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naldb··on Discord hack shows risks of online age checks
Encrypted? Encrypted how? How would the employees tasked with age verification access them if they were encrypted?
naldb··on Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes
Security is not a binary state. You can pay as much as you want but there’s no assurance that you won’t be hacked.
naldb··on Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes
That requires cultural changes through a timescale of generations, so it’s not a feasible solution.
naldb··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
I was curious and obviously there is no single exact source but it seems like ~30% of web users have an ad blocker of some kind. Remember that some quite popular browsers include a built-in ad blocker.
naldb··on Sysco Is Not "Ruining Restaurants"
Sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522868

This is the removed comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523057

naldb··on Sysco Is Not "Ruining Restaurants"
It wasn't the article itself that was flagged. The article was allowed to stay posted and there was some discussion about it.

But then someone commented, rightly, that the article was a union hit piece, and that comment was flagged and therefore removed by other users, despite it not breaking any rules.

naldb··on Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says
How will you ignore it when they outlaw cash?
naldb··on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
I also learnt a lot from your tutorial of Flask. Thank you.
naldb··on The Story of 'FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8'
I agree. He shouldn’t have a twitter account.
naldb··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
I’ve never heard of Reddit revealing the nationality of members of any sub. Do you have a source for this?
naldb··on Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him
Spending all day drinking and socialising is a waste of a day? As opposed to what, working? Or maybe watching Netflix at home?
naldb··on Python 3.14
Honestly, it’s pathetic. I know someone will come up with pragmatic reasons for this, but it’s simply pathetic.
naldb··on Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched
In Spain there are half a million more people living off the government than those working in the private sector: https://theobjective.com/economia/macroeconomia/2024-09-16/a...
naldb··on Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says
Stop reading things that upset you.
naldb··on 3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy
Most people have an irrational fear of one or many things, that doesn’t mean those fears have to be entertained.

The media loves to instil fear to get clicks.

naldb··on Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time
Isn’t it just inflation. As time passes there is more fiat in circulation, which means fiat is worth less, which means you need more fiat to buy the same amount of gold.
naldb··on 3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy
That the way the parent comment is written evokes fear unnecessarily.

There are no definite provable effects of exposure of PFAS - in fact our current knowledge of them is so bad that if you use google and find a list of effects on the body from exposure of PFAS the list is endless and full of things that are unrelated, which is obviously impossible and nonsense.

naldb··on How Europe crushes innovation
It’s not “you” failing. If your business fails, everybody gets fired. Why is everybody getting fired better than firing a few people?
naldb··on How Europe crushes innovation
We are talking here about businesses with say 10 employees that go through dire straits and can’t fire people to survive. The only solution is to close down and lay EVERYONE off. IPO? Get rich quick scheme? Why is hyperbole the only response to this actual issue?
naldb··on How Europe crushes innovation
Actually it’s everybody’s problem, since job inflexibility is one of the reasons why Europe is so poor compared to other first world countries.

Who exactly benefits from a business going under? Its bigger competitors? The less well off are the ones that suffer the most from oligarchic sectors and cartels.

naldb··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
The best thing to happen to Linux Desktop is not that it has improved but that its biggest competitor has dropped the ball? That’s not really praising it.
naldb··on How Europe crushes innovation
How do you know at the time of hiring that months or years down the road the business won’t go well?
naldb··on How Europe crushes innovation
It’s very easy: spend an insane amount of money, usually at a time when your business can’t afford it.
naldb··on State Terror, American Style
> there was one time I crossed the street to avoid someone who was clearly homeless and mentally ill, but I never found myself feeling unsafe.

Seems a contradiction.

naldb··on Generation X may be the first to need a universal basic income
Why are these people so obsessed with creating inflation? What does inflation do for them? I suppose they expect all this money to trickle up?
naldb··on Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers
No, this is democracy in action. People don’t want noise. Antisocial characters will have to deal with it.