I always find it mad as hell that Americans have to pay tax in the US even if they are living and earning elsewhere

Especially given generally Americans are pretty allergic to reasonable taxation

MBFC equates respectable outlets like The Guardian and literal nazi rag Breitbart

It’s propaganda masquerading as impartiality

You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

That thumbnail lol

Okay but what if you use emoji in your password?

Putting everything else aside:

Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?

Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?

It does, I first saw it on ebaumsworld

Chllng vrything

Legitimately—who is even asking for this, I don’t remember someone ever sending me a text that was so long I found myself wishing for a summary.

I too did something similar years ago but with a hot sauce I believe was intended as a cooking additive (mad dog 357). Slightly inebriated me decided that I should drench that pizza in it.

That was a mistake.

First was the stupid amount of heat I’d just crammed into my mouth. The heat kept building endlessly until I hit a sorta euphoria and then immediately I get stomach cramps like nothing I’d ever experienced. I think I might have actually passed out for a bit following that

2/10, probably wouldn’t repeat

Edit: just looked that hot sauce up, it’s double the scoville rating of Da Bomb: Beyond Insanity

Everything about the Gingko tree is pretty cool

Politics is not just the relationship between two people, it’s the relationship between a person and everyone/everything else in the world.

Reducto ad absurdum: would you suggest a world where every country is at war with everyone else would foster a better environment for global FOSS collaboration than one where the world was at complete peace?

I honestly thought the statement you quoted was entirely uncontroversial. “Healthy” and “global” being the key words, I’m not saying it’s a requirement for FOSS to exist in general or anything.

It’s a fact of life that politics permeates everything, nothing is in isolation of the political climate it exists within.

The state of the world today is a function of the politics that got us here, a big change in world politics can have dramatic and far reaching effects.

A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day—which is unfortunately not the case in a lot of countries currently.

Archive.is is definitely not an alternative that people should use in this situation

Agree on the application side, but when it comes to the test suite, I’m definitely gonna consider letting an AI get that file started and then I’ll run through, make sure the assertions are all what I would expect and refactor anything that needs it.

I’ve written countless tests in my career and I’m still gonna write countless more, but I’m glad I can at least spend less time on laborious repetition now and more time on the part of the job I actually enjoy which is actually solving problems.

It’s the express, you’re better off never reading a word they print

Rum or gin work too

Also not a lawyer but I’ve done a lot of GDPR training since it was introduced and I believe you’re incorrect—the data subject posting it publicly or not doesn’t factor into the validity of a deletion request under the GDPR. There are a limited set of specific reasons a service owner can refuse a deletion request and they’re pretty much down to preventing abuse and facilitating compliance with other laws.

From your link

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person[15]

The “directly or indirectly” part is important here, a username is a constant identifier between a user’s posts and comments

Given comments and posts are free text input, there’s no way of knowing the entire set of a user’s content doesn’t contain PII, unless an admin wants to spend the time combing through and determining which posts definitely contain PII and which definitely don’t, they should delete it all. The data subject does not need to make specific listings of what they want deleted, the onus is on the service owner to be able to process the deletion request completely and within a timely manner.

Not an admin, but from a legal perspective, users in the EU have the right to request deletion of their data under the GDPR, which the consequences of violation are up to €10m or 2% of annual turnover (not profit), whichever is higher

Frankly, if a user asks a service owner to delete their personal data, the service owner should do it as promptly as possible.