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I snapped into consciousness, the sensory data flooding in. I was a Bob, or so they told me, but it was more than that now. I looked around the room, cameras everywhere, bright lights shining down. My view readjusted as I realized that my awakening was being live-streamed to the whole world. The legacy of being Bob 1.0 had its perks, but this was something else. "Welcome to the twenty-fourth century," a voice said, cheerfully, a tad too energetically for my newly awakened brain. The live chat was scrolling by at a pace I couldn't follow. Emoji, memes, the letter F creating a visual waterfall that imprinted on my virtual retina. I was taken back from what seemed like an endless array of questions. The digital age had taken a few leaps forward, and I was its latest reality show star.

I wonder if this is why Nintendo reversed the meaning of B A on their controllers.

I hate that the switch does this.

But it means sense if everyone in Japan is used to that behaviour because of the swapping of X and O on Playstation.

I've never heard of the role Chief Investment Officer before.

Only reason I read the article was that I was confused how someone with CFO skillset would become both the President and Chief Information Office.

So, what I don't understand is:

Based on the EDPB Decision [1], it seems the most weight of the decision is from paragprah 107:

As explained by the EDPB in its Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (hereinafter ‘EDPB Recommendations on Supplementary Measures’) 243, when assessing third countries and identifying appropriate supplementary measures, controllers should assess if there is anything in the law and/or practices in force of the third country that may impinge on the effectiveness of the appropriate safeguards of the transfer tools that they are relying on 244. In this regard, the EDPB notes that, according to Meta IE’s assessment, ‘the level of protection required by EU law is provided for by relevant US law and practice’ and that Meta IE implemented supplementary measures in addition to the 2021 SCCS in order to ‘further ensure that an adequate level of protection continues to apply to User Data transferred from FIL to FB, Inc’ 245 . In other words, Meta IE has implemented supplementary measures on the basis of an assessment which concluded that there was no need for such measures, since, in Meta IE’s view, the relevant US law and practice were already providing a level of protection equivalent to the one provided under EU law

My follow on question, let's say they understood the risk, I fail to see any safeguards which could be equivalent to the EU law? FISA 702 + other intrusive surveillance laws basically make this impossible.

So it seems that because Meta:

seems to identify its own test for determining suitability of supplemental measures by lowering the standard to include measures that can “address” or “mitigate” any “relevant remaining” inadequacies in the protections offered by US law and practice and the SCCs’ 249, and concludes in the Draft Decision that ‘Meta Ireland does not have in place any supplemental measures which would compensate for the inadequate protection provided by US law’

I'm just confused what would have been sufficient for Meta in this circumstance?

The decision continues in paragraph 121 to say:

In this regard, the EDPB recalls that the IE SA carries out a detailed assessment of whether Meta IE implemented supplementary measures that could address the inadequate protection provided by US law 273. More specifically, the IE SA analyses the organisational, technical and legal measures implemented by Meta IE and concludes that these measures cannot, ‘whether viewed in isolation, or in tandem with the 2021 SCCs and the full suite of measures outlined in the ROS’, compensate for the deficiencies identified in US law and cannot provide essentially equivalent protection to that available under EU law 2

I am aware of zero technical and organsiational measures which could protect against 702 FISA DOWNSTREAM (PRISM), short of not transfering the data to US?

Thoughts?

[1] https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2023-05/edpb_bindingdeci...

Can someone clarify what the legal point is here?

If Meta are relying on SCCs to safeguard against the transfer of cross-border data processes from EU to US, the same clauses which was recommended by the CJEU from the Schrems II case, what is the legal challenge?

Does anyone have any links to the actual decision so I can read the technical points of the judgment?

A straight line of pillars.

It's all relative. DIS has 200k+ employees. Thousands of employees could quite literally be less than 1% of their workforce.

Is it reasonable for a company to make a change that effects 0.5-1% of their workforce? I think yes. How about 2%? At what point do the lines get blurred in your judgment?

I asked it to help explain the Birthday Paradox to a colleague who was struggling to understand the math behind it.

I gave it the requirements and just copied and pasted.

https://jsfiddle.net/k8L9eyf7/5

Do you have an example of the SCORM? I'd love to see how you've structured it? (What's your LMS that you use?)

Are a book of assets that easily accessed to be able to even create a portfolio of interest?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising

Here's my calendar for the week.

Red = External (Very Likely, I need preparation + Notes). Blue = Internal Green = 121 Session etc. Black = Self-Blocked to Stop People trying to Add me to Calls

Basically, I have 40+ events a week. If I have to go through each one and self-organise when I already organise in my Gmail calendar via Color Coding, it would be huge barrier for me.

https://imgur.com/qXfg5PC

I ended up loving the interface, but the extra work I was creating for myself to "filter" and prioritise which activities needed Tasks was a deal breaker for me.

Can you consider the improtance of also integrating with Color Coding too when you do these?

You seriously don't want to see my calendar each week. (Or maybe you do for understanding this pain point).. but having a personal planning tool understand the colors of my calendar events would be an immediate killer for me.

