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> The future of all software is as a web app. Why not bring the spirit of SumatraPDF to the web? That feels like a 180 after reading a couple thousand words extolling the virtues of small, fast code with minimal dependencies.
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Sorry this may be an obvious thing but I am genuinely curious (and I don't live in the US): why would one be afraid of sharing those? It's not like they're your credit card details or something. What am I missing?
Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's an extra Hassel, and your out finds until they give you a provisional credit.
To withdraw in both continent you'd need a pin or a signature + a tamper-proof ID card. The web app in Hong Kong has 2 passwords + 2 private key phone checks + insta SMS sent on any output. My French bank resets the private key every 3 months and require a strong re-auth (SMS or postal mail).
To direct debit, in HK you can only trigger it from the source account by registering the target online, it can't be done the other way around, while in France you need a signed authorization - but I suppose that can be faked if you have a target entity already registered and fake signatures to a bank.
And you're telling me in the US I know your target bank account to wire you pocket money at your birthday, I can also just withdraw ? That can't be right sorry.
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Paint.NET is great, too. It's not open source, unfortunately (for valid if regrettable reasons), but it's free as in free beer. The memory of its GUI makes me sigh a little whenever I open GIMP.
Have you tried Pinta? Filled the niche for me after switching to Linux.
Images of a few megapixels will cause it to crash or hang on selection. Happened so many times that I am forced to use GIMP.
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You can pull from an account you don't own? This sounds completely insane.
Yes — and it doesn't require anything more than a typo. Whether or not the banks will reimburse it will depend on the bank and whether the money has already moved from the target account. It's never fast but I've heard at least a few stories about complete nightmares where the bank was essentially accusing the victim of fraud despite having utterly failed to protect their customer.
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Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's an extra Hassel, and your out finds until they give you a provisional credit.
well its the same in europe but its not that this is happening. the information (IBAN) you need to wire money via SEPA transfer can also be used to fake an automated SEPA debit system for subscriptions. E V E R Y german company has their SEPA information on almost every piece of writing that leaves the company (in the footer) and thus far i think widespread misuse/fraud is not really a thing.
But what you say must be impossible in SEPA too - to fake a sub registration you'd have to register with a corporation ID as a subscription receiver in the SEPA area. I'd suppose at least you fraud one person you're immediately found. But it's also that you probably can't even register without at least a sort of reputation check.
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Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's an extra Hassel, and your out finds until they give you a provisional credit.
That can't be right. Im a European living in Hong Kong, both places, widely different you'll admit (HK still doesn't have frigging IBANs), I can give you here my account number, you'd be able to do NOTHING with it, nothing but GIVE me money. To withdraw in both continent you'd need a pin or a signature + a tamper-proof ID card. The web app in Hong Kong has 2 passwords + 2 private key phone checks + insta SMS sent on…
Yes, it can be and it is right.
I have been using SumatraPDF on Windows for a long time. After opening a PDF file with it for the first time, I never went back to Adobe Reader. SumatraPDF is much faster, cleaner and less memory hungry.
Other readers likely have this feature, but one I love is that you can re-generate the PDF out from under it and it reloads the new content. As someone writing in LaTeX on emacs and constantly re-generating the PDF, this is very helpful.
I just downloaded it and I'm quite impressed with the ease of use of the color options. Just a few lines in a text file. I can swap between dark and light modes easily. Does anyone know if the window background can be darkened at all? The window UI text color is controlled by the same setting as the pdf text color, so when using a dark background/light text mode the window UI text is very low contrast.
Not just that, but you can change the settings file while the reader is open and it will update immediately. I use a one-line cmd script to switch quickly between light and dark.
> The future of all software is as a web app. Why not bring the spirit of SumatraPDF to the web? That feels like a 180 after reading a couple thousand words extolling the virtues of small, fast code with minimal dependencies.
I look at the speed and efficiency of VSCode and it gives me hope that it's possible to write the high quality programs that we're used to from C/C++ using web technologies. It's just that right now we don't have enough good programmers creating good programs to incentivize the others to do better.