>No. You asked How can you comply with the current requirements without cookie banners?
Within the context of the discussion of if its malicious compliance or a natural consequence of the law. Obviously you could have a website with 0 cookies but thats not the world we live in. Maybe you were hoping GDPR would have the side effect of people using less cookies? It in no way requires that though.
GrapheneOS is an alternative OS, that keeps the same security model as Android. It's not a "custom, hacked thing that disables the security".
> Assuming a phone was securely installed (after verifying sha/sig) with lineageOS RECOVERY and ROM - it will not accept a build with different sign keys. (i.e) AOSP keys.
Do you know which keys are used by Lineage? My understanding is that some phones running Lineage use the testing keys. Simply because some phones don't allow "custom keys". But that means that it defeats the point of the signing.
Are you saying that the signing is useless in Android?
Agreed. Recently started a new gig and set up Mise (previously had used nix for this) in our primary repos so that we can all share dependencies, scripts, etc. The new monorepo mode is great. Basically no one has complained and it's made everyone's lives a lot easier. Can't imagine working any other way — having the same tools everywhere is really great.
Agreed, they aren't all huge, but they are all pretty big and the few that aren't huge sacrifice a lot of bed size.
I'm going through this now because I'm looking at upgrading from my ancient 2002 Tacoma Xtracab. Here's compared to 2025 models:
Vehicle Length Bed
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2002 Toyota Tacoma (Xtracab) 202.9" 74.5"
2002 Toyota Tacoma (2Dr) 184.4" 74.5"
2025 Maverick 199.8" 54.4"
2025 Honda Ridgeline 210.2" 64.0"
2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz 195.7" 52.1"
2025 Toyota Tacoma Xtracab 213.0" 73.5"
My Tacoma wasn't even the shortest you could buy back then and it's still shorter than half of the "small" trucks you can buy today. And unlike those, my truck has a full 6' bed. A Maverick is shorter than mine, but the bed is also nearly two feet shorter. I honestly don't see the point of a bed that's less than five feet long. At that point, it's just an SUV with a trunk that isn't weather-sealed.
Now, granted, it's not like you get nothing in return. These new vehicles (except the new Tacoma Xtracab) all have four doors and full-sized back seats. I can fit a kid in my jump seats but anyone older than that has a bad time. I'm sure they're safer for everyone in the truck too.
But if you really do want to prioritize bed size and still want a short vehicle, that option is just no longer well supported. I accept that my use case is probably a narrow one:
* Live in a dense city with a lot of parallel parking so don't want a long vehicle.
* Kayak fish a lot so want a long bed I can load a kayak in.
* Can get away with a two-seater because we can use my wife's car when there are passengers.
But it's definitely not as well served as it used to be. I'm probably going to end up with a short-bed Tacoma and rely on a bed extender to keep the kayak safe.
The situation is consistent with the way the American system is supposed to work. Texas has an obligation to protect entities of the state, not only regulate them.
You can't lock people up if they're not doing anything illegal. The first step is to write a law making what they're doing illegal. Then if they keep doing it, you'll be able to lock them up.
This is similar to what Malcolm Gladwell mentioned in Outliers (I think). He identified a certain group of people as connectors, people that if you don't know directly then you will know someone who does. And reaching these connectors are often vital for certain trends to take off
I just added that option. It wasn’t there when you initially looked :). Are you using one of the 3D presets/random config or are you using a 2D preset?
Putting conditional logic in legislation still benefits big companies, if it still requires legal expertise to unpack all of the complexity added to the law. GDPR is a mess exactly because of this, and so is the UK’s ridiculous OSA.
Ignoring that, the other problem is enforcement. Is it not unrealistic to have a law that says “if you are subject to a data breach you are subject to a penalty?”
Is it also not unrealistic to legislate a way to invalidate and replaced leaked data, or to simply avoid it entirely by tying an identity to a certificate chain?
Well, yeah, they were written to prevent at least some of the privacy abuse from those big tech companies, not to get rid of them. Sometimes the answer is more rules, such as rules protecting smaller businesses while continuing to place regulatory burdens on the tech giants, who are responsible for the most egregious invasions of privacy.
Perfect thanks. I'll give the N97 a go and put it to good use as a dedicated frigate NVR box. It certainly has a much lower power draw than my Unraid server.
