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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • for FOSS projects, google itself could sponsor the certification, if they really cared about security and not just closing the garden. The code is public and they could definitely write automated tests to check all they need to check, and at every single commit, and not just yearly, done in secret by some auditor.

    For google drive integration, i saw that most devs are just removing support for it because doesn’t make sense to pay $500 yearly to support it when there’s a million of better alternatives



  • What I hate the most is that in order to know the pricing I have to watch a 2 hours demo, and at that point I already know that it’s unaffordable because they’re starting to do calculations “this is how much you’re going to save”.

    Saw a 100% offline quoting tool that, they wanted $1000 per month because “you and your team will save 200 hours per month so this tool pays back in less than 2 weeks”

    1. It’s offline
    2. We have to pay for the server
    3. It requires a month of training and data fitting (at our expense)
    4. Doesn’t require any additional update and once set can be left like that for decades

    Why the hell it’s a subscription???

















  • Somehow in Italy many of this sites ask payment with “ricarica Postepay” which is the stupidest payment method ever because:

    1. You can’t do it online but you need to physically go to a post office and waste 30 minutes in an endless queue (ok, you can do it online, but only if you have a checking account with the post office and you enabled all the online services, which not many do because it has higher fees than a regular bank account while not offering the same service level)
    2. You need to give your id card to the clerk and he will record it in the database
    3. You need to give the tax id (similar to SSN) of the receiver
    4. You need to give the debit card PAN of the receiver (except expiration or CVV)

    It’s the most traceable payment method that’s available in the country, I have no idea why so many IPTV resellers on forums and telegram channels use it. Just the fact that the reseller has to publicly give all his personal data to strangers is crazy

    (It’s not designed to be used as a payment method, but a way to send money to a relative or a close friend)

    So I always laugh when the “post police” (yes we have a police corp for post related crimes) or “tax police” (yes we also have a police corp for tax related crimes) say “we arrested a IPTV resellers” because that often just means “a officer just entered in a telegram channel, got all the necessary PII the perpetrator himself, and searched him in the database”

    Edit: first result on Google, can only pay with Bitcoin, ricarica Postepay and bank transfer and in order to proceed you need to send a text message to their fucking WhatsApp

    All of three methods are ultra traceable (ok, compared to the “ricarica Postepay”, Bitcoin is a bit harder)

    This website has the audacity of saying “Sicurezza e Anonimato con protezioni a livello militare con noi sei al sicuro” (safe and anonymous, with military grade encryption) - anonymous what, need to give phone number and tax id in order to proceed…

    Edit 2: news from two weeks ago. 23 users paid for IPTV using that stupid ultra-traceable payment method and of course they were caught in seconds with a simple database search. Prosecutor wanted to give them 2-8 years for “fencing”, judge said “personal use isn’t a crime” https://www.fanpage.it/sport/calcio/il-pezzotto-per-vedere-calcio-in-tv-e-illecito-ma-non-reato-13-pirati-puniti-solo-con-una-multa/

    So if real users got acquitted, victims of an entrapment site will be too, as there’s no crime at all