froh42

@froh42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It got better, that time was peak responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being 55, I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bet I could break in a few new places⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies Beware!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Size Me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Metrics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.