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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
PANs are indeed going away and every transaction could already be tokenized, today. But then the US were 20 years behind on EMV, and SCA is still not a thing.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
The EU has banned plain SMS tokens for SCA. You need an OTP + PIN or password, or more likely authorize the transaction from a mobile app with biometrics.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
I work at a carrier in Switzerland, if I take the phone we push at the top of our inventory, the iPhone 17 Pro 256 GB: Phone: 1099 (Apple's MSRP). 24-month phone plan, 50/month the first year, then 81/month: 1572. Discount: -
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Carrier deals aren't comparable as they're subsidized by inflated phone plans. If you buy an iPhone on day 1 from the Apple store you're certainly not getting any gift or discount. With Google you can pre-order and get a $200
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Google just sucks at this. The Nexus and early Pixel eras have been a series of weirdly positioned and priced models year after year. Google didn't even bother trying to sell them in more than a handful countries. Then Google switched
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Most monadic effects aren't executing side effects.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
> Copilot revenue goes to 0 if GitHub burns to the ground. That's not remotely true. I doubt most Copilot Business/Enterprise subscribers care about GitHub at all.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
> 50M+ subs operator, at least 10 employees can have both location and CRM data, I guess it's pretty typical. This shouldn't be the case anywhere in Europe or regions with similar laws. And we have a lot less than 50M subscribe
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
So now the random ex-boyfriend has access to the same tools as 3 letter agencies, got it. If you live in a country where you cannot trust law enforcement then there isn't much your telco can do. But specifically, these surveillance too
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Built-in positioning of network traces is relatively recent in mobile network equipment and dedicated probes. If that happened more than 5-6 years ago, it would sound even less likely. Most telcos never bothered doing the processing needed
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
I'm specifically talking about the technical aspect. Even with non-existent separation of concerns, and abysmal practices related to data governance which would be breaking the law in most of the developed world, the story sounds like
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
As far as telcos go, I work at a pretty small one. We have fewer subscribers than say, a single Chinese operator would have in a second tier city.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Even in pretty dysfunctional countries, or pro-business ones like the US, where nothing like the GDPR exists, telcos management have a strong interest in not letting just any rank and file employee spy on subscribers.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
Absolutely not. I have access to geo-located network telemetry. CRM data is completely off limit to anyone on my team.
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
I'm sorry but this sounds like bullshit. As someone who has access to such data at a telco: - Very few people have legit business cases requiring access to enriched network telemetry, at least non aggregated. - Of which, only a handful
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by hocuspocus 5mo ago
It is vibe-coded by people from Vates, the company maintaining https://github.com/xcp-ng Their internal IT infrastructure runs self-hosted OSS wherever possible. I don't think cal.rs is a toy project, they know the per
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by hocuspocus 6mo ago
I think it's fine. GitHub Copilot is popular as ever, especially in companies that have enterprise tier subscriptions. Plans for personal use pretty good too, pricing is competitive. The VS Code integration and agentic features aren&#x
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by hocuspocus 6mo ago
It certainly doesn't help, but among big tech, Apple is not the only company where teams are siloed and independent. Microsoft has people writing Java or Go instead of C# too. I assume the server side usage is not zero, but not enough
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by hocuspocus 6mo ago
After that, and IBM losing interest, Apple did hire a few competent people (including contributors to Netty and Akka) to build the Swift Server Workgroup. But I don't know why I'd pick Swift on the server when Rust is better in al
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
So what's the issue then? You'd be able to bring other teams to current versions of Java and frameworks, which have all been using virtual threads for the past 3 years.
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
> Java 21 was just released and frameworks had no meaningful support for virtual threads whatsoever. Spring was ready on day 1, as virtual threads had been an experimental feature since Java 19. Spring Boot added support within a couple
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
Java LSP backends are basically headless Eclipse and NetBeans, they definitely go beyond syntactical errors. There's also the upcoming Metals v2 that's using another compiler frontend optimized for performance, Google Turbine: ht
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
Voting is definitely not a small domain in a direct democracy, and many Swiss citizens abroad don't receive paper ballots early enough to mail them back in time.
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
We vote 4 times a year and it's not always easy for Swiss citizens abroad to receive and mail ballots back in time.
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
You can run Scala on Android and it's been done but it never worked well nor was given priority. Which is understandable as the commercial entities behind Scala already struggle to build the ecosystem and tooling in spaces where the la
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
Not to the same extent. Scala.JS and Kotlin.JS are somewhat comparable, other targets not so much. There was no serious attempt at making Scala target mobile devices, even during the window of opportunity with Scala on Android.
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
> But somehow Kotlin managed to stay "not too complex", unlike Scala. It's not really true anymore, Kotlin has slowly absorbed most of the same features and ideas even though they're sometimes pretty half-baked, and i
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
I work at a tech-adjacent company with no middle management and no, it sucks even more. The work doesn't disappear, it simply gets divided and spread out over a lot more people, many of those with no real executive power. I don't
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
Most mid to high-end ranges from Android OEMs have a DisplayPort video output and basic keyboard plus mouse support. Pixels were late to the party, but it's been there for a long time otherwise. The functionality used to be really bare
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by hocuspocus 7mo ago
My mom has had several generations of Galaxy A5x and basic iPads, it makes absolutely no difference. She simply never installs any app. Some things are actually worse on the iOS side. It took years for Apple to catch up with spam and scam c

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