> Because they're not idiots?

Corporations are simultaneously sophisticated and idiots. Sometimes the output of sophisticated compliance pipeline is plainly idiotic.

Yes, but for Hetzner execs there is more at stake than $ here and they are more than aware of seeing a change of address in light of this notice as a fig leaf without substance. Not everybody is incompetent, even if some are.

...and execs in western world paid consequences of their illegal decisions when, recently?

All over Europe, in fact.

Quite a few arrests and already a bunch of convictions.

Since like forever, 1600 EUR net monthly is a good salary in Italy. Hahaha, I'm joking - you'll never get indefinite employment contract in Italy. This can explain the invasion of Italian guys to post-Communist countries. In addition to earning slightly more, they're fucking their brains out there. In exchange we can visit Italy in summer, see their old people, be robbed in cafes, restaurants, hotels, or literally be robbed... quite miserable exchange.

Scanning some articles and photos in them, it feels like a massive dystopian cyber scam.

Millennials are wrecked by employment and real estate markets, give them 30 over 30 list... but then probably the list will be filled with boomers...

Relatively few millennials are still under 30, and most of them appear to be doing just fine.

I have a strong impression this is a case also on Tinder, Bumble, and Badoo.

The neverending story of Germans fighting with the internet, led by copyright predators. In case you want to contribute to the good side, stay away from UG and GmbH service providers, and those with headquarters in Germany. Don't try to trivialize or underestimate their malicious attempts.

Germany seems to have some of the strongest fighters on both sides, hosting a huge percentage of Tor nodes as well.

They are likely honeypots of BND, of whole range of legal trolls, as well activity of Russian intelligence is possible.

No, many are associated with known organizations like the Chaos Computer Club and Zweibelfreunde.

Yes, I said that Russian intelligence activity cannot be excluded.

I thought that only in my country the banks' "security" turned fucking retarded but it seems it's a global trend. Recently I received legit email from my bank with warning against scammers and the title was "The first step of the scammer will be will be sending an email, text message, or calling you". Is it a double intelligence test or they just admitted to being scammers?

> Use a pre-registered and securely couriered FIDO2 token (Yubikey)

Banks are awful enough with software, I don't want any hardware from them. Increasingly mobile apps are becoming first class citizen for online banking, web browsers second class. There doesn't exist reliable non-infuriating workflow with physical security key and a smartphone.

But everyone wants to work on geodiversified autoscaling superclusters. It starts with watching a presentation on AWS or Azure on YouTube, or even innocent Medium article.

Realistically, it starts as a byproduct of the turn toward Resume-Driven Development (RDD).

Indeed. But a half way decent PC running halfway efficient software can generally easily process datasets with millions of rows. It is only when you get into billions of rows that you really need to start worrying about scaling.