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Glad to live in a sane jurisdiction, where provisions made available only after purchase and those that go against typical customer expectations are simply invalid, so I never had to care about EULAs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Eur...

> If you request an IBAN transfer, it's never instant.

"In 2024, EU adopted Instant Payment Regulation, aiming to accelerate instant payments in Europe. For EU member states operating in euro it partially took affect in January 2025, for non-euro member states it will partially take affect in January 2027. This regulation includes requirements to send and receive transfers within 10 seconds, as well as to implement the Verification of Payee service."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment

I remember a conversation with a political activist refugee. They were in a group of people who got checked at the border, and were asked to unlock their laptops. The border security personnel then proceeded to do a short inspection of the visible systems. They all used Veracrypt's Hidden Operating System functionality, and while it would be trivially detectable, the border security did not, so they got through without problems. If they had refused to "unlock", or used a duress passphrase that wiped the system without presenting a dummy version, they would have been held, possibly for a very long time, and definitely not allowed to exit.

Moral of the story: Different contexts allow for different solutions. It is a sign of false privilege to make assumptions, and not let the user decide. An argument can be made in terms of priority of implementation, but not in terms of "pointlessness". The often used argument of "false security" can be addressed by warnings; yes, some people may not understand the implications, but you do not need to make their own (bad/good) choices for them; that's paternalism, not care.

In the real world, where thanks to my political work I am in contact with many people who had to endure real-world security checks, police raids, investigations, and so on, in all the cases no proper (imaginary) forensic analysis was performed. People make mistakes and remain uneducated -- on both sides. The "But NSA!" argument brought forward typically by white techbros kills a lot of useful technology before it even exists, which is unfortunate for those that would actually benefit from it, and when asked would tell you so. It's also not either/or in reality: In many situations, it will buy you time (while e.g. your lawyer may try to get you and your devices out of the situation), and even if they find out you were trying to fool them, they may give you another chance, and then you can still opt for the wipe code. It makes a huge psychological difference to have multiple options and feel in control.

> There have been some Wikipedia articles I've come across that have been so unreliable that people who didn't look at other sources would have been greatly mislead.

I would highly appreciate if you were to leave a comment e.g. on the talk page of such articles. Thanks!

“Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity […] Neglect includes the failure to provide for the development of the child in all spheres: health, education, emotional development, nutrition, shelter and safe living conditions.”

Source: World Health Organization, Child maltreatment, Fact sheet, 2020 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/child-maltr...

“The term ‘child abuse and neglect’ means, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm. This includes emotional neglect such as “extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, deliberate cruelty or rejection, or the failure to provide the necessary psychological nurturing.”

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) https://acf.gov/cb/law-regulation/child-abuse-prevention-and...

Emotional neglect includes “acts of omission, such as the failure to provide developmentally appropriate affection, attention, or emotional support.”

Source: APSAC, Practice Guidelines: The Investigation and Determination of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment of Children and Adolescents, 2017 https://apsac.org/guidelines

German national ID has this built-in; you can cryptographically prove that you are currently in possession of an ID (and its PIN) over a certain age, for example, without revealing your date of birth. It's just not in widespread use.

There's also https://github.com/meshenger-app/meshenger-android for generic LAN (without groups/peer discovery).

It's not unlikely that devs and such will be on Mac/Linux and accounting will be on Windows. I agree it's still somewhat theoretical but interesting nonetheless.

It did not "happen to you". It was done to you.

I asked ChatGPT for definitions of Self, and this is what I got:

– The self as the sum of all memories. – The self as a narrative we tell ourselves. – The self as the brain’s model of its own body and mind. – The self as the sense of being a single, continuous subject. – The self as an emergent process of experience.

Within any one of these definitions, how does it make sense to speak of the self as an "illusion", or of a "false self"? I mean, the definition constructs and instantiates the self, so the moment you define it, it exists? Isn't it like saying "the set consisting of the numbers 1,2,3 is an illusion"? The moment I "create" the set, it exists?

And what's with this "not my thoughts" business? They're mine as much as it is only me that receives them, and nobody can take them away from me. Like a radio that only I can hear and carry around with me is mine?

It is well known that there is a link between "criminal" (violent) behavior and prior trauma/adverse childhood experiences. It is similarly well known that trauma has an effect on brain development. There's plenty of research into how violent behavior is passed on between generations. It is also known that neuroplasticity and therapy allows for regrowth and new connections to form.

