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commit: abcd5de85c25312dbe38ecdef34b635ee5685c25
parent cf87101941aaf61bc9fa9f8091fc1a6ccee3cc6c
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Fri,  2 May 2025 06:58:00 +0000

articles/real names: salesman -> technician

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diff --git a/articles/real names.xhtml b/articles/real names.xhtml @@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ <li>You can easily have a pile of folks with the same full name in one region or institution, this can create a lot of troubles</li> <li>As explained earlier, I can legally use whatever name I want in most cases, the formatting is also pretty liberal</li> </ul></p> -<p>Also practical example, if a door-to-door marketer comes and I want to be sure they are who they claim to be employed by, do I ask for their ID? Nah, can't verify it at all. I would ask for their business card or similar and ID of their corporation (<a href="https://www.insee.fr/en/metadonnees/definition/c1841">SIRET</a> in France, <a href="https://www.sirene.fr/sirene/public/accueil?sirene_locale=en">which is public data you can query</a>). Latter being the most important as it's verifiable for me in few seconds that it is registered.</p> +<p> + Also practical example, if a technician-looking person rings at my door and I want to be sure they are actually a proper technician. + Do I ask for their ID? + Nah, can't verify it at all and citizenship isn't useful here anyway. + I would ask for their business card or similar and ID of their corporation (<a href="https://www.insee.fr/en/metadonnees/definition/c1841">SIRET</a> in France, <a href="https://www.sirene.fr/sirene/public/accueil?sirene_locale=en">which is public data you can query</a>). + Latter being the most important as it's verifiable for me in few seconds that it is registered. +</p> <p>And here's a bonus: "Family name" doesn't applies to a fuckton of cultures/jurisdictions, similarly I don't have a middle name.</p> -<p><a href="https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/aebe3c99-35b1-418b-82f6-1613b5555039">Fediverse post for comments</a>, published on 2020-07-15T16:25:50Z, last updated on 2021-12-01T16:22:00Z</p> +<p><a href="https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/aebe3c99-35b1-418b-82f6-1613b5555039">Fediverse post for comments</a>, published on 2020-07-15T16:25:50Z, last updated on 2025-05-02T08:58:00Z</p> </article> diff --git a/feed.atom.in b/feed.atom.in @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://hacktivis.me/articles/real%20names"/> <id>https://hacktivis.me/articles/real%20names</id> <published>2020-07-15T16:25:50Z</published> - <updated>2021-12-01T16:22:00Z</updated> + <updated>2025-05-02T06:58:00Z</updated> <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <xi:include href="articles/real%20names.xhtml"/> </div></content>