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wilhil
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Anyone remember Microsoft's McZee font from Creative Writer/Fine Artist?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/mczee

This was my go-to many years ago!
wilhil
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
My fav "abuse" of the system was a car park terminal that was running some flavour of Windows with an antivirus software.

It had a scanner for the barcode of a ticket, but, it understood lots of other barcodes/encoding systems and must have been logging to the filesystem.

So... saw someone encode the EICAR test string to a QR Code and put it to the scanner... that caused the AV to popup which covered the entire screen and made the terminal unusable!
wilhil
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
We are/were an early adopter.

It's very promising, but, seriously buggy as of now - DNS keeps randomly dropping/leaking unreliably which was causing us issues and random drops to private resources along with a few other issues.

I think we switched to tailscale (I don't look after that side)... it's still a cool solution and think we will be looking at it again in the future.
wilhil
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Stripe is a nightmare and I found support to be awful and not know their own product.

We are a UK company but now have clients worldwide and worldwide bank accounts (thanks to Wise).

So many people in the US can't pay via ACH Transfer (we can't do debit without a US entity... looking in to options and setting up a LLC now), so, we need to be able to accept credit card.

I thought I had a nice workaround by having USD to my USD account and only paying standard (high) fees, but, they now charge me a surcharge for this despite no Forex fees needed, and worse, the fees always link to the wrong transactions so I can't even reconcile properly.

On top of this, they force convert my CAD to GBP despite having a CAD bank account, and charge me so many fees on top.

It's the only option I've found as of now, but, I'm far far from being a fan.
wilhil
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Adyen didn't want to speak to us unless I could show ~£1M+ a year of transactions :(