lucius septimius 12/25/2019 6:04:29 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 12/25/2019 7:59:55 AM

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Got this article about California's new "data privacy law" in one of my morning feeds. 

It sounds to me like California is intent on killing the goose that lays whatever golden eggs the Golden State has left; if anyone can forbid an online company from "collecting" and/or "using" their personal data, aren't they effectively destroying the entire model on which Internet business rests?

Kosh's Shadow 12/25/2019 8:32:44 AM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: It sounds to me like California is intent on killing the goose that lays whatever golden eggs the Golden State has left; if anyone can forbid an online company from "collecting" and/or "using" their personal data, aren't they effectively destroying the entire model on which Internet business rests?

Facebook unfriends California,

The law doesn't let companies drop customers that ask to delete data, but does let them supplyly a stripped-down version. The solution is to make the stripped-down version not very useful. For example, Facebook could give only generic news feeds and ads.and make it hard for friends to find you - or require you to allow them to store data needed to find people you are looking for.

As for ads, I have seen cases where if you don't have a google account, it puts up ads that make you want to not see them again. Not quite eye bleach level, but close. And it gives you the offer to not see ads like those - if you use a google account. That appears to be perfectly legal under the CA law.

Kosh's Shadow 12/25/2019 8:36:30 AM

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And as I announced last night, I finally got reset password working. For the time being, it will require emailing me and I will send a reset token.

I don't have a way of testing sending email automatically, as I don't have a full server setup at home (WIn 201x server, email server, IIS), so I would have to do testing of automatically generating the reset email on the live system, and that can wait until we have a lot of people.

A few more steps, and by the end of the year, probably sooner, we'll have a real URL and some other fixes.

Syrah 12/25/2019 9:10:22 AM

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The coffee machine still works. 

It’s important  

(Happy Christmas,)

Syrah 12/25/2019 9:13:21 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:

when I see laws like this, I wonder how much it is just a shake down process where the political class says, “look at the new law we passed. How much is an exemption worth to you? My campaign person over their will accept a check, or you could employ some of my otherwise unemployable relatives.”

Syrah 12/25/2019 9:15:50 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

thank you for all the work you are doing on this. 

lucius septimius 12/25/2019 9:40:24 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 12/25/2019 9:51:03 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 8:

Great article.  Oddly, though, it does not mention the band and singer that introduced "Winter Wonderland."

Here's the first recording of that song, by Richard Himber's Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra, with Joey Nash on vocal.

buzzsawmonkey 12/25/2019 9:57:04 AM

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If you'd prefer something a little less syrupy by the same orchestra, here are two:

I'm Going Down to Dance at Clancy's

It's Psychological

Kosh's Shadow 12/25/2019 10:07:49 AM

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In #7 Syrah said: thank you for all the work you are doing on this. 

You're welcome. 

Part of the problem getting reset password to work was that I only have limited times to work on it, and I lose some context, like how I changed the way I was doing something but left the old function there. I'd change that one instead of the one really used now.

buzzsawmonkey 12/25/2019 11:51:47 AM

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Jolly Old Ron Karenga
---a Kwanzaa carol, to the tune of "Jolly Old St. Nicholas"

Jolly old Ron Karenga---
Racist to the core,
Torturer and murder,
Academic whore---
Had a plan how he could make
His ideas hold sway,
And invented the brand-new
Kwanzaa holiday.

Every night a candle's lit,
And in Swahili,
Those observing celebrate
Marxist hegemony;
To revile the ideals of
The land where they live;
To recall past grievances,
And to not forgive.

One can only hope blacks are
Mostly too abashed
To heed Ron Karenga and
His concocted trash,
And rather than follow him
Into endless night
They'll reject Ron Karenga
And his Kwanzaa rites.

lucius septimius 12/25/2019 12:04:06 PM

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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said:

You need to gather all these together -- I suspect there is enough for a book.  The Great (Anti-) American Songbook.

PaladinPhil 12/25/2019 12:15:23 PM

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lucius septimius 12/25/2019 1:35:08 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/25/2019 4:30:36 PM

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We've been having a Merry Crabsmas - watching Deadliest Catch.

Eating the crabs is unkosher, but it is OK to watch them being caught.