Xylakant

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by Xylakant 4y ago
There’s no chargeback for SEPA transfers that are initiated by the customer, but the OP is using SEPA direct debit which is initiated by the vendor and has chargeback.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
In this case, it’s likely that they have set up recurring SEPA debit payments. Changing the payment provider won’t keep the revenue coming in - it would require every customer to sign up for debit again. And when stripe figures out the mess
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I have multiple emails, and this never turned out to be an issue - worst case i just try all of them. But if you want to improve the implementation, the provide can also decide to send an email in case no account is registered with that ema
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by Xylakant 4y ago
practically all website that use an email as username nowadays require email confirmation, so already include the context switch. Because in the end, sending an email is the only way to verify that the email address is correct and you don&#
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by Xylakant 4y ago
How often does it happen that you fill out a multi-page registration form just to notify you that you already have an account? I rarely bump into the issue of already having an account that I forgot. Is saving that extra amount of work in a
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by Xylakant 4y ago
While I agree in general that this is the better way, it’s in the end out of the sites control. The could notify the user, but cannot implement any measures that can help to protect the user. Avoiding information leaks is under the sites co
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by Xylakant 4y ago
“If you’re trying to prevent this information leakage, you also need to consider the following things” would be a much better conclusion to arrive at. Services that considered that problem just let you sign up twice and send you an email sa
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Many services let you sign up with an existing email and just send a “you tried to sign up, but you seem to have an address already.” to the account owner. In that case it’s indistinguishable for the attacker. Many services already require
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Having been in the situation that a coworker did no longer arrive to work one morning because some person opened the car door when they were passing with their motorcycle, I can assure you that it's not only the more delicate type of p
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by Xylakant 4y ago
By a law, so by a really big rule book. Laws need to be written and brought into effect by the legislature. Courts only interpret laws, they can’t make one (except for the constitutional court that can make decisions with law-like quality t
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by Xylakant 4y ago
There are actually at least two spelling errors in that word - there’s an “s” missing as well: Rechtsanwalt_s_vergütungsgesetz. In my defense, typing this on a mobile phone with (english) autocorrect interference makes it harder. In their d
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Any off-boarding procedure fails - at that scale, if even one in one thousand fails, you can expect a couple of failures per year. ensuring these get caught is part of "solid offboarding".
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Up until 2004 it was the Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebührenordnung, so it did get easier (and I still misspelled it. no points for me)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
This case was brought in a German court. There is no case law in Germany - decisions do usually not bind other courts, even lower courts (unless you're at the highest possible level, Bundesgerichtshof or the constitutional court). This
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It depends. Settlements can stipulate anything. If you loose in court, you usually have to pay the winners legal fees, but the cap is what's laid out in the Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz and depends on the value of the dispute and othe
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by Xylakant 4y ago
At this scale, having someone take care of deleting double/expired accounts is just good hygiene and I would not consider that useless. Forgotten accounts are a security risk.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I’m fairly certain that large boats win over trains. Their stopping distances are measured in kilometers, there no such thing as an emergency brake on water (except throwing your anchor, but that doesn’t help much in most cases either)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Anyone remember the leap second?
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I‘ve had stuff break because of required kernel updates, software that needed to be patched, hardware breaking and no exact substitute being available, database sizes crossing critical thresholds, … - it‘s definitely less risky to run somet
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by Xylakant 4y ago
No sane infrastructure team will answer „easily“ to that question. Things break, all of the time. And infra will need developer input to figure out some of the breakage, let alone fix it. And that‘s not even considering deliberate attacks,
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by Xylakant 4y ago
That might be true, but in any case, if you don’t trust the new owner to do the right thing, then the present state is still preferable over any future state.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing. If that microservice is still up. The future is much more uncertain.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
We have formed our Ltd in the UK pretty much exactly one year ago and it wasn’t a problem for us - however, the Ltd is a subsidiary of our German company, so I’m not a direct shareholder. This may or may not change things.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Yup, that’s what I took from discussing this with our tax accountants. The reason our UK ltd is taxed in the UK is that it does it’s business in the UK and our German business is served from the German GmbH which owns the UK ltd.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s not “where you live” but where the company operates. I happen to (indirectly) co-own a UK ltd. It does business in the UK and has UK resident employees. It pays taxes in the UK only. But if that Ltd. would operate in Germany from a Ger
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I’d be very careful about the business taxes - it used to be a common model that Germans would form a UK ltd to do mostly business in germany - and they were generally liable for corporate taxes in germany. (1) So depending on your local ta
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The input is not the cost of the hours worked, but the number of hours worked. Essentially, productivity measures the number of items a worker can produce per hour worked. Wage or cost doesn’t enter the equation.
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Cyber Attack on HaveIBeenPwned leaks email data to hackers(cybersecurity-insiders.com)
4 points by Xylakant 4y ago|3 comments
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I made around 11000 km with a belt on a cargo bike before selling it and the belt on the current one is at ~6000km. Belts are amazing, especially when it comes to maintenance. But I would still avoid going with a belt on a tour anywhere tha
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by Xylakant 4y ago
This is not a good rule if taken to the extreme. Almost all medical procedures have an associated risk, some higher. The key question is whether the risk outweighs the benefits.

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