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corbezzolion Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document

There’s a huge fixed unclosable signup overlay at the bottom so the viewport is limited. Also the content is not scaled down so you have to pan on two axis. Some text is so long it doesn’t fit in the viewport. Nearly literally unusable.

corbezzolion We are investigating reports of degraded performance

GitHub offers like 4 ways to do 2FA. On top of that, your browser or password manager can probably also generate OTP.

corbezzolion M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

Really you’re complaining you can’t plug in a 4th display into your computer? The fraction of the population who does can afford the Max, together with the 3 extra monitors.

I’m not trying to justify Apple here, but this usage seems quite niche and it’s understandable to me to need a non-base setup. It doesn’t sound ridiculous at all. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of notebook users never even plug a single monitor in.

corbezzolion I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

> Some are forced into it.

Judging by the calls I hear, I don’t give them that benefit at all. They sound pretty happy to scam the elderly.

Maybe as a first-responder that could work, but if you’re talking to an elderly and convincing them to hand over hundreds or thousands of dollars, you do not have my sympathy.

corbezzolion I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

For better or for worse, the category of “software that silently listens in on calls” is non-existent due to OS limitations. Generally sounds like a lot of work and computation for a very rare situation.

Lowtech solutions would just be taking the (bank) key away from the elders, just like they’d hide my grandpa’s literal car keys when he was 70 with dementia.

corbezzolion Why can't hotels make showers easier?

Lucky you. My first shower in the US was sitting down in the tub splashing some water from the lower faucet.

corbezzolion From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

Yeah ok but you still need a ticket to board the truck/bus, right? The more people in your family, the more tickets.

The issue isn’t charging for egress, but charging excessively.

corbezzolion Amazon execs intentionally made site shittier to rake in more profit – Lawsuit

What’s wrong with Vice? The website loads fast and I don’t see any paywalls

corbezzolion macOS Sonoma Broke Grep

You make it sound like just because you want and write something it will get merged into a project. It doesn’t work like that. Maintainers have a million reasons to say no and I have one reason to just use a different tool instead.

corbezzolion Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU

Got it, so why not outlaw that? For all we know, they can continue doing what but not show us relevant ads.

I suppose twitter knows nothing about me and shows me stupid gaming ads all the time. I click on them exactly 0 times. Show me something relevant to what I see on HN and probably will even find it useful.

If I can’t block all ads, at least show me something useful.

corbezzolion Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

What does it mean “they’re not meant for it?” I have money on it, some site accepts the card, it works, it worked. The limitation you’re suggesting is purely theoretical.

In my specific case, I needed cash to buy a used vehicle in a country where not everyone has a bank account, so your preconception about money may not apply here.

Wire transfers across borders are expensive and slow anyway. Remitly was available within minutes and at 0 cost (first transfer is free).

corbezzolion Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

Unfortunately it’s not always as easy. Last year I tried to do a remittance of 3500€ and it failed on both a debit and credit card of my bank, blocking them. The bank called me to confirm the transactions, which I did. I tried again and they blocked the card again.

So I did an instant transfer to another bank account and used its debit card without a hitch, as usual.

Some banks just won’t let you use your money as you please. Your luck is in finding a bank that does.

corbezzolion Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

Make sure you’re not visiting with a bookmark that includes the specific language code.

I had a similar issue with some history item that would annoyingly point me to the previous version of a page. Only to realize that I was opening a permalink to it.

corbezzolion Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

I am glad I found a bank (N26) that rarely if ever blocks my payments online. I travel frequently and my previous credit card would block all kinds of payments regularly.

If possible, find yourself a bank that enables you to spend money and leaves “security” in your hands. My 2FA is via app, never SMS.

Side note: someone stole and used my card number and the bank immediately refunded me. Can’t get any better than this.

corbezzolion After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet

1) Pardon me if I’m wrong, but downgrade attacks will be possible for as long as HTTP-non-S is allowed. Browsers could support SSLv2 as long as they treat it as an insecure origin. (This assumes HSTS isn’t used, which definitely isn’t on SSLv2 hosts)

2) This one yes.

corbezzolion Why you should probably be using SQLite

Your argument sounds right but also why use the more difficult tool if the simple one fits your needs? Use right tool for the job.

corbezzolion I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet

Privately agreeing might be preferable in countries where these projects are useful.

corbezzolion Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation

Nations die very rarely so this is probably up for discussion each time. I suppose it does become an issue when in 200 years a new country named Yurnia wants the .yu domain.

corbezzolion Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan

A lot of people travel without research nowadays: book the flight, book the hotel, find everything out as you go. That's how I did my first trip to Japan and I felt like an alien.

corbezzolion Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan

I wouldn't say normal, it depends on the size and availability at the hotel. I also left some baggage in Indonesia for a month, but the hotel was large and lax. In two other similar-sized hotels they were storing the bags either in the open-air lobby or in a small staff-only hallway. Neither place would be suitable for medium-term storage.

corbezzolion Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan

What door? How did they know your address? I don't enter my address when flying. Maybe my miles card has it, but that feels far removed from the baggage handler's computers.

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

A summary search appears to show that the game was riddled with bugs and that killed some momentum. Given the amount of copies sold, it was still probably a success.

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

But technical debt slows everything down. I’ve seen first hand whole modules of a system ignored because nobody wanted to touch them. All the bugs in them can’t be fixed in 5 minutes.

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

> I now refuse my family requests to support their MS-powered machines

No joke, I think I bought my first serious girlfriend a MacBook because I did not want to deal with Windows in my house anymore.

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

The difference is that most countries don't expect the world to bow to them (culturally, technologically, etc). While I used Chinese products, I never had to learn how to spell my name with Chinese characters.

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

> user data should be treated as binary anyway

I don't know about that, there still needs to be some validation. Is your legal name really "Bobby $@134 Tables"? In this case validation comes in the form of "is every character EBCDIC-compatible?"

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

> At some point you have to get with the times.

Nobody wants to spend money and risk everything. There are so many industries where "getting with the times" is absolutely out of the question due to legal issues, as well as momentum. Aviation, healthcare, banking, …

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

The point is that "nobody ever complained except you" and that programmers cost money, so no change is ever made.

Then someone sued and they thought they'd still win this "frivolous litigation" that is "due to a technical limitation that is out of our reach."

corbezzolion EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

Users don't care about technical debt.

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