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I expected this flow to continue, but looks like that was it. I decided to stop here and not "Accept with changes". There was NO chance to opt-out of the facial recognition program:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcprdl/selection_130.jpg

They're obviously trying to go with "these three groups of data are protected and need opt-in". The rest, yeah - we need that to provide the service.

I also have another tab open, that works, so I'm not really blocked from using the site. At-least for now.

Edit: opening Facebook in new tabs, no longer starts this modal, even though I haven't accepted the new changes.

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Edit 2: Went looking, and googling, trying to opt-out of the facial recognition program.

Here are the options I have under Privacy:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapr/selection_131.jpg

Here are the options I have under "Your Facebook information":

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapa/selection_132.jpg

Clicking "view" under Managing your information I get this very (un)helpful help page:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapl/selection_133.jpg

Choosing Facebook I get these options:

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcpapi/selection_134.jpg

Choosing "Change my face recognition settings", the send button is still disabled, but I get this very helpful link to "also edit your face recognition settings", the link points to "https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec", but actually takes me back to my "General Account Settings":

https://img3.picload.org/image/dogcporl/selection_136.jpg

As far as I can understand, there is no way to change face recognition settings in the flow I received from the A/B testing gods. Might have something to do with me not agreeing to the changes in the first modal.

New comment by siimtalvik in "16 million IPs blocked by the russian goverment. Part of blocking Telegram"

siimtalvik — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:38:08 +0000

On twitter, it was said that affected subnets are:

52.58.0.0/15

18.196.0.0/15

18.194.0.0/15

35.156.0.0/14

src: https://twitter.com/CatVsHumanity/status/985914182959759360/...

Just in case the original website goes down, here's a screenshot:

https://img2.picload.org/image/dogacarr/selection_120.jpg

16 million IPs blocked by the russian goverment. Part of blocking Telegram

siimtalvik — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:35:37 +0000

Article URL: https://2018.schors.spb.ru/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860473

Points: 2

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New comment by siimtalvik in "I had to learn Python to pay my taxes"

siimtalvik — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 21:14:39 +0000

In Estonia(within Europe) we have this awesome "investment account" system where you make a separate bank account and the tax system is simplified for that account.

Any money you put in, can be taken out without paying any taxes.

Once you've taken out more than you paid in, you just pay income tax and that's it.

You report your "paid in" and "paid out" sum(to/from that one account) to the tax office yearly.

Really makes the whole process simple and adaptable to any investment model.

New comment by siimtalvik in "Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?"

siimtalvik — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:27:31 +0000

yes. Kicad and two video series made by Chris Gammell...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/getting-to-blinky/

I'd recommend doing them quick, as Kicad is on the verge of a new major release(5.0) and these series might become outdated.

New comment by siimtalvik in "The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user"

siimtalvik — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:51:15 +0000

One of the two reasons i changed my recipient_delimiter parameter to '.'

The other would be that spammers know that anything after a + is usually optional and strip it. Can't do that when the delimiter is a '.'

New comment by siimtalvik in "Show HN: Asynchronous HTTP/2 client for Python 2.7"

siimtalvik — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:58:16 +0000

yes.

I had a coworker who was against moving to python3(and kept on writing python2 code for a while) because you need to use brackets with python3 print statement.

New comment by siimtalvik in "Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web"

siimtalvik — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:48:51 +0000

This has changed a bit with GDPR coming into force soon.

When google tried to go push '+' they needed the people to forget about the data, messages, pictures and everything else that was on facebook. That burden was a bit too much.

GDPR requires facebook to provide users with their data in a machine readable format. So that competitors could write migration scripts and there would be no such lock-in. Makes it easy to switch platforms and bring some competition into the space.

Art. 20 GDPR Right to data portability https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

New comment by siimtalvik in "Standardizing lessons learned from AMP"

siimtalvik — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:52:16 +0000

With difficult discussions being locked and limited to collaborators.

With the main answer to questions being, we can discuss this somewhere else, some-other (unknown) time in the future, usually in a more private setting. Unless pressed further.

Case in point: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457#issuecomm...

Or as carmforce(Ubl) so nicely put it. "our project, our rules" but those rules keep changing, are not public and the raised issue about defining/clearing up those rules is obviously not a priority.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597#issuecomm...

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13603

New comment by siimtalvik in "When the Copyright Office Meets, the Future Needs a Seat at the Table"

siimtalvik — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:05:17 +0000

This ties heavily with 'right to repair' as a lot of the software/protocol blocks are infact "access controls for copyrighted works".

It's often impossible to reverse engineer and document a protocol or replace a proprietary tool without breaking DRM first.

New comment by siimtalvik in "The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)"

siimtalvik — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:32:09 +0000

yes, it shouldn't be legal. EU single market and all that.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-4781_en.htm

New comment by siimtalvik in "Testing the effects of hiding downvotes in r/politics"

siimtalvik — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:05:23 +0000

Give /r/NeutralPolitics a shot.

It's a heavily moderated subreddit focusing on well sourced content.

Essentially, if a comment(fact) doesn't have a respected source attached it gets booted.

New comment by siimtalvik in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

siimtalvik — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:58:00 +0000

One of the reasons people are angry, is that this type of investigation has been made as hard as possible currently.

Posts are being removed from bugzilla and threads being locked. The code itself comes from a random github repo, not affiliated with mozilla/firefox. (https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977

people here were asking why normal process wasn't followed. No answer or links to resources.

another closed discussion here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425187

and here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425171

I appreciate your input as someone who knows the process, but this really wasn't followed this time.

edit: they've changed the repo now. so it's redirected to https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr

New comment by siimtalvik in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

siimtalvik — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:00:16 +0000

it was an opt-out program actually.

Studies are enabled by default.

New comment by siimtalvik in "AWS Security Primer"

siimtalvik — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:23:32 +0000

Terminating an instance instead of deleting it. A pure terminology issue that a lot of newcomers have issues with.

+ instances not really being deleted when 'terminated', so there's unnecessary clutter on your dashboard.

Ticket open since 2008: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=26111&sta...

They also still count against your usage limit, so workflow gets interrupted and you have to wait till they are actually deleted, but you can't really be sure when that happens.

So have a coffee, check back, nope not gone. Get another one, nope not gone.