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My comment actually just addressed the part where the parent complains about MS not providing a way to create native Windows applications from within WSL. Maybe you wanted to reply to someone else?

In any case:

away from the Linux distributions

When running Linux on WSL you're effectively still running it so you're not really away from Linux, are you?

Actually you can even try and turn the argument around. For a windows user it is now probably easier than ever to try linux: no need for dual-boot or bootable media or virtual machines but a simple way to install and run it. So this might actually lead to more linux users, not less. But we'd need to count to be sure, everything else is guesswork.
That highly depends on the DB used. If you're using a log structured database, it's possible the original data could still be there. Immutable databases that never delete or overwrite entries exist.

And what if the PII is stored in a blockchain? Then what?
I just checked, and if you have an above average IQ and click on enough 'show me more' links, eventually, they'll let you just choose "functional-only" cookies, and from then on, you can read the site.

Takes about five different screens and a lot of scrolling, and they go out of their way to make you not want to do it, but it's there...
GDPR benefits the US and US tech dominance. With GDPR the EU just legislated away one of the most profitable monetization schemes ever devised. I think the administration will sit back and do nothing and watch the fire from across the pond.
Correct. An independent federal agency run by 3 republicans and 2 democrats.
"Java programmers are male."

Not typically no
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GDPR is set to destroy American tech/media companies along with those from developing nations.

Europe has got most of its wealth through imperialism back in time robbing countries of Africa and South Asian countries.

This is the primary reason countries of South Asia/Africa so poor today.

Before imperialism, most of Europe was poor while countries like China and India were way richer.

India is just 70 years old by comparison which is not long enough to make back the lost wealth due to its sheer size and diversity.

Now, American companies are able to an extract huge amount of money from European nations using mostly legal (maybe unethical?) using companies like Google and Facebook. They are set to make this illegal.

It's nothing more than a wealth preservation strategy. European nations can't compete against America and rising nations (India, China etc...) due to their aging population in near future.

So, they are going to shut off the market by making unreasonably harsh laws which are quite difficult to comply with.

You are finding compliance difficult because it's intentionally part of their design.

Keep an eye open and expect more unreasonable laws coming out of EU in near future. They are not going to stop here.
Nothing remotely close to GDPR will ever pass in the US. There will likely be some privacy reform, but it won't have vague wording and $20M fines for your neighbor's kid's blog.
> I think it's ridiculously naive to think that businesses are going to build on top of a closed source licensed system like WSL when with minimal effort they could choose Linux. The business risks of the former are huge and they're handing a big lever to MS to screw them in the future - why would they do that?

All of that applies just as much to native Windows development, except you no longer have a canonical escape hatch (aside from WINE, I guess).
Or if they subsidize the purchase.
Years and years ago I ran a tar pit [1], and it could handle a tremendous amount of connections with very little overhead. This could be easily done with a 301 redirect to such a system.

[1] http://labrea.sourceforge.net/labrea-info.html
The end goal is to use WSL on servers, to extinguish linux servers.
>" Ad targeting got as invasive as it did because that was the only way to make it profitable. The moment that ads stop becoming profitable, advertisers will pull out."

Good. The situation was absolutely unacceptable, and I'm glad the EU decided to shake it up.
Presidents have secret service protection for life. Bush took it away but Obama reinstated it.
GNU/Windows seems snappier
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How do I contact facebook regarding GDPR? The problem is that I have deleted my account some time ago and have no way of referencing it in the e-mail. I am sure that they still hold my data and I would love to use this opportunity to scrub all my data from their servers/logs/backups. Any ideas?
> Last but not least, PEP 8 is meant as a style guide, not as a book of law that needs to be enforced at all costs. Some of the Python core developers seem to agree; I have seen comments from Guido and others who apparently think that such tools go against the spirit of the PEP.

Actually PEP 8 starts with: "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds"[1] A lot of people miss that part.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#id15
I am on my way to try it yet.
Is a worm _and_ a controller and report collector.
The worm can be executed from the controller after software updates for example or periodically, and reports can be read from controller too.

You can run pentests your self on each of your networks, but once you have a couple of networks to be responsible of I think this is a great idea.
The "GDPR is easy" brigade is very keen on telling people that it's easy to just read the actual text, so let's try that.

Just having read the GDPR doesn't count for "expert knowledge", it's just knowledge. "Expert" is something more. How much more? Funny you should ask, welcome to GDPR limbo.

