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by trashb 5mo ago
There is a huge first movers advantage on infrastructure. Additionally until recently most political parties and people in the EU didn't see this as national security related infrastructure. That's why it was allowed to be privati
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by trashb 5mo ago
You use your bank card or contact less payment from your bank app. Optionally you scan or get send a payment request, and pay through Wero.
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by trashb 5mo ago
> non of the functionality that PayPal or other services give What functionality are you looking for exactly? I use paypal to transfer money to other accounts & pay for online shopping, possibly in other valuta. In my opinion Wero (e
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by trashb 5mo ago
As I understand it Google earth and Google maps are two separate products. And Google earth is the more premium product (more data and features accessable), therefore perhaps the licenses are separately negotiated?
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by trashb 5mo ago
Google is not flying over the area itself right? perhaps they where using source maps with some sort of license agreement and the license expired, or there was a dispute. It seems to me that it is in the favor of Google to gather the most u
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by trashb 5mo ago
it's not really on topic but it seems the author has an account here as well. I really like this website's design. It is functional and easy to parse, more websites should be like this.
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by trashb 5mo ago
I agree, especially very "pythonic" structures if overly shortened are hard to decipher especially if you don't use or read python on a regular basis. Often times when I am reading a medium or advanced python codebase I need
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by trashb 5mo ago
> "It's got electrolytes" But Brawndo's got what plants crave.
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by trashb 5mo ago
Remember that a lot of men in the 18-30 range have been using lootbox mechanics in games since their teens. Or at least similar game mechanics where you are rewarded for taking a risk or loyalty with a random reward (loot tables, daily logi
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by trashb 5mo ago
Actually the GDPR definition of personal data is very wide, a bit to wide in my opinion (one of the reasons GDPR is not always taken serious) but that is a different topic. IANAL but the way I read it is that any data that can be linked wit
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by trashb 5mo ago
I also like to press "surprise me..." on https://wiby.me/ There is a lot of fun stuff still there, but a corporate search engine might not point you to it.
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by trashb 5mo ago
Not surprised this is LinkedIn. Great that someone is taking action! It seems more often then not the GDPR is not taken serious and is violated without repercussions. This is a great case because the data ends up public facing. Sadly a lot
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by trashb 5mo ago
SIM cards are Oracle Java Card. There are companies offering services and SIM (java card) applets for card management and other functions. Also, there are opensource applets. https://github.com/crocs-muni/javacard-curat
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by trashb 5mo ago
I did read the article and that was a direct quote from the section "From GHES to GitHub.com". The parent comment was talking about the "GitHub Enterprise Cloud" not "GitHub Enterprise Server" which are two dis
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by trashb 5mo ago
Aside from screen readers are the input methods and hotkeys those are often not consistent or unchangeable in modern tools. However I guess that is not only applicable to TUIs. For example ctrl+arrow to jump over words is not very consisten
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by trashb 5mo ago
Security is the lock on the safe. Obscurity is the information you need to find the safe. All security can eventually be broken, given enough time, this is why A very useful measure for the security of a lock is how long it takes to break.
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by trashb 5mo ago
I feel like "Don't be captured" should be included, perhaps between 4 and 5. In cybersecurity this would be applicable to ransomware.
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by trashb 5mo ago
> this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed. I am curious: Can you opt-out with the device not con
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by trashb 5mo ago
all appliances used to come with schematics and repair manuals, there was no prevention of modification or repair. We're talking cars, washing machines, dryers, radios etc. Separate from computers and phones locking down devices is a m
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by trashb 5mo ago
I think historically it has existed like this due to regulation regarding radio sending equipment and the integration between the platform (CPU) and modem in phones. Due to this the equipment manufacturers where never incentivized to have a
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by trashb 5mo ago
Google approval policy may prevent that now or retroactively.
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by trashb 5mo ago
Adjusting the spark timing is more a right to repair issue. If you replace the screen of your phone with one of a working phone do you expect it to work or do you need the approval from a licensed apple technician? A taxi is still a car but
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by trashb 5mo ago
No worries Thomas Dohmke has you covered with his new project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712656
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by trashb 5mo ago
> X-Stat header that controls whether the server operates in enterprise mode. Perhaps this header mentioned in the article is related, maybe that's the toggle for the enterprise mode? Seems there is at least traces of "enterpri
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by trashb 6mo ago
When reinventing markdown turns into recreating roff. I feel like a lot of people don't know about the power of the roff suites and that it is installed by default on a lot of systems. > Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point
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by trashb 6mo ago
SDF is cool, I commend their efforts of keeping a pub unix going! To me it feels like a stronghold of the "old school" web, similar to certain builtin board systems. I regularly visit and enjoy reading the phlogs of their members
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by trashb 6mo ago
Indeed, more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability... It seems Meta is able to set some rules about the interoperability making it very difficult for an FOSS implementation to e
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by trashb 6mo ago
Since recently Meta offers this as per European Union mandate (Digital Markets Act, DMA). For both Whatsapp and Facebook messaging. [0] Now there are a lot of implementation requirements, basically forcing you to have some kind of messaging
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by trashb 6mo ago
There may be situations where the git defaults aren't ideal. I found that for the special scenario of game development git-lfs did the job quite well for me. > Git still doesn't work well with non-text data Seems like you are e
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by trashb 6mo ago
Location data should be opt in on capture, a checkbox deep in the settings: "capture location meta data" would be sufficient, or a button similar to the flash. Strange UI that they are involuntarily capturing but then removing it.

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