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No, it is not. In Spain, national and regional administrations support different methods for digital identification by their citizens. One is the certificate embedded into the chip in the national id card, arguably in everybody’s pocket, but, effectively so cumbersome to extract that virtually no one makes use of. That's the one this website claims to supports. Others methods are certificates issued by The Ministry of Treasury among others, downloadable after in-person identification, so used by far more people than the former, but, then again, complicated to use on mobile devices, and lastly specialized official TOTP apps which issue temporary codes for an authentication service that government web pages plug into. The latter, not supported by this webpage, is, I assume, by far the one used most commonly.

ZeroTier just changed their pricing model, and their free Basic tier reduces the number of includes devices from 25 to 10 [1] (their Pricing page [2] still says 25, but I assume that’s a typo). Exactly two years ago they went from 50 free devices to 25 [3], so I guess it’s a trend.

According to their blog post, “current entitlements for our existing free users will remain unchanged”, but I wonder, as I am blocked from accessing the dashboard [4] by a screen that forces me to choose between Basic (free, 10 devices) and Essential ($2 per device after 10th).

This follows the recent news of ZeroTier having just raised $13.5M [5].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240729091309/https://www.zerot... [2]: https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/ [3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220609192036/https://www.zerot... [4]: https://my.zerotier.com [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079004

Transformers do not transform but convert in Hasbro’s marketing and licensed materials, and strictly speaking they’re not even supposed to be Transformers but Transformers robots (which grammatically is wrong, but alas). Except, for whatever valid reason, inside the fiction, where Transformers becomes a perfectly valid noun they refer themselves with and they do transform, not convert, all day long. I don’t get it.

Panini presented the NFTs from their Megacracks 2022-2023 card collection in a similar way[0], aesthetically, but using video files (MP4) which makes it much less interesting (and even so, the visual effects in those are inferior to this CSS implementation). The fact that this CSS version does not work properly in Safari in unfortunate, though.

[0] https://paninimegacracksnft.com/token/wnzq

Dropbox supports xattr transparently and fully AFAIK (Finder icons, Finder comments, Finder tags, legacy Mac fonts… all sync fine from my experience).

Resilio Sync says it does partially [0] but IMHO not to an acceptable level (it keeps Finder tags for instance but loses Finder icons and completely cripples legacy Mac Fonts).

Note that .DS_Store files are another different thing altogether. They are standard files storing the view state of their parent folder (and, incidentally, Dropbox does not sync them [1] and Resilio Sync is set to not sync them by default).

[0] https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754729-Alt-Str...

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/145/en

Nippon Colors 6 years ago

Color component coordinates are meaningless without an associated color space.

Both the link and the article deliberately mix “charger” and “cable connector”, misleading, for clic-bait purposes.

iPhone, iPod & iPad chargers have always had a USB Type A connector with no hardwired cable, like, forever, even before there even was an institutionalized initiative to have all phone chargers be USB. You’ve always been able to use Apple chargers to charge other phones, and use other USB chargers to charge iPhones. Actually many phone makers followed suit precisely after Apple shipped their phone chargers like they did.

You don’t like the connector on their cables being proprietary? Fine. Let’s just first acknowledge cable and charger are two different things, then we can debate.

Now tell me again, how do iPhones and their chargers contribute to “more than 51,000 tonnes of electrical waste per year” by having a standard USB connector?