Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 6

@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.

@donmccurdy Man, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist that trains its AI on your code.

So let’s use all the freshwater to power AI… sounds logical to me. https://mastodon.social/@czds/113511751493188537

@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte

@curved_ruler Hmm, I wonder if they’re all different instances or something.

@danuzja @noodlejetski Love it :)

@Framasoft @framasky Félicitations 💕

@curved_ruler https://librespeed.org

@LydiaConwell Good.

If you get an error like the one below while launching Vial to configure the keymap of your external keyboard, make sure it’s not plugged into a KVM¹ switch.

File "main_window.py", line 279, in on_devices_updated File "main_window.py", line 283, in on_device_selected File "autorefresh/autorefresh.py", line 79, in select_device File "vial_device.py", line 49, in open File "vial_device.py", line 26, in open

RuntimeError: unable to open the device.

¹ Keyboard, Video, Mouse.

#vial #KVM #error

@jupiter_rowland @mikedev Ah, k, thanks for the clarification :)

@queserasera I believe you’re legally allowed to be physically violent in such situations.