> The network consists of more than 500 lightning receivers and some central processing servers.
> The receiving stations approximately record one millisecond of each signal with a sampling rate of more than 500 kHz. With the help of GPS receivers, the arrival times of the signals are registered with microsecond precision and sent over the Internet to our central processing servers.
> Every data sentence contains the precise time of arrival of the received lightning discharge impulse ("sferic") and the exact geographic position of the receiver.
This link covers some technical details on how data is collected:
After some frustration with shifted windows, usually even after a short break and monitor standby, I tried several solutions. Even tools that promised to save the fixed position were not satisfactory. My preferred go-to solution is now to define sets of window positions in a script for different work situations and simply call them up via keyboard shortcut. No third party tools needed, just works with AppleScript. The nice thing is, that it even works with multiple windows of the same app.
Here an example of my "Dev1" setting with three displays (two 27" external 4K displays and one 14" MacBook). Move Firefox to the first display and leave 50 pixel space for the left side dock. Move IntelliJ IDEA to the second and iTerm2 to the MacBook screen. Works reliable.
use application "System Events"
get (every window of process "firefox" whose value of attribute "AXMinimized" is false)
repeat with W in the result
set position of W to {50, 0}
set size of W to {1870, 1080}
end repeat
get (every window of process "idea" whose value of attribute "AXMinimized" is false)
repeat with W in the result
set position of W to {1920, 0}
set size of W to {1920, 1080}
end repeat
get (every window of process "iTerm2" whose value of attribute "AXMinimized" is false)
repeat with W in the result
set position of W to {1125, 1100}
set size of W to {1510, 940}
end repeat
I may lose karma for saying this, but the only way I've found to make multi-monitor work is to go to Energy Saver > Prevent automatic sleeping, and then I never turn my Mac Studio off.
Honestly, I've tried a bunch of things, including different monitor setups and apps that intend to put everything back in their place, but none of it was reliable, windows would still get shuffled around. My time is just worth more than the power consumption of an idling Mac. My monitors do get sleep, and even that sometimes rearranges the windows, but it works like 99% of the time. Why is this so hard to get right Apple?
(Yes it's just a satire of people who pick random UX failures like that to say Linux is unusable as a daily driver, as if MacOS and Windows were flawless)
Super exciting question to see how courts assess the situation when AI does not reveal personal data from the training data but makes clever guesses. Does this still count as a GDPR violation?
Edit: To add another thought - if thats the case, what is the basic data to delete in this case? If there is nothing specific to delete, does this require another layer of output filter?
Hein Vielkind (Austria) seems to be the ski map guy for Europe.
You can see his style in a short video [0] and two German newspaper articles [1] [2] with some pictures.
He describes that his job is not to depict reality one-to-one, but to create an appealing image with the details that are important to the clients.
"‘My most difficult assignment was the panorama of the Arlberg region,‘ he recalls of a particularly elaborate case. Because the tourism associations of St. Anton and Lech permanently disagreed on the size of the depictions, Vielkind had to completely rework the image a total of five times."
https://geizhals.eu/ is one of the few websites I know which automatically respects DNT settings. Small info notifications informs me about my do not track settings and is closed automatically. With DNT = 0 they ask if it's ok to set cookies. I agree, that with DNT 0 they shouldn't be required to ask.
In my opinion the whole 'cookie banner industry' sucks. From a customer perspective I'm completely annoyed with different types of banners wasting my time with searching the right button, waiting because of artificial delays, clicking through layers of fake settings to find the reject option and other dark patterns.
However, from a provider perspective things a not better. Unnecessary waste of time and money to look for plugins and services to deal with cookie walls to avoid GDPR problems.
Best thing would be a EU enforcing the use of a standard browser API to ask for tracking. Just as simple as asking me if I want to share my location or webcam with an option to remember for this domain.
I really want the web browser industry to come together and form a new kind of P3P standard, complete with some example libraries for people to use on the backend.
Sadly, the browser market is dominated by Google, who has a direct interest in tracking people, Apple, who operates in proprietary protocols unless they absolutely have to, Microsoft, whose stalking exceeds even Google's at this point, and then a tiny slither of well-meaning but overall badly-managed open source projects.
Relying on the DNT header is difficult as "tracking" can be interpreted in a number of ways, especially by the data vampires of the advertising industry where they have developed many nice words to make their business so sound harmless. We need a better protocol, implemented across the board, for this to automate away these ridiculous popups. If a sufficiently flexible protocol exists, I'm sure it'll be taken up by either Europe's DPAs or even new legislation, though existing legislation should already be sufficient.
The EU should not, and generally doesn't want to, specify which technologies get used because technologies develop faster than bureaucracy. The hastily thrown together Brexit accords mention Netscape Navigator and ancient, insecure, outdated cryptography because they decided to include that in legislation many years ago and the accord was just a combination of existing EU and UK laws thrown together. We don't want that to happen again, especially on a larger scale.
For my solo developer self-hosted PaaS I really like CapRover [1]. Nice GUI, scalable Docker Swarm , with integrated route management, load balancing and one-click SSL. With available CLI you can use Gitlab CI to directly build and docker images and leverage CcapRover API to directly deploy on a dev stage.
Interessting discussion about CapRover vs. Flynn, Dokku, Nomad on HN one year ago. [2]
There is an additional FAQ page for european users [0]
Via Tweet from Niamh Sweeney, Director of Policy for WhatsApp, EMEA [1].
>It has been incorrectly reported that WhatsApp's latest Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update requires users in the European Region to agree to the sharing of data with Facebook for ads purposes in order to continue using the service. This is false.
> The receiving stations approximately record one millisecond of each signal with a sampling rate of more than 500 kHz. With the help of GPS receivers, the arrival times of the signals are registered with microsecond precision and sent over the Internet to our central processing servers.
> Every data sentence contains the precise time of arrival of the received lightning discharge impulse ("sferic") and the exact geographic position of the receiver.
This link covers some technical details on how data is collected:
https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php