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balboah··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
In Sweden there’s at least one more competitor to BankID called Freja. There’s also some kind of EU-level system.

Would be cool if multiple actors were allowed and shared the same kind of auth signing method so that there aren’t just one point of failure. Or something distributed like a blockchain type of signing method, at least I don’t think Bitcoin or Ethereum have downtime that often, and authorization should probably be read heavy only to check if some identity is still allowed

balboah··on Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
Except here in the EU where they increase import tax because china producing “too cheap” EVs
balboah··on Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress
I often replace searching for something on google with ChatGPT these days. I expect the way we interact with information to be replaced completely in the future. Why would I skim through all those clickbaits and ads instead of getting a tailored result of exactly the information I was looking for
balboah··on How likely is losing a Google account?
Used fastmail (and proton) for a year or two. Had to go back to google because there’s just too much spam otherwise
balboah··on TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf]
I got the TiDB coffee mug, it looks better than the MongoDB mug
balboah··on Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server
I'm running my rpi 4 as a kubernetes controller on Ubuntu. It also has wireguard hooked up with 8 dedicated server nodes. The SD card class A2 has been enough for disk performance, no SSD needed.

It's mounted on a din rail with the DINr mount plate and a Poe hat, makes it very compact and it fits in my small fiber network clauset. Planning to add 2 more for hight availability.

balboah··on All-in-One DNS block list
This list can be used on Android or iOS by downloading the Blokada app
balboah··on Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop
Could you sum up how someone is able to read keybase exploding messages when a key is compromised? After it explodes
balboah··on Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number
You can also show fake ID at a competing telco sales point and tell them you want to move the number in Sweden. Happened to me that depending on which provider the call was coming from, sometimes it would reach me and sometimes not.
balboah··on The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (2016)
I’m Swedish, didn’t quite get the part about J and Y being pronounced the same? Sounds different to me
balboah··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
I’ve made a http json service that allocates IPs and configures WireGuard. Not sure if it can be used for this project but here it is: https://github.com/balboah/wireguard-operator
balboah··on EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution designed from scratch for containers
Yet the design of the website reminds me of the 90's
balboah··on Apple Watch Series 5
Don't fall for it. I tried switching for a trial period but Spotify owns iTunes in so many ways. Especially the discover weekly list
balboah··on China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining
in the long run I believe cryptos that doesn't require mining this way will be more popular, such as EOS and maybe Ethereum soon. But mining will probably never go away completely
balboah··on How to build your own CDN with Kubernetes
Which is also supported by cloudflare so a bit of both worlds: https://www.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/
balboah··on Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper
Where I live (Europe) I can use Tibber which has an api that shows future hourly pricing. This way I can tell the car to charge the cheapest
balboah··on At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Makes me think of an episode in the TV series black mirror: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/
balboah··on Apple Music now has 38M paid members
I tried apple music only because of this. And really tried making it understand what music I like by copying the discovery playlist from Spotify and actively liking and disliking songs for months. But it's really useless in comparison. Also podcasts are missing, weird that it's taking so long