This sounds so weird. Is there a legal requirement for this?
Does this offer any type of real protection? Or is there a code of conduct that that intelligence agencies never hire people with foreign nationalities?
Readit Newsfimdomeio commented on AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/a... · Posted by u/pulisse
Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? I get that they don't want to process fraudulent transactions, but I'd think the response to a higher percentage of fraud from some industry would be to charge them more. It doesn't make sense to me why they would be concerned about the content of games, as long as everything is legal and the parties concerned aren't subject to sanctions.
Some of these games seem completely abhorrent, and probably illegal in more restrictive jurisdictions, but not the United States. And I've not seen any suggestion they're funding terrorism or something. So I'm perplexed.
If I remember correct from the hot money podcast https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... part of the problem for the credit card companies is figuring what are the boundaries of legality. Countries have very different laws. Things like representing homosexuality or age of consent are very different and credit cards feel that it is a risky business because of that.
fimdomeio commented on Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver github.com/FoxMoss/libt9... · Posted by u/foxmoss
The great thing about those keyboards was that a lot of people could just turn off text prediction and type text with a single hand without looking at the screen.
On a broader note for the ones out there not familiar with this "timeless" classic:
Falsehoods programmers believe about time gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca
fimdomeio commented on Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser github.com/DustinBrett/da... · Posted by u/DustinBrett
This is something that was clearly done just by the love of the craft and congratulations but also feel this could have a huge potential in real world applications.
First crazy idea that came to mind was a multi user desktop environment for an intranet where everyone has their own desktop but could also request access to other desktops entering and leaving them as they are working together through the day.
I love the inside joke for hacker news addicts in the submission title.
Also my cousin as no idea I'm making this comment.
fimdomeio commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
Dear Mozilla, just give an option to pay you money for a browser that does not make any compromise in privacy.
Most of users are not able to keep themselves safe in the internet - they want to install all kind of crap without thinking too much.
All of this is companies making it possible that average Joe could just click links, install any kind of crap and still be somewhat secure.