But at some point to interact with any kind of large company … You could also consider not interacting with large companies at all

Actually the large corps are more likely to hold the data in-house. Small companies cling to outsourcing. E.g. credit unions are the worst… outsource every service they offer to the same giant suppliers. Everyone thinks only a small company has the data (and consequently that the small dataset does not appeal to cyber criminals) but it’s actually worse because they outsource jobs even as small as printing bank statements to the same few giants most other credit unions use. Then they do the same for bill pay with another company. It’s getting hard to find a credit union that does not put Cloudflare in the loop. So in the end a dozen or so big corps have your data and it’s not even disclosed in the privacy statement.

Of course it depends on the nature of the business. A large grocery chain is more likely to make sure your offline store purchase history reaches Amazon and Google than a mom & pop grocer who doesn’t even have a loyalty program.

Whether businesses get copies of information is usually included in a site’s privacy policy,

I have never seen a privacy policy that lists partners and recipients apart from Paypal, who lists the 600+ corps they share data with for some reason. Apart from bizarre exceptions privacy policies are always too vague to be useful. Even in the GDPR region. If you read them you can often find text that does not even make sense for their business because they just copied someone else’s sufficiently vague policy to use as a template.

If you really want to limit your information exposure, you either have to audit everyone you do business with this way (because most large companies do this) or hire someone (or a service) to do it.

The breach happened in a country where companies are not required to respond to audits. No company wants any avg joe’s business badly enough to answer questions about data practices. In the EU, sure, data controllers are obligated to disclose the list of parties they share with (on request, not automatically). And even then, some still refuse. Then you file an article 77 complaint with the DPA where it just sits for years with no enforcement action.

My approach is a combination of avoiding business entirely, or supplying fake info, or less sensitive info (mailing address instead of residential, mission-specific email, phone number that just goes to a v/m or fax). This is where the battle needs to be fought – at data collection time. Countless banks needlessly demand residential address. That should be rejected by consumers. Data minimization is key.

In the case at hand, I’m leaning toward opting out of the class action lawsuit and suing them directly in small claims court. I can usually get better compensation that way.

I’ve been out of the loop on games for a while but ReactOS may be worth a look.

The 1st ½ of your comment sounds accurate. But…

And also in Foss there are highly opinionated software where the devs completely ignore users, ban them from GitHub when they post issues,

Right, but to be clear non-free s/w is worse - you can’t even reach the devs, generally, and there is no public bug tracker. FOSS is an improvement in this regard because at least there is a reasonable nuclear option (forking). The nuclear option for non-free software is writing it yourself from scratch.

That all sounds accurate enough to me… but thought I should comment on this:

However - in larger enterprises there’s so much more, you get the whole SDL maturity thing going - money is invested into raising the quality of the whole development lifecycle and you get things like code reviews, architects, product planning, external security testing etc. Things that cost time, money and resources.

It should be mentioned that many see testing as a cost, but in fact testing is a cost savings. In most situations, you only spend some money on testing in order to dodge a bigger cost: customers getting burnt in a costly way that backfires on the supplier. Apart from safety-critical products, this is the only business justification to test. Yet when budgets get tightened, one of the first cuts many companies make is testing – which is foolish assuming they are doing testing right (in a way that saves money by catching bugs early).

Since the common/general case with FOSS projects is there is no income that’s attached to a quality expectation (thus testing generates no cost savings) - the users are part of the QA process as free labor, in effect :)

Apparently I’m wrong about this… the preview is said to be created by the server:

https://links.hackliberty.org/comment/1068761

EDIT: well, apparently it’s questionable. No one knows with confidence.

So does that mean jlai.lu is blocked by lecho.be? I figured it was more likely that lecho.be was blocking Tor, thus blocking my connection.

has there been a consensus among these self-style altruists what defines altruism?

I’m not sure that consensus would be needed, but apparently it’s defined as one person’s vision. Altruism itself is selfless behavior but (TIL) effective altruism is apparently an anti-poverty mission specifically.

I heard vague claims about impact on generations in the far future and I kind of tuned out at that point.

A charitable movement can impact people the day of the donation, or far in the future. Guardian mentions GiveDirectly, which is a program to distribute directly to poor people.

This reveals, for most scholars of humor, that the superiority theory misses the mark. After all, sometimes things are funny without resulting from superiority, and some feelings of superiority don’t make things funny.[4]

It seems the author misunderstands “The Superiority Theory of Humor”. It’s not superiority in itself that’s funny – it’s the thought or projection of superiority (esp. miscalculation/misplacement thereof) where humor manifests. The banana peel slip seems like a bad example. You’re not laughing at someone’s failure to see and avoid the hazard; you’re laughing at the situation that the person is going through… that they were just walking along thinking in deep concentration about something other than their path and they are suddenly going for an unplanned ride.

There mere fact that people are fallible is not funny. Though I say that as an adult. Perhaps there is a schadenfreude factor among children or less developed brains.

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That discussion is here if you want to go beyond emoji.

Yeah this article caught me by surprise. Natural gas is naturally odorless so that probably works against awareness.

I tend to be lazy about turning on the loud fans which downgrades the ambiance. But I need to change something because grease cakes up on everything near the oven and on the cabinets. My range hood is also the ventless style, which must be totally useless against the benzine byproduct.

I will certainly put more thought into kitchen design in the future. The gas appliances should probably be in the corner of the room so there are fewer directions to control, and the hood should probably be big, industrial, and vented outside. It’s a shame because I might prefer the gas stove to be in an island layout or at least centrally located.

It depends on what you’re baking. You wouldn’t want your cake to have a crispy hard crust on the outside, but you would want that with bread and pizza.

