AnssiH

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by AnssiH 10d ago
CMS has a public tracker of GDPR fines ( https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ ) listing over 3000 cases, most are companies HN readers have not heard of.
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by AnssiH 18d ago
"ChatControl 1.0" is entirely voluntary so there is much less opposition in parliament.
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by AnssiH 18d ago
> So the EU will eventually require backdoors in encryption. It's only a question of how many tries it takes... So how many tries (i.e. EU parliamentary votes on an actual legislative text brought in by commission) has there been fo
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by AnssiH 18d ago
The article in this HA submission itself is from April 2025.
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by AnssiH 18d ago
This is from April 2025. Also, whether the plan pushes for backdoors is debatable since those are not actually mentioned.
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by AnssiH 23d ago
At least in Finland merchant contracts often specify higher rates for non-EU cards.
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by AnssiH 23d ago
My understanding is that they are much less generous on average compared to U.S. E.g. for now I have the most premium card offered by my bank (50€/mo), and it gets me extra product insurance, rental car insurance, travel insurance, fre
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by AnssiH 24d ago
I don't think any EU One-stop-shop scheme covers "local" goods sales in other EU member states yet, i.e. an EU company has to register in all EU countries they hold stock in. That is changing with the Single VAT Registration
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by AnssiH 1mo ago
In Finland international inbound calls using Finnish caller ID are simply blocked (mandated by regulation since 2023).
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by AnssiH 1mo ago
It is technically possible, here in Finland such blocking (i.e. all inbound international calls with Finnish caller ID, except for roaming) has been obligatory for a few years now ( https://traficom.fi/en/news/oblig
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by AnssiH 1mo ago
Or just block international spoofing, to allow the case you mention. E.g. in Finland the relevant regulation ( https://traficom.fi/files/media/regulation/M_28_L_EN.pdf ) says (in section 10): > Telecommunica
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by AnssiH 1mo ago
If a legitimate French business contracts with a Moroccon call center, they will then of course follow French law since the French business is liable. As for international scam calls, not sure what the situation is in France and what measur
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by AnssiH 2mo ago
For residential users in Finland, the last-mile replacement for POTS is not fibre but cellular, at least where phone calls are concerned.
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by AnssiH 3mo ago
Direct debit is not the same as debit card. You can pay in physical stores with debit card but not with direct debit (which does not involve a card at all).
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by AnssiH 3mo ago
Medical bills are covered (the Wikipedia summary seems accurate to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance#Finland ). But I'm going to guess that those medical bills, and related damages, are much lower
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by AnssiH 3mo ago
Hmm, for my €209/year (~$20/mo) liability insurance I get unlimited coverage for personal injuries and €5M coverage for property damage (both mandated by Finnish law). It sounds like you pay much more. Any idea why?
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by AnssiH 4mo ago
The test was run by an unnamed third party, so cURL's history has no relevance to their benevolence.
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by AnssiH 5mo ago
They also have "Underrated" and "Overrated" which apply points but do not act as tags. So I guess the easiest way to get +5 Troll is to have many Troll and Underrated votes, if it works the way I think it does.
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
I tried, but they used some 3rd party KYC platform whose country selection dropdown seemed to have every country except Finland (even Åland, a region of Finland, was there). Support wasn't helpful. Went with Twilio instead.
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
My impression was that the temporary permission-granting regulation was passed before the relevant privacy law came into effect, but I didn't check the dates now.
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
Here is the regulation that will be voted on: https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?refer... Note that the amendment was already amended on 11th March to set expiry to Aug 2027 and to also exclude
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
The proposal they are voting on is about continuing the current time-limited implementation (voluntary scanning, Regulation (EU) 2021/1232). This is not about mandatory scanning.
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
The majority of the MEPs are not onboard mandatory scanning, otherwise that would've been passed already. The site is conflating mandatory scanning with voluntary scanning (status quo). The upcoming vote is about continuing the volun
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
I don't think the vendor ever said "unhackable" in this case, though. At least not publicly.
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by AnssiH 6mo ago
The cross-compiler part itself is easy, but getting all the build scripting of tens of thousands of Fedora packages to work perfectly for cross-compiling would be a lot of work. There are lots of small issues (libraries or headers not being
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by AnssiH 7mo ago
> There was an interesting case in Finland. Finnish customs used to apply a 22% tax (ELV) on top of the car tax for imported used cars from other EU countries. On top of that, Finnish law required VAT to be charged on the car tax itself.
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by AnssiH 7mo ago
That site lists many of candidates as "support" just because they have not publicly opposed, so it is not a realistic view on the opinions of EU parliament. Better to look at actual votes cast. Also, they are not distinguishing be
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by AnssiH 7mo ago
Also, VTT had publicly confirmed earlier that they had conducted tests for Donut Lab. I'm confident the document and tests are real, but other shenanigans are still possible (and likely IMO).
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by AnssiH 7mo ago
> Like, where were they years ago saying “hey TikTok, we think your design is addictive and probably illegal, you need to change or face penalties.” That is basically what happened today. No penalties have been issued at this point. Also
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by AnssiH 8mo ago
On Windows XP this depended on whether you had joined a domain. On joined systems you got the security screen (same as previous Windows NT/2000), on other systems the task manager (same as Windows 9x).

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