Yeah. The last two apartments I've been in have had leaks. I begged the landlord to open up the walls and dry them out. They just painted over it, so I moved out. Sadly, that means two other people now in apartments can never figure out why their place smells musty and they feel a bit congested all the time.

IANAL.

Article 15 says you have the right to request the data and they must provide it to you.

Article 20 says you have the right to get your photos back in a machine readable format.

Sadly, this only applies to those in the EU. Americans can keep taking it, which makes sense as it's an American company that's giving it. Sigh.

Minnesota and some other states have similar laws that basically mirror GDPR. States have forms you can get that you would submit to the company. I’ve done it for my Matterport data after they started making you pay to unarchive content (originally free)

Honestly I would just try doing a GDPR request and see what happens. They first have to find out if you’re from the EU, and they probably will err on the side of caution and just fulfill it.

> They first have to find out if you’re from the EU

Technically, you don't have to be from the EU. You just need to be in the EU (which includes Americans who are just vacationing in the EU).

Actually when reading up more on it, it looks like you don’t have to be in the EU at all.

If I understand it correctly, the GDPR applies to any company that does business in the EU and it doesn’t even matter where the data subject is located or which country they are a citizen in. So even if you’re from the US, you should be able to make a valid GDPR request.

Ho Lee Shit.

Nah. I have hosted my domain for 17 years on google and then fastmail. The hosting is harder than private relay, although not too hard.

But I have only had maybe 3 services ever reject my domain, and those were because the domain contains a number.

I've had some reject my e-mail address because it contains their company name. REI was one (ie it wouldn't allow rei@domain.com but would accept reicoop@domain.com)

I had my account marked as suspicious and closed in a financial institution for this a few years ago. They were concerned I was a bad actor attempting to impersonate an employee. It was very annoying, because no one from customer support could talk to me directly, it had to flow through legal. Very stupid.

I have since stopped doing this out of fear that it will actually cause me more headaches with people/systems that don't understand how email works.

I was just able to create an account using `rei@<mydomain>` on rei.com w/o any issues. Now, figuring out how to delete the account is another matter entirely...

Cool, they probably changed it, this was years ago. I've had similar issues with other companies, REI is just the only one I can I really recall right now.

I haven't had an outright rejection, but definitely a few odd moments with call center agents. "theircompanyname@myname.com" is definitely not the default expectation :)

Should have registered as rei-are-incompetent-idiots@ instead…

Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.

Blocking signups from proton.me is not the same thing as only allowing signups from the big mail providers.

Great, so all I need to do is to authoritatively check each plausible combination of domains that _might_ work and rule each of them out before I can make my claim, according to you?

What a load of pedantry.

I like per recipient emails, but I worried how I would know I authorized that sender to send to lonely chicken. The original site could have been compromised.

That's why I bought my email domain and use <domain_name>@hnrobert42.com. It helps to use a password manager.

I get a lot of convincing emails to linkedin@hnrobert42.com. As well as zynga, wework, etc.

I do something similar with prepend.com and find it helpful for sorting. Also fun to see which domains sell my email and which dont (blacksocks.com hasn’t show up from anyone else in 20 years).

> That's why I bought my email domain and use <domain_name>@hnrobert42.com. It helps to use a password manager.

Whenever there’s this discussion on HN, someone usually points out that can sometimes be a bother, especially when giving out the email in person, because people don’t really understand how email addresses works and ask “how did you get that email” or think you’re impersonating the service, or something similar.

I guess a solution might be to add the details sneakily. E.g. instead of linkedin@hnrobert42.com, saying robert_lkdn@hnrobert42.com

And some sites seem to have it not work. I suspect there’s lazy programmers with hardcoded test cases.

But that’s like 1:100 or so. And usually I’m entering my address to a robot so it’s not an issue.

I've done alice@myname.com, bob@myname.com, etc. I don't keep track of them carefully so I may pick the same name for two different sites.

It also makes it easier to pass off a fake realname! Hi I'm John Smith, jsmith@oneofmydomains-nottooobvious.com...

You can even pick a domain sound like a legitimate mail service or company, e.g. jsmith@jgs-consulting.com.or jsmith@liberty-mail.io

All domains and addresses in this comment are fictitious - overlap with real domains is coincidental.

The weird looks when I tell a shop my e-mail is "name plus sign shopname AT mydomain dot com"

I use +, so username+domainname@email-vendor.com

Which is in the RFC, but yet the sheer amount of times I sign up for something. Like a bank, or a financial firm, get the confirmation e-mail, and then click "Verify your address"

And get HTTP500 as their SQL has kicked up a stink

(The RFC also allows for (recursive (comments, so there's probably a middle ground between insanely overengineered specifications and a )))regex( someone found on a PHP forum somewhere (and yes this post is a valid email address (assuming there is a local regex account (or alias)))

My god this guy needs a non-technical cofounder.

He has one: https://www.crowdsupply.com/people/alexsoto

Wenting's YouTube channel is all technical demos of display hacking, and this is the only where he's selling what he worked on.

Neither of them are using YouTube to advertise.

Oh cool!

I didn't mean the YT wasn't good content. The video fascinated me, and I watched the whole thing.

I meant he is a brilliant engineer doing what brilliant engineers do. He improves things.

I get that the hardware development lifecycle differs from the SDLC. I am out of my depth. But it seems he needs his business partner to say, "Good enough. Ship. Test product market fit. Iterate."

I read the Wheel of Time series. It's all I read. It took about 18 months. It's great, though. I'm sad it's over, and I'm going to miss the characters.

I wonder if the article will get translated and spammed to authorities in his locality.

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

If it doesn't support GP's position, it doesn't count.