FateOfNations

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by FateOfNations 2mo ago
It's less about paying for a service than thinking that you are a welcome member of a community and then suddenly finding out that you aren't.
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by FateOfNations 2mo ago
> They provide a service Codeberg seems to disagree about that point.
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by FateOfNations 3mo ago
It's more that they want to disaggregate the customer service and tech stack responsibilities from the financial ones, with the profits split accordingly. At least in the US, Chime and other "banking fintechs" do have real ba
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by FateOfNations 3mo ago
While Chime, the company, isn't a bank, they do resell banking services. They are functionally value added resellers for The Bancorp Bank, N.A. and Stride Bank, N.A.
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by FateOfNations 3mo ago
Seems like governments, at least ones of the size under discussion here, are big enough to have a general services agency run a consolidated data center for the rest of the government, allowing individual agencies/departments get simil
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by FateOfNations 4mo ago
It also would essentially have blocked all traffic enforcement cameras (red light, speed, bus lane, school bus passing, etc.) too.
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by FateOfNations 4mo ago
Not Invented Here Syndrome?
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by FateOfNations 6mo ago
Rewrite the anecdote with the truck racing to the supplier to make the pickup on time.
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by FateOfNations 6mo ago
The same attackers are releasing the database of personal information separately (for a fee). That said, Sweden takes a different approach to PII, so most of that information would have already been public. You can generally just look up an
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by FateOfNations 8mo ago
Thankfully no signatures involved. You roll up, swipe/dip/tap your card in a reader on the gas pump, enter your postal code (archaic security measure from the pre-chip card era), wait a few moments for the electronic authorization
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by FateOfNations 9mo ago
apt is a package manager. It's only relevant if the system uses it to manage it's packages. Red Hat based distributions, for example, don't use apt. Embedded devices typically don't manage packages on an individual basis
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by FateOfNations 10mo ago
Data point: Albertsons/Safeway/etc. is rolling out new card readers that have a camera in them. Software support likely isn't in place yet, but that's definitely something they are thinking about long term.
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by FateOfNations 10mo ago
Generally the hangup/timeline is with the state government, not Apple/Google.
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by FateOfNations 10mo ago
Technically, the web server can do content negotiation based on Accept headers with static files. But… In theory, you shouldn't need a direct link to the RSS feed on your web page. Most feed readers support a link-alternate in the HTML
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by FateOfNations 11mo ago
On iOS there is the concept of "Managed Apps" that is appropriate for a BYOD scenario. They are info sandboxed and can't share information (either direction) with unmanaged apps. That would count as an MDM enrollment, if you
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by FateOfNations 11mo ago
The problem is dealing with those other 5% of calls. If you are in a 5% situation, you're seemingly SOL these days.
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by FateOfNations 11mo ago
At some point customer service died. Businesses of seem to no longer be interested in dealing with customers. Good customers come in all shapes and sizes, and often don't exactly fit a cookie cutter. It's frustrating to see busine
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by FateOfNations 11mo ago
The reason Expensify does that is because they want/need access to the cookies from the login flow. The in app browser provides the hosting application access to those, but they can't access Safari's cookiejar. The modern way
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by FateOfNations 11mo ago
> I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do Being a "Managed App" through MDM/Intune. Typically it's used when installing corporate apps in a BYOD scenario. The managed apps are isolated from inform
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Inspect containers leaving the country for contraband. Require shipping companies to do KYC. Require documented proof of ownership for vehicle exports.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
What counts as “a view” has pretty much never been particularly straight forward. The question is why YouTube can't just say, “Yes, in early August we made some changes to how views are counted.” All the available evidence seems to sug
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Looks like a lot of small ISPs have been procrastinating about getting their robocalling mitigation/compliance policies implemented, and didn't think the FCC was serious about the “Final Warning”. They'll get their stuff fixe
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
All the companies have a direct connection to the phone network in the US. The FCC is cutting them off from the US phone network because they have failed to adopt robocall mitigation measures.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
I don't get it… isn't up to the landowner whether they farm corn, soybeans, or solar radiation? The government may provide different incentives for each, but AFAIK, they aren't forcing a choice.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
It isn't centralized, but the emerging mDL/mID (ISO/IEC 18013-5) + Digital Credentials API (W3C) standards do enable sharing a “this device contains a secure credential for someone over 18 years of age” assertion, cryptograph
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
It was even done in consultation with the Dahl estate/family, although they choose to ignore Roald Dahl's professed opinions about editing his works.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Our local Panera has this. It's popular with the MLM ladies.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Functionally, it can do a lot of the same things as SWF/Flash. Can do animations (see article) and it's scriptable using JavaScript for interactivity.
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
Minor exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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by FateOfNations 1y ago
interesting, that's specifically in the Spanish localization.

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