Thomas Klein

Husband, father of 2, DIY home improver, software QA and scrum guy, Fedora linux user, cats and dogs. From Brühl/NRW/DE but European by nature. Eternally in love with Normandie mon amour.

pronouns: he/him
languages: DE, EN, FR
stack: [#Fedora](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fedora ), [#VivaldiBrowser](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/VivaldiBrowser ), [#NextCloud](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NextCloud ), [#Python](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Python ), [#OpenSource](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OpenSource ), [#kodi](https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/kodi )

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2026-01-20 13:12:54 UTC

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You're around the area of Málaga perhaps? If so, 9 out of 10 non-Spaniards are Britons, of which 2 are tourists, 4 are retired ex-cops, 2 are retired ex-criminals and 1 is a criminal hiding from UK police.
(If I remember the line from a Brit TV crime series correctly)

2025-05-10 18:15:51 UTC

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Or, take a weekend nap on the desk, making it impossible to work for hoomans, like Titus does.
Happy #Caturday
#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats
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2024-10-13 08:46:30 UTC

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Worth mentioning that theire iconic glasses (yep, that well known design is theirs) are also famous because of the special treatment during melting and forming which makes Duralex glasses almost unbreakable in common situations (dropping a glass from the tabletop will leave you with stains from the contained liquid but not with shards from the glass)

2024-10-02 09:07:31 UTC

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My gut feeling is that anything, which is collected from my side, whether PII or not, protected or not, should only take place after I get a message on first run, asking me if it's okay to collect usage data. Including a brief list of what data is collected, whether it's anonimized, pseudomized, etc and allow me to say "no".
Anything collected before I have any chance of opt-in or opt-out to me sounds like "we proactively have already started collecting data. If you don't want this to go on, you can switch it off in settings" and leaves a smell of privacy pooh on my desktop.
In other words: It's a dishonest behaviour to me if I am NOT aware of things going on before things start to happen.

2024-09-28 15:55:42 UTC

Caturdays be like... this.
Enjoy your weekend, everyone, cheers!
#caturday #catsofmastodon #mastocats
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2024-09-27 13:14:12 UTC

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Yes, but there's a saying here in Germany which goes "Every day, a new stupid awakes", meaning there will always be enough people who didn't know about the past.

2024-09-27 13:07:34 UTC

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But of course it will work. Like it always did. 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-03 15:39:15 UTC

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And just like with all other human rights, you will find governments which simply don't give a f*** about it.