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workfromspaceon Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing

This is the first time I felt a reality in space travel became closer to "For All Mankind".

I could tell how this website was created in Germany or by Germans, just by looking at the links of each service and see "Xing" there.

workfromspaceon Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

Maybe we can give Elon Musk a chance to be Microsoft's CEO.

workfromspaceon Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

Honestly I haven't. Thankfully my company still allows MacOS and for my personal PC I have Arch Linux at home. However luckily I follow enough HN, so I don't need to test it myself.

workfromspaceon Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

It's sad that Microsoft (or any big company) wouldn't take a step back from such privacy intrusive or anti-user behavior unless there's a public backlash.

Can't we just have a peaceful life without wasting time on constantly following and analyzing every single move from these companies?

workfromspaceon Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web

Your website doesn't load when fonts.google.com cannot load (i.e. when blocked)

workfromspaceon Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse

https://archive.md/XWbwf (unpaywalled)

workfromspaceon I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract

> democracy is it lets the people set the rules, then gets out of the way and lets people do their thing.

I believe you are talking about "representative democracy" specificly. Besides from this and "Direct democracy", there seems to be dozens of more types, according to Wikipedia.

workfromspaceon Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown

I haven't played this game, but the article says:

> despite a large portion of the game being doable in singleplayer, The Crew remained an online-only endeavour throughout its decade-long lifespan.

So it didn't have to be online if it wasn't for corporate greed.

workfromspaceon OpenSSF scorecard github.com/tukaani-project/xz

Perhaps it's because it's not up to date? As the page says:

  GENERATED AT: 2024-03-18

workfromspaceon XZ backdoor killswitch

My understanding was the opposite. Two examples I found where backdoor is working are:

  env -i LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
  env -i LANG=C /usr/sbin/sshd -h

workfromspaceon GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default

> Do builds and deployments of private and internal repositories use GitHub Actions minutes?

> Yes. Just like any regular workflow, building and deploying a GitHub Pages site on a private or internal repository consumes GitHub Actions minutes. All GitHub accounts and organizations come with a generous amount of GitHub Actions minutes included for private repositories, and public repositories have unlimited actions minutes.

And according to [0]:

  | Plan        | Storage | Minutes (per month) |
  | GitHub Free | 500 MB  | 2,000               |

AFAIU Pages will not be free anymore, but with free "generous" limits instead.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...

workfromspaceon Israel deploys expansive facial recognition program in Gaza

Perhaps they have a distribution problem instead https://twitter.com/DanLinnaeus/status/1769048206225076573

workfromspaceon Reddit CEO tells users 'we know your dark secrets' strikes fear into web surfers

https://archive.is/hH6ZS

workfromspaceon VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

It's ironic how the fastest development on Windows is through Linux :)

workfromspaceon San Francisco store tests new shopping method to deter 'rampant shoplifting'

Compared to proper solutions (educating people, properly punishing offenders with no parole) these other solutions look like a workaround. Government is apparently helpless and shifting the solution to the people - just like in school shootings.

workfromspaceon Ask HN: What is your best flight booking app/site

Is there a website where I can search for (cheap) flights TO an airport, without specifying FROM?

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

Japan, India, China has a big population and yet better on this.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

> I don’t know what a “physical email” is

Sorry, it's embarrassingly my bad. I meant physical mail/postal mail/snail mail.

> The US is a federation of fifty states so photo ID cards are issued at the state level, similar to how your national ID in Europe will be issued by Spain or Estonia rather than the EU itself

I would argue against this. The EU is a continental union[1] and not the same as the US [2]. All european countries are fully soverign states (unlike US states) and most of them are unitary. A few of the EU/European states are federal states/governments, like the US. So I think it'd be more correct to compare the US with Germany, Switzerland or Spain. EU would be something more similar to African Union. And there's also an upcoming EU-ID project [3].

About the US "E-government" (and I'm don't even compare it to systems like Estonia's, but) the problems you described sounds like bad system design and lack of identification.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_union [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation#Contemporary [3]: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

You may be right about the UK, but most of Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Nordics are better than the US (or the UK) to my perception and these sources I could quickly find:

- https://www.economist.com/news/2013/11/11/shoplifters-of-the... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38129353 - https://www.numbeo.com/crime/

workfromspaceon Universities accommodate food delivery robots

AFAIK, most of the Starship robots in Tallinn are for training purposes, not actual delivery.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

You're right. But I've seen almost every country in Europe continent and lived in few of them, including non-EU (including WB-6, EFTA, UK), so I thought I could generalize Europe a bit to my experience.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

Thank you for your analysis.

I don't think it's a numbers issue. Japan with 127 million has multi-provider solutions such as IC cards, and I've heard India has Aadhaar and China has similar services.

But I agree with the federal part. I guess it makes things harder as federal states of Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Spain) has some centralization and bureaucracy issues, but at least they still manage to get a national systems such as ID cards.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

You're probably right about SWIFT/SEPA part. My bad, apologies.

And it's just not the credit cards. Many people here (including high school students) are provided and using debit cards for virtually everything.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

You may be right about generalizing the US, but

> even if out in the countryside with zero internet

I think I can safely say even the remote countryside of any part of Europe has card payments now.

workfromspaceon The failure of self-checkout technology

Obviously this sounds like such a US problem. Self checkout in the UK and Europe (Estonia and Barcelona) IME works perfectly:

- No thefts

- Many people with card payments

- Working self checkout machines

Also, recently I have been thinking how come the US is pioneering so many tech but fail to implement any, such as:

- Payments: No SWIFT/IBAN, still lots of cash usage, no e-invoices (ie for utility bills), still using paper checks, physical emails

- No national identification cards or numbers

- Very limited e-government services

And the argument I've been hearing the most is freedom; which also sounds oxymoron, coming from the country with the worlds strongest 3 letter agencies.

workfromspaceon Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons

Apparently getting acquired by Bending Spoons is a guarantee for layoffs[1]:

- In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC... In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off

- In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote... Evernote laid off all of its existing staff

- In January 2024, Bending Spoons acquired Mosaic Group, a mobile app developer. The acquisition also involved the layoff of all 330 existing staff

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

workfromspaceon CEO video: back to the office now, or else

https://archive.is/mX4Vu

https://web.archive.org/web/20240111005335/https://www.vice....

workfromspaceon Europe at last has an answer to Silicon Valley

Important to note that you are talking about "e-residency" [1], which does not grant any real residencies or travel permission to Estonia or EU. For that, one needs to apply for a temporary residence permit (TRP) separately, on one of the valid grounds [2].

[1]: https://www.e-resident.gov.ee

[2]: https://www2.politsei.ee/en/teenused/residence-permit/tahtaj...

workfromspaceon Ask HN: Why are resumes longer than one page frowned upon?

Good point.

Then perhaps 2 CVs? 1 one-pager for advertising and getting the interview, and 1 multi-page, detailed, for the interview?

(Asking for a friend, with ~20yoe :)