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In Finland international inbound calls using Finnish caller ID are simply blocked (mandated by regulation since 2023).

It is technically possible, here in Finland such blocking (i.e. all inbound international calls with Finnish caller ID, except for roaming) has been obligatory for a few years now …

Or just block international spoofing, to allow the case you mention. E.g. in Finland the relevant regulation ( https://traficom.fi/files/media/regulation/M_28_L_EN.pdf ) says (in s…

If a legitimate French business contracts with a Moroccon call center, they will then of course follow French law since the French business is liable. As for international scam cal…

For residential users in Finland, the last-mile replacement for POTS is not fibre but cellular, at least where phone calls are concerned.

Direct debit is not the same as debit card. You can pay in physical stores with debit card but not with direct debit (which does not involve a card at all).

Medical bills are covered (the Wikipedia summary seems accurate to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance#Finland ). But I'm going to guess that those medical bills, a…

Hmm, for my €209/year (~$20/mo) liability insurance I get unlimited coverage for personal injuries and €5M coverage for property damage (both mandated by Finnish law). It sounds li…

The test was run by an unnamed third party, so cURL's history has no relevance to their benevolence.

They also have "Underrated" and "Overrated" which apply points but do not act as tags. So I guess the easiest way to get +5 Troll is to have many Troll and Underrated votes, if it …

I tried, but they used some 3rd party KYC platform whose country selection dropdown seemed to have every country except Finland (even Åland, a region of Finland, was there). Suppor…

My impression was that the temporary permission-granting regulation was passed before the relevant privacy law came into effect, but I didn't check the dates now.

Here is the regulation that will be voted on: https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?refer... Note that the amendment was already amended on 11th March to set expir…

The proposal they are voting on is about continuing the current time-limited implementation (voluntary scanning, Regulation (EU) 2021/1232). This is not about mandatory scanning.

The majority of the MEPs are not onboard mandatory scanning, otherwise that would've been passed already. The site is conflating mandatory scanning with voluntary scanning (status …

I don't think the vendor ever said "unhackable" in this case, though. At least not publicly.

The cross-compiler part itself is easy, but getting all the build scripting of tens of thousands of Fedora packages to work perfectly for cross-compiling would be a lot of work. Th…

> There was an interesting case in Finland. Finnish customs used to apply a 22% tax (ELV) on top of the car tax for imported used cars from other EU countries. On top of that, Finn…

That site lists many of candidates as "support" just because they have not publicly opposed, so it is not a realistic view on the opinions of EU parliament. Better to look at actua…

Also, VTT had publicly confirmed earlier that they had conducted tests for Donut Lab. I'm confident the document and tests are real, but other shenanigans are still possible (and l…

> Like, where were they years ago saying “hey TikTok, we think your design is addictive and probably illegal, you need to change or face penalties.” That is basically what happened…

On Windows XP this depended on whether you had joined a domain. On joined systems you got the security screen (same as previous Windows NT/2000), on other systems the task manager …

Generally yes. I guess a phone/app could exist that does convert to MMS instead, though, since the app can make that decision.

Regular phone plans on my carrier have a private IPv4 address behind CGNAT.

> These mobile phone providers do not let the gazillion consumer smartphones act as servers for obvious reasons. FWIW, I was interested so I tested this on my phone here in Finland…