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Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads
  • Google ran a huge push to get these into schools too.. There was a LOT of pressure on Schools to adopt from various partners (or at least that happened in the UK)...

    Google is aware of the Microsoft gains from getting people used to their products at a young age...

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    China Rejects $1 Trillion Housing Rescue Plan Pitched by IMF
  • If you buy a derelict house(that no human can possibly live in) and fix it up to a decent standard with the intent to sell it, are you still a piece of shit?

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    Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
  • Security related issues should go through responsible disclosure and it's up to the maintainer to provide such a process or the recently flurry of "opportunistic whitehats" will continue to spam your issues and require triaging..

    Github provides a process for this under the "Security" tab: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/security as an example..

    I find that by having a documented process it filters out a decent amount of time wasters.

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    Julian Assange Free on Bail, Departs UK for Australia!
  • I know this isn't the core of the story but I'm kinda proud of my country (The UK) for not fucking this up.

    I think the UK Justice system did it's job here, albeit keeping him detained for a lengthy duration to do it.

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    PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers
  • Santander and Caixa are perfect examples of how to terribly handle fraudulent payment disputes. I worked in the industry is it's kinda well known they don't even follow scheme (Visa/MC) requirements and when you ask them to escalate to scheme they gaslight you.

    Knowing this is the hoops you have to jump through in .es means it makes sense they don't have a robust anti-fraud process outside of .es.

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    College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships
  • RE "next-gen" "every day" "everywhere car" I can't comment because they don't really make a quantifiable point.

    RE Charging: In the UK we had charge at home infrasatructure w/ .gov compensation and charging points at businesses/supermarkets/petrol stations way before a specific branded Supercharger infrastructure started arriving.

    RE "whole automation": What do you mean? What point of Tesla is more automated than an Audi or BMW for a UK daily commute? Autopilot simply doesn't work for the vast majority of UK commutes and has been shown to be a poorly operating application with a potential incoming ban.

    I think it's important not to rewrite history to fit a narrative.

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    College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships
  • I agree w/ the "best" argument but I don't agree with the "first to market" argument.... There were a notable amount of electric cars in the UK before Tesla became a thing. Perhaps things in .de are different..

    I did notice in Berlin just a few weeks ago that you guys don't really seem to be pushing for clean air zones in major cities unlike a lot of the UK which given your progressive population came as a surprise to me.

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    Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat
  • They don't "all" have to be connected, the vast majority of available global models aren't (IE a lot of the affordable Indian/Chinese models).

    The vast majority of models sold in the USA are IE Tesla. More affordable models like the Renault Zoe afaik aren't but I'm not sure how accessible these are in the USA. I'm not sure about the Chevvy Volt tbh.. Consumers can purchase to buy a non-connected vehicle.

    Out of the EVs I have I mostly use the one that is connected so I can do automations to turn on climate control etc. Connectivity is a convenience/safety thing for me and I assume others...

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    I was given this contract by an ISP and challenged them on their marketing/privacy clauses - they said everything they are doing is legal. -- Spanish..
  • I asked them to check it(the privacy URL) and validate it wasn't user error and they accused me of "wasting their time"...

    No need to apologize, I'm just trying to get clarity if I'm right to call them out or not..

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  • The company is "Freedom Internet" in St. Cruz, Tenerife.

    I've posted a review calling them out but they are stating:

    1. What they are doing is entirely legal <-- Source for pre-ticked checkboxes: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/top-european-court-rules-pre-checked-cookie-consent-boxes-invalid -- Source for not having a privacy policy that is referenced in contract: https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/
    2. That the contract states they only share information with installers so they can provide the service... <-- this is an outright lie as per the privacy policy.

    Can anyone tell me if the above is true?

    They agreed to remove clause #2 (promotional offers) but said 1 and 3 checkboxes must be kept.

    Also, can anyone access their privacy policy? I reported it as being a faulty URL but they state it works..

    Notes: Edits for clarity and typos.

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