lol god that’s even worse :/
so have nfc and value-capped transactions even made inroads there yet?
froztbyte
joined 2 years ago
starter tip: stop talking about women as if they don’t have any agency, and stop using them as a reasoning device in your unnecessary posts
the thing is that the git branch naming was only one of the places among many where this was changed, and in many databases (and often other server-subsystem architectures) master/slave terminology was quite present. iirc there are still some that stick by it today (mostly out of direct choice by project maintainers)
it’s the same thing as whitelist/blacklist, vs allowlist/denylist (or others) - when there’s bad shit linked in baggage, and the cost of changing it (by habit and choice) isn’t all that much, there’s not really any reason to hold by the the old loaded shit
harm reduction comes in many forms
they ever so very slowly started doing chip (not necessarily with PIN) from 4~6y ago, state depending
probably need to give them another decade.
just imagining what happens the day his companies get taken away from him
"cooked, and (politically) red as fuck"?
christ this isn't primary school, fuckoff with that nonsense
ooh I like that
You’d be surprised
I wouldn't be :) have visited many of them, and worked in a fair couple too
what was shocking (on my first visit there) is how absolutely fucking antiquated US infra is across multiple dimensions. not shocking these days, I now understand so many of the reasons for it
that understanding also makes so much of what comes out of the US (and its weird obsessions with specific non-solutions) make a lot more sense
just imagine the kinda thinking that goes into even "I can make this post for fun, that'll be a gas"
probably because the vagueposting in the top half of your comment wasn’t actually clearly stating what it meant, and the latter half suffers from internet-stalking-horse incorrect conclusionism
just a guess tho.