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TXCSweon Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

This is to put an end to Visa Electron and Mastercard's Maestro.

This cards are often given to underage (< 20 year) customers, to prevent them to overspend.

TXCSweon WebGL Water (2010)

Have you heard of KKrieger? So yeah, if you optimize enough, machines can do quite cool stuff!

TXCSweon Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map

How is it possible to view the future? I can select March 2025 in the date field, are you a fortune teller?

TXCSweon Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?

Just going on what vulnerbilities that have been found (and assigned a CVE number) is one thing. The real question should be, how big is the real number of vulnerbilities that have not been found yet.

TXCSweon Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)

One thing: Intel produces chips. Apple produces hardware with bundled software.

Apple doesn't design chips, they design functionality. Intel design chips that are as much flexible as possible.

TXCSweon Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?

I run Telegram on my desktop? Also i use WhatsApp on my iPhone.

TXCSweon Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can’t

Damn paywalls!