AnssiH

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by AnssiH 5y ago
> It's clear to everyone and their mothers that Amazon is abusing the process. Not to me. SpaceX certainly claims so, but they are hardly impartial and I'm not familiar enough with FCC regs to make that judgement myself.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Current private negative registries: - https://www.asiakastieto.fi/web/en/about-us/about-credit-dat... - https://www.dnb.com/fi-fi/tuotteet/bisnode-risk-guardian/ (Finnish only
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> You conclude that most EU countries have a credit score by linking to a Wikipedia article showing that almost none European country has a credit score? The Wikipedia article does not show that almost no European country has a credit
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Many (most?) EU countries have credit score systems and/or companies, and the details on how they work differ on a country-by-country basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score#By_country In some countries
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Similar for me, but I was using NVIDIA Shield TV before (now LG C9).
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Note that there isn't yet any concrete proposed legislation for mandatory screening, if there ever will be any - there's only the linked initiative requesting comments ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> (which is, if I understand correctly, how other cloud providers do this scanning, which they are required to do by law?) I don't think that is required by law - at least not in EU or US. There was already a lot of online outrage i
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by AnssiH 5y ago
I'm not the parent, but there is no such EU-wide regulation either, or if there is it is being commonly violated. Charging at order time is common at least in Finland. Many common payment methods do not support "delayed" char
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Same in Europe at least for VISA/MC, the parent probably used a non-card payment method.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
I believe they meant the fines were worse for Amazon than their parent made it sound, not that the fines itself were a bad thing.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Well, presumably in your country 2G and/or 3G still works. At least here in Finland, while 3G shutdowns are planned by most major carriers, 2G shutdown is probably at least a decade away - the 2G network has slightly better coverage in
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by AnssiH 5y ago
No idea about SDR, but you can receive them using standard DVB tuner cards/sticks. It is transmitted on its own PID in the MPEG transport stream (ETSI EN 300 472).
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Still active in Finland as well: YLE: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv MTV (not the American one): https://www.mtvtekstikanava.fi/ Some people use them via phone apps as they tend to be faster and cleaner
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Yes, that was there for me as well.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
I think that is just downdetector users incorrectly reporting Amazon retail website failures against "Amazon Web Services". They should probably name it "AWS" to avoid that.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
I assume it varies a lot by region. 0.12 EUR/kWh for me (Finland, inc. transmission and tax).
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Interesting. Mine has an even longer delay than 2s (3-4s?) so I always press the close-doors button which removes the delay, but it never occurred to me I could shave some additional milliseconds off by pressing the close-doors button befo
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by AnssiH 5y ago
I very much doubt that that kind of exemption will survive into the actual law. (If it even exists now, I haven't seen the actual draft)
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by AnssiH 5y ago
They didn't ban or plan to ban encryption, that was just a super misleading headline / article. It wasn't even a proposal or a draft, just research into what are possible options to fight child pornography online. And I'
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by AnssiH 5y ago
The legislation: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319... Press release: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210701IP... Summary from the abov
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> I have not been able to find anything about final legislation either It's here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319... Looks like it has a more restrictions and a reduced time pe
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by AnssiH 5y ago
They explicitly say on their seller help pages that comingled inventory can be tracked to the original source. https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/external/G2001414... > Note: Amazon ensures that th
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Well, looks like smart meters started appearing in US slightly later than e.g. here in Finland, around 2006-2007, so I'm not sure that explains the difference. Could be explained by lower mobile network coverage in U.S., I guess. US st
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by AnssiH 5y ago
In addition to what siblings said: taxi apps, parking apps, food delivery apps, package delivery apps are sometimes region locked. I'm not in Australia, though.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> Edit: I thought that a Google Pixel using Google SMS app with RCS and a Samsung galaxy using Samsung SMS app with RCS would be able to communicate over RCS. User 'hocuspocus claims this is, surprisingly, not the case: https:&#x2F
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by AnssiH 5y ago
Note that there are other AP location databases in addition to Google's, such as Apple's or https://wigle.net/ , the latter being publicly searchable.
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by AnssiH 5y ago
The way domestic services (both public and private) in Finland verify user's identity is via bank credentials (Finnish Trust Network), via Mobile ID (Mobiilivarmenne), or via government FINeID. All these involve multi-factor authentica
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by AnssiH 5y ago
The only EU threshold change affecting US businesses sending goods directly to EU customers is the removal of the 22 EUR low value consignment relief. Regardless of sales volume, such businesses were not obliged to file VAT in EU before and
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> To be fair, this is almost certainly an issue with whoever was selling the item on Amazon, rather than Amazon. This (soccer magazine case) does not seem like a 3rd-party seller issue. Third-party sellers only have a limited amount of t
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by AnssiH 5y ago
> Amazon throws away the receipts (it'd be a nightmare to handle so they just... don't). I'm not sure what you mean by this. Amazon does keep track on where a given unit came from so that it is traceable to the original so

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