Why the fuck would they name it PRISM?

We cannot stop collecting data about you because collecting the datum that you want to stop having your data collected failed.

I wonder if the situation in Europe is different, where such bullshit is illegal.

So it’s the Y2K bug, but stupider.

As a sidenote: Did you know that the Date object in JavaScript has a getFullYear method? It just gives you the year of the date. For instance: new Date(1995, 0, 1).getFullYear() gives 1995.

Why is it called getFullYear, you ask? Well, there’s also getYear, which only gives the last two digits of the year. For instance: new Date(1995, 0, 1).getYear() gives 95. Not as useful as you might think, but ok.

Now what happens in the year 2000? Guess. No, really. Do guess. And then guess again, because you’re wrong. new Date(2024, 0, 1).getYear() gives …drumroll… 124, not 24. After the year 1999 the counter just keeps incrementing.

So what’s before 1900, then? new Date(1776, 6, 4) was, of course, the year −124.

I think it’s worth noting that JavaScript isn’t an ancient language. It was developed in December 1995. The year 2000 wasn’t too far off.

You vastly underestimate the tolerance of an average user who barely knows their way around a web browser and Word.

maximising profit is not why we grant them copyright

That’s the only reason copyright exists. Because society decided that if you’re the one to put work into developing something, you should be the one reaping the profits, at least for some time.

It remembers the last input and defaults there.

It never occurred to me that TVs might not do that.

This is actually funny. Imagine some automobile vendor misbehaving in some way and all other self-driving cars make a beeline for them just to ruin their crash statistics.

With everybody and their grandma shoving their cloud into your face, I’m happy there still are flash drives for sale.

Recently I saw a meme or post or tweet that I can’t find anymore. The gist was: In the 2000s, search engines were arcane tools which could only be used competently by few select people. Nowadays this has changed. Not because people have gotten smarter, but because search engines were dumbed down so much that it’s not possible to use them competently anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSYljRYDEM&pp=ygUTbGVnYWwgZWFnbGUgY2hhdGdwdA%3D%3D

Yes, they do. Lawyers in the US did, citing invented cases in court.

How about Intel?

Exactly. This is supposed to show that what @[email protected] demands is already law in the EU.

Article 82, paragraph 1 of the GDPR:

Any person who has suffered material or non-material damage as a result of an infringement of this Regulation shall have the right to receive compensation from the controller or processor for the damage suffered.

Paragraph 2:

Any controller involved in processing shall be liable for the damage caused by processing which infringes this Regulation

Article 24, paragraph 1:

**[T]he controller shall **implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure and to be able to demonstrate that processing is performed in accordance with this Regulation.

Article 5, paragraph 1f:

Personal data shall be: […] processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss,

Article 83, paragraphs 2 and 5:

Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines pursuant to this Article in respect of infringements of this Regulation referred to in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 shall in each individual case be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:

(a) the basic principles for processing, including conditions for consent, pursuant to Articles 5, 6, 7 and 9;

Article 4, paragraph 7:

‘controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data

(All quotes are excepts, emphasis mine

https://gdpr-info.eu/

I’m not sure how the GDPR would apply to a service subscription. While the service is running, the companies have legitimate interest to keep your data, so you can’t have it removed.

German consumer protection FTW

The Fair Consumer Contracts Act will in future introduce a mandatory 2-step termination process […]. Wherever the consumer can conclude a subscription contract against payment, the provider should also give the consumer the opportunity to terminate at the same point. […A] cancellation button should be included on such registration pages for memberships at the first stage (with the wording “Cancel contracts here”). This “first” cancellation button should then lead to a confirmation page on the second level, where the respective user is identified and the consumer can effectively send the cancellation (i.e. with the wording “Cancel now”).

The law (German): https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__312k.html

Like literally every other company. That doesn’t make it right, but still… there’s more criticism to be had specifically about SpaceX.

I can’t believe a company that’s been this shitty to its customers, openly, for literal decades is still in business.

Thanks for reminding me to never, ever buy Apple.

https://liberapay.com/Lemmy/

I’ve looked at the webpage, a blog post “How I use HackMD in FOSS”, the intro to the documentation, the features page in the documentation, and I still can’t find out what this thing is supposed to be doing. Is it a wiki? Is it a tool to extract documentation from source code?

I’d feel bad using the Tor network for everyday browsing. I think it should be reserved for people who really need it to protect themselves.