kdomanski
Re:Apple: Prove your identity with a CC neither you or us have ever seen
on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @04:59PM (#40360091)
tl;dr: During account recovery, iCloud might ask you for the details of a credit card you’ve been using with the account. But it doesn’t just check whether the data matches their records — it tries to actually run the card. And if the live check is rejected by your payment processor for some reason then it doesn’t matter that you got all the card’s details right.
Apple: Prove your identity with a CC neither you or us have ever seen
Re:Time to delete your Glassdoor account
on Thursday March 14, 2024 @02:44PM (#39707504)
Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
Re:Don't Fuck with Paste
on Friday March 08, 2024 @07:20AM (#39640393)
Yeah, banks unfortunately have their opinionated checklists of “best practices”, also know as “what every other bank does”.
Re:German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @01:33PM (#39541932)
In Poland, drinking in public space (with some exceptions) is forbidden. Sometimes police will issue fines even for “intention to drink” if they see a person with an unopened bottle of beer.
UniFi 7
Re:Revisiting KDE
on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:19PM (#34405019)
> there was an ambitious project called Nepomuk for Semantic Desktop and that failed 10 years ago?
Oh, they didn’t fail per se. They just ran out of the 11.5 million EUR grant money.
Re:Revisiting KDE
on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:16PM (#34404990)
https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705
The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop and the infamous file indexer.
Re:New Pegasus spyware abuses identified in Mexico
on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:19PM (#33072336)
That doesn’t stop the DoJ from extraditing foreign nationals who never set foot on US soil before.
Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS
on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:30PM (#33059338)
> Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has become less common.
Expat living in Germany here. You’re absolutely correct according to my experience. In fact, I’ve seen people with PhD put “Dr.” on the mailbox in front of their home.
Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, rec...
on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:22PM (#32870813)
One can argue that under US legal system only.
Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:41AM (#31694052)
> Another way to look at it is that people who other people want to work with get high ratings. Is that bad? From a company culture standpoint, I'm not sure it is.
Depending on who is it that people do and don’t want to work with, we might call it “discrimination against a protected class”, which is at least bad enough that it’s illegal in many countries.
Re:Why I will never buy another Samsung device
on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:02AM (#30426829)
I still remember when Samsung effectively bricked their SSD for Linux users with a faulty firmware update. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900...
Not only did they never revert/fix it, but they had the audacity to blame their customers for using "software that anyone could modify".
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:40PM (#29513728)
Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.
Show HN: A Go package for building ISO images
Re:Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph
on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:46PM (#29257138)
Isn’t the Apache Foundation exactly that?
Re:Europe's Software Problem
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:40PM (#27523512)
This. In addition, in some countries like Germany, having your name connected to a bankruptcy will ruin your credit score, making it difficult to e.g. rent an apartment.
German restaurants object after police use Covid data for crime-fighting
Re:KDE and the Semantic Desktop
on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:03AM (#9211145)
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html
The semantic desktop was nothing more than a way to leech EU grants for "innovation". They've been looking for use cases long after the money ran out.
Re:Docker orchestration
on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:03AM (#9027968)
Not even that is necessary.
> The best solution probably is to create a new database during image creation, but in the official Postgres image this option is still not available.
The official image's README (https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/postgres/) says otherwise - both a user and a database will be created with name $POSTGRES_USER (if set).
Furthermore, one can run postgres in single-user mode to prepare any initial db image on top of the official one.