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>Frustration Free Packaging

>If you’ve heard anything bad about Slackware, it’s almost certainly been about the software packages. Or more specifically, the lack of intelligent dependency management. In other distributions, the package manager understands what software each package relies on to function, and will prompt you to install them as well to make sure everything works as expected. There is no such system in Slackware, but that is also by design.

>In an effort to make things as simple as possible, the expectation is that you install everything. Slackware is developed and tested with the assumption that you have a full installation of every package in the repository. In fact, this is the default mode for the Slackware installer; you have to switch into “Expert” mode if you don’t want everything.

>If you don’t want a full install and would rather pick and chose packages, you are free to do so, but you’ll need to manually handle dependencies. If you get an error about a missing library when you try to start a program, it’s up to you to find out what it depends on and install it. You’ll quickly develop a feel for just what is and isn’t required in a Linux system by going through and manually solving your own dependencies, which again comes in handy if you are trying to tailor-fit an OS to your specific requirements.

I realise this is worded pretty unambiguously, but can somebody confirm this means what it in fact seems to mean? I find that extraordinary, and though having heard mention of Slackware's packaging system before, I never heard this detail about every package being installed. How does that even work? The repositories must be tiny?!
> For businesses that don't even target EU markets on purpose, well...

See https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

> When the regulation does not apply

> ...

> Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.
Could someone please ELI5 how programmatic ads could be compliant with GDPR? I can vaguely imagine how Google could be compliant. But generally, there are just so many players. How could PII transfers even be tracked?
The market is too segmented for broad interest ads to work, and advertisers don’t want to deal with multiple content channels.

Plus, the editorial quality of ads is generally so awful, so you need to align with the users interests to help them accidentally click on it in many cases.

The newspaper was a beautiful business. They had a monopoly or minimal competition, and a critical mass that supported everything from classified ads to flyers to the pet store.
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GDPR doesn't work like that, the user has to explicitly opt-in.

So the website has to block users that don't explicitly agree, a simple statement won't do.

There are exceptions, GDPR having the notion of "legitimate interest", which many services will try to abuse, however it has a precise definition and user tracking, ads targeting, marketing, or other interests like that that don't cut it, even if by not doing so results in less revenue for the service.

The GDPR has teeth, which is why companies that have been violating user privacy are freaking out ;-)
Are the weights in the NN “relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier”?

If not, then it isn’t personal information.
It's much more likely the current US administration will attempt to retaliate against the EU in some way in order to get this rolled back.
> Shouldn't it be called Windows Subsystem for GNU?

No, that's a separate module that requires the Windows Subsystem for Pedants.
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Tony and Chelsea Northrup describe their experience with suing an Australian firm that used his photo/her image in product packaging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUEbi4r8Pg0

It was enlightening how stressful it can be chasing these guys down ...
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I did well in Physics in High School, and my instructor was massively interested in Astronomy, but he taught us very little about it.
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C is not the fastest compiled language. Those are faster: Fortran, Pony, ATS, C++ and I guess several more, but we are having a long standing trouble with the hostile takeover and pythonization of the alioth benchmark site, so we don't know.
You can capture consent on your first party site (enumerating each of the networks and letting user opt out) and pass that to advertising networks: http://advertisingconsent.eu/
Not saying anyone thinks it's a good idea. I'm saying I haven't seen that many comments, annoyed people, and general discussion about other laws, which actually impact US people and can be enforced there.

I'm guessing they also ignore those laws, because of posts like this one. If you're running a business complying with regulations, you likely already know how to block a country. I mean, you keep track of the current embargoes and block relevant countries, right?
While the two have some divergence in what they are intended to solve for, grid-row-gap and grid-column-gap (or grid-gap) are the biggest day-to-day wins with grid. I had a fairly straightforward hack using negative margins and calc() to get spacing with flexbox, but the built-in support for it in grid makes it feel hacky and cumbersome to go back.

Grid's fr (fractional) units also make the old percentage-based format for responsive sizing feel unwieldy in comparison.
Probably Streisand effect.
We're reaping what we have sown.
Or GNU/Linux Subsystem for Windows? It's called "Linux Subsystem on Windows" in the HTML:

<title>Install the Linux Subsystem on Windows 10 | Microsoft Docs</title> [1]

Microsoft has a tendency to create confusion around names when they relate in some way to Free software.

Another example: Office Open XML.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
There is another way .

1. just redirect them to their OWN IP .

