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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by carlosjobim on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:44AM (#36724720)
I don't really get the sentiment on tax fillings. Experts in most other fields manage to do the odd job here and there for a few hundreds, why shouldn't programmers be able to? Either on the books or off the books.

> people can and will fuck with you just because they can or because they hate you for whatever reason. Anything from mass reporting you to Paypal over death threats to outright SWATting you.

That sounds like straight paranoia. All businesses are online today on Google Maps etc. Does your local hot dog stand get swatted on a regular basis?

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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by mschuster91 on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:08PM (#36726767)
> That sounds like straight paranoia. All businesses are online today on Google Maps etc. Does your local hot dog stand get swatted on a regular basis?

I've been on the Internet for decades and seen pretty nasty shit. If you want to know what German trolls are capable of, search for "Drachenlord". Additionally, I'm an active antifascist and received my fair share of death threats. So yes I'm biased.

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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by carlosjobim on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:19PM (#36726953)
I think those are two very different sides of the internet.

There are easy solutions for the problems you listed. The easiest being to not use your real name to accept SEPA payments. You can put anything you want there on the invoice, the banks just care about the account number.

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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by mschuster91 on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#36731189)
> The easiest being to not use your real name to accept SEPA payments. You can put anything you want there on the invoice, the banks just care about the account number.

Is it wise though? Absolutely no. All that is is asking for a lot of trouble.

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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by carlosjobim on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:16AM (#36736419)
What? The only thing people can do if they have your bank account number is send money to that account. There's nothing else they can do.
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