Also, it is worth nothing very specifically that Pixelfed hides the account deletion page. It is only reachable directly, if you know the URL to go to (/settings/remove/request/permanent). This was brought up a year and a half ago in a GitHub issue, and has gone unacknowledged by the maintainer since. Granted, it's an open source project and anyone could submit a PR to link to it from the account settings page or something, but still.
Pixelfed also, notably and admittedly does not federate deletions, there's a clear warning about this on the deletion page that dates to 2018. So you can delete it, but your profile is stuck out on remote instances. Given the 7 years that have passed, there doesn't seem to be any desire from the maintainer to close that gap.
The prioritization of actual data ownership and control is lacking, so the similarly lazy approach to the TOS doesn't surprise me in the least.
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I can appreciate that there are fediverse services like Loops and Pixelfed because the more the merrier. But after spending a year+ watching the lead dev interact with others and respond to cultural moments for the fediverse’s evolution, this is the kind of mentality that pushes me away from using them.
It’s very BDFL energy, and is exactly the kind of the a lot of people on the fediverse are trying to get away from.
https://dice.camp/@artemis/113843899748297923
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Oh, and if your insurer has an app, don’t give it access to your location, your health data, or anything else on your phone if you can avoid it.
They can collect and use that info to make decisions about what care they will or won’t authorize. While entirely hypothetical as an example, I wouldn’t put it past many to deny care for health issues because you didn’t walk enough and thus they can point to a pattern of neglect which relives them of responsibility, especially if you get their sometimes-mandatory monthly mailing telling you to walk more for better health.
Better yet, just don’t download their app and don’t give them any more information than is absolutely necessary.
[#]Healthcare #Privacy #HealthInsurance
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It’s January 1st, which for those in the USA might mean you have a new health insurance provider.
Make sure you read their privacy policy clearly, look specifically for mentions of whether or not they sell any personal information. While health information specifically should be off limits, they could still work around that by trying to “anonymize” or “de-identify” that info before selling it, or they might opt to sell information they collected from third parties that are not explicitly covered by HIPPA laws (that’s the health privacy law in the US).
Several states allow you to opt out of this sale of your data, but the insurer may allow you to opt-out regardless of state. It is worth looking and sending a quick email (or filling out a form if they’re cool like that) to opt-out and make sure that a tiny bit less of your personal info is bought and sold.
[#]Healthcare #Privacy #HealthInsurance
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Managed to get to the Golden Gate Bridge overlook for a New Years sunrise today. I had a nice streak of going before the pandemic, and hopefully I can make it a tradition again. #SFBA #SanFrancisco #GoldenGateBridge #HappyNewYear2025 #Sunrise #Photography
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This is really cool, I look forward to seeing Rikki’s open!
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/113753208418753480
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What a classic @SutroTower and @karlthefog collab.
[#]SutroTower #KarlTheFog #SFBA
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Well that was a rude awakening to a tornado alert in San Francisco. Here’s hoping it’s a false alarm.
[#]SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBAWx
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I cannot say this enough:
Product designers (and developers), prompting users to do some optional thing and only giving them “Do the thing” and “Not now” options is a frustrating experience.
Give me a “no thanks” option. If your UI sensibility doesn’t like having more than two buttons, get rid of the “not now” option. I absolutely do not want to be reminded about whatever probably privacy invasive thing you’re trying to get me to opt into.
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I would also suggest Permission Slip by Consumer Reports. They can help manage and automate the data deletion requests (and Do Not Sell requests) for a ton of companies, with more on the way.
With as much time as I’ve spent doing this manually, this app has saved me quite a bit of time. They’ve also recently added a lot of the shadowy data brokers you’ve never heard of and never gave your info to directly. Those are the companies they buy and sell data for it to end up in the hands of services like Locate X.
https://permissionslipcr.com
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If you’re in California, the next few months are a good opportunity to exercise your data privacy rights. Reminder that they have up to 90 days to comply (45 days with a single 45 day extension), so your request is not always immediate.
There is every reason to believe that tech lobbyists will use the incoming federal government to pass laws pre-empting state data privacy regulation and giving them a way to ignore it.
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/113470453041056012
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And I’m supposed to just … go to meetings tomorrow?
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What I’m vaguely looking for:
Bonus points
And I’ll stress the easy to use part again. While it’ll be fun to mess around with, I don’t want to spend a ton of time getting it going and adding things. I’d love a tool that does the job and stays out of the way so I can focus on the actual homelab apps.
#Homelab #SelfHosted #o11y
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As I dip my toes into running a homelab and some other managed servers for small personal projects, I find myself itching for a way to better monitor things. Especially with the more homegrown approach, services crash or fall over occasionally and I don’t always notice quickly.
The tools I’m familiar with are on the enterprise grade / cost side of the spectrum (professional hazard).
So I’m on the hunt for tips / recommendations.
[#]Homelab #SelfHosted #o11y
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I also outlined that should the ownership of the site change, personal information collected would be destroyed and not transferred with ownership. This was a situation that actually happened, and all I transferred to the new owner was static site contents (non-user generated) and the domain name. No logs, no code, no databases, no PII from user registrations.
How are companies with actual adult legal teams and executives still fucking this up?
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As an actual child, I understood and put forth privacy provisions outlining strict rules on personal information collected by my site, disclosure on how it was used, and a future-proof provision that any future changes in use would be preceded by an opportunity to opt-out before such use.
I didn’t quite have the foresight to enforce opt-in usage only, but I’d still say the policy was pretty damn good and largely holds up.
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While going through some old digital archives I came across two privacy policies I wrote for my earliest websites, 20 years ago.
I was 13 years old at the time and I wrote these entirely on my own (yes, my parents were freaked out too), with a few peeks at major company website policies for some pointers.
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And I was just starting to appreciate reporting from the LA Times more in the last few months.
The actual reporting team is still doing a decent job, but the owner has failed us all.
But it is important that word does get out that the editorial team did fully intend to endorse Harris, had they not been blocked.
[#]USPol #LATimes
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-editorials-editor-resigns-after-owner-blocks-presidential-endorsement.php
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And they’ve lost the plot. Tantrums, temporarily blocking updates and plugin access, blog posts about contributing back to the community, none of that is good, but it’s not the end of the world.
But pulling some eminent domain shit on one of the most popular plugins in WordPress history means absolutely no one can trust you to be fair stewards of the community anymore.
This is textbook supply chain poisoning, except the perpetrator is the one who owns the supply chain. What business would trust you to supply probably secure software and updates anymore?
[#]WordPress #WPDrama #WPEngine
https://mastodon.design/@DavidDarnes/113296090675391221
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Oh Karl, I have missed you.
[#]KarlTheFog
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