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>> Are EU courts going to issue default judgements on businesses and individuals? > Against individuals: Unlikely, but it could happen AFAIK IANAL: GDPR doesn't apply to individual…

Well, in case of "need enough revenue to operate" they could just add reasonable "no tracking" monthly fee.

The problem is that you have very short window to migrate to Java 11 (next LTS) with Python there is no such problem as really each release is LTS, so you have three years to migra…

I heard that this is a standard floating point test, if you get non integer value your floating point implementation is subtly broken ;)

You might use gitlab to clone your github repos. Web interface to clone them is super easy (obviously you can do it from the console also), there is no limit to private repos (thei…

Well, I guess, one could argument than after losing contact with working class and solidifying their rule, China's ruling class will what every non-democratic regime did --- try to…

Well I see some correlation between being left-leaning and not being asshole to employees ;)

This will end this "Buy PrivacyGuard^TM for extra 5$" bullshit. Overally you just need: 1) Means to sue rogue domain owner. 2) Means to contact domain owner to inform them of abuse…

As a programmer I like panoramic screen very much --- I usually have at least two panes with code open next to one each other. My four year laptop has HD screen, which also helps a…

I really hope some law enforcement agency will someday classify uber as a: "organized crime group". I don't mean the drivers --- but management is doing absolutely everything to ob…

For a simple project cmake is also very easy to write. Much easier than plain make IMO, as you have only a single layer of abstraction (cmake).

Problem is, that as far as I understand, compiler "fixes" could fix attacked application. So if JavaScript code is exploiting Spectre to read passwords from your keepassx fixes nee…

Shouldn't cloud-grade computers be immune to rowhammer (or at least rowhammer should be much less efficient) as they typically use ECC RAM. Switching ECC RAM in a way that also mod…