froztbyte

it’s worse than that, you should probably take number of adults (as in, 18+) as base here, and it’s 78% of them (267M), according to first random source i’ve found, so it’s closer to 34%

yep, entirely correct. and the numbers will also only reflect for those that are loantakers/account holders (which implies an even smaller number), because only one person needs to take out the bnpl to groceries it up for family support

I just didn't have the time to dig into the numbers properly this morning when I posted

it's all bad. just every single fucking part.

I was mostly riffing on the Internet Meme of "what's the german word for..." but you are not wrong

good god

The statistics back up his unease. Buy-now-pay-later services have exploded to 91.5 million users in the United States

with the rapidly checked population number I found (340.1m), that's 26.9%

..., with 25% using the services to finance their groceries as of earlier this year

perfectly normal, I'm sure nothing can go wrong here. and this won't be tied in with just the recent SNAP shit, either

what's the german word for "the feeling you get when you know the bolts on the rollercoaster are shaking loose incrementally and you can see the Unscheduled Rapid Disassembly Event coming up"?

what's the u?

ah, and they’ve got a community feedback forum post, where it isn’t going the way they might have expected: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922

a whole new Firefox!

a whole new “AI” “Firefox”, that is

via this toot, which summed up their continued action about as concisely as possible

....huh, Posting Improvement Plans probably do need to be a thing the internet has

+1 to letsencrypt for https. certbot can even auto-configure your webserver for you, taking it from http base to https-with-redirect, no terrible advice from shitty exist-for-volume blogs required

superquick tldr:

1. install certbot and the applicable plugin package for your webserver; if you don't know the name use p.d.o (or your distro's own) to find the package name
2. run certbot; there's extra flags you can pass if you want to automate, but ootb it'll ask you questions and start the process for cert + config (iirc - I mostly run it automated and non-interactive)

"the concept of “a piece of cloth,”" will just forever live in my brain now, I suspect

this is a more perfect description than any I could've come up! my thesis was largely on what a boon it would prove to thieves (although I recognize that flavour of thief probably varies by country