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KOReader is one of these projects where idea is fantastic, it's impressive that it works, and the result is sufficiently quirky that I couldn't get used to it. UI is cumbersome. On…

My TV isn't even connected to power

> Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem Is it though? Engineering is providing the cheapest solution that corresponds to what your customer asked. As it goes: anyone can bu…

Can you not set spending limits in AWS?

> I have to call MINI at some point and demand they fix this garbage That would never occur to me. Whenever something produced by a large company breaks, I pretty much assume there…

Also, corporate bullshit such as this should be stigmatized.

Quite especially when the process seems to have been triggered by the head of state of that host nation

Fixing the link: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-04/ed...

I'm somewhat knowledgable on privacy topics, pasting my answer to another comment: The EDPB has explicitly ruled on that, when it comes to age verification^1, you should delete: "T…

The EDPB has explicitly ruled on that, when it comes to age verification^1, you should delete: "Trust models are crucial to prevent data breaches in age assurance contexts [...] on…

> Why wouldn't they? They most likely weren't allowed to keep it past the verification per GDPR art.5. Once the passport has been verified for whatever purpose they needed it ("age…

> Zero password protection on document storage systems > > No encryption for sensitive identity verification data > > Public URL access with no authentication requirements > > No a…

Yeah, I almost closed my tab and burnt my browser realizing that.

> It funny to see the community here expects the human body to be treated like a deterministic function In a community largely made of people whose job it is to produce such functi…

"Oh but they didn't read the fine prints so that's on them". What a great argument. To people, "buy" when in the context of a movie largely means owning the freaking thing. > we're…

> Have you ever bought a ticket to a concert ? This comparison makes no sense. When you buy a ticket to a concert you fully expect to be allowed access to said concert. If it gets …

Ah, you mean picking pst as the permanent timezone?

> the effort to write a post This post was pretty obviously written by llm. You can assume the llm also picked the hosting platform.

That law, voted years ago, has overwhelming public support (including mine). Source: an actual source^1 ^1: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019PREM0103-001748#:~:text=...

drop the battery and use either PoE or just AC

I sent many an email from jacques.chirac@elysee.fr, the veneer of the terminal helping, my friends were quite impressed by how good a hacker I was. Good olde days when many DKIM/SP…

I work on the receiving end of media processing nowadays, and the overlap of variety in formats, codecs, and configurations is frustrating. No two encoders work the same way, and t…

> In my case, I asked it to migrate my static site from using Eleventy to Hugo This blog is on medium so I guess the migration went sideways! Joke aside, nice series of tutorials, …

Hi Eric! Sounds like an interesting topic! > Why do good companies go bad I find interesting the systemic explanation of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith in "The Dictator…

Posted many times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/philipl My favourite issue being about GDPR compliance https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/56