Did you read about the new Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act laws of the European Union, that will go in effect in 2022? Pretty neat stuff, more transparency, user rights and a tool against internet monopolies.

"Very big online plattforms" must submit reports on freedom of speech, abuse of human rights, manipulation of public opinion.
EU assigned scientists will gain access to trade secrets like google search or Amazon recommendation algorithm to analyze potential threats.
The EU can fine serial offenders 10 % of their yearly income. And break up companies that stiffle competition.
Internet companies like Facebook will not be permitted to share user data between their products like Instagram and WhatsApp.
There will be a unified ruleset on online advertisement. Each add must have the option to find out why this add is shown to the user.
Unlike the GDRP data protection rule the two acts will be valid at the Union level. So that there won't be any exceptions from single member states.

Let's hope this leads to a better Internet and not things like cookie pop ups 😄

Link to the EU DMA DSA page
> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single...

Are you ready to offer oil changes and spare parts for your software you create? And stop implementing planed obsolescence in your app you swine?

Because the European Union voted today yes for the "Right to Repair". 👍

https://independent.co.uk/life-styl...

Anybody here with Autism Spectrum (Asperger)?
How did you find out? How does it affect your life and how do you deal with it? Is it a gift or a curse for you?

I've just got diagnosed at 32yo with mild asperger and feel a bit lost now 😐

Does anybody have a VR Headset?
This seems interesting vr application for programing.
https://immersedvr.com/

What's in your opinion the best way to back up/clone video files from an sd card on to 3 external usb harddisks, simultaneously?

I have to assist in a video shoot and I don't see doing this back up work manually.

What is your favorite method to prentend you're working?

what do you think of job ads with 1337 speak? yay or nay? 😄

The Post Bank add says:
"4pply 1f y0u c4n r34d 7h47"

who works in the US on a H-1B visa here? Time to pack your things and move back home ☹️

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03511

New reasearch paper about machine learning applied to translate code into different programming languages.
Would you see a use case for this at your work?

2020 Website design trend example
https://www.tn-ict.com/en/

butter smooth transitions, contextualized displaying of information. Break up of the traditional page paradigm.

who gets horny when seeing this? 😄

hey is devRant super slow and not loading stuff lately or is it my isp who sucks since a week? 😟

new day ☺️
good morning everybody
have a splendid day!

Who want's to build devRant in Windows XP style? 😃
There's a css framework called XP.css
https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css...

Job interview in an hour while depressed. And I‘m not ready for the thought of “lying” on how great I am if i don’t feel like it. It feels so wrong.

Cool they‘ve integrated VS Code into GitHub.

„The Codespaces will a browser-based version of the full VS Code editor running on Azure. You’ll also be able to add any plugins your use normally.“

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/...

😆 time to earn honest money

Just found that
When spammers need help they ask on facebook 😆

I really enjoy the clean fresh pollution free air and the quietness at my night walks.

So as millions of americans file for unemployment the state of New Jersey is beging for help from COBOL programmers to keep their 40+ year old unemployment systems running. Who knows COBOL here?

https://qz.com/1832988/...

Idea: So as curvew will be imposed around the world. Would it be a good idea to develop an app that would based on location assign a slot for people to leave the house for an hour a day?

You're under lockdown? Lonely?
Time for good old https://chatroulette.com/ 😄

who remembers?

@dfox can we extend the wk199 topic a week longer please?

Any Covid-19 virus stories to share on how it affected your dev work live?

Fighting phone addiction. Do you know an iOS app that let me track my (monthly, weekly, daily) phone usage that doesn't require all time GPS tracking permission? Moment, Flipd, Offtime, BreakFree all requre GPS traking.

Working for an indian code sweatshop. The job you've got by bribing the University headmaster to give you a degree without ever attending class. Your uncle who worked at the sweatshop as a manager already gave you the job by bribing his boss.
After a half a year on the bench you've beeing sent off for a contract for the USA. You moved to Seattle where you've "coded" the software for the Boeing 737 Max Airplane. Your code downed 2 airplanes. You're responsible for the death of 350+ people. You're alone and the US is foreign to you and you're missing your mothers indian food. And you wish you could soothe your pain with some freshly pressed sugar cane drink and a jalebi from your favorite food joint back home.

What's your opinion on Deno the new javascript / typescript / Webasembly runtime from the same guy who invented node.js ? Do you think it will be replacing node? Do you gonna try it?

https://deno.land/std/manual.md/...

Does somebody know a js library to make a route network on a map, like the ones airlines use. Where you can enter/click on the departure and it displays a forced node graph of the destinations from a database. Like this: http://easyjet.com/ch-de/...
Google shows only computer network related mapping stuff *sigh*

do know that feeling when your dreaming of just getting away for some days? I could use some of your help to get away.

In europe there is this long distance ridesharing app called www.blablacar.com but it only allows you to search for destinations you know. So I'd love to know to where there is a rideshare on that given day from my hometown.
FROM_MYCITY TO * [ALL DESTINATIONS] ON DAY

Could someone please write me a small quick and dirty piece of software / script or webapp that let me query and list that?

Blablacar API wraper
https://github.com/ojathelonius/...

Blablacar API Key
https://dev.blablacar.com/hc/en-us/...-

Thank you! you my hero!

courageous