2. Just welcome them with a WebJelPool
Note : WebJelpool will have infinite ( random ) list of Links with no factual result .. these links will only open a new Pool of random & infinite list of URL .. & so on . bot / person will be in a mess with no facts .
I think the more difficult part is that you also have to be able to retract consent. So a first-party site has to offer this possibility as well and pass that to the advertising networks, which will have to remove the relevant data.

Of course, this is technically possible. But apparently everyone has been sleeping during the two-year grace period.
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Well "replace" sounds very serious; but in fact iproute2 has been here long enough to have replaced stuff already. I didn't really consider myself to be a "grumpy old admin", but now I do, having used ip a lot back in 2003. I mean. 14 years have passed since I first used a mature! thing. And some people call ip fresh...
Yeah, you're putting too much emphasis on consent. It's only one of six lawful bases for processing data, and in fact the one with the most stringent rules.

I used "legitimate interest" as my lawful basis for logging IP addresses and website usage information. From the UK ICO's guidelines [1]:

"It is likely to be most appropriate where you use people’s data in ways they would reasonably expect and which have a minimal privacy impact, or where there is a compelling justification for the processing."

There's a three part test:

1. Identify the legitimate interest: ensure the security and stability of my systems.

2. Show that processing is necessary to achieve it: need to know when and how the site is used in order to troubleshoot problems and detect abuse

3. Balanced against individuals' interests: We pseudonymize logins so usage information is not obviously related to specific individuals. There is no sensitive data on the site that can be revealed by usage data. The retention period is short which further limits what can be revealed.

Now, people here on HN might nitpick my logic, but fortunately they're not the regulators. 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.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
Are we talking about the same "media companies" though? While many wouldn't shed a tear for entertainment groups such as the RIAA and other big media companies, the list of targets includes many newspapers and smaller media outfits:

> He sues media companies of all sizes—including Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc., Univision, Forbes, Barstool Sports, Breitbart News, Business Insider, Inside Edition, Zagat, Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, the Daily Caller, the Daily Dot, the Daily Voice, the Village Voice, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Vox Media, Cox Media, Uproxx Media, and, yes, The Slate Group—and in all seasons.

Even if Liebowitz's current attacks on news media are acceptable, I would worry whether such attacks from him and other lawyers might broaden their scope in the future. As the article mentions, the recent SDNY ruling that websites are liable for embedded content may be but the first expansion: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-emb...
I vaguely recall needing some kind of boot floppy on my 3rd or 4th install for some reason, I really had no idea what I was doing at the time. I almost miss the days you picked your distro based on which disk came with your magazine that month. I learnt a lot, although I also cargo-culted far too much.
> If you back up a list of things to delete is that GDPR compliant? Ponder.

There's little to ponder, that's why I mentioned "entities" rather than "user data." Use unique keys to reference the data rather than sensitive identifiers. The nontrivial part is storing your backup of entities to be deleted in a way that doesn't get destroyed at the same time as the event that forces you to revert to a backup. This now requires a separate storage, backup, and retrieval mechanism to maintain compliance.
> The harder that gets, the fewer businesses there will be.

And at what point is it more important to have more businesses than it is to have more businesses that treat consumers fairly? Usury laws have eliminated some companies, reigning in student loan companies would probably eliminate a few more. But that's a balance deemed worth it because usury is predatory and harmful. Profiting by being lazy and sloppy with people's personal information where the risks (e.g. identity theft) are huge isn't a particularly well balanced justification for "more businesses above all else".
The GNU userland is copied verbatim from your GNU/Linux distribution. Microsoft doesn't need to maintain these utilities. What Microsoft is developing is really a compatibility layer for running ELF binaries and handling all the system calls expected by Linux programs. So it's accurate to say Windows Subsystem for Linux. I haven't tried but I bet a GNU-free Linux system like Busybox will run just fine.
It emulates a Linux kernel, by handling Linux syscalls - it doesn't care much about what's in the userspace. The GNU tools are not required, they are just present since the Linux distros available use them. You can, of course, run busybox if you please. It might be buggy in some fashion but it will almost certainly work.
Welp, have fun with SESTA/FOSTA when you aren't busy having fun with GDPR.

I really hope you get noticed by some regulator somewhere. You're not a special snowflake. Your design decisions and creativity don't make you special. You're not an artist, and if you were that wouldn't matter either.

