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Based on your phrasing it sounds like you think owning a national ID card is commonplace in Sweden. The national ID card system isn't widely used at all, most people use either their drivers license or passport when they need to identify themselves.

The only thing everyone has is a person number, and the difference is that it is explicitly considered public information and you can get anyone's person number by just asking the Tax Agency. It's just a convenient way to keep track of people, not a way to actually identify yourself.

Re:The impossible dream of USB-C on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:59AM (#15476536)
The newer ones don't have the color coding anymore, they're all just black, and the always-on ones have an additional symbol under the SS<USB> symbol.
Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:17AM (#15294676)
A lot of JavaScript things have been buggy for me with encrypted.google.com as well. For example the Google timer cards and such often just won't start at all, while they'll work fine on the regular google.com.
Re:Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:42AM (#14910919)
Nomad is mentioned in the article, so they hardly forgot about it.
> But having another XML dialect that's not actual XML…

HTML is based on SGML, it was never an XML dialect.

Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:12AM (#13722865)
Regarding tags, https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag seems like a really interesting idea.
Re:Announcing Pipenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:08PM (#13464301)
Non-conformant? PEP-394 says that scripts should only use python in the shebang if it's compatible with both py2 and py3, and be updated to work with both, or to use python2 otherwise.
Re:Announcing Pipenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:05PM (#13464265)
virtualenv resolves the interpreter when you run virtualenv, and if you specify a different interpreter with `-p` it will resolve the path to the interpreter and then run virtualenv again using it.
Re:Announcing Pipenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:59PM (#13464201)
> My main gripe with virtualenv is that it's required at all: other interpreted languages, like node and elixir for example, have figured out how to handle non-global dependencies without a third-party package.

venv is in the stdlib since 3.3. (Though I agree with the annoyance at the need.)

Re:Announcing Pipenv on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:58PM (#13464185)
I agree with almost all of this, but...

> - you can't easily move virtualenvs;

`virtualenv --relocatable`, though it's weird that it's not the default, yes.

Re:Building Jarvis on Monday December 19, 2016 @04:45PM (#13215247)
That would just follow a singular simple algorithm, not really intelligence in any sense.
Re:Git from the inside out on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:12PM (#12806366)
And people not knowing how Git actually works is in my experience where most people's problems with Git stems from.
Re:Improving license and patent issues in the LLVM community on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:50AM (#12532338)
You really shouldn't call it “Apache <anything>” without the express approval of the Apache foundation. If you want to call it something other than “Modified Apache 2.0”, you'll have to come up with a new name.

Though what's interesting is that since the license text itself is not explicitly under any license, it's technically just under regular copyright.

Re:The Dropbox hack is real on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:21AM (#12411230)
You should have the backup codes stored somewhere more secure than your computer either way, quite possibly printed out.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:42AM (#12381065)
Disregarding everything else pointed out in this thread, there's also the part where the website for the older name of the company, 1for.one, still lists Penny Kim as the Marketing Director: http://web.1for.one/digital-press-kit/

And, just in case they now decide to remove that, I also saved it to the wayback machine, available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160829104022/http://web.1for.o...

So good try, scumbag.

Re:Keybase.io on Saturday February 15, 2014 @08:51PM (#7246307)
Not with DNSSEC, and the second part is covered by DANE.
Re:Keybase.io on Saturday February 15, 2014 @08:39PM (#7246284)
PGP keyservers talk to each other, if you send your key to GnuPG keyserver it'll end up on MIT's keyserver pretty soon.
Re:OpenPGP Best Practices on Sunday November 03, 2013 @05:32PM (#6665435)
Which already exists.
Re:OpenPGP Best Practices on Sunday November 03, 2013 @05:31PM (#6665427)
Implied portability in what way?
Re:Mailpile – taking e-mail back on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @10:49AM (#6250674)
No, with DANE nothing rests on CA's. With DANE domain owners store their keys in the DNS, and the DNS records are signed with DNSSEC
Re:New York City Launches .nyc Domain Names on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @05:57PM (#5981010)
Yeah, .nyc is such a narrow area that it doesn't deserve it's own TLD.
Re:Let's deploy via Git on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @12:57PM (#5940796)
If anything you should have the webroot directory in the git repo, not have the repo be the webroot
Re:PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0 on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @04:14AM (#5938157)
The point is that neither you nor anyone else could check for it if you/they wanted to.
Re:Let's deploy via Git on Sunday June 23, 2013 @05:50PM (#5929663)
If there's anything in your repo history that you don't want a hacker to find you can just remove it and force push.
Re:This is a web page on Saturday June 22, 2013 @08:03AM (#5923308)

  > Second, understanding text requires knowing how the 
  > information it contains is encoded (what language it
  > is written in). Drawings are far more universal.
So you're saying that you can look at those old drawings and understand what they mean?
Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs on Saturday June 22, 2013 @07:44AM (#5923267)
Coreutils come from the GNU project so I wouldn't really count it. :p
Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs on Friday June 21, 2013 @01:05PM (#5919341)
Wait, there's programs that use info? o.O
Re:A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter on Friday June 21, 2013 @09:58AM (#5918031)
They could at least give you the choice, especially now that ~60% of web users use a web browser with a built in PDF viewer and I'd bet that a large part of the remaining 40% already have a PDF viewer with a browser plugin installed.
Re:Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:10AM (#5905031)
http://www.ehow.com/how_6943340_extract-split-zip-files.html would suggest otherwise, though I can't try it myself at the moment.

  > … 7z file format that is opensource …
.ZIP is in the public domain ;)
Re:Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:23AM (#5879279)
It's silly to recommend a program when complaining about a format. But yes it would be better if they used zip, which also happens to be integrated in Windows Explorer.

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