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Sujan··on I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
It might be worth contacting these extensions' creators. If you already have the `.vsix` file for the VSCode marketplace, publishing to open-vsix is really super simple (create an account once, get a token, add a few lines to your publish script, e.g. https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/blob/94e4cd612d03ef...). Some just do not know about it.
Sujan··on One Job, One Pay
Thanks, did not check as I think I remember HN telling me about that on submission. Seems I should check better next time.

Interesting discussion there fortunately.

Sujan··on In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model
I think those are the important bits:

> The Engineering Working Group (EWG) of the OSMF has “commissioned” (I think that’s OSMF language for paid) a longstanding proponent of rules and complexity to, uh, investigate how to add rules and complexity to OSM.

> [...]

> Let us pray that the EWG is just throwing Jochen a bone to go play in the corner and stop annoying the grownups.

It's a "response" to https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/06/02/announcement-data-...

Sujan··on Show HN: Git Timeline Generator – Visualize contributions to any Git project
This is super nice.

Used Gitpod to quickly run the Git command on our two repos prisma/prisma (https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/prisma/prisma) and prisma/prisma-engines, downloaded the files, then spent 5 minutes to remove some bots and combine some users, and tadaaa: https://www.preceden.com/git/prisma-prisma-contributors/8303... + https://www.preceden.com/git/prisma-engines-contributors/830...

Sujan··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
The top 10.000 queries at Google are probably 99% brands, pop culture or current news things, one word or name only, that you would not care for at all. Have a look at the top 20: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265825/number-of-searche...
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
There still is no viable sarcasm tag for plain text that everyone will pick up :)
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
True, those are kind of valid.

The unresolved foreign keys are indeed unfortunate, I wondered about these myself when I got my takeouts in the past. I explained them to myself as something that is not actually available in the same datastore to query or join, but maybe a constant or some other system that does not include personal data. Still not nice of course.

I think the wait time and many download buttons were discussed extensively in other comments here. With cold storage as explanation for the duraiton, and just no legal need to make the takeout _convenient_, those also have a pretty good explanation I would say.

So valid, but still no scandal.

Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
Oh, I did not know that. Thanks. A bit less "aversion" then for the future.

My last sentence was triggered by having written a comment on another comment first, which insantly went to -3 (but later kinda recovered), so I almost didn't write this one, just not to have to get the negative feeling. It's a nice Sunday after all.

Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
The parent argument was about "to make it instant and pretty for you to look at all the data." - not GDPR in general, which I fully agree with and like very much. It is a very different thing if you give users the power to get their data, or want to force companies to present that data in a way laypersons can understand and "like".
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
Exactly. But that will something additional they will have to buy (and install, and maintain) if GDPR would include to "make it instant and pretty for you to look at all the data.". Because that is what the parent discussion was about.
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
I don't think comparing food safetey or toxic chemicals that hurt your health to the design, usability and accessibility of a data export is very valid. The parent argument was not about not having to export data at all. It was about how well designed it was.
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
For me (amazon.de, EN language setting): Open app -> "More" burger menu botton right (three horizontal lines stacked on top of each other) -> Scroll down to "Customer service" -> Scroll down to search feature -> "Personal Information" -> #1. I think this is really just a webview to the same part of the website with a different design.

Takes a bit more tapping and scrolling than clicking on desktop, but that is more he fault of the smaller screen and how apps work I would guess.

Sujan··on Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing
(Reputable) source?
Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
That is certainly a political decision that can be made, I agree and would actually be happy about that.

If that happens, I am sure Amazon will invest the time and money to comply with that. At the same time it will put many smaller business out of business though, as they do not have the resources to do that. Even the current state of having to fulfill data requests is quite a problem for mayn of them.

Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
It's not very often that each and every point in an article just feels "fabricated" or over the top.

It starts with finding the page: Amazon -> Customer Service -> Search for "personal data" -> Search result #1 is "Request Your Personal Information" which nicely explains what to do and links directly to that page.

The need to verify or activate a data request via clicking a link? Of course required so some third party can not just request your data to your inbox (and process it along the way) without you actually wanting to do that.

