The cookie banner isn't actually specified in gdpr, it was just how everyone else tried to build the solution to the problem at the last minute.

I remember thinking "ok once this hits an actual web spec, we should see this built into browsers, and sent as headers or something"

Nope

Interesting read. Definitely hoping this works out so we can have cheap LLM machines at home

That wasn't the claim. The claim is that stable code (that isn't changed except to fix bugs) has fewer bugs than code someone newly wrote and we haven't had as much time to run into or otherwise uncover flaws. I never meant that all old software is bug-free craftsmanship or something xD

Found the reference (bless bookmark managers): https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...

Relevant bits:

> vulnerabilities decay exponentially.

> A large-scale study of vulnerability lifetimes² published in 2022 in Usenix Security confirmed this phenomenon. Researchers found that the vast majority of vulnerabilities reside in new or recently modified code: [plot]

> This confirms and generalizes our observation⁴, published in 2021, that the density of Android’s memory safety bugs decreased with the age of the code, primarily residing in recent changes.

> [takeaway #2:] Code matures and gets safer with time, exponentially, making the returns on investments like rewrites diminish over time as code gets older.

² https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat...

⁴ https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...

Citing from [4]:

> The above analysis of the age of memory safety bugs in Android (measured from when they were first introduced) demonstrates why our memory-safe language efforts are best focused on new development and not on rewriting mature C/C++ code. Most of our memory bugs occur in new or recently modified code, with about 50% being less than a year old.

So much for 'open'.

Let's have consumer laws but have the right ones. A company shouldn't have the right to hurt me, for example.

I think the whole teackpad idea is stupid and unusable (like anything that needs software correction for physical layout idiocy) and I blame Apple for its prevalence. Apple could make an entirely worthless product and within 4 years everyone would have to copy it.

I made this to remove watermarks. I tested it with your algorithms and it does a decent job except for secret race - for some reason this one did not seem to work. I am not claiming this to be a solution to the watermarking - it definitely degrades the quality of the output as my synonym lists are not contextual but it is a POC and works https://yoshimi.space/bleach/

Well explained! The reason investors invest is because they want to see returnand that comes from growth, so founders' incentives change.

That "rebuild" in the headline raises the immediate question of "where?". Last I heard, the situation upstream threatened another such flood. And what if other river systems in Nepal are also dangerous?

I don't agree with most of their political agenda but at least i know they aren't a psy-op since the us scapegoated them lol

It runs MacOS? That is the main reason I buy Macs.

I see you are not familiar with the far left lol. What passes for left in the USA is the tip of the left iceberg. The leftmost edge of the identity politics in USA is a funny cartoon version. OTOH, the Fox News right is adjacent to far right, but also misses it substantively, just not by as far.

Not directly related to your embedded Go bug, but maybe helpful:

What really sky-rocketed my debugging skills in embedded devices was learning to utilize the Python plugin interface of 'gdb'.

I'm selling options on ButlerianJihad losing, expiration in 1 year for $25. Who wants one?

Sad, but this deplatforming nonsense was always going to cut both ways.

The slippery slope continues.

Note that GDPR did not mandate the cookie banners we see everywhere today. Those are a form of malicious compliance. Their goal is not to conform to regulation but to undermine the regulation itself in the eyes of the public.

Having seen these in the Zoo, they very much like to stalk the visitors along the fence - these are much more than just dogs.

GDPR has one single goal - to allow aggregated presumably anonymous data markets. Period. Everything else surrounding it is diversion in a plain sight.

On my machine, e is just a way to send things into Emacs.

    $ which e
    e () {
            snippet="(nkv-find-file-and-jump \"$1\")" 
            emacsclient --no-wait -e $snippet
    }

very nice, excited to try it

How does it compare to nuo-stems ?

Because it's more expensive and more likely to fuck it up.

The point of the article is not that banners are good; it’s that they would not be needed at all if websites didn’t share all the possible data about their users with hundreds of vendors.

Fun fact: the OP blog doesn’t display a GPDR banner.

I wouldn't argue for no regulation. I don't see the regulatory problems though as similar. Isn't one health and the other... monopoly? Expensive laptops?

> We're both wrong, it's 38.646,02€

Assuming you don't pay Kirchensteuer, it's almost €40,000.

> you're already entitled for social benefits (Wohngeld)

No, you're slightly above the threshold but in any case this doesn't say much. If you're talking about families, I'd also assume that your partner earns a little extra.

Anyway, the median gross income in Germany is €54,000, so you seem to be implying that the majority of Germans are unable to live a decent life. Maybe you should talk more to people outside your social bubble?

Weird phrasing "just a toy" for one and "hacker toy" for the other. Beni is actually something you can use more than a toy.

Leaving 50,000 people – including the elderly, the vulnerable and the sick – without electricity in Berlin in the middle of winter during the festive season is being passed off as activism? The terrorists who caused this suffering also argued with anti-capitalism. So anyone who claims that anti-capitalism and anti-fascism cannot also be forms of terrorism is simply a propagandist.

How do you know this?

You should see how the datacenter companies operate. They have massive teams of lawyers bigger than the entire city staff threatening all sorts of lawsuits and even pressure cities into signing NDAs against discussing their negotiations with any other city. They have buckets of money and perks waiting to bribe a defector or fund an election campaign. Any old scummy company with a couple of billion dollars is frequently more sophisticated and powerful than a piddly local government.

> The dark ages were anything but dark

The period is only called dark age in English for what it’s worth, that should make it pretty obvious it’s not a universal understanding of that era

Yes they do - https://monzo.com/mobile