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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Is the science fair looking for DIY projects or experiments? If experiments, as I suspect most science fairs are, what is the experiment? What is the hypothesis?

    Next, let me tell you a little story about my buddy taking his Significant Other on a camping trip. He was experienced and all about it, SO grew up in a city with no yard and thinks the outdoors is unnecessary. Cue a backcountry trip with rain, raccoons getting into the food, colder temps than expected, and SO will now never give Buddy’s favorite hobby another shot. It is ruined for SO forever. If you are trying to get a young person interested in STEM stuff, don’t be like Buddy. Introduce them via a light-duty, fun, heavily vetted project you know you can be successful at. Doubly so when there is a deadline for success imposed by the science fair.

    There are companies online that sell Line Follower Robot kits. If building a LF robot meets the intent of the science fair, consider one of those kits instead of attempting to design it from scratch.

    1. kiddo is introduced to age-appropriate skills and concepts

    2. everybody knows an adult helped her, she’s getting no boost from a complex self-invented thing that she obviously didn’t do herself




  • Vanth@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlTo Privacy Advocates!
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    When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

    Are we assuming personal data includes anything uploaded to the cloud? Like the .svg files? Because that is likely not personal data, at least it’s not all personal data by default.

    Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual (data subject). Different pieces of information, which together can lead to the identification of a particular person, may also be considered personal data.

    Source: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-explained_en

    So I would think what details are associated with one’s account, and what sort of encryption and control of the .SVG files plays a part.

    As for what you can do if you think your rights under GDPR haven’t been respected, you can boycott them or file a complaint or file a legal action.

    IMO, unless you could show your data specifically was mismanaged and exposed to someone who should not have had it, I would be skeptical of the success of any lawsuit. Obligatory, not a lawyer.
















  • Meh. I don’t care. I’m a mechanical engineer by education. While I’ve used it in many jobs, none in a way that requires certification.

    In the US, certification is needed in civil engineering and only small subsets of mechanical and electrical engineering. I’ve worked with many engineers who don’t even have a university degree in engineering. I’m not precious about other people calling themselves engineers.

    Except for that stretch of time when hotels were trying to hire janitors as “custodial engineers” and offering like $10/hr. Eff that noise. That made an already deteriorating job search experience on LinkedIn worthless.


  • Some people need accommodations at work. Like a nursing parent needs space for pumping and a fridge to keep the milk. Accessible bathrooms for people with mobility issues. I work near someone who has an umbrella looking thing over her workstation because the fluorescent lights give her migraines. Some need time flexibility to address medical issues, or perhaps the medical issues of child or aging parent.

    All these would require having some sort of conversation with your employer. During a job interview is not the time to do it. You need to check with your country and local laws to know your employee rights. You want to ask for accommodations in such a way that doesn’t put you at risk of getting fired or never hired to begin with.