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storgaardon Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

This is another great reason to read her (Sarah Wynn-Williams) book Careless People.

storgaardon Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

What information do you store about the users? Are you storing all of the identification documentation, or do you only store proof about the fact that you verified the user identity and age?

storgaardon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

Atlassian is down as well so they probably can't access their Atlassian Statuspage admin panel to update it.

storgaardon Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

It's interesting that the "E" in GEO, LEO, MEO, HEO is short for three different things: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ty...

storgaardon USB-C for Lightning iPhones

> Let’s not forget the very same year they stopped including the charging brick they started including USB-C to lightning cables in the box, so that their supposedly environmentally friendly practice forced their users to buy a new brick unless they saved previous cables. Why didn’t they switch to USB-C back then? To make users do another transition a few short years later?

Maybe I'm missing something here but how does a transition from having a charging brick to not having one relate to the transition on the other end of the cable going from one port to another?

storgaardon Sketchy Calendar

You can events as tentative in Google Calendar by responding with "Maybe".