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Google is not breaking the (German) law here, it actually is your responsibility as a user to not spy on people. Failure to do so means up to three years in jail, for a first offender most likely a fine. And your device that you used to break the law might get confiscated.

The later was already the case when people used radar warner apps (banned on Germany as well) and lost their smartphone for that.

No, they just didn’t pee for half a year

No, the user breaks this law, not the manufacturer. So the loophole for google is, they don’t care about you.

I didn’t check the actual law, always a good idea to do so.

So, §201 StGB actually covers both, it is forbidden to “aufnehmen” (record) as well as “mithören” (spy on). Bonus, its forbidden to cite transcription (im Wortlaut mitteilen).

Its an old law, going back to video cameras with magnetic tape and actually tapping a phone line. So it was used quite often, including the mentioned fake surveillance cameras, that didn’t record or even view anything but seemed to the public they did.

When dashcams became a thing people would be sentenced for using them. These days you can use dashcams, but never save for more than 24h or show the recording to anyone but the police/court.

I guess the law is a relict of living next door to Stasi, but its really just a guess of mine.

Oh no, how terrible!

Not a lawyer, but as far as I got it, the storing isn’t the punishable part, the recording is.

You can’t have security cameras filming public spaces (like the road in front of your house). Even if its dummies, as people couldn’t tell the difference whether the camera actually films them or not.

Illegal in Germany. You may not record conversations, if you try to enter something like that as evidence you’ll get punished as well.

I suspect there are many countries with laws like that, and if your phone actually disables the feature when you enter them or just let’s you hang to dry…

My thought :)

Of course they won’t, how are they gonna recruit kids for their rightwing batshitism otherwise

Federal Republic of Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic.

West and east

I placed a “real” small whiteboard in the kitchen. Its not as big and not as well placed as the fridge, but we make do…

Extremely simplified:

Your file system consists of a whole lot of blocks to write data to. Let’s say you have a block size of 512kB, so a 4MB file would span 8 blocks. A 3.7MB file would span 8 blocks, too, as the remaining space can’t get used otherwise.

Now to get what file exists on which blocks, there’s a large index table, consisting of a number of index nodes (shortened to inode). Each inode saves multiple data fields of a file, like its name, owner, creation data, and the files blocks.

If you link a file to a second name (hard link) a second inode will get created that points to the same blocks.

That’s about it. Used to be important to chose the right inode size and count on filesystem creation for the average data you’ll save on the filesystem, as inodes have a fixed count, and the index table takes disk space, too. Too many inodes and you waste space that you could use for precious data, too few inodes and you can’t save new files even when you have free data blocks. With growing disk sizes people just went with massive indexes, who cares about a few wasted megs.

Modern filesystems (like ext3 and up) introduced journals, which complicate things.

Yeah, we moved a couple years ago, and now have a built-in fridge, so it has a wood panel in front of the door. I want my whiteboard back :(

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You mean like in your kitchen? Too much metal, you’ll damage your magnetron.

You could use thermite and melt it to a pulp. Dangerous as well, though.

Really, just encrypt. Your CPU has AES extensions, performance impact is negligible. Simple, clean, and a protection against involuntary decommission as well.

You can lazy umount, which blocks new accesses and actually unmounts when it can

You used Solaris when cortana was already a thing? That’s great! :D

My university ditched Solaris like 20 years ago. Still have fond memories of cde lol

“I’ll get to it, eventually” would ruin the meme but be more fitting, in my opinion.

Had multiple occasions where people fought against filling disks and just couldn’t see why. Well, that 10 gig log file you deleted two weeks ago? It’s 20 gig now, and still being written to.

lsof shows stuff like that.

Nah, they just throw away the block markings, absolutely.

Overwriting a SSD is difficult as well, better encrypt the drive and trash the key when you decommission.

Sounds funny, but it’ll lead to people saying "look at those 4 years without a president where everything went to shit! We need strong leadership!’