Accurate summary. Had been working on issuing side for almost 5 years. Some of the issuing providers offer really good APIs, some of them are really bad. But overall the card networks are easier to implement than parsing banking data directly

That was really fun to watch and I took the chance to also watch the 40 year recap from the German side (in German tho https://media.ccc.de/v/ho26-124-vom-hacker-zum-spion-die-ges...).

reads like the same could have been achieved by using JJ

So sending my CV to every company three times should get me pass the ATS?

if i ever go back into the job market, will need three accounts: Peter J Smith, Peter Smith and PJ Smith. they live in #101, #102 and 103# 5607 Jane Street

Why stop there? vary everything that can reasonably be varied slightly across each resume

AI company annoyed by AI ... Surprise

i'm now thinking about creating a github repo that contains non sense code solutions to many problems. if that gets stars and many forks that could have an effect

Location: Munich, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, C++, gRPC, Postgres, Rest API, Backend Résumé/CV: send via LinkedIn LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/bastian-schubert GitHub: https://github.com/cemoktra CodeBerg: https://codeberg.org/cemoktra

Well from my view as European working in finance. Handling money for customers to pay (buy apps) likely requires an e money license (not sure about other states). And with this there is lot of things coming, like AML and what not. So disabling the account might be due to regulations required for the e money license.

Of course Support should be able to resolve this if proves are given

That doesn't explain why an entire account is shut down, rather than just use of gift cards. Hammer to crack an egg, and just plain lazy/incompetent

It is probably lazy in the sense that they would need more lawyers and more careful ToS. Defending their ability to shut anyone off completely is a lot easier than dealing with lawsuits from customers denied X, denied Y, denied Z in regions A,B,C..

Anti Money Laundering measures.

Gift cards are often used for money laundering or scams, because they allow to transfer monetary value in small increments and without tracking: there's no link between the person who bought a gift card (anonymously with cash) and a person who used its code to put money onto an account.

Money laundering, I think.

AML = Anti Money Laundering

A huge part for me is how they handle employees and how that makes employees steal things.

My wife ordered an iPhone and we received a salt mill and a flashlight. Called them, they said sorry send it back. But then they would not return the money cause we did not return the phone. At that point Amazon accused us for betrayal and forced us to take a lawyer to get parts of the money back.

That was our last day of using Amazon or prime video.

The password is "I'm a teapot" right?

I definitely thought about it but that seemed a bit too crackable