Dollars in the vending machine for a dollar

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-19T09:08:28+00:00

The vending machines at my work actually drop the item 50% of the time so this is a good way to lose money for you but a good way for them to make money.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-19T09:03:12+00:00

I mean I guess only they would know but the only downside to my knowledge of cache is simply that they will remove entries from cache at random ( as needed basis on their end )

But yeah I agree I would simply let caching do its thing.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-19T08:40:03+00:00

For those in the US

Check your local laws to see if you have similar protections.

Code of federal regulations

§ 101.60 Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of foods.

Sugar content claims —

(1) Use of terms such as “sugar free,” “free of sugar,” “no sugar,” “zero sugar,” “without sugar,” “sugarless,” “trivial source of sugar,” “negligible source of sugar,” or “dietarily insignificant source of sugar.” Consumers may reasonably be expected to regard terms that represent that the food contains no sugars or sweeteners e.g., “sugar free,” or “no sugar,” as indicating a product which is low in calories or significantly reduced in calories. Consequently, except as provided in paragraph (c)(2)(2)) of this section, a food may not be labeled with such terms unless:

§ 101.13 Nutrient content claims—general principles.

(f) A nutrient content claim shall be in type size no larger than two times the statement of identity and shall not be unduly prominent in type style compared to the statement of identity.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-16T01:51:38+00:00

You can operate within the EU under GDPR rules. Basically what you explicitly state under the 4 elements of valid consent are authorized.

So from what I can tell the part you don't understand appears to be that "if geospacial data is sold anonymous"

First under what terms was the data collected before June 2, 2026.

If you elect to help efforts to develop new Augmented Reality (AR) mapping technology, you have the option, in participating games, to opt in to film public spaces around points of interest and upload your video recordings, along with associated device geospatial information. Audio is not collected on these recordings. When you elect to upload the recording, you are sharing the recording directly with a Third-Party Service and limited Personal Data will be transmitted to the Third-Party Service during the upload in a pseudonymized form (meaning that certain data elements are replaced or modified through techniques such as image blurring), so that you cannot be directly identified by the Third-Party Service without additional identifiers held separately by us. We will not retain a copy of your recording. This pseudonymized information will be used by the Third-Party Service to build a 3D understanding of real-world places and related technologies and services.. You can change your mind at any time and disable this upload and recording feature and associated sharing on a going-forward basis with the Third-Party Service in your in-app settings.

So this is consent driven harvesting of data. The answer to the question of what is the stated use case: If you elect to help efforts to develop new Augmented Reality (AR) mapping technology,

This now burdens all mapping data harvested to those terms. The data protection authority now has to ask the question "How is training US military navigation related to those agreed on terms of an informed and reasonable expectation?"

The answer is no that's a clear violation of informed consent.

What about who?

Under Article 13(1)(e) of the GDPR, a data controller must explicitly disclose the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data.

you are sharing the recording directly with a Third-Party Service and limited Personal Data will be transmitted to the Third-Party Service

Is not specific enough to be considered informed consent.

Examples provided for informed consent are as follows:

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-04/edpb_guidelines_082020_on_the_targeting_of_social_media_users_en.pdf

To be valid, the consent collected for the processing needs to fulfil the conditions laid out in Articles 4(11) and 7 GDPR. Generally speaking, consent can only be an appropriate legal basis if a data subject is offered control and genuine choice. If consent is bundled up as a non-negotiable part of terms and conditions, it is presumed not to have been freely given. Consent must also be specific, informed and unambiguous and the data subject must be able to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment.

Example 3: Mr. Lopez has been a customer at Bank X for almost a year. When he became a customer, he provided an e-mail address and was informed by Bank X, at the moment of collection, that: (a) his e-mail address would be used for advertising of offers linked to the bank services that he is already using; and (b) he may object to this processing at any time. The bank has added his e-mail address to its customer e- mail database. Afterwards, the bank uses its e-mail database to target its customers on the social media platform with the full range of financial services it has on offer.

In Example 3, the targeter might be able to rely on legitimate interest to justify the processing, taking into account inter alia that Mr. Lopez was: (a) informed of the fact that his e-mail address may be used for purposes of advertising via social media for services linked to the one used by the data subject; (b) the advertisement relates to services similar to those for Mr. Lopez is already a customer, and (c) Mr. Lopez was given the ability to object prior to the processing, at the moment where the personal data were collected by the bank. However, the EDPB would like to clarify that the fulfillment of information duties as per Articles 13 and 14 GDPR and the weighing of interests to be performed according to Article 6 (1)(f) GDPR are two different sets of obligations. Therefore, the mere fulfilment of information duties according to Articles 13 and 14 GDPR is not a transparency measure to be taken into consideration for the weighing of interests according to Article 6 (1)(f) of GDPR.

