IMO its fine for vendors to abandon their products but they should be required to release all technical documentation and software used with the device into the public domain so enthusiasts can continue where companies stopped.

Not engineer.

At least here in Germany, engineer is a protected profession. Other than that: All of the above.

Suddenly? It’s been labeled Chinese spyware since day one.

Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.

The internet is uncharted land for all of us.

Our previous chancellor in 2013. Still is today it seems.

Just like my $variables I can be anything I want. Deal with it! 🫳🎤

Not use a hosting provider that charges by the amount of traffic?

This appears to be an extreme edge case but overall there is nothing preventing you from waking up to such a huge bill if your site turns into the most popular page on the internet over night.

I’ve never bothered with them, but aren’t there already? Additional stuff for your personal avatar?

Germany checking in: The chancellors wife at the time having ties to the copper industry doesn’t help either.

I strongly disagree. That’s like using MD5 and saying ‘It’s OK, we use SHA256 down the line’. Information encrypted with it might as well be in plain text.

Forget about biometrics, they are way too insecure.

Our cameras have reached a stage where we can replicate fingerprints from photos. ‘What you are’ is useless when we leave part of us everywhere. And furthermore, in parts of the world, authorities can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but not with passwords.

I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corner must be extremely off the grid!

To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.

Jerboa? The link is malformed for me as well

Basically all illegal drugs started as legal drugs aka medicine (Opium, Morphine, Heroin, etc). The distinction is a relatively recent development. Even today a drug store is a reputable business. A drug den not so much.

Well, they do provide the AppStore and the whole underlying infrastructure. So a fee in and off itself is not unreasonable.

However, since the AppStore is the only channel for selling/downloading apps it reeks of monopoly (which Apple is rightly being investigated for).

“New therapy”? Soldiers have been drugged for ages, before and after combat.

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even fireworks or some trivial shit

As someone who had part of a fireworks display literally drop on their head 6 days ago: Yeah, it looks cool, but everything that goes up, has to go down eventually. Might want to keep that in mind when handing out rockets left, right and center.

We call it “betutteling” and its rampend

Never thought about where “betütteln” originated from but now that you mention it: Yep, that sounds like something a “swamp German” would say.

Is the QR Code applied professionally to the surface, possibly behind some security feature such as glass or another surface finish? Is the menu on the table in the general style of the restaurant, or does it look off or entirely different? Is the QR code applied on top of something else, possible another QR code?

Don’t use apps which directly open QR codes. Any sensible app will tell what the information is before processing it.

And at last, the simplest and most efficient security measure of all: Commonsense. Don’t scan everything you come across. Restaurant menu? Sure. Some random poster out in the woods promising a quick buck, happy time or their like? Hard pass.

So the issue isn’t QR codes, but people being unable to recognize scammers additions to public infrastructure and the websites being scams. Basically, it’s the same principle as scammers sticking an additional device on top of cash machines.

No news here.