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Readit Newsmonksy commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) · Posted by u/david927
Well from my view as European working in finance. Handling money for customers to pay (buy apps) likely requires an e money license (not sure about other states). And with this there is lot of things coming, like AML and what not.
So disabling the account might be due to regulations required for the e money license.
Of course Support should be able to resolve this if proves are given
> And with this there is lot of things coming, like AML and what not
Whats coming?
monksy commented on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says finance.yahoo.com/news/ch... · Posted by u/goodway
monksy commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
> This is opaque to the service
The "service" is irrelevant. I think most people would trust Porno Hub to be discreet about their visits. That's in their business interest. But now they have to tell your government about all the times you're visiting Porno Hub.
And nobody should trust their government.
Also, keep in mind that western governments share with each other. There will come a time when Australians will try to enter USA but they'll get flagged at the border because the AUS government shared that this particular individual visited Porno Hub and a few other age-restricted websites 7,000 times in the last 30 days. Red Flag!
Not just the US, but image entering Qatar or Indonesia with them having that knowledge of your access to "adult content".
The problem with Scala 3 is that nobody asked for it. The problem with Scala 2 is that the type inference part of the compiler is still broken. Nobody worked on that. Instead they changed the language in ways that don't address complaints. Completely ignore the market and deliver a product nobody wants. That's what happened here.
PS Perhaps they should make an actual unit test suite for their compiler. Instead they have a couple of dozen tests and have to guess if their compiler PR will break things.
It was absolutely amazing how stubborn and ridiculous the whole bracket-less syntax change was handled. It was basically a dictatorial decision that they pretended to be a community decision. It was just pushed and tons of people voiced their disapproval. In the end it was "so bad so sad you can always reenable brackets".
They did it to try to appeal to Pythonists.. turns out that wasn't why Pythonists didn't use scala in the first place.
monksy commented on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched haveibeenflocked.com/... · Posted by u/pkaeding
I would also recommend Benn Jordan's YT channel, he has a couple of videos covering flock cameras. His latest one is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
edit: grammar
Unrelated but he's been getting threats of violence. I'm not sure whats going on with that.
monksy commented on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months aitradearena.com/research... · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
> Grok ended up performing the best while DeepSeek came close to second. Almost all the models had a tech-heavy portfolio which led them to do well. Gemini ended up in last place since it was the only one that had a large portfolio of non-tech stocks.
I'm not an investor or researcher, but this triggers my spidey sense... it seems to imply they aren't measuring what they think they are.
They're not measuring performance in the context of when things happen and in the time that they are. It think its only showing recent performance and popularity. To actually evaluate how these do you need to be able to correct the model and retrain it per different time periods and then measure how it would do. Then you'll get better information from the backtesting.
monksy commented on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? disassociated.com/persona... · Posted by u/gnabgib
One thing that i would prefer in biometrics would be that the iris/fingerprints get treated as what they are publicly available and easily obtainable data.
At worst using it a a secret key is similar to using your name as a hidden variable for authorisation, whent it sshould strictly be a identification token.And once leaked you cant revoke it .
Back on topic , a Gattaca type system is unbelievably bleak and when(not if) it is finallly shoved through.It wont take long to foist it on the rest of the planet (see the recent visa requirements viz social media and insane bond requirements demanded of some countries like Mali citizens being asked for $15K per visa application).
Absolutely not. That is legitimately beyond insane.
Fingerprints are used for investigating crimes. Giving them the access to this information before hand puts you as being investigated everytime they find a fingerprint at a crime scene.
monksy commented on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move makeuseof.com/androids-si... · Posted by u/josephcsible
The funny thing here: They have active spyware and malware on their app store. They go by vague offical sounding names like "Gallery" and "Messages" "Text Messages"
I've reported it and that goes to an google form where the app stays up. I've even gone farenough where I've escalated through internal Google contacts. Nothing is done. It's not sideloading that's the issue.
It's google. This is a hostile behavior to all users of the devices and developers of their platform.
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My thoughts on where this might go:
We're getting into an era where there are organizations that are violently hostile to your device and they demand that. These people believe that the device you paid for and the service you paid for is theirs.
I.e. mobile ids from governments, which may introduce client side scanning. More so, theres a hostile push for "age verification" which would lean on the Play integrity chain. Want to find out who does this? Look into Magisck on reddit and the apps people have difficultly using. This is not a case of "someone wants to hack something".. it's all about control.
If you're watching the Root/third party space.. right now there are issues running apps. Some apps scan for "SuperSU" app and will refuse to run. (As in they're not sandboxed)