I think it's a grave mistake to try and frame brain damage as the cause, and not the result of (transgenerational) violence.

The biggest quarrel I have with it is that even if you get clinically tested, at least in the cases where I asked friends who got tested, they did not even try to rule out other causes, like repressed childhood trauma/cPTSD. People might end up on potentially lifelong medication, where other treatment options and recovery may be available.

see e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00922-8 , https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/adhd-linked-to-trauma

When a company repeatedly demonstrates a pattern of embracing, extending, and extinguishing standards (see: Java, Kerberos, HTML), it’s fair to view any technical move with suspicion - even if the particular proposal seems technically sound. It’s easy to retroactively view Netscape’s resistance as petty, but the power imbalance was real, and the fear of Microsoft co-opting the standard wasn’t paranoia.

Some companies make abuse a business model. I don't see how anyone can defend a position where they only look at isolated actions of a company and not their overall strategic positioning. There are boundaries. Ethical boundaries. If you never experience the consequences of your actions, if nobody ever objects to your behavior, you will not stop. Especially not a distributed organism of a company, which has no inherent ethical boundaries; its boundaries are those that affect business, so you need to teach them in business. If your business model is based on treating your own employees like slaves, it is you who is cancer, not the other.

Calling that “kid-like behavior” is misguided on two levels. First, as noted, Netscape’s actions were arguably rational in context - pushing back against a powerful incumbent trying to steer an open standard toward a proprietary implementation.

Second, the phrase itself leans on a dismissive and inaccurate stereotype. Kids aren’t inherently irrational or overly emotional; in fact, there’s substantial research showing that young people behave quite logically given their environment. Framing behavior this way isn’t just lazy; it reinforces the kind of condescension that later gets labeled as “adverse childhood experiences” in therapy, assuming someone even gets the chance to unpack and not replicate it.

On both levels, it is DARVO.

> But Netscape in this instance acted like kids

Oh, please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

The "velvet sweatshop" one is sufficient, but plenty of others to choose from. Don't have a source at hand but I remember it was known for its "work 3 years there and then you need to retire early from burnout" culture. There's also a really good (and highly depressing) 2001 German documentary around that "feature" called "Leben nach Microsoft" (Life after Microsoft).

And the classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs

There was really less than zero reason to trust M$ in the 90s and early 00s.

> Mac definitely doesn't

https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic and others.

If you add "Show HN:" in front of your submission, it might receive more attention.

I take that all conversions happen locally in the browser, and nothing is submitted to a server? You may want to spell that out clearly either way. There's no privacy policy, no contact information.

Exactly? I agree that identity is a fuzzy construct which includes socially constructed elements, and is not a fundamental "thing" that can be observed externally and then named "identity". I disagree that it is therefore "fiction"; as a concept, it is very real? My point was that I don't see how you can claim that identity is nonexistent ("lack of identity"), since the moment I use the term, I "create" and "have" it; it is a flexible enough umbrella to include the distributed system of my body, since I cannot exist separately from it? What "belongs to me" contributes to my identity.

To pick one possible simple and broad definition from WP, "Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, or expressions that characterize a person or a group." -- you made it sound like that set is empty, which doesn't make sense to me. My identity is part of "I". Every being has an identity; it's not something you can get rid of?

Isn't identity exactly defined as what one perceives as part of oneself? Food becomes me as soon as I dis-member it to make it to be part of myself. Other food becomes you. This doesn't make food not within my sphere of perception a part of me; before digestion, it stays separate, like a virus doesn't become part of me -- the immune system acts a biological discriminator between what is part of me, and what is not. You are not me, and I am not you; we are physically attached to different matter. I understand people play mind games based on varying definitions of identity, but ultimately you will find that you have control over certain things comprised of physical matter, which then together with your mind makes up "you", and you're not in control of other things, which make them "not you". That's how I would say it is defined, after all. I am not in the entire food chain, because my perception and control simply doesn't reach that far. If I could control objects with my mind, it would be reasonable to say that they are a part of "my body", which makes them a part of me. If you use these language constructs differently, we lose the ability to communicate over them?

> and one thing "work" does is supply a bunch of things to do.

and a social environment. "belonging" is a very important human need.

