Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 2

@torresburriel 💕

Setting up a new Mac, I finally got round to documenting my setup, including the utilities, privacy apps, etc., I use as well as my fish shell and Helix Editor configurations, Homebrew apps, fisher plugins, etc.

In case you’re curious, here it is:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/mac-setup.md

#mac #macOS #setup #dotFiles #configuration #apps #utilties #fishShell #helixEditor #homebrew #fisher #utilities

@MusiqueNow Israeli “Democracy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKP0NO_uWus

#PoliticsJoe

Brave Israeli politician #Aymanodeh dragged out of Knesset for defying #BibiBabyKiller

@Brokar And get a 💩 reply back for each? :)

@froge @noybeu It won’t as long as Ireland has a financial interest in pleasing Big Tech. Basically, Big Tech keeps the lights on in Ireland.

@CTrevethan Haha, thanks, this was brought on by my saying that the screen on the new MacBook Pro has ruined all other screens for me :)

I think I might have found my developer twin.

https://kaylees.site/index.html

Love, love, love this :)

💕

OH: You can’t keep buying new screens, you’ve got plenty.

@arestelle @rrapio @noybeu Fun times :)

@sirobsidian @noybeu Wish I had the time and money. Both are better spent on building the Small Web.

@bortzmeyer @noybeu Sure, it’s called identity theft and it’s illegal. Anyone can do it on any medium that you’re not a part of.

@angietaylor @noybeu God* only knows. It’s a black box.

* Elon

@gooba42 @rrapio @noybeu “Good faith” or Big Tech, pick one.

@noybeu Full alt text of the letter excerpts in the above post can be found at:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/raw/branch/main/irish-dpc-letter-details-alt-texts.txt

(They exceed Mastodon’s character limits for alt-text.)

#mastodon #altText #characterLimit

@noybeu Specifically, as far as the Irish DPC was concerned, “all data associated with the account being rendered unavailable through Twitter’s production tools” was enough for them to consider Twitter’s obligations under GDPR Article 17 to be fulfilled and for the complaint to be “amicably resolved.”

At this point we’d had several back-and-forths and I decided it wasn’t worth my time to pursue it further given the Irish DPC’s clear lack of desire to enforce GDPR Article 17.

@Nicovel0 @noybeu I won’ hold my breath. The only time the EU – and especially Ireland – seems to enforce GDPR is when they’re sued by NOYB (CCed) and lose and are thus forced to, kicking and screaming.

@noybeu Full alt text for the first image of the letter in the post above can be found at:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/raw/branch/main/twitter-data-deletion-letter-to-me-part-one-alt-text.txt

(It exceeds Mastodon’s character limit on alt-text.)

#altText #mastodon

Folks, please do delete your X accounts, by all means, but I’d be very surprised if that meant that your data is deleted or that Elon Musk won’t be using it to train his AI, etc.

I put in a data deletion request after deactivating my account in 2022 and set the Irish DPC on them when they didn’t. After several back and forths, with the Irish DPC being less than worthless, I gave up. Afaict, there is zero enforcement of GDPR Article 17.

CC @noybeu

#x #twitter #gdpr #ElonMusk

@tangent I’d rather see us become more human.