Wise needed beneficial ownership documentation for my business account. Presumably this was part of the whole KYC/AML/etc dance.
There's no standard form I could find for this, document to get out of the government service portal, or anything else. I finally just fired up a word processor and put together a single page document:
To whom in may concern,
Below is an accounting of all individuals who, directly or indirectly,
through any contract, arrangement, understanding or otherwise own equity
interests in 12341234 CANADA LTD.
NAME DOB Ownership
nucleardog 1970-01-01 100%
I hereby certify that the above information is correct as of Dec 31, 2037.
Nucleardog
President
12341234 CANADA LTD
No notes. They accepted it immediately and the account opening moved forward. Like... wat? Why was I stressed about this?
(I have since written myself many things things like this, e.g., salary verification letters. Always gives me a chuckle and feels like a weird superpower I've gained by paying the $250 or whatever to incorporate.)
If I were someone that set up forged accounts and stuff professionally this would've been absolutely _nothing_ to bypass. As someone legit doing this _once_ for _a_ business, it definitely took a lot more research and thought that it really should have.
> If they made it easy to hold USD and/or forex/fees on international card charges were reasonable, Wise wouldn't be needed in most cases.
Yeah, if the banks could provide a service similar to Wise I'd happily use a bank.
My bank wanted ~$800/mo in foreign exchange fees for what I'm doing. Wise charges me ~$100/mo. That's, what, 700% more fees? I'm saving $8.5k/yr.
Even if Wise imploded tomorrow and I lost the cash I have in there I'm pretty sure after this long I'm still ahead versus having used my bank all along.
And there are a lot of value-adds on top.
I can get a Visa card that lets me pay directly in the foreign currency instead of paying the exchange fee twice. This was a whole separate expensive/specialty product from my bank.
I can send electronic transfers (through Canada's Interac e-Transfer service) that exceed what a local bank will provide even to my business account and completely avoid the need for additional services/hacks/fees/etc. This is, apparently, "impossible and not supported by Interac" according to multiple banks I've talked to, the business rep, etc.
Long story short... I agree. Wise only exists because banks are kinda terrible at this. If the banks sucked less, few people would bother with the friction of the additional account.
> We have standard colors for this as well (as do most jurisdictions), neutral is always blue but the phases are Brown, Black and Grey
Never even thought about the fact that different regions may have different colour standards. This explains some of the power cables I've torn apart over the years and the strange colours I found inside!
> When I trained as an industrial electrician they where different colors, they changed in 2006 so that just makes me feel old (used to be Red, Yellow, Blue with Black for Neutral).
Making a mental note of that one... a black neutral would be a nasty surprise coming from North America.
Indeed, half my house is blue/brown, the other half is black/red since reg changes where grandfathered in and the wiring has been added to (some places clearly by a knowledgeable individual others..not so much).
I spent the first day after we bought it and moved in going around with a screw driver, side cutters a notepad and enough swearing to make a pirate with Tourette’s blush.
It’ll need a full rewire at some point, while I can do it myself to a commercial standard our regs require a currently qualified electrician sign off (mine expired many years ago) so I’ll just pay someone to do the lot.
It’s annoying but I’ve seen enough horror shows to see why it’s nescessary.
> you mean, docker? Everything you can do in docker, you can do with jails.
Jails provide the same sort of primitive as cgroups et al wrapped up into the concept of an OCI container, yes. But lack the entire ecosystem of tooling and services that go around those.
Saying jails are a meaningful alternative to containers completely misses most of the ways in which people actually _use_ containers. The experience as-is is closer to a lightweight VM or LXC than what people associate with containers.
I say this as the kind of stubborn person that invested the time to spin up a cluster of FreeBSD machines running Hashicorp's nomad as a task orchestrator to manage running jails published to my "repository" across the cluster and recreate the general "container" experience. So my experience may be out-of-date, but this isn't from a place of ignorance or lack of love for FreeBSD, but from a place of "I've managed a colossal pile of bash scripts to recreate the container experience with jails and, no, for the average person it's not fair to call it the same thing.".
