thesimon

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by thesimon 3y ago
E2EE is not the default mode for Zoom.
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by thesimon 3y ago
Sucks because SES reliability is a mixed bag and more competition would be good.
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by thesimon 3y ago
But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct? ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.
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by thesimon 4y ago
If lots of millionaires were losing money, everyone would say that the should have known better and had finance experts help them manage their money. But somehow the same doesn't hold true for companies.
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by thesimon 4y ago
> I would also like to add that the vast majority of people losing their money were not betting on a risky asset But keeping all your money in one bank is surely a huge, obvious risk?
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by thesimon 4y ago
> If someone’s bank goes bust they can loose a much larger proportion of their wealth But only if they decide to hold their wealth in uninsured deposits to save money or effort.
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by thesimon 4y ago
> If depositors aren’t protected, then it’s going to have a lot of downstream impacts But doesn't that hold true for basically every situation where private companies lose money? If my employer goes bust, then there is also downstre
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by thesimon 4y ago
> If they locked deposits for a period of time they could safely (and morally) loan that money out without lying Are fixed deposits not common in the US?
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by thesimon 4y ago
Looks like they are using nextcloud and just uploaded the file there instead of providing a direct download link. Probably just out of convenience.
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by thesimon 4y ago
>Link, Stripe’s one-click checkout experience, can be used to process all domestic cards for 1.2% + €0.25 per transaction (or your local equivalent). This is probably the most annoying change. Raising the fees to push their card-storing
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by thesimon 4y ago
Maestro and Mastercard Debit cost more or less the same for NL-issued cards, interchange is a fixed 2ct [1]. As Mastercard is getting rid of Maestro, Dutch banks will start issuing Debit Mastercards soon. Probably the supermarkets will swit
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by thesimon 4y ago
> So foreign cards have to be accepted at the same price? No, only regulated cards have to be accepted at that price. So a surcharge can be charged for EU commercial cards which also cost > 2% and are not subject to the interchange re
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by thesimon 4y ago
> And the merchant can't give me a discount for using a specific payment which is not allowed under EU rules Charging a fee is not allowed, but giving discounts for specific payment methods are AFAIK.
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by thesimon 4y ago
> So you can be guilty of “conspiracy to commit X” without ever getting even remotely close to doing X. Probably most legal systems have something like that. The interesting thing about US law - at least compared to German law (a Civil l
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by thesimon 4y ago
Still applies to new PAYG SIMs, which are reasonably cheap
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by thesimon 4y ago
> 3% of that $77m is to run the site And that are outdated numbers from 2015. 2021 report: $153m dollars in donations spent on $67m in salaries, $10m in grants (surprisingly low, in 2020 it was $20m), $2m in hosting and like $10-20m in o
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by thesimon 4y ago
Cheap and dirty: Office 365 family plan with 6 account a 1TB each for around $60/year.
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by thesimon 4y ago
Wanted to take a look at the schemas linked, but identity0.io isn't even registered? oO
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by thesimon 4y ago
The paywall decisions are sometimes kinda odd though. With SES you can only use the older API version, SESv2 is Pro only.
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by thesimon 4y ago
> if its so cheap, why is Germany building natural gas pipelines to ship Russian gas for decades to come? Because Gerhard Schröder, the former chancellor who approved NS1 in his last days, liked Russia, which earned him nice board seats
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by thesimon 4y ago
Not longer useful as with Brexit the Limited will not enjoy Limited protection in Germany.
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by thesimon 4y ago
Filings will cost you at least 100/year for nothing. And you have to keep 25% of your profits you have 25k€. All unnecessarily complex.
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by thesimon 4y ago
> even though the rolling stock is distinctly RE It is painted in white and the floor is carpeted, making it a IC train.
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by thesimon 4y ago
Important for keeping salaries low and exporting cheaply, because the minimum salary requirement for non-EU citizens is lower for jobs in high demand.
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by thesimon 4y ago
Well, the PSD2 opens the banking to third parties (basically OAuth, just for banks). So an approved payment initiation services (PIS) can do transactions on your behalf. But you still want to have control over which transfers they actually
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by thesimon 4y ago
> FIDO2 Lacks the reference to a transaction. An attacker could send unlimited transactions for 15 seconds after you approved yours.
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by thesimon 4y ago
Germany supports ID card reading on almost all distros: https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/en/open-source-software
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by thesimon 4y ago
> and unless you look at the source, nothing tells you that they are a Shopify merchant Unless they are doing a headless integration, the Shopify UI is very easy to spot. For me this has started to become a signal of shops to take great
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by thesimon 5y ago
Most employees don't need to even submit a tax return as with PAYG your taxes are already collected by your employer. If you do end up filing your taxes, you can access the prefilled tax statements. Software to do that is free and easy
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by thesimon 5y ago
Why? We only know that they are not able to create new users. But at least changing passwords of existing accounts seemed possible according to the screenshots, perhaps disabling 2FA as well. As long as Okta does not provide a list of what

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