This is infuriating. Running a startup myself, I don't have GDPR banners on my website, nor do I engage with any of the red tape associated with storing GDPR-regulated data. Why? Despite the flagrant misinformation being sown, GDPR doesn't apply for normal, useful-to-developers data collection. It is perfectly fine to use functional cookies like session storage and collect basic anonymous telemetry about how your site is being used, so long as there is absolutely nothing that ties it to a specific individual. Like the vast majority of businesses, I don't handle payment processing myself, so I have no need for any identifying information to ever grace my database.
> The GDPR is concerned with the following types of data:
> Personal data: If you can link data to an individual and identify them, then that data is considered personal with respect to the GDPR. Examples of personal data include name, address, date of birth, and IP address. The GDPR considers even encoded information (also known as "pseudonymous" information) to be personal data. If the encoded data can be linked to an individual, the data is considered personal, regardless of how obscure or technical the data is.
> Sensitive personal data: This data adds more details to personal data. Examples include religion, trade union membership, ethnic origin, and so on. Sensitive personal data also includes biometric data and DNA. Under GDPR, sensitive data has more stringent protection rules than personal data.
So when articles like this say "regulations are strangling small businesses", they aren't talking about the cost of compliance with unnecessary overhead, nor about being "forced" to have an unnecessary cookie banner. They're talking about being required to get consent before collecting and selling your personally identifying information. That is the regulation that's "strangling" them, and what they're aiming to change. If you don't engage in that behaviour, you aren't regulated by the GDPR in the first place.
It is particularly frustrating to see this change coming after the EU finally started cracking down on cookie banner abuse in court this year. It is now being legally enforced that, if you do have a consent banner, you must have a "reject all unnecessary cookies" button that is equally as prominent as the accept button, not hidden away in a sub-menu. There are still many sites that aren't compliant, but this has been a markedly huge improvement. It was disastroustly long overdue, and that was a failure on the EU's part, but it vexes me to see people frustrated with cookie banners cheering on the death of GDPR to automate data collection without consent when the actual solution was simply for the existing law to be enforced properly.
My guess is that there is no single mechanism, it's just degrees of freedom + capitalism.
If you have a relatively unprocessed food, there's definitionally not that much you can do to it.
Market forces dictate that food companies produce the cheapest possible food with the best taste. Evolutionarily, food that tasted good was good for you. Food science has developed, in the service of the market, to make good tasting food, especially food that tastes so good that you get addicted to it, that's made from cheap ingredients. Good for you is neutral unless the customer can detect that the food is not good for them. Generally, cheap ingredients are not as good for you. The ingredients are cheap because they don't taste good, and they don't taste good because they're not very nutritious.
If you give food science and the market some rope, they have a bajillion ways to make cheap things that taste good.
The time period under discussion ("before Thunderbird", and the heyday of Outlook lock-in, and I would also add before gmail) is well before 2018.
I used mutt at the time too, but I don't think it's in the same category as the graphical clients. For a while Gnome's evolution was also big in free OS circles.
At least I was laughing at the Cloudflare oopsie, since all my light switches (et al) are all local. Unlike those people with a fancy smart bed that went into a W shape because it couldn't talk to AWS.
I agree in general (and already commented on this). But some people believe it's like giving fish instead of fishing rod. And I think it was prevalent idea in tech circles during 90s-00s that people who don't read that fm waste other participants time, and needlessly multiply forum topics or extend conversation history. Which was seen as uncivil behavior in those times.
I'd love to see benchmarks that hit CPU or NIC limits; the HTTPS test hit CPU limits on many of the configurations, but inquiring minds want to know how much can you crank out with FreeBSD. Anyway, overload behavior is sometimes very interesting (probably less so for static https). May well need more load generation nodes though; load generation is often harder than handling load.
Is there any avenue to validate the claims of the governor’s office, that these things must be protected? Are there for example, firms that will look at the unredacted content as a third party with confidentiality agreements, to certify that it is correctly being redacted? Otherwise it feels like they could easily be hiding any number of unethical or outright criminal activities this way.
I like Thunderbird, it’s a great tool for private use. One killer feature I always missed (not sure if it exists today by default in Thunderbird), is the great calendar integration of outlook. I use the calendar a lot, during work but also to organize our family. It’s super important for me to able to send invites to co workers and my wife :-)
