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  1. "Should" allow user data export? More like "must" by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com)

    User data portability is one aspect of the GDPR that seems to have slipped under a lot of people's radar - and companies like Facebook too, it seems - but what Woz is asking for is pretty much echoing the requirements of the GDPR's Article 20: Right to data portability. Now that the EU's various governments are clearly looking for non-compliance examples that they could turn into additional revenue/legal case studies, they might want to get on that - especially since Zuck seems determined to keep giving the finger to requests from the EU to attend meetings to discuss Facebook's approach to user data, fake news, and political manipulation.

  2. Re:Oh, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones

    I seem to recall that they crippled third party SSDs initially too... That's right, essential TRIM support was disabled if it wasn't an official Apple part. They only stopped after customers complained.

    Yeah. That's because enabling TRIM on some SSDs (mostly from Samsung - https://blog.algolia.com/when-...) can lead to data corruption, and Apple doesn't want (actually: need) to keep a list on which SSDs that happens, because they don't use them in their machines.

    Coincidently, early reports for the iPhone 6s said that the A9 CPUs made by Samsung put a larger drain on the battery compared to those made by TSMC https://apple.slashdot.org/sto... - so this may all be Samsung's fault. Will you defend Samsung when Apple sues them over this?

  3. Re:awkward! by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code

    Linus needs to apologize for his devs going "Not my fucking fault!" when in fact it WAS their fault.

    https://blog.algolia.com/when-...

    Here's the company that found the actual problem and pinpointed it.

  4. Re: Bravo by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Informative · on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code

    I take some of that back. It seems the real credit for digging in goes to these guys. Samsung came in a month ago after they were provided a test suite and then gets credit for finding the kernel code path that caused the problem. An Oracle engineer provided a more-correct patch.

  5. Re:Except they didn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code

    https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/

  6. Warning: DO NOT USE SAMSUNG SSDs IN LINUX SERVERS by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Informative · on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops

    We've been using Samsung drives in "non production" status servers, embedded servers, etc. and have had a terrible time of it. The first drives we bought a few years ago (840 Pro) were good, but we've seen Samsung SSDs run entirely through their write capacity (as reported by SMART) and then go dead when not even mounted! Turns out we aren't the only ones to get bit by buggy Samsung drives.

    It also turns out that Samsung drives are even blacklisted in the Linux Kernel

    I welcome Samsung's excellent cost/size value proposition! I just wish their drives were solid enough for our actual use.