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11mariom

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11mariom··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
Some of the mentioned projects started outside Meta and probably we'd get them anyway without them. Maybe later, maybe in different shape.
11mariom··on Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year
They do not care about 'secure' part at all.
11mariom··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
And that's the irony for me - adds another package over package, but it probably complies with documents, I hope they are filled in paper.

I get the idea behind the law. Not once I was surprised how many waste is in packaging and badly packaged goods (not only shipped, but even available in local shop). But this regulation changes nothing, just adds layer of paperwork and broke international shipping (many non-eu stopped selling to eu - I hope it's temporary only…).

11mariom··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
"Degraded availability" is just marketing bs for saying it was not working at all ;)
11mariom··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
I don't want anyone to solving this.

This is problem generated by govt, and they just want to solve it with "children safety" as excuse. This is parents problem, not my problem.

11mariom··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I tend not to use websites that forces me to use their app. If users want it - make it existing, but DO NOT force other users to install your app if they want to just use the mobile web experience.
11mariom··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Glad I have slightly older car where 'adaptive cruise control' means keeping distance from car in front of me. Nothing more.

Sometimes I watch some reviews of newer cars, and numbers of beeping, comms on central screen, etc is just… overwhelming me. Watching video. Cannot imagine driving in that conditions.

11mariom··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
But for chat control the problem never existed in the first place.
11mariom··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
I have similar board, from same producer - BananaPi BPI-R3 Mini.

Got cheaper version without case - designed simple box with cutouts and 3d printed it out.

I can say it works flawlessly. I'm very happy about it. Previously I was using openwrt on different consumer-grade routers and I always had some issues, even when selecting supported devices.

11mariom··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
> Wasn't this rejected not so long ago?

And that's the issue with all bad laws. They have to approve it once. We have to fight against indefinitely…

11mariom··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Couldn't agree more. There will be marketing trend for authenticity and real interactions. At least I hope so.

Personally I am at the moment that when I even slightly feel something may be AI output… I just stop reading. Sometimes it's just false positive, but there are some senstences / styling so ai-looking that I'm just tired off, even if its written by human.

In comments I see a lot about chatbots… Yep, it's just the worst of the worst. Most (all?) are just not helpful at all. Spinning around same things, but never ones you'd need. Sometimes I just feel they're programmed in a way to exhaust me to ditch and ignore the problem I had.

11mariom··on The worst job interview I ever had
+1. My worst experience was tech interview for TL… with current two most senior persons in team, with no-one else supervising the process. That couldn't go well.
11mariom··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Not the same extent like it was before… Now most of the times is just slowed down traffic (quick glance who's in car and move on), and more than that I was maybe stopped two times for quick chit-chat (where/why I'm heading). And I crossed, multiple times, borders of DK (they had checks since 2018?), DE, A, IT, CH, CZ…

Quick ID check happened once - when I was traveling with bus across border.

Back in a days it was a lot, lot slower and more detailed.

11mariom··on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
I'm not reading comments to like them. I want to know other points of view, learn something, get bigger context, etc. AI opinion is worthless. If I'd like AI opinion I will simply ask chat/gemini/whatever other LLM myself.
11mariom··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
> Can the site owner and the government collude to track you? Yes they can! Government can track all salts for your tokens, site can collect all salts, they can compare notes. There are so called policy mitigations currently: audits and requirements for governments to remove salts from memory the moment stuff is issued.

It's not zero knowledge for me then. Also - if there is ANY possibility to track anyone. And/or centrally mark someone "nonverified" then it makes more problems than solves.

Even if I trust my govt (no way), even if it'd be fully ZK with no way to track anyone… still govt would have a way to just block some individual "because".

And the best part… Age verification will not solve "children problem". I think it's parents problem to take care of their children, AV will be pretty easy to bypass - kid will just borrow ID for a moment and… voila! Govts (or some people) are creating problem and solution that do not exists.

I do not like way internet went, I do not like more way it's headed now.

11mariom··on European Tech Alternatives
> I feel sad for the 20-year-old me who really believed in the declaration of the independence of cyberspace.

I would say it was… until everybody is connected to the internet all the time. I would love to get back to the internet from… around 2010? Something like that. IRC was still a thing (made a lot of friends there, many of them I know in person now), forums was still live, blogs were still worth to read and write (nowadays I see like most of ppl moved to fb/ln/x to post…).

