lol, is that why duckduckgo was down yesterday?

There’s a fixed version: https://xkcd.com/851_make_it_better/

Hell, no. This is a work laptop. I can’t justify spending days fixing some arcane bullshit that spontaneously decided to do a Leroy Jenkins.

What’s your OS?

In my defence: I am a frontend developer.

Oil doesn’t have surface tension and it stays in the cloth. At a certain point it’s not surface tension that keeps liquids together but friction.

Says my uneducated ass.

I suspect what you are calling a wire transfer is not actually the same thing as a SWIFT network wire transfer

That’s absolutely possible. Whenever I’m researching how to move moneys, I find that there’s a bit of a language barrier. When I say “wire transfer”, I’m trying to communicate a scheme by which I instruct my local bank to reduce the number of Euros in my bank account and somehow instruct the recipient’s bank to increase the number of Euros in the recipient’s bank account by the same amount. Specifically, I’m trying to communicate that there is no credit involved here. No end-of-moth balancing of a credit account, no sending money I don’t actually have.

I think what I mean is the “SEPA Instant Credit Transfer” as Wikipedia describes it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area#SEPA_Instant_Credit_Transfer). I am aware that this cannot possibly work with banks outside of SEPA. And these are also free-of-charge, as I said:

Since 2009 the European Union Regulation No 924/2009 […] regulation Article 1 […] states that an IBAN/BIC transfer within Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) must not cost more than a national transfer […]. As of 2022, most European banks do not charge private customers for SEPA transfers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer#European_Union

This only moves the question. What payment methods does the currency exchange accept? What are the transaction fees there? Also crypto is way to volatile for my liking. Crypto bros may claim that states can devalue currencies at any time, but ever since BTC was invented, the Euro has been orders of magnitude more stable than any cryptocurrency.

No fees in Germany, neither for sending nor for receiving and the funds get transferred within seconds.

Another comment mentioned ACH, but that is not the same as a wire transfer.

Thanks for clarifying that. I just thought they used a technical term I was unaware of.

If you accidentally wire the funds to the wrong account, there is no recourse.

Well, duh. That’s not what I’d call insecure. If you only accept a system as “secure” if it is resistant to any user error, then I propose you keep away from knives, cars, electricity, staircases, and basically everything.

You also didn’t provide any rationale for the “costs money” part of your statement.

The only thing GitHub can’t to is structure tickets. It would be nice to link issues together other than by referencing them.

No consultancy can ever make Jira fast. It’s incredible that it takes several seconds just to open a motherfucking goddamn issue.

I swear all their SQL is select * from *;

They weren’t making a generalist statement. They were complaining about management insisting on slapping AI everywhere.

[Edit: It does not and it is not. What the fuck are you talking about? Why do you think it’s insecure and what costs are associated with it?]

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Have you noticed that there are now three ways to enter block-formatted, monospace text?

From my quick internet search it seems that these “bank-issued” debit cards are all either a rebranded MasterCard or rebranded Visa. Both American companies. Given how unpredictable their government behaves recently, and how recklessly the banking sector has behaving for decades now, I would rather not rely on them for something as essential as my bank account.

You prompted me to read up on these things. It turns out that Germany has been cooking their own debit card scheme (Girocard) for the last 20 years, and it’s incompatible with the rest of the world. But banks seem to be transitioning towards Visa or Mastercard.

Github doesn’t accept Girocards.

TBH, I’m not a fan of yet another entanglement with US-based companies for something as simple as moving money.

My preferred payment method is wire transfer. I instruct my bank to move x monies from my bank account to someone else’s bank account. No need for a third party.

Bankeinzug

is Direct debit.

#You shall not pass!

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