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 At some point i had to stop and ask myself, "What are the fundamental factors i **must** account for, and something i absolutely **can't** ignore?". "Let's see... This being for the web means html, maybe some CSS, JS if i can. Then there's the http protocol itself of course!". "That means URL, status code, headers and the response body!". 
 
-OOP is probably necessary whenever there are large teams and stakeholders involved, because you can reason about the code more effectively. However, at the beginning of any project you may not be aware of all unknown factors to account for. To model something you don't know much about yet, is just a waste of time in my opinion. Just because you aren't practicing OOP for a particular project, doesn't mean it has to become a "mess of spaghetti", you still have to account for aspects such as security, performance or validation. 
+I realize OOP is probably necessary whenever there are large teams and stakeholders involved, because you can reason about the code more effectively. However, at the beginning of any project you may not be aware of all unknown factors to account for. To model something you don't know much about yet, is just the wrong way to go about it, in my opinion. Just because you aren't practicing OOP for a particular project, doesn't mean it has to become an unstructured mess of "spaghetti code" , you still have to account for aspects such as security, performance or validation. 
 
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-Ed Zitron on the same topic of "Enshittification".
-## Social Media vs
+Ed Zitron on the same topic of "Enshittification" of tech products.
+## Big Tech vs Individual Rights
 
 At the beginning of the year, i had just closed my meta account(s) after several years on that platform. That was followed by the X/Twitter account just recently. The story of Twitter is quite bizarre, and goes to show how something popular doesn't have to last forever, entropic decay finally catches up, sooner or later.
 
 What was Twitter in the end? Was there any value to it at all, or was it just people competing with one another on how to beat the algorithm so they could get their views, clicks and fame? That's one way of looking at it i suppose. 
 
 Can't say i miss those platforms anyway. I am very aware and understand that it can be hard to get out when all the people you care about are still left behind. I'm thinking of what i might do in 2025 to try and change that. I think what is missing right now are alternatives. Maybe they exist, we just haven't found them yet. Perhaps we should ask ourselves another question "What are you ready to give up in order to join X?". "What are the underlying motives of the person/people running Y?".
 
-Many people outside the US perhaps are not aware of [Tristan Harris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris). He used to work for ZuckBook and has given testimony in congress on the dangers and harms of social media. In the EU (which isn't a country btw), the GDPR dropped like a bomb on May 25th 2018 and companies and organizations had to adjust to the regulations werther they liked to or not. 
+Many people outside the US perhaps are not aware of [Tristan Harris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris). He used to work for Zuckbook (Meta/Facebook) and has given testimony in congress on the dangers and harms of social media. In the EU (which isn't a country btw), the GDPR dropped like a bomb on May 25th 2018[^1] and companies and organizations had to adjust to the regulations whether they liked to or not. 
 
-Another person that has made a huge impact is Max Schrems (founder of [noyb](https://noyb.eu/)). He is an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist. He has had several dusts with Meta/Facebook over the years. A few years ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Facebook/Meta responsible for violating the privacy of European citizens, in a case involving data transfer from the EU to US. (did i understand this case correctly?)
+Another person that has made an impact is Max Schrems (founder of [noyb](https://noyb.eu/)). He is an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist. He has had several dusts with Meta/Facebook over the years. A few years ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Facebook/Meta responsible for violating the privacy of European citizens, in a case involving data transfer from the EU to US. (did i understand this case correctly?)
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+[^1] “The regulation entered into force on 24 May 2016 and applies since 25 May 2018.” [Legal framework of EU data protection](https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/legal-framework-eu-data-protection_en).