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  • I really hope there's nothing dodgy going on there

    In 2023 they got a 1.1 million SEK fine for breaking the law that regulates working hours. To "allow" (strongly encourage) your employees to work nightshifts you need a collective agreement approved by the union, which they didn't have.

    More recently, they got a 500 million SEK fine for skirting the anti-money laundering regulations in Sweden.

    But at least I'm not giving them interest on anything I buy. Always make sure I'm paying my stuff on time, and no postponed payments.

    The whole "buy now, pay later" deal is a credit loan. They are most likely paying the merchant directly and using your loan as collateral to speculate on the market, until you pay them back for that loan. If that's true, they are making profit on the interest gained from your loan.

    I'm guessing their business model is to exploit people who have issues paying on time and to collect interest and late fees, as well as receive convenience fees from stores implementing Klarna as a payment option.

    Correct. Like all credit banks they promote the "buy now, pay later" option before direct payment, which is becoming a pandemic on our society. Hardly any user interaction needed. They also offer their own payment plans which encourages buying even more expensive items you cannot afford.

  • Websites blocking e-mail aliases
  • A tip is to host your own domain at an e-mail provider that allow you to receive e-mail for any recipient in a single mailbox (i.e. catch-all or wildcard), and use the following alias format when signing up at different websites or services:

    <website>@<yourdomain.tld>

    This allows you to filter incoming e-mail by which website/service you signed up for, regardless of what domain they send e-mail from (it can be different for account notifications vs newsletters etc.).

    It will also help you detect if they have sold your contact details or had a data breach without announcing it publicly, since you wouldn't use that specific e-mail alias elsewhere.

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  • Maybe the author is a programmer and wanted to share what else they have found for enhancing their terminal presence while coding?

    That, or they just wanted to avoid starting yet another flamewar... :-)

  • Just dodged a tracker pixel (I think) -- thanks to a text-based mail client and Tor
  • Good idea to open HTML attachments in an isolated browser. I normally open them in lynx but sometimes it doesn't work as intended.

    For any (neo)mutt users out there, you can configure this quite nicely by defining your MIME handlers in ~/.mailcap:

    text/html; firejail --net=none [...]
    

    Then bind your Enter key to open attachments via mailcap:

    bind attach <return>    view-mailcap
    
  • Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe
  • Maybe it's the matter of vinyl consumers being a larger group than floppy disk consumers?

    I enjoy going to music concerts, and in the case of smaller scenes/bands i always buy a vinyl (and most of times a t-shirt) to support the band directly. I don't even have a vinyl player at the moment - long story - but I have a collection of 300+ records.

    If I recall correctly it is also very cheap to produce in terms of tools and machines needed, the pipeline being all analogue and mechanical?

    I am also a retrocomputer nerd, but I guess the number of indie game developers that target floppy disks as the distribution medium for their next game are fewer by number compared to the musicians distributing on vinyl?

  • Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe
  • Thank you for leading me down this rabbit hole of looking up Wega, which was a German manufacturer of hifi equipment bought by Sony. They apparently made tapedecks for the Sony Elcaset format, which became an even deeper rabbit hole... TIL!

  • Curated list of banking app support for GrapheneOS
  • Good point! The details for each app are crowdsourced and can be submitted via the instructions here. However, the default templates does not include any mention of root status.

    The maintainer of the site can be reached via any medium listed here if anyone would like to suggest updating the templates to include root status.

  • GrapheneOS vs LineageOS vs CalyxOs vs DivestOs vs /e/OS vs iodé
  • DivestOS sounds interesting but I am wary of any "mission-critical" software project (such as the firmware for my primary phone) that relies on a single person, for multiple reasons. Burnout and potential for social engineering by malicious actors being two of them.

  • GrapheneOS vs LineageOS vs CalyxOs vs DivestOs vs /e/OS vs iodé
  • GP:s comment made me curious as well. Usually, if multiple hardware vendors are supported there are separate branches with different maintainers. It doesn't necessarily mean that the main codebase is bloated as a result.

  • Curated list of banking app support for GrapheneOS
    privsec.dev Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS

    Maintained Compatibility List for International Banking Apps This list includes banking apps that have been tested, submitted, reviewed, and verified as compatible. LIST | SUBMIT | UPDATE | POSSIBLE WORKAROUND SOLUTIONS Introduction Welcome to the crowd-sourced dataset for GrapheneOS users on curren...

    Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS

    For those that are looking to install GrapheneOS and want to ensure that their banking apps work as intended, here is a curated list with app compability status per country.

    Each entry also lists required settings, profile and whether they need access to Google Play services, among other details.

    Update on 2024-12-23: The following site is a great resource as well, it provides details on MFA support for various services grouped by country (not only banking): https://2fa.directory/

    Thank you @jagged_circle@feddit.nl for the suggestion!

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    Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22872422

    Screenshot of a Twitter post by user JonErlichman

    Average cost for 1 gigabyte of storage:

    45 years ago: $438,000 40 years ago: $238,000 35 years ago: $48,720 30 years ago: $5,152 25 years ago: $455 20 years ago: $5 15 years ago: $0.55 10 years ago: $0.05 5 years ago: $0.03 Today: $0.01

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    All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64
    hackaday.com All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64

    Artificial intelligence has always been around us, with [Timothy J. O’Malley]’s 1985 book on AI projects for the Commodore 64 being one example of this. With AI defined as being the the…

    All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24639953

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