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The physical card has a chip, which is digital. The point is that the ticket has a unique ID which is tied to the owner. Normal non-digital paper train tickets just indicate "someo…

Well, having a smartphone is still optional in most countries, I suppose in Germany as well. Movement on the other hand is a mandatory thing for many people unless you want to sit …

"Digital-only" = By smartphone app OR by smartcard, i.e. a card like a credit card with a chip and your personal unique ID stored on that. In other words: You cannot get a plain ol…

The ticket is digital-only (smartphone or smartcard), there is no paper version, and it's coupled to your personal identity (name etc.). So some people have voiced concerns about t…

Thanks, will have a look! :)

The problem IMHO is that it is so well-known that HN hates crypto that anyone who wants to voice a reasonable opinion is likely to avoid doing so in order to not get piled on with …

Feel free to prove me wrong with sources :)

Anecdotally, I can say that their effect is already bullshitting indeed: When being in a random conversation on the "normal kind-of-average people Internet" (Twitch chat), discussi…

Remember when COVID hit and some people were saying "1% chance of death isn't much" and then they had to be informed that 1% is very high and we're in serious trouble? Why is 1% lo…

Even if much of the force is alleviated by that there's still enough moving kg's left to break condoms - which we don't even have to discuss, because there is statistics about this…

It's a 0.07 mm piece of plastic which has to absorb the forces caused by two moving bodies weighing > 100 kg together. Thus condoms do and will fail, even if properly fitted. The f…

Uhm, what, reliable ? Source? The failure rate of that is in the double digits percentage AFAIK !? Besides, as long as you are still fertile and relying upon someone else not being…

Whenever I again consider getting one and start reading up opinions on the Internet, it is usually a mix of a lot of people who say they're absolutely OK now ... and then I run int…

I would guess the reason the cheaper ones don't have it is that making it removable implies making it accessible from the outside which implies adding a pump and hoses to pump the …

Does this still happen with current printers or is it one of those ancient memes about printers which don't disappear? When I turn the Epson one off, it audibly parks the head. I w…

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I have printed over 5000 pages with mine, the head is fine (head test printout looks good), I don't know what you're referring to? To me it rather looks like consumers have been so…

Get an Epson EcoTank printer. Ink for those is available in *bottles* from Epson, it's dirt cheap. No more cartridges! Make sure to get one which has a user-replaceable "maintenanc…

The article seems quite unclear about potential consequences of using su this way. I typically use su to run some program in its own user account to ensure: - it has its own homedi…

Meanwhile WhatsApp likely still coaxes people into enabling cloud backup, e.g. to Google Drive - which completely bypasses end-to-end encryption by putting plaintext chat history i…

Perhaps that is just the tax they ought to pay for wanting to squeeze out more performance? :) The alternative of not paying that tax by using WASM means "I want native performance…

Surely that is a noble goal! But isn't it a case of XKCD 927? https://xkcd.com/927/ I.e. I would say the probability is zero that because WASM exists other existing complexity of b…

If people want native performance, they could just publish native software instead of websites :)

Oh right, and ActiveX!