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I don’t follow it either, but read up a bit on it (partially from here https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/) and the basic gist of it seems to be:

Boeing has been fucking up perpetually since shortly after merging with McDonnell-Douglas (a company that was apparently well-known in the industry for perpetual fuck-ups) in 1997, but political influence/interests/corporate capture has prevented it from actually failing the way that commercial companies that perpetually fuck up ought to.

What we see now is just another case of some of those fuck ups becoming visible again.

There’s actually a bunch of kangaroos just 5 minutes by foot from where I am right now … so no, we’re okay in that department.

It feels like many countries claim that as a national sport. In Austria “sudern” (i.e. complaining but not actually doing anything about it) is considered a time-honored tradition, and yet according to this we are among the most satisfied.

Without a tapestry about it, did it even happen‽

If you want to go all philosophical about it, think about who decided what “insane” means. That was the same species. So we set arbitrary standards of sanity and then we repeatedly fail to meet them … something something philosophy …

But that’s exactly what every other Employee and country is doing.

And he’s not capable of handling the fact that someone might be standing up to him.

And I don’t even mean that in a “doesn’t have a business plan to handle that situation” sense either. I think that he’s personally not emotionally stable enough to fully grasp what’s happening.

It doesn’t exist.

Wait. Again?

There’s still plenty of steps that your bank app can (and will) take to verify this is as intended. Requiring the user to “parse” the URI is not scalable anyway, the app needs to present the information clearly (i.e. "Do you really want to transfer 123.45€ to IBAN abcd, you have not transferred money to this IBAN before, the IBAN indicates a bank in " where the money amount is clearly highlighted).

I thought about that, but I think it’s actually more error prone, because people might just be setting ?amount=32 and leaving out currency which might lead to unexpected behaviour. Implementors tend to interpret this differently and one app might take the default currency and the other might fail to accept it, and that kind of different behaviour is a common source of security issues. Having a single unified parameter that must always contain the value and currency “solves” that issue.

Oh, add an ?amount=32€ as well as a text=Pizza parameter and you’re almost there …

Netflix “hides behind” licensing deals that restrict it but those are just as problematic as Netflix own restrictions.

Please don’t give them ideas, there’s enough populist politicians who would immediately follow up on that idea with disastrous results.

You are right that there’s a distressing amount of “Russia-affection” in Austria, especially on the right side of the political spectrum and in some areas of the industry.

Some of that has historical roots, because due to the neutrality Austria has long been the place where the two sides of the cold war have met and had a neutral ground. While Austria has been (and is) definitely “West” aligned (whatever that vague term means), this means that there has been and is more contact to Russia than pure geography would suggest. Note that I’m not trying to “excuse” it, but just describe some of the reasons.