Except the email in question is not a newsletter. Companies often use separate mail list services for important product announcements and similar things as well. Obviously there should be a process in place that removes you from these external services too when you delete your account, but I assume this is what broke down in this case

I can get behind that

Ohh the “what time is it in films” argument is good, haven’t heard that one before, thanks

It’s gonna get much worse when you start to try mapping days of the week onto the new times. Are days gonna be the same everywhere as well, to stay from 0 to 24? If so, have fun saying things like “Let’s find a time on Wednesday/Thursday”. People likely couldn’t be bothered and would probably just use the day that their normal wake-up time falls on to mean the full solar day instead. At which point you could also just say okay, weekdays are still following local solar days. But now what weekday is it halfway around the world? Now you need to look up their solar day.

All this to say - abolishing time zones will introduce the reverse problem for every problem that it seemingly solves. You can’t change the fact that our planet rotates and people in different locations will follow different schedules. Turning the lookup-table upside down is just a cosmetic change that doesn’t remove the situation that’s causing the confusion. I’d rather just stick with the set of problems that we’re already used to dealing with.

No

You’re thinking of Edge, not Internet explorer

I haven’t looked too much into it, but iirc the clubs would be able to grow their own plants, independent of the allowance that individuals have for home-growing. Here’s a (German) article about how the clubs are supposed to work, that seems to confirm that, even if it’s not spelled out explicitly: https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/cannabis-legalisierung-mitgliedsausweis-und-schichtplaene-so-funktionieren-die-cannabis-clubs-/29733674.html

Also, see the other comments on mine, some good clarifications in there!

Oh, I wasn’t actually aware of that, thanks! Added it to my comment as well

Good clarification, I edited my comment accordingly, thanks!

buying and selling it is still not allowed.

That’s somewhat misleading. It is allowed in the form of non-profit clubs selling giving to members who pay a membership fee for personal use. It’s just commercial sale that’s banned.

Edit to correct the above statement and to add that the clubs are only gonna be legal in July.

Yeah, but by generating with AI you’re incentivized to skip that initial research stage into your own code base, leading you to completely miss opportunities for consolidation or reuse

For those not willing to give up on convenience, on Android, there’s Lockdown mode, which will temporarily disable access via biometrics and force the use of your PIN/password to get into your device. Not sure about other brands, but on Pixel, you can enable it by long-pressing the power button and tapping on “Lockdown”.

Not if the site is actually GDPR compliant they are not. You are only allowed to set tracking cookies after consent has been obtained, which cannot be assumed before the visitor has made a choice.

What exactly do you mean by “trust”, here? Yes, it’s not fully FOSS, and I do understand why you wouldn’t like or use it because of that, but you can still verify the code, compile it yourself and build and run it with your own modifications, so how would being fully FOSS make you trust it more?

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying!

How can I find your public key without going through a channel that could also have been manipulated by the admins, though? That seems problematic to me

Actually, no. “Legitimate interest” has a specific legal meaning under GDPR, and has to clear a way higher bar than just wanting to make money and always be weighed against the affected person’s interests as well.

It’s when it’s in a company’s best interest to measure this data.

That is not correct, or at least it’s incomplete. You make it sound like only the company’s interest matters, but it always has to always take into account the interests of the data subject as well, and if the two are at odds, you need to make a judgment on how to balance those.

Storing IP addresses for example falls into this - there is a legitimate interest of the company to keep its IT systems protected, and to do that effectively, storing IP addresses is necessary. This interest weighs pretty highly, and since the expected effect on the subject is minimal and there’s no less invasive way to achieve the same result, it’s okay to do without a way for the user to opt out.

Error tracking, is already a little more tricky - you need to have a good argument why you actually need the personal data to effectively find and fix issues, because most of the time, there’s ways to do that without processing personal data just as effectively (beyond the IP address of course being used when sending error reports).

Of course this is all just theory, and in practice, companies will often try to get away with way more liberal interpretations of what constitutes legitimate interest. My point is that legitimate interest as a concept is not the problem, and is actually necessary for the whole thing to work. The problem is companies bending the law and not properly being regulated.

I think “legally” and “without constantly wanting to vomit” is the trickier question. From a purely ethical standpoint I don’t see a problem with taking CSAM that’s apparently already flooding Lemmy and using it to test whether your filter works before nuking it. At least as long as you’re making sure you’re not exposing anyone else to it.

Just gonna leave this here: The coming war on general computation