nivenkos

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News

He’s winning against the gangs though - every Salvadorean I know supports him.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to games in What are y'all buying on the steam sale?

It’s good, but I wish it were even more like X-COM with loads of deaths and managing a roster of heroes rather than just a small party.

Especially since BG3 has done the small party adventure thing so well.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to games in What are the best indie games you've ever played?

Shadow Empire without a doubt. Practically a one-man team, and yet a better logistics and supply system than any other game out there.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to games in What are y'all buying on the steam sale?

Shadow Empire - best strategy game I’ve ever played.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to games in What are y'all buying on the steam sale?

It’s more of a tactics game than an RPG really.

Like D&D X-COM.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

More that you’d never need to provide it, but many transactions will also require 2FA, even by the credit card.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

Spain and the UK have no real digital ID (Spain has some horrible Java certificate based system, but you can’t use it for much). I think Germany’s digital ID is in a similar position too although it’s been many years since I lived there now.

The UK is in the same position as the US with no national ID or residence registration at all.

Only the Netherlands, Finland and Scandinavia really have it sorted out for banking and government services.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

Yeah, my ex was scammed this way too - exactly like Cory describes, they happened to ring right as she was going through the whole visa and tax process and pretend to be regarding the IRS, etc. and since she was dealing with a lot of similar calls it was an easy mistake to make.

More services available online and e-mail communication makes this a bit better.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

It kind of is the norm.

Just a few countries like the US are really backward in terms of accessible banking - mainly due to having no federal ID, residence registration, etc. too on top of outdated bureaucracy.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

For BankID it somewhat does, because only registered services can make the request - so they’d need to register a scam service and then use that. Which also makes it an easier job for anti-fraud police.

So it’d be a lot more complicated.

Like obviously at a certain point if someone is willing to do everything they can - then they will be scammed, see this for example: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755

But the more steps there are, the higher the chance the person realises it is a scam.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in Cory Doctorow gets scammed

The real answer here is to have decent digital ID as 2-factor authentication.

This scam would be practically impossible in Sweden with BankID for example.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

At least it’s easier.

I think Mastodon kinda has the same setup too, but they had all the issues with server-level cascading blocklists and stuff that put me off.

I don’t want to be blocked from seeing the posts of someone I’m interested in on another server just because the admin of my server refuses to block another server which refuses to block posts from servers where some users have posted “offensive” content, etc. - like it’s so many levels of separation it’s ridiculous.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

The free exchange of ideas.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What passport to use traveling to USA with two citizenships?

I think the US you have to use your American one if you have it, no?

A lot of countries have that rule.

nivenkos , 3 months ago to technology in FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

The BlueAnon cultists don’t care about the truth.

It’s crazy how polarised these sorts of debates have become. I wish we could have sensible politicians with views like Andrew Yang, Lee Kuan Yew, Robert Zubrin, Nayib Bukele, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, etc. - focus on developing technology and building up infrastructure and institutions for everyone.