Agreed, saying that filtering by IP is useless is like saying you should never lock your front door because a motivated burglar can just break your front door down or break a window.

Except that the key for the data is the user's profile and LinkedIn does compile a report based on that key, which per that lawyer's interpretation is covered by GDPR.

Without the user profile, the compiled data would not exist and since the GDRP has wording covering that, and LinkedIn does compile and sell it, it should be legally released.

I definitely am biased because I personally consider that Microsoft kind of turned LinkedIn into a wannabe Facebook with gazillion notifications, which I had to turn off one by one.

I've been buying used machines for my home server needs for a while now. The current server we have is a Dell with an i7-2600, 16GB RAM and I put a 1TB SDD in it. The PSU died a few weeks after I got it but a $25 used PSU has been working well for years now.

The setup is more than enough to handle the web and email services as well as a couple of game servers for my son. Most of the time the machine uses under 1GB of RAM and has low CPU load.

I would like to upgrade to a more modern machine, but other than negligibly lower electrical consumption the benefits would be invisible to us. Once the AI bubble bursts, prices will come down crashing, even more so on the used market as there will be a spike in folks upgrading their machines.

I guess that lawyer analysis of the GDPR is that linkedIn cannot both withhold the information behind a paywall and claim privacy issues for releasing it for free at the same time. I would agree with that.

I remember interviewing at LinkedIn years ago, before GDPR, and they gave me a printout of my connections tree. That was kinda cool and I still have it somewhere in my home office. AFAIK they do not do this anymore as it could be legally challenged under GDPR and possibly the similar California laws.

Personally I'm a little sad of LinkedIn state after Microsoft purchased them. The push for monetization transformed it into a wannabe Facebook and I don't find it as useful as a recruiting tool as it used to be.

Anyway, I'm rooting for the little guy here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The processing might be done on the phone, but I'm pretty sure metadata is still being synced to Apple servers. Right now Apple is one of the few companies that do value privacy but this is partially because Tim Cook is a very private person and he strongly values privacy compared to say Zuckerberg. This is one of many reasons I prefer Apple walled garden over Microsoft and Google alternatives. I have no idea if the next Apple CEO will value privacy just as much.

While I prefer Apple hardware, I do not buy every device they make as soon as they come out. I upgraded from an iPhone 7 to a XS Max to a 16 Pro Max. My current laptop is an M1 Pro. Even my main WiFi is handled by an AirPort TimeCapsule, discontinued in 2018 and that is only being unsupported by Apple this fall. I do not know of many companies that provide upgrades for this long for free to their customers. I already upgraded to a NAS from Synology for my backups and will have to figure out what wireless station to upgrade to before this fall.

I remember attempting to buy $100 worth of bitcoins when they were around $0.10 or maybe around d $1. I could well afford the loss, just in case, but all the sites had massively suspicious credit card handling and I just gave up. I would be very wealthy now, but this did convince me that the whole crypto environment was just shooting everything from the hip.

Coinbase is just confirming that nothing has changed. Having folks with zero security mindset shipping production code, is already bad when they are trained developers but when they are not even that. Ughhh!

And no I do not regret not jumping on the crypto hype. There are many other ways to invest that are not nearly as volatile.

I'm mostly interested in Siri getting better at understanding me with semi complex queries such as "find me a cheap burrito on the way" when I go fishing.

My first startup, back in 2001-2004 was able to get a chat bot with better prompt responses than Siri. Only plain text but it worked well.

Getting my entire life spied on so it can be later sold to the NSA is not really something t I'm looking forward to, especially now that Tim Apple is leaving... privacy might become a lesser priority than increased profits for Apple.

We are seeing this issue in California where illegal migrants can get a driver license but now the citizenship status is going to be shared with other states, and as such ICE will be able to target non citizens. My wife was legally in the US for a while and got a driver license without a SSN (again legally), but her driver license would likely get her flagged by ICE.

Being innocent does not mean you won't get in trouble with an overreaching government unfortunately.

Typing this in an iPhone 16 pro max.

I had a strong dislike for VMWare, stack was buggy, support tools were left unmaintained and a lot of features just did not work as advertised by marketing. I'm not sorry to see the VMWare platform go away. Having more open alternatives being worked on is a good thing.

Now we need more of that with consumer OS. I'm very glad Microsoft lost, and lost big time, with the handheld devices market. Maybe we'll be able to get rid of Windows and Outlook/Exchange in the next 20y.

Nope, but very close machines.

Thomson T07-70 then Atari 520ST. It was in France where these computers were popular at the time.

I learned some 68k assembly on the Atari. When I later attempted to code on x86 which swaps the bytes orders of integers over 8bits and had to deal with memory pagination ... I found it horrendous and completely backwards. On the other hand it was hard to argue with the raw floating point performance of the 486 cpu when doing ray tracing. One 320x200 image could render in minutes vs hours.

