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pluijzer commented on Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari   oblador.github.io/hush/... · Posted by u/sysadm1n
pluijzer · 2 years ago
That is nice. That is why I don't use 'I don't care about cookies'. I do care, I want to press reject, if for nothing else than to send a signal.
pluijzer · 2 years ago
Honestly interested why this was downvoted, which yes makes for boring reading but I hope it results in some interesting argument. If you need a cookie banner it means you are collecting users' personal information. For many websites this is totally unnecessary. I do not like it if a website tells me how important my privacy is to them and then asks me to accept sharing all the information they can about me with other commercial entities. For no functional reason. I don't want to press accept that. As a insignificant little protest I want press reject. I want their statistics to show that some people don't like data being shared.

"I do not care about cookies", when it cannot just hide a popup will accept the terms and removes the option for this small protest from me. That is why I do not use it. Is this somehow wrong, offensive, off-topic?

pluijzer commented on Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari   oblador.github.io/hush/... · Posted by u/sysadm1n
ricklamers · 2 years ago
I found https://github.com/oblador/hush#does-hush-accept-or-deny-per...

So neither it seems. Whatever the website does when a user doesn’t make a choice.

pluijzer · 2 years ago
That is nice. That is why I don't use 'I don't care about cookies'. I do care, I want to press reject, if for nothing else than to send a signal.
pluijzer commented on Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari   oblador.github.io/hush/... · Posted by u/sysadm1n
pluijzer · 2 years ago
"Block nags to accept cookies and privacy invasive tracking"

Took me a couple of tries to parse the senetence. Is this blocking or accepting privacy invasive tracking? Guess the former but kept reading it as the latter.

pluijzer commented on The Sound Proof Booths of Silence   dota2.com/newsentry/36755... · Posted by u/namiwang
pluijzer · 2 years ago
I guess the allure of physical events is twofold, to feel a connection with other fans and to feel a connection with the players. I wonder if this diminishes the latter. Maybe put the players somewhere else entirely and stream it in the form of these stage holograms.
pluijzer commented on The Evolution of Vi and Vim   pikuma.com/blog/origins-o... · Posted by u/ibobev
kaycebasques · 2 years ago
The naming tradition interests me. Some of the name changes are incremental: ed, then em, then en, then ex. Others seem like a dramatic break: e* to vi. I'm getting the sense that it was a more common tradition than I realized. Of course the classic example is C to C++, which is just so dang satisfying. Are there other interesting examples of incremental name changes and more fundamental shifts (e* to vi)?
pluijzer · 2 years ago
Not my favorite language but I like how C# is C++++ (even though in musical terms C# would be inbetween C and C++).
pluijzer commented on Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap   wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayl... · Posted by u/LaSombra
rwmj · 2 years ago
Can Wayland run programs remotely yet?
pluijzer · 2 years ago
I thought this was specifically not part of Wayland, am I wrong?
pluijzer commented on Credit card debt collection   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/got-any-grapes
petesergeant · 2 years ago
Google translation: “and that means that you can submit a GDPR request to have a BKR registration corrected”

This suggests you can only get records removed if they’re incorrect — is that what you meant?

pluijzer · 2 years ago
The record can technically be correct but not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". In that case the negative record can be "corrected".

So, in my case. When I was a teenager I opened a second bank account with credit card. In only used the card once for something small and forgot about it. Throughout the years the cost of this card started to built up, messages to pay back where not received because I already had a different address and phone number.

Years later this resulted in a negative BKR registration for me. I explained the situation to the bank (that could technically let the registration be removed) but they refused. Later I had a lawyer order them to remove the registration, on grounds that me forgetting about a credit card when I was young was no reason to believe I wouldn't be paying my mortgage. The registration was therefor not in "pursuit of a legitimate interest". The bank honored this.

pluijzer commented on Credit card debt collection   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/got-any-grapes
petesergeant · 2 years ago
Do you have a source that specifically states I can get a bad debt scrubbed from my credit rating under GDPR provisions? It doesn’t match my understating of GDPR at all.
pluijzer · 2 years ago
I got my bad debt scrubbed this way. This was in the Netherlands. It is not always possible, some sources here (in Dutch): https://www.vldwadvocaten.nl/blog/bkr-en-avg-bezwaar-en-verz...
pluijzer commented on Credit card debt collection   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/got-any-grapes
worldwidelies · 2 years ago
same experience, except it wasn't that simple. A family member told me I should settle with them, because that's what they did too. They wiped the balance and closed the account but the settlement stayed on my credit score for 7 years. I had a friend who was getting calls by a debt servicer and was making it seem like no big deal. I told my friend to ask the person about the 7 years, the person reluctantly admitted that his credit score will be flagged for 7 years.
pluijzer · 2 years ago
Just a heads up for people living in the EU, it is possible to have things like negative credit ratings removed on grounds of GPRD.
pluijzer commented on How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain   laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/apollinaire
dmurray · 2 years ago
Racist might be wrong but it's definitely now used for people who are intolerant of other people, usually for identity-politics reasons.

These days you can be bigoted against black or Muslim or gay or transgender people, but not really about Greek statuary or rap music or electric cars or PHP, no matter how strong your opinions on those.

pluijzer · 2 years ago
Are your sure this is the case? I see the word used in the original meaning all the time.

u/pluijzer

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