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> As a small developer, the cost to support something like this would be so overwhelming I wouldn’t consider supporting the EU officially. As a small developer, you wouldn't fall u…

> So far, the only sin archive.today has been accused of is retaliating against a guy attempting to dox them. I think you're missing that circumventing paywalls is unlawful in most…

It is mentioned in their list of subprocessors: https://www.digitalocean.com/trust/subprocessors

Because these companies never lose data, like during some lightning strikes, oh wait: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33989384 As a government you should not be putting your st…

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Also, I don’t think that the parent comment was being …

Many reasons: - They are not asking for consent, there is just an ok button. - They assume consent when you navigate further on the site, this is not valid consent. - Consent needs…

Lovely that their blog with privacy propaganda has a cookie banner that is not compliant with any privacy law in any way. Says everything about their efforts, I guess.

> Imagine 2007 and the following years already with the EU act in full effect. AppStore would be dead on arrival. No, it wouldn't have been, as the DMA only applies to 'gatekeepers…

> Hotels are concerned that direct booking clicks are down as much as 30% since our compliance changes were implemented. These businesses now have to connect with customers via a h…

Except that, you can actually disable them. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...

You're talking about the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will come into effect in the EU in about two weeks. It does exactly what you say, although Apple is still actively trying t…

> A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn't have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa In the Netherlands we have BKR, …

There is nothing in there about retroactively applying laws. If there is anything, it may be that the laws were(/are) unclear. The Irish DPC states they never approved anything (bu…

It's great that you have a non-publicly available newsletter as a source, but if you read the DPC item [1] you'll see that it's just about the GDPR. What Ben probably does not unde…

> Yeah, especially when in the case of the fine for consent about personal ads, the fine was for violations before the law was in place. Do you have any source for that, or are you…

But is it an optimisation to send the SVG contents in every request, instead of just letter the browser cache the image?

> I could sell an app in the EU that just pinged my server once a day. As long as I wasn't keeping a record of who pinged what when, there is no PII. Data processing is not just ab…

> Anomyous telemetry is not PII. GDPR is personal data. How are you exactly going to submit it anonymously? Will it connect over Tor? Because if you just send it over your internet…

Expect 50 to 200% price increases within a year or so, it is what TWS has been doing with all hosting parties they acquired. For example, PCExtreme had simple dynamic hosting for 1…

https://status.phoneburner.com/incidents/q55r8f62p437 I guess it was taken care of. > Our system is currently down due to upstream telephone carrier issues

That's Max Schrems, founder of noyb, the NGO that filed the complaints. An image caption would have been useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems

A bonded/teamed interface usually load balanced based on a flow. Thus, over a single TCP flow you will only use one of the interfaces. On top of that MPTCP also offers advantages w…

> even just asleep is fine, for a laptop Except that Windows never-ever-ever reliably sleeps. There is always something, some program, some driver, whatever, waking it up from slee…

> Unfortunately, the law treats negotiations between actual peers and large companies "negotiating" with individual customers the same way--it'd be hard to delineate distinct class…

> What actual law, that they recognize, are they breaking? The current ICJ court case is about the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was s…