You may find it beneficial to workout some pelvic floor muscles. It's possible that your muscles got weaker and struggle with doing their job as well as they used to.
- flattr support discovery: Instead of having a "Flattr" button on the webpage I visit I need to navigate to flattr website and search there... but I'm not going to do that. Maybe adblocker removed that button?
- ownership confirmations - I wanted to donate to person $PERSON and found them on flattr. But I had no idea whether this flattr account actually belongs to $PERSON. I reached to $PERSON about that and never heard back so I stopped donating.
I once asked for a feedback, was told that they won't give any. Filed a GDPR request and got all of their e-mails and internal tickets about me and my application. Funnily, they printed this data, scanned to PDF and sent the PDF via e-mail.
> they printed this data, scanned to PDF and sent the PDF via e-mail.
I guess it may not be in this case (low volume, text content), but this could be a tactic to generate hurdles for anyone attempting to use it in systematic fashion.
I've heard of a case where a state org was required to send some students a set of spreadsheets (I guess they required it).
They printed the spreadsheets, laid the pages out-of-order on a table (to be clear, a physical table, a flat surface made of wood with 4 legs) and took a picture with worse than average lighting and a skewed framing. Technically they complied. A person could, with some effort, read the contents of the spreadsheets. In practice, the students couldn't get to what they wanted (automated verification of the values in the spreadsheets)
TBH it had a bit of an urban legend vibe back when I heard it years ago, but I wouldn't doubt it
I think it was more about security/confidentiality - when you print and scan you exactly see what's that that you're sending. No hidden HTML elements, e-mail headers and stuff like that. And they blacked out some of the stuff I didn't need to see (again, with a permanent marker so hard to do it wrong).
Internal conversations about you does not qualify as personal data. The data was not collected from you and you did not have to consent to have them talking about you.
It's a weak, absurd argument. The key part is about data that is collected from the person by the data processor.
To repeat: a conversation of two people with their opinion of sircastor is not information about you. It's not like people could only emit their opinion if you consented to it, and you are not the one taking this report from a third-party and giving to the company interviewing you.
The effort was zero - I copy-pasted an e-mail template from the internet and volia.
Yes, this is in Europe.
I think I learned quite a lot, namely:
- why I failed the interview (I struggled to produce correct code, the code wasn't very robust and I said it's ok to put it into production)
- why I haven't failed the interview (ex. no mention of my English language skills) - which was more valuable for me than the "why I failed"
- a fairly good confidence that there's little details omitted - when they submit you a voluntary feedback they may give just the most obvious information. Ofc I didn't get the data about what was said on internal meetings.
- some insight into their internal structure, opinions of individual interviews about me etc.
I probably burned bridges with that company but after the interview neither party was interested in cooperation so I decided to give it a shot and see what happens.
I had to wait exactly 30 (or 14?) days (GDPR deadline) for the feedback to get to my mailbox.
An interviewee was unhappy with my decision and felt that they hadn't had a fair hearing - and complained.
In this case we had a standard form where we assessed candidates over multiple factors (comms skills, technical skills, etc) - so if they got to see the result they'll have seen evaluations on all of that.
I wasn't very impressed with getting the complaint (the only one out of 100+ interviews) but hopefully GDPR is a more neutral way of getting that sort of feedback these days.
> hopefully GDPR is a more neutral way of getting that sort of feedback.
Only a complete fool would comply with this request. GDPR is not a magic codeword that can force companies to give data away. I am not calling BS on OP's request, but there is absolute no way that internal communications about an applicant falls into GDPR. Basic test: did the person had to consent to "people will talk about you over email" somewhere? If not, it is not data protected by GDPR.
Poppler ( https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ) handles this for you with pdftotext utility. It also ships with bunch of other utilities to work with PDFs
Other captchas also waste (your and captchas' provider) electricity. For example reCaptcha requires tons of resources to track your moves to ensuring you're "not a robot". Sure, the data is also used to serve you ads but resources are still wasted.
Thanks for the link. I had not heard of this project, though I knew about CERN's experiments with synchronous ethernet. Tiny nit though - the plan was never to sync over the internet, with its variable latency and multiple PHY formats, but instead to provide an ethernet network with links up to 10km long that can provide a timing and phase reference for the LHC.
The idea of just utilizing the bidirectionally continuously active transmission lines of 1000BASE-T to essentially mutually PLL over the highly symmetric please delay wiring repurposing the existing carrier/clock recovery and garnishing with some actual data on top (clock comparing/time sync, configuration), is just ingenious.
IMO this counts as hacker spirit already.
Just a shame the hardware is completely out of the "fun project" price range, even if substantially less fancy components would suffice for most non-CERN use cases of White Rabbit...
e.g. the mentioned synchronous Ethernet, and utilization of single frequency network [0] capabilities for WiFi.
In Finland I think even the smaller stores have a red carboard a box hidden somewhere... For electronics bit harder, but still should not be impossible.
