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wigginuson GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

According to the annual report (https://www.zaftda.de/tb-bundeslaender/berlin/695-tb-lfd-ber...), N26 used to add all former customers to a black list, which is not allowed if there is no suspicion against them.

>>Eine schwarze Liste für ehemalige Kundinnen und Kunden, gegen die keine Verdachtsmomente bestehen, ist rechtswidrig.

translated with deepl: >>A blacklist for former customers against whom there is no suspicion is unlawful.

wigginuson Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system

Secure(d) has two meanings, in this case it has the meaning "obtained".

See #10 at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/secure.

wigginuson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript (React, Angular, Vue), Go, Java (incl. Java EE, WebSphere), Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bash

Homepage: https://clemenswilding.ch

Résumé/CV: https://clemenswilding.ch/CV_CWI_2019.pdf

Email: cwi at clemenswilding.ch

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My competences:

* Service oriented design and implementation

* Integration of existing systems

* Development of individual solutions

* Agile and object oriented software development

* Dynamic front end development

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I would especially be interested in a (web) security related job.

wigginuson Looking ahead for WhatsApp

As far as I read correctly, you can opt out of this: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016

wigginuson Relax – A New Generation CMS on Top of React, Redux, and GraphQL

Doesn't work in the 'classic' edition either.

wigginuson Show HN: We help co-founder profiles find a position in Berlin

Cool. Are you planning to also integrate Xing as another option to LinkedIn? As far as I know Xing is more widespread in Germany.

wigginuson Unreal Engine 4 shots that are unbelievably realistic

This video is much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLGoqqDc0w

wigginuson Kickstarter switches to Stripe

They don't say that Amazon is killing the whole payment service. Amazon just discontinued the payment product used by Kickstarter, so far I can tell.

wigginuson More digital autonomy with Qabel – from alpha to 1.0

I would have linked to the official site (https://qabel.de/), but unfortunately there is no information there yet

wigginuson Linux for Lettuce

Isn't a monopoly in seeds also quite dangerous, as the whole population might be eradicated by one single disease?

Edit: Also the fact that you cannot actually fight the system without participating in said system is totally perverse. So in order to open source a seed you have to first patent it and then waive the patent you just created? Sounds like a huge overhead just to justify the legal system.

wigginuson Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage

No, they haven't voted yet. There will be a vote, but the date of it is yet unclear.

wigginuson JavaZone 2014 movies

Just a heads-up, the Game of Codes trailer is / might be NSFW, which makes sense as it's a GoT spoof.

wigginuson Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL

Actually I think the Heartbleed vulnerability was most probably found because of this migration, as it was found by Neel Mehta of Google (and the Codenomicon guys). The date of this draft is 2014-01-26, so it makes sense, that the OpenSSL code is evaluated by the security team before the migration.

wigginuson Tell HN: Rejected from App Store - "customer damaging their iPhone."

There is a similar application for Android, where you have to throw your phone in the air as high as possible:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.enea.SkyIsTheLimit

wigginuson Making Pizza with Python

The University of Alberta has a research group devoted to the problem: http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/

wigginuson Is Java A Dead End For Enterprise Application Development? [pdf]

Link to the article mentioned in the presentation: http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/10-11-23-java_is_a...

Previous HN entries about the article (no discussion unfortunately):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988695

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935838

wigginuson Gmailr: An Unofficial Javascript API for Gmail

Thanks! I'm also an avid 0Boxer user, now I'm longing for a zero inbox even more.

wigginuson Working Around the Java Double.parseDouble Bug

From the comments of above post:

A bug report for the same bug from almost 10 (ten!) years ago: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4421494

wigginuson The NYC subway system as a string instrument

Did you enable Flash? I had the same problem at first, but after enabling Flash it worked fine.

wigginuson Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

I think many European countries adjust the fines to ones wealth:

For example Switzerland: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230

wigginuson Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418329

wigginuson Gawker Media hacked

Doesn't look like a joke: http://twitter.com/Adrianchen/status/14069191178985472

wigginuson A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

Some technical suggestions:

* programming languages: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

* operating systems: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...