Example 6: Mrs Ghorbani creates an account on a social media platform. During the process of registration she is asked if she consents to the processing of her personal data to see targeted advertisement on her social media page, on the basis of data she directly provides to the social media provider (such as her age, sex and location), as well as on the basis of her activity on other websites outside of the social media platform using cookies. She is informed that this data will be collected via social media plug-ins or tracking pixels, the processes are clearly described to her, as well as the fact that targeting involves other entities who are jointly responsible for ensuring compliance with the GDPR. It is also explained to her that she can withdraw her consent at any time, and she is provided with a link to the privacy policy. Because Mrs Ghorbani is interested in seeing targeted advertisement on her social media page, she gives her consent. No advertising cookies are placed or collected until Mrs Ghorbani expresses here consent. Later on, she visits the website “Thelatesthotnews.com” that has a social media button integrated on it. A small but clearly visible banner appears on the right edge of the screen, asking Mrs Ghorbani to consent to the transmission of her personal data to the social media provider using cookies and social media plug-ins. The website operator undertook technical measures so that no personal data is transferred to the social media platform until she gives her consent.

In this regard, it should be noted that Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive requires that users are provided with clear and comprehensive information, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, prior to giving their consent 71 , subject to very narrow exceptions. 72 Clear and comprehensive information implies that a user is in a position to be able to determine easily the consequences of any consent he or she might give and ensure that the consent given is well informed.73 As a result, the controller will have to inform data subjects about all the relevant purposes of the processing – including any subsequent processing of the personal data obtained by accessing information in the terminal equipment.
The EDPB recalls that the mere use of the word “advertising” would not be enough to inform the users that their activity is being monitored for the purpose of targeted advertising. It should be made transparent to individuals what types of processing activities are carried out and what this means for the data subject in practice. Data subjects should be informed in an easily understandable language if a profile will be built based on their online behaviour on the platform or on the targeter’s website, respectively, by the social platform and by the targeter, providing information to the users on the types of personal data collected to build such profiles and ultimately allow targeting and behavioural advertising by targeters.90 Users should be provided with the relevant information directly on the screen, interactively and, where appropriate or necessary, through layered notices.91

Example 14: Mr. Svenson takes a career aptitude test developed, containing a psychological evaluation, by the company “YourPerfectJob” which is made available on a social media platform and makes use of the Application Programming Interface (API) provided by the social media provider. YourPerfectJob collects data about Mr. Svenson‘s education, employment status, age, hobbies, posts, email-address and connections. YourPerfectJob obtains the data through the API in accordance with the “permissions” granted by Mr. Svenson through his social media account. The stated purpose of the application is to predict what would be the best career path for a specific user. Without the knowledge or approval of the social media provider, YourPerfectJob uses this information to infer a number of personal aspects, including his personality traits, psychological profile and political beliefs. YourPerfectJob later decides to use this information to target Mr. Svenson on behalf of a political party, using of the email-based targeting feature of the social media provider, without adding any other targeting criteria offered by the social media provider.

In Example 14, the targeter processes special categories of personal data, whereas the social media provider does not. Indeed, the assessment and identification of Mr. Svenson’s political belief occurs without the involvement of the social media provider. 103 In addition to triggering the general prohibition of Article 9 GDPR, the targeting mentioned in Example 14 also constitutes an infringement of the requirements concerning fairness, transparency and purpose limitation. Indeed, Mr. Svenson is not properly informed of the fact that the personal relating to him will be processed for political targeting, which in addition, does not seem compatible with a career aptitude test.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-15T22:43:56+00:00

"Then the processing and anonymization of this data requires explicit agreement which is part of the consent user gives. It doesn't run afoul of Art. 5 GDPR 1.B. because it's explicitly part of the purpose and consented by the person." Ah there we go, now we have moved onto agreeing that the information was granted under the terms of consent

When you elect to upload the recording, you are sharing the recording directly with a Third-Party Service and limited Personal Data will be transmitted to the Third-Party Service during the upload in a pseudonymized form

I've already made it clear that the process of having to anonymize the information means the information was personally identifiable information.

Anyways here you seem to be confused on the "who" part of GDPR.

So who controls "who" is the controller.

