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A couple of days ago I've decided to not finish Seveneves after having been disappointed by REAMDE already. Are there any recent book releases anyone can recommend to people who love Cryptonomicon, Anathem and Snow Crash but aren't really into REAMDE and Seveneves?

Is there anything specific to RCS that stops Google from implementing end-to-end encryption in their client?

I don't want my chat messages routed through some foreign jurisdiction, encrypted or not, so carrier-owned sounds good to me.

I think they have to allow it so that services like call forwarding work.

> which they accepted

That's not great.

> is enough to prove intent to server EU residents

Given that it's still April, there's literally no way for you to know that. Also, the sentence you're quoting starts with "may make it apparent" not "does make it apparent".

Having said that, if you're building a service that let's people select EU timezones, countries, currencies and so on you're probably going to have a hard time proving that you're not providing goods or services to Europeans (because you probably are). If you're providing goods or services to Europeans GDPR applies.

And how is me deleting my content your service violating your right to free speech exactly?

> just having a webserver storing access logs (default of Apache and Nginx) makes you infringing it as EU IPs are now considered personal data.

That's not true. Read the 23rd point right at the top: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Here's the part of it that covers your webserver: "Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller's, processor's or an intermediary's website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, [...]".

File system. The prices for Hetzner's cloud seem to be the same: 20TB traffic included and 1,19€/TB on top of that. (That's super cheap by the way.)

I recommend Hetzner too, but I want to point out that traffic is not free. When you exceed the included traffic (something like 20-50TB IIRC) your connection gets throttled unless you pay 1,2-1,4€/TB.

That's a good thing though. Traffic does cost money and all those providers offering unlimited traffic will start emailing you once you generate significant amounts of traffic anyway.

Edit: Just to put that into perspective (since most people here are talking about the price of the server). If you buy a affordable server for 30-40€/month and you saturate the 1gbit/s NIC 24/7 you end up paying over 450€/month. If you buy a more expensive server (75€/month, 50TB traffic included, 1,19€/TB extra traffic) you save at least 100€/month. I guess what I'm saying is worry about the price of the traffic not the price of the server.

Edit2: My math is all wrong. Anyway if you need lots of traffic buy their regular servers instead of the auctioned ones, you will save money (more like 50+€/month, but still).

You don't have to make a lot of assumptions to realize doing the math is a waste of time. The group of people most likely to pay for services like Facebook are 20-something year olds with some extra money to spend. That's a group advertisers care very much about. If they're gone your customers (the advertisers) aren't going to be happy.

Sure, at this point you could still hire some company to do phone surveys for you trying to figure out how many of you users would be willing to pay and you can make some kind of educated guess as to how that would affect advertising revenue but why bother, really.

"Mark has apologized and I know he is prepared to apologize in any situation". That's pretty funny.

Anyway, the title is wrong. All she says is giving users the option to completely opt-out of targeted advertising on their platform would be a payed product.

There's a reason why Facebook and all the others don't offer paying for their services. They want to be able to tell advertisers that they can reach X amount of people. If X gets too small advertisers lose interest and they have to charge paying customers more and so on. I guess at some point somebody did a napkin calculation and decided it's not worth it.

> I wondered how do people by this stuff believing it helps them

Read Amazon reviews. It's pretty amazing what people can come up with.

I take the usual suspects: Magnesium (I run almost every day) and a Omega 3/Vitamin D combo (I don't eat fish and we don't get a lot of sun here in northern Germany). Seems like a reasonable thing to be doing but I can't for the life of me tell any difference with or without them. I do buy the cheap ones though - maybe I'd feel 10 years younger if I'd buy the top shelf ones...

Audits and fuzzing don't really make sense if it's a documented feature. Also the many eyeballs principle seems to hold given that the Debian folks found the bug.

Having said that, a lot of the core command line tools (not just the GNU coreutils) that are run against untrusted input could certainly be improved. I'd prefer the OpenBSD method though - if it can't exec then I don't need to worry about the bugs the auditor/fuzzer didn't find.

Anybody know the ratio of OpenSSL bugs related to memory management compared to "normal" bugs, TLS state machine weirdness, compiler optimizations, etc.?

You seem to completely ignore that a large fraction of people relapse.

Okay let's pretend I said lots of them instead of most of them. What does that change? The rules for .eu aren't anything out of the ordinary. Australia has exactly the same requirements IIRC. .uk also requires a local contact.

Nope.

If that would be enough they would already offer it like they do for many other TLDs. You need more than a "contact" (i.e., address) inside the EU to register a .eu domain.

Most domains are restricted in some may - usually geographically. Some have even stricter rules (.cat for example requires you to publish your website in the Catalan language).

After Brexit people living in the UK no longer fulfill the requirements to own a .eu domain. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

I don't know what really happens when you click the delete button but I assume it does what is says. Why would they offer to delete the data and then not do so? Some intern finding out about that would cause a PR disaster and maybe even legal trouble. Doesn't seem worth it, they could have just not added the feature then.

Kind of shitty that they didn't mention that you can delete the data from your Google account and disable further data collection (at least for the stuff mentioned in the article). I guess that would have made the article more informative and less scary.

> But if Github's phrasing accurately represents what EU wants to do

It doesn't. It's just a proposal. Not all proposals become law and this one has "not gonna make it" written all over it.

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"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications"

Been waiting for this one.

I though maybe it had some flag that makes it display process information or something. Anything that would justify it being part of procps really.

Apple pays taxes in Luxembourg. It doesn't matter where the app developers live or where the people buying the apps live. The money goes to Luxembourg. Is that where the value is created?

My bad. I figured it needs /proc since it's part of the procps package.

Watch is Linux-only.

S. Fischer isn't just a independent subsidiary. The company is run by Monika Schoeller (born Monika von Holtzbrinck). She and her brother own large parts of Holtzbrinck and she's listed as a partner and member of the supervisory board on Holtzbrinck's website. (Her brother, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, is the CEO.)

> Why would they want to subsidize a losing bet using the profits from other divisions?

Because owning S. Fischer, Rowohlt and Droemer Knaur means owning a large chunk of the german book market.

> Making an effort not to buy books from that publishing house ever again, and telling all my friends about it.

Good luck with that. S. Fischer is owned by Holtzbrinck. They own Macmillan, Springer Nature and a bunch of other publishing houses. Here's a list of their subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtzbrinck_Publishing_Group#S...

Vodafone/Kabel Deutschland doesn't seem to be blocked either. (I tried a couple from the 18 that are supposed to be blocked.)