No, it applies as long as the user is in the EU https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
Whether Winnipeg Free Press is collecting personal data is a different question, but I'd take their geoblocking as either an admission or an indicator of (overly) paranoid lawyers.
On one side, I get it. It really sucks to have to comply with all foreign laws just because you're hosting stuff on the Internet.
On the other hand, fucking lol what a way to say you proudly love to track your users and refuse to face any consequences for it.
Also, ironic for a company with "free" in their name to be so restrictive.
I too spin up a new DB for every service that needs one. It makes maintenance less intrusive since I only have to shut down one service at a time to update or do a full file backup and I can safely tweak the DB config to best suit the service without worrying about negatively impacting other services on the same DB. I also like the flexibility to choose the best DB for the service, e.g. I use Postgres for a lot of the services I develop but they do also support MySQL/MariaDB, but I have other services that are more tested on MariaDB.
I'd imagine having one database for everything could eventually cause performance problems across all services if the database gets too big or clunky or queries get too complex, even if just one service is causing the problem.
I also run a lot of physical servers (I have about 10 low power computers I use as servers right now) so having a dedicated DB per service allows me to get better performance since the DB can be on the same machine as the service. Not that they need high performance, but it also helps with the efficiency.
An attacker can still send a compromised payload if there's no signature verification of the update. It takes a more sophisticated attack (e.g. supply chain attack, hijacking AMD's update website, etc.) but it has happened before to other companies. If the payload is signed and verified, an attacker would also need to gain access to AMD's private key to successfully send out a bad update. Assuming reasonable security, getting that private key would be a lot harder to get on top of somehow compromising AMD's update web service.
Also CRC checks over the internet are sort of silly and redundant since every packet sent would already be subject to a similar CRC check and bad packets would be ignored (dropped and re-requested). It would only prevent corruption on disk or in memory which are a lot less likely than transmission corruption.
So basically
Our editor flew into the hornets nest and still couldn't get away from the hornets
Lol what else would you expect. Taiwan is the semiconductor centre of the world, of course the latest tech fad is going to be there too.
I'd be interested in playing a git game but I would not be interested in doing anything on GitHub
that carries part of the machine code used to fabricate its own body.
Seems like just a clickbait headline. It could easily contain all of the gcode for printing the book itself and not the part for printing the letters on the page.
But it might be possible to have gcode that (completely) prints its own gcode. Regular programming languages can do that, there's a whole fun community around cool puzzles that use that. Obviously, this project does not do that.
Prestige is meaningless. What matters is (relevant) knowledge and experience. Any university, assuming it's not just a degree mill, will be able to get you what's actually important.
It's like Klingons and honour. Only the ones you don't want to be around care about prestige enough to let it influence their (hiring) decisions.
This, folks, is why you don't post pics of yourself/someone publicly online. It doesn't prove you're a real person, it just proves you don't understand how the internet works.
The more you insist you're real, the less people will think you're real. You don't need to prove you're real here, you just need to not act like a fake person (scammer, bot, etc.)
How does anyone know for certain where the South Pole is if the only people to claim to have visited it are lying?
I don't think you realize that every reply you've made to me makes it sounds like you've already checked out of dating. You're only interested in the women who don't want you. You're calling it a losing game. You're blaming women for not meeting requirements that only you can set or change. Those all sound like rationalisations to why you're not successful in dating instead of trying a different approach or doing a bit of introspection into why what you're doing isn't working for you. Sure, on paper you're still in the game but you've made it so hard for yourself to find someone that you're effectively not even playing.
Also dating isn't a game you can win or lose. Being alone isn't a loss. Having a partner isn't a win. It's about enjoying life however you live it.
PP also (in)famously voted against gay marriage