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sc11 commented on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach   theverge.com/news/797051/... · Posted by u/PaulKeeble
raxxorraxor · 2 months ago
> I don't particularly blame any one corporation, this is a systemic issue of governments not having/not enforcing serious security measures

Wrong, governments caused the issue because they demand customers to ID themselves. There exists not a single viable security measure aside from not collecting the data. Government is also not able to propose any security measures.

Unlikely that the data will ever be deleted now, no matter if Discord pays any ransoms or not.

sc11 · 2 months ago
In the context of age limits, that is wrong. The German eID has a zero knowledge method of proving that your age is above a certain number without revealing anything else. That method has been around for like 15 years and these days, thanks to smartphones with NFC readers, is quite user-friendly.

In practice it's basically not used anywhere except for cigarette vending machines because it's much simpler to hire some dubious third party "wave your ID in front of your camera" service

Edit: mandatory age verification is still an atrocious idea for a number of other reasons, just to be clear

sc11 commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year   helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
WHA8m · 5 months ago
Tangential: I'd love to vote for a political party whose only thing is to copy stuff that works in other neighbor countries. Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel or is too proud or something, idk.
sc11 · 5 months ago
You're basically describing Volt Europa. They're having some success with that approach in Germany and the Netherlands, primarily at the municipality level
sc11 commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
sc11 · 6 months ago
I'd be happy to pay for premium if it actually removed all ads from the platform. I wish they forced creators to declare which segments of a video are ads for their sponsors and then removed or skipped them for premium users. Basically built-in Sponsorblock except not crowd-sourced.

Alternatively, many creators already upload ad-free versions to their Patreon or other paywalled platforms, they could upload those to YouTube as well to be shown to premium users if YT allowed for it and forced them to.

Alas I'm not willing to pay 13€ a month for just slightly fewer ads.

sc11 commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
magicalhippo · 6 months ago
I get they want to work against ad blockers, but as a Premium member I really wish there was an easy way to watch a video without it polluting my history or recommendations. I don't want to watch ads just due to that.
sc11 · 6 months ago
You can remove videos from your watch history and in my experience that does have an impact on the recommendations as it's not factored in anymore
sc11 commented on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph   abstimmung.eu/git/2024... · Posted by u/mxschll
amai · 9 months ago
> "Law XYZ, Paragraph 5a, Sentence 3 is changed to read as follows: '...', Sentence 7 is appended with '...', Sentence 8 is removed"

That is basically a manual description of a git diff.

sc11 · 9 months ago
With the main difference being that you don't get an actually usable visual diff for free but instead have to buy those from third party vendors to make any use out of the manual diffs.
sc11 commented on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?    · Posted by u/jack_riminton
sc11 · a year ago
Matlab plays a sound on error by default (on some systems through the internal speaker, bypassing volume controls) and I always found it irritating.

The only use case I see for them is something running in the background that takes a while and might get interrupted.

sc11 commented on We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach   zerforschung.org/posts/fr... · Posted by u/mrzool
HPsquared · 3 years ago
It depends if you're going from "centre to centre" or "somewhere near Cologne to somewhere near Berlin".
sc11 · 3 years ago
Sure but assuming you're traveling from centre to centre, which is where population densities are highest, is a sound assumption. Otherwise you can always find spots where getting to the airport, train station, flixbus stop or whatever takes extremely long with one mode of transport over the other.

Doesn't distract from the point that long distances busses are very much not an alternative to rail (or planes for that matter) unless price is the deciding factor. And even the latter is questionable in many cases thanks to the 49€ ticket.

sc11 commented on We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach   zerforschung.org/posts/fr... · Posted by u/mrzool
com · 3 years ago
Train and bus normally have that “10-20 minutes ahead” planning to be at the station.

Planes? At least an hour, and if you cut into that, and the queues or security theatre more mind boggling than normal, you’ve missed your flights.

Eurostar is similar to airports, so I’m glowering at them too!

sc11 · 3 years ago
Even if you aren't at the airport that early, it still takes you an hour to get from the airport to the city centre in Berlin, and about half an hour to get to the airport from Cologne's city centre. That's by train, by car it takes even longer.
sc11 commented on We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach   zerforschung.org/posts/fr... · Posted by u/mrzool
pixel3234 · 3 years ago
Stuff like this is why I prefer to take a bus in Germany.

Trains are overbooked with free tickets and promotions (free pass for entire summer for 50 euro). While underlying infrastructure is not ready for such load. It leads to delays and mistakes. Plus railway stations in Germany look like homeless shelters!

On other side Germany has excellent motorway network. Flixbus is very cheap, quite comfortable, goes all the way to airport, and always on time!

sc11 · 3 years ago
Let's see. Cologne to Berlin takes ~4:40 hours by train. Flixbus takes 9-10 hours, not counting the time it takes to get to their departure station which would involve a train journey as it's not actually in the city centre.

Flixbus is 50€ cheaper when traveling that route tomorrow but that's about all it has going for it.

sc11 commented on The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer   fasterthanli.me/articles/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
verpen · 3 years ago
Well, I'd rather that creepy males didn't parade their sexual fetishes everywhere and pretend that it's totally normal and fine to do so.
sc11 · 3 years ago
It's used by lesbians just as often and giving vs receiving has nothing to do with fetishes. You can have the most vanilla sex imaginable and still have a top/bottom.

u/sc11

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