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gnud
·9 mesi fa·discuss
For Knuth's sake: The GDPR is NOT about cookies! The older 'cookie directive' is also NOT about cookies! They're about a third party storing their data on your computer, or storing your personal data on their computers - no matter what technology is used.

Nothing in the GDPR stops websites from honoring "Do not track" and then _not asking_ if it's present. They don't have to ask if they don't track you! They don't have to ask for a technically necessary session cookie that appears after you actively log in!

Websites ask because they want to track you! A 'law targeting browsers' would not help because people would say no to cookies, and then websites would ask about some other way to track you. Because they want to track you.
gnud
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Switched from Gmail to Fastmail about 10 years ago.

2-3 spam emails slip through every week, and sometimes a false positive happens when I sign up for something new. I don't see this as a huge problem, and I doubt Gmail is significantly better.
gnud
·5 anni fa·discuss
Yes, EDN is S-expressions plus a bunch of semantic rules. Parsing EDN is quite a bit more complex than just parsing S-expressions, just because you need to support a bunch of built in types, as well as arbitrary exensions through 'tags'.

The tag system is quite brilliant though.
gnud
·5 anni fa·discuss
S-expressions inherits all trouble with data types from json (dates, times, booleans, integer size, number vs numeric string).

You get neat ways of nesting data, but that is not enough for a robust and mistake-resilient configuration language.

The problem isn't parsing in itself. The problem is having clear sematics, without devolving into full SGML DTDs (or worse still, XML schemas).
gnud
·7 anni fa·discuss
Which HTML 5 spec is that exactly?

HTML 5 is a "living standard", which is a horrible idea for documents that might be archived for 10 years, like email.

Note, I'm not condoning the status quo, but let's think about what we actually want here.
gnud
·8 anni fa·discuss
Can your graph database update multiple models at once in a transaction?
gnud
·9 anni fa·discuss
I don't think KDiff 3 looks native anywhere, and I don't think it's because of Qt. It uses weird fonts and icons, and for some reason their toolbar buttons just look wrong.

Still an extremely useful program.