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So how do your prove that you are you, and how robust is that against fraud?

I was under the impression that the UK had a really old fashioned and clunky consumer bank sector. But that is just hearsay, so I might be wrong.

The closest I've every been to a British bank, was getting a Curve credit card, where they wanted a picture of me and my passport. Which imo. Was hilarious and must be way to easy to forge.

I agree that the legislation need to be done properly, and be of high enough quality. But there is a lot of EU states, that have had these kind of systems for a long time, and would have experience with the pitfalls of this. If the EU manages to ruin eID in memberstates, with this legislation, that will probably enrage every citizens in countries that have them, let's hope the bureaucrats aren't that dumb.

Since the article was in the context of EU, I was commenting in the context of countries in it, or comparable to it. I'm sure you are right. A bad government will be able to turn anything, including something like this, into a bad thing.

I was not aware of this part. Not being able to disable CA seems like a weird thing to add. In practice how much difference will this make, the list of trusted CA in browser seems to already be a bit of a problem?

In any case what I want out of this legislation is that you can use an eID from country a in country b. That, that isn't possible is the main downside of the current setup.

I live in Norway, that is one of the many European countries that have a national eID system, and it's one of these things that might not make much sense if you haven't lived somewhere where its there. But if you've used to it. It's such a clear good thing, that being against it makes no sense.

I'll try to explain why it's such a positive, but it feels a bit like trying to explain why paying with cards is nice, to someone who had only used cash. So at the moment, I'm in the process of moving to a new bank, and will be moving my mortgage, getting new credit cards, and closing my old bank accounts. I'll be able to do all of that, without signing and faxing documents around, but instead doing all that signing with my eID, or BankID which the Norwegian variant is called. I can also use this id system to login to the health care system, look at my prescription, or any other government service that's on the internet. One simplified way of looking at these eID system is that they are a way prove that you are you, on the internet, that courts and the government believes in. That opens the door to services that just isn't possible without it.

I've never seen anything like that in any Norwegian newspaper, and I would expect some of them to try if they thought they could get away with it. But I don't think they would at least not if the retoric coming out of Datatilsynet is anything to go by.

How German newspaper get away with that I have no idea. But you can't expect the Norwegian government to handle German language newspapers. If spiegel.de had a Norwegian presence though. Then it would be reasonable for Norway to have a look at it.

I had a look at demonstration video for easi-breathe, I guess it might be useful for some people. But for me it looked most like a solution in search of a problem, and I would probably be livid if someone forced those one me.

You seem to be somewhat unhappy with the inhalers you are using, so something that you could look into is switching to ones that don't use propellant. I find that for me, they are nicer to use than the propellant ones. I initially switched for environmental concerns, but now I would be unhappy to switch back, even if they made a propellant one that was good for the environment.

Btw. anyone that wants to try without propellant and gets pushback, play the I care about the environment, and I want to try card. Most people will fold in the face of that argument.

I've been using Ventoline (the GSK brand name they use for Albuterol or Salbutamol depending on your location), to control my asthma for years. I used to use the variant with propellant but I switched of it to the one without. The main reason I switched was environmental concerns (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50215011).

But after switching I find that for me, inhalers without propellant works just as well or better than the ones without.

Since the propellant seems to be the problem in this case. It could be worth checking if the generics or even the GSK non propellant ones, are cheaper than the other one in the USA?

It’s in interest of Nvidia, to try to make sure they do not end up in a situation where they have a small group of very big customer that buy a large slice of their production. For Nvidia a market of the same size, with many small to medium customer is a lot better as those customers will have a lot less power to force Nvidia to do something that isn't in it's interest or it does not want. I expect to see moves from Nvidia to help smaller players, open source or semi open models to not be crushed by the big players. Not because they are nice, but because it is in their best interest.

There seems to be a bit of a precedence with the AACS DVD encryption keys that got leaked (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...), the suppression of that key. Seems to have failed, it was widely copied, and you can even find a copy of it on my link to Wikipedia.

This is not just great news for a Finland, but also for my own Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia. Even before this was finalized there was already work on closer cooperation and integration between our air forces. Give it some time and we will see all of us getting more out of defense spending, by not having to duplicate everything and combine buying contracts. When Sweden finally joins later is going to get even better. Attacking any state in Scandinavia just got a lot harder, and was imo. the whole point of this.

20km is less than what he has left of charge. If the detour is earlier in the drive. He could have gone to a supercharger. If he gets stuck in a jam for hours, it makes no difference. The car hardly uses any power when standing still, it will heat the cabin but other than that it uses no power. I've tried this myself, I once got stuck in double digit cold for around an hour in a model 3 outside Hamar. It made no difference to my range.

Huawei and the USA has some history. The first Huawei product was a line of routers that had the same names (Cisco gave all their routers a numbers as their names), same features, ports, command interface, and even same bugs. As the corresponding Cisco routers.

I live in one of the countries that have a local variant of this already (BankId in Norway). What it is used for here are services where either you are able to identify and authenticate yourself or if not, there is just now way they can be provided. These kind of services are things like banking, taxation, ownership transfers, health care, and similar.

I'm hard pressed to view allowing people access to these kind of services over the internet as something dystopian.

The article does point out that several countries have these kind of systems but they are not cross border. Solving that is supposed to be part of this initiative. Being able too use a swedish issued id to authenticate in the Netherland would imo be a nice and a big step forward.

This article is from June last year. Has anything happened since then on this? Is anyone bringing legal actions against Copilot and Github? If not why not? I would think that if there was a case against it, that there are open source affiliated entities out there that would have a both the legal and monetary resources to go to court over this.

