There's the reputation loss in the eyes of the international community, shouldn't the authorities have some interest in not letting India be perceived as a country that allows theft and organized crime?
If my choice is "pay almost nothing, get no retirement" and "pay half your salary, get no retirement" then I'm 100% for the US model. Too bad I don't have that choice.
I work for an investment bank and we still upgrade COBOL to the new version every couple of years, surprisingly it's still actively maintained and getting updates. Sometimes I like to sit behind one of the mainframe grandpas and watch him work on his 16-colors 24x80 characters IBM Host On-Demand terminal, it's very calming.
I work in a bank and wish it worked like that too. "Sorry ECB, sorry SEC, we don't allow auditors access to our customers money". :-) My work would be so much easier! Too bad we can't do it because we'd go to prison.
The Interpol literally took over a darknet market (Dream) using stolen admin credentials and continued to run the site for months to gather intelligence on vendors and buyers. Not the same thing but if LE is willing to operate a major illegal drug trafficking operation then surely hacking a few VPN companies doesn't seem impossible.
I'm watching for like 2 minutes and I already got lost. What's a python virtual environment? Why do you need it, can't i just install python and be done with it?
I'd say getting a macbook or a macbook air would be worth it, but rather than spending that much on a mac mini I'd probably get one of those new ryzen mini-PCs like from Beelink or Minisforum. You could get something with a 7735HS 8-core chip, terabytes of diskspace and a shitload of LPDDR5 RAM for 500€ and it's as small as the mac mini.
You hear about "scam stories" because they're usually interesting and they get clicks so media will naturally put them on the spotlight. You don't hear about thoudands of people in third world countries who are able to get capital for their projects, start up their business by avoid sanctions put on their countries banking systems, NGOs who are able to collect donations while in autocratic regimes, sick people who can order their medication on the darknet which for whatever reason is not available to them in their country, and so on and so on. The fact that you can just wire $100 to your buddy across the world for a 50 cent fee without caring about banks or IBANs or SWIFT codes or whatever else just blows my mind to this day, it creates so many opportunities one cannot just brush the whole crypto concept off as some nft scam shit.
Do I understand right, everything goes to your server and all the processing happens there rather than on-premise? Too bad, that pretty much ensures no serious company will even touch it.
The VIM1S seems almost perfect for home use, too bad it's only got a 100mbit network interface. The Nanopi R6S is more interesting but the price is crazy, it's over 200 euro on Amazon. Then again, the raspberry pi is also over 150 euro, i wish these SBCs would not be so damn expensive.
This is exactly my experience every time. My wife is always annoyed at me when we eat out and I insist on using a card, but it's too amusing for me to watch the entire staff struggle around - as if a client with a credit card is some crazy situation they've never encountered before in the center of Munich.
I sure have, I live here! Tried to pay for my croissant and juice in Penny Markt just this morning, i trid to test paying with my credit card and got the usual "Keine ausländische Karte!" :-)
And dont even try using a card in a restaurant or a bar, the terminal always, and i mean always just happens to be "broken" at this particular time.
Its funny that Microsoft didn't care to update their SwiftKey keyboard for new iOS versions for years and let it become a broken mess, and then when they finally release an update it's because of a fucking Bing button. And since the update also actually fixes a lot of issues it looks like they've had it ready for a while and just been just sitting on it and letting their app rot. Working there must be total chaos.