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The scam app uses the same name and icon - so a coincidence seems rather unlikely.

Well done! I didn't want to promote either the app or the fake listing, but you did find it. As you can see, the App Store listing uses the ClipGrab icon (which isn't on the website but you'll see it if you download the app) and, well, the name. It also claims to be "Trusted by 1M+ users" ... while having 6 reviews with an average of 2/5 stars.

So yeah, it doesn't claim to do the same thing in the description - but it's vague enough that a casual reader might think it does. And the fact that they use the name and the icon makes it pretty obvious that they're trying to trick people who are looking for an iOS version of ClipGrab into paying them money. This is also made evident by the fact that I have received a number of complaints from users who were convinced, they had paid for a "pro version" of ClipGrab that was now simply not doing what they expected.

Thanks! Its so weird that Apple claims the App Store monopoly is necessary to ensure they can vet apps and protect users - but then they don't even let you report an obvious scam.

Also, all you formally complained about is a trademark infringement

Which is precisely why I asked if there's a better way to report scam apps that I might have missed. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the case and you don't seem to have an answer either.

The App Store listing is pretty clearly a scam and the app is clearly pretending to be my app when it isn't. It's also not some small obscure app, it is well-known enough that there there are Wikipedia articles in serveral languages about it.

So Apple should really be taking action on both counts, in my opinion.

Do you have real-world experience deploying PoW captchas? I'd love to give them a try but I'm worried my forms will end up getting overwhelmed with spam if I switch away from hCaptcha.

As someone who as founded companies in Germany, I can understand a lot of the frustration with some parts of the process. It does indeed feel archaic that the notary has to read everything out aloud and the process for opening a bank account is maybe not terribly compicated but still more complicated than it needs to. The fact that getting a VAT number can take so long is also really infuriating.

With that being said, it seems like the author received some poor advice from their law firm:

1) If the author mostly does consulting and contract work, a sole proprietorship would have been the better option as many others here have already pointed out.

2) The UG & Co. KG construct is unnecessarily complex for a small company; it does have some advantages but if they really wanted a limited liability company, they should have used the "Musterprotokoll" (standard protocol) for setting up a UG; that would probably have cost less than €500. Lawyers love to suggest GmbH/UG & Co KG though because it means more fees for them.

3) The advice they got regarding the name was almost certainly incorrect. First of all, "case law" is not really a thing in civil law countries like Germany. The company name usually gets checked by the local chamber of commerce (IHK) and while there are some rules (you're not allowed to just call your company the equivalent of "Supermarket Co", "Plenty UG" would have almost certainly been fine. And if the IHK says it's fine, the court will accept it too.

Anyways, now that you have your company, I wish you all the best with it. You have exciting times ahead and the frustrating bit is (almost) over :-)

This is such a good analogy, thank you!

Thanks for sharing! My current experience is that honeypot fields are often ignored by the bots we're dealing with, but adding hCaptcha is pretty reliable in getting rid of them.

Well, that's why I am asking for practical experience using these tools. Maybe most form spam bots are (still) not advanced enough to complete PoW captchas. Have you tried Altcha or mCaptcha in production?

Well, that's just not true, is it? Try having any public form and you'll see tons of bot submissions, add a captcha, most of them go away.

Thanks! Would you be able to share a bit more of what you've heard about Altcha?

Nice!

Scaleway has cold storage [1], but Hetzner [2] also has quite cheap storage for stuff like backups.

[1] https://www.scaleway.com/en/glacier-cold-storage/ [2] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

The Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.

Work on the BEAM started in the 1990s, over ten years before the first release of Node in 2009.

Let's hope our Python-using friends will soon discover the joy and ease of using Oban in their ecosystem. Thanks for building Oban!

Canola and other seed oils are made using toxic solvents which are not full removed from the final product.

This is simply untrue. Independent bodies all over the world regularly test commercially available oils for toxic solvents. While the solvent Hexane is indeed commonly used in the extraction of refined vegetable oils, it is later removed in the refining process.

For example Stiftung Warentest, an independent consumer advocacy organization tested 23 rapeseed oils available in German supermarkets and they all came out clean [1].

A few years earlier, they tested 25 "specialty oils" and found traces of Hexane in only one of them - but still way below the EU threshold of 1 mg/kg. [2]

Here is a study from Japan that tested a bunch of vegetable oils and came to the conclusion that none of the products contained dangerous levels of Hexane. The maximum amount the researchers found was 42.6 µg/kg (again way below the EU threshold) - but in most samples the amount they found was so low they couldn't even get a reading or they didn't find any Hexane at all.

Besides, for cold-pressed oils, no solvents are used at all.

[1] https://www.test.de/Rapsoel-im-Test-1816151-0/

[2] https://www.test.de/Gourmet-Oele-Fast-jedes-zweite-ist-mange...

[3] https://openaccesspub.org/experimental-and-clinical-toxicolo...

CA was not spun out of Cambridge University. There's even a statement from the university about this: https://www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news/statement-from-the-univer...

Cambridge Analytica has no connection or association with the University of Cambridge whatsoever.

There's the idea of creating a so-called 28th regime under which a streamlined registration process would allow the creation of business entities in all EU countries. See: https://www.eu-inc.org/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_regime

Yes, I try to keep my CI pipelines somewhat platform-agnostic so even though I'm mostly using GitHub, my workflow is typically to first build a Docker image and push it to a registry, then use Kamal to deploy that image.

Cool project!

From looking at your docs, it appears like using and connecting GitHub is a necessary prerequisite for using Disco. Is that correct? Can disco also deploy an existing Docker image in a registry of my choosing without a build step? (Something like this with Kamal: `kamal --skip-push --version latest`)

That's exactly why I submitted it here.

Since a previous submission of this link by another user was flagged by someone claiming the term "conspiracy theorist" was a "spin" and unfounded: Here is a source for that claim: https://www.advocate.com/news/robby-starbuck-dei-lgbtq-consp...

He and his wife, Landon, produced a documentary together perpetuating the same conspiracy theory spouted by disgraced commentator Alex Jones — that toxic chemicals are causing children to identify as LGBTQ+. Starbuck falsely asserted that exposure to the pesticide atrazine turned amphibians "gay,” prompting male frogs to mate — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked.

Starbuck has also claimed that displaying pride flags is “grooming and indoctrination," and supported the unsubstantiated notion that transgender people transition to assault women in public bathrooms (transgender people are far more likely to be the victims of violent assaults.)

Just a small comment: The textarea has a white background and almost white text for me on iOS (dark mode), so it's not readable at all there.

Oops, thank you, I fixed it!

At least 13 EU countries also had their highest ever month of solar generation in June, as new solar capacity installed in recent years paid off amid hot and sunny weather. The top record setters were the Netherlands (40.5%) and Greece (35.1%).

I've been considering adding Lua support to Keila for a while already. It seems like a perfect fit for when I'm going to implement email automation and want to allow custom business logic. This would certainly make that plan easier. Thanks OP for sharing the library with the community!

Interestingly, they have a whole bunch of products (both from renowned brands and store brands) in their home market in Germany on the shelves already: https://choviva.com/products

Scaleway has serverless functions and they’re based in France: https://www.scaleway.com/en/serverless-functions/

Nope, they are only considering companies from the EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA [1].

So basically EU countries + Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. Notably, this does not include the UK or Russia.

[1] https://european-alternatives.eu/about