I have not tried to post a new thread since that one. But I suspect it’s related to SDF being down and perhaps also without having a subscription¹ to the community of the offline host. There is perhaps some fragility with mbin in that scenario. SDF is back online now after 2 months of down time, so it might be hard to reproduce.

I would call this a relatively serious bug because it causes data loss. Luckily in my case I was just cross-posting from this original post, so no data loss. But if I had composed a high-effort post, all the work would have been thrown away. That link still today gives a 404.

① note that I was not subscribed to opendata@lemmy.sdf.org at the time of the incident. But I just now subscribed.

Chris@feddit.uk - not sure if you will see this. I saw your reply but only when not viewing via fedia.io -- which means I cannot reply to you directly.

I appreciate the link. But I must say, that list shows only 18 stations in Brussels, when there is more like 75. I can only find partial lists of stations in Brussels. Which is bizarre, because I would expect radio broadcast to be tightly regulated and for the gov to be aware of all stations, which I would expect them to be required to share with the public.

Wow, what utopian government is that?

The shitshow with online gov docs in recent decades is they have been converted to apps¹, and they are structured as multi-page interviews. If you do not supply your name, email address, etc on the first page, you cannot even see the rest of the “document”. So you don’t even get to see what interrogation is coming without incrementally giving some data online.

The EU is an example. The have-your-say portal and the “Resolvit” mechanism have no offline forms. No static HTML or PDF form to print out. The Belgians even legally mandate form submissions that are sometimes exclusively online, and with a red asterisk next to the email field (meaning you cannot submit the form without providing an email address that enables all the data to traverse Microsoft’s servers).

With the EU, there are undocumented channels. You can ad-hoc write a freestyle letter, guess about what information is required, and then guess about what physical address to send it to. With various member states, sometimes the physical address is not even published. You have to read the legal statutes to find out what agency oversees the agency you need to contact, then submit an open data request to the oversight agency’s postal address, then wait a month for their response just to get the address -- if they respond at all. Sometimes they ignore these requests, then you have to complain to the ombudsman just to pressure the oversight agency just to disclose an address.

¹ Simple static HTML is a document. As soon as JavaScript is required, it’s no longer a document -- it’s an app that requires execution.

Interesting about the typo. That’s actually a software defect. My text had “19”, but Lemmy apparently decided I wanted a sequential itemised list. To force it, I had to make the 19 literal (using ticks), which now causes it to indent and become part of item 12.

(edit) found a better workaround: introduced a blank line.

Article 77 is just making this explicit: You complain where you are living (even cross country!), where you work or where the suspected violation took place. It doesn't say anything more.

Indeed I am exploiting that option. I have lost confidence in my country of residence. The EDPB reports show that most DPAs are understaffed and up to their necks in work. Germany was an exception. Germany has far more resources for GDPR complaints than most of Europe.

Because of this there is no standard form to fill out: it depends on the agency itself where you choose to enter your complaint.

So Germany does not have a nationwide form? Each of the 17 agencies have their own? I guess I have to work out which region I am dealing with first.

But before that, I need to know if the federal agency is who I am working with. The data controller referred me to the Federal agency, but that seems off.. from what I have read, the Federal agency is just a single point of contact for the EDPB. I see nothing about the fed handling GDPR complaints.

(edit) I found the relevent region. I think I’ll distrust the controller’s referral to the federal office and use the regional. Which has its own form.

thanks but it does not solve my problem. My internet is capped so i can’t do streaming.