My first computer had 64kB, second one 512kB, and that was what we now call 'unified memory', shared between the cpu and the video encoding chip (no gpu back then). These machines did not have virtual memory either to overflow to disk. I had to be very mindful of memory usage when writing code or we would simply crash by running out of memory, no forgiveness.

I've worked in Silicon Valley for my entire career and I was surprised at how little attention most 'software engineers' paid to ram and cpu optimization. You would expect that from scripters, folks that write Bash or Python code, but I saw that a lot with Java developers as well. It was especially bad when the devs could ask the OPS team for a machine with more RAM as their first instinct rather than consider any optimizations, after all it would come from some other team budget, and that same OPS team would get blamed for going over budget, not the Devs.

So yeah in a way, a good RAM shortage for a while might help bring back some discipline. Unfortunately the vast majority of AI training is done on code that does not care about optimizing RAM consumption.

It is not just RAM consumption, but storage as well. My son got a second hand Nintendo Switch OLED yesterday, the prior owner had 2 games installed leaving 6GB out of the 64GB free. One game was downloaded, the other one still required the cartridge and used 26GB of storage. That's rather insane.

Meanwhile you can get a generic retro gaming device for $50 with thousands of classic games on a 64 GB SDCard. I'm pretty sure a lot of that space could be better optimized, but there is little incentive for that these days.

They will be both losing thanks to discovery and the fact that a lot of the evidence will become public.

Both of them are pretty well known for rejecting reality and substituting their own. We should be able to witness multiple parallel realities during this trial.

For terminal based text editor I prefer Micro. It is written in Go and as such runs on many platforms. There is no learning curve to get basic things done and it is very lightweight: the binary archive is under 5MB, and on macOS the actual static binary is only 13MB.
https://micro-editor.github.io...

As for Vi ... I've never been able to bother learning it. The design is made to use as little bits as possible over a very slow modem connection, not to be easy on humans, although the claim was that the design was for mortals compared to 'ed', yet a lot of people swear by it. One of the reasons I dislike it is because I had to do many code reviews in my career that accidentally included '!w' due to the other person forgetting to push the esc key and not realizing it.

Try TextMate, it is open source now and while it might not be maintained much anymore (last release was in 2021) it had been my go to text editor on macOS for over a decade (I paid for it around 2007). It is relatively snappy for small text editing needs and has loads of plugins, although many are probably broken as they often were written in python 2 or ruby. While not maintained, it still works for my limited needs these days.

BBEdit is also a solid choice, it is an ancient Mac app from the days of System 7 in the 90s and if you have a massive multiMB log file to look at it will not choke on it like modern apps tend to do since it came from an era where RAM was a premium and is not leaking it like there is no tomorrow (VSCode is pretty bad for example). It is a premium app if you want all the features but the free edition is very good as a simple text editor or log viewer.

Indeed, the most recent right to repair law in California is close to useless.

Last year I purchased a premium dual wall oven from LG. A very small plastic cover on the door hinge was damaged. I asked LG support to ship me a replacement part, which they promised to send but never did. After a lot of back and forth they offered to send a technician but that I would pay for the tech and the part unless I could prove they were at fault. I only wanted a plastic piece the size of a lego, which they do not provide. Eventually after months of back and forth they send a tech with the whole door, for free, he took the plastic piece from the new door, broke it, and put it in my oven. Yay! At least I got a spare door in my garage for the top oven now. I would have much preferred that they did what their support team told me the first few times: ship the cheap cover, I would even have paid a couple of bucks for it if needed, but not hundreds of dollars.

They could have called their factory to take the piece mail it to me and save hundred of dollars, but no they refused to let me swap a little plastic cover.

The right to repair law passed in California prevents individuals to file a lawsuit, only government agencies are allowed to do that. I did file a complaint to the consumer protection agency, but they said they had no jurisdiction over this.

So bottom line, the right to repair laws are effectively useless, and if anything made things worse when the companies want to game the issues.

As far as I'm concerned I will no longer buy LG appliances. When I had to replace my LG dishwasher for the 3rd time in 10y, I got a Chinese brand which works just as well for cheaper, and has yet to fail, where the LG models would have needed repairs by now.

I'm not afraid of doing repairs, our LG laundry washer started making jet engine noises after 9y. Turns out the ball bearings had rusted. I found a 'bearing and seal kit' for a premium price (over $100?), but ended up finding the specs of parts, bought water compatible bearings for around $25 and the washer has been working just fine for the past 6y. It was a weekend project, but well worth it. The newer bearings I put in the washer are probably higher quality than the factory ones.

I remember a few years ago the car in front of me did not have a central break light so I did not react to their breaking, but I saw the break light of the car in front of them through their back and front windshields. I pushed the breaks hard and narrowly avoided a pileup collision.

So yeah, being able to see through is useful from a safety standpoint.

We all have been stuck behind a slow truck and wondered if it were safe to pass due to the inability to see what was in front of said truck.

Keep the roads safer please.