handelaar (u/handelaar)

handelaar commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001

handelaar · a month ago

> "The average rate of social security and tax state contributions from French workers is now 82% of their salary"

This might be the most insane comment I've ever seen on this forum.

What in the hell are you talking about? Did you actually read that first link, completely fail to understand a single word of it, and then the number 82 just magically fell out of the sky?

handelaar commented on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites lightwaves.io/en/eu-audit... · Posted by u/cmkr

telesilla · 2 months ago

I find it ironic that in Europe the defacto language for intercommunication is from a country that chose to disassociate itself from the EU. In all, I think it's great that every EU country uses the English language with all their idiosyncrasies and hell be damned about "proper" english.

handelaar · 2 months ago

"Fortunately", that country forced its language onto a number of others who remain in the EU, and one of them conveniently has English as its EU language because another country also speaks its actual primary language.

handelaar commented on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai... · Posted by u/jbredeche

handelaar · 2 months ago

https://archive.is/TyJ8q

handelaar commented on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages eurollm.io/... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames

globular-toast · 4 months ago

Why Cyprus? Their official languages are Greek and Turkish.

handelaar · 4 months ago

Because they also recognise English and Greek's already covered by Greece.

handelaar commented on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages eurollm.io/... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames

runarberg · 4 months ago

Is English a legacy official language then from the time the UK was a member (I‘m guessing Ireland nominated Irish instead of English). Aside it feels very un-EU to push this limitation, as I was under the assumption that EU was all about celebrating (European) diversity.

handelaar · 4 months ago

Still an official language, thankfully. Officially, because of Cyprus.

handelaar commented on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/begueradj

scotty79 · 5 months ago

Probably russian money is involved in this campaign of discord.

handelaar · 5 months ago

(Fellow readers: this is not kneejerk Russia-bashing but a reference to the recorded fact that Sarkozy has received at least hundreds of thousands of euro from Russian government-linked entities, apparently in exchange for favours.)

For example: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/110123/nic...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/france-investi...

handelaar commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

exasperaited · 7 months ago

Ofcom is a government-approved industry regulator, strictly speaking.

It is what in the UK gets called a Quango. A quasi-non-government-organisation.

It is not a government body. It is not under direct ministerial control.

It gets some funds from government (but mostly through fees levied on industry):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c8eec40f0b...

But it operates within industry as the industry's regulator, and its approach has always been to operate that way (just as the other Of- quangos do).

Here is what appears to be their own take on it.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...

This seems pretty consistent with what I said -- it is essentially a self-regulation body, promoting self-regulation but backed by statutory powers/penalties.

Now what else is untrue?

ETA: rate-limited so I am not able to properly respond to the below. Bye for now.

handelaar · 7 months ago

Your claim that Ofcom is in any way a "self-regulation body" is untrue. And frankly also a straight-up insane thing to say, sorry.

Ofcom was created by the UK government for the sole purpose of enforcing laws passed by the UK government [and sometimes interpreting those laws]. It acts on behalf of the State at all times, and is not empowered to do otherwise under any circumstances EVER.

You appear to be confused about what being a "quango" actually means in this case. "Quasi-NGO" means that while it appears to be a non-governmental organisation, it is not one. Ofcom's at arm's length because the majority of its daily legal obligations are closer to judicial than administrative, and it is UK custom (rightly) to not put judicial functions inside government departments.

handelaar commented on Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant? shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/... · Posted by u/robin_reala

donohoe · a year ago

The author of this post makes incorrect assumptions about GDPR and makes bold claims regarding his rights

  ...GDPR gives me the right to see the data a company holds about me. 
  That includes messages about me stored on their internal systems

No. It doesn't give you a right to messages about you.

The WP DPO is correct in their response. Its okay to be mistaken but the sense of entitlement here is a bit much.

(Not a lawyer, but I've implemented GDPR compliance frameworks and worked with the lawyers closely)

handelaar · a year ago

> No. It doesn't give you a right to messages about you.

In the context described (a private organisation holding messages which refer to you personally) this is unbelievably false.