I hate Amazon more than most but this is a heatsink and fan; not rocket science. If they stole the design, I'm sure the lawyers will work that out. Competition is good, cm charging 3x more is not and they deserve to be undercut.

> If they stole the design, I'm sure the lawyers will work that out.

I'd guess that depends on how much someone can afford the massive legal costs to take one the richest companies on the planet to court. It doesn't look like lawyers solved the problem for Peak Design when amazon ripped off their bag design.

Competition is good, selling cheap, lower quality knockoffs of other people's products is not. Companies like Amazon have so much money that they will always be able to sell a knockoff product for less than it cost the creator to research, design, refine, and manufacture the real thing, and then make sure their rip off version it the first thing any user shopping on Amazon sees. Why would a person bother creating something when you know that the moment it gets popular Amazon will just steal your design and undercut you, possibly before you've even had a chance to recover your investment?

>This is not the first riscv board

It isn't, but it is the first one that's made at scale.

>This experience sounds horrible.

Barely launched, it's a much better experience than the average ARM SBC, and the review makes a point to stress this fact.

> Barely launched, it's a much better experience than the average ARM SBC, and the review makes a point to stress this fact.

That's a very generous interpretation of what he said.

He stressed out that the documentation is much better, yes, but the user experience is currently much much worse.

didnt know companies can just take money from your account. broken bankings system

The only two things you need to take money out of an account are the routing number and account number.

There are a lot of checks on top of that which individual banks may or may not implement or care about, but at the end of the day those two numbers get you 99% of the way there. And for an organization the size of PayPal they're really going to be given the benefit of the doubt by banks.

In Australia they technically need a direct debit authority, but PayPal is above the law in Australia so our dispute process is through our local bank. It works, but it's very tedious and the bank will try to push you towards the PayPal dispute process. It's much better not to link it to a bank account at all, use a credit card because that way it's two US corps fighting with each other when there's a problem.

So why aren’t criminals doing this to drain accounts all the time? They traffic in stolen credit cards, why not banking info?

I think that was why Donald Knuth stopped issuing checks for rewards for people finding errors in his books -- people would post images of the checks online to brag about having received them, and then criminals would initiate fraudulent ACH transfers.

Also not sure why that's not more common in comparison to credit card fraud.

Edit: I guess credit card fraud can be easier to cash out (for physical goods or services), while ACH fraud requires mules to act as intermediaries to receive the fraudulent deposits, which might be harder to come by and sustain.

They certainly try. But it's not like there are no protections in place.

The US banking system can be summarized as "withdraw first, ask questions later." The whole system is based around auditing after the fact. If at the end of the day (or week, or month), the numbers don't balance out, a flag is raised, and someone investigates it. And in many cases, there is a waiting period before you can access funds transferred.

Outside the US, people find this whole thing crazy, but that's how it is and it actually works well enough. My understanding is that banks are moving to a more modern system, but it's a slow process given how much is built around the current system.

I'm sure they do, but it might be less common because it takes more effort to launder than credit cards.

There's millions of retailers that accept credit info in exchange for goods and services.

You can't use ACH to buy Wal-Mart gift cards.

they do 100%. back in June i got charged $30,000 by a fake "home depot". I disputed the charge, but that wasn't fun. the cs reps told me it was not through a debit card but via acct+routing number which got leaked somehow.

Because you have to transfer it to another bank, and the banks are actually quite good at tracking and reversing it.

But it does happen; google "check cashing scam" to find how they mule it out.

must be some US thing, because this is literally crazy to think about to allow withdrawal without authorization

might also be a reason why US banks always seem nosy as fuck, calling people about transactions, blocking stuff, etc. instead of just giving the account owner a safe way to perform transfers/authorizations/set limits

your comment pushed me to installing this

So you just have a lot of time on your hands

Nah it just takes a few minutes. Solid entertainment, costs nothing.

Curious how they can detect this. All the see is a GET request with your ip and ua. Perhaps if they see too many they can flag your ip.

They get quite a bit more than this: look at what's sent with an ad request some time!

You get free email they get to advertise to you. Understand?

Google should modify thie license to exclude microsoft

Can't modify the license without the approval of previous contributors, and I don't think the F/OSS Qt/KDE devs who originally created WebKit are going to agree to that one.

Thankfully.

It's been forked. I'm no lawyer, but I think they could.