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No, that is muscle memory. If I play the piano with my eyes closed, I'm not visualising the piano, I'm focusing on the feel and positions of my fingers


This is my experience as well. I would also say that when improvising I’m not really thinking consciously about the movements, but rather the notes I want to hear.


GeoIP is a product from Maxmind, the post does not actually implicate Maxmind at all.

Perhaps a better title is "Google Maps location data is used to localise other Google services"


Yes, I was confused by this.

Of course, Google will use its own data to get more precise in pairings IPs with locations. And of course, Google won’t share this data with MaxMind’s GeoIP. Very confusing post.


No CTO either


Wait. You tracked users after they opted out of tracking? How else did you get this data?


Counters are not pii


It's not personal data, so it's not under the scope of GDPR.


Yeah, no. This about the ePrivacy directive, if you don't have proper consent, you can't read/write tracers regardless of wether this is personnal data or not, except for tracers needed to establish the communication or demanded by the user (carts, login, etc).

EDIT: Thought about it, and if you only record the button click and does not identify the user, it works, and I am wrong! In general ePrivacy is very restrictive, only about access to terminal and not about personnal data ( and btw PII is not a GDPR thing, we say personnal data), but here it's ok! So yeah, no to me!


There’s no tracer. Just a counter of how many said yes vs how many said no. There’s no personally identifiable information there


the downside of this method is that it is impossible to discard duplicated negative answers.


Functional cookies (e.g has displayed banner to this user) are fine, you don't need consent


GDPR defines what is PII and then regulates when companies may use PII. A page visit counter collects anonymous data. Anonymous data is not PII. You cannot tell I was their 345th visitor.

>> Yeah, no.

Exactly.


GDPR doesn't actually require consent to process personal data. It requires that the processing be lawful. Consent is one basis for lawfulness, but it is not the only one. There are 5 others.

One of these is that the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

You could probably make a colorable argument that research for publication into the effectiveness of GDPR implementation approaches is in the public interest.


Not if you're a private company or an individual


That basis of lawfulness, from Article 6 section 1(e), is "processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller".

On the face of it there doesn't appear to be any restriction on who can use that basis.

The only recital I've found that mentions this is Recital 45. It says:

> It should also be for Union or Member State law to determine whether the controller performing a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority should be a public authority or another natural or legal person governed by public law, or, where it is in the public interest to do so, including for health purposes such as public health and social protection and the management of health care services, by private law, such as a professional association.

That seems potentially pretty expansive.


You can track things anonymously in a way which complies with the GDPR without requiring consent.


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https://buildkite.com has all those features, and very easy to work with.

It's a hybrid hosted model -you supply your own workers (they provide a CFN template to make that part easy), everything else (e.g. web UI/API) is hosted


Buildkite is hands down the best tool we have used.


I found trying to manage and reason about AWS access control super confusing (especially across accounts), so I built a lightweight tool to dump and load IAM config to yaml files. https://github.com/99designs/iamy

It has recently started becoming popular quite organically, so I might just write a blog post on it soon.


are there any advantages over CloudFormation?


Oh and by the way it was actually your https://cloudonaut.io/your-single-aws-account-is-a-serious-r... post that indirectly inspired this tool, so thanks!

We consolidated users into a bastion account, ran into annoyances with CFN, and have been using iamy ever since for change management across all our accounts (more of a writeup at https://99designs.com.au/tech-blog/blog/2015/10/26/aws-vault...)


I'd say the biggest advantage is that it slots in easily to an existing environment that is not necessarily managed strictly.

I've found depending on how strict your change management policies are, IAM creds can collect cruft over time as people push new policies in ad-hoc. So iamy is handy for such a situation

- iamy can sync in both directions - pull and push IAM config. So you can easily pull down the ad-hoc changes

- In order to use CFN you need to have access, so there is a chicken-egg scenario if you want to manage ALL users in config

- iamy gives you a nice execution plan of aws cli commands, CFN can be opaque

And iamy does ignore any resource managed by CFN, so it works well as complimentary tool.


I see. Nice to know about your tool!


Actually, Lennart proposed some years ago exactly how you could "fix" the OS to apply the ideas from containerisation. http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...


This seems horribly complicated and ridiculous especially since when it was written btrfs which was a requirement was pretty terrible.


At the time of writing, btrfs was seen as the hero to be. Things have changed quite a lot. Currently we are solving this problem with a combination of containers and an immutable filesystem (ostree). Anyways, solutions discussed in the open are always a good idea... How ridiculous they may be perceived. Lennart, a Club Mate to you...


Well the author is Lennart Poettering, the guy that "gave" the Linux world Pulseaudio, Avahi and Systemd...


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