If you don't have time to worry about whether your business is legal, I hope your business fails, gets fined, or you and your cofounder go to jail.
My super armatron still works, and it was in a house fire at one stage covered in smoke residue.
Don't forget the brilliant and deeply meaningful paragraph 37:

"A group of undertakings should cover a controlling undertaking and its controlled undertakings, whereby the
controlling undertaking should be the undertaking which can exert a dominant influence over the other
undertakings by virtue, for example, of ownership, financial participation or the rules which govern it or the
power to have personal data protection rules implemented. An undertaking which controls the processing of
personal data in undertakings affiliated to it should be regarded, together with those undertakings, as a group of
undertakings."
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> You often see a whole chapter in the beginning devoted to explaining the philosophy behind the technology, rather than letting the user get a feel for the philosophy themselves, by doing.

I agree that this is annoying. As an author, it's very tempting, since you want to explain why your solution is better than all the other solutions that came before. But the vast majority of readers won't know anything about the other solutions and just want to know what your thing does. The "Avail" language page posted yesterday [1] was a perfect example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17150346
The european union provides a FAQ for the GDPR so you don't need a lawyer if you have a small business: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

The "best practice" you mention was already illegal if you have European users, the right to be forgotten was already a consequence of existing laws and directives (just ask Google).

As for startups the GDPR already takes company size into account, so unless their business is literally being a private NSA/Stasi/etc. they don't have much burocracy to deal with (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)
Bah, I missed it. That's incredibly large!
I don't think that ought to be possible (i.e. it's probably legal today, but shouldn't): if I'm giving consent to be tracked by company A, that does not extend to company B.

And blanket consent like "ok to be tracked by whoever" should be illegal.

Drain the swamp!
Texas would beg to differ with this assessment
There you go https://buyminicpap.com/products/battery-pack-for-airmini

Btw, how is airmini humidifier working for you?
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There’s probably a viable business model now in helping US-based startups set up offices in Canada.
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I advice people to not use WSL. It seems to me that this is the first step of their well-known embrace, extend, extinguish microsoft's strategy.

They are now embracing the gnu/linux way of working like the packaging tools, the command line with the shells, the easy of having a compiler and developer tools, etc etc.

At the same time they don't let you create from WSL standard Windows application that you can redistribute, I guess this is part of their strategy.

In addition Windows 10 is such a messy, bloated system and the updates are very heavy and have often problems and they reset without asking many of the configurations you carefully made on your system.

I advice people that want to use Windows to use MSYS2 instead. It is very well done, works flawlessly and you can build full featured windows application that you can redistribute. You have also the pleasure to use a shell inside a decent terminal and install very easily packages using pacman.

In addition they support MinGW packages that does not need a special compatibility library, the msys2 dll, so that your application is 100% Windows native and can be a single executable if you want.
Everybody loves the Microsoft Surface, so it does make sense. Using the ARM like the Chromebook might turn the price down, so it might be at the 1000 USD range (with the 3x apple price tag applied to the Chromebook). The water resistant feature will be used to justify that price. The keyboard will be suboptimal.
That's just awful. I might understand ink cartridges, but here afflicted patients suffering from sleep apnea disorder rely on these devices to help them breathe at night, and if you lose the official cable, you are up a crick. We need regulations a la "Right to Repair" against abuse of DRM in this manner. This is literally just screwing over people with disabilities (I have severe sleep apnea myself). I remember having to order a massively overpriced proprietary "smartcard" reader from China to retrieve my patient data from the older Respironics CPAP that I used to have.
I was actually trying to guess whether it’s an April joke indeed because of the naming.
Related, a 2003 documentary [1] on what this is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(2003_film)
I have a blog. No ads. No revenue.

1. I have been using Google analytics for their entertainment value. I assume that's verboten now.

2. I assume the IP addresses in my logs are PII. Should I shut off logging?
People in those areas have been growing rice precisely enough for centuries. It is their main food; they will consume rice either way. Acquiring and distributing vitamin pills would be more difficult.

If it were so easy, why none of the anti-GMO fanatics do so already? But of course that would involve doing something useful, not strutting around in the same crowd as anti-vaxxers and flatearthers.
For the people struggling to find it: (I did for a few minutes)

http://www.theoldrobots.com/smallbot6.html
Altera took many of the employees (although quite a few are now at AWS) and it's rumored they also bought the IP. A lot of the core ideas will live on in Stratix, hopefully.
It is unlikely, these ad networks are going to have to do a pop up each time they added another ad buyer to their network to allow you to opt in. It really couldn't happen to scummier people in many ways. I expect there are exists some reasonable third party ad aggregation and distribution networks but given the low bar to entry and ease with which the advertiser can be defrauded out of a few thousand dollars, the number of scummy ones dominate by a large margin.

