Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
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Web Analytics, GDPR and is Google Analytics compliant?
New post in which I list all the steps you need to take to make Google Analytics GDPR compliant so you don't need to ask for visitor consent. There are many steps!
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I've implemented a naive p2p system which can be both federated or fully decentralized, something in-between #ssb and maybe #activitypub:
https://github.com/adzialocha/beep-beep
Added many comments in the source-code itself if you want to check it out.
The main ideas are:
* Not invent a new protocol but patch something together of great components
* Keypairs live in the clients, where messages get signed and then posted to the "home-server"
* Home servers are the actual nodes of the network, find each other and replicate data with each other
* All data is stored in append-only-logs of every managed key (https://github.com/AljoschaMeyer/bamboo)
* Clients can be simple browser-based interfaces without any heavy crypto-crunching or file system access needs (which forces us to live in Electron etc.)
* .. still one could simply build a client which comes together with the Node itself
Happy to hear any comments/ideas or projects which already do something similar in this direction?
Thank you!! 🎈
Well... but you are not considering union fields and flexible arrays!
With flexible arrays, for example, you actually need to know the size of the message.
Under certain conditions this doesn't means a size field: for example you could use the file size to compute the size of the array (obviously, if it's not encrypted somehow).
But over the wire, this is a great way to build very funny parsers. 😉
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Actually it's very easy to add pointers. Consider what you can do with function pointers in a struct, for example.
Really? Didn't know it.
(It worth noticing that I actually did something like this, somewhere... and they worked like a charm)
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If you were design the worst possible file format, one which maximizes the number of bugs in its parsers, what features would it include?
Let me start:
Length-prefixed everything. Containers (lists, dicts, etc) have a length field in bytes, but all the items inside them also have their own length fields.
Structures' memory dump.
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The reason I’m terrified of “Software Eating the World” is because I’ve seen what’s in the software. And who pays for it
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@helby I think I still have only HTTP/0.9→HTTP/1.1 for most shit here.
And HTTP/3 + QUIC will not set foot into my computer.
And HTTP/3 + QUIC will not set foot into my computer.
Perché sconsiglio di installare #ImmuniApp?
http://www.tesio.it/2020/06/03/perche_sconsiglio_di_installare_immuni.html
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If you're in the EU, then that's very likely illegal. You should officially inform your professors that they're violating the #GDPR by forcing you to transmit your private data (IP number, name, student ID number, school name) for unnecessary reasons outside of the EU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
Your school could have to pay millions of euros in fines.
"But the pupils/their parents already signed a GDPR declaration on paper" does not make the privacy violation legal.
Guys, to #SysAdmin is not for the faint-hearted!
😱
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Well well - this looks most sensible: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200424-01.en.html h/t @alcinnz - now the question is: when will NZ follow suit? Because it's obviously the right thing to do.
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Concerned about #GDPR #DSGVO #HIPAA and other #dataprotection regulations? #selfhosting is the easiest and most reliable way to be compliant. Learn about #SecureFileExchange #EFSS and how it can help you get your data back under control!
https://nextcloud.com/securesharing
With two daughters at school, @alcinnz, you might know how I feel these days.
The worst issue is that many #Italian #teachers have been trained through #GAFAM webinars: people absorb them as #training while it's just #marketing.
Yet there is hope: I'm slowly spreading #Jitsi #selfhosting.
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Appena scoperto lo strumento https://www.geogebra.org/notes notevole! #scuola #geogebra
Joined May 2019