In a scenario where what we're doing is describing and assigning work to someone, having them paste that into an LLM, sending the LLM changes to me to review, me reviewing the LLM output, them pasting that back into the LLM and sending the results for me to review...
What value is that person adding? I can fire up claude code/cursor/whatever myself and get the same result with less overhead. It's not a matter of "is AI valuable", it's a matter of "is this person adding value to the process". In the above case... no, none at all.
> It feels magical to have the PoE injector tucked in a cupboard with the optical network terminal, and outside Narnia, the router has only one cable going to it.
Last time I remember feeling like that was the day I unplugged a RB5009 and it... just kept running. Was standing there holding the power cable in my hand, clearly unplugged, and the router was sitting there still happily blinking away. Like, this clearly can't be possible but I'm staring right at it and it's happening.
Took me a minute, but eventually realized the Starlink box that provides power to the dish _also_ provides power on the local side for their provided router as well, and apparently it was happily powering mine now.
I did. Implemented a "simple" solution (simple for anyone who is going to be setting up their own IP camera system and NVR):
Cameras are on their own VLAN. Port isolation is enabled so they can't connect to each other. Only connectivity allowed to/from that VLAN is from the cameras to the router for NTP, and from the NVR to the cameras.
So if you plug in you can... check the current time on my router. Maybe see how many other cameras are on that segment? Likely not going to get very far given you're already caught on camera, an alert's been fired, and pretty soon I'm going to be making a call to the police.
Nothing useful to add, just a "no". I wasn't trying to do GPU passthrough but instead passthrough a PCI card with four independent USB controllers so I could allocate those ports to VMs.
Excluded the devices at boot with pptdevs. Using vm for bhyve management so added `passthru0="10/0/0"` (device id) to the vm config. Started it up. Device was in the VM.
cURL is an amazing tool, but it's more "HTTP client" and less "full blown API client".
The page even sort of acknowledges this... saying you manage your environments with environment variables. It doesn't mentioned how to extract data from the response, just jq for syntax highlighting. No explanation of combining these two into any sort of cohesive setup for managing data through flows of multiple requests. No mention anywhere on the page of working with an OpenAPI spec... many of the tools provide easy ways to import requests instead of manually reentering/rebuilding something that's already in a computer-readable format.
So the tl;dr here is "use cURL, and then rebuild the rest of the functionality in bash scripts you idiot".
I went down this path of my own accord when Insomnia was no longer an option. I very quickly found myself spending more time managing bash spaghetti than actually using tools to accomplish my goals.
That's why I use a full blown dedicated API client instead of a HTTP client. (Not Postman though. Never Postman.)
> Planning for an AWS outage is a complete waste of time and energy for most companies. Yes it does happen but very rarely to the tune of a few hours every 5-10 years.
Not only that, but as you're seeing with this and the last few dozen outages... when us-east-1 goes down, a solid chunk of what many consumers consider the "internet" goes down. It's perceived less as "app C is down" and more is "the internet is broken today".
To be clear, I'm not advocating for this or trying to suggest it's a good thing. That's just reality as I see it.
If my site's offline at the same time as the BBC has front page articles about how AWS is down and it's broken half the internet... it makes it _really_ easy for me to avoid blame without actually addressing the problem.
I don't need to deflect blame from my customers. Chances are they've already run into several other broken services today, they've seen news articles about it, and all from third parties. By the time they notice my service is down, they probably won't even bother asking me about it.
I can definitely see this encouraging more centralization, yes.
Wise needed beneficial ownership documentation for my business account. Presumably this was part of the whole KYC/AML/etc dance.
There's no standard form I could find for this, document to get out of the government service portal, or anything else. I finally just fired up a word processor and put together a single page document:
No notes. They accepted it immediately and the account opening moved forward. Like... wat? Why was I stressed about this?(I have since written myself many things things like this, e.g., salary verification letters. Always gives me a chuckle and feels like a weird superpower I've gained by paying the $250 or whatever to incorporate.)
If I were someone that set up forged accounts and stuff professionally this would've been absolutely _nothing_ to bypass. As someone legit doing this _once_ for _a_ business, it definitely took a lot more research and thought that it really should have.