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Comment · 9 days ago
This is a proposal to operate a regulated payments processor, supervised by BaFin. All the usual, necessary regulations and consumer protections will apply under German law.
Comment · 12 days ago
Thank you so much for reminding me! I had kind of given up but your comment prompted me to check again and it turns out Bandai Namco recently put all the original soundtracks on streaming. Na na na na na na na na …
Comment · 13 days ago
It is not just company policies, this reflects the law across the EU.
Comment · 14 days ago
Ugh. Trying to get something running with openRewrite at work.

A private, authenticated repo is going to be a spanner in the works since now it means setting up and maintaining custom stuff in Artifactory, and getting that sponsored.

Comment · 17 days ago
Depends on the infra, and the level of anxiety generally and specifically.

Petty vandalism no, but I’ve worked at a few and know more completely non-military business premises that absolutely have “military barricade” or the like quietly in their contingency plans.

Funny thing is, a bit of arson is kind of normal on their estates. But usually it’s just stolen cars.

Comment · 18 days ago
It’s quite a take to make lan sharing some kind of grand conspiracy. Is LAN manager sus too?
Comment · 27 days ago
The company that runs it is
Comment · 1 month ago
I works assume if/when something really kicks off the starlink and starshield networks would be high priority targets.

(I’m mildly curious what their ground stations in Central Europe look like from this perspective).

Comment · 1 month ago
I quite like the way passports touch on this - the electronic part has a password; that password is made up of info from the printed data page - so you need both sets of information to validate it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Windows is too at this point; it’s just a little less obvious.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think Jetbrains did that already; the Kotlin LSP server is derived from the (also open source) IntelliJ plugin
Comment · 3 months ago
Curse Apple and their planned obsolescence /s.
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve seen bugs like this in prod systems. The notional value of the error tends to make the people concerned anything but silent.
Comment · 4 months ago
They do. You just seem to expect that it will somehow be free.
Comment · 4 months ago
This always irritates me, because it used to be just like that. First time we bought Jira, it was like a (small ) one-off charge on someone’s card, and included full source code to let you build it yourself.

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