Interesting times for ad tech, that is for sure.
Too put it more simply ladies and gents', it's the doppelgänger of WINE.
I really wish that Docker could natively run in WSL. It's a really aspirational project for Microsoft, but it's not doing anything that Cygwin doesn't at this time.
Technical person here! I was tech lead at an energy company in the Netherlands. We had a compliance dept (mostly 1 person) I worked closely with before GDPR was on the radar as the energy sector here is fairly well regulated.

It’s true that compliance can sometimes be scary and requirements are not always clear. Big company ending fines probably keep some people awake at night.

The point is regulators don’t generally want to end your company, they want to see (proof of) reasonable efforts towards full compliance.

Compliance does take time and effort and can be technically challenging. It can be a constant overhead on regular technical / development efforts. But it also isn’t rocket science. It would help people to not overreact (also, there has been lots of time to prepare for it).
bloated system and the updates are very heavy

Really though, they asume everyone has a 100Mbps and a SSD, every new update is like a new install of windows, glad I don't have to use it.
Was so sad, because vagrant stopped working on my colleague's computer after this update.

I had to force Vagrant to use the "system" ssh binary ( VAGRANT_PREFER_SYSTEM_BIN=1 ), since the internal vagrant OpenSSH stopped working.

And this is without WSL being in use.

It's already so complicated to run even git / vagrant on a windows machine, that I'm wondering how are people developing with it.
As I understand it, ad networks integrate PII from many sources. From first-party sites, yes. But also using third-party cookies. And, at the point where a user is asked for consent, how can the eventual path of PII sharing be predicted?
I’m not sure I really understand the difference between learning, adaptation, intelligence, and evolution.

I feel like people choose which one to use based on which timescales and action substrates they want to privilege, but I don’t know... is there a technical distinction?
Why would they? Is the US Gov expected to protect the online advertisement business for some reason?
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Really nice idea. Never though about this one. And since mobile browser are usually the ones with old engines, it make sense twice.
> "effective" = large amount, so company won't do it again

Generally true, but it should be read with proportionate as meaning as large as necessary to be effective -- if a warning is sufficient to ensure compliance, then the effective clause suggests a fine is NOT warranted.

> "proportionate" = relative to revenue

_Absolutely_ not - proportionate to the _infringement_. There is no other reading that makes sense here.

> "dissuasive" = make them an example so no one else will dare.

Dissuasive also encompasses encouraging companies to cooperate with regulators and make a best effort to comply. If they are going to get the maximum fine for a minor breach, even if they made a full effort to comply and merely overlooked something, they are _not_ dissuaded from ignoring the GDPR in its entirety.

> So you can bet regulators will go for the full amount.

Certainly not. Going for the full amount, regardless of the circumstances and ignoring the factors they MUST consider, is going to result in the fines being overturned by the courts, which undermines their position, doesn't fulfill the purpose of the fine (if the company successfully challenges it), and doesn't fulfill the aims of the GDPR. Ignoring the law to go for the maximum fine would be a terrible decision for a regulator to make, and you can look at the history of enforcement of the DPD to see that regulators _don't_ generally go for the maximum fine.
I really like WSL for systems where I have to use Windows either for corporate reasons or driver support. Now that you can do UNIX sockets between the 'sides' its pretty easy to add shims for special purpose USB devices as well.
No, the blame would be on you then and you would be held responsible for whatever legal action is necessary, not the company trying to block Europeans users like you. Benefit of the doubt is for the company because of their best effort European citizen blocking.
Right, tracking will be tedious. That's a lot of transactional data, I think.
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Irrespective of who gets to keep the fine money, it will cost money and time (and likely lawyers) to handle any regulator inquiries. These complaints barely a day after the law came into force clearly shows that this law has come as a bonanza invitation for "activists" to impose legal costs on whatever target catches their fancy. I wouldn't be surprised with anti competitive targeting. Large corporations will write off the risk and the cost. Small business will choose not to do business and avoid the risk.
And yet artificial meat being cheaper than animal meat is “inevitable” due to “optimization”.
> Texas would beg to differ with this assessment

OK, what great U.S. industries were born, boomed, and remain in Texas? Oil doesn't count; that's a coincidence of geology and geography.

I also said states with low tax and investment were relatively poor; Texas' median income is below the U.S. median (which is true of almost all the die-hard red states):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income

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