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In Sweden there’s at least one more competitor to BankID called Freja. There’s also some kind of EU-level system.

Would be cool if multiple actors were allowed and shared the same kind of auth signing method so that there aren’t just one point of failure. Or something distributed like a blockchain type of signing method, at least I don’t think Bitcoin or Ethereum have downtime that often, and authorization should probably be read heavy only to check if some identity is still allowed

Except here in the EU where they increase import tax because china producing “too cheap” EVs
I often replace searching for something on google with ChatGPT these days. I expect the way we interact with information to be replaced completely in the future. Why would I skim through all those clickbaits and ads instead of getting a tailored result of exactly the information I was looking for
Re:How Likely Is Losing a Google Account? on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:14PM (#34582928)
Used fastmail (and proton) for a year or two. Had to go back to google because there’s just too much spam otherwise
Re:TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf] on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:27AM (#24322148)
I got the TiDB coffee mug, it looks better than the MongoDB mug
Re:Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:01AM (#24242288)
I'm running my rpi 4 as a kubernetes controller on Ubuntu. It also has wireguard hooked up with 8 dedicated server nodes. The SD card class A2 has been enough for disk performance, no SSD needed.

It's mounted on a din rail with the DINr mount plate and a Poe hat, makes it very compact and it fits in my small fiber network clauset. Planning to add 2 more for hight availability.

Re:All-in-One DNS block list on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:25PM (#23440275)
This list can be used on Android or iOS by downloading the Blokada app
Re:Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:27AM (#21760610)
Could you sum up how someone is able to read keybase exploding messages when a key is compromised? After it explodes
Re:Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:58AM (#21603997)
You can also show fake ID at a competing telco sales point and tell them you want to move the number in Sweden. Happened to me that depending on which provider the call was coming from, sometimes it would reach me and sometimes not.
I’m Swedish, didn’t quite get the part about J and Y being pronounced the same? Sounds different to me
Re:Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:57AM (#21426974)
I’ve made a http json service that allocates IPs and configures WireGuard. Not sure if it can be used for this project but here it is: https://github.com/balboah/wireguard-operator
Yet the design of the website reminds me of the 90's
Re:Apple Watch Series 5 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:23PM (#20931492)
Don't fall for it. I tried switching for a trial period but Spotify owns iTunes in so many ways. Especially the discover weekly list
Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:01AM (#19612433)
in the long run I believe cryptos that doesn't require mining this way will be more popular, such as EOS and maybe Ethereum soon. But mining will probably never go away completely
Re:How to build your own CDN with Kubernetes on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:15AM (#19498688)
Which is also supported by cloudflare so a bit of both worlds: https://www.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/
Where I live (Europe) I can use Tibber which has an api that shows future hourly pricing. This way I can tell the car to charge the cheapest
Makes me think of an episode in the TV series black mirror: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/
Re:Apple Music now has 38M paid members on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:21PM (#16579434)
I tried apple music only because of this. And really tried making it understand what music I like by copying the discovery playlist from Spotify and actively liking and disliking songs for months. But it's really useless in comparison. Also podcasts are missing, weird that it's taking so long