gpvos

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by gpvos 5mo ago
3. Yeah, the previous system we used was just too cheap and efficient. Credit cards are still not common. 4. We're indeed a bit later than elsewhere, but there are many now.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
When using the web interface some banks still offer the physical reader (which I prefer), but the banks are pushing hard to move to the phone app.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
If using a phone, yes, but then you probably already did.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
The QR code just contains a URL to a website, so you can also just use that link and a web browser. That website will let you choose which bank you use, and then redirect to your bank's website which will use your bank account directly
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by gpvos 5mo ago
No. The bank gives you a prominent notification when someone new gets a direct debit authorization for your account. And a merchant gets banned quickly when they misuse their debit authorization.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I've used BLIK once, for an online payment from the Netherlands to Poland, and for that it was terrible. I assume it's much better integrated into the Polish system.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Wero is for internet payments, but Visa and Mastercard are still involved for card payments. I just got a new-style Dutch debit card and it has a Mastercard logo on it; Visa cards are also still being given out.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
I didn't get the "green stairs" reference; can anyone tell me what it's about? https://youtu.be/KnUFH5GX_fI?t=546
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The slow creep of epistemic apocalypse(haversine.substack.com)
2 points by gpvos 5mo ago|0 comments
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Convincing someone, especially an HR person, has very little to do with computer skills.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
IC = Independent contractor (I assume?)
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by gpvos 5mo ago
MCP = Model Context Protocol, an interface for LLMs to retrieve information and perform actions
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by gpvos 5mo ago
First time I access this website, as far as I know (via a corporate VPN, and the first time I see this kind of blocking from Cloudflare while using that VPN): "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access hybridlogic.co.uk Why
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150 (1306 points, 50 days ago, 508 comments, same site even)
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by gpvos 5mo ago
This should definitely be included! Never heard of it before.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Oh, that. Should have done it sooner.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
This is not the first site to do so. A few years back, scarygoround.com started blocking query strings, although it seems to have stopped doing so now. Back then, Facebook had started to add ?fbclid=... to every outgoing link.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
Query strings existed before CGI did, and the way they're defined to be filled in from web forms is quite useful; I wouldn't want to need Javascript to fit that into path format. There's nothing wrong about having things deci
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by gpvos 5mo ago
A more standard solution would be cdb.[0] Although that doesn't support compressed data. [0] https://cdb.cr.yp.to/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_(software)
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by gpvos 5mo ago
"A ton" being a misspelling of "the vast, vast majority".
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by gpvos 5mo ago
If so, it still worked for several hours after the maintenance was completed.
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by gpvos 5mo ago
The problem, as I described in another comment, is that the average programmer doesn't know enough about colour spaces, and sometimes must choose a colour profile while not knowing nor understanding what they actually want. They ca
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by gpvos 6mo ago
I would have loved to have found this page back when I was adapting some PDF-generating program to conform to PDF/A (which requires a colour profile in some cases). I found several sRGB profiles and could see that they were different,
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by gpvos 6mo ago
This is probably why evil geniuses usually lose in the end.
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by gpvos 6mo ago
True, but the site is called Evil Genius Labs for a reason. And it's not too hard to switch off, there's a clear prompt in the bottom right corner. (Didn't try mobile.)
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by gpvos 6mo ago
What do you even mean?
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by gpvos 6mo ago
The kernel maintainers don't flag "security fixes" as special, and they have a well-thought-out reason for that, see many other comments in this thread.
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by gpvos 6mo ago
Which McKenna do you mean?
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by gpvos 6mo ago
Not for long anymore, apparently.
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Rust adoption stalls amid shift in memory-safe programming trends(developer-tech.com)
2 points by gpvos 6mo ago|0 comments

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