Under the GDPR, employers in the EU can only monitor employees’ work emails if it is necessary, proportionate, and serves a legitimate purpose, such as ensuring compliance or security. Employees must be informed about the monitoring in advance, and clear policies should be in place to respect transparency and consent requirements. Any monitoring must also balance the employer’s business interests with the employees’ right to privacy, ensuring minimal intrusion. Some countries like Germany have really strict interpretations of how to apply the GDPR here.

I usually eat a simple Porridge, but if I want to make something fancy on a weekend I make pancakes for my family.

Yeah but people are highly aware of it and there is even a disclaimer in Email Signatures that everything is tracked. If you are dealing with government ministries in European countries some of the (unofficial) information exchange is done without written record, either at in-person conferences or even through non-work phones.

Highly illegal in the EU. Also highly stupid everywhere else. The big question is “How secure is your user espionage system and can an outsider get acces?”. The data from something like this is a social engineering goldmine.

So this school was built on an ancient Pleistocene burial ground. I know that trope well enough to know what happened next

In this scenario Lenin does not manage to take over Russia and the warning to the world by the real life examples of Germany and Italy about the dangers of fashism does not happen either. Authoritarianism raises its ugly head later in a world with better weapons and more destructive potential for humanity.

Shaka when the walls fell

Hey, the kidney fairy gives you a bath tub full of ice for your kidneys

I did read about Linux on the internet. But i wasn’t crazy enough to download something as gigantic as a Linux distribution with my limited DSL connection in the early 2000s. So I did go to my local Mediamarkt (German electronics store chain) and bought a copy of Suse Linux 6.4 which had a bunch of CDs that i used to install my first Linux system. The first time I installed linux from the internet was around the time Ubuntu was already big (I think i installed Breezy Badger then)

You could also you any jarring combination of colours, fonts, gifs, marquee tags, and anything that you desired with your geocities sites. There was no tyranny of design principles or minimal corporate webdesign.

I was in the Delta this year. It’s really beautiful. Had a nice little boat tour ans saw a lot of birds. The Saint George arm (that is completely in Romania) is still mostly safe but aquatic mines were already spotted near the very end at Suliman, so we obviously did not go there. The captain of my boat told me that in earlier phases of the war you could see the russian drones attacking the Ismail grain terminal on the Ukrainian side from Tulcea.

Despite the really bad reviews by the famous Roman poet Ovid, who was banned to Constanta, it is a really nice city.

Aren’t there hundreds of independent fritures (small places that serve traditional Belgian fries)?

There are ads I deliberately searched for like the fun viral music videos by Berlin public transit authorities. There’s even adds I physically ordered per mail. My home state in Germany had an ad-campaign where they printed stickers with “Nice here! But were you ever in Bade -Wurrtemberg?” that you could get per mail. Vandalism got these stickers everywhere and there was even a subreddit about spotting these in weird and faraway places. I also did paste a few in interesting places.

Who was also really great! He was the man your man could smell like.

A fully original Margherita from a simple small pizzeria in a less touristy part of Naples. That’s hard to beat (and usually really cheap for the quality you get)

Not very unusual, but also not super common: Emmental and strawberry jam bread rolls.

Bunny carrot-mobile. Dynamic and kawaii AF

Why shouldn’t it count?