Stay the hell away from Klarna

Definitely! Klarna is one of the few parties that won’t cooporate when a Dutch citizen gets government mandated debt settlement. All other debt agencies settle and freeze interests as the state takes control of the debtee’s finances but Klarna just stacks interests like there’s no tomorrow.

The idea behind the scheme is to have the debtee get their personal affairs in order, while an agency (ngo-like) takes care and control of all finances. You get like 50 eur to spend each week but this is also for groceries and all other savings are either used to settle debts, pay rent and other subscriptions and most subscriptions are cancelled with contracts being voided left and right.

It’s a very invasive, but very effective program. Klarna is, as a for-proft debt agency, not having any of it.

7/28 and I program in JS and typescript daily…

It’s not about the store, it’s about the notification.

As mentioned in the Time article:

the app is not available on Android because it “requires a device ID in order to send push notifications, which requires a user account and a password.”

I asked chatgpt (because this shitpost needs more AI), and it said:

So while their names are different, the core AI technology is the same! It’s like having two different brands (say, Ford and Tesla) both using electric motors—the motor is the same technology, just in different vehicles.

But comparing suicidal cars to a Ford is total baloney, so ChatGPT is full of shit.

It’s been an honour to waste your time and 72L of water to get the AI to shitpost.

I’m gonna Kum ba yah so hard, you won’t be able to stop me!

Don’t forget this small sector called government. Loads of Cobol there.

I do like setting things up.

Then I realise I need to fuck around with DNS to get it working nicely.

But how else am I to verify my trust? I trust GitHub!

/s

In case of phones, there’s less of a myriad of operating systems and libraries.

A typical Android app is (eventually) Java with some bundled dependencies and ties in to known system endpoints (for stuff like notifications and rendering graphics).

For windows these installers are usually responsible for getting the dependencies. Which is why some installers are enormous (and most installers of that size are web installers, so it looks smaller).

Docker is more aimed at developers and server deployment, you don’t usually use docker for desktop applications. This is the area where you want to skip inconsistencies between environments, especially if these are hard to debug.

your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn’t anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

That’s enshittification for ya.

Meanwhile, all “lifetime pass” holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.

Maybe they’re using xdg-dirs? That might work, won’t it?

Hey, fuck you for calling adults stupid. Some of us have been stupid the whole time! Edit: /s

I figured out my new Ubiquity firewall can block Amazon and Amazon video with a few clicks. Added bonus that the tv was sending GBs of data that way, without us using the app.

Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, if I’m not mistaken.

Or vpn hopping, works too.

Whilst municipalities often (according to the article) use Microsoft services, a significant number of government agencies are using private clouds.

There are government operated datacenters that store the personal information, that are out of reach from US (or other fascist governments’) prying eyes.