All the mentions that most of the data is available in your Amazon account? Well, what many people are looking for (order history etc) is and even nicely formatted, searchable and cross linked to make it much more convenient.

Clicking "Remove address" only removes it from the list of addresses? Of course, addresses you ordered to in the past can not be deleted as they have to legally be stored together with other order information.

And the list goes on and on.

I get that it is scary that a big company keeps all the data you gave to them. And it is also unfortunate for you that it is not their business goal to make it instant and pretty for you to look at all the data. But there is no reason for them to do that.

If you don't want Amazon to have your data, don't user Amazon. When you use Amazon, the way you can get a lot of data from them is actually pretty good (also compared to other companies which pretent search history does not exist and so on).

(And bye to some Hacker News points. This will get nicely downvoted I suspect.)

Sujan··on Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
The difference between a stalker and Amazon is that Amazon does not get any data from you (or at least 99% of what this author could request from Amazon, some ad tracking stuff might be an exception) if you do not willingy give it to them. Don't have an Amazon account and use it do order things or search, talk to Alexa, etc - and they will have no data.
Sujan··on GitHub Projects – Customizable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work
> but I couldn't find any obvious way of adding issues to a project from the issue itself rather than from the project view.

You can add issues to the old Projects from the issue view the same way as the new Projects (beta), it just takes 2/3 clicks for both: On the right sidebar in your issue you have "Projects", then a dropdown of your projects, and then you can (optionally) select the column where to place them (without that selection, the land in some kind of inbox inside the board).

I am using CodeTree for the list view of issues in milestones. The new Projects (beta) unfortunately also only offers that via the in between step of manually adding issues to a project and then "tagging" them with the milestone again as an attribute I think :/

Sujan··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
Pleeeeeease open an issue if you have a simple reproduction for this. That will make sure we will make sure this _does_ work (sooner or later, not committing to a timeline here on HN of course :p).
Sujan··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
No need to test really - indeed more complicated cases are not covered by this yet. But happy to look at any Github issues with reproduction of cases that are not working, but could or should work to make your life better.
Sujan··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
Easy to miss in the long blog post:

> Prisma currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server (Preview). A connector for MongoDB is in the works, sign up for the Early Access program here (https://prisma103696.typeform.com/to/FriDuIeM).

Sujan··on Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?
(2018)
Sujan··on Prisma Raises $12M Series A
This time I can answer that some aggregations are in the current milestone: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/2838 That could mean they will be available very soon. (If you are missing any other ones, please comment on that issue or create a new one!)

Transactions were actually included in the last release https://github.com/prisma/prisma/releases/tag/2.1.0 (search for `transactionApi`) in a specific form behind a feature flag (batch transactions, not long running transactions).

Sujan··on Prisma Raises $12M Series A
I don't think the table indicates "irrelevant or even a bad choice" at all - it just puts "old" and "new" next to each other.

No reason not to use the older things if they work for you. But if they don't, never choices might help.

Sujan··on France rules Google must pay news firms for content
I wish Google would finally go with the kneejerk reaction of just unlisting all these sites from Google Search and News.
Sujan··on Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
Thanks, ordered and will try it out.
Sujan··on Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
Ok, so which ones should I get? (Amazon.de preferred, but please throw in all links)
Sujan··on Microsoft backtracks on Partner Network changes that sparked uproar
Relevant bit here:

> Given your feedback, we have made the decision to roll back all planned changes related to internal use rights and competency timelines that were announced earlier this month. This means you will experience no material changes this coming fiscal year, and you will not be subject to reduced IUR licenses or increased costs related to those licenses next July as previously announced.

Sujan··on Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
Fraud usually requires that the entity doing it gains something from it, especially if we are talking about a "criminal act" as the parent did. (IANAL)

The civil side might be different, but that is not what the parent insinuated. (And yes, my question to the parent was obviously meant to show that I disagree.)

Sujan··on Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
What crime in what country do you think this should fall under?
Sujan··on Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS
Yes, but these are not attributes. (Or was that your point?)
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