Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 19

@lain Bikeshed principle.

@shellkr Okay, so you're suggesting more fast food = less of dishes that are relatively time-consuming to prepare, like Beef Stroganoff? That's probably true.

@shellkr True about food being a fashion - like nearly all human behaviour, people make choices in that realm primarily to signal their social status, so the answer will almost certainly come down to some aspect of that. I don't understand what your second sentence refers to.

@clacke @lain I don't think it's meaningless - we know what the license is meant to achieve - but it may be that the intention is not really achievable.

@zaitcev That attorney should take note of what it says about threats.

@calvin Lobsters don't exactly have asses and don't need to cover them.

What really hurts about spending the time to craft 4,000 words of lovingly artisanal privacy policy, is knowing nobody's going to read it anyway. https://northcoastsynthesis.com/privacy

In my generation, Beef Stroganoff was the butt of jokes. I've seen some indication that one or two generations before mine, it was considered to be actually a somewhat fancy thing, with which you might impress dinner guests. And I think in this generation people aren't familiar with it at all. What changed?

@clacke @lain Yeah, we have the "moral rights" concept in Canada, too. Free software licenses have always been an uneasy mix with this kind of thing. I'm not sure GDPR really changes much on that point, it's just another example of ways in which "the framework set by law" may conflict with the aims of the license.

@clacke @lain I think that the GPL in its latest version, at least, is intended to include/require an irrevocable grant of *all* consent necessary to allow distribution. If I release something under GPL, I'm supposed to be promising, granting, consenting, licensing, and everything else necessary to make sure that you not only can distribute it now, but that you always can. For me to then say you can't distribute it b/c "right to be forgotten," is against the spirit for sure, maybe the letter.

@lain @clacke But does the license to the *software* cover the *version control history*? That's the same question that came up in the opposite direction when Mastodon was sore about somebody forking the code base without preserving the git commits...

@clacke @lain I may be required by Canadian law to keep certain financial records permanently - and amend them only by adding notes, not by ever erasing stuff. I think GDPR is pretty clear that I'm okay obeying such a law, and not much "personal information" ends up in my financial records anyway.

But there's still the huge issue of whether the EU can *really* make laws binding on me anyway. They say they can, but the Caliph of the Islamic State says he can, too.

Why's a nice place like this allow girls like you in it?

@kaniini @lain Just like there's a difference between being part of any other group and making it part of your identity. When people say identity politics is a bad thing, this is what that means.

modern-day Shakeresque religious group devoted to promoting contraception and abortion on the grounds that the fewer born into this vale of sorrows the better

@fence @lain @thor The legal basis for how they think they can write laws binding on me in Canada at all is not clear, but even if it comes down to just "Well, if you don't comply then we won't allow your products to be imported into our country" (as with the lead-solder ban - relevant to me as an electronics manufacturer) it's an issue.

@fence @lain @thor I haven't read the directive carefully myself; to do so is on my agenda for next week. But all the popularized "here is what you need to know" guides insist that European rules regarding what data you're allowed to have apply to businesses with European customers wrt what data may be collected; there are also rules that you must store the data in a country the European authorities consider secure, but that's not the entirety of the important part.