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Re:AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:39AM (#42931582)
It looks like IP addresses are considered PII by GDPR:

https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/

They are explicitly listed as example of PII.

Re:RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:02AM (#42025032)
Those are minor if certificates errors are not ignored.

Since the original issue is that the ssl errors are ignored, then all those https downloads are downgraded to http downloads in practice (no need to mitm to attack).

Or to say it another way, due to ignoring ssl errors, all those https urls were giving a wrong sense of security as reviewers would think them secure when they were not (due to lack of validation of ssl).

Isn’t this similar to what Apple does with Safari on iPhone where they can hide your ip address by using iCloud servers as relay?

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31387019 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467798

Why is it good when Apple does it but terrible when it is Google?

I enjoy reading a lots, but I prefer dialogs over long descriptions. I don't visualize how the characters / places can looks from descriptions. Unless the writing is really clear, I may struggle if the layout of the scene is important (say a crime scene with a description of the room, its exits, ...).

I sometimes skip description of the characters physique because I know that I won't remember it a few page later, and it usually do not matter in the story anyway (and if it matters, it is usually reminded to the reader because aphantasia is not the only reason a reader may not remember how a character is dressed or looks like).

Re:Why are German numbers backwards? on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:29AM (#29370200)
Ooops. Yes, I meant right to left. Not enough karma to edit and fix my mistake. Thank you.
Re:Why are German numbers backwards? on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:44AM (#29368497)
Arabic is written left to right, so aren't the number little-endian in their Arabic form ?
Re:iOS on QEMU on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:24PM (#28555261)
Doesn't the EULA also prohibits hackintosh?
Re:When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars? on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:59PM (#28225683)
I tried with "... on Earth" and got the same result as with Mars or Moon.

So looks like the Google result ignores the celestial body in the query.

LG TV don't run Android TV. They run WebOS. So they probably have not been getting those ads.
I get the same thing using Google search. Three results with the answer in the snippet.
The stock Camera app on my Android phone recognises QR codes. This is on Android 11 on a Pixel 3. I think this has been the case for a few versions of the OS (but don't have access to old versions to check).
I personally taught myself programming by reading and doing during high-school then got a formal CS education at university.

Currently working at one of the big guys as you call them, and I would say that many coworker seems to have a mix of formal education and self-education by building.