All the big banks I use don’t do anything ither than SMS, they’re lazy AF.
That’s truly mind-blowing, and fraud must be rampant! I have accounts in several different banks in several different countries, both inside and outside of the EU, and I have never ever encountered a bank that would rely on SMS “authentication” for security, not even in the distant past when online banking was new.
It’s quite common for people to feel hurt when they feel ignored.
I should say, if anyone knows a bank with proper modern online security protocols I am willing to listen.
I’m personally quite fond of Wise.
I appreciate the effort but my banking apps still rely on 2FA through SMS.
And you trust them with your money!?!
And I still have no idea why Micay has started lumping iodé in with them, because I have been following that project closely for many years and no one there gives a shit about GrapheneOS.
I don’t know, but it seems to me that you might have a rather good guess as to why right there.
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.
The minimum legal age for drinking beer or wine at a pub or restaurant is 16 years in Germany and many of its neighbouring countries so, yes, it’s not at all unusual around here to drink before turning 18.
OK, then you’re just wrong. Sorry.
Creoles aren’t even considered fully fledged languages, which is why there is a word for them as a concept, so including them would be wrong. Many of them are also just a mix of a local language and English. They might disappear, or evolve to full languages.
You must have gravely misunderstood many things here, for you can’t possibly really believe that the language of Haiti (to take a very obvious and well-known example) isn’t a “fully fledged language” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) or that it has any risk of disappearing (greater than any other language).
I don’t know the Maltese language, but that description is still more coherent than what has gone down with English whose grammar rules are all over the place.
While it’s true that also English has borrowed some grammar from other languages (as most languages have, to varying degrees), that has, as far as I’m aware of, all been from related Indo-European languages, not even close to requiring the amount of duct taping of Maltese. Can you think of even a single example of an English grammar rule that doesn’t come from another Indo-European language?
My personal favourite, which goes much, much further in the duct taping department by taking essentially the entire grammar from one language and a majority of the vocabulary from another, together with uncountable other influences, would be Maltese.
But there are many others, not least all the world’s creole languages.
English is the most duct-taped together language,
I’m sorry, but if you truly believe that, then you must have a very limited knowledge of the languages of the world. English is not very unusual in this regard.
“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.”
Simon Tatham wrote this several decades ago, but I still think it’s all excellent advice:
Even if you’re not technical, it should be possible for you to learn how to write a good bug report if you’re interested and as a longtime developer I can tell you from experience that a really good bug report is a real delight to receive.
Documentation is always needed. If you have any aptitude at all for explaining things to people, it’s almost certain that you’d be able to help there.
If you don’t know where to start, I can recommend starting with making a tutorial for doing whatever it was that you yourself last found difficult to learn how to do.
That really doesn’t explain anything about why you didn’t have the dentist (or even pretty much anyone else) do it for you instead.
I’m only a dude, but I’ve actually partly dremeled out one of my teeth before, no anesthetic, to drain an abscess that wasn’t about to drain itself.
That is patently insane, you can not just write that without mentioning anything about what circumstances could possibly have led to you being in a position where you had access to a drill but had no option but to operate it yourself.
Were you the last survivor on a research station on Antarctica in the middle of winter where the entire crew died of tooth abscesses leaving you the last man standing and help wouldn’t be able to arrive for months?
I’m struggling to come up with any other scenario where this could possibly happen.
I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of “oh, I’d really like to have this at home too” there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven’t seen anything quite like it anywhere else.