As a European, I strongly prefer slow and decentralized and the principle of subsidiarity over quick and easy to corrupt, as current history demonstrates. To me, it is a tradeoff well worth it.

Many seem not to be familiar with that fundamental core principle of the European Union:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(European_Union)

I do. I do also use the touchpad back gesture, depending on where my hands are.

One option that I not see discussed in the blog post: Collecting user signals locally and using those access patterns (mouse movement, clicks, IP/site browsing history) to discriminate between "standard" site usage and bots; so like a "reCaptcha lite", not trained across many sites but trained specifically on the target.

For a ticket platform like pretix that can be run self-hosted alongside the main site, this should give you enough signals to discriminate between normal users and bots, unless they are specifically targeting that site, or am I mistaken? Even just pure web server access logs may be sufficient on smaller sites so this might work even without JS?

"Complex trauma opens up another possible pathway between tinnitus and trauma -- one similar to that proposed for the connection between tinnitus and traditional trauma. Let’s say, for example, that my parents belittled me constantly and that as a result I never felt myself competent in handling challenges. Instead, I was made to feel powerless in the face of adverse circumstances and carried this insecurity into my adult life. Hence, when I am faced with the challenge of responding to tinnitus, my sense of helplessness as a child reemerges and blocks my ability to adequately deal with it. As the authors of the EMDR studies propose, this would mean that to treat the tinnitus we would need to treat the trauma."

https://therapistwithtinnitus.com/2023/01/31/is-tinnitus-tra...

Phillips JS, Erskine S, Moore T, Nunney I, Wright C. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as a treatment for tinnitus. Laryngoscope. 2019 Oct;129(10):2384-2390. doi: 10.1002/lary.27841. Epub 2019 Jan 28. PMID: 30693546.

Rikkert M, van Rood Y, de Roos C, Ratter J, van den Hout M. A trauma-focused approach for patients with tinnitus: the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - a multicentre pilot trial. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2018 Sep 11;9(1):1512248

Moore, Tal & Phillips, John & Erskine, Sally & Nunney, Ian. (2020). What Has EMDR Taught Us About the Psychological Characteristics of Tinnitus Patients?. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. 14. 229-240. 10.1891/EMDR-D-19-00055.

"This brief summary considered literature from both the hearing and trauma disciplines, with the goal of reviewing mechanisms shared between tinnitus and PTSD, as well as clinical reports supporting mutual reinforcement of both their symptoms and the effects of therapeutic approaches."

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/11/1585

"clinicians who offer tinnitus and hyperacusis rehabilitation should screen for suicidal and self-harm ideations among patients with symptoms of depression and a childhood history of parental mental illness"

https://tinnitustherapy.org.uk/adverse-childhood-experiences...

"Good mental health/EMDR treatment with tinnitus includes a comprehensive phase 1 history taking, targeting any precipitating trauma experiences, and “float back,” targeting the negative cognitions about the present experience of tinnitus."

https://www.emdria.org/blog/emdr-therapy-and-tinnitus/

Or you 'lose it' and get a new one, no need to wait for expiration.

Not only that, but it's also totally acceptable now to broadcast your user's data to a megaton of external services for no good reason. If people had some grasp of what is going on and it was visible to them, they would complain very loudly about it in your face.

Highly recommended, timeless read!

> unconventional Google-filing trick

Documented as "subadressing" in RFC 5233, and the default for both sendmail and postfix, amongst others. As such, often 'accidentially' supported by many mail providers even when undocumented. Google didn't introduce them, nor are they 'unconventional'.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5233

To begin with, a description/comparison table of the limitations/extra features between free and paid plus a pointer to the app stores and their price listings would be helpful.

Congrats! This looks really nice!

Unfortunately, a big no and showstopper for me is the current lack of pricing information. The only thing I can find about the subscription is buried in the FAQ under "Account".

"All paid plans include premium features such as unlimited receipt storage, advanced travel reporting, multi-currency support, and priority customer support." -- this means the non-pro version is limited; I couldn't find information about how exactly.

I consider this a dark pattern and will not even try your software unless you add transparent and clear information e.g. in the form of a Pricing page.

(This is from the Apple App Store, which luckily forces some element of transparency: "Coffee at the Airport $2.99 Postcard from the Road $0.99 First-Class Thanks $9.99 Pro (lifetime) $89.99 Pro (annual) $59.99 Pro (monthly) $8.99".)