let's try to be nicer
refalo
joined 6 months ago
NFC payments that require my unlocked phone to use are a lot more secure than a physical card that can be stolen.
No access to google pay is a non-starter for me, I use it constantly to pay for lots of things.
you don't have to load the code every time, you can save it and run locally, this is exactly what the Element desktop app does, it's just an electron loader for a local copy of the website, and you can choose to update it whenever you want
Japan has been requiring fingerprints AND photographs for all incoming visitors for the better part of two decades now.
If a foreign national who is required to be fingerprinted and photographed refuses to comply with this requirement, he/she will be denied entry to Japan.
https://www.mm.emb-japan.go.jp/profile/PDF%20file/newime.pdf
technically correct, the best kind of correct
For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.
I have. You just don't hang out in the "right" places
Nobody mentioned number of speakers though
I think you answered your own question :)
I'm really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented "which wind would you like to piss into" problem.
A subpoena can still reveal the owner's information to the world. Even if it's a frivolous lawsuit that ends up getting tossed.