When it got "crowded" it's stopped being government independent. Back in a day everyone was (pseudo)anonymous, and here - we're thinking about age restrictions, socials requesting ID/face scans… I do not like the ways it's moving.

11mariom··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
> Electric cars are required by law to emit sound via a speaker for safety. Usually the sound is unique and somewhat electronic in nature.

And this is absolutely… bad. I mean requiring is good, but almost all of the execution of it is awfully bad.

It can be personal - but Hz of that sounds just makes me boil inside. That's how badly I'm receiving it. Almost no other sounds I hear on daily basis makes me uncomfortable.

And another issue - when somebody is parking the sound goes on, off, on, off, and that all the time until person is happy how car is parked. Couldn't it just make that sound all the time? Would be easier to get used to it. Same way it works with PC fans - there is no benefit to keep it as lowest as possible at all times, the trick is to keep it spinning fast enough to avoid as many changes of speed as possible - keeping the noise constant and easier to live with.

11mariom··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
I have other way around ;)

In Poland our original productions have so badly mixed sound that in almost none series in my native language I cannot understand without captions.

But the upside of it is - with English being my second language - I understand most of movies/series I watched.

11mariom··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
> Fuses are not items that should be replaced normally - they are self-destroying emergency protections for the electrical system.

Next time when the fuse switch in my home I'll buy new home. I shouldn't normally switch on auto-fuse again!

Fuse blows, so you know something went wrong, you check corresponding part, fix it, and enable/change fuse. Nothing special. In home perspective - it could be plugging too many energy needy receivers into one outlet.

11mariom··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
I just don't want white (or any other color) van. Let's say - I have some idea for s10 in my head to make it interesting. No way to make Traffic or other Partner interesting car. It'll just look like DHL services in the end anyway.

I want it with all the pros and cons, just to try it.

11mariom··on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
> - uses the familiar Docker Compose spec, no new DSL to learn

But this goes with assumption that one already know docker compose spec. For exact same reason I'm in love for `podman kube play` to just use k8s manifests to quickly test run on local machine - and not bother with some "legacy" compose.

(I never liked Docker Inc. so I never learned THEIR tooling, it's not needed to build/run containers)

11mariom··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
> Modern US trucks are an absolute atrocity

This.

I'm living in EU, thinking about getting some pickup. Just want to try this kind of vehicle (and I would love to transport my motorcycle, building materials etc). But I want something small - it looks like almost non-existent market here (there are cars like older f150, s10, etc - but very, very limited offers). Everyone gets the big modern trucks, that are unusable in our tight spaces.

11mariom··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
As a senior I'm doing tech part of interviews sometimes. If there is a link to blog/gh/whatever in CV - I always check it. I may not say anything during interview, but I'm looking there.

But… having (not so often updated) blog myself - I will try to change my behavior in future and mention it somehow during interview ;)

11mariom··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
Security by obscurity. That's my device, that's my decision to install whatever I want.

I see here and there some comments about someone was scammed, etc… Lack of knowledge of users is not a good reason. They still will get scammed, in a different way, but outcome will be the same.

On PC one can install whatever want - and nobody is blaming OS for it.

11mariom··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
First problem is - they never should have such data. Why you are sending them IDs?
11mariom··on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
In my country then they say it was "massive hate speech"…
11mariom··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
> I can buy the military exemption

While I understand it… there is no need for any exemption if the bad, stupid law will not be in place at all ;)

11mariom··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
The sad part - we have to win every time. And they'll try again and again… And one win of gov side is enough…

And the worst part - EU is so democratic that we even do not elect most of the people.

11mariom··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
> I've posted this as a response but I'll post it again since it seems like a lot of people are confused about the project

Even if it is ZKP still… whole idea is just bad. I mean whole age-veryfication done by gov is bad.

And forcing one to use smartphone is even worse.

11mariom··on GNU Midnight Commander
Same feeling… but. For me fastest and easiest way to manage files are coreutils (sometimes with help of rsync/zmv/zcp). And that way I always have exactly same toolset no mather where I am logged in (local pc, server, router, etc).

I'm using GUI File Manager only for multimedia (photos, movies, pdf files).

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