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by lbschenkel 11d ago
Actually it does. Biometric passports (and IDs) have a chip which is read via NFC and the information the NFC provides is signed by a CA which is the government that issued the passport. ICAO compiles a database of public keys corresponding
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by lbschenkel 1mo ago
Hear hear, from another Brazilian (now dual citizen) who emigrated.
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by lbschenkel 2mo ago
Not sure if by "centralised recording" you are referring to the UK way or how it is implemented in general (civil law) but I can say that in Brazil the registry definitely does not have only the last deed. In Brazil the books are
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by lbschenkel 2mo ago
It is exactly the same in Sweden: biometrics are stored only until the passport/ID is manufactured, then destroyed. Only copy is on the chip. At least this is what the law says, and how it is supposed to be. Reality on the ground, thou
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by lbschenkel 6mo ago
Another Swedish resident here, using GOS for around 5 years. So far all the dealbreaker stuff works (BankID, Swish, bank apps, transport apps, etc.) which is great. That said, I also work in Denmark and need the Danish apps. And the situati
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by lbschenkel 7mo ago
This is not true. The airline has the right to ask for it but in practice this is not really done -- or let me rephrase, not consistently done. I fly intra-Schengen flights at least twice a year. I had to show ID sometimes before COVID but
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by lbschenkel 9mo ago
I have it, it does not. Well, it may. It depends on the firmware you install on the cable. Depending on the firmware, different things will be broken. I tried them all. There's no version that will consistently support 2160p@120 and 4:
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by lbschenkel 10mo ago
I can confirm I finished RDR2 in story mode in Bazzite, zero issues. Never played the multiplayer part, though.
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by lbschenkel 10mo ago
I have finished RDR2 on Bazzite (story mode), zero issues.
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by lbschenkel 11mo ago
People in general absolutely love this, and are proud that their country is so "modern". I meant: it is convenient. No doubt. I do use all this because it is convenient. When it works, it is great. The dumb part is to not have
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by lbschenkel 11mo ago
So what actually happens in Sweden: there are two officially sanctioned authentication apps: BankID (originally developed by banks) and Freja. Both only run on a mobile phone. For government services, both will work. But you must use
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by lbschenkel 11mo ago
Check how Play Integrity works today (DEVICE and STRONG integrities) and how it uses a non-extractable hardware key fused into the chip or security processor. Or read the GrapheneOS attestation guide and their example code. It's un-spo
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
I'm living in Sweden for ~20 years. I haven't used a banknote in more than 15 years. During this time I can't recall a single time I saw anyone using a banknote either. Here in Malmö where I live, especially since COVID, you&
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
I'm not an huge fan of BankID either, but a few corrections/clarifications: 1. BankID always allowed to have different settings for login and for signature. I have done that since forever. For example, I configured login to allow
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
Twelve is a quite high ratio of children to carer. In Sweden what is considered a healthy ratio is 5:1, and many places do meet that rate or are very close to it. 10:1 would be considered a very poor daycare, and most people wouldn't w
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
The problem with this approach is that many "secure" apps nowadays (bank, authenticators, etc.), at least here in the Nordics, are checking (among other things) if the app has been installed from the Play Store. If you install the
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
Another problem that exists only in the US as they don't treat you as a slave and make you stand the whole day elsewhere. People have chairs and do use them.
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
I was in a similar situation when I immigrated to Sweden ~20 years ago (I'm Brazilian). Technically the law says that I'm supposed to carry passport + residence permit (first version was a sticker, then it became a card). However,
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
As a data point/anecdote, I had a parallel-port Zip drive with a 386 and Windows 3.1. I remember quite clearly that I had to load a SCSI driver in CONFIG.SYS. I didn't understand back then why I had to load a SCSI driver for a par
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
Not a joke. When my daughter was younger and we were visiting the daycare (förskola) facilities around us to pick one, in one of them they didn't have a room for children to sleep indoors, they always slept outdoors (even in the winte
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
But is true. I am a Brazilian who lives in Sweden and there are multiple banks here that have blank bans on transfers from/to Brazilian banks due to the amount of fraud and money laundering and lax KYC controls. It is simply too much w
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by lbschenkel 1y ago
Hi. Just out curiosity: where in Brazil?
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
To add to that: in virtually every country in South America their citizens can visit the other countries in South America with only an ID card, no passport necessary.
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
> Now, almost all have come from privileged backgrounds, went to Ivy League institutions, live in gated communities, are completely detached from the reality of what the average American knows about the law, and certainly aren't goi
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
Because in some countries you must run some government sanctioned apps that require a "blessed" device, or you are a de facto non-citizen? If Americans had anything like BankID or MitID which would refuse to run on their devices a
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
And yet if some other country bans US-controlled social media exactly for the same reasons, this works as a data point to label them as "lacking freedom of speech", "axis of evil", "undemocratic", etc. But I do
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
It's not a "stretch", it is exactly that. It's widely known by anyone familiar with the hardware that Gamecube and Wii are basically the same console: it's the exact same architecture but the Wii has upgraded/f
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
I don't doubt that it's the way you have been taught, but it doesn't make any sense. The whole point of blinkers/indicator lights in cars are to signal your intentions before you do them: if you're going to signal
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
In Brazil these "persianas" are everywhere as well, and they look exactly like the one in the example you gave.
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
Exactly. The traditional design language is that an arrow besides a button indicates that the button will show a drop-down when pressed (traditionally without a line separating the two), or that clicking on the button will do the default ac

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