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Dating app for Trump supporters leaks user data on launch day. So it's as leaky as the Trump White House. 😁
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@maiyannah Gotta wonder what they'll think of next though. Multiplayer combat where the one who gives the most money wins? But we pretty much already have that in lots of games so it's not really a new invention. Selling an incomplete game and forcing people to pay for the parts cut out? Done to death since the dawn of DLC. Maybe they could make a hardcore MMORPG where if your character dies you can resurrect for $$$ if you don't want to lose the character. But even that sounds too obvious not to have been done already.
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@maiyannah 2K? Please tell me EA was at least the first to do that or my worldview will be in shambles. ;P
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@maiyannah Yeah, but most fee to pay games are more subtle and, frankly, honest than straight after logging in for the first time popping up a screen "here's the main features we advertise, if you want them you'll have to donate". Granted, they're probably that way because company run projects tend to involve more lawyers who care a lot about tricky people into spending money the /right/ way.
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@maiyannah Oh, yeah, I can imagine. That change would have to have made quite some systems unusable. And SELinux errors have a reputation of being only slightly more intelligible than OpenSSL errors.
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@maiyannah Hmm, did they run it automatically in enforce mode or something? I can understand objections to SELinux but in audit-only mode it seems fairly innocuous.
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@maiyannah Err, that's not really surprising. BSD's are part of the unix family tree tracing their history all the way to the ur-Unix while Linux is a reimplementation of unixy things.
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@maiyannah That's like warning about the zombie apocalypse when they're already applying a chainsaw to your skull.
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@lilitu On a philosophical level I don't think it's impossible to have a non-hypocritical belief system that advocates violence to the outgroup and compassion to the in-group. Historically, hell even currently, there are plenty of beliefs which are openly "death to the heathens, take care of your bother". I mean, there are rather famous organisations that openly operate both a military branch and a charity branch in the middle east. The hypocrisy actually seems to be more of a modern western thing where you can't afford the bad PR of being an organization seeking to change policy through violence and intimidation.
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@maiyannah Apparently Facebook's main European presence is in Ireland so the Irish DPA going after them seems fairly logical.
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@maiyannah The problem is that they have lawyers. So the privacy authorities need to be really thorough in their investigations and it will probably take years for a verdict to be delivered after all the court cases and all. Still, I know at least the Irish data protection agency is working on it: https:// www.dataprotection. ie/docs/EN/03-10-2018-Facebook-Data-Breach-Commencement-of-Investigation/m/1787.htm
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@maiyannah I doubt indeed that they are going to deal out many fines at this point, most likely privacy authorities will contact companies and point out the law (this doesn't require investigations that privacy authorities typically don't really have the manpower for). However there are a few companies that are likely to feel the full force of the law: Facebook and Google. From an enforcement perspective it makes most sense to fine those companies that are a) trying to make a run around the law, b) are the biggest privacy invaders, c) are well known and d) are really impopular. Note that Facebook is already receiving more attention because of a data breach exposing access tokens for 50M accounts.
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News about nobel prizes seems to be mostly that for the first time in 55 years a woman won it again. That lady must be thrilled that her entire achievement has been reduced to her gender. At least with men they usually say what they got the prize for.
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@maiyannah I agree. Maiya web committee when? ;P
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@maiyannah Plus some of us lefties really don't like the looney bin hijacking the left.
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@maiyannah @bob I'm more positive, it isn't cargo cult because the central premise is really to translate W3C concepts (semantic web) to JSON and you can't really cargo cult your own goals. ;) But the big problem with JSON-LD IMHO is that it tries to bolt a schema onto something that's by design so simple it doesn't really support a schema. It's the same problem JSON Schema and all have: JSON simply has poor support for extensibility. Like it or not this is an area where XML actually shines. Namespaces (and XML in general) may be awkward to work with but when you want to represent stuff with schema's and lots of URI's XML has your back. That said I don't really see the practical use case of linked data in at least 90% of applications. Most of the time you're exposing an API for others to use, not some encyclopedia articles. And to use an API you're going to need more documentation than simply some links so you pretty much need an out-of-band document with usage instructions for the programmers on the other side anyway.
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@maiyannah Eh, not in Dutch. It's a pretty common name here (and judging by last name I expect she's Dutch). There are probably English names as well which sound silly in Dutch.
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Just finished Portal Stories: Mel. For a free mod it's darn impressive. A complete campaign that not only manages to fit in both lore and gameplay wise but also adds some out-of-the-box thinking that wasn't in the original Portals.
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@maiyannah Protests tend to work a lot better when they're on the streets, big, persistent and supported by a large proportion of the population. Oh, and to get results it helps to have leaders who both know damn well what they want to achieve and who have the skills to actually convince others to help them. Now lemme look at modern protests ... oh.
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@purplehippo It's a little casual adventure game, with emphasis on casual. Feels like a mobile port. Pretty short, I recon a decent gamer whizzes through in a few hours. Hardest part of the game is the hidden object part, which is a big part of the game. There are hints but those are annoying enough to request (you have to click a lot of flies for a hint) that you'll want to avoid using them. Enjoyment wise it's ok, even for someone who's not into the genre of adventures like me. I'd say as a freebie it's certainly worth downloading but this isn't something I'd pay money for.
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