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kdomanskion Apple: Prove your identity with a CC neither you or us have ever seen

tl;dr: During account recovery, iCloud might ask you for the details of a credit card you’ve been using with the account. But it doesn’t just check whether the data matches their records — it tries to actually run the card. And if the live check is rejected by your payment processor for some reason then it doesn’t matter that you got all the card’s details right.

kdomanskion Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.

kdomanskion Don't fuck with paste

Yeah, banks unfortunately have their opinionated checklists of “best practices”, also know as “what every other bank does”.

kdomanskion German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization

In Poland, drinking in public space (with some exceptions) is forbidden. Sometimes police will issue fines even for “intention to drink” if they see a person with an unopened bottle of beer.

kdomanskion Revisiting KDE

> there was an ambitious project called Nepomuk for Semantic Desktop and that failed 10 years ago?

Oh, they didn’t fail per se. They just ran out of the 11.5 million EUR grant money.

kdomanskion Revisiting KDE

https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705

The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop and the infamous file indexer.

kdomanskion New Pegasus spyware abuses identified in Mexico

That doesn’t stop the DoJ from extraditing foreign nationals who never set foot on US soil before.

kdomanskion An elegy for GNU and RMS

> Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has become less common.

Expat living in Germany here. You’re absolutely correct according to my experience. In fact, I’ve seen people with PhD put “Dr.” on the mailbox in front of their home.

kdomanskion Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email

One can argue that under US legal system only.

kdomanskion Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

> Another way to look at it is that people who other people want to work with get high ratings. Is that bad? From a company culture standpoint, I'm not sure it is.

Depending on who is it that people do and don’t want to work with, we might call it “discrimination against a protected class”, which is at least bad enough that it’s illegal in many countries.

kdomanskion Why I will never buy another Samsung device

I still remember when Samsung effectively bricked their SSD for Linux users with a faulty firmware update. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900...

Not only did they never revert/fix it, but they had the audacity to blame their customers for using "software that anyone could modify".

kdomanskion Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules

Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.

kdomanskion Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph

Isn’t the Apache Foundation exactly that?

kdomanskion Europe's Software Problem

This. In addition, in some countries like Germany, having your name connected to a bankruptcy will ruin your credit score, making it difficult to e.g. rent an apartment.

kdomanskion KDE and the Semantic Desktop

http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html

The semantic desktop was nothing more than a way to leech EU grants for "innovation". They've been looking for use cases long after the money ran out.

kdomanskion Docker orchestration

Not even that is necessary.

> The best solution probably is to create a new database during image creation, but in the official Postgres image this option is still not available.

The official image's README (https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/postgres/) says otherwise - both a user and a database will be created with name $POSTGRES_USER (if set).

Furthermore, one can run postgres in single-user mode to prepare any initial db image on top of the official one.