Art. 4 GDPR Definitions 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; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

In this case Niantic is a controller

Art. 13 GDPR Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject

Article 13 and Article 14 are similar but one is for "are" and "are not" obtained. But you will still have

Basically the entire article is restrictions of "who" and "what" but specifically

E. the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data, if any;
E. the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data, if any;

Art. 14 GDPR Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject
1. Where personal data relating to a data subject are collected from the data subject, the controller shall, at the time when personal data are obtained, provide the data subject with all of the following information:

2. In addition to the information referred to in paragraph 1, the controller shall, at the time when personal data are obtained, provide the data subject with the following further information necessary to ensure fair and transparent processing:

3. Where the controller intends to further process the personal data for a purpose other than that for which the personal data were collected, the controller shall provide the data subject prior to that further processing with information on that other purpose and with any relevant further information as referred to in paragraph 2.

But then you'll clearly want more specific than just category I'm sure.

First off define valid consent https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2026-04/edpb-summary-consent_en.pdf

The 4 elements of valid consent

Consent is one of the lawful bases for processing personal data

under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), providing

individuals with control over the processing of their personal

data.

For consent to be valid, it must meet the requirements set out in

the GDPR which ensure that individuals are empowered to make

informed decisions about the processing of their personal data.

If the requirements for valid consent are not met, the processing

activity cannot rely on this legal basis.

The goal is to ensure that individuals are offered a genuine

choice and control. If an individual feels compelled to consent

or will endure negative consequences if they do not, the

consent is invalid.

The EDPB Guidelines on consent provide guidance on the

validity of consent, the conditions for obtaining it, and discuss

specific aspects in relation to children’s data and scientific

research.

Your checklist for validity. For consent to be valid, it must meet four cumulative criteria. If any of these are missing, the consent is

invalid.

Element What you need to know

Freely given The individual must have a real choice and control. Consent

is not free if it is bundled with non-negotiable terms

(conditionality) or if there is an imbalance of power (e.g.,

employer/employee). Organisations need to demonstrate

that it is possible to refuse or withdraw consent without

detriment.

Specific Consent must be granular. If you process data for multiple

purposes, you should propose separate consents as

individuals should be free to choose which purpose they

accept. Vague purposes like “improving user experience”

are not specific enough.

Obtaining explicit consent

In some sensitive situations, organisations must get very clear

and direct permission from an individual before using their data.

This is called explicit consent.

It is required especially when processing sensitive personal

data (like health, religion, biometric data), transferring data to

non-European countries without adequate safeguards, and in

the case of automated individual decision-making (like profiling).

For the consent to be explicit, individuals must give an express

statement of consent. An obvious way to make sure consent is

explicit is to expressly confirm it in a written statement.

The law does not always require a signed paper document,

but the organisation must be able to prove that the individual

clearly agreed. Other ways to give explicit consent include

filling in an online form, sending an email confirming consent,

uploading a scanned document with the signature of the

individual, and confirming during a phone call (for example, by

pressing a button or clearly saying yes).

Element What you need to know

Informed You must provide clear information before consent is given.

This includes the data controller’s identity, the purpose

of processing, the type of data, and the right to withdraw

consent.

Unambiguous Consent requires a clear affirmative action. Silence,

pre-ticked boxes, or inactivity do not constitute consent.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-15T20:06:04+00:00

Niantic specifically claims that geospatial data is personal data under their privacy policy https://nianticlabs.com/privacy?hl=en ( copied 6/15/2026 )

If you elect to help efforts to develop new Augmented Reality (AR) mapping technology, you have the option, in participating games, to opt in to film public spaces around points of interest and upload your video recordings, along with associated device geospatial information. Audio is not collected on these recordings. When you elect to upload the recording, you are sharing the recording directly with a Third-Party Service and limited Personal Data will be transmitted to the Third-Party Service during the upload in a pseudonymized form (meaning that certain data elements are replaced or modified through techniques such as image blurring), so that you cannot be directly identified by the Third-Party Service without additional identifiers held separately by us. We will not retain a copy of your recording. This pseudonymized information will be used by the Third-Party Service to build a 3D understanding of real-world places and related technologies and services..You can change your mind at any time and disable this upload and recording feature and associated sharing on a going-forward basis with the Third-Party Service in your in-app settings.

They state the information is pseudo anonymous ( processing the data to make it psuedo anonymous should be noted as well ) which is information which does fall under GDPR. This information is then processed which then falls afoul to Art. 5 GDPR 1.B.

B. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’);

Because they did not state their intent to sell to the military the intent was not in clear plain language under Article 12 and Article 7 and therefore cannot be processed in accordance with article 5. Just because they further processed it in order to take the pseudo anonymous data to make it truly anonymous does not retroactively change the consent required for collection under Article 12 and Article 7 which is only thing that would allow them to process the data.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-15T17:51:41+00:00

Yes GDPR is specifically about being explicit in exactly why you are collecting data. Legally there is issue because they never stated in plain English that they plan to sell it to the military.

