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This is short on info -- but are we talking about a verification process that is separate to the "passport check" which Ryanair requires for all non-UK/EU passport holders?

Unlike many other UK/EU budget airlines, Ryanair requires a passport check to issue your boarding pass... and this kind of sounds like that?

If this is the "passport check," I wouldn't be surprised if Ryanair is doing it to avoid the check-in lines at the airport. They are particularly cost and efficiencies focused, after all.

Netlify, funnily enough, does nearly all my heavy-lifting for me. It's wild how much of the final stages of deployment are just handled so smoothly (even if the pricing is kinda ridiculous now.)

Github Actions for test running — replacing Travis after they removed their free-tier for OSS.

My first and immediate thought was "there is a lot of blue pigment in these clothes."

When you search for early century Guatemalan fabrics and materials, it is difficult to find examples of blue fabrics, as I imagine, because the materials were just too expensive and not broadly available.

... but AI does not know that.

The cynic in me wants to say that you could be very concise with the language you choose to use when communicating with law enforcement. You are not obligated to hand-over the footage, but I can understand your willingness to assist. My concern is that, now that you know your footage may contain evidence, or if it does actually contain evidence (which you may not know is material to their investigation), then if they believe you are withholding it intentionally, you might be accused of evidence tampering.

I'd not volunteer any further information until they reach out to you again, then I would say something to the affect of "I am unable to provide this footage as, to the best of my knowledge, I do not know to extent to which it exists and do not know how to it can be retrieved. This information is with Google."

Dissent was a pre mass-layoff phenomenon.

Things get worse once someone realises how it can be monetised...

"?" is a very useful if your search is being treated as a URL instead of a search query, i.e. if you need to search for something which ends in ".io"

> Even though you’re increasingly being annoyed by recruiters LinkedIn does little to stop it.

... I joined LinkedIn to connect with recruiters.

Why would anyone want a professional social network if you aren't specifically job searching or seeking clients?

I don't feel the author has made a clear point here. Yes, the model has switched from companies posting content to individual posting content, but I don't understand how that is a problem. It's a mechanism for businesses and professionals to connect. What does the author expect it to be?

Seems reasonable to me. The judge acknowledges that, without context, an emoji can be construed to mean many things and it should be interpretted with caution.

It sounds reasonable for the courts to interpret the emoji as acceptance given the context of all the previously communication, particularly if the farmer had agreed to similar sales before, with similar conditions, using similar language.

Naomi Wu has been somewhat outspoken (by China standards) about being gay and her sexuality; the government's handling of to COVID and the lock-downs; and homophobic attacks in Hong Kong, amongst a myriad of other topics. All in a way which recognised the constraints she was under whilst still providing interesting cultural/local knowledge.

I'm hoping a fan would know more, but I'm guessing that this has happened as her partner is a Uyghur and she has been travelling back and forth to Xinjiang — which of all the previous topics combined — feels like the one most likely to get attention from higher-up than just the municipal governments.

All that being said, she is remarkably brave and I really hope she is safe.

The author has missed a critical insight from their evaluation — the fact that they could develop a tool in vanilla JS more simply than React is only because they first developed it in React. Developing with a framework gives you the advantage over bespoke tooling — you can experiment and iterate faster. It is only having had that experience, and exploring the problem-domain so clearly by building it once, does the second build happen to quickly.

So yes, maybe React was over-engineered for their problem. But I think they only realised they over-engineered their problem after having over-engineered their problem...

A better point would be "I used React to test-build an app then to build it again natively for speed."

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As an aside, I do agree that React (and I'm extrapolating this to many of the web frameworks) have an incredibly steep learning-curve and onboarding cost. I'm an avid Vue fan and I've found the architecture around Vue 3's "single-page components" to have created so much technical debt and complexity that I spend more time debugging the build pipeline then actually developing. I still like the flexibility and acceleration I get with Vue, but Vite often leaves me feeling like I'm just fighting the framework... I guess I just miss Gulp.

In this instance, it would be more than "look and feel" and more "would a person assume this project is done by the original Factorio developers" — are they misleading the audience. They copied much of the UI from the Factorio site for instance — so if they wanted you could make the argument the intent is to mislead.

It's like "Carcinisation" for tech companies.

It's almost like the growth plan of every tech company in the last decade or so... Grow big by burning capital ("to hell with cost of acquisition our CLV will be so high once they're locked in"); build an ad network; realise an operating profit; fight tooth and nail to protect that ad network...

Even Uber is becoming an ads company...

Until a competitor devices a revenue stream that is just as profitable as advertising and data capture (obviously it won't be a subscription model) then we're stuck in the perpetual cycle of "enshittification" as companies move to protect their revenue.

No, people transition to align their gender with their physical or sexual characteristics.

