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Does XFCE suffer with the Gnome3 affliction of having a top menu bar and a program menu bar underneath? I am left looking through a letter box at my software. Unity was good at thi…

Don't blame the email 1) Before email I had more letters and phone calls 2) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails and that is not mandated by your manager, that is your fault. …

But they could charge you a reasonable fee before. Now it will be free!

Depends on your business. I didn't find it as hard as PCI compliance for instance

I'm using pyvenv even though it has started warning me I should move. I won't change from it for exactly the reasons in this comic. When I do a new OS install I will try pipenv aga…

> Laws like GDPR are written in such away that make them open to "legal trolls" Except with GDPR all you could do is report them to the member states governing body. So no trolling…

> You are employing a DPO if you are compliant. In the UK the ICO is the governing body, and they say I don't need one. From their guidance linked below >The GDPR introduces a duty…

> But every HTTP server handles personal data But not all of them have a good reason to log it. /dev/null

> There are lots of guides out there designed for humans. > It's not even remotely okay to use random people's blog posts as a compliance strategy. Then use the simple, human frien…

Under what circumstances are you expecting to receive a $5m dollar fine? To me (who is assessing this risk at a UK SME) the idea of an SME receiving this kind of fine is absurd. As…

> I think this highlights the EU vs US perspective on Government nicely And the differences in the legal systems specifically. I think this is why a lot of HN commentators are find…

Larger than small business here, we are not employing a DPO and we are complying with GDPR.

I'm afraid I disagree entirely. If your business is aggregating data in order to sell more effective advertising then you are walking a line and need a lawyer. If your business is …

That sort of depends if you were complying with the UK Data Protection Act (1998), or any of the other European acts stemming from the 1995 directive, already. GDPR is only an incr…

As someone mentioned in the comments in the article I think it is very common for people to use LibreOffice Calc to work with CSV because Excel does not handle UTF-8 all that well.…

Then there was the London to Birmingham railway line, built largely by hand, which was supposed to be more work by less people in less time. "Peter Lecount, an assistant engineer o…

> to lift weights that would be impossible to handle by most power cranes in operation today. TlDr; Modern construction techniques do not require lifting heavy blocks of stone, so …

I guess that is partly because of changes in architectural tastes. Large staircases in grand houses are more as likely to be concrete or steel today. I suspect most woodworkers wou…

Unless you have a reason for keeping them /dev/null is probably the best answer. If you have a reason for keeping them think about who needs to see them again and on what timescale…

> People post personal details about their lives here Which they explicitly choose to do > some use their real names as their username Which is not required to use the site > the s…

Could you elaborate on how this is a restriction on freedom of speech? How is an 'information site' affected? Take HN for example, when I signed up they didn't even ask my name. Th…

> forced to supply results in the way "people want", counter to its financial interests. I get my water from a private company. Should they be forced to supply me with clean drinki…