Has this not been common knowledge for a long time? The argument for high load/low reps has always been that it a) saves time and b) will increase your strength (vs. muscle size) more. Both of which are important factors, especially if you are doing strength training not for cosmetic but health reasons. The number of 8-12 reps to muscle failure has been promoted because a too low number of reps (too high load) seems not to induce as much hypertrophy and is bad for your joints, etc..
Your statements about Germany are not correct: Factur-X is not common in Germany at all, the German version of this standard (albeit very closely related to Factur-X) is called Zugferd and it is by no means mandatory in Germany.
Actually, most governmental agencies (which have required e-invoices for many years), only accept the pure XML files. Zugferd is a bit of an interim solution until everybody is familiar with an e-invoice visualizer. There are already many free (as in beer and source) solutions available for that. Zugferd (X-Factur) is a problematic standard, because there can be discrepancies between the PDF and the embedded file and its unclear, which is authorative. Concerning the platforms: I don't know about France, but in Germany, sending e-invoices by e-mail is explicitly permitted by the government.
Well, as they should, because they are now by far the biggest emitter with higher CO2 emissions than the EU and US combined. Even their per capita emissions have surpassed countries like Germany.
> Even their per capita emissions have surpassed countries like Germany.
It's becoming a habit of mine to remind that reading stats is tricky. Per capita isn't a good metric because China exports a lot of products to other countries, more so than Germany. Any CO2 comparison should consider what amount of CO2 would be released by the importers if these same products we produced locally.
That could be done by professional statisticians given data and funding that isn't there, and until that changes, the simple stats should not be taken as a ground for blame or praise.
Didn't they promise regulators, that they wouldn't exclude other platforms from Activision games, CoD in particular? So if they now give it away to the users of their platform but users of other platforms have to pay top dollar, is that not more or the less the same as excluding them. They basically use the Activision franchise to force users on their platform.
Hetzner is also a fraudulent operation with zero support in my personal experience. But as you can see in this thread alone, any negative feedback is magically silenced. It sucks. Maybe we go back to webhostingtalk?
Dude the characteristic feature of Hetzner threads on HN is a bunch of people in the comments moaning about having to scan their passport or repeating the 'they just turn your servers off with no warning' line.
In fact it's so prevalent and consistent - at least here - that to my eye it looks to me like black PR. Or that they're really good at rooting out internet scumbags and that the internet scumbags are unhappy about it.
I run a legitimate non-sleazy business in the US doing mid 7 figures a year. It’s not a “line”, it was the reality of an attempt to do business with Hetzner.
I’ve never had any serious issues with other vps, colo, dedicated, or cloud providers in 25 years as an employee of many companies or as a business owner: only Hetzner.
I'm not saying it isn't true, I'm just saying that there's no way you can describe criticism of Hetzner being 'silenced' on HN; criticism is literally a defining facet of Hetzner threads.
I don’t know about the US, but at least in Germany, Amazon has lost control of its inventory many years ago. Fake products, fake reviews, empty boxes, etc. have been very common. There are also many products having no or faked safety certificates. So it’s not surprising that you can buy stuff like spy cams intended for illicit use on there.
Similar in the US. Fake sellers, drop shipping, selling used as new. The review systems is very bad. Sellers resubmit new products by editing old products to carry good reviews. We see “Sauté pan works wonderful” comments on Bluetooth speaker pages. The titles have gotten crazy long with every related and positive word. Reminds me of SEO from a couple decades ago.
I used to sell things (books, video games…) occasionally on Amazon and I would use fulfillment by Amazon. Very good seller rating and only one complaint ever out of 30-40 sales (person failed to read the item description).
Within the past two years, any listing I put up immediately gets flagged and removed by other sellers. It’s a hostile environment for new or infrequent sellers, and existing sellers are using reporting as a barrier to entry.
It’s not that it isn’t relevant, it’s the clickbait-y headline and insinuation that Okta itself was compromised again. Any major company using third-party vendors would be in the same position (and for all we know, this healthcare company provided services to multiple other companies). Fault Okta for not doing enough vendor due diligence, sure, but don’t use clickbait to imply Okta itself was breached.
Be it as it may, it does not really matter, whether it came from a Okta database or of any other company. It further compromises Okta's security which is pretty bad because being secure is basically their primary service proposition.
Firstly, the title literally does what you're asking:
> Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
You have to read the whole thing.
Secondly, let's assume you were right and the title was simple "Okta hit by another breach" and there were no other words.
Do you not view it as problematic that the company has in two months had a major compromise of its own services via phishing, as well as that of a company supplying health-related services to its own employees? Do you not view that as potentially hazardous and concerning?
They chose this company. Effectively, they vetted this company and believed them to be doing things in a way that was secure for their employees. If that vetting process is terrible, then it speaks to how organization-wide the issues there are.
The real takeaway for Okta in 2023, if they didn't know it already, is they are dealing with nation state threat actors, and if they think they are over-investing in security, they probably aren't.
