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xquce commented on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down    · Posted by u/mousepad12
xquce · 16 days ago
Dane by choice (refugee). Would just add as a counterweight to the negative views from people outside the country.

From a technical and user point of view, MitID have had less outages than Cloudflare, AWS and MS Azure in the last year. While I agree with the single point of failure, I also like that I setup my startup with all government and banking online via a login I had the last decade, painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document in many a unsecured ways I heard from my US and Other European friends (outside the Nordic countries).

Yes we Danes trust our institutions more than others and trust is given by default and then lost, rather then "earned" (I would argue bought) in other places.

xquce commented on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun   europeanbusinessmagazine.... · Posted by u/NewCzech
aydyn · a month ago
> If your debit card is stolen, your bank has to return all money that was used or withdrawn to you. Since it is unauthorized use of your funds. Same for credit cards of course. Such money is returned swiftly.

This may be what the letter of the law says but this isn't reality. Using debit puts you at greater financial risk.

xquce · a month ago
“Using debit puts you at a greater financial risk.”

What how? Surely the US populations credit card debt dorf even the global populations debit card fraud numbers. So while my whole family in a combined 200 years of adulthood have indeed lost some 1000 euro total in fraud, it's not thing compared to the average Americans credit card bills.

I'd rather risk the street criminals with my debit than the suit wearing ones with their credit.

xquce commented on Apple I Advertisement (1976)   apple1.chez.com/Apple1pro... · Posted by u/janandonly
MilnerRoute · a month ago
This week Bruce Perens (who wrote the original Open Source definition) remembered talking to Steve Jobs about Open Source back in 2000.

https://thenewstack.io/50-years-ago-a-young-bill-gates-took-...

Perens had accepted a position as senior Linux/Open Source Global Strategist for Hewlett-Packard, which he describes as leaving Apple “to work on Open Source. So I asked Steve: ‘You still don’t believe in this Linux stuff, do you?'” And Perens still remembers how Steve Jobs had responded.

“I’ve had a lot to do with building two of the world’s three great operating systems” — which Jobs considered to be NeXT OS, MacOS and Windows. “‘And it took a billion-dollar lab to make each one. So no, I don’t think you can do this.'”

Perens says he later "won that argument" when Jobs stood onstage in front of a slide that said ‘Open Source: We Think It’s Great!’ as he introduced the Safari browser."

xquce · a month ago
That's interesting! However I would argue Jobs sadly won that argument, as there really didn't come any open source os for neither phones or major push on PCs in the almost 30 years since that exchange.

While yes some software have come in that format, it took the big 3 to push the server Linux based clouds, Google to push it on phone, tablets and laptops and now Steam to make a push for the average gamer.

This is not to discredit the work being done outside those lab's which very much build on the work for free or by foundations, however the first versions just don't capture a majority of the available markets which the OSes Jobs mention very much did and the others by the billion dollar labs since.

xquce commented on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/pera
raffael_de · 2 months ago
The disrespectful, colonialist treatment of Greenland by Denmark is sufficiently well documented. And if you think Europe stands a chance in a war against US then I don't even know what to say anymore ...
xquce · 2 months ago
No one is calling for war, but it's not like that documented history happened in this century. Greenland had been part of Denmark since the vikings. Surely we can get past the history and talk in today's terms. The people of Greenland have a voice in Danish politics and both the people and politicians said NO to wanting to have US rule them and YES to stay with Denmark.

So yes, defending Greenland becomes a case of helping a people stay free and not invaded, no matter the enemy.

It's silly to say "well we have no chance against" because then you can end that with China, Russia or even India.

xquce commented on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”   office.com... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
burnt-resistor · 2 months ago
Expect Clippy in Notepad, VS Code, and Github soon is my bet, along with suggestions to spend money on a "today only" subscription offer.
xquce · 2 months ago
Even worse, meet Mico (as in “Mi”crosoft “Co”pilot).

https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/experiments/mico

xquce commented on Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/binning
xquce · 4 months ago
As a dane, this is horrible, and a racist colonial thing that needs to be gotten rid of. However the US is on a systematic mission to tear up Greenland in a attempt to aquire it, even as the people there voted to stay with Denmark. Remember the US president actually threaten a small EU and NATO country to give him their land? For this none technews to hit HN seems like a further attempt of that propaganda campaign.
xquce commented on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"   swiss.social/@swaldorff/1... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
stefs · 6 months ago
"specialist hellhole" :D
xquce · 6 months ago
I'll leave the autocorrect as is
xquce commented on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"   swiss.social/@swaldorff/1... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
TazeTSchnitzel · 6 months ago
I don't think Denmark in particular is preparing, because at the end of the year their national postal service will cease to deliver letters (after the government removed the legal requirement for it to do so), and more than 85% of Danes will only be able to receive government and commercial letters in digital form via a privately owned cloud service (e-Boks). That is an alarming level of concentration. If I were hypothetically in control of a state that was planning to go to war with Denmark and had the resources for hybrid warfare, I know which company's servers I'd want to take down first.
xquce · 6 months ago
You seen to have failed to understand both solutions and changes you mention... the technology stack of our digital post and the change of letter delivery (I don't blame you, many of my fellow Danes don't understand it either).

But Eboks is not holding all digital post of all our citizens, it's one of at least 3 services who we can choose from to read our mail from the governmental organizations. It's a freemarket compromise with multiple private and public solutions the public can choose from.

Also while yes the private company that did deliver physical mail no longer will, another have taken its place for physical letter... Isn't that freemarket capitalism? Why should one private entity have the contract for all time?

Your post does read like the old "Denmark is a specialist hellhole" posts from the conservatives when Bernie Sanders dared using the country as an example of doing Social Wellfare + Free market right.

xquce commented on AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder   resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/findhorn
oceanplexian · 9 months ago
> I didn't mention yet that if you flunked the same exam typically 3 times (depending on the university), you have "finally failed" (endgültig nicht bestanden), and are not allowed anymore to study the same degree course at every German university.

When Europeans wonder why they are falling behind the United States both economically and technologically (Especially in the AI race), here's a perfect example of why. A culture that turns you into a some kind of a permanent failure because you failed to check a box some arbitrary number of times isn't one that produces innovation.

xquce · 9 months ago
And when Muricans wonder why the rest of the world laughs at your simplestic greed based view of "winning", this comment is a perfect example of why.

What a weird way to try and connect inter continental economics and private company valuation as a sole metric for success or achievement with test taking at a university level in Germany...

xquce commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
d_tr · 10 months ago
I thought Windows had a generic subsystem for "warming up" frequently used apps for faster launches.
xquce · 10 months ago
People don't use Office frequently, and then when they do it's slow and a bad look. So they will cheat in a way that prioritize their own software, and then every one else will then that feature loses all value, as all programs launch on startup as not to be "slow"

u/xquce

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