(I am trying really hard to be polite because this is HN and people show that curtousey, but what you have written is not only incorrect but offensive and I implore you to seek out different topics that those which only see the world from the perspective of male sexual objectification.)

I think historically it was customers — it wouldn't bring new customers. It might make the existing customers happy, but I can't think of a segment of customers who are on the fence about a Mac because there aren't gaming options.

Nowadays, hardware. Apple Silicon is so far away from the existing gaming hardware (somewhat with regards to ARM, not discounting mobile devices, and the custom-built integrated GPU's with shared memory) that supporting games would add whole new complicated use-cases to their chip designs — to effectively reach no new customers.

All that said, the Game Porting Toolkit highlights that, for people to take their VR offering seriously, Apple has to take games, or at least their engines, seriously.

I'm skeptical it'll turn Apple into a gaming destination — but Apple Silicon is truly impressive and it would be a industry wide shock if they suddenly made gaming a key strategic direction.

From a brand perspective, being a B Corp is certainly a positive for both the socially conscientious end-consumer and any sustainable organisations which want a B2B relationship.

That overhead is the extrinsic price you pay for B Corp status, and like any other organisation membership programme, I'm sure some organisations will eventually drop from the certification due to time or restriction on their trade. But that is actually desirable, if its valuable to you, you'll find a way for your organisation to do it. And if you can't meet those requirements, and drop/don't apply, then it only adds more value to those who do have the status.

I'm not aware of anything which makes B Corp a particularly new idea — there are a few membership programmes (or even corporate awards which require membership) which have sustainable or fair work requirements. Subjectively, I feel that B Corp is executed well and the brand value it provides, for the time being, is worthwhile for smaller organisations to consider.

Wax sealed cardboard is certainly viable. And regular cardboard is fine for fruit and vegetables.

It is remarkable at how much this reads like the rants of an incel — "it's everyone else's responsibility but my own... society is at fault because of women... maybe treat me nicer and I won't be a misogynist..."

The anti-trans remarks at the end is a strong indicator this author has not exceed their incel views, rather, just hidden it with a smug "I've grown and are thus better than you," which is so overtly transparent I thought this might've been a parody.

Not OP but increasingly cardboard with minimal plastic for lids or seals. Unfortunately few biodegradable products.

I believe the same technique was used with early "live webcams" too — utilising a quirk (or maybe it was an intentional feature) of the GIF format allowed the server to just "send more frames."

I seem to recall GIF even allowed you to change the palette mid-animation for this purpose (although would love to know if there was any other purpose.)

Had the side-effect of making it impossible to download the GIF as the server would never close the connection.

Similar experience, IBS + anxiety combo knowing me out on the daily. CBT was also the only thing I've tried which I would say had a positive long-term and measurable improvement.

(In the UK, CBT is a common treatment for IBS and free with the NHS. It was never recommended to me in Australia, and had I known, I would've sought it our far earlier in life.)

I do love this argument against GDPR (or any data protection) because it often comes down to "Screw the US consumer, I'm profitable because they have no protections, so no one should have any."

... which is kinda the US business sentiment in general, I suppose.

Funnily enough, I work in technology in Europe and have consulted on GDPR compliance.

Organisations either care a lot of about their data obligations and have dedicated teams and reviews, or simply don't care, and don't want that cost passed on to them. And service providers, not wanting to lose a sale, just go ahead with whatever is easier. In this case, they shot themselves in the foot by not conducting due diligence for what would have been a fairly easy to recognise issue.

(or worse, were advised, and that advise was incorrect. But based on what I can translate in the original document, that is may not have been the case.)

The article title is "Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?"

And its a good point — broad data collection has always attracted the mire of European regulators, and in the decision they state that they find that reCaptcha serves as both a security and analytics tool (due to its broad data capture.) I can't argue with that definition.

The solution, for Google, is to only conduct telemetry after the user has authorised that telemetry, allowing reCaptcha to function without the data collection consent. They already have such functionality in Google Analytics, but arguably, might be less valuable for Google without that data.

For the businesses using reCaptcha, its a problem. The article makes a fair point that you can't use the service if the user declines consent. But it is a reminder that any business operating in the EU at this scale must incorporate a data privacy specialist into their requirements gathering and review processes. It's just the price of the ticket to play in the EU.

Late-stage capitalism is getting pretty wild.

I would argue the best indicator is that, after all this time, productivity has not dropped, businesses are not failing, unemployment has not sharply risen, etc. Everyone is making record profits.

(but it would be a hard case to prove, at macro-level, given all the other recent factors which would also impact those metrics.)

... I guess I've not heard of any businesses failing specifically because of WFH.

Metastability is a nice abstraction for exactly this topic.

I can't recall a WFH article that didn't just boil down to a CEO or adjacent just "vibing" things weren't working.