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New comment by BGizzle in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

BGizzle — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:48:06 +0000

Everyone knows all the apps on your Android phone

New comment by BGizzle in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

BGizzle — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:11:47 +0000

GDPR is not about consent or data being collected. If it were, the EU would not penalize violators based on a (largely irrelevant) PERCENTAGE OF GLOBAL REVENUE for a breach.

I'm an external auditor. The GDPR is a cash grab.

Regulations that actually incentivize organizations toward stronger privacy and protection practices are designed more like HIPAA or PCI where the MAGNITUDE OF THE BREACH is the primary factor determining the monetary fines imposed (e.g.,number of records exposed, was it PII, PHI, etc.).

Taking 4% of the company's annual revenue from the previous year, irrespective of the size of the breach, results in a regulation about as effective as clicking those cookie consent boxes. "Oh thank goodness I gave my consent, I think now we can all rest easy that our data is being handled securely and appropriately!" No, the EU included the ticky tacky consent requirement to create major global visibility about itself so that when a company doing business with the EU has a breach, they won't be surprised when they then get an additional bill from the EU for not only having the breach, but now being in violation of the GDPR too.

The GDPR is a despicable joke. And my use of 'the' gives me the right to that opinion. If anyone else out there was involved in GDPR's creation or implementation, I think you would agree:

GDPR owns the Greatest Dung Pile Record, Grandma's Dildo Paste Replenisher, the Gagging Damaged Penis Rectum and one Gigabyte of Dick Punch Radiation in addition to €2.83 billion (as of 12/2022) collected from breached companies in 1,401 cases for "violating the GDPR".

New comment by BGizzle in "Airbnb tenant refuses to leave for more than a year"

BGizzle — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:24:28 +0000

In L.A. county, if you receive mail at the residential address or are staying there for more than three consecutive days, you're legally a tenant. So if the person breaks into a house when the owner is on vacation, stays there for a week and gets mail there, yes, the once-trespasser is a legal tenant. Seattle area is the same; makes it super easy to squat.

New comment by BGizzle in "Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave"

BGizzle — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:26:36 +0000

Between stimulus and response, we have a choice in how we react. If you think the problem is out there, stop yourself. If we use our own conscience, self-awareness, imagination and free will we can choose a response every time that we won't regret. It's nice to be nice and it's cool to be cool. No one wants problems and we all have them. But in every problem exists an opportunity - to solve that problem. The only way to fail is to not try. Otherwise you just die trying. And baby steps are still steps - it's about consistency, not intensity. We are constantly generating and reflecting energy and positivity prevails. You can choose to be irrevocably damaged and impaired by your ex-boss's negativity, but you can also use your own self-awareness, conscience and free will to choose how you react. Your boss's words or actions don't decide you. You can change your state if you choose to.

New comment by BGizzle in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"

BGizzle — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 04:52:27 +0000

No, the LITERAL definition of dead weight is " 1: the unrelieved weight of an inert mass 2: DEAD LOAD 3: a ship's load including the total weight of cargo, fuel, stores, crew, and passengers"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deadweight

Examples of literal in a Sentence:

" The literal meaning of “know your ropes” is “to know a lot about ropes,” while figuratively it means “to know a lot about how to do something.”

I was using the word in its literal sense.

The story he told was basically true, even if it wasn't the literal truth. "