Michael Wray
Don MartiInternet neologism: "Eurosona"
It's like a fursona, but for being European, so that companies respect GDPR, DMA, DSA, etc on your account (note: the first syllable sounds like the first syllable in "Euler")
Emma Builds 🚀@dmarti the rest of America learning what it's like to be used as a garbage dump by the rich.
Blake Leonard@dmarti It's a sad world we live in when we have to pretend to live in another country to have our basic rights respected.
It's even sadder that companies go OUT OF THEIR WAY to ONLY comply where they're absolutely legally required to, so that that's necessary.
eventually they realize that it's too much work and risk to offer first and second class policies, especially since the most valuable customers have the best ability to pick jurisdictions.
(MSFT has so many products, services, partners, dealers that they figured out early that it's easier to level up the policy everywhere than to try to handle all the corner cases: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/05/21/microsofts-commitment-to-gdpr-privacy-and-putting-customers-in-control-of-their-own-data/ )
Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and putting customers in control of their own data - Microsoft On the Issues
On Friday, May 25, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — better known as GDPR — officially takes effect. GDPR is an important step forward for privacy rights in Europe and around the world, and we’ve been enthusiastic supporters of GDPR since it was first proposed in 2012. It sets a strong standard for...
acb@dmarti Does one typically choose a typically European name, like Oisín, Grażyna or Rasmus, taking care to get any diacriticals right?
@acb I would say pick a cheese or other European delicacy you like, then read some literature from the same place and get ideas from character names (and yes, learn the compose key https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas/Linux_Compose_Key_Sequences.html )
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Jednička@dmarti if i only knew hat that fursona thing means
Cecilie 🧙♀️@dmarti "the first syllable sounds like the first syllable in Euler"
Oirosona?
@cvennevik Or I guess you could say it like "Européenne" or however it would come out in your favorite European language
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