froh42
@froh42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 2 days ago:
See, for me - I crashed in that time, burnout, divorce, financial problems.
I’m rebuilding my life now step by step, and I’m rebuilding it in a way I don’t get into overload too much anymore.
I learned to offset stressful times by time off, for example, and 4 out of 5 weekends I relax. (And, yes I do allow myself to cheat, but I’m aware I go into “credit” energy-wise. So in total I take care m energy account stays positive and my life is so much better for it)
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 2 days ago:
It got better, that time was peak responsibility.
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 3 days ago:
Being 55, I agree.
- Comment on I bet I could break in a few new places 4 days ago:
Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you.
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 1 week ago:
Maybe read the law? That’s exactly what it says. Obnoxious cookie banners are and have been illegal from day one. Denying usage of your personal data must be as simple as accepting it.
I admit it took much too long for the courts to effectively rule against the companies doing obnoxious cookie banners and even then it’s hard because a lot of the companies doing such crap are outside of jurisdiction and hard to get.
On top only after that shit has been around a few years (and yes you’ll have a relevant amount of court decisions only after 10 years or so) rules become clearer as there have been a number of cases - and guess what, the companies doing the obnoxious banners lose those cases.
But still a lot of them do it. Why? Because the fines are relatively low. They can get away with it, especially when they get on a standpoint oopsie we didn’t know.
Now one thing that hasn’t been in court is a model “pay a membership fee or we’ll use your data”. This is what Meta does, they demand a crazy fee (I think something like 35 Euro per month per person) or they’ll use your data. Btw there’s no cookie banner on Insta/Facebook etc. (because cookie banners are not required by law) - Meta just asks that I decide whether I pay or they can use my data (from time to time)
But still also the pay or be sold model is widely believed to be illegal under GDPR, but that will only get clear until one successfully (or unsuccessfully) has a court case against a high profile target like Meta or one of the big newspapers in EU which all use the same idea by putting up paywalls with an “allow tracking, then it’s free” option.
I’ve been professionally doing this shit for quite some time now, building solutions to get consent from customers without cookie banners. For EU car makers, btw - and believe me, they don’t like it any more than you do. If they could they would love to analyze every bit of tracking data they could get, your driving habits, where you go etc. Cars are smartphones on wheels nowadays. The only reason you don`t have obnoxious cookie banners when you start up your car? Obnoxious cookie banners are illegal - AND car producers are easier to catch in court than a media company on the other side of the globe.
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 2 weeks ago:
For fucks sake the cookie banners are not required be EU law. I’ll never understand why people can’t understand this.
The law just says you can’t use my personal data without consent and the cookie banners is what the industry does to work around that. Even more fun fact, most of these banners are outright illegal.
They are neither market propection nor regulatory muscle flexing, people over here just DO NOT WANT US and China style “All your data are belong to us” live without privacy.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.
Something like:
Tesla - power by joy
Or “Kraft durch Freude” in German.
All that would perfectly fit the brand image.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
Eww you have a random rotating 6 digit code to connect with your wife? Those are easily guessable.
My wife and I have just agreed that we don’t properly authorize, so we will always refuse the connection.
- Comment on Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes 3 months ago:
I’m hungry.
- Comment on Ladies Beware! 4 months ago:
Super Size Me.
- Comment on Important Metrics 4 months ago:
I’m disappointed you didn’t reset the trip counter 69 miles ago.
- Comment on Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval 4 months ago:
Oh they mentioned Verein Deutscher Sprache who suggests words like “Klapprechner” but forgot to mention a much bigger online movement to prevent anglicisms where we all speak Zangendeutsch. Just come over to !ich_iel@feddit.org
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 4 months ago:
I have a Bluetooth controlled vibrator. Reverse engineered the app (which has a chat function) and it has a blacklist of words (mainly Chinese) you’re not allowed to text using the app.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 5 months ago:
Time to make a punk leather jacket with the sylt logo on the back.
- Comment on Batman. 5 months ago:
Death by SnuSnu
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 5 months ago:
xkcd.com/37/ oh wow, I need some. mind-bleach now.
- Comment on Setting up a printer 5 months ago:
They might just try a cold pull or two before changing the nozzle. (Depening on the printer. On my Ender 3 Nozzle swaps were a no brainer - 2 minutew, on my current SV08 they are 15 min of work and 45 min of soaking the old nozzle in Isopropanol to get the thermistor out without ripping the cables)
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 6 months ago:
Because behind the carrier grade NAT I don’t get a routable IPV4 at all, so no inbound connections.
With the IPV4 I use I do use dyndns now, so I can resolve it from outside.
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 6 months ago:
IPV6 is already rolled out in parts of the world. My provider has a Dual Stack lite architecture, the home connection is over IPV6, IPV4 is normally being tunneled through a provider grade NAT.
As I AM a network nerd, I pay for a dedicated IPV4 address every month, so I can reach my stuff from outside from old IPV4 only networks.
- Comment on USA | Kamala Harris names her vice presidential running mate 6 months ago:
I’m a German (currently even on vacation in the US). The political world is so crazy the last years, the authoritarian vs liberal segregation infecting huge parts of the world.
The Harris vs Trump race is one that fills me with hope and fear all the time. (We Germans have some history with right wing failures who get into political offices)
I hope the new vice president candidate will be an asset to win the US elections. Those have ramifications around the world. Even if we can still hope it won’t come to an authoratorian regime in the US, the yellow old man would be an end to multilateralism, putting the world into a state like it was before WW1.
- Comment on The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine 7 months ago:
The basic idea is not letting anyone nuke anyone else by making the consequences really really absurd.
The doomsday machine isn’t for winning wars, it is for avoiding them.
- Comment on poni 7 months ago:
Ich habe Dinge gesehen, die ihr Menschen niemals glauben würdet. Gigantische Schiffe, die brannten, draußen vor der Schulter des Orion. Und ein rosa fliegendes Schwein, genannt Pupsi, im Kino, nahe meiner 6-jährigern Tochter.
- Comment on poni 7 months ago:
RFC 1925 (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 7 months ago:
Therefore they are soup.
- Comment on What are your plans for when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda? 8 months ago:
Oh man, you should ALSO have taken off 1.1.1970 (IIRC) to get that day off.
- Comment on Garfield do you smell burnt toast? 8 months ago:
Jon needs a carbon monoxide detector and a new oven.
- Comment on Tacos. 9 months ago:
Exactly this thought made made me understand “god is irrelevant” a long time ago and I became an agnosticist.
I really can not understand people who are only “good” because they fear an ultimate judgment, and not be good just because they want to out of their own volition.
In case there are gods, I’ll be judged for who I am, anyways. It doesn’t matter if I play “good child”. If there are no gods, I’m still happier if I’m not an asshole.
- Comment on Shits these days 9 months ago:
Don’t you know how to use the three seashells?
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 9 months ago:
5 year old me after it bounces back from my finger I accidentally put there- agaaaain! agaaain!
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 9 months ago:
Do we also have something like r/dontputyourdickinthat on lemmy?