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I have genuinely no idea why I need a smartphone to get a line of credit, and that there is no alternative for people who don't have one.

Also, the thought that we as a married couple are not an entity is strange to me, but I guess that's the modern way of thinking, and I am old.

But also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1018865

What for? It was a mandatory step but my wife and I will manage the credit through an app on her phone. Minimally, I should have the option to waive it.

I know I'm in the minority but I value privacy higher than convenience. I'm aware that not having a smart phone does not automatically equal total privacy, but I just cannot get myself to have a personal tracking device on me 24/7.

Well, my case is the best proof of that: the phone number I ended up using was my mom's.

It's most definitely baloney because I also had to provide ID. So, certainly there is no way I could identify myself "even more" by giving them a phone number than by giving them a government issued ID.

I could also buy a smartphone. The point is that I shouldn't have to.

No, I don't really use a lot of service that require 2FA and for the ones I have to (e.g. work), there's always been a workaround.

But this might not really have been a 2FA case - I mean, I was physically sitting in the bank.

My wife and I had an appointment last week to apply for a line of credit. We talked it all through with the clerk and decided to go for it, so he started the whole process on his computer.

His jaw dropped half-way through when he asked for my wife's and my phone number, and I had to tell him that I don't own a smart phone.

Turns out you must have a smart phone because the system sends you some kind of code to verify your identity. Let that sink in: I am sitting in front of the clerk, but in order to identify me, he needs me to give him some phone number.

The only way we could finalize the application is by me asking my mother whether I could use her phone number briefly to get this over with. She forwared the code to my wife's phone. That worked in the end -- but so much for "identifying me".

Amazing - an acquaintance of ours when we lived in Germany a couple of years ago had a similar idea. But she found that telemedicine + prescription drugs (and possibly advertising law) are among the most regulated areas in a country already known for its red tape.

I didn't follow up what became of her startup idea, but there's no way she could have ever gotten it off the ground in just two months, like the guy from the article and his brother. More like two years...

Not enough information here to make informed comments.

Interesting. Where we currently live, kids carry all books back and forth between home and school every day in giant backpacks.

That's possibly the first time that "skyrocketed" and "5%" have been used together in one sentence.

Then it't not AGPL, because Section 10 of the AGPL explicitly states:

| You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html#section10

...or to tighten them.

In Germany, where Lidl is originally from, you can already order them online in their store. This is a variety for your balcony: https://www.lidl.de/p/vale-gmbh-balkonkraftwerk-ecoflow-860-...

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For Emacs, I agree with the maintainer's analysis that this is really a git bug: what happens is that Emacs runs `git ls-files` and that triggers a script execution.

So, the attack vector here is the following: attacker provides a malicious script in a .git directory, packaged for download. If the user unpacks the the package and merely opens a file, Emacs runs `git ls-files` which in turn executes the malicious script.

However, while I agree that this is a flaw in git, and Emacs should rightfully expect that running an "ls" command should be considered harmless, I do not agree with the stance that this does not require a reaction on the part of the Emacs maintainers: Now that you've been made aware of this unfortunate git behavior, I think some steps should be taken to not trigger it. That is, the functionality that runs `git ls-files` should be double checked (do we really need it? can we avoid the malicious side-effects? etc.)

I guess what I meant to say is that clearly, one side here expects loyalty from the other side but isn't really giving any themselves.

Between employers and employees, loyalty is only expected one way.

I'm on board.

But in general, I think obsessing over the monospace font you use for coding is, ultimately, bike shedding. I've used a lot of different fonts over the year, not because I was trying to find the best one, but because I used the default font of whatever tool I was using at the time, and - guess what - I was fine with it every time.

Git is very simple, reliable, and versatile, but it isn’t very functional.

Funny, I would probably swap the first and the last adjective in that sentence.

+1 I haven't made an account on a new website in years, and god forbid I will ever link my gmail with anything other than g-suite.

Get two identical chairs.

I suspect that's the reason why they want it done by 2029.

with a hose

You mean wrench? https://xkcd.com/538/

It would be nice if phones had a feature where you can define more than one pin, but only one is for your actual phone contents - the other ones leave you to a completely harmless but otherwise indistinguishable looking smartphone interface that contains no or only completely bogus data.

Thanks again - this time I have to admit I really don't get what you're trying to say?!

There are many more publishers than Elsevier for scientific publications, some of which are already following a strictly open access policy.

In the five years since its launch, the platform has seen steady growth and uptake across the research community, with more than 1,200 articles published.

That actually doesn't seem like a lot (240 articles per year), but I suppose they're still in the process of gaining traction.

Portable CD players were way more finicky than walkmans (walkmen?!), plus the form factor was just not ideal.

I would say that 14 year old kid is naive, and at 14, that's understandable.