Hacker News: FateOfNations

New comment by FateOfNations in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

FateOfNations — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:20:29 +0000

It's less about paying for a service than thinking that you are a welcome member of a community and then suddenly finding out that you aren't.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

FateOfNations — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:16:55 +0000

> They provide a service

Codeberg seems to disagree about that point.

New comment by FateOfNations in "As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown"

FateOfNations — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:28:42 +0000

It's more that they want to disaggregate the customer service and tech stack responsibilities from the financial ones, with the profits split accordingly. At least in the US, Chime and other "banking fintechs" do have real banks underpinning them (The Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank, in Chime's case). This new the three-way relationship (customer-"fintech"-bank) can present new types of risks, and there's definitely room for overhauling the rules that regulate it, but it isn't an inherently bad business model.

New comment by FateOfNations in "As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown"

FateOfNations — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:19:09 +0000

While Chime, the company, isn't a bank, they do resell banking services. They are functionally value added resellers for The Bancorp Bank, N.A. and Stride Bank, N.A.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

FateOfNations — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:49:02 +0000

Seems like governments, at least ones of the size under discussion here, are big enough to have a general services agency run a consolidated data center for the rest of the government, allowing individual agencies/departments get similar benefits of outsourcing to a commercial entity.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock"

FateOfNations — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:55:43 +0000

It also would essentially have blocked all traffic enforcement cameras (red light, speed, bus lane, school bus passing, etc.) too.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

FateOfNations — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:30:08 +0000

Not Invented Here Syndrome?

New comment by FateOfNations in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

FateOfNations — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:19:32 +0000

Rewrite the anecdote with the truck racing to the supplier to make the pickup on time.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

FateOfNations — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:55:49 +0000

The same attackers are releasing the database of personal information separately (for a fee).

That said, Sweden takes a different approach to PII, so most of that information would have already been public. You can generally just look up any resident and their ID number and other biographical details in a public directory (among other things… their tax returns are also public records).

New comment by FateOfNations in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

FateOfNations — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:09:07 +0000

Thankfully no signatures involved. You roll up, swipe/dip/tap your card in a reader on the gas pump, enter your postal code (archaic security measure from the pre-chip card era), wait a few moments for the electronic authorization (they pre-authorize an amount in the $75-150 range), then pump, and leave.

If you are paying cash, you generally have to go inside before pumping and prepay, and then go back inside afterwards to get your change, if applicable.

New comment by FateOfNations in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

FateOfNations — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:55:19 +0000

apt is a package manager. It's only relevant if the system uses it to manage it's packages. Red Hat based distributions, for example, don't use apt. Embedded devices typically don't manage packages on an individual basis, rather updating the entire distribution via "firmware updates".

New comment by FateOfNations in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

FateOfNations — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:09:33 +0000

Data point: Albertsons/Safeway/etc. is rolling out new card readers that have a camera in them. Software support likely isn't in place yet, but that's definitely something they are thinking about long term.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

FateOfNations — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:06:50 +0000

Generally the hangup/timeline is with the state government, not Apple/Google.

New comment by FateOfNations in "XSLT RIP"

FateOfNations — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:48:15 +0000

Technically, the web server can do content negotiation based on Accept headers with static files. But… In theory, you shouldn't need a direct link to the RSS feed on your web page. Most feed readers support a link-alternate in the HTML header:

Someone who wants to subscribe can just drop example.com/blog in to the feed reader and it will do the right thing. The "RSS Feed" interactive link then could go to a HTML web page with instructions for subscribing and/or a preview.

New comment by FateOfNations in "Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software"

FateOfNations — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:41:01 +0000

On iOS there is the concept of "Managed Apps" that is appropriate for a BYOD scenario. They are info sandboxed and can't share information (either direction) with unmanaged apps. That would count as an MDM enrollment, if you are looking for it.

New comment by FateOfNations in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

FateOfNations — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:19:38 +0000

The problem is dealing with those other 5% of calls. If you are in a 5% situation, you're seemingly SOL these days.

New comment by FateOfNations in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

FateOfNations — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:29:22 +0000

At some point customer service died. Businesses of seem to no longer be interested in dealing with customers. Good customers come in all shapes and sizes, and often don't exactly fit a cookie cutter. It's frustrating to see businesses just cut and run the moment something becomes a problem that needs more than a series of pre-scripted responses to be resolved.

New comment by FateOfNations in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

FateOfNations — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:02:23 +0000

The reason Expensify does that is because they want/need access to the cookies from the login flow. The in app browser provides the hosting application access to those, but they can't access Safari's cookiejar. The modern way of doing it is to put the login in Safari (or iOS's dedicated "in app browser for logins") and then redirect to something like expensify://login_complete?token=xxxxxx, which pops back over to the app. This is mostly tech debt on Expensify's part, but it might not solve the Edge vs. Safari issue.

New comment by FateOfNations in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

FateOfNations — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:57:35 +0000

> I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do

Being a "Managed App" through MDM/Intune. Typically it's used when installing corporate apps in a BYOD scenario. The managed apps are isolated from information sharing with unmanaged apps, e.g. policies can be applied preventing copy/paste, access to Files.app, etc. It (and it's isolated storage) can also be remote wiped without nuking the whole device. Edge.app still uses the Safari rendering engine, etc. like is generally the case with 3rd party browsers on iOS.

You can't do this with Safari.app unless the whole device is managed, which doesn't work well for BYOD.

New comment by FateOfNations in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

FateOfNations — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:27:26 +0000

Inspect containers leaving the country for contraband. Require shipping companies to do KYC. Require documented proof of ownership for vehicle exports.