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I think 'rearchitect' should be interpreted as 'redesign the UI', not as 'start from scratch'. Most big changes seem limited to the UI (and done as part of a Qt -> QML migration). …

The original story is by the Dutch magazine 'Vrij Nederland': https://www.vn.nl/trump-twitter-hacked-again/ . Most Dutch news media run the story currently, including broadcasters …

That's the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn't speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember b…

Last I heard, KaiOS was working on migrating to Blink ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012709 ). Looks like Gecko isn't out of the running yet, which is good news from a br…

In practise, end-users will probably not setup a TOR(-style) network themselves. That means you'll need to do it for them, so they still have to trust you. At that point, just not …

> However, there is an unspoken claim that the gradient update doesn't carry enough information about the user data to reconstruct any of it server-side. This was a concern for me …

Your customer service should know how to deal with product warranty. Or should be able to handle a request to cancel an online purchase for 14 days after the order ([1]). How is ma…

That's not the whole story. There are further responses in that thread, including the opposing viewpoint from the TunSafe author. * https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018…

From the GDPR, recital 45: > [...] where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest [...] the processing should have a basis in Union …

And Facebook has the right to 'inform' another company about all data it collected from its users (only in exchange for a nice sum of money!) Except in the EU, freedom of speech an…

That makes sense for repository users keeping a private copy. But, I was thinking more about companies like Github. If they can hide behind that clause for every single repo they h…

There's an exception 'for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.', but there's situations where that would not apply. E.g. commits fixing a single spelling mistake…

> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary: > [...] > (d) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purp…

It's interesting to see how the GDPR seems to clash with some popular data models. For example, git. Rewriting history of a shared branch is disastrous, but it's currently the only…

I don't think so, or the language would have died out already. I'd argue it's more about whether children learn it as their primary language. Also, because of concerns of linguisti…

There's a middle road, you know: being bilingual. To run with the Icelandic example, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who speaks it but not English. Where I live, there's als…

Ah, seems like the situation is better than I remembered. I confused colored syntax highlighting with the default settings, which highlight using font weight/italicness etc. I did …

Now add syntax highlighting. In Markdown, it's trivial (```language-name), in LaTeX, you're going to have to define a style. LaTeX is more flexible, but it does come at a cost.

The article seems to argue for a GDPR[1]-like equivalent in the US. It'll be interesting to see how it is enforced in the EU. If applied as intended, it could offer a more realisti…

I'm curious if developments like this will mean future cars will not require lights at all. After all, the same communication required for an intelligent traffic intersection like …

They do not violate the relevant specification. They just implement it in a way that has not been done before with the user's convenience in mind. That aside, your position is unre…

I agree it would be great if other browsers implemented this as well, but you lose me at: > The best thing Mozilla could do is convince Apple and Microsoft to give up their indepen…