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I'd guess that Google's support for their ad services are good enough? The problem here is that Play publishers are not really Google's customers.

Amusing :) Although I have to admit that I am even less sure after using that site. There doesn't seem to be an indication that DKIM "FAIL" in red is a good or bad thing after it attempted to spoof a domain I own. I assume it's good?

Chrome is currently a major component to Google's hold over its users' web experience. When it is measured in terms of market share, it appears to me that the browser wars and search engine companies fight in the same battles.

I imagine a paperclip factory with trucks driving in loops in front of a scanner that is over counting them as they drive past.

So how you want the game to work is that you expect me to defend myself against being called bigoted or yield to your ideology. That's how you are propagating your perspective?

We are now at a stage where a twitter mob would see "men should not be allowed to compete in women's sports" as a bigoted statement. To the vast majority of people there are important differences between men and women, and will now have to awkwardly self-censors their speech. Or they will worry whether they are actually bigoted and attempt to signal that they are not really a bad person by relenting to the group.

We are also at a stage where a US Supreme Court nominee under questioning was unwilling to hazard a guess at a definition of Woman. The risks for them personally was just too high.

We're also at a stage where I (not American) get bombarded by this ideological pathology of the American Left when I end up on Twitter. How do I opt out?

Reading the linked blog post and a bit of the other stuff there I echo the frustration of the parent. Give me a bash script, not a checklist. They're requiring more attention from the user than is appropriate.

Let's not restrict ourselves to only "kindness". Kind is how you act with a baby. Our profession needs truthful authentic expression.

This also applies to a single universe where an action might have many unintended consequences, possibly snowballing into exactly the opposite from what you would have wanted. In this sense, each of your decisions are important and you are responsible for everything.

So in such a dynamical system, how do you then act? The philosophically Western answer to this is in part through Logos. You treat the spoken and written word as divine, through truthful and authentic expression of the individual, as clearly as possible. The consequences of how this unfolds is outside your immediate control, as it should be.

Love has an important role here, but Love without Truth seems to be the prevailing attitude online, which is declared as a personal virtue and experienced as righteous indignation. This is to me what others perceive as the fall of the West: the prioritization of Love over Truth.

A .forum TLD costing more than $1k is also ridiculous.

also "Deception"

At the very least, through dialog, if you are wise, you will recognise these goals in yourself as well.

Free expression and dialog is how we grow. Who would be against that?

That's when you adopt other XP practices in addition to TDD.

You're expecting normal people to successfully invent the car? I have much more faith in them forming a relationship with a paying customer, and offering a small process improvement through a MVP.

An MVP will also help with appropriately market timing of your product. If the client is asking for a faster horse, you might want to look at innovating the saddle or horseshoe first. You might be 1000 years too early with your car engine idea.

For past events, I always beg people to somehow explicitly include the timezone in an encoding or storage, even if it's just UTC. i.e. never be tz naive! A tz naive PG column is a mess waiting to happen.

Do we have a biological sense of logic?

Wondering if you would you say that the proposition has been falsified? Because debunked means falsified.

Ehhh, Trump got popular in part because he says what he thinks and doesn't want to make friends with the then establishment. Making enemies is expected.

When you say ostracized, do you mean removed from Twitter?

According to the parent comment's link "Tiny specks of metallic iron (Fe0) are embedded in each dust particle's glassy shell [...] microwaves melt lunar soil in less time than it takes to boil a cup of tea"

I'm tilted more towards the US being in the wrong here and should repeal some acts. I do agree with you that it applies to every website in the world when it collects info on individuals located in the EU. Penalties only seem to occur if your business operates in the EU. So some subset of websites could ignore it I guess? IANAL.

Edit: Also the more I read about the GDPR (and the CLOUD act), the more I'm in favor of it.

I don't think that's a fair implication, but a "balanced take" means nothing to me on this topic. I want all sides to argue their position as hard as they can and then let me decide for myself.

It's not actually about serving traffic across borders, it's about what you collect. If you collect PII, according to EU courts, you are responsible for it and will be held responsible if you plan to do business in the EU.

The problem is that the US CLOUD act compels US companies to provide data access to US agencies, regardless of where the data flows. It could even be servers on EU soil. EU courts hold that these kind of acts violate the data rights of individuals located in the EU.

If a website irresponsibly collects and stores information from individuals located in the EU, then they are violating the individual's data rights.

It seems like e.g. the US CLOUD act requires US businesses to provide their agencies access to any data, whether that data is hosted in the US or not. IANAL but this looks to me like even if Google uses EU based servers to host fonts, they would still be required to provide PII to US agencies.

There are other non-EU countries in the world with GDPR compatible regulations.

Some context from https://termageddon.com/austrian-dpa-rules-that-google-analy...

  Generally, GDPR prohibits the transfers of personal data from the European Union to a country that does not meet the same privacy protection standards as those provided by the European Union. Due to a lack of uniform privacy laws that provide significant privacy rights to individuals and the surveillance of United States intelligence agencies, the European Union has long held that the United States does not provide adequate privacy protections to individuals.

So it seems that if you are an individual located in the European Economic Area then the GDPR attempts to preserve your data privacy rights. A US website can't void those rights in exchange for some fonts.

There can indeed be lots of magic going on in a backend and various ways GDPR violations may or may not be discovered.

Here's an amusing 320k euro fine https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/enforcement-notic...

  On 24 July 2018 the MHRA had executed a search warrant at the premises of
  Doorstep Dispensaree under the Human Medicines Regulations. In
  the course of its search, the MHRA discovered, stored in a rear
  courtyard, 47 crates, 2 disposal bags and 1 cardboard box full of
  documents containing personal data. MHRA estimated
  approximately 500,000 documents but cannot estimate the
  number of data subjects.
 
  MHRA have inspected the crates and the information contains:
  a. Names
  b. Addresses
  c. Dates of Birth
  d. NHS Numbers
  e. Medical Information
  f. Prescriptions 
 
  The dates on the documents range from January 2016 - June 2018.
  The documents were not secure and they were not marked as
  confidential waste. Some of the documents were soaking wet,
  indicating that they had been stored in this way for some time.

I doubt there is a purely technical solution to finding this kind of problem :)

Edit: to be clear, the violation type here seems to have been "Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security"

This is the technical challenge that a network like Freenet attempts to address.

Actually, it could be applied in an extraterritorial way.

The GDPR applies to processing of data of individuals located in the EU/EEU and states the rights of these "data subjects". If your business violates the GDPR and wishes to also operate within the European Economic Area, it could face fines and penalties.

For larger businesses, relying on whistleblowers or auditing might be one way. For smaller ones using tools like the one discussed here. Or maybe a browser plugin that automatically notifies visitors.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ "... is an overview of fines and penalties which data protection authorities within the EU have imposed under the EU [GDPR]"

If it's a US site, I know that's a promise that it can't really make, due to US laws. If it's a EU site, then I could hold them legally responsible if it's just theater.