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Honestly, who likes any hype in anything ever? Especially if you genuinely like and understand the thing being hyped.

It's cool that stuff like vector file formats is still being reinvented. What's the new idea(s) here, though? Like, I get that it's new and has better features (better compression,…

You can pay with a card, but there is an additional 5 Euros fee (which is fair enough). I booked a refundable hotel already in the summer, in case I won't get the tickets. But gett…

Where were people's favourite lectures? I attended 7 talks. My favourite talk by far was hacking the GPG. Brilliant, really: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-prac…

A few questions: 1. People still do software based on the GNU license. What's the difference? 2. I'm a mathematician - math is not copyrighted, yet it's still being done. 3. Is it …

I recently made a radical proposal of public domain rules; It's inspired by GNU software licenses. It goes like this: 1. Anyone can use anything that is in the public domain. 2. An…

I don't care much about Betty Boop either, and I do care, like you, about The Maltese Falcon - but mostly I think that a version of The Maltese Falcon starring Betty Boop is defini…

I think the small-ish communities, where it's really people who are enthusiastic about the same topic, are often great. It's when they become bigger that the crappy echo chamber be…

I did a small project last week . It's completely vanilla and works great. It's a web tool for writing long threads for Mastodon. I kept on wondering while making it if I was doing…

Many countries still have problems with organized crime, and it's getting worse even though they have aggressive KYC and AML. Israel is one example I'm familiar with. So it's a bit…

Yes, you're correct. I used it in the wrong way. I don't think KYC keeps people honest, I think it's just making the life of honest people uncomfortable.

Poland, and specifically Warsaw, since the process might be a little different in different parts of Poland.

There are plenty of civil organizations and hackerspaces in Europe that focus on such things, not to mention academic groups.

I tried with one physical bank, and they refused; the expat forums said it's the same with all, though I didn't verify myself tbh. The problem is that the only thing you get is a s…

You get a stamp in the passport that you're waiting for a decision regarding your stay, but it's meaningless to anyone besides the border control people.

I'm a foreigner living in the EU for many years, here's my 2 cents. For over a year, I was locked out of financial services due to my inability to pass KYC. The reason was that I h…

I adore Terence Tao, but this one feels like stating the obvious. Basically, he says that simple solutions to complex situations work sometimes—for example when a simpler system ca…

Isn't every community is like that after so long? Like, I don't like the way that Matt behaved recently, but regarding most of the complains in the post -- these exist in any commu…