of time

I think this may just be your recommendation bubble - most people only heard about him when he was arrested.

As with all poisons, it's a question of concentration. Greed and nationalism are bad, in the same way that eating a kg of table salt is bad. That doesn't mean that salt in and of itself is bad.

The analysis also seems to show it veers to one side of the liberterian/authoritarian spectrum. Excellent.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner 2006

Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect If a market like the EU requires you to set-up specific capabilities to be GDPR compliant, like data export and opt-in flows for cookies, it is often cheaper just to treat everyone like EU citizens instead of trying to differentiate. Or, at least to build those capabilities to be able to use them where relevant. So while the EU can't make Apple use USB-C on all the products they sell around the world, they CAN make the alternative (having dual models for EU and other markets) undesirable.

There are also legit use cases for leaving all your doors unlocked. But they usually aren't really worth considering when you are installing your doors/locks.

If you just stop assuming anything it works pretty well. High grade pricey cables or TB cables with PD in the backpack, always. That's half the problem.

The fact that I can charge 90% of the devices in my house with my PD charger is worth any ambiguity in other features.

But I do seem to have an issue with dirt getting into ports and some low grade cables seemingly being out-of-spec when it comes to the physical connection. They don't feel properly seated and jiggle. Not a great feeling.

> They overthrew a functional government in Libya

That's not really an argument in itself tho.

Well, is Adsense GDPR compliant?

You are free to share any data with Google that you wish. Google is however not free to take said data from users without explicit consent.

Seems like they placed the controller right under where the left shift button is on ISO layout, so no, not without some significant redesign.

A 10cm3 cube of neutron star would weigh about a billion tonnes, comparable to a cubic km of water ice. I wonder how all that mass would behave if left to expand with all the exotic physics involved - if it would just sort of... vaporize the planet.

> We tried to breach the paywalls of the publishers listed using Chrome’s current browser (v. 75), in Incognito Mode. Without fail, the websites detected the intrusion attempt and prevented access to the content.

Intrusion attempt? Excuse me?

"Construction companies, which have given millions of dollars in campaign donations in recent years, have increased their projected costs by up to 50 percent when bidding for work from the M.T.A., contractors say."

That's because you've legalized bribery. Your political system rewards corruption. Every actor in the described mess is (re)acting rationally. Is this somehow a surprise?