Posts from October 2019

• On the application of the GDPR to online organisations

  26 October 2019 | law | Comment

  I am not a lawyer, I am most certainly not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.¹

  In a recent discussion in /r/AustraliaSim, an online community I am involved in, the question came up of whether the European Union's General Data Protection… »

• Line wrapping with cgit and correct line numbers

  25 October 2019 | programming | Comment

  cgit is a ‘hyperfast web frontend for git repositories’.

  cgit's display of file contents (example) renders everything inside a pre block, and therefore does not support wrapping of long lines. cgit handles line numbers by coding them separately to the actual content, so… »

• A new home for my git projects

  25 October 2019 | programming | Comment

  Yesterday, GitLab, where git projects were formerly hosted, announced changes to their terms of service to incorporate mandatory¹ telemetry – both on its GitLab.com SaaS website, and its proprietary self-managed products – causing significant consternation among many. This follows the acquisition of GitHub… »