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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Deutsche Bahn has a reputation even inside of Europe. It's not like this in other countries. Your country would have to be laughably corrupt if it couldn't build out a public transit system that beats DB.
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
> This article reads exactly like that. You weren't kidnapped. You were rerouted. Obviously. There's a joking undertone in those words. If they were serious, they would've called the police. DB has gained its reputation fo
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
As someone who doesn't do too much GUI programming on Linux, I find QML quite useful, actually. Small effects and simple state switches ("disable/hide this group of inputs when the user disables the 'advanced' check
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
When it comes to tourism, this problem will always happen if the tourists are coming from the side that's cutting off the other. Without an interface between European and American payment systems, Americans won't be able to pay in
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Not just Visa/Master Card. Banks themselves have been known to deny business accounts to sex workers because of whatever reason they can think of, forcing them to use personal bank accounts that then get them banned because of "bu
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
The EU very purposefully made this all about the Euro. While I'm sure the UK could join in theoretically, there's no political will on the EU's side to support non-Euro currencies in this new system. Countries like Denmark an
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
These apps require remote attestation which is almost always implemented through Google Play. In theory, if you get on the US' annoyance list (i.e. if you're involved in investigating Israel's genocide), Google could be made
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Credit cards often have them, but subject to stricter terms than their American counterparts. I don't think I've seen a European debit card that offers charge back. You can often get your money back in case of fraud or timely-repo
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Credit cards often can, though European banks I've used don't do them as willy-nilly as American banks. With debit cards, charge backs are practically impossible unless payments were done in a very specific way that does not direc
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
The application requires remote attestation, like any serious financial application handling money probably should, and unfortunately there are no alternatives to Apple or Google on this front at the moment. However, this payment system als
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
While this is true, I've seen plenty of bank-backed ads basically stating "please try paying by card even if it's a small amount, it doesn't cost you extra anymore", sending practically free money towards Mastercard
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
I don't believe the Indian system works based on cryptocurrency, so I don't think the same expectations can be held. The concept is hardly revolutionary within Europe, though. Back in 1996, the Dutch "ChipKnip" was intro
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
SSH has its own certificate authority system to validate users and servers. This is because trust-on-first-use is not scalable unless you just ignore the risk (at which point you may as well not do encryption at all), so host keys are signe
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Cloudflare offers more options to paid customers than to free customers, but with basic Cloudflare Rules you can usually configure your firewall and presents to your liking.
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
> The usefulness of these devices has apparently gone away, people do not seem to be interested by these devices anymore those days. While USB-C and DisplayPort have taken over most external displays these days, plenty of all-in-one USB
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
X has the terminology the other way around compared to all other consumer facing software. This is because of its mainframe style history and technically it does make sense, it's just that everybody else does things the other way aroun
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
> 1. [citation needed] Traffic-related death rate statistics for Denmark (being 7x lower than the US), Sweden, Norway, Japan. The US does remarkably bad on this statistic, even compared to Canada. > 2. Just because it's theoret
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
I've toyed with the idea of hooking up something like Copilot to Clippy to make an "agent" using the Microsoft Agents API. Unfortunately, the API died in Windows Vista, and was only widely available in Windows XP at the lates
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Scandinavian electricity won't fire my gas-based boiler, not will it light my stove. Power in general is doing just fine (though the oil countries are doing another squeeze to drive up the price again), but specific power sources quite
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
It's not more secure. It's as secure. MFA is more secure: you combine multiple factors of authentication. You could do password + passkey, password + TOTP token (assuming such tokens are not exportable either), password + biometri
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
> There was no such promise. The people who wish Passkeys to replace passwords did not demand it yet even. The specification states otherwise: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/ A credential private key is
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Europe is struggling with an energy crisis because of its sanctions against Russia. I'm sure those Iranian and Venezuelan oil fields willook awfully enticing after the Americans break down more and more American-European trade ties. Wh
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Imagine the response to the EU calling for Texas leaving the US via that weird defunct line in their constitution. Maybe breaking up the US would be a good idea. The blue states are funding the American government which is led by the people
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Road casualties are tied to geographical areas and America is an infamously dangerous place to live in when it comes to traffic. By fixing education, road design, and other factors, those 40k killed can be reduced by seven times before you
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
Sounds like their disaster recovery plan was insufficient, intensified traffic jams in already congested areas because of "backlog", and is now being fixed to support the current scale. The fact this backlog created issues indicat
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
English didn't have the word "orange" until relatively recently (1500s) either. That's despite the word brown (which is the same colour in a different context) going back millenia. Names change as language changes. It&#x
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
I don't think this is a security vs usability thing. A lot of UIs are intentionally confusing. Apple wants you to use iCloud passkeys, Microsoft wants you to use Microsoft Account passkeys, Google wants you to use Google passkeys. Even
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
There are plenty of websites and services already where you need to prove your identity to use them. The digital credentials API is an attempt to standardise that which is already legally required in the US, the UK, Australia, and the EU, e
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
I don't see where he is threatening anybody? He's just stating the obvious. If you promise to store a key in a non-exportable format and then create a big export button, websites won't trust your software. > What happens i
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by jeroenhd 10mo ago
I think it's more than fair to document that some implementations lie about their intentional violation of the spec, even if that violation is done to make the login process smoother. Still, I've never seen a website try to block

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