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by elric 1y ago
Are they, though? The people don't elect the European Commission. The European Council selects candidates and the European Parliament can vote for them. The people in the European Parliament are often politicians who no one knows but s
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by elric 1y ago
So, is internet freedom still a thing in any countries? And what's their immigration policy like?
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by elric 1y ago
And the EU is following suit. Brexit has never looked so stupid. They could have worked on expanding an authoritarian regime together. It's making me cynical, and I don't know what to do about it.
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by elric 1y ago
I'm getting pretty tired of the EU trying to shove internet-crippling regulations down my throat. This, along with ChatControl, is clearly a path towards totalitarian control. Who are the politicians making these decisions? How did the
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by elric 1y ago
I wish my bank had a setting I could toggle so 3DS would always trigger. I've had my card blocked twice because someone asshat made a bunch of online payments with it, some of which failed, but some succeeded. Presumably some shitty we
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by elric 1y ago
I had never heard of wero, despite living in Belgium and having been actively involved in fintech. Android also tells me that the app is not available in my country. Sounds like it's supposed to replace Payconiq (which is currently the
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by elric 1y ago
I've noticed that I'm getting fewer and fewer 2FA requests with my 3DSEcure enabled VISA card of late. Places I frequently order from no longer trigger 3DS. Sometimes new shops don't either. From what I understand, whether or
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by elric 1y ago
Not sure what OP is referring to either. I guess you could consider SWIFT to be an intermediary instead of a delivery mechanism? But even that doesn't add up to 6+.
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by elric 1y ago
All banks in Euro (currency) countries have adopted SEPA. You might be thinking of SEPA Instant Payments, which is more recent and adotopion isn't universal yet.
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by elric 1y ago
Interesting. I've never used rewrite rules conditionally, and if a rewritten request is your only defense you've probably got bigger problems.
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by elric 1y ago
Amazon and Google are stupid in that they don't accept SEPA payments, but that's an Amazon & Google issue and not a SEPA issue. Many of my subscription services (from webhosting to internet to recurring hospital bills) are don
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by elric 1y ago
Can someone elaborate on how this is a security issue?
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by elric 1y ago
Makes sense, and would explain why it's pretty much unheard of in my neck of the woods.
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by elric 1y ago
No one said it did. It is however very addictive, causing addicts to smoke/vape more, thus increasing the load of the other toxic and carcinogenic substances. Wikipedia does raise some concerning points about nicotine: > Although ni
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by elric 1y ago
I think we have different definitions of the term "air-gapped". Users still very much connect to it using a network. This just doesn't phone home (or elsewhere). A truly airgapped Jira-alternative would be somewhat impractica
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by elric 1y ago
Give it a few more years, vapes will boost those numbers again. I wish I was joking. But I'm not. I'm seeing 12 year olds with vapes quite regularly. They're so addicted, taking sneaky hits on the bus or on the train. Even wh
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by elric 1y ago
It always struck me as odd that radon in basements seems to be a big thing in North America, but is relatively un(der)reported of elsewhere. Is this just a matter of the US being too cautious? Is there perhaps more radon in basements over t
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by elric 1y ago
Configurable fonts are a thing? Never configured a font beyond size/weight/colour. Intetesting.
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by elric 1y ago
> Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono lacks programming ligature support. Good. That's a feature, not a bug. I want -> to render as a dash and a greater than sign. Not an arrow. I can't even articulate why, other than a deep seated d
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by elric 1y ago
> homogeneity and cutting costs Agreed that it's sad :-( In Belgium, most pubs (as in the physical buildings) are owned by one of three very large breweries. The rent is often steep, and there can be strict requirements on what drin
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by elric 1y ago
Also because the people aren't the ones doing the voting. I doubt most citizens even know who she is.
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by elric 1y ago
Who knows. But homogeneous thinking is bad. A bit of variation can spark innovation.
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by elric 1y ago
That doesn't strike me as being anywhere near as important as where the data is stored and who can access it.
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by elric 1y ago
I've spent quite a few years doing software dev for various governments, including the EU. Every time this was brought up, the engineers (including myself) who brought it up were pretty much laughed out of the room. Apparently the ques
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by elric 1y ago
That's a load of hogwash. Humans are only allowed to learn from books they buy or loan from libraries. We can't download books en masse from the interwebz just because we want to learn something. We're also not allowed to rea
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by elric 1y ago
The difference is obviously one of intent. LLMs are not being trained for personal use, they're being trained to be sold to the masses. Very few people download(ed?) movies or music with the intent to distribute it. They downloaded it
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by elric 1y ago
I was briefly hopeful that we'd see meaningful copyright reform in the EU back when the Pirate Party had its moment in the spotlight. But nothing happened. Now LLMs are stealing everyone's data, claiming be "fair use", g
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by elric 1y ago
That's more a CI issue than a build tool issue. Just about any (Java) build tool supports incremental compilation. But if your CI env doesn't have a place to cache those builds, it's not going to matter. And even then it coul
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by elric 1y ago
Who's talking about a day? The difference between a fast build tool and a slow tool is in the order of seconds, maybe minutes. Larger differences aren't down to the build tool but down to the codebase.
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by elric 1y ago
Having a bunch of people who might at some point generate a few valuable ideas doesn't sound like a bad strategy. Intel is (was?) huge, their market penetration is enormous. I think Bell Labs did something similar back in the way -- ma

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