“I’m in a government that condones - if not encourages - businesses from rejecting customers based on their own ideology, but don’t do it to me!”

New speedrun just dropped:

Any% screwing up the inland economy

Please tip your federatress

The CEO made a remark about Trump, and used his corporate account for it.

If I recall correctly (no press statement was made by Proton), it was a personal remark on a corporate account, which he was quick to allow anyone to do. It also didn’t support Trump as a whole, just a remark Orangeman made about getting small business a level playing field (which I totally trust from an olicharch).

I’m still sticking with Proton for the foreseeable future, as its privacy awareness and advocacy is still a core business value.

Think of the Small Business is the corporate equivalent of the Think of the Kids fallacy

Yeah, I won’t buy another one again, but now that I have one, I don’t want to e-waste it just because the cable is too short.

Electric fire danger is really changing my opinion on this though.

For some magical reason, YouTube music has less AI music than Spotify.

The playlists are significantly worse, but I haven’t really heard any AI Christmas music that has infested Spotify.

It’s partly “in case we’re deciding to be idiots and go to active war zones” stuff, but I see those rich fucks using military level weapons against civilian drones because they can afford to act above the law.

In the Netherlands your pension fund is withheld from your wages (partially a mandatory government fund, partially a fund your employer might select).

My previous employer invested about 1% of my wages into the fund, which was quite shite. My current employer invests 10% and has a significantly better return.

Health insurance is a monthly cost you pay on your own (starting at around € 120 / mo). It’s a € ~350 yearly deductible and coverage is mostly decided by the government. Any additional coverage is your own choosing and comes at a premium.

As you can only switch contracts on a yearly basis, comparing health plans is effectively a Christmas tradition for all Dutch citizens.

Some company surely already done this.

A hotel I stayed at recently had a vending machine filled with beer and wine. It just worked with the honour system, no ID check or whatever.

It was fairly nicely priced too, especially for a hotel.

Because they’re using events and downloading a few megabytes of extra javascript framework is, of course, a way better option than six lines of SVG stylesheets.

Edit: forgot a /s

Eh, the IDF is a terrorist group too, so Israel isn’t off the board.

GitHub has a “clone” button, if you click on that you can get git links to download the code. The http-URL doesn’t require authentication.

Edit: I misread the comment that it’s about a different app.

Imagine being an author whose sole income is writing books.

Here comes an AI that stole indexed your work and is asked by a customer of OpenAI to summarise your books. It does so perfectly and the issuer is able to use your results freely, since they think it’s AI generated and doesn’t require attribution.

You receive nothing in return.

Good luck making a living.

Edit: stole to indexed, added edit note

But all those murdered innocent civilians won’t be creating any more carbon emissions. Did you factor in that enormous factor?

(/s, morbidly)

How dare you speak for other nations like that.
Sounds like they’re lacking some essential American Freedom™!
Come to think of it, sounds like you’re acting very Red™ yourself.

(/s, if you missed it)

Hey, they gave some people an Uber Eats coupon

There’s half a dozens of us!