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A few days ago I sent a GDPR request to some company to delete my personal data. They said to install their app and send a ticket from the app. The email was sent from the email address to which the account is registered. Is this even legal?

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[–] [email protected] 314 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 107 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Man, Elon really does ruin everything. Can't even use X as a variable anymore without a disclaimer.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's causing hell of problems to mathematicians worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Suddenly, every math formula ever written is subject to copyright and royalties.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

They are left asking Y.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Fuck that, I refuse to give him the letter. He can pry it from my cold dead hands as he chokes on my liver!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How about using a programmer style variables like badCompanyName. You don’t have to be a mathematician. Sure, I can totally appreciate concise names, but some times you have to use longer names to avoid collisions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I prefer [insertconpanynamehere] but in this case name and shame almost seems more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Csmel case isn't POSIX complaint. Underscores ftw /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

An X is an X, the social network shall be known as X, formerly Twitter /J

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"As you can see on this graph, the Twitter axis represents time, and the Y axis represents total number of unique visitors"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is an ex-social-platform. It is now a pile of garbage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It was always a pile of garbage...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Too true.

There is some arguement to be made that Facebook was kind of good at first. It was useful and it had social impacts that were positive. Over time it became toxic.

Twitter was awful from day one though, mostly because it was bloody useless from day one. Everything that anybody used it for could have been done, and generally was also done, on Facebook, so there was literally no point in the platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Good point. Now it is a steaming pile of hot garbage. Haha

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why I always call it twitter. X is a variable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's new name is "X, formally known as Twitter". Which is what every news website on the planet calls it.

Regardless the fact that X is a stupid name for a company, it's also dumb to rename a popular company generally anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

"Twitter" is shorter