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I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their “legitimate interest”, using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.

What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.

If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can’t just take them and say “well, you wouldn’t know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don’t need to pay you.”

Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.

What happens to your account on a federated server if that one fails though?

I might still google “[question] reddit” when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I’ll check for that kind of purpose, but I’ve already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn’t show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).

Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.

What’s more, they’ve blocked old reddit if you’re not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a “you broke reddit” error page. It won’t be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.

No, but my mum did buy me one of those when I asked her to get me the CatFace one lmao. Even though I gave her the specific link. Ended up having to buy it myself.

This is CatFace, and like I say the clock face is his giant cat head. Then his little dangling body is the pendulum.

apparently Jebora lets you upload images directly.

That’s a pleasant surprise. I’ll still hold a little cynacism out of caution, but it sounds much better than most.

“Use our service because we plant trees!” is really just marketing bullshit. They’re not saving the environment, they’re running a monoculture tree farm which creates long term profit.

Saying that though I switched to Ecosia from DDG because it just formats the results better imo. It would be nice if Firefox at least included it in the default search engine list so you didn’t have to hunt around to add it.

Stir fry is an awesome go to dish. Although noodles can sometimes be better for leftovers, as you shouldn’t reheat rice.

Badger Badger was made by the creator of Weebl and Bob. It found its way onto Ebaums no doubt, but he had his own site, weeblsstuff, that had a bunch of stuff.

One of my favourite possessions is my Cat Face pendulum clock!

I just miss websites that didn’t move crap around as they loaded, so when you go to click on something it moves out from under your mouse (and sometimes makes you click on something else).

This sounds like something a bot would say!

Because China are so trustworthy.

Edit: yay, downvotes, but no comments.

Chinese business isn’t anything to sniff at (because money) but far too many assume the gravy train will last longer than it does before they appropriate the technology and manufacture it themselves, to the exclusion of foreign business.

Meanwhile the west is quite happy to let wealthy Chinese people buy up everything they want, while driving prices up for regular folk.

Unfortunately many services block protonmail by default, or mark it as junk. Hopefully this will change.