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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:46PM (#26730109)
The only way I made it work was allowing only hand-picked channels. Otherwise my son was 2 clicks away of auto-generated null-quality videos.
Re:Myths about how the brain works on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:03AM (#26344074)
My son has total agenesis of corpus callosum and he is 100% asymptomatic. We discovered accidentally in the last ultrasound the doctor did and confirmed with magnetic resonance.

The brain is complex.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenesis_of_the_corpus_callosu...

Re:We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:47PM (#25825050)
A relative adopted a child and the social worker advised against international adoptions for this problem.

Eventually they adopted a 100% healthy local child after 5-6 years of legal nightmare as it's pretty complex navigate through all requirements plus wait your turn.

It happened in Russia, when KGB agents got access to the US embassy as firemen during an actual fire

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-01-mn-1029-s...

Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:34AM (#24626001)
I have a Samsung TV and the best decision I made was buying the Apple TV; right now I don’t care about the applications it has, the fact that Netflix has been removed for my model as it’s already 4 years old, etc. My next TV will be as dumb as possible as Smart-TVs are a pain in the ass and never as intelligent as an Apple TV or similar.
Re:Publicly available data under the GDPR on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:45AM (#22356393)
If you expose your information you’ll be spammed, and when the spammer is challenged he/she will reason that it was done under “legitimate interest”. The only way is closing the leak and avoid any of your personal information exposed on the internet.

History time: a shady company that organises conferences contacted me guessing my corporate email from information in Linked-in. When challenged they said “legitimate interest” and removed my information at the moment. I sent a formal complain to as much people as I could (they also exposed a lot of emails online) and left in some message boards information about this company so other people affected could understand easier where the information was leaked.

They contacted three months later with a different company name (same speakers, same program, same names everywhere, same web, different domain), I repeated the same procedure. Also my name in Linked-in has only my initials.