Are you aware how different 40° weather can feel based on humidity? Because it doesn't take much humidity to make a walk at 40° deadly. You might be used to very dry heat.
I’m in the southern United States and I go for a 5-10 mile run every day in 35 to 40C weather. It’s pretty humid but the heat makes me feel alive. I love it. I do sweat readily and profusely though at the slightest increase in temperature so maybe that has something to do with it.
I was also in Southern Germany and Croatia for a whole month last month and I thought the weather was fantastic the whole time. Given access to water and some shade, it was beyond me how these many people were dying from it.
Then you've probably experienced times when your body physically can't cool down enough through sweating, right? Because at 40°C and 85% relative humidity, various calculators agree that the wet bulb temperature is ~37.5°C.
It's very well possible that you have a larger tolerance for these temperatures than average, my not-very-thorough literature search indicates[1] that people's tolerance seems to vary a lot (apparently correlating with mean skin temperature), but we all share the same upper bound due to physics: environments with a wet-bulb temp. >= 35°C will kill humans after ~6h, since our bodies simply overheat.
So it's very well possible that it takes you longer to get to this dangerous point. But surely you can still empathize with others who aren't so lucky, who instead begin to literally feel that they're overheating after j́ust a few minutes of walking outside in the same heat and humidity?
If you still can't, then maybe it helps to imagine a comparable situation: some freak event makes it so every few minutes, everyone outside has to hold their breath for 60 seconds, or they start to drown. Now, most people can hold their breath for 30-90s, while some can go much longer (apparently over 20min, wow!).
Now imagine you're one of the 30s people. Would you enjoy going for a walk? Some people are having the time of their lives, many can deal with it.
I can pay with iDEAL without interacting with a smartphone, using only my laptop and a physical 2FA device provided by my bank. Do you know if this will be possible with Wero?
Require payment services providers to ensure that all users can benefit from methods to perform SCA which are adapted to their needs and situations and, in particular, that those methods do not depend on one single technology, device or mechanism, for instance on the possession of a smartphone.
It's up to your bank actually. Banks (generally) don't want to pay for your hardware key so you need to do a special dance to trigger their compliance bound neural pathways to send you one.
But then the true bliss will arrive the next year with eidas 3.0 or whatever it is called
In the Netherlands this boils down to the 'system banks' (the big ones like ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, etc.) which grudgingly offer hardware devices for people who won't or can't use a smartphone, and the neobanks (like Revolut, Knab, and Bunq) which make an Android or IOS smartphone a hard requirement.
ASN Bank has a website that allows you to set a browser-linked code once, after verifying both your email address and phone number. You can then use that browser+code as the 2FA device. It's pretty neat.
I have German bank accounts at two different banks and can send SEPA SCT instant transactions via webinterface and physical tan generator with both of them. Wero however is restricted to mobile apps regardless of what your tan generator is and in fact from what I heard, banks generally force you to switch to mobile app tan generators when opting into Wero.
The GLS bank implies it's not up to them. Generally I feel like implementation details are intentionally not made public. For example so far there is no definitive statement on the public internet I could find about whether iDEAL web based payments will still be available after iDEAL will actually switch to Wero. Statements like "For consumers, the online payment experience will remain largely unchanged, as they will continue to pay through their own bank." are always kept vague.
I'm not sure I understand the question actually. Will it work the same way for consumer as ideal does now? Yes, that the promise. Will the actual protocol and endpoints used be the same? I guess not, but also nothing drastic for integrators to worry about.
What I don't get is -- what will be added on top of what ideal already does.
>The GLS bank implies it's not up to them.
They probably can't make two systems within the bank talk to each other for whatever reason. One reason could be -- we are afraid to touch one side and the other is supplied by a vendor. Or politics, or just a plain skill issue. I'm not them and can't possibly know, but my employer was named in comments already, so I feel like I can extrapolate a bit
This looks like it proves me wrong and at least two dutch banks will not require a smartphone app to pay with Wero, if this actually refers to the upcoming actual Wero transition.
> At Rabobank, "approximately 8 percent of all transactions" are conducted using the Rabo Scanner, says a spokesperson. A spokesperson says that research shows that 15 percent of customers prefer using the scanner instead of the app because they find the Scanner secure.
> There are no problems at Rabobank with the transition from iDeal to Wero, according to a spokesperson. Therefore, nothing changes for customers who use the Scanner with the transition this autumn.
> At ABN Amro, the tool for making payments via online banking is called the E.dentifier. According to a spokesperson, around 250,000 ABN Amro customers are using this device this month, which is 4 percent of the total. The number of users is declining because, according to the bank, more and more customers are switching to the app.
> Although ABN Amro intends to continue offering the internet banking function, including for payments via Wero, the bank will be phasing out the E.dentifier over the coming year. ABN Amro is currently already in the process of informing the first private customers about the switch to the so-called USB Security Key. The E.dentifier will only disappear once all customers have made the switch.
This gives me some hope that this might also be possible in the rest of Europe...
That's encouraging. It also suggests banks recognize that removing hardware authenticators entirely would lock out a non-trivial group of customers. Hopefully the transition ends up being "app-first" rather than "app-only."
Will it work the same only for users who use banking apps for ideal, or also for users who use their banking websites to pay with ideal? It's a rhetorical question, right now people can only give their opinion what their statements mean or not. We'll have to wait until the end of next year to see what's actually going to happen. Unless EPI or banks decide to publish an actual roadmap with actual features.
The spec mandates mobile versions to exist, and not PC ones. While a PC version can be provided, no government will do that, because they will do the bare minimum.
> I expected gnome-terminal's memory usage to be in line with konsole (KDE's default terminal), but gnome-terminal shows remarkably well in this test
In tipical GNOME fashion, they have decided to replace this largely working piece of software with on with one that places solidly at the bottom of the article's list (ptyxis).
Almost all of that is Mesa shaders and GTK's CPU side font-cache for GL/Vulkan, compiled CSS state, FWIW.
If you run:
GSK_RENDERER=cairo ptyxis -s
You can verify that with 69,985 here RES and 52,428 of that SHR. With 5 tabs open it jumped to 71,208 here. Presumably for the encrypted scrollback pre-allocations.
You still may not choose to use it, but it should stay relatively similar the more tabs you open.
Also, it's not a core GNOME app. It's just an app I wrote for me that the distros seem to have liked for its design/platform integration.
Thanks for writing it! I was very skeptical initially, but after using it I'm a fan. I also appreciate that I can script settings using gsettings, so I can configure it easily on new systems without having to touch the GUI (though the GUI settings are well thought out and nice to use when you don't know what you need yet).
ptyxis has a few features that gnome-terminal doesn't and which are really handy. Namely, being able to list containers running on the system and then being able to select one to get a terminal running inside the container. Not sure that warrants replacing gnome-terminal but it is really handy if you use containers a lot.
The good news is that before writing Ptyxis, I also ported GNOME Terminal to GTK 4 and doubled the performance of VTE. So you know, use whatever you like.
Wait, what? ptyxis is not the default GNOME termjnal. It is the terminal of choice for both Ubuntu and Fedora, but the default terminal in GNOME is Console, internally known as kgx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal.
I was using GNOME Console in a postmarketOS install in my Chromebook. The fact that it is lightweight compared to say Ghostty (my main terminal everywhere else) made a difference in performance for such a constraint device.
And I didn't really miss any features to be honest, it has the basic that you expect (things like tabs). It is less customizable than other options, but the defaults were good enough for me.
I am a European in Europe and I expect the same. Why would I assume otherwise? The company laptop is full of spyware, starting from the OS. I have no reason to consider it "mine", and no desire to do so. If I want to do anything private (including things that my company would not like) I can do so from my private devices.
Europe is a big place, but in my area of Europe it is very illegal to monitor employees this way. If you were to be fired for something that illegal surveillance turned up, I would consider it a good thing - with the settlement money you could take a couple years of vacation.
> with the settlement money you could take a couple years of vacation.
In many EU countries even if privacy protection is strong on paper, the settlement will be so low compared to US that you won't afford to take any vacation.
I've never worked a software development job where I didn't have a company-provided machine that I installed Linux on. I installed the OS, I have root on the machine, I wiped it and returned it empty when I was leaving the job.
Lucky you, I guess. In all the companies I worked for I have had a company-provided Windows laptop where the OS was managed by IT. The degree of freedom (e.g. what software could I install, what websites were blocksd) varied.
I agree with you, but considering the state of modern software, I think the values "truth and correctness" have been abandoned by most developers a long time ago.
