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paradoja | 2 years ago | on: German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

This is the "Pay or okay" model that some sites in Austria and Germany have ( https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end and other updates from NOYB talk about the issue).

I've also seen a Spanish site with this, but as far as I know it has only been accepted by Austrian and German authorities (and challenged recently by some courts).

paradoja | 2 years ago | on: Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

Also Verdi https://tech.verdi.de/ .

paradoja | 3 years ago | on: Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell

It'd be 2 characters no? `head x` vs `x!!0`.

paradoja | 3 years ago | on: Bad UI is causing people to get scammed

Verifying that it works in Firefox in Linux (with Gnome and with Sway, in case that matters). Thanks a lot for this!

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: Google Analytics Opt Out

If GDPR is a concern, it has to be opt-in, so it wouldn't be compliant in any case.

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3

> The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".

But probably it doesn't have to. "--force" implies that the user wants to go on and manage the consequences of what happens. Typing it requires actively adding that flag, which is a conscious decision on the part of the user. If the user wants to check by themselves if it works or not, that could be their prerogative.

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: A Lesson in Acceptance

In the Spanish-speaking world you can find the endings -e, -@, and -x. Depending on the area/organization one or other can be used (also, differing ways of pronouncing them; I'm a native and barely have heard any one pronounce the -e versions ever).

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal

This seems to ignore the Snowden revelations. I don't think most of the world trusts US companies qualitatively more than they trust Chinese companies for these kinds of apps.

Also, the discussion was about national security and you are giving different arguments here. How is this related to national security?

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

I'd think that it's cheaper not because it's risky (specially since Amazon says it inspects the item), but because it's second hand. Trying to pass the risk to the user is probably not what most people would expect.

paradoja | 5 years ago | on: Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC

What is your source on this? This opinion seems to be against what experts continue saying.

paradoja | 6 years ago | on: Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

Well, that's not a defining characteristic of English but of most (all?) living, dynamic languages. I have seen it with the languages I speak or have tried to learn (Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese...).

paradoja | 6 years ago | on: Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients

Having a German (as parent poster) and Spanish phone for many years, I have never had a robocall. It's really surprising to me that this is a problem at all.

paradoja | 6 years ago | on: Why I'm still using jQuery

Getting a

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

trying to access https://youmightneedjquery.com .

paradoja | 7 years ago | on: Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution

Fixed link: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2019/04/appeals-...

There was a :wq at the end (too much vim everywhere ;) ).

paradoja | 7 years ago | on: Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors

This is true for quite some studies for bike commuters. The risk of accident is probably higher than getting public transport or walking (I don't know with respect to using a car; but that's less common in most places here in Europe), but the improved health conditions are worth it on average.

paradoja | 7 years ago | on: Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup

Maybe only the ones they had an easy excuse to remove?

paradoja | 7 years ago | on: When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

Handlers are already ignoring the caution signs, though, just not for (at least) one product, TVs.

paradoja | 8 years ago | on: How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay

It is my impression that corruption measures usually indicate corruption available or actively done by normal people without power (eg. bribing officers to get licenses or similar things).

Corruption by big corporations and similar things is usually another thing (although if things are corrupt in the low level, they will for sure be in the higher levels).

paradoja | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Lies

I guess the problems started much earlier, and that court decision was actually a result of such issues.

paradoja | 8 years ago | on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

I don't think I agree with the grandparent, but usually swing voters don't change their political views, but rather political parties adapt their programs (or rather, propaganda) to appeal to them. So I don't think that's a good example.