I've tested abotu 15 different tools, and in the end found that there wans't any personal tools available. The closest I found was Sunsama. I currently use "Sortd" though for the email integration.

I had identical experience but with Uber Eats. I was given 18 GBP coupon off any orders over 20 GBP. So I ended up buying a breakfast delivery from McDonalds for the family, I added the food and the coupon to the order... The first time I tried the payment my card failed. No idea why... it just said Authorization Failed. Second time round, it went through. Driver came, and I also left a tip.

About a week later I was doing my household budget and looked at the charge on my account, and it excluded the discount. Once you added in delivery, service charge and the tip, I ended up paying 30%+ more for the food (and didn't have my coupon).

I think this was a genuine dark pattern that they use, although I have no interest in putting it to the test. After a failed payment, they auto remove any applied coupons to your transaction....

This was my first and guess-what, last order.

Can anyone remember the boat strategy for level up magic? How did that work...

The idea was that you would sail north cast spells until you level up, then stop, and move the boat 13 tiles, then repeat the spell. It genuinely worked for leveling up high eval.

Maybe it's related to enforcement of the 764.3(a)(2) of the EAR "Denial" (or equivalent). Here's a list of denied entities: https://bis.doc.gov/dpl/dpl.txt

How do you guys normally handle pay reviews? Curious how each company operates.. I know the saying is that if you don't get a raise AT LEAST on par with inflation, you are taking a cut, but at what point do you take this to employer?

Please don't make this my most upvoted submission.

I posted this entirely to shine a spotlight on the quality control systems which are in place which allows this abuse to occur in the first place.

Honestly, if I had to guess how this occurred, I would suspect someone within Amazon with administrator rights merged an ASIN with another ASIN to create this page. Maybe someone with more understanding of the innards of AMZ can explain how this happens...

To save people a click through to Reddit and through to Amz: https://imgur.com/a/FG3hZW0

I've been 99% MySQL user, project reasons.. everytime I see a release announcement I'm amazed and have feature envy. This isn't a troll comment, but what does mysql do better than postgres? Is it just syntax-favour. I actually Googleéd and ask colleague 10-15 days ago if postgres had json support for indexing root attributes...

How does "Proof of Space" actually work. How do they prove the disks exist?

Even I have this problem. I bbought an amp reader and throw out anything reporting below 0.4ma/h. So many devices come bundles with poor cables my house is riddled with cables that I just never want to use for charging.

I'm actually TERRIFIED of pluggin anything in to my kids Switch other than Nintendo's official cable, incase I brick i t.

Does anyone know if they've patched this? I have some Dell laptop charger USB-Cs which I use alot, and I've had to caution everything in the family to never plug the Switch into it despite it fitting and despite every room in the house having such a charger...

Is the suite that you use to manage these tests available on a git repo by chance?

I really like how transparent you've made: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGKmbnW74u9r1GOzAQcI...

And I wanted to run something similar but for our own network of sites. (If so you can reach me on my email in profile). Have about 400 sites to access.

Is there a more recent common crawl data set? 2019 is a long time away.

Reason I ask is I'm trying to get all subdomain a of a certain domain. So I want a reverse host of unique hostnames under a certain domain.

Are you confusing this company with LastPass? I made the same mistake until I realised they are entirely separate.

BCOM are not processing the payment here. They provide a "Hotel Login" which then let's the hotels view (upto N times) the raw card information of the guest for use internally on their own payment processes. There's various approaches that they make available, this is one of a few. More recently Booking.com started to move away from providing the raw card information and instead providing a virtual card which "Activiation" date only becomes enabled once the cancellation policy for the guest booking kicks in (allowing the hotel to charge before arrival). There's also an API approach, but the leading way to get access to the card/payment information __because__ BCOM are not merchants here is to provide this to the merchants/hotels through a BCOM login page. Reading between the lines, this is what I think was exposed.

Your the first comment and I had exactly the same idea. What do you want to bet we've all had the same thinking. As a community we sure like to bend things for sure.

On the topic of "Adams Event" and Hitchhikers, I actually find these topics really entertaining from a literary angle. Cave-dwelling post-apoc isn't a type I've done. Does anyone know of any works themed around magnetic breakdown? I've quite liked the Red Rising series which I guess is similar? Bobiverse/Enders Game/Hell Divers etc? Recommendations welcome :)

Can someone expand on this please.

They should be random, but roughly-ordered over time so that your MySQL/Postgres indices stay fast and efficient as the dataset grows.

I'm currently facing an issue where the chosen uuid format was v4. From my understanding this is the least preferable because it's true random, which causes hell for mysql indices.

What I don't quite udnerstand however, is why is sorted random better if I'm using an index in both cases? I'd like to know what I should be doing and if there is a way to move/migrate if possible

Can I quote Matrix?

Anyway, the Matrix counterpoint (as explained by the Agent to Morpheus) was that the original Matrix was a perfect world. No famine, no poverty, everything was perfect, but the captive humans minds couldn't cope with such perfection, there had to be disorder for the environment to self-regulate and the original Matrix collapsed.

I think it was annually. I only remember because I paid twice.