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quacksilver
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Do they include expiring credit in that figure?

Most of the time they have a buried clause that says that you forfeit all of your credit or get charged an inactivity fee if there have been no account transactions or no credit added for 12 or 18 months. Same reason why you should never buy gift cards.
quacksilver
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I bought a large format e-reader for the opposite reason - being able to read and study from large format textbooks while on long train journeys or in hotel rooms (or even camping). It handles stuff from arxiv fine too.

I really like my Boox Max, as it means that I can read textbooks at a good size without reflowing. It still holds charge for several weeks at a time after about 7 years

I wish I had it at university instead of 1000+ page hardback calculus textbooks.
quacksilver
·9 mesi fa·discuss
If you are wasting time wording communication then are you doing it wrong?

I imagine the response would be looking at it briefly, seeing if it looks dangerous or reproducible and getting an AI to return a templated "PoC or GTFO" response.

The mere existence of a CVE doesn't tell anyone whether a bug is valid or not, and the security reports should be handled in the same way regardless of whether one does exist. For some odd reason people have attached value to having your name logged beside CVEs, despite it not telling you anything,
quacksilver
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Is that not a problem with how people are using CVEs, scoring them and attaching value to them rather than whether a CVE should be assigned itself. A CVE is simply a number and some data on a vulnerability so that the community knows they are all talking about the same issue

Even if you need to be root to edit the files, it still is a deviation from the design or reasonably expected behaviour of that interface, so is still a bug and should still get a CVE. It should either be fixed or failing that documented as 'wont fix' and on the radar of anyone building an application. Someone building the next plesk or cpanel or similar management system should at least know about filtering their input and not allowing it to get to the dangerous config file.

Re: Harassment - Can't the project release a statement saying that the bug writeup is low quality and unable to be reproduced? Anyone ignoring that without question and using it as evidence that the project is bad without proof is putting way too much value in CVEs and the fault is their own
quacksilver
·9 mesi fa·discuss
From memory, online and offline transactions are usually split out by BIN number (first six digits)

The BIN will tell you which bank was the issuer and which class of card you have, like standard or premium, though most readers probably don't take that into account beyond the card scheme and card type associated with the range that the individual BIN is in. Many banks will have multiple BINs for the same card type if they are large.

Credit / online debit / offline debit usually get different ranges. The reader gets a list of the ranges when it updates and they don't change super often. Offline readers can be configured to reject cards with a number in an online only range.
quacksilver
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I last used a carbon imprinter in the UK in 2013. We hired out car roof boxes / cycle carriers at a summer job I had.

I am not sure how valid it was, though they would take a deposit and a card imprint until we got the car accessories back.
quacksilver
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I used to have an online maestro card (was solo and now known as debit mastercard) and an offline card (was switch, now also known as debit mastercard) from a UK bank, due to having two current accounts there.

The offline card was from a current account with an overdraft and also worked as a cheque guarantee card, for cheques up to £250 under the (discontinued ~2011) cheque guarantee scheme[0] and had a special hologram on the back. The retailer would watch you sign the cheque and write details about you, the card and any CCTV etc. on the back of the cheque. I imagine the offline behavior of the card was similar, and was a carry over from that.

The online card was from a basic account with no overdraft facility and acted a bit like a prepaid debit card.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_guarantee_card
quacksilver
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Assume 40 inches rather than 40ft

Adding 12 meters to an aircraft is quite a big change.
quacksilver
·11 mesi fa·discuss
There are services like vast.ai that act as marketplaces.

You don't know who owns the GPUs / if or when your job will complete and if the owner is sniffing what you are processing though
quacksilver
·3 anni fa·discuss
Some things that I personally have have had to do include adjusting the HVAC to have full output on the windscreen on a hot setting, enable the rear demister / mirror heaters or turn the hazard lights on. The windows or mirrors steaming up is a visibility issue and is dangerous if you allow it to occur.

This may not be needed at the start of the drive if people's breath gradually steams up the windows or the weather changes. I have noticed that passengers from warmer climates probably don't have the same problems as they didn't understand this and were complaining at me to turn the fan off.

Though I always buy cars with physical buttons that are in ergonomic places and wouldn't buy something with a touch screen. I am also not sure how a touch screen would work with the thin gloves that I wear in winter when driving to work in the early morning.