That’s interesting but it seems like an incomplete answer. I’ve read that it’s very common for people to install a range hood that’s too small. If it’s true that range hoods are often under-sized, then it naturally follows that they would often be ineffective. So I would like to know the answer in terms of a high-end well-designed & /big/ range hood. I would also expect a low hood to be more effective than one installed high above the stove.

Many coils pulse full heat to simulate different heat levels. Gas gives you very precise control over exact heat levels and it is instantly responsive to change.

You’ve got the precision factor backwards. Gas is a clear loser on that.

When you have knob levels 0—9, if you set the knob to 3 on electric you get exactly ½ the heat energy that you get from level 6. It’s perfectly linear. This is not true in the slightest with gas. A gas flame is non-linear as you go from 0 to 9. All you can do is eye-ball the flame and guess. Even when you have a flame size in mind, it’s not reproduceable because you’re still eye-balling it every time. You can’t trust the levels on a gas knob either because they’re so non-linear that you can get a big flame difference in certain points along the scale.

Gas also has less precision of control because of the reduced range at both ends. The lowest possible gas setting is still too hot for some tasks. So the best you can do is manually mimic the pulsing of electric by turning the burner off and reigniting periodically. The highest temp on gas is also less than the highest temp electric can achieve.

The only “precision” task that gas wins at is at the zero (off) level, and speed, AFAICT, which is related to precision. Both of those factors can be discarded for the most part when comparing induction because it adjusts temp demand fast enough.

indeed some houses have gas-fired wall heaters which have shitty ventilation, if any. In which case the air would of course be moist.

It’s also worth noting that moist air feels warmer and is not prone to any evaporative cooling effects. Some people will vent their vented dryers into the house to boost the humidity in order to save on heating costs.

Can anyone just pick up and move to the US? Or the EU?

Are you not distinguishing wealthy developed countries from developing countries? This may sound anecdotal but I believe I’ve detected a pattern of people from privileged countries having the copious red carpets you mention, such as EU administrations & border police not hassling Americans who overstay their visa. Even within Europe eastern block Europeans face more red tape than westerners. Some passports yield many red carpets & some none.

You don’t think you’d be considered a migrant if you wanted to move to Cuba, with all the restrictions that would entail?

It’s not what you think. The restrictions in that movement actually come from the US. Cuba welcomes Americans to the point that they will even hold back on stamping a US passport on request. Considering Cuba actually has an emigration crisis (with an “e”), it’d be ironic for immigration into Cuba to be difficult.

Indeed. And it’s a needlessly destructive form of sanitization. That is, sanitizing properly normally means replacing the special characters with an encoding to ensure literals render.

I think this is a regression. IIRC, there was a time when a removal only removed it from the timeline. You could still reach it via the modlog. IIRC. But those days are gone. It’s a shame because it’s important for the community to be able to evaluate the mod’s decision making.

I’ve even seen cases where an over-zealous mod gets embarrassed by the mod log and purges the mod log itself to remove traces of the censorship itself. I suppose that’s only possible if the mod is also an admin.

I appreciate the detailed feedback, which I think probably answers my question as well as possible from a utilitarian standpoint to a usable extent.

I primarily needed to verify that when speaking at rallies I would not be falsely informing people or pushing an indefensible position. If a public service is made exclusive even per a loose interpretation whereby objectionable conditions stand as a barrier, it seems fair enough to at least claim that rights are being violated all the way to the courthouse, and inside the courthouse, until a judge determines otherwise. You gave me the confidence I was after.

Ah, I missed art.24. I suspect in the US vacations would be regulated on a per-state basis. The right to vacations is easily defensible, though I wonder about the “with pay” clause. Some jobs pay high enough wages that income would not in itself be an obstacle to vacations, but then those often tend to be the kinds of jobs that include paid vacations anyway. People getting a wage that is less than living are probably getting shafted on that one in some parts of the US particularly if they are in the gig economy with the chickenizing going on (a throwback from the poultry industry where people are falsely independent to circumvent employment rights).

I guess where I live there’s always offline alternatives, even the parking meters still accept coins even though they also take credit cards.

Example ① concerns being able to block off parking for one’s self. E.g. imagine a row of street parking with meters, and you have a project to renovate your house. A crane needs to use that space. It’s not a matter of feeding meters. You go to city hall and pay (e.g.€100/day) to reserve a section of parking in advance with guaranteed access. City workers come and cover the meters, they post a temporary “no parking” sign, etc. Now today if you go to city hall they just point to a QR code on a wall. That’s it. No more over the counter service. If you can’t work with that you’re stuffed… you don’t get to reserve parking for a crane and your renovation is effectively blocked by an asshole in public administration who assumes not only that everyone is online, but that everyone’s browser is Chromium &, that everyone is okay with sharing their home address with Microsoft (or whatever info traverses Outlook), and whatever other tech limitations the website has.

I think my region also has the problem you refer to (of parking meters not taking cash). That’s similar but less of an injustice. Renovating a house is more important than convenient parking for a personal car.

In any case it’s not like countries actually provide all of the other articles. For the US, vacation and healthcare aren’t provided, so it’s not surprising the other articles are not followed either. It’s not really a law.

Healthcare comes in many forms. I would say the US does not guarantee or provide preventative healthcare, but if you show up to ER at any hospital in the US with a gunshot wound (for example), it’s illegal for the hospital to refuse treatment. They cannot make insurance a condition of emergency care. Although if someone were to argue emergency care alone does not adequately satisfy Article 25’s entitlement to “medical care”, I would not object. I would hope they could use art.25 to force preventative healthcare to some extent.

I’m not sure why you mention vacation. Article 23 covers employment rights, which includes unemployment protection but not vacations AFAICT.