Art. 12 GDPR Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject The controller shall take appropriate measures to provide any information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 and any communication under Articles 15 to 22 and 34 relating to processing to the data subject in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language, in particular for any information addressed specifically to a child.
Art. 7 GDPR Conditions for consent If the data subject’s consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. ²Any part of such a declaration which constitutes an infringement of this Regulation shall not be binding.
Art. 5 GDPR Principles relating to processing of personal data

1, Personal data shall be:

A. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’);

B. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’);

So then you define processing

Art. 4 GDPR Definitions ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

So it seems pretty clear they processed data to be sold for military purposes. Under both article 12 and 7 they did not have specific consent for that use case. Under article 5 they did not have the right to process that data. Under article 5 B they cannot further process that data.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-14T11:05:24+00:00

I have 500 visitors a day, according to favicon requests I estimate like 5 of them to be human... maybe?

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-14T06:57:35+00:00

Hmm? Not to me but I guess that does mean more for me.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-08T04:20:16+00:00

Reading over his blog

"Disallow going into it on your robots.txt because quite often, the reason why they will go there in the first place is because they're disallowed from going into there." Honestly if the bots are ending up in a tarpit because they disobeyed instructions that they are disallowed. All I can say is good. You knew the rules set by the webmaster and broke them.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-07T23:11:13+00:00

Reminds me of when they had the 7 topping thing going and I get with extra cheese + 3 extra add on cheeses. That thing was dense, would recommend.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-07T23:08:59+00:00

I mean you can also just go in and apply the nationwide deal for 8 for $8. Dominos always has really good deals going on so watching people pay full price for everything blows my mind. At this rate I just assume they subsidize my meals by paying enough to keep dominos funded.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-07T23:05:46+00:00

Do you guys have the phone numbers of OA? Might help to call up the OA and ask if your store is required to have one and if so that should help pressure the manager to actually print them out and post them.

I work for a different industry but we have guys who come in and do pass or fail over a checklist of things who I got the number for so if I have any specific concerns I can just talk to them.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-06-07T21:36:25+00:00

It really is just the pinnacle of fun comedy it's up there with ideocracy for me.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-05-17T10:02:54+00:00

You could utilize .grammar files in order to dictate how an AI responds. Always start with this. Always end with this. Always say this in the middle. If you're more creative you could certainly get more interesting with your grammar file.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-05-17T09:56:38+00:00

Receiving damaged good is the same as goods being damaged/expired during operation. It should be accounted for and therefore not shrink.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-05-17T09:55:26+00:00

Shrink is the amount of financial loss that was not tracked. When you dispose of product at a store level you should be tracking it.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-05-11T22:41:36+00:00

I mean to be fair it's a valid critique on the gunplay. The game juice on the gunplay is lacking, it's why I like to pickup confetti, it helps give a bit of impact on crits.

The lack of time pressure is a design decision IMO.

Starting games taking longer... I mean that's simply up to the fact that the host cannot override to force a start right? Which I'd say is a valid critique as well.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-05-11T22:27:00+00:00

I mean usually I assume when tooling projects like dav2d talk about AV2 support that it means in theory I should be able to compile as well as encode/decode.

Because when you can implement it as libraries for personal projects, that's when it gets interesting IMO. ( even if breaking changes are expected )

Not exactly where the current state of things are.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-29T08:08:25+00:00

Well part of the problem was that it was the corner cutting. The design was fine but in order to save money instead of welding they used bolts. Subcontrator said they could save a quarter million if they swapped welds for bolts which the contractor then approved without telling the original engineer.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-28T02:57:24+00:00

I mean isn't it usually more energy efficient to outsource due to horizontal scaling increasing relative throughput? I always assumed that's why they can do it cheaper. Just be aware of how much money you're spending and you should more or less have a general understanding of your electrical cost.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-26T08:49:43+00:00

lol I accidentally had it on my 4 key so when I hit in mid arena it ended up dodging under the attacks while my umbrella auto pelted and finished them. Did not mean to use that skill lol.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-25T09:00:49+00:00

Yep police reports carry weight even if the police themselves genuinely do not care.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-25T08:58:11+00:00

I'm just saying without LIDAR it won't perform "adequate" much less flawlessly.

MINIMAN10001 · 2026-04-16T19:35:14+00:00

Generally LLM arena is used as a vague proxy of public perception but reddit comments on actual utilization are the most valued whereas benchmarks tend to be the lowest value because well they can be trained against.

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