SomeUserName432's comments

On: Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

[SomeUserName432]

> People underestimate how difficult it was to transfer money before Pix, even between local banks. The process was hard to use, it could take days and the fees were huge, depending on your bank. Pix solved all these problems.

Nearing 17:00 in a bank: Does anyone here need to do a TED or a DOC? Come to attendant now before the system shuts down for the day!

On: Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

[SomeUserName432]

> To be able to pay with Pix, one needs to get a CPF (Brazilian Tax ID).

There are third party apps you can use to pay with pix using a credit card, can't recall that name, but read about it here a few months back, on another pix-thread.

> CPF (Brazilian Tax ID). Then to open a bank account

Getting a CPF is absolutely trivial, but I'm not sure you can open a bank account without RN/RNE, at least not with local banks. Can probably manage with one of the online banks.

[trollbridge → SomeUserName432]

For comparison, one does not need need to get US tax ID number to use a Visa card.

[bleepblap → trollbridge]

Calling a CPF a "tax ID" is a bit misleading, much like calling an SSN "the way you get social security benefits". You can (even as a non-citizen) get one in a couple mins at the post office, and it's used for literally everything, including things like buying a SIM card or registering for some public WiFi hotspots.

[trollbridge → bleepblap]

Okay, that's quite a bit less bureaucratic than American EIN, ITIN, or SSN (collectively known as TINs).

How many digits/letters long is it? One problem with American TINs is the entire space is only a billion digits, so it's not possible to assign one to every person in the world. If we could add two more digits or make 3 alphanumeric, it would be a lot more feasible to do this, but that is basically impossible at this point.

[somewhatgoated → SomeUserName432]

I think you need a RN/RNM to open a bank account even with online banks - I haven’t tried all of them of course so there might be some that work with cpf only

On: The USB Situation

[SomeUserName432]

> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed

My third party cables are lasting 3-5 years. Absolutely would have preferred lightning cables, but it is what it is.

That said, Apples lightning cables were/are indeed quite low quality.

On: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

[SomeUserName432]

Having rented cars a lot, this is actually quite common.

[tsanzer → SomeUserName432]

What country, I haven't seen anything but unlimited miles for over a decade.

[SomeUserName432 → tsanzer]

I referred to the swapping of cars to a far inferior model than you paid for.

However I do also pay for milage (KM), and extending the rental period does often* NOT extend the milage range. Eg 1 month=1000 KM, 2 months=1000 KM, so you need to split the rental periods yourself and do all that hassle, or pay extra.

(*May of course vary depending on the rental company)

This being in Brazil.

On: All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

[SomeUserName432]

Would only need to be at the top, to balance out the camera.

The only reason I use a case is that the iPhone is close to unusable on a flat surface without it.

[solenoid0937 → SomeUserName432]

The iPhone is already heavy as a brick, and a battery is a couple orders of magnitude heavier than a TPU shell covering the same volume.

On: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

[SomeUserName432]

> PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL

Pretty sure this is a persistent setting. Don't need to set it per-connection.

On: Anthropic Subprocessor Changes

[SomeUserName432]

Working fine for me right now, from Brazil. Claude via Github Copilot at least.

[matheusmoreira → SomeUserName432]

I'm using Claude Code on the terminal. Not sure if it matters.

  API Error: 529
  {
    "type": "error",
    "error": {
      "type": "overloaded_error",
      "message": "Overloaded. https://docs.claude.com/en/api/errors"
    },
    "request_id": "..."
  }

The promotional double usage period is just about to end too. Sucks.

[CamouflagedKiwi → matheusmoreira]

It's down for me too. A colleague says it's up though - it's possible they're shedding different groups of users (he has the Max subscription, I don't).

On: I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

[SomeUserName432]

> If the person invites me to a online meeting with a signed e-mail, I trust that person that it's really them.

In the interview scenario, generating an email signature is hardly beyond what an AI can do.

You have no prior knowledge of this person or his signature, it's not some government issued ID, it's in essence just random data unless you know the person to be real.

On: Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

[SomeUserName432]

And how would you determine that the buyer intends to play on linux, and not windows like 9x% of the buyers?

[BatteryMountain → SomeUserName432]

This extends past linux. Open source projects get used broadly regardless of runtime environment. Steam is just one open nerve ending where this could be used for good and they have the power to do so (and from what we've seen, steam seems to be a low friction company, less corpo red tape - would you trust say Ubisoft with handling this or steam?). If a game gets deployed to windows, it doesn't matter, as each game/application probably use five or ten or more open source projects regardless of where they run. It can help open source devs keep pacing with steam and game developer needs. Remember a ton of these project have upstream effects outside of gaming - its just the most obvious open nerve we can use to help open source.

[jojomodding → SomeUserName432]

You can only show the checkbox on Linux. You can add OS detection to the checkbox and have it say "support our $OS dependencies" and put that into different pots of money. You can make the checkbox say "support our Linux dependencies" and then rely on Windows people not selecting it.

On: We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

[SomeUserName432]

Feels like every time I drop by the office there's 2-3 new faces I've never seen before.

People I know seems to not take issue with them being there, so I'm sure it's probably fine. Fine enough for it not to be my issue to deal with in any case.