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killerpopiller··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
I am happy with MS 365
killerpopiller··on Meta sued for £2.3bn over claim Facebook users in UK were exploited
this was before FB manipulated users with lies and incited hate to vote for corrupt politicians and threatening democratic processes
killerpopiller··on Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
but doesn’t the printed text fade away before then?
killerpopiller··on I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)
what is Logo and Scratch? can’t find them in App store.
killerpopiller··on Minimum Viable Secure Product
how would the list differ for B2C users?
killerpopiller··on Ask HN: Thoughts on Working for Huawei?
They have so many evil campaigns running, e.g. their (over)fishing fleets marauding the seas.

But lets not forget the Genocide the CCP is forcing upon Uighurs, Nepal and other regions. CCP are faschists and we all should look that fact in the eye.

Are you ok to work for faschists is the real question.

killerpopiller··on Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home
for example?
killerpopiller··on Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws
not necessarily. At least in Germany competition law broke up the restrictions regarding repairing only in brand repair shop’s. Free repair shop’s have accessed now to the manuals/instructions (at costs though).
killerpopiller··on Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting and stock manipulation
in the second scenario, A would trade a share he doesn’t posses and B could trade the same share, no?
killerpopiller··on Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for
I am really looking forward to the revision of the GDPR and the overhaul of the one-stop-shop concept. Supervisory authority in EU will pool resources to discipline FB on a monthly basis. Irelands SA is as openly corrupt as Trump.
killerpopiller··on Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
Matomo (former Piwik) is an alternative imho.
killerpopiller··on Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case
after "Safe-Harbor"and it's successor "EU-US Privacy-Shield" I suggest..

the "Trust-PACT"

P - privacy A - acknowledged C - confidentiality T - treaty

It's not only an insult of EU data protection laws and the EU basic rights charta.

Not only are the big US cloud providers evading taxes and stiffling competition in the EU, they are also instrumental to US hegemonial ambitions. All your data (and taxes) belongs to us. That's whats going on.

I wonder how long the standard contractual clauses will hold, I don't see how they are doing better.

killerpopiller··on Tim Bray told a union meeting Amazon should be broken up
the breakup happened to AT&T, is this considered an overreaction?
killerpopiller··on Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor
at least for Germany: digital invoices shall be processed in a way that manipulation can be ruled out (GoBD). Hence companies use special scanner and document management systems which document the Revisionssicherheit.
killerpopiller··on GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates
sorry, but the Irish DPA is bought. Even with a low budget she could have at least start investigations, instead nothing. The GDPR will be revised this year (I believe), the corrupted Irish DPA and the OneStopShop approach is the main issue. Other DPA‘s are furious btw.
killerpopiller··on A-Shell: Terminal for iOS
same here. Is this a bug or can't ssh be used at all?
killerpopiller··on Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
really? Psychotherapists are required to use one of the certified providers to be able to bill for tele sessions.

https://www.kbv.de/media/sp/Liste_zertifizierte_Videodiensta...

killerpopiller··on An app can be a home-cooked meal
sorry, I think the analogy is spot on.

sure the requirement differ, but so do circumstances under which a meal has to be cooked (differing number of consumers, allergies, different properties of ingrediences requiring changes,..). Cooking can be difficult as well, see french cuisine.

killerpopiller··on Facebook refuses to follow GDPR regulations by spewing nonsense and lies
as long as the Irish data protection authority continues to halt or stall any investigation into FB and co. no GDPR fines will be issued.

I hope the review of the GDPR this year will change the one stop shop principle.

killerpopiller··on The Case for Buying a House with Friends
one buys the house and separates the levels into flats selling those to the friendly parties. It’s common.
killerpopiller··on Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?
not OP, but I do believe that drug trade wouldn't take place to this extend without the immigrants.

I've lived in Finland decades ago and it was very different from where I came from - clean so to speak. Even in Helsinki Weed was hard to come by. No weird guys lurking on corners and all this scum one encounters in big cities in the wrong districts. There were no wrong districts. Scandinavia is/was (?) a different culture also because it was not riddled with such untethered people.

killerpopiller··on Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
to my knowledge, the lab managed to find the source of those plastic particles (around 15.0000/l). It is not what ones would expect, eg. from packages but plastic from tires, building material and paints and varnishes.
killerpopiller··on DoH Secure DNS Doesn't Make Us a Villain Mozilla Tells UK ISP's
please, UK is a special - Cambridge Analytica‘s success to manipulate the Brexit vote - the video surveillance of public spaces - this porn debacle
killerpopiller··on VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car
It’s not a preorder but a reservation. You can get your money back any time
killerpopiller··on Magic Leap One now available for $2295
I remain sceptical and feel reminded on the 3D-Displays in the late 90ies from 4D-Vision, later x3d and then opticality. 3D without glasses but no content (except some plugins for 3D-SW) to drive adoption.
killerpopiller··on [dead]
Us as in the people? Trump was elected

didn't the last governments hollowed out public schools and other educational institutions to curb education and thus be elected by more steerable people?

killerpopiller··on Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert
meter please
killerpopiller··on Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
my main sorrow with the clearly misleading wifi-switch is to fall prey to those nasty mac-adress tracker in shops.

the other reasons you list are minor issues, who needs constant update possibilities, phone call forwarding to your Mac, airplay and handoff on the way? yes, I also forgot switch off wifi and burned through my volume, but we shouldn’t dumb systems down. People need to understand cause and effect, especially in IT.

killerpopiller··on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How
What about shadow profiles?

I am not used by FB but it most certainly maintains an account of me.

Additionally, handing over data does not give FB full usage rights to it. At least in the EU, data subjects enjoy the basic right of informational self determination. FB may have to answer in a more comprehensive manner with the GDPR coming into effect.

killerpopiller··on Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
I also suspect tax avoidance rather than transaction costs
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