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python999··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
How about disclaimers on AI-generated legislation?
python999··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
GDPR requires you to request consent for any cookies the “could” be used to identify you, which makes them personal information.

So if you want to use cookies to link a user’s sessions on your own website together (without actually identifying them) so every request doesn’t look like a totally anonymous, opaque request, then you must show a cookie banner.

You could (presumably) do this through browser fingerprinting and not require consent (since you don’t actually enrich/link the browser fingerprint to be become user data) but you need a cookie banner if you do it with a cookie.

python999··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
I’m thinking of the opposite of a DNT header. Websites would be very happy to respect it because it’s like auto-accepting a cookie banner. You would need to manage your own cookies.
python999··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
I appreciate your thoughtful comment.

Most entrepreneurs believe that visibility over how your visitors are using your website is “strictly necessary” for running a functional/secure/performant website and surviving as a business, but GDPR disagrees. Hence, cookie banners everywhere.

Not deemed “strictly necessary” > “Statistics cookies — Also known as “performance cookies,” these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions.”

python999··on Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
One way to achieve full defensibility could therefore be to train on a human mimic of the corpus?
python999··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
> attempt by companies to make people associate cookie popups with GDPR

I think GDPR is generally good for individuals and the internet but if someone hates cookie banners, isn’t it fair to place the blame on GDPR?

Why can’t websites accept a special header which automatically accepts all cookies? I would enable it and handle clearing/retaining cookies myself through a browser feature/extension.

python999··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
I share your optimism, but I think a lot of the OP’s concern here is in response to a generic non-medical LLM “passing” a medical exam. In that case I think it is fair to compare it to a medical “colleague”, at least for now.
python999··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
C3PO? Or maybe its challenge is more relevance and conciseness?
python999··on New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
My requirements are 99% SPA and 1% SEO
python999··on The Rain System “contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition”
Maybe they would just monitor the corridors along transmission lines. That would be a tiny fraction of the area.
python999··on Ask HN: How Is Your Neck?
I had serious neck problems for years then one change almost completely relieved them: going from multiple monitors to a single monitor. The horizontal neck swivel motion is very nasty.
python999··on You have a set amount of “weirdness points” (2014)
Yes that slows the rate of change, but the rate of change adjusts based on the times (and hopefully it’s reasonably optimal but that would be hard to measure objectively because it’s a complicated risk-vs-reward, explore-vs-exploit trade-off). Eg Historical revolutions usually saw rapid changes in many areas like politics, art, culture, technology. Societies (like organisms and ecosystems) are extremely complicated so there are serious risks to evolving too fast so slow isn’t automatically bad.
python999··on Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
Do simple hello-world HTML pages render ok? I found that rendering was slow-ish but totally acceptable for reasonably heavy HTML pages, so long as we weren't flooding page re-renders (eg by using React without any optimisation of render calls)
python999··on Australian draft law requires tech companies to hand over encrypted messages
"despite legislative requirements he refused to provide his passcode"

Isn't that disobeying conditions of parole? Why not start there?