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“Five loopholes in the GDPR” is a great overview of some of the corner cases where GDPR may not apply. Of particular interest to me: GDPR may not apply to non-EU businesses that do not intend to sell to EU persons. https://medium.com/mydata/five-loopholes-in-the-gdpr-367443c4248b
Hallelujah. Finally a first step towards eliminating “first past the post” voting in the U.S. I hope other states adopt similar measures. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/maine-tries-ranked-choice-voting-your-ballot-could-even-count-n875621
Pro tip: GoDaddy (world’s largest domain registrar) is redacting personal information from WHOIS searches performed on port 43, but it will continue to publish full unredacted records for domains registered outside the EU when a WHOIS search is performed on their website. #GDPR
This article does a good job of explaining how GDPR is affecting the WHOIS database immediately, and what is known about how WHOIS will be adapted in the future. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180515_the_latest_on_gdpr_and_whois/ #GDPRmageddon
Spent a few hours this morning debugging my client portal, because it wasn’t allowing admins to log in. In frustration, I broke for lunch. Came back and realized I had accidentally forced WordPress to present a cached page. Fixed that now everything works. Programming! ?♂️
Today I realized that if I had to start over and buy a new computer setup right now, I would buy 2015 models for both the computer (15” MacBookPro 2015) and display (Dell U2715H). Three years out of date. This makes me a little sad.