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It's less about paying for a service than thinking that you are a welcome member of a community and then suddenly finding out that you aren't.

> They provide a service Codeberg seems to disagree about that point.

It's more that they want to disaggregate the customer service and tech stack responsibilities from the financial ones, with the profits split accordingly. At least in the US, Chime…

While Chime, the company, isn't a bank, they do resell banking services. They are functionally value added resellers for The Bancorp Bank, N.A. and Stride Bank, N.A.

Seems like governments, at least ones of the size under discussion here, are big enough to have a general services agency run a consolidated data center for the rest of the governm…

It also would essentially have blocked all traffic enforcement cameras (red light, speed, bus lane, school bus passing, etc.) too.

Not Invented Here Syndrome?

Rewrite the anecdote with the truck racing to the supplier to make the pickup on time.

The same attackers are releasing the database of personal information separately (for a fee). That said, Sweden takes a different approach to PII, so most of that information would…

Thankfully no signatures involved. You roll up, swipe/dip/tap your card in a reader on the gas pump, enter your postal code (archaic security measure from the pre-chip card era), w…

apt is a package manager. It's only relevant if the system uses it to manage it's packages. Red Hat based distributions, for example, don't use apt. Embedded devices typically don'…

Data point: Albertsons/Safeway/etc. is rolling out new card readers that have a camera in them. Software support likely isn't in place yet, but that's definitely something they are…

Generally the hangup/timeline is with the state government, not Apple/Google.

Technically, the web server can do content negotiation based on Accept headers with static files. But… In theory, you shouldn't need a direct link to the RSS feed on your web page.…

On iOS there is the concept of "Managed Apps" that is appropriate for a BYOD scenario. They are info sandboxed and can't share information (either direction) with unmanaged apps. T…

The problem is dealing with those other 5% of calls. If you are in a 5% situation, you're seemingly SOL these days.

At some point customer service died. Businesses of seem to no longer be interested in dealing with customers. Good customers come in all shapes and sizes, and often don't exactly f…

The reason Expensify does that is because they want/need access to the cookies from the login flow. The in app browser provides the hosting application access to those, but they ca…

> I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do Being a "Managed App" through MDM/Intune. Typically it's used when installing corporate apps in a BYOD scenario. The manag…

Inspect containers leaving the country for contraband. Require shipping companies to do KYC. Require documented proof of ownership for vehicle exports.

What counts as “a view” has pretty much never been particularly straight forward. The question is why YouTube can't just say, “Yes, in early August we made some changes to how view…

Looks like a lot of small ISPs have been procrastinating about getting their robocalling mitigation/compliance policies implemented, and didn't think the FCC was serious about the …

All the companies have a direct connection to the phone network in the US. The FCC is cutting them off from the US phone network because they have failed to adopt robocall mitigati…

I don't get it… isn't up to the landowner whether they farm corn, soybeans, or solar radiation? The government may provide different incentives for each, but AFAIK, they aren't for…

It isn't centralized, but the emerging mDL/mID (ISO/IEC 18013-5) + Digital Credentials API (W3C) standards do enable sharing a “this device contains a secure credential for someone…