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GDPR doesn't apply for entities outside EU if they aren't specifically targetting services at individuals in the EU (which can be indicated by using EU domains, supporting EU curre…

I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's unlikely that this browsewrap agreement is enforcable in United States as the website doesn't ask the user to actually consent to Terms of Servic…

NixOS doesn't run Gixy anymore, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209075 .

This particular restriction is mostly arbitrary anyway because `this` and `super` accept arbitrary expressions (including static method calls), so in most cases it's possible to do…

The problem with shorting cryptocurrency is that you are assuming that market is fair, when this is absolutely not the case - the market is heavily manipulated.

Using YouTube is legally not an option here due to Privacy Act of 1974.

Paying the criminals wouldn't help here. First, there is no guarantee that they wouldn't release the data anyway, second, the data already got leaked - criminals who were responsib…

Technically Google already has per-service bans for Google Ads and YouTube. That doesn't help if you get banned for a reason unrelated to those services however.

Certificate Transparency system requires certificates issued by CAs to be publicly reported, otherwise web browsers will reject them. Publicly reported certificates then can be mon…

For ctest to work, it's necessary to start your User-Agent string with "NX NIFM/" (the console itself sends "NX NIFM/00" as an User-Agent string).

Technically there is sarcasm tag in HTML specification, it's one of tags that is specifically handled in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parsing-... ('An end ta…

PHP is a much simpler language which helps a lot with optimizations. For instance, consider something like property access. In PHP, doing `$a->b` accesses field `b` of object `$a`.…

> Records use : in their literal form, which is overloaded with type ascription. This is also annoying in cases where you might want to move a field into a let binding. This one is…

https://xkcd.com/1958/

Minecraft website said the following: > Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy wi…

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/ says "USB Type-C".

I don't think there is anything wrong with storing passwords unencrypted locally assuming the machine itself has encrypted storage. Malware that retrieves passwords from password m…

Helvetica typeface cannot be copyrighted in United States, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

Technically it may not be a copyright infringement - whether emojis can be copyrighted is quite complicated. However, this is irrelevant as App Store Review guidelines say the foll…

I think Apple would have to be stupid to block booting other operating systems on the devices they already have sold. This could easily lead to lawsuit, similar to one that Sony ha…

Accessibility matters. If nothing else because it is a legal requirement with laws such as US's Americans with Disabilities Act, UK's Disability Discrimination Act, EU's European A…

Breaking changes ( https://vitejs.dev/guide/migration.html ) are minimal and unlikely to affect most applications, and when they do the issues should be trivial to fix.

> I'm sure Google can send a cease-and-desist to all sorts of other stores instead of just Apple. Google may dislike those applications and refuse to host them on Google Play, but …