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About pimterry
More about me: tim.fyi
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Comment #49209574
In almost all cases they will work, just slowly. There's always some power, and almost always some data (power-without-data cables exist, but they're very rare, mostly a specialist…
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Comment #49207608
> A USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable. This would completely defeat the point. There is a range of needs for cables. Some devices have simple needs for po…
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Comment #49099691
Trusted staged publishing helps a lot: you have to independently pwn the workflow _and_ then complete a separate 2FA flow as a maintainer. The workflow never sees any keys that can…
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Comment #49073951
They are allowed to set caps, I've seen them down to around €5000 per transaction so it's not literally all transfers. Still free to transfer above, just takes more than a few seco…
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Comment #48823619
One counter-example: in Spain no language test is required for permanent residency, only for citizenship.
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Comment #48736745
It's an anti-competitive concern all the time. If we gatekeep service access to specific implementation attestations, it becomes much harder for new implementations to emerge. It d…
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Comment #48687964
There's a compatibility list at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... . I think the challenges here exist but the reality is overblown to be honest, the v…
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Comment #48576913
I mean sure, I'm not intending this to be quoted in a court, honestly I would say all my online comments are irrelevant phrases! That said - it is their business, they're broadly w…
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Comment #48572908
Never used them, but I ran into https://incogni.com/ yesterday. It's a paid service, they track data brokers datasets (I assume they just act as a buyer for as many as they can) an…
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Comment #48553310
Some scepticism here I see, but personally I think this is spot-on. I've been keen on a dumber phone for a while, but losing whatsapp & maps makes it a non-starter for any real use…
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Comment #48307191
> Today, in 2026, as a Spanish resident, I still can't access https://www.womenonweb.org/ . Why? Who knows anymore. Fucking money + religion owns our digital spaces now, been for a…
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Comment #48282208
> Let's not pretend that Spain of all places is caring about horribly destructive psuedo-gambling. Is this intended to imply that Spain has particularly high levels of sports betti…
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Comment #48208402
It's lower than it sounds: this time includes even relatively gentle exercise (a brisk walk) and although it's not explicit here most other uses of similar metrics I've seen genera…
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Comment #48207931
> Given EuroPA has done a token amount of transactions to date, I’m not sure anyone should hold their breaths. The Spanish equivalent (Bizum) is merging into Wero is not a token us…
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Comment #48207799
Wero does have recurring payments planned too (apparently for end of 2026), seems like they're well aware of PIX and racing hard to get into exactly the same space.
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Comment #48146404
This is begging for anti-competitive investigations, surely? It's explicit collusion between the largest mobile makers and key app-based services (e.g. gov services, communication …
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Comment #48132979
https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/overview/
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Comment #48111156
Because (like every IoT product) Bambu want to sell a product with an easy app-powered workflow, and LAN device discovery and remote-access for home devices from mobile apps is fla…
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Comment #48111094
As far as I can tell, they're just objecting to use of their cloud service. You can fork their software and use it with your own printer just fine, they just don't want you to use …
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Comment #48073294
This has been widely discussed, and initial implementations exist: the EU digital wallets are doing exactly this. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EU... . …