[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 months ago

"The massive ceramic connector and 10 inch thick cable immediatelly make obvious that the USB-D connector has been designed from the ground up to be able to power the latest generation of Graphics Card"

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 months ago

Palantir is more likely to be used to try and hide this shit than it this to try and bring it out to light.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 months ago

If the "system" is so deeply and widelly riddled with pedophiles that prosecuting every one in just the found files of just a single criminal pedophile ring would "collapse the system" then the "system" is nothing more than a criminal enterprise which deserves to be collapsed.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 months ago

Well, that's definitelly going to solve the fall in Tourism problem in the US /s

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 6 months ago

Remember boys and girls, according to the Western Press these people were "detained" by Israel and were "prisioners", not at all "kidnapped" in an act of piracy in the high seas and held "hostage" - only Palestinian organisations kidnap people and keep them as hostages, whilst Israeli ones only ever do "detentions" and "emprisionment".

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 8 months ago

I'm in Europe and following the news of the MasterCard and Visa censorship I activelly went looking for how else could I pay for things online without using their networks, and as it turns out there are plenty of solutions supported by both Steam and GOG which I was just ignoring before because they just looked as lots of "weirdly named" unrecognized payment options.

I'm now using those in my purchases and so far they actually look more convenient than the Visa/MasterCard (for example, with iDEA which is Dutch, I can literally pay from my mobile phone banking app by just taking a picture of a QR-Code on my screen). The problem in Europe is just there being lots of local solutions and no EU-wide one yet, though I'm lucky because I have bank accounts in different countries (having lived in several countries in Europe) so I have access to many options.

Keep in mind that outside Britain, the rest of Europe have long had their own debit card withdrawal and payment networks and not relied on Visa/MasterCard (to me Britain was, frankly, weird in that it relies on mainly VISA Debit and had no local payment solution, probably explained by lack of political will in the UK for that: most such payment networks in Europe were born out of political pressure on banks to come up with a standard and sometimes were even started as state-owned companies) so a lot of these local online payment options are extensions of those existing networks, which is probably why trying come up with an single integrated cross-border payment processor has been slow going.

That said, thanks to it having been mandated at the EU level, bank transfers are nowadays fully cross-border integrated and you can transfer money between accounts anywhere in EU with the same ease and for the same cost you can for local accounts (the banks really resisted that, by the way, as it took away most of their "international transfers" profits) so we're probably not far from a single EU-wide payment processor (or at least EU-wide account support on existing solutions).

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There really is no greater pleasure and no greater value adding activity for a Senior Dev than to wade through masses of code produced by pretty much understanding-free copy & paste from stackoverflow by an automated version of the most junior and clueless coder imaginable.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 9 months ago

The lady doing the presentation said that it has 35% of cane sugar.

Also behind her you see "hecho con azúcar de caña" which means "made with cane sugar".

Cane sugar is generally at least a bit refined merely to purify it (so unlike High-Frutose Corn Syrup it's not made by chemically transforming something else).

That said, it's unclear if they use unrefined sugar cane, though that stuff is a complete total pita to work with hence I doubt it's not in the least bit refined.

Mind you I looked around and the info on this is all over the place: like for example saying "no added sugars" but then a bit further it turns out it has "cane sugar", which does mean that sugars were added (as the cocoa plant doesn't produce cane sugar, that would be the sugarcane plant).

Mind you, by all indications this beats almost all North American chocolates, but that hardly a tall barrier to overcome. It's pretty common to find similar stuff in European supermarkets.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 10 months ago

"Won't somebody think of the Gestapo!!???"

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

With modern advertising techniques, adverts mainly work by psychological manipulation - putting a name in your mind, making you associate it with an emotion (for example cars are "freedom", perfume is "lust"), induce fear of a non-existing problem and then sell you a "solution" and so on.

It's like being the focus of a crowd of untiring salesmen who are slick manipulators with training in Psychology and with no ethics at all.

That's how it is every day in every place (even the comfort of your own home) in the advert heavy world we live in if one doesn't fight to keep that shit away.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the Find Out stage that follows his Fuck Around rather than any sort of him being bullied.

When extremely wealthy and powerful people knowingly ruining the lives of tens, hundreds of thousands or even millions, them getting some well deserved opprobrium from everybody else, that's Fair Consequences, not bullying.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but Rednote censorship is bad because ~communism~ whilst Twitter's censorship is fine because it's the 100% Capitalist Free Market situation of a billionaire buying (using, amongst others, money from a Petro State) a privatelly owned forum for exchange of ideas and then shutting down any ideas he doesn't like.

/s

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