Also befriending a drugged up DARPA dolphin will be a massive boon too.

When I was a kid, I was really into driving games, started off with Mario Kart and Stunt Race FX on the SNES, later moved onto F1 World Grand Prix on the N64, for which I had one of these bad boys.

You put your legs either side of the wheel to hold it in place. It wasn’t very good at all if I’m being honest. Even at the time, 9 year old me thought it wasn’t great.

So during covid, I saw that V3 pictured above being sold on facebook marketplace for 20chf (swissbux), and thought I could do better. Started off with a Logitech G29 and ended up with this:

Yes, cable management is not great, but I’m in a relatively small apartment, so gotta wedge it in a corner, but it’s my corner, the Corner of Speed

pls no

I’d like to interject. What you’re calling your GNU mug is actually GNU/Mug, or as I prefer; GNU + Mug… [insert rest of copypasta]

Funnily enough, that’s all BS. Going “NATO MADE ME DO IT!” is not a defence for a premeditated attack on another country. Countries join NATO because the alternative is being invaded by Russia. This process is done democratically, something completely alien to the dictatorship you’re shilling for.

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Found Raytheon’s lemmy account.

I want science fiction to remain fiction.

Edit: Aside from the cool stuff, that’s fine, I’ll have some of that.

Can we not? Please?

DOUBLEHECK

Beelzebubboost?

The Voyager episode called Threshold is a beaut.

Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion, Phantom Liberty, is a spy story. It’s nothing to do with Google.

Exactly, it’s obviously in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen on the road next to Cwmgors RFC!

/s in case it was needed.

A freddo?

OK, after talking to her more, she’s informed me that patient data is treated with country based regulations that supersede GDPR, so GDPR compliance is not a requirement contractually, as country, and sometimes region, regulatory compliance is more important. Germany for instance, is pretty strict in that the data can’t just be silo’d off, separate from other countries, it needs to remain within German borders at all times, which goes above and beyond GDPR, so GDPR is ignored.

Furthermore, blanket IP banning EU customers is a grey area, and the EU does not seek legal action against companies that do this, as most are operating in localities where there are now reciprocal agreements in place. Since the EU has not, as far as I’m aware, enforced GDPR versus a company that’s attempting to block EU IP addresses from accessing it’s website, it’s not an enforced regulation, and as such is not actually 100% incorrect. After having experienced the difficulties of GDPR first hand, in trying to use a US website to buy something in the US, and ship it to another address in the US, while being in Europe, but not the EU (Switzerland) it’s a pain in the ass as the average American mail order meat company (wife topping up her mother’s freezer) doesn’t give a crap about the difference between the continent of Europe and the political union of the EU, but for the average consumer, there’s nothing you can actually do.

So I concede that financial reporting is probably going to be GDPR compliant regardless of where you are, as there is probably very few banks that can say with 100% certainty they have no EU citizens so it’s best to err on the side of caution, it’s also still correct that pharmaceutical companies do tend to ignore GDPR as they are already compliant with far more rigorous laws and regulations which have been in place for years regardless. Her job was primarily to get the companies GDPR (and other local/national regs) compliant for the shareholders who did seem to be demanding it for their regulatory compliance.

I’ll edit the post at the start of this chain and then head to bed.

My info came from my missus who managed the GDPR compliance for 2 of the top 5 largest pharmaceutical companies on the planet for the of the largest blue chip IT infrastructure provider on the planet. GDPR does not supersede local regulations even if you are a citizen of the EU. A website refusing to do business to IP addresses in the EU does not make it non compliant with GDPR, if an EU citizen physically leaves the EU to a country where GDPR doesn’t apply, it doesn’t magically apply because the keyboard senses an EU finger is on those keys. If someone moves from France to Canada, and uses a local website that doesn’t comply with GDPR, do they automagically get a fine for non compliance? Best they can do is refuse delivery if you try to order something to be shipped back home.

Sorry, that’s not correct, the GDPR applies to EU Citizens and Non-EU Citizens located within the EU, and an EU Citizen’s Data if it’s moved outside the EU while the person is still located within the EU. An EU Citizen located outside the EU is not covered, as they would be under the laws and regulations of wherever they’re located.

You can’t just say “nah, fuck it” and not serve the page.

You can, and it’s compliant. It’s a loss of potential business for companies that haven’t made the necessary changes, but they also don’t get your data.

Edit: Ehh… it’s bit of a grey area, you’ll probably not see massive companies do this, but smaller ones will, and they’ll get away with it as the EU would much rather being screwing with Zuckerberg and Musk, which is always a good thing. So not 100% compliant, but if the regulation isn’t enforced as the company has made an effort to stop EU types using the site, it’s probably as good as you’ll get short of requiring passports to log in, which is a whole new kettle of angry fish of regulations.

Paris and Janeway, as lizards, doing the space sex, because they went too fast.