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Unless it has changed recently Germany has no general database of biometric data. Of course law enforcement has for the cases they work on, but for the average passport holder the data gets destroyed once the passport has been accepted by the citizen. So it remains only decentralized in passport chips.
It's probably an exception in EU.
Land of the free oligarchs.
I was figthing a bit recently to make my 9210 Communicator charge again after well over 20 years in the drawer. But it eventually worked. The first phone with a color screen and a keyboard!
Isn't this anti-news? I vaguely remember they have stopped introducing leap seconds until further notice because they cause too much trouble with today's computing systems. On my phone now and did not research it, as I say vaguely remember. Now we are 37 seconds off. Nobody of us will have to worry that Christmas is around Easter time. We can leave that problem to future generations much more responsibly than many other problems.
That the notice comes every 6 months is just to meet the letter of the original international treaty.
Recent headlines in Finland say that about 10% of the population are basically excluded from society with no access to important services.
I have a German bank sccount that can be used with a standalone code generator, that uses the chip on your bank card.
I have a Finnish bank account that use a completely standalone, purely time-based code generator.
Alternatives exist. But with current know your customer requirements it's increasingly difficult to open new ones if you are a foreigner and/or non-resident.
In Finland many news outlets had the same headline, but needed to correct it. It's the last big operator who closed their network. There are still a couple of smaller local operators that have not yet stopped. Finland traditionally had many local phone companies and a few have obviosly survived.
A terball does not contain git history.
It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.
I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.
It does not fit on a CD.
Yeah, 2010 CDs were still pretty visible. Not sure how many people still ordered them, but at least they were always distributed at events. Don't remember when it started to no longer fit on a CD.
Well written. But does not change the fact that Microsoft acts as an ugly monopolist in a user-hostile and developer-hostile way in their market space. And delivers at most mediocre products.
This text repeats things that I have read many times before, maybe because it's heavily AI assisted as other have suspected. But it fails to answer my questions I have had unanswered for years.
Q1: Let's start with a single core machine. The explanations always say: The scheduler does this and does that. As if the the scheduler would be some external entity. In the single core machine there is only one actor. The core that executes instructions. One after another. Where the next one is either determined by the program counter or an interrupt. I would really like a text that never changes perspective. It's the CPU that does things (sometimes it executes code belonging to the scheduler). It's never the scheduler that sits there in an outside supervising position and can do things.
So lets take this pure user space while(1) task. The CPU jumps into the timer interrupt code. The article says a flag will be set, but the real preemption will happen later at a safe spot. So what code is executed after the flag has been set? Where and how will it notice that now we are at a safe spot to preempt?
Q2: The multi-core case. All texts write about "the scheduler". As if we had n cores and 1 scheduler that supervises what they are doing. But that's certainly not what is happening. I guess all cores execute some scheduler code regularly (except the tickless ones, but that's yet another story and rare on a "typical" machine). But how does that work without creating a mess in the data structures? Well, some synchronization primitives are probably needed. But how does that scale for dozens and 100s of cores? I guess most structures are local to a core and the global ones are modified rarely?
Where are these 2 questions answered?
Is this Chrome only or something the other browsers are working on, too? A quick web search does not seem to produce any relevant hits.
Maybe he doesn't. And I know that I don't (at least not in depth). And that's the frightening thing here. Using a protocol that many don't understand for access to valuable resources
Your 5 year old iPhone has how many cores, how many GBs of RAM?
I would need to search the specs, but a N95 has 1 core and well below 1GB. A factor of dozens in the specs, but still you can get good user experience on the old devices if the software is written in a smart way.
The lower resolution of the N95 acts in favor of performance. But admittedly against user experience.
Nice. But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. One of those "standards" that have been a great idea, but lack practical relevance.
We used Clearcase around year 2000 on HP-UX. I found it nice and powerful, but 90% of the developers did not understand it. Well, probably a similar statement holds for git.
Yes, Cloudflare. It says: Your browser is not supported. Use another browser or upgrade. I would upgrade if the vendor of this weaker embedded device provided something...
I know Cloudflare works fine on Firefox desktops and probably also on Android.
User to Mozilla: Cannot read your statement with a variant of your own browser because you have it "protected" by an internet gatekeeper.
Sorry, I should proof-read my comments... Can't edit it anymore
It is not necessary to use cash anywhere because cards can be used really everywhere.
But if you don't want to use cards, it's still possible to avoid it for weeks in row. You can pay cash at most brick and mortar places and by bank transfer at most online sites.
I am from Nordic country. I did not use any cash, had no wallet for several years. It's not needed. After the US government acting like it does I mostly stopped using cards. Like with phone OSes a US-controlled duopoly.
Cash does not to need to be used anywere, but cards can be avoided for weeks until I need to use it again. Most can be handled by cash or bank transfer without problems.
For phones I have not any Google Android or iOS until a year ago. Nowdays I have a Google work phone, but it's always in flight mode except when a pay my lunch subsidized by employer. I type this comment on my Sailfish device and I use a degoogled Android. Can cause minor inconvenienance occasionally, but rarely enough to turn on my work phone.
We used zulip at work 7 years until I had to leave when the startup had to cut down development. We didn't pay a cent (which is not good for the project...) It was truly enjoyable software. Nowadays I am forced to use Microsoft Teams, which is largely non-functional bullshit. We pay real money to the disgusting company.
Where do I find a list of employers using zulip?
On delay-day you won't be travelling on the train you booked. So the reservation will only help if things go reasonably well. Which depending on your itenary might be less frequently than desired. Yes, a reservation helps if you happen to be on the correct train, but many others are not. It all remains a big gamble, you never know...
Not very familiar with Vercel. Discovered them only recently when a business my brother is a customer of fell victim of a phishing attack. The "Login to Microsoft" page hosted on Vercel was still online many days later when I heard of the case.
I often hear the argument of savings in printing and postage.
Having seen all the over budget, years delayed or completely failed IT projects in the public sector, I wonder whether there are any savings at all in the end.
(Perspective from a couple of EU countries at different degrees of digitalization)
While composing a reply to recipient B leaking some details that it "learned" when reading a mail from sender A, which you did not want to share with B. I have no idea how they organize sessions, indexes and whatever they use. But if no "side-channels" existed, I would be extremely surprised.
Of course reading generated text remains the sole responsibility of the user before clicking "Send". We all know that reading drafts can happen more or less carefully, especially when being in a hurry.
Works just fine in powershell. Avoid using command prompt and life is already a bit better