When I look at the discussion here, it looks like most of the arguments are based on common sense or morality. While that is nice, I would have loved to hear a perspective on this based on law instead. Is there someone here with a more legal perspective/background that could comment?

I believe I've seen a setting to setup a pin code to drive on my Model 3. You can also unlock the car with the cards that came with it instead of setting up the app on your phone and using Bluetooth. It would be a bit clunky, but it would work. There is also a keyfob you can buy (https://shop.tesla.com/product/model-3_y-key-fob), not sure if that uses Bluetooth or not, and is vulnerable though.

You are right that on the economically side the reporting and research, indicates that there is no measurable difference on economical performance between before and after law. But before the law was introduced there was worry that an influx of unexperienced women would undermine profitability, which did not happened.

The positive, (as seen from most Norwegians view), is that there are now more powerful women in Norwegian industry and private sector. This is obviously an ideological view, and if you view more women in powerful position as of no or negative value. Then it isn't a positive for you.

That's unfortunate, we've had a similar law on the books here in Norway since 2006. There where some noise about it at the beginning. But the consensus now seem to be that it is a positive.

I didn't introduce the 10x figure. But if you look at GDP, 10x seems about right. GDP is often used to compare countries, and that the size, and quality of the army you can field is based on GDP of the country, seems somewhat reasonable.

Fair enough, I was thinking more of a classic win by defeating the Russian army on the battlefield. But the kind of loss the USSR had in Afghanistan might be possible without much if any help from abroad.

> And nowhere on reddit or in the media do I see a discussion of the pros and cons of a Ukrainian surrender. It's really hard to see how Ukraine will successfully fend off a country 10x its size. (If someone has an answer as to why that might be realistic, I'm open to hear it).

It's really hard to see that Ukraine by itself could defeat Russia and it definitely seems far fetched, even if the Russian army has shown itself more inept than expected.

But that isn't what is happening either, and a Ukraine bankrolled and armed by the west. That is something else, and that combination might definitely be abel to defeat Russia. So the question is more, is the west or parts of it willing to spend enough and accept escalating tensions with nuclear armed Russia by doing that?

If you look at what Zelensky is doing at the drumbeat of asks for more weapons is obvious that Ukraine is fully aware of this.

That's not surprising at all. American forces had a very bad experience with reporters that reported damning stories about them in Vietnam. In Iraq and Afghanistan they took actions to make that kind of reporting hard, and the reporting they wanted easy. It wasn't even that secret and I'm fairly sure I at least saw some reporting on that they where doing this in Norwegian, and possibly British media.

That this war is getting so much attentions but other wars is not can seem and is in some sense unfair.

But there are geopolitical consideration which means that this war is of much higher interest to the west than any other war going on. Both EU and NATO has large combined land borders with Russian and Ukraine, and a war on their border is deeply problematic for both organizations, and their members. Which both organizations, and their members actions after the attack bears proof of.

If you look at Europe, the political changes around security policy and that many European countries that have prided themselves on not shipping weapons to war zone have reversed their long standing policies on not doing that, is staggering, and it is clear a seismic shift in policies is happening in Europe.

Then there is the fact that this is the fastest growing refuge crises since the second world war.

All of these and many other considerations is the reason why the war is the story now. It might seem unfair and racist, and in some sense it is, but it isn't the medias fault. The war in Ukraine is the big story because it affects more and has bigger implications.

Btw. Just to be crystal clear, I'm not arguing that the lack of interest in other wars are just, or right. I'm just arguing why there is a difference, and what the reasons for them are.

With the fast moving legal landscape in Russia this seems like a smart move. Given the new laws getting added in Russia now, a law coercing Kaspersky to help the Russian government attacking its customers that Kremlin sees as enemies. Do not seem that far fetched.

I remember following news during the buildup to that war. It was fairly obvious that those WMD claims was weak, and that was definitely brought up in the news. While I was mostly following European sources, so American sources might have been less insistent on that. But seriously, if your country wants to go to war, and local news sources is the only thing you look at. Then you aren't trying very hard to stay informed, and if you are fortunate enough to speak English, there is so many serious news sources out there with different viewpoints it's crazy. So there is not much of an excuse.

There is definitely an argument that boycotts is a blunt tool and have to be applied sparingly and with great care.

But in the scope of this conflict, and as an European living in a country that borders Russia, I'm all for it. What is happening in Ukraine is horrific and it is happening because in the mind of the Russian leadership the country had aligned it self to close to the west. So they are in a sense attacked because they are to much like us.

There is also the question about what happens next if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, where is next on the path to rebuild the Russian empire? Georgia and Moldovia are candidates, in addition both the Baltics and Finland used to be part of the Russian empire, then there are all of the old Warsaw pact countries as well.

How can they and the rest of Europe ever be safe without a regime change or huge degradation of Russian military capabilities? One of the ways to accomplish this to thrash the Russian economy, while that is horrible to all the Russian that do not support the war, the alternative seems worse. Not that Redhat pulling out of Russia is going to have much of an impact on the Russian economy. But everyone's contributions helps a bit.

> A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.

Depending on where in Russian they live. They could flee in their car. Finland seem to be popular (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60624500). The Baltics, Norway and possibly Sweden on a ferry or boat could also be options.

I would recommend having a look at the Wikipedia page on the topic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_(finance) . It seems to explain the topic fairly clearly.

Belorussia attacking a NATO country ends at best in it being occupied by NATO, at worst in the same war between NATO and Russia that Putin don't want in the first place.

In addition there is being around an elephant under fire. That sounds a lot like making a horrible situation way worse.