A few days ago I sent a GDPR request to some company to delete my personal data. They said to install their app and send a ticket from the app. The email was sent from the email address to which the account is registered. Is this even legal?
I don’t know, maybe? If they have a process, no matter how laborious and roundabout, they can always claim that they have a process and that you have nothing to complain about, legally speaking. Their wagering that people will not go through all the bullshit, and they’re unfortunately right. That’s literally why they do it. The only correct response is to hound them relentlessly, going to Twitter (or something else idk these days, and I’m not calling it X), the press if necessary, and pestering as many government bodies and officials as you have to in order to make them get their fucking shit together. And then they’ll make your particular situation of priority because now you’re being more of a pain in the ass than actually doing their job is. They won’t change the broken system, because one exception in a thousand isn’t worth it to them to be bothered with.
Tldr, maybe but it probably won’t help you, so make it as big of a headache for them as possible.
Okay I’m not a mathologist - in fact I hate the guy - so here’s how I see it. If you have one apple, and you divide it zero times, you still have one apple. That’s it.
We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.
Seriously though, just raise the technical skill barrier to entry. Anything that requires more than idiot-level tech savvy will scare off most of the horrible people that make the internet a horrible place. It didn’t even really take off until smartphones were a thing, dropping the barrier to the absolute minimum number of simple steps.
I went to the local bakery/restaurant today and bought 2 cookies at the counter. I paid with a credit card and when it asked if I wanted to tip, I said no. Am I going to hell because of this?
No. That question is now the default of all POS (point of sale) systems. If they’re not wait staff, bar tenders, delivery, or performing some other service, there is literally no reason to tip them.
Aww man… I wanted to be vaporized by an indifferent cosmic phenomenon beyond my ken. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to wait until heart disease finishes me off.
The skyrocketing cost of insurance premiums in Florida is leading residents to drop their insurance, consider selling their home, and even move out of the state, according to recent reports....
Yeah some jackass I’m at once in marketing tried to explain it to me. I haven’t seen an ad in ages so I call bullshit. It’s all mostly psychobabble nonsense.
For newer users, the 3 day no poop post was an legendary asklemmy post where OP asked how they could go three days without shitting. We never found out why.
Oh that’s easy. Eat nothing but cheese until the desired outcome is achieved. You, uh, might want to have some stool softener and laxatives in your medicine cabinet for when you’re done with your insane experiment though.
Have they considered eating fiber for that constipation problem? I used to eat a big bowl of oatmeal (not instant) every work morning. Regular as clockwork. Also prune juice and/or strong coffee will help move things along too. Laxatives are fine too, but they wouldn’t be my first go-to to flush the system.
…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl....
I actually met somebody who had better luck predicting the winners of football games by literally throwing darts at a board than anybody else in the pool.
I’d pay good money to see Martok and Kratos team up and go on a god-killing violence spree of epic proportions, then go get so drunk that they wake up hung over in the 40K universe.
A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
Wow that’s too bad. Anyway now his rich widow can recover and go waste her Inheritance on whatever trivial bullshit she likes. It won’t help the world, but it’s better than actively undermining it.
Dude it’s Paradox. They’re the 3rd most dlc-greedy company after EA and Train Sim. Wait until the dlc goes to at least 50% off or just skip it. They’ll keep doing it if it keeps being profitable. Don’t just pay full price ever, especially brand new. Have a little self restraint.
Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct...
When we use a new loan word that we already have a word for.
When companies refuse to regionalize products for American English despite our having far more native English speakers than the next three countries, two of which gave English as a secondary language. None of them is England - they’re in 6th place.
The absurd number of accents and dialects. Fortunately the Internet is helping grind away at this part. Standardization helps prevent misunderstandings.
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Internet Today mentioned this phenomena the other day. Slash from Guns n Roses instantly becomes unrecognizable when he takes off his hat. That’s it. That’s all it takes.
Romulans: The damned Vulcans put you up to this, didn’t they!
Vulcans: We did not; however we do see the logic in their clarification and designation methodologies.
Andorians: Hell yeah we do! Up yours Romuloosers!
Tellarites: I still think we should have called your side the Asshole Zone.
Humans: We voted, with four ‘yeas’ and one ‘nay.’ And here on earth we have a saying, “If you don’t vote you can’t complain.”
Romulans: But- You- I- Wait. Hold on a second. Who was the fourth “yea?”
Klingons: We wanted to be the Alpha Quadrant but the humans threatened to blow our planet up. It’s not our fault they can’t just resolve disputes with a good war like a civilized species.
That’s why you always find dead garden millipedes curled up in a spiral. The odd number of legs makes them walk in circles until they die from it. “True” story.
