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This is a copy of page 82 of the annual report by Ireland’s data protection commission:

Use of CCTV in restrooms

Throughout 2023, the DPC received numerous queries and complaints from individuals about organisations’ use of CCTV in restrooms or areas where a high expectation of privacy exists (see Annual Report 2023).

The DPC engaged with these organisations on a one-to-one basis and also updated its guidance on the use of CCTV by data controllers to include a specific section on “The use of CCTV in areas of an increased expectation of privacy”. QR 2 This was aimed at clarifying the position of the use of CCTV in areas where individuals have a heightened expectation of privacy. In addition, the DPC contacted the relevant industry bodies to inform them of the update with the DPC’s guidelines.

As a consequence of this guidance, in 2024 the DPC noted a considerable reduction in concerns raised by the public about CCTV in restrooms or areas where a high expectation of privacy exists.

The DPC intended to engage with small and medium sized enterprises throughout 2025 on similar issues to deliver clear and practical guidelines to assist these organisations in meeting their compliance responsibilities in a proportionate and balanced manner.

Seems bizarre that it would even end up in the DPA’s hands; as if people don’t have enough sense to instantly see the GDPR problem and correct it as fast as possible.

I suppose it could be due to only ~⅓ of complaints getting action from the Irish DPA.

I need to start a project in the cloud for collaboration. Normally gitea would be the answer. But there are some binary blobs, like images (logos, icons, etc).

I think most ppl just say “fuck it, I will put these binary objects that do not need version control under version control, just to get them in the same place”.

Is there a smarter approach?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/7561562

There is hardly any discussion on this trending variety of web enshitification where a website needs to give physical locations to people. Many web devs are starting to spotlight their profound incompetence in accomplishing this very simple task. They throw up an interactive map which requires the full utilization of fancy GUI browser frills with 3rd party js enabled, which excludes all but those who “chase the shiny”. A 1990s high schooler could handle this better in plain HTML.

Doesn’t this screw over blind people? How does a screen reader handle a map?

My hardened low-bandwidth browser can’t handle this absurd degree of putting fancy above access equality. When this shit happens on a vendor’s website and I’m trying to locate them to give them business, the answer is easy: they can fuck off and lose my business. But it’s sad when a government does it and the information has medical relevance.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/7561562

There is hardly any discussion on this trending variety of web enshitification where a website needs to give physical locations to people. Many web devs are starting to spotlight their profound incompetence in accomplishing this very simple task. They throw up an interactive map which requires the full utilization of fancy GUI browser frills with 3rd party js enabled, which excludes all but those who “chase the shiny”. A 1990s high schooler could handle this better in plain HTML.

Doesn’t this screw over blind people? How does a screen reader handle a map?

My hardened low-bandwidth browser can’t handle this absurd degree of putting fancy above access equality. When this shit happens on a vendor’s website and I’m trying to locate them to give them business, the answer is easy: they can fuck off and lose my business. But it’s sad when a government does it and the information has medical relevance.

In both Lemmy 0.19.4 and Lemmy 0.19.5, you click the magnifying glass to open the search dialog. If you enter a search query and tab out of the field, whatever you typed is cleared. Even if you simply hit <enter> without tabbing out of the query field, the search form is refreshed and it tells you enter a query, as if you had not done so already.

Both versions have this problem with Ungoogled Chromium. The problem does not manifest on Tor Browser.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/14184367

Lemmy version 0.19.4 introduces 3 relatively intolerable bugs, and 0.19.5 only fixes one of them.

• cannot post, risk of data loss
• cannot cross-post, but no data loss.
• can only visit the default timeline view

Lemmy version 0.19.4 introduces ~~3~~ 4 relatively intolerable bugs, and 0.19.5 only fixes one of them.

• cannot post, risk of data loss
• cannot cross-post, but no data loss.
• can only visit the default timeline view
• (update) cannot search

This bug was introduced with version 0.19.4 and still persists in 0.19.5: There are four possible timeline views:

• subscribed
• local
• all
• moderator view

That selector is broken in Ungoogled Chromium 112.0 but not in Firefox-based browsers. In UC, clicking “moderator view” highlights the button, the page refreshes, but the selector does not stick. It snaps back to whatever view is the default and remains trapped on that timeline.

This problem is replicated in both 0.19.4 and 0.19.5 instances.

If I use the cross-post feature to copy the post elsewhere, the form is populated just fine but then I have to search for the target community at the bottom of the form. As soon as I select the target community, the whole rest of the form clears. If another field is re-populated, the target community field clears. So only one field at a time can be populated.

Tested with Tor Browser.

Untested in Lemmy 0.19.5.

Lemmy 0.19.4 introduced a quite serious defect whereby if you are using Ungoogled Chromium (and perhaps stock Chromium), the form to create a new post accepts input but then the instant you tab out of the field, the whole field is cleared. Poof… just like that, all your work vanishes and no way to get it back.

Firefox-based browsers have no issue.

~~Lemmy 0.19.5 seems to have fixed it.~~ But there are other problems with both 0.19.4 and 0.19.5, so I suggest not upgrading past 0.19.3.

(edit) actually the problem manifests differently in 0.19.5. The form can be filled out and there is no data loss, but the “create” button is insensitive. It remains gray and behaves as if the form is still empty.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/14087065

One quite annoying Lemmy behaviour is when you search for a community that has many results spanning multiple screens (e.g. query “software”), the list is largely clusterfucked with crappy centralised instances that go against the #fedi philosophy (e.g. #lemmyWorld, #ShItjustWorks, #lemmyCa, #LemmyZip, #programmingDev, etc).

I discovered a fix: ctrl-rt-click on every community in the list to open each in a tab. Then click “block community”, then repeat the search. It works the way it should: blocked communities are excluded from search results.

Wish I realised that sooner.. would have saved me some effort and frustration in trying to search only for communities in the decentralised free world.

One quite annoying Lemmy behaviour is when you search for a community that has many results spanning multiple screens (e.g. query “software”), the list is largely clusterfucked with crappy centralised instances that go against the #fedi philosophy (e.g. #lemmyWorld, #ShItjustWorks, #lemmyCa, #LemmEE, #LemmyZip, #programmingDev, etc).

I discovered a fix: ctrl-rt-click on every community in the list to open each in a tab. Then click “block community”, then repeat the search. It works the way it should: blocked communities are excluded from search results.

Wish I realised that sooner.. would have saved me some effort and frustration in trying to search only for communities in the decentralised free world.