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falcon620on Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business?

We've gone through a couple of audits from customers' GDPR-compliancy consultants.

As a result we have have been triggerered to perform some well-over-due security reviews, thinking about security processes and data compartmentalization, documenting some procedures etc. I think it's by far a net-good, even as relatively small company.

falcon620on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

Hehe.

falcon620on MH17: Russia 'liable' for downing airliner over Ukraine

How about notching things up to NK levels? Russia has clearly demonstrated themselves to be a hostile state.

falcon620on Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom

What do you mean, requires you to agree to something?

I don't get how this applies to something you self-publish on the internet.

falcon620on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

HN is full of morally totaly unscrupulous people. The typical Silicon Valley crowd actually celebrates the kind of privacy invasion that the GDPR is design to counteract. So, obviously it's no big surprise that these Silicon Valley bros post silly tips on how to avoid the GDPR by just blocking the pesky Europeans.

They will learn. It's a financial certainty.

On a separate note: I feel totally disgusted with the kind of people who are totally uninterested with the the fate of their users. It's not exactly uncommon in Silicon Valley. Fuck these guys.

falcon620on GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

Jacques - I love the effort you've put into explaining the GDPR to clueless and needlessly exasperated (mostly) americans here on HN.

To be honest I used to think you were just a shameless self-promoter like almost everyone else, but in this case you've risen to the occasion. Bravo. I think you're now rating quite high in most people's "mental books of good people". Or at the very least, in the minds of people who actually have a strong impact.

falcon620on MH17: Russia 'liable' for downing airliner over Ukraine

This video showing the hearses from just one of the flights bringing back bodies to the Netherlands is so powerful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NF45JfUkk

We (the rest of the world) must bring Russia to justice over this.

falcon620on Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom

That does not seem relevant? You are certainly not giving them a license to do whatever they want to do with your content just by hosting an RSS index of mp3 files on the web.

falcon620on Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom

Bingo.

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms&gl=US

From section 6c:

"For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels."

falcon620on OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out

Apple have basically spent the minimal amount of resources on Mac portables the past few years.

We should all get the picture and migrate elsewhere, I'm afraid. Windows laptops are looking more and more appealing...

falcon620on The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery

Well, no, it won't.

It will however make sure that you're watching actual Obama 2, and not some computer simulation of him doing some disgusting thing.

falcon620on US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'

I bet on this angle.

falcon620on The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery

I really like this idea. Every video frame from a political/public personality is cryptographically signed with their private key and edge viewing devices are able to tell if it's properly signed or not.

It's easy to imagine this idea becoming a part of video (be it VOD or broadcast) encoding standards in the future, once this becomes a critical thing.

In terms of UX: one could imagine a simple indication on TVs: an RGB led that shines in different colors depending on verified authenticity levels.

falcon620on No one’s ready for GDPR

Are you suggesting EU intelligence agencies should abide by the GDPR?

falcon620on Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today

Well, he seems to have made one friend:

https://twitter.com/CeciliaWikstrom/status/99898468946035916...

(Zuckerberg posing with a Swedish MEP, all smiles.)

falcon620on Facebook Locking Out GDPR Users Until They Consent

In Q1, 25% of their revenue come from the EU.

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q1... (slide 5)

falcon620on The Complete History of Lemmings (2006)

https://uploadvr.com/hololems-brings-lemmings-real-world-via...

falcon620on Getting Google to ban our entire company

Personal gmail (which is used in your example) != gsuite (which is used in company settings)

falcon620on Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

So, just to repeat my stance: Google already knows everything about me. I have accepted that, sort of.

However, they have crossed a line: they have made URLs ugly by default.

falcon620on Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

In my case: no privacy paranoia (I just assume everything is being tracked and there's very little I can do about it).

I just hate

a) having ugly URLs

b) having to manually edit the URLS before copy/pasting them somewhere else.

Many sites nowadays actually have thoughtfully designed URL schemes. But then there's so often this GA crap that destroys the esthetics.

As an example, the URL that triggered me to go find this particular extension was:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/...

(hex chars randomly manipulated for paranoid reasons, hehe.)

falcon620on Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

Fixed the title, thanks for telling me that I missed that bit.

falcon620on Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

I am not the author. I was just so tired of having to manually strip crap like "?utm_term=.b1e20fe33a88" from the end of URLs before sharing them. This extension solves that problem nicely.

I wonder why Google doesn't build something into Chrome that just hides this crap from the visible URL? I guess they could get some PR pushback from paranoids if they did that though. Better to just hide behind some fictitious UTM Inc.

falcon620on DOSbox-CRT

We probably need 8k monitors for that to make sense.

falcon620on Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm

Kodakoin!

Edit: Wait, you weren't joking!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin

omg. This is such a disgraceful way for that company to die.

falcon620on Gmail Icons are Hard

Their product managers and designers spent too much of their "clutter budget" on stupid stuff so they felt they had to reduce the clutter by making those things that should have been icon+text buttons into icon-only buttons.

falcon620on Tesla Executive Leaves for Waymo

I did not write that because of this particular issue alone.

Since they are a public company you can actually read their financials on the interwebs.

falcon620on Tesla Executive Leaves for Waymo

That's funny, the Tesla fans keep hating on Bloomberg. Could it be that everyone who writes critical pieces on their financials are hostiles?

falcon620on Tesla Executive Leaves for Waymo

Fiscal reality is catching up with them. When people on /r/teslamotors (it's normally a non-stop pep rally about Tesla, sort of like t_d is for Trump) are able to be upvoted for presenting critical thoughts about Tesla's financial state you know something is happening. Also: see https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/

It would be sad to see them go but at the same time it seems like they sorta did their job: they have ignited lust for electric vehicles in the general public. Car manufacturers have responded and are shifting their production plans accordingly.