HN user

lewiseason

66 karma

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lewiseason; my proof: https://keybase.io/lewiseason/sigs/etCjaEOfiAWM0biQT5ssqpyaF87GrYzZZ02546KoCv8 ]

Posts0
Comments46
View on HN
No posts found.
Soli 7 years ago

Probably, but that doesn't sell $650 phones

voicemail could be an opt out thing

You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of silence, to put off all but the most committed.

What GDPR says about this is:

[A]n identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

I think the principle is that since an IP address could be used to identify you, it is considered personal data.

Ah see, that's the opposite of what I'd want, personally at least.

The whole point imo of blocking cookies for privacy reasons is so that things like that can't track me around the web - explicitly visited or not.

What we should've done is made browser vendors add EU cookie consent instead of every. single. website.

Then I can configure my browser for Always/Never/Ask or whatever.

That would've been too simple, of course.

One reason for this is that it's at the discretion of the issuing bank whether or not to accept an expired card (in fact, you can get into trouble for handling this locally with some processors).

I believe it's a convenience thing for the end user, when issuing a new card - offer a couple of days "grace" - and arguably there isn't much risk associated with this practice: lost/stolen cards are always cancelled immediately.

Some of them do.

It's true, but they often manage to make a huge mess of it (note: entirely baseless remark based on my personal experience).

More importantly, most of them don't, and that sucks. I'm not sure why they don't, but I suspect that this is not the silver bullet?

GNU Screen v.4.4.0 10 years ago

The only real downsites are if you use screen/minicom/etc inside tmux you tend to mash Ctrl-a quite a lot, but if anything that's easier than keeping track of which key goes with which level?

Very common in "rural" UK, where rural means 5 miles away from a city. You'd expect to pay £20-25 per month for the privilege (although note that this includes a "line rental" charge paid to the layer 1 provider - BT - of approx £15 per month)