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haagch

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    Comment #49088077

    Oh wow actual news: https://nos.nl/artikel/2624737-scanner-van-ing-kan-nieuwe-id... google translate: https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2624737-scanner-van-in... This looks lik…

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    Comment #49083264

    Will it work the same only for users who use banking apps for ideal, or also for users who use their banking websites to pay with ideal? It's a rhetorical question, right now peopl…

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    Comment #49075880

    You'd think that basic infrastructure such as payment systems had higher standards than just "most" people having access to it. It's fine as long as we have alternatives, but if on…

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    Comment #49075358

    I have German bank accounts at two different banks and can send SEPA SCT instant transactions via webinterface and physical tan generator with both of them. Wero however is restric…

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    Comment #49075256

    Replies from the German GLS bank on mastodon imply that EPI does not support the use case where banks add it to their web interface https://ruhr.social/@glsbank/116215341782832097 …

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    Comment #49073336

    It's not the same system. iDEAL supports banks to implement payment in their online banking websites, while Wero is Google/Apple ecosystem exclusive.

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    Comment #49073259

    > No account necessary and no private american conglomerates can delete that account. Officially you need a Google or Apple account to download a wero capable app from their stores…

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    Comment #49061983

    I feel the same but I'm starting to think that EPI is right to not care. Nobody from any tech media seems to be pointing out the Google/Apple smartphone dependency, let alone ask a…

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    Comment #48743910

    The EU's NGI Zero in cooperation with NLNet has been funding quite a bit of postmarketOS https://nlnet.nl/project/postmarketOS/ https://nlnet.nl/project/MobileSettings https://nlne…

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    Comment #48743813

    > But in many cases there are not any homegrown alternatives to support. Everyone who says something like this should be forced to use one of the alternatives for at least a couple…

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    Comment #48743685

    Here in Germany everyone who has an ID card, which is basically everyone, already has a secure chip for this purpose.

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    Comment #47664700

    Sure. Something I forgot to mention is that the UBPorts foundation whose mobile operating system I currently use is a German organization.

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    Comment #47653689

    I second the question, attestation of what? I have a Solo key that I use with webauthn for several services already. Is that not good enough and even if not, there surely are suffi…

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    Comment #47652951

    Lots of hospitals don't even serve healthy food in any sense, so expecting a good coverage of dietary options is optimistic... But to answer the question in a real way: Veganism is…

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    Comment #47652594

    It really doesn't matter. When you power on an android smartphone with google play installed for the first time you are presented with a gate screen that asks you to consent to goo…

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    Comment #47648185

    It's an NFC card that can be read with any NFC card reader, USB or smartphone based. https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/en/open-source I just saw that it's available in alpine. So I tr…

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    Comment #47648060

    Nah, I'm that one idiot who uses alternative open software and just accepts when services aren't offered to me. The older I get, the easier it feels to not give a fuck anymore. Can…

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    Comment #47647960

    The digital Euro seems still in early planning stages. It seems people want to plan a physical card for it, but whether online payments will work without a platform dependent app i…

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    Comment #47647844

    German citizen here. So why is an implementation going forward when you already know it will not serve all citizens? Why are we not refusing to implement this until we know we can …

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    Comment #47075059

    > but you can use a physical card reader with your debit card for an OTP to use as well and do it in your bank's online environment in the browser. That's nice for ideal users, but…

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    Comment #19458626

    I would not recommend OSVR hardware at this time, but the effort for free software XR is still alive. With the recent provisional release of the OpenXR standard we at Collabora sta…

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    Comment #19458578

    To add to the other comments, from the very beginning they had a tux on the kickstarter page. The Oculus 0.2 and 0.3 SDKs didn't really support Linux at first but as the source cod…

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    Comment #19458496

    To be fair, they did release the hardware specs under a good license https://github.com/facebookarchive/RiftDK2 . The source code for the optical tracking software was never releas…

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    Comment #15780059

    They are going to spend tens of millions of Euro on the migration. The cost of contracting someone to add hotkeys, equations and simple features to libreoffice is nothing compared …

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    Comment #14977436

    Pretty sure SteamVR has been available out of beta for a while but I can't check because scrolling down on http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=250820 doesn't actually load o…