Also, it doesn't say expert knowledge merely of GDPR, it says expert knowledge of "data protection law", vague and unbounded, certainly not limited to the GDPR. GDPR is probably the most restrictive you have to comply with, but the text literally requires you to have to have expert knowledge of the others, too. Finally, there's the little "and practices". It's not enough to read it, you have to be an expert in how data protection law is used in practice.

Before you have processed even a single byte of data, you're literally uncompliant simply by being blasé about how you name your DPO. It seems unlikely that anyone will get busted simply for this, but low likelihood of enforcement is not the same as compliance, and why would they include this paragraph if they didn't feel it was important? People who actually care about being compliant need to think about this.
"the party line"? That sort of emotive language sounds like something from Fox News or Heritage Foundation.

A small number of huge American tech companies have most to lose on this. These are the ones who play fast and loose with people's privacy.

If these new laws change the focus of business investment in Europe to those who respect privacy, that's a big win for all European citizens.

Now it's time for Margrethe Vestager to start cutting those huge American tech monopolies down to size!
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Depending on what you need, it already does. Docker for Windows provides Linux (and Windows) Containers on a windows host, albeit the Linux containers run in a VM.

you can access docker for windows from WSL by setting up TLS on the Docker engine interface (https://raesene.github.io/blog/2018/03/29/WSL-And-Docker/)

There's also some suggestions that some versions of the docker daemon can run on WSL with ubuntu https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-38...
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If your business model depends on systematically violating people's right privacy, then it needs to die ASAP.

Some ad-dependent leeches will die off, good riddance. Let others take their place, with a privacy-friendly model.
> This is not true. Copying material internally to a company is distribution. If you (person or company) don’t have the rights to copy, then it is illegal. If you do have a license, then it's legal distribution.

It's only distribution if access changes from one (legal) person to another. If a company gives access to employees acting as agents for that company, that's not distribution.

But yes, one would hope that there was a license for the thing being distributed, to the company, before this happened.

> That’s only true when the content has been ...

In the sense that licenses are contracts, and can contain any restrictions you want. On the other hand, if you buy a boxed copy of software at a store, and then regularly let whatever employee happens to be available actually use it (e.g. letting a copy of word get used by whichever secretary the temp agency sent this week) is perfectly legal, and very, very, very common.
I'm glad you posted this.. I had heard about anti CoC a while back(perhaps from you?) but never really dug into it..

Video game journalism was ruined for me back in 2011 and 2012 for reasons we all know and I was hyper aware of at the time. It went through a very dark time and is hopefully coming out the other side now.. I had not really paid much attention to the infiltration of the tech community. While I had noticed a few things such bikeshedding of issues on Github, as well as the whole node.js trigger word ordeal, my distaste for the whole thing at that point led me to largely ignore it..

I've been on a huge information gathering binge since your post though. Randi Harper, electronconf, USC Legends of Gaming, entryism targeted toward GitHub, shaming and threatening tactics used to seed OSS with CoCs.... Wow. I hadn't realized how out of hand and toxic things had gotten. Luckily, it seems that the industry is somewhat successfully pushing back? I'm getting the sense that the larger community has found its voice and is pushing back against the intellectually bankrupt thinking and tactics..

This is the best intellectual analysis of the situation I've come across so far(I'm still digging though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8&feature=youtu.be
Funny, that most evasive ad networks pop networks operate out of EU.

EU has never done anything about them.
I've been long awaiting a Python equivalent of gofmt and prettier.js!
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You're comparing a retargeting pixel to slavery? That is the kind of mentality that brought us GDPR.
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> I'm confident that, in the very unlikely event that a regulator even notices my little businesses, that I'll be able to correct any mistakes before fines come into play.

Every business owner in Romania knows two things:

- the IRS equivalent will investigate them periodically, usually every few years
- they will ALWAYS find something to fine the company for

Sure, you will have to correct the something, but that doesn't mean you don't have to pay the fine anyway.

Also, incidentally, the company I was branch manager for has been once investigated by the police for credit card theft (they received a complaint). They couldn't find anything (because we didn't steal any credit cards - we just had a lot of computers because we were programmers, working for the main company in the US) but, in order not to have wasted the raid, they decided to prosecute us for copyright violations (they found a few pirated games).

So, at least in Romania, there is no such thing as "correcting mistakes before fines come into play".
The internet's role in the 2016 election was primarily its ability to connect like-minded people and capture their attention in a venue where advertising can be purchased cheaply and casually. Data may have helped with ad targeting, but was basically incidental. The insufficiently regulated thing there was speech, not data, and there are good reasons we don't really regulate speech.
Good. Not everything needs to be "monetized".
To the fact that you find this normal enough to not be shocking.
Here's a thought: You don't know what you're talking about and I applaud the EU for protecting me against people like you.
Care to explain downvotes? I would love to know why would anyone disagree with me.
I once felt the same "nothingness" once when I was 22 while reading a good book on a train. Eventually I closed the book to reflect on what I've read and there it was - the feeling of ultimate insignificance and a total immersion in spacetime. It was awesome and frightening at the same time.

