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Great remark, I will add that Solidworks is more intended for small CAD work, industrials usually use Catia for deeper CAD work, which is also owned by the Dassault Group. Both are developed for Windows.

I did it myself, tailscale on kobo works great and is not complicated to install

Do not underestimate the Japanese on this one, they managed to get the MyNumber unified healthcare card adopted in a mere 4 years, that's FAST.

It's a PKI system, your card holds two certificate, one for authenticating that you unlock with a 4 number PIN and one for digital signing that you unlock using a 10 char password. It also has Sony's FeLiCa standard for NFC reading. You can also tie your own generated certificate to it but it seems quite complex and expensive to do so.

I just tried it and if you suspect it leaked you can delete it immediately and get a new one in 10mn

Exactly, but I'm not familiar with the American SS# system honestly

Hello, I live in Japan, the thing they don't tell in the article is the Japan Post Digital Address can be tied to the MyNumber system.

It's an official ID card you're required to update by law every time you move, and they plan to link the address of both systems. Meaning every time you update you address on your ID it will automatically propagate everywhere.

In Japan the MyNumber system is live since a few years and a single card can already be used:

* As driving license

* As a unified heath insurance card

* As a unified way to retrieve prescribed medications, lab results, vaccinations..

* For doing the taxes and receive pension

* As a foreigner residence card (very soon)

* For digital signing of official papers (as a way to replace the Hanko stamp culture, it's working but not yet widely used)

The digital ministry is also expected to unveil an Apple Wallet integration in a few months to avoid having to carry the card.

The main reason banks adopt in-app TOTP is that most third-party TOTP apps historically didn’t offer cloud backups. And some third-party TOTP apps could leak the tokens because the banks don't own their code.

When users accidentally deleted these apps or switched devices, they often lost access to their TOTP tokens, leading to a flood of support requests. Banks tried to "fix" that by integrating TOTP directly into their own apps.

This allows bank a sort of token persistence (and user tracking, and being able to send push notifications, wanted or not).

France sending jets while the U.S. waves the white flag? Looks like the surrender baton just got passed westward.

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

The website recommends to contact the permanent representation of my country, and more importantly by phone which is apparently more effective. Not that I'm worried about it but I wonder if anyone here already did this, is it an accepted practice to reach out with such a method ?