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tl;dr: During account recovery, iCloud might ask you for the details of a credit card you’ve been using with the account. But it doesn’t just check whether the data matches their r…

Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.

Yeah, banks unfortunately have their opinionated checklists of “best practices”, also know as “what every other bank does”.

In Poland, drinking in public space (with some exceptions) is forbidden. Sometimes police will issue fines even for “intention to drink” if they see a person with an unopened bottl…

> there was an ambitious project called Nepomuk for Semantic Desktop and that failed 10 years ago? Oh, they didn’t fail per se. They just ran out of the 11.5 million EUR grant mone…

https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705 The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop…

That doesn’t stop the DoJ from extraditing foreign nationals who never set foot on US soil before.

> Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has becom…

One can argue that under US legal system only.

> Another way to look at it is that people who other people want to work with get high ratings. Is that bad? From a company culture standpoint, I'm not sure it is. Depending on who…

I still remember when Samsung effectively bricked their SSD for Linux users with a faulty firmware update. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900... Not only …

Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.

Isn’t the Apache Foundation exactly that?

This. In addition, in some countries like Germany, having your name connected to a bankruptcy will ruin your credit score, making it difficult to e.g. rent an apartment.

http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html The semantic desktop was nothing more than a way to leech EU grants for "innovation". They've been looking for use cases lon…

Not even that is necessary. > The best solution probably is to create a new database during image creation, but in the official Postgres image this option is still not available. T…