But, it takes a physicist to make associative connections of that feeling to Quantum Field Theory. His article is a particularly good read in that regard, thanks for sharing! It made me revisit my understanding of Quantum Fields. How full of something the supposed "nothingness" actually is!
Far fetched? My jaw drops. It's a moving block signalling system with 1 car trains. This stuff has been in service for decades pretty much all around the world. As for the very concept of the boring company, Elon Musk has it completely wrong. It's not the tunnel that takes so much time to dig, it's the vertical shafts for the stations, especially in the city, because of the things that have to be moved aside, and also because of the precautions you must take to, err, avoid collapsing buildings and stuff. Really, there are things where he knows what he is talking about, but mass transit is not one of them.
This man is a hero. This story tries to take an even tack with him but fails to accurately characterize the actions of the media companies. They should not be excused when “an intern makes a mistake”. If they’re unable to adequately train their interns then they shouldn’t use interns. And if they can’t afford well-trained professional editorial workers they should go out of business. I say this as someone who used to work in media and saw media companies blow up out of nowhere on the back of fair use abuse (Bleacher Report, HuffPo).
Hey, you should take a look at Gentics Mesh https://getmesh.io/. It seems to be a lesser known headless cms but still very powerful and fully open source.
Or in any format you like here: https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics or https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)

EDIT: added Project Gutenberg link.
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I used both Soundex and Metaphone to handle URLs for a Bible website: http://literature.conman.org/bible/ You could type the a URL as:

http://bible.conman.org/kj/genasys.1:1

and it would redirect to the proper page:

http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.1:1

You have to really misspell something for it to not work properly.
> The idea is that small publishers go out of business and further media consolidation occurs. Those remaining can force personalized ad compliance by virtue of their reputation and limited choices left.

This is by far the most likely result. Why run an ecommerce store when you can rely on Amazon or eBay to shoulder the costs and risk?

GDPR will cause further consolidation, and ironically the companies people are forced to use will have everyone opt-out of the GDPR law by spamming them constantly with "opt-in" links until they click the "stop spamming me" button and the situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday, but with less competition.

Unintended consequences indeed.
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Maybe...clickbait garbage is so cheap to produce I don’t think you’ll see a large decline there.

Quality small to medium publishers are the ones who will get squeezed hard.

It would be pretty shocking if suddenly EU users started happily paying for journalism. It’s going to be an exciting petri dish.
High quality, highly relevant content just became a lot more valuable.

I subscribe to Sound on Sound, a magazine about music technology. I pay them $90 a year, but I also whitelist them in my ad blocker, because the ads complement the content. If I'm reading a review of a synthesizer or an article about how to record electric guitars, it's really easy to serve relevant ads with good click-through and conversion rates without intensive tracking. Both the content and the advertising serve to enhance my enjoyment of a hobby that I care deeply about.

A lot of publishers are really going to struggle post-GDPR, because their content is clickbaity and vapid. It isn't worth paying for and it isn't relevant to the readers' lives. It exists because it briefly hijacks your attention, which can be profitably monetised by ad networks that invasively track your activities online.

Some good publishers are going to get caught in the crossfire which is unfortunate, but I think that the overall effect will be net positive. If publishers can't sell their ad inventory without recourse to surveillance, they need to seriously examine whether their business model is honorable and whether they are offering something of real value.
https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html is a list of companies using Rust in production environments, and https://www.rust-lang.org/whitepapers.html is a list of whitepapers we're building up. Both may be of interest!
Creating an open speech recognition dataset for (almost) any language
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And the alternative would be ?

(Note: those poor people need to be able to do 30-40kg groceries, at a distance of, say 5-10 kilometers, when they're 50 years old)
The cost of PCI compliance is baked into the transaction fee, and yes, businesses are sometimes cash only; particularly if the business is small and its products are affordable, customers understand and appreciate the owner's unwillingness to pay those fees.
Your example is more easily done using GPS and the internet, and that doesn’t involve rebuilding the entire road network which will take generations.
There was already european privacy legislation which was just as strict, and companies like google and facebook already had been fined under those laws (though not to the degree that GDPR allows). What GDPR does is harmonize this kind of legislation across europe. You can argue that it is now easier for startups to build a product that targets the european market, since there is only a single set of rules to follow.
My group is playing Savage Worlds, and I've found it very easy to learn. The other guys are RPG veterans, but this is my first PnP campaign. The reason I feel SW is good for beginners is the high focus on storytelling and creativity, rather than endless stats and dice rolls. They're obviously still a part of the game, but the GM can really work with you if you are able to tie your actions to a good bit of storytelling. It makes it feel more like a shared story than a game, to me.
I wonder if everyone at Ghostery knows what CC and BCC stands for? I have a feeling that the relatively obscure abbreviations plays a role in the usability of these two different but similar functions. It's like putting a "send test" next to a "send alert" button (menu item)...
I can not recommend the Yale course on death by Shelly Kagan [1] (26 lectures of 45 minutes) enough, it is really extremely good. And I think about the first half of the course is about identity and all the things like souls that could play into this.

I did not mention this topic, because I think it is only secondary for free will in the sense I talk about in my comments, because I think the hard part is already finding anything at all that could affect your choices. Only when you have identified something that fits the requirements, say a god, and the whole thing is consistent, only then you have to worry whether you want to consider that thing part of you. That might be easy if the answer is everyone has its own soul or it might be harder, that is why I choose a god as the example, because some might argue that a god is a separate entity while others might argue a god is part of all of us. I added a lengthy comment to the parent one going into more detail why I think finding anything that could possibly work is already hard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0
> Sounds awfully cultish

This is some high-strung rhetoric. And claiming GDPR outlaws machine learning is just FUD. ML performed on personal data collected without the user's consent is illegal - but so is doing anything with illegally obtained data. ML is not the issue here, and ML has many other applications besides stealth user profiling.
If you get one of these batteries with the main goal being backup power for your own home in case the grid goes down, why would you ever join such a program? Presumably, if you tie your battery to the grid, and there's some sort of issue with main backbone generation, the grid would pull from your battery for what it thinks is a temporary issue, after which all power would be gone, and now your backup has been drained.

This effectively means that the only people that would join are people who would be paid to do so, but then that introduces the question of whether it isn't simply cheaper and more efficient for power companies to just deploy larger scale batteries that they control, rather than pay random people to put them in their own - much more uncontrolled - homes.
Who moved my milk?
Forcing consent is never okay in the sense that it doesn't count as consent.
Plenty of fish owner started in the US not some third world country.
That's not just emotive language, it's insulting and degrading. The GDPR is a multi-party, supranational, democratically legitimized regulation. Also, I haven't seen a single PR campaign about the GDPR, and I'm from "over there". The grandparent is not arguing objectively nor purely based on facts.
I thought that was literally what the law was supposed to prevent. That is: viewers should not even be allowed to agree to data collection that is only used for tracking and not for the actual business.

A newspaper might argue that their business is tracking users so they can show ads and afford journalists, but it won’t hold up.

Of course sites will rather try to pull a stunt like this if the option is shutting down your business directly - but I sure hope regulators force sites to turn to paid content or shut down.
>Good

I've been seeing GDPR supporters saying that a lot recently. Time will show if it's true. I admit it's possible that removing ads as a revenue model could somehow allow europeans to innovate and discover a superior model but I'm not betting on it.

Thank you Europe for being the guinea pigs, you will either lead the way or hopefully prevent others from making the same mistakes.
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Can you point out some examples of machine learning usages where: (a) they are clearly beneficial for the users; (b) it wasn't forbidden before; and (c) it is very hard to get user's consent for them.

I'm going to point out some counter-examples:

- One of the first machine learning stories around was movie recommendation. Under GDPR, when you click the "Recommended for me" link in your typical movie recommender, they now have to show you a page that says something on the lines of:

> UberRecommender needs to automatically process your previous ratings/view history/whatever data to make you good recommendations. We will find users with similar taste to yours, recommend movies they have liked to you and vice-versa. Click on "I agree" to continue, or "I don't agree" to disable this functionality for your account (you may change this preference later on in your settings page).

It doesn't seem too difficult to get people to click that "I agree" button, does it?

- Machine learning applied to medical diagnosis/early detection/etc. This usage was already heavily regulated (at least in the EU). So much that I'm pretty sure the GDPR does not change anything in that space.
> PII

GDPR has no concept of PII. Personal data is anything relating to a natural person. It's not just an identifier like an address or phone number.
No, it's just that I would not want to do business with him.

After all, if someone exhibits a certain attitude towards their users' data that is a good indicator that there is more that isn't done properly.

It's funny that you think that it's totally ok to do this.