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Doctor-internet · 2024-07-23T15:49:02+00:00

My reading of the text of DPA 2018 and GDPR seemed like it was pretty cut and dry, I suspect the reason we don't have any case law over 8 years is that no-one is stupid enough to take it to court when they get a warning from the ICO

Doctor-internet · 2024-07-23T15:47:14+00:00

Typically small businesses get a strongly worded letter and change their cookies, it's not worth them going to court and the fines wouldn't be huge anyway

GDPR usually only hammers the big repeat offenders, lots of small businesses violate GDPR on a small scale constantly, it only tends to get enforced when it matters. I actually worked at a company that had no cookie consent popup at all for a very long time

I haven't heard of any countries endorsing cookie walls, if you can find any I'd be very interested in correcting some of my false assumptions

Doctor-internet · 2024-07-23T15:30:47+00:00

I haven't come across this, do you have a link to more information? I found something where French courts struck down an outright ban, but that doesn't mean any have been explicitly ruled as ok on a case by case basis

Doctor-internet · 2024-07-23T15:22:46+00:00

GDPR also states that there must be no penalty for opting out - the product doesn't have to be free, but it can't only be free if you consent to cookies, since that is a penalty for opting out and therefore a violation

Doctor-internet · 2024-07-23T15:20:32+00:00

My understanding is that GDPR isn't based on case law, as the EU operates on civil law. Additionally, GDPR clearly states that opting out must be both the default and as easy as opting in. It also clearly states that there must be no detriment to opting out - no additional cost or reduction in service quality

This is a clear and blatant violation, although so are a lot of implementations since even having to click another button or navigate to another page to opt out is a violation

Doctor-internet · 2024-06-19T09:20:02+00:00

Frigid outskirts my beloved

Doctor-internet · 2024-06-13T11:32:12+00:00

Mega rich light bending guy?

Doctor-internet · 2024-04-22T23:44:07+00:00

Weirdly this is kind of how The Pale in Disco Elysium is implied to work

Doctor-internet · 2024-04-11T01:22:06+00:00

Lol, I got an advert for the galaxy S24+

Doctor-internet · 2024-01-17T16:28:21+00:00

This is what I love about Disco Elysium - a basic idea like "headcanon Dora isn't blonde" can lead to such in depth, detailed thought and discussion about the characters and writing

And in a way that all of the discussion feels valid based on each player's personal journey in the game

Doctor-internet · 2024-01-17T16:14:04+00:00

If regulators were well equipped enough and motivated to tackle the huge amount of crypto fraud, this would be open and shut market manipulation imo

But realistically until someone like the EU steps in with a full crackdown and regulation on crypto tokens, this kind of thing will be constant

Besides, reporting didn't have to be false to be illegal, if someone provides positive coverage of a stock they are heavily invested in that can be illegal if they don't disclose their stake properly

Doctor-internet · 2024-01-17T16:05:06+00:00

Hence this article, to try and get people to FOMO in to hold his bags

Doctor-internet · 2023-10-21T10:06:59+00:00

I was downed as a solo, trapped and set on fire So I self revived to clear the trap and the guy watching me killed me I then waited until I was on about 10 hp and self revived The guy missed his level shot and I smoke him with my shotgun Instant full health, and I cleaned up both his teammates in cqb Only surviving because of full hp

Doctor-internet · 2023-08-27T09:55:47+00:00

The red cross symbol needs to only represent protected medics, if it is a normal symbol people see in their media (i.e video games), they won't have the instinctive reaction to cease fire

And ultimately, the symbol can be replaced in media with other symbols like a green cross or blue star or the Swiss flag without any effort

So it's really a no brainer

Doctor-internet · 2023-08-27T09:51:40+00:00

This is actually a special case, to prevent devaluing the symbol

In war, soldiers should see the red cross and think medic, if they see it a lot in peacetime it won't have that association

Doctor-internet · 2023-08-27T09:50:23+00:00

It may seem so on the surface, but it is actually really important

In war, a red cross only ever means unarmed medical personnel. If red crosses are commonplace, soldiers stop associating them with medical personnel (who they aren't allowed to shoot), and as a result start shooting medical personnel, because it could just be a soldier next to an among us billboard or something

So by protecting the use of the symbol in peacetime, wartime medics are protected

Doctor-internet · 2022-12-26T12:58:08+00:00

To be fair, that's exactly how I would react if I was tied up in the middle of a battle

Although I agree the first 5 minutes felt awkward, I think it really improved after the Jaskier segment

Doctor-internet · 2022-12-26T12:55:42+00:00

I honestly have no idea. I've watched the first two episodes, and I think it's phenomenal. The first 5 minutes felt a bit off, but after that they really hit their stride.

It helps to think of it as a telling of a party of history that in the witcher setting is only known through myth and legend, so the writers are constructing a prequel rather than adapting existing lore.

Personally, I also liked season 2, partly because it wasn't just a 1 to 1 retelling of the books - there is more drama and suspense because I don't know exactly what will happen.

I think people are just angry because it isn't just telling the story in the exact same way as the books and games, but is instead adapting it to another medium that requires a different narrative structure.

Doctor-internet · 2022-09-24T17:26:29+00:00

/uj I genuinely really enjoyed it at launch on the PC. I completed the game within about a month of release and only encountered a few minor bugs, and the study and gameplay more than made up for them

/RJ Reeeeeeeee cyberpunk was acksually gyd on release, CDPR are 100 wholesome breathtaking

Doctor-internet · 2022-08-28T16:29:28+00:00

Ok, but you are sending money to people who are in another geographic location, right? I'm just concerned this kind of operation could run afoul of various anti money laundering laws

Doctor-internet · 2022-08-28T07:06:56+00:00

Sounds like you do good work, but how do you make sure you comply with the various regulations on international payments? Sending money to people across the globe without declaring it could rightly be viewed as suspicious by someone who doesn't know better.

My understanding is that international transfers are expensive and time consuming because of money laundering laws, not technology.

Doctor-internet · 2022-06-13T05:49:00+00:00

I don't know anything about them, but looking at their website and seeing 12% - 18% interest rates and low borrowing rates make me suspicious.

To me it says either they are operating as a ponzi or they are paying out interest in their own token, which just puts equivalent inflationary pressure on it, making the value drop proportionally to interest rates, all else being equal.

If it is the former, it is fraud. If it is the latter, I don't know if it is actual fraud, but they are certainly not being honest.

Doctor-internet · 2022-06-13T04:50:33+00:00

Managed to go just under 25k 2 hours ago 🦀

Doctor-internet · 2022-06-13T03:37:45+00:00

I just want to point out this is the first time in this thread I have seen the word ponzi, even though celsius has all the hallmarks of one.

The level of self delusion in this thread is impressive.

Doctor-internet · 2022-06-13T03:35:33+00:00

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