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Re:ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap...
on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:20AM (#37144165)
They're European (Deutsche Telekom), which might be part of why they prefer to work that way.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?
on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:35AM (#33394825)
Yup. I did a trial and their product came out on top, but their sales tactics were so aggressive that I went elsewhere. They were trying to call me 6+ times a day.
Re:How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:14AM (#32395069)
I'm getting about 10 hours on my M1 16" MBP running a JetBrains IDE and 8 Docker containers.
Re:What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:48AM (#31394786)
Your registrar isn't doing the necessary due diligence then - mine made me send them a scan of either passport/ID or residency permit.
Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:30AM (#31093515)
As far as I can tell, that feedback goes into a black hole. I've sent many corrections there, not a single one has been adopted, including ones where entire streets didn't exist (i.e. they exist on Maps but have never existed IRL).
In the city I used to live, they had to put signs up at the entrance to a street, warning people to ignore Google Maps. It tried to route people the wrong way up a one-way street, and the government had failed to get Google to fix it.
Re:Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:12AM (#30895567)
Yeah, the company I work for recently got acquired by a US corporate. I went from one ~15min stand-up call a day to 3-4 hours of meetings per day, all mandated by the US VPs. Our company has had to double our number of developers just to get the same amount of work done that we did pre-acquisition.
Re:Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance
on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:24AM (#29497037)
Qwant.
Re:Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences
on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:23AM (#28302063)
It's just a proposal by an academic. Probably intended to spark a conversation, as NZ is reviewing its privacy and data sovereignty law.
Re:Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review o...
on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:34AM (#28024769)
In case anyone doesn't know, Sky News Australia is their Fox News (same owner).
Re:The Lightness of Windows
on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:44AM (#27663370)
It really was off-putting the way the main guy was saying words like "this is so exciting" while having zero facial emotion and a dead look in his eyes. Felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head and making him read off a prompter.
Re:Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:47PM (#27621326)
Reading the suit, it is interesting that it is very much based around the fact that Quad9 already blocks resolution for "malicious" domains, and therefore already has a censorship process in place. Basically "you're already censoring, one more domain won't hurt."
Re:Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:46PM (#27621297)
Switzerland isn't in the EU. In this case it is a separate treaty which allows it.
Re:Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:36PM (#27621110)
The "almost-EU" countries (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland) have a treaty with the EU covering cross-border civil disputes, called the Lugano Convention. That gives the Hamburg court jurisdiction in this matter.
Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:11AM (#27590209)
Does the Danish one not contain name etc? The idea was that you'd be comparing that against photo ID.
Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:09AM (#27590198)
It is cryptographically signed, so creating your own QR code that would be accepted by the apps would be difficult without the signing key.
Even ignoring that though: including both the ID and detail allows it to work both ways. In official situations (e.g. at a country border) you might be able to validate against a server, but the local nightclub probably doesn't have access to a validation server.
Re:Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ kno...
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:29AM (#27559364)
It's part of the Play Store. You'd need to install a non-Google build of Android (e.g. LineageOS) which doesn't include Play Store/Services, which also means you can't download apps etc from there.
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:30PM (#27223321)
Half as Interesting. It's more short form, humerous content. Wendover is the longer form, more serious stuff.
Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:17AM (#26954069)
Exactly. I can't even imagine how the US system is meant to work with something like Apple Pay. I don't carry my physical card, there's no need to when it is in my phone.
Re:Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:04AM (#26723136)
Correct, you need to have enough money to get by while the work permit is processed. If you get a job via remote interviews, and book the work permit appointment in advance of coming, you can turn it around pretty fast though - I had my work permit appointment the week I arrived, and then went straight to work.
Re:Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:01AM (#26723112)
Oh absolutely, not relevant for OP, just pointing out that "There’s no such thing as Green Card in Europe" isn't quite true as a Blue Card is pretty similar.
Re:Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:57AM (#26723073)
Unless you're from a country with an extensive visa-free agreement for Schengen. In those cases you enter the country as a tourist, and then apply for a work permit (not visa) at a local government office. It is generally not possible to get a visa from the embassy if you're from a country where this is possible.
Re:Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:54AM (#26723046)
If you don't have a degree, but have a decent amount of experience, Germany will generally still happily take you (but not all EU countries - depends how desperate they are for devs). You need to go through the standard German skilled migrant process though, rather than the simplified Blue Card one.
Re:Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:52AM (#26723035)
There is the Blue Card though, which is EU-wide.
Re:Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology
on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:27PM (#26682868)
Perhaps where you are, but in Berlin they have their own vans and drivers.
Re:“When it comes to broadband, America is the original shithole country”
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:04AM (#26553543)
Also in central Berlin with the same speed connection. But my friends in the US, both in major metropolitan areas, can only dream of such a connection.
One has no option but ADSL which reaches 8Mbps on a good day, the other is luckier and has Cable but only 100Mbps.
Re:“When it comes to broadband, America is the original shithole country”
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:34AM (#26553310)
I'm living in Germany, and coming from NZ (where we have fairly universal 1Gbps FTTH) it has certainly been a big step down, but it can't compare to some of the insanity that my US friends deal with.
Re:In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:34PM (#26484109)
Wow. I'm a complete outsider to this, not using FreeBSD or pfSense or Wireguard - but this blog post makes Netgate seem incredibly unprofessional. Especially to anyone who actually read the mailing list exchanges.
Re:Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:55PM (#26482026)
Re:Binance investigated by CFTC over whether US residents trade on pla...
on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:43AM (#26446493)
Exactly this. Plus, some tax treaties don't include types of income beyond salary/wage - think income from investments, self-employed/contracting, etc.
Re:YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged American tax
on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:09AM (#26411986)
Some double taxation treaties only apply to salary/wage income and not self-employed (which YouTube would count as).