It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories.
January
No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either
February
Arch and Tails announced that they were dropping 32-bit
Mozilla shutting down the group behind Firefox OS
March
Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date?
April
Ubuntu abandoned Unity and Ubuntu Phone
May
SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10
Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android
June
Ikey quit his day job and to develop Solus full time
July
Entroware
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September
October
Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement
November
Conservancy and SFLC fall out
Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle
Munich voted to return to Windows
December
Mozilla faced blowback after slipping Mr Robot plugin into Firefox
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Regarding bank accounts, again:
I don’t know anything about banks in the UK, but here in Germany there are banks that offer to lock your account. I don’t think an account that only accepts incoming transfers is any more dangerous than something like PayPal.
First piece of software I ever bought was NetSetMan and it was all due to the developer having one of those easily reachable German bank accounts. Not only did student me not have to apply for a credit card, but I also felt very happy more directly supporting the person without service fee upon service fee by all these intermediate rent-seeking leeches on society. Meanwhile here in The Netherlands most accounts also come with solid direct withdrawal management that can block incoming transfers, but it might become a bigger hassle when you have to do your own customer service on top of that like refunds when demanded within a certain limited time period.
What netherlands web-banks do “direct withdrwal management” that can refund a direct transfer with, say 28 days @De_Ruijter ?
The upfront block on incoming transfers is often called “incassoblokkade” and I’m seeing all major players like ING, Rabobank and SNS have that functionality. Meanwhile recalling your money after an incorrect automated withdrawal is called “storneren” and that functionality is even more common. Meanwhile the Dutch consumers association is reporting a maximum reporting period of 56 days to 13 months depending on the situation:
https://www.consumentenbond.nl/juridisch-advies/geld-verzekeringen/overboeking-incasso/onterechte-incasso
When you however made the mistake yourself by executing an incorrect transfer and using your banks verification methods to approve, things are a lot trickier.
I was quite surprised how untrustworthy the hosts felt the (British?) bank account system to be. Personally I have similar attitude towards Paypal and their ilk. Well, live and learn…
Wow! The meltdown bug is due to the unsustainable nature of capitalism! Who knew? Only a complete left wing ideologue can take a cpu bug and jump to that conclusion. Never mind that capitalism is responsible for the ubiquity and affordability of personal computers and smartphones to begin with. Faster, better, cheaper is why you have what you got today.