jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation
We already have laws against that.
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jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation
Yeah… who are the owners of a flat to decide what to do with it, eh?
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Quebec delays vaccine mandate for health-care workers, fearing staffing crisis
Alternatively, inform yourself and take a conscious and thoughtful decision using the information at your disposal. Don’t let others (especially the government) push you around to take or not take the vaccine.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Quebec delays vaccine mandate for health-care workers, fearing staffing crisis
If those workers stand their ground the mandate can be delayed forever. It will be interesting to see what the regime does next.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Go: Don't Change the Libraries in 1.18
Because features in software don’t exist until someone adds them.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2
In some countries something like this has been mandatory for a long time.
In Germany and its lapdog Austria there’s the mandatory impressum: fully doxxed whether you want it or not.
In Spain if you handle a database with personal information (like a forum or a blog where people can leave their email addresses along with comments) you also have to put all your data somewhere in the page so people can contact you to have themselves removed.
But hey we have cookie banners at least!
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: USC to apologize for WWII actions that derailed Japanese American students
Apologising for something that happened decades ago when those responsible are no longer working and most of them are dead? Well that’s got to be easy.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes
They could also host these on their own website, but of course that doesn’t sound as flashy.
We are subject to American Puritanism because Europe has failed time and time again to create competitive social networks because of regulations and scarce access to capital. Better complain about that.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
Is this the guy who put crypto in Signal?
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
They rewrote the entire interface of chrome in JavaScript with obvious consequences.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Fastest Cache plugin
Automattic, the makers of Wordpress, have a free and very powerful cache plugin.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
They were probably trying to post spam and thought your search bar was a comment input field.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
Thank God it’s the end of that hippo wallpaper that looked like a pair of hairy bollocks.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is there no Django/Rails equivalent in JavaScript world?
Because developers of the JavaScript world wouldn’t find the performance of django or rails acceptable.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube
> I'm sure the inhabitants of the many countries the British invaded and continue to hang on to would disagree.
The political systems of every one of those countries are freer today than they were before the British “visited”.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way
What flagging achieves in many cases is nothing more than turning this site into an echo chamber. One can choose to throw the baby out with the bath water, but let’s not pretend that’s the best approach. It’s a bunch of people nodding at one another all the time.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Cybersecurity: EU to Ban Anonymous Websites
Let’s not forget TERREG, which already makes it illegal in practical terms for individuals to have an open forum or blog in Europe
> The EU just passed TERREG yesterday without a vote that requires anyone running a website with user generated content (a blog with comments, a forum etc.) and if they have significant EU user base to establish legal presence in the EU and have an officer responsible for deleting content with 1 hr SLA. That's out of reach for most of people. You cannot even block your site for EU traffic, because EU users can use VPN.
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> On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, which included:
>The one-hour rule: a legally binding one-hour deadline for content to be removed following a removal order from national competent authorities;
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
They aren’t as cost effective, powerful, or as widely deployed.
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
Have you ever heard of the FBI crime statistics?
jikbd | 4 years ago | on: How South Dakota has become a global tax haven
Because that money has already paid tax before.
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