Posts by Dan 55 15415 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Possibly so you could change it to generate the right keycodes for customisable keycaps placed in whatever position you want. But then again their software should sort that out on the computer too.
But then again System 76 is open source where possible so they're offering it out of principle.
You said you didn't like GDPR but didn't say why.
We then established that your privacy is important to you. In my opinion this is a good thing.
Then you claimed:
Which they are trying to apply to the world when they impose it on EU citizen data regardless of the country.
This is the basis for your argument that the EU is trying to impose GDPR worldwide. Your claim is not true, and I corrected you.
If online companies wish to deal with EU/EEA residents' data or sell into the EU/EEA online, they have to follow the law there. This is a pretty normal thing, just like other companies exporting to the EU/EEA having to follow food/drink/safety/standards laws, and it's pretty difficult to coherently argue otherwise (as you have failed to do).
I don't think there are any more loose ends to tie up here, so I'll leave it here.
Yes. Online business outside the EU/EEA that deal with data belonging to people inside the EU/EEA or sell into the EU/EEA have to follow GDPR. Otherwise it would be pretty useless, wouldn't it?
It doesn't apply to EU/EEA citizens outside the EU/EEA, which is what you wrongly claimed.
It even says on the page that GDPR doesn't apply for "occasional instances" and SMEs are exempt from onerous record keeping.
Why don't you go back and read it again, and then the next time you post about GDPR hopefully you won't be posting incorrect information?
Which they are trying to apply to the world when they impose it on EU citizen data regardless of the country.
Well there you are, you don't understand GDPR so you've obviously got the wrong idea.
It applies to EU + EEA countries and their residents. No more, no less.
Happy to correct you.
What are you on about? It's the EU's data protection directive transposed into national law for 27 countries + the EEA.
Also, what is your opinion about California's newest privacy law? Is that being pushed onto the world or not? If not, why not? Will California be cut off from the world? The commentariat demand answers, not emotive statements without anything to back them up, show your working!
You can notarise a copy of the form before sending and send it as recorded delivery but if they want to wiggle out of it there's nothing to prove the form was inside the envelope, only that you have a true copy of original form and they're received the envelope.
I guess you meant 20-12-31, i.e. 31/12/2020, which I'd agree with.
Every Max Schrems victory since then either in court or in a DPA ruling means nothing in the UK. There's quite a lot of news from 2021 on NOYB's website.
Epic chose to set up their own games store on Android and then pulled it a year and a half later and went back to the Play Store.
They also have an Epic games store for Mac and PC.
If they had ever put two and two together they could have had a cross platform Android, Mac, and PC games store with cross-buy and cross-play which would beat Steam and they cound legitimately accuse Apple of locking them out.
But at the moment it seems they seem to want other people to do the work for them.
You an buy audio book from Audible, you get to access it on the Audible app on any platform it's available.
You buy an audio book from Apple, you get to access it on the iTunes app (I think) on any platform it's available.
You subscribe to Disney+, you get to access it on the Disney+ app on any platform it's available.
You obviously don't buy an audio book from Apple and get to access it on the Audible app on any platform it's available. You yourself said this as if you didn't have a problem with it.
And yet it's exactly what Epic want as well... buy Fortnite DLC from Apple and get to access it on the Play Store app from Google, Galaxy Store from Samsung, Steam from Valve, and other unrelated platforms.
On Android, NewPipe (add NewPipe's repository to FDroid to get the updates quicker) or YouTube Vanced (people say good things but I've never tried it).
On the desktop, not sure which add-on is doing this but between uBlock Origin and Enhancer for YouTube I don't see any ads.
Extending systemd Security Features with eBPF
That's right, the only place guaranteed free from systemd, the Linux Kernel, won't be any more.
By the time they got to the Spectrum it apparently wasn't that bad, at least as far as floating point was concerned.
You aren't owed an explanation for why a stupid idea is stupid from random people on the internet.
It's literally how pre-MS Skype worked (search for the section on conferencing) unless all calling participants were behind a NAT and firewall in which case a supernode (a high bandwidth server not behind a NAT/firewall) was chosen instead. Presumably this will not be so necessary with IPv6.
But anyway, downvote away, peanut gallery.
With ten on a group P2P call, each person would have to maintain connections to nine other systems, meaning a lot more bandwidth is needed.
The one with the best bandwidth is chosen as the lead server and the rest of the participants each maintain one connection with the lead.
There are two really free ones on F-Droid:
LG was caught snooping on LAN shares.
Vizio sent unencrypted analytics data and frame captures without explaining what use it was going to be put to.
Some models of Samsung TVs may have an always-on camera and microphone, others may make you press a button on the remote before recording from the microphone but all sent microphone recordings to a third party, sent unencrypted data, and have non-existent security.
ACR identifies what you're watching and when whatever the source.
The best you're going to get are weasel words privacy settings which allegedly give you options which anonymise your data or turn off tracking, but they're still going to slurp.
Best not to plug the damn thing into the Internet.
What the Google minion means is Safari's different to Chrome, and Apple haven't implemented so many slurpy APIs which Google sink millions of person-hours into developing.
If a Google minion doesn't like it something then that probably means it's a good thing.
So we have to tell them they’re on mute and then wait while they work out for the seven billionth time where the same old un-fucking-mute button is (hint: the same place it was yesterday, and the day before that, ad infinitum)
This is not true, at least on Teams. I think it must have changed places at least three times in the last year. And they still haven't cottoned on to space bar for mute.
And to improve things they've fucked up screen sharing in one of the latest updates, you press the screen sharing icon in the notification at the bottom right and instead of sharing the screen it brings the meeting window to the top and leaves you to find the screen sharing button in the meeting window.
Nobody can fucking design a UI these days, they've all been lobotomised. Rant over.
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