<p>Hey <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> — you already know about CalPrivacy’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) that will scrub your info from data brokers’ lists starting Aug. 1.</p><p><a href="https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>privacy.ca.gov/drop/</a></p><p>When submitting your request, some info is optional. For example, in addition to name, email, DOB… you can provide vehicle VINs and smartphone/TV tracking IDs.</p><p>It's all optional, but the more you provide, the more thorough the scrubbing! 🧼</p><p>HOWEVER, I was concerned: What if I provided ALL of this info, and then an unscrupulous data broker (hahaha, they are all unscrupulous) actually used all that info to link me to my devices and vehicles, when they had not yet previously. </p><p><a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> nightmare, right??</p><p>1/</p>
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<p><a href="/tags/californialaw/" rel="tag">#CaliforniaLaw</a> is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.</p><p><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac</span><span class="invisible">es/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043</span></a></p><p>They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.</p><p>But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> and <a href="/tags/ubuntu/" rel="tag">#Ubuntu</a> through <a href="/tags/arch/" rel="tag">#Arch</a> Linux and <a href="/tags/mobaxterm/" rel="tag">#MobaXTerm</a> to <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.</p><p>There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.</p><p><a href="/tags/midnightbsd/" rel="tag">#MidnightBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> <a href="/tags/uslaw/" rel="tag">#USLaw</a> <a href="/tags/ageverification/" rel="tag">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="/tags/gdpr/" rel="tag">#GDPR</a></p>
<p>We stop for wildflowers! And to “send” today’s flowers to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@Kleen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kleen</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@Weather_Rock_Wx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Weather_Rock_Wx</span></a></span>, with gratitude for their March 2 and March 5 donations—so helpful and appreciated! How to donate, plus FAQs: <a href="https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bikemonterey.org/about/financi</span><span class="invisible">al-donations</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/actonclimate/" rel="tag">#ActOnClimate</a> <a href="/tags/cycling/" rel="tag">#cycling</a> <a href="/tags/biking/" rel="tag">#biking</a> <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#transportation</a> <a href="/tags/activetransportation/" rel="tag">#ActiveTransportation</a> <a href="/tags/biketooter/" rel="tag">#BikeTooter</a> <a href="/tags/montereycounty/" rel="tag">#MontereyCounty</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> <a href="/tags/wildflowers/" rel="tag">#wildflowers</a> <a href="/tags/springflowers/" rel="tag">#SpringFlowers</a></p>
![Warrior's Plume or Pedicularis densiflora https://calscape.org/Pedicularis-densiflora-(Warrior's-Plume) [edited from "Indian paintbrush” — thanks Nancy and Kathleen!] growing along a Monterey County roadside.](/proxy/post_attachment/234418/9c00575b26.jpeg "Warrior's Plume or Pedicularis densiflora https://calscape.org/Pedicularis-densiflora-(Warrior's-Plume) [edited from \"Indian paintbrush” — thanks Nancy and Kathleen!] growing along a Monterey County roadside.")
![Our bicycle is momentarily parked at the side of a Monterey County roadside so we can get a closer look at the burgundy colored "Indian paintbrush” [sic] growing along the opposite side of the road. Thanks to Nancy and Kathleen, we now know it’s actually Warrior's Plume
Pedicularis densiflora https://calscape.org/Pedicularis-densiflora-(Warrior's-Plume). We learn something new every day! :)](/proxy/post_attachment/234419/03580b59a8.jpeg "Our bicycle is momentarily parked at the side of a Monterey County roadside so we can get a closer look at the burgundy colored \"Indian paintbrush” [sic] growing along the opposite side of the road. Thanks to Nancy and Kathleen, we now know it’s actually Warrior's Plume
Pedicularis densiflora https://calscape.org/Pedicularis-densiflora-(Warrior's-Plume). We learn something new every day! :)")
![Pink wildflowers—whose name we’re not remembering — growing along a Monterey County roadside. [Edit - We now know it’s “probably wood mint,” thanks to Nancy’s help.]](/proxy/post_attachment/234420/b55d4f1779.jpeg "Pink wildflowers—whose name we’re not remembering — growing along a Monterey County roadside. [Edit - We now know it’s “probably wood mint,” thanks to Nancy’s help.]")
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<p><a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> USA accounts to follow:</p><p>CALIFORNIA NEWS<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CALMatters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CALMatters</span></a></span> - Non-profit news org covering politics & policies in California<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@HeySoCal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HeySoCal</span></a></span> - Local news org in California, runs many local newspapers<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AfroLA" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AfroLA</span></a></span> - Los Angeles independent news site covering stories from Black community perspective<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://thesouthlander.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>index</span></a></span> - Investigative reporting co-operative in Los Angeles<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsletters.48hills.org/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>[email protected]</span></a></span> - San Francisco community news site<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@SFistNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SFistNews</span></a></span> - Local news for San Francisco<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@COYOTEMedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>COYOTEMedia</span></a></span> - Bay Area worker-owned news site</p><p>🧵 1/9</p>
Macroalgae on beach <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/beach/" rel="tag">#beach</a> <a href="/tags/algae/" rel="tag">#algae</a> <a href="/tags/sandiego/" rel="tag">#sandiego</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#california</a>
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