siimtalvik

hold refresh button and click on "request desktop site".

then go to facebook.com/messages.

well article 6 is as concrete as it gets:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

(and maybe article 9) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/

Logging in today, from europe, I received a modal about some updates.

It stated that there are some updates i'll need to review:

One of them, the facial recognition feature.

""" Here's what we'll ask you to review: An option for turning on face recognition """

Full modal can be seen here: https://img1.picload.org/image/dogcpgci/selection_122.jpg

Clicking Get Started I received some information on GDPR and their data usage:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprra/selection_123.jpg

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprrl/selection_124.jpg

Clicking "Manage Data Settings" I was given some examples on data usage:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprri/selection_126.jpg

Clicking "Continue" I received this modal, with 3 datapoints that are used.

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprrw/selection_127.jpg

Obviously, Facebook processes more data than these three. It has never really been a dating app and that is definitely not one of their main focuses.

Anyway, I went on to remove my "Interested in" datapoint. Prompting an "are you sure" modal:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprdr/selection_128.jpg

After clicking remove this single datapoint was removed:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprda/selection_129.jpg

I expected this flow to continue, but looks like that was it. I decided to stop here and not "Accept with changes". There was NO chance to opt-out of the facial recognition program:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprdl/selection_130.jpg

They're obviously trying to go with "these three groups of data are protected and need opt-in". The rest, yeah - we need that to provide the service.

I also have another tab open, that works, so I'm not really blocked from using the site. At-least for now.

Edit: opening Facebook in new tabs, no longer starts this modal, even though I haven't accepted the new changes.

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Edit 2: Went looking, and googling, trying to opt-out of the facial recognition program.

Here are the options I have under Privacy:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapr/selection_131.jpg

Here are the options I have under "Your Facebook information":

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapa/selection_132.jpg

Clicking "view" under Managing your information I get this very (un)helpful help page:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapl/selection_133.jpg

Choosing Facebook I get these options:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapi/selection_134.jpg

Choosing "Change my face recognition settings", the send button is still disabled, but I get this very helpful link to "also edit your face recognition settings", the link points to "https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec", but actually takes me back to my "General Account Settings":

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcporl/selection_136.jpg

As far as I can understand, there is no way to change face recognition settings in the flow I received from the A/B testing gods. Might have something to do with me not agreeing to the changes in the first modal.

On twitter, it was said that affected subnets are:

52.58.0.0/15

18.196.0.0/15

18.194.0.0/15

35.156.0.0/14

src: https://twitter.com/CatVsHumanity/status/985914182959759360/...

Just in case the original website goes down, here's a screenshot:

https://img2.picload.org/image/dogacarr/selection_120.jpg

In Estonia(within Europe) we have this awesome "investment account" system where you make a separate bank account and the tax system is simplified for that account.

Any money you put in, can be taken out without paying any taxes.

Once you've taken out more than you paid in, you just pay income tax and that's it.

You report your "paid in" and "paid out" sum(to/from that one account) to the tax office yearly.

Really makes the whole process simple and adaptable to any investment model.

yes. Kicad and two video series made by Chris Gammell...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/getting-to-blinky/

I'd recommend doing them quick, as Kicad is on the verge of a new major release(5.0) and these series might become outdated.

One of the two reasons i changed my recipient_delimiter parameter to '.'

The other would be that spammers know that anything after a + is usually optional and strip it. Can't do that when the delimiter is a '.'

yes.

I had a coworker who was against moving to python3(and kept on writing python2 code for a while) because you need to use brackets with python3 print statement.

This has changed a bit with GDPR coming into force soon.

When google tried to go push '+' they needed the people to forget about the data, messages, pictures and everything else that was on facebook. That burden was a bit too much.

GDPR requires facebook to provide users with their data in a machine readable format. So that competitors could write migration scripts and there would be no such lock-in. Makes it easy to switch platforms and bring some competition into the space.

Art. 20 GDPR Right to data portability https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

With difficult discussions being locked and limited to collaborators.

With the main answer to questions being, we can discuss this somewhere else, some-other (unknown) time in the future, usually in a more private setting. Unless pressed further.

Case in point: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457#issuecomm...

Or as carmforce(Ubl) so nicely put it. "our project, our rules" but those rules keep changing, are not public and the raised issue about defining/clearing up those rules is obviously not a priority.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597#issuecomm...

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13603

This ties heavily with 'right to repair' as a lot of the software/protocol blocks are infact "access controls for copyrighted works".

It's often impossible to reverse engineer and document a protocol or replace a proprietary tool without breaking DRM first.

yes, it shouldn't be legal. EU single market and all that.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-4781_en.htm

Give /r/NeutralPolitics a shot.

It's a heavily moderated subreddit focusing on well sourced content.

Essentially, if a comment(fact) doesn't have a respected source attached it gets booted.

One of the reasons people are angry, is that this type of investigation has been made as hard as possible currently.

Posts are being removed from bugzilla and threads being locked. The code itself comes from a random github repo, not affiliated with mozilla/firefox. (https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977

people here were asking why normal process wasn't followed. No answer or links to resources.

another closed discussion here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425187

and here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425171

I appreciate your input as someone who knows the process, but this really wasn't followed this time.

edit: they've changed the repo now. so it's redirected to https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr

it was an opt-out program actually.

Studies are enabled by default.

Terminating an instance instead of deleting it. A pure terminology issue that a lot of newcomers have issues with.

+ instances not really being deleted when 'terminated', so there's unnecessary clutter on your dashboard.

Ticket open since 2008: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=26111&sta...

They also still count against your usage limit, so workflow gets interrupted and you have to wait till they are actually deleted, but you can't really be sure when that happens.

So have a coffee, check back, nope not gone. Get another one, nope not gone.