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Scalingo (a European PaaS) allows you to do this by buying credit, a simple solution. I wonder why other providers don't offer this.


> The next morning, I called PayPal and asked them how the seller could’ve opened a case on my behalf against themselves. They weren’t sure.

That's scary :/


I think this is the worst part of the event.

PayPal is the most annoying service I use because it asks for 2FA for every damn action. So how could they take that action? Surely if they logged in they left breadcrumbs?

The post is mildly infuriating because it doesn’t even try to answer very important that question.


They provide a possible reason, that being mobile number spoofing and calling the call center


This might be an option you turned on? I don't experience 2FA for paypal... But I'll probably go fix that today.


I'm pretty sure it's part of "the algorithm". I don't get 2FA prompts every time, but ever so often for it to be annoying - especially since I am then thrown back to the login prompt which dares to tell me that the password from my password manager was wrong. No, it wasn't wrong, your system apparently just cannot handle going from a password prompt to 2FA and then realizing that the correct password was already entered! I asked lots of people around me and they don't have this issue, so I guess it's kinda random who is treated how.


It is apparently very inconsistent.

My own experience with using PayPal usually (as in: almost always) goes like this:

I get a PayPal popup that says something like "You're already logged in! One moment," and then once that goes away I push the whatever button corresponds to "Yeah, sure -- pay it."

It's generally a one-button operation for me, and has been for years.

I wonder what the differentiation is.


Agreed on the yikes here - this should be a high priority issue from paypal's side to address.

This seems like a HUGE loophole


Eh, I'm sure PayPal could see how it happened but the relatively low level support person wouldn't have access to such information.


Right now I can't access any part of the website if I don't pay 15€.


> totally my fault

IMHO, it's not totally your fault; private information shouldn't be shared with others. It's your responsibility to verify what ChatGPT is writing before you use it; it's OpenAI's responsibility to not share private information.


Google Analytics tracking ID is public information.


Here you are making assumptions this was somebody's valid GA ID and not dummy data...


Just like how google wasn't going to train ML models on your private possibly confidential information...


I find Downdetector more helpful in those cases https://downdetector.com/status/fastmail/


> No 32-bit?

What's the market share for this one ?


At the moment, older model Raspberry Pi's and other ARM-based devices - everything else has moved on to 64 bits already. I don't think 32 bits needs to be supported anymore for consumer applications.


I still use a couple of 32-bit netbooks.


I'm using the US International keyboard mapping, to type ' I have to type ' + space. The goal is to add the possibility to wrote letters like é (' + e).

So this doesn't work for me and it doesn't seem possible to change the shortcut on Firefox :(


So I use a keyboard layout (Irish) from a country where this a need some people have but not frequently. There is the compose feature, but it's located in the button underneath escape (labelled ` ¬ ¦), not overloading single quote.

The one issue with that arrangement is you run into video game server admin/modding tutorials and the like and they describe pressing "~" for the console, and it's hardcoded to the keycode and doesn't consider the keymap, so it's actually looking for that button, except getting a literal ` requires a double tap of ` rather than all the UI elements telling you it's ~.

Oh and quoting code blocks in markdown can be kind of annoying. Or inline variable names that start with a letter that supports the accent.

But I think I'd take those limitations over losing single quote.


ctrl-shift will switch back and forth between selected keyboards in windows, so you can keep the keyboard in ENG US most of the time (allowing you to use the ' shortcut in Firefox), and use ctrl-shift to switch to ENG INTL when needed.


There's a variant of the US layout called altgr-intl where instead of making ' a dead key you can do RightAlt-e for é.


Is that literally the same character for both? On my layout `e leads to è whereas alt-gr+e = é. é != è in many languages.


janus24 specified "é (' + e)". That's neither ` nor è.

Not all languages that use é have a use for è.


Building a product to help decentralize but using Google Form to registrer, no logic here.


Well, dredging up useless facts from the old cobweb attic, back in the 80's if you wanted to have a domain name you had to give Jon Postel a ring[0] and ask politely for him to manually edit the zone.

I suppose you gotta start somewhere, "worse is better" MVP and so on.

[0] - http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/history.htm


I'd argue that the difference here is that we do have the technology to collect data these days, and relying on Google Forms is simply laziness.


>relying on Google Forms is simply laziness.

Oh, of course it is!

Much better than email, telephone, or possibly IRC, as you can use Zapier or IFTT to semi-automate the preformatted requests.

Classic MVP; probably whipped up on a coffee break. Nice one, IPFS


It's centralized domain-name registration, so there's no point to using decentralized tech to manage registration.


No logic to this comment either.


Same for me


Languages evolve all the time, without the creation of a "fork" language.


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