I don’t remember if this is still the case, but for most of D&D’s history, killing a polymorph to target with force it to revert immediately back to its original form. This can be illustrated by reciting to you in old story I read once, as best I can remember it, from back during the AD&D 2e days.
Their once was a gnome illusionist in the party who finally got to high enough level to cast polymorph. So one day they encountered a hill giant, at which point gnomey busts out his new spell, trying to polymorph the giant into the least dangerous thing he could think of - a grape. The giant failed his saving throw, after which he was turned into a grape. The gnome cheerfully picked up the grape, saying “I like grapes!” and popping it into his mouth to bite down on.
California became the first state in the nation to prohibit four food additives found in popular cereal, soda, candy and drinks after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a ban on them Saturday....
How many Chinese people and places have mistranslated a word into English as “fuck?” I can’t remember which word it is, some kind of food. So ya’know, glass houses and all that.
Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Bolivia’s culture of sexual violence (www.theguardian.com)
2 genders (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
I asked them to delete my data, they said "Install our app" (lemmy.world)
A few days ago I sent a GDPR request to some company to delete my personal data. They said to install their app and send a ticket from the app. The email was sent from the email address to which the account is registered. Is this even legal?
Given the global cultural significance of monobloc chairs this makes sense (feddit.de)
Ohhh (midwest.social)
What is this? Wrong answers only. (lemmy.world)
Can someone explain 1/0 in non-axiomatic terms or does it exist solely within the confines of the abstract realm?
A new low (lemmy.ml)
How to fix the internet (www.technologyreview.com)
We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.
Cookie purchase or hell?
I went to the local bakery/restaurant today and bought 2 cookies at the counter. I paid with a credit card and when it asked if I wanted to tip, I said no. Am I going to hell because of this?
Collision Between 2 Neutron Stars Could Be Deadly For Life on Earth (www.sciencealert.com)
Planet Nine Might Not Be a Planet At All... But Something Else Entirely (www.sciencealert.com)
🍕ussy (lemmy.world)
King Kong Report Says the Developers Only Had One Year to Make the Game (comicbook.com)
Alright, son, time to teach you about the birds and the ______
Florida Residents Flee State as Insurance Premiums Skyrocket up to 900% (www.newsweek.com)
The skyrocketing cost of insurance premiums in Florida is leading residents to drop their insurance, consider selling their home, and even move out of the state, according to recent reports....
Why advertise on YouTube?
Why do companies advertise on YouTube when their ads are only used to annoy people into paid accounts? I never see anything, I am interested in.
The Rule Book (climatejustice.social)
O.O (lemmy.ml)
history ppl (feddit.de)
nooooooo (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
For newer users, the 3 day no poop post was an legendary asklemmy post where OP asked how they could go three days without shitting. We never found out why.
The "world's second army" storms Avdiivka in GAZ-AA trucks from the 1930's! (streamable.com)
Mirror: files.catbox.moe/zgdrm0.jpg...
"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
AI can generate memes now. This could potentially lead to a new robot-communist era. (lemmy.ml)
Is it illegal to con people into thinking you have a perfect ability to pick football games by emailing out two lists: one picking one team, and the other picking the other team, and only sending... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl....
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
Designed these spiders for halloween! (lemmy.world)
Here is a Thingiverse link...
Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats (www.theguardian.com)
Police close road for 31 hours after sex doll mistaken for dead body dumped in woods (www.independent.co.uk)
Police closed off a road for two days to investigate a report of a dead body dumped in woods - only to find out it was a discarded sex doll....
Car Talk with Martok - Oh Gods... (startrek.website)
Season 1:...
Man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times at restaurants to avoid paying bill, reports say (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Major Republican Donor Who Called Barack Obama the N-Word Dies After Attempting to Kill His Wife In Murder-Suicide Gone Awry (atlantablackstar.com)
A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added (www.gamesradar.com)
"Just Season It" by Mr.Lovenstein (telegra.ph)
Source: Mastodon - RSS...
18+ What irritates you the most with your own language?
Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct...
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Secret identity (lemmy.world)
the-swift-tricker:...
This is why we hate you (startrek.website)
can anyone tell me wtf this is? (pasteboard.co)
Found it dead in my dishes
Please don't kill my plot hook (ttrpg.network)
The “What the dm planned/what the players do” meme reminded me of this instance from a few months back while I one-shotted in a campaign break.
Newsom signs bill to make California first state in nation to ban "toxic" food additives (www.latimes.com)
California became the first state in the nation to prohibit four food additives found in popular cereal, soda, candy and drinks after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a ban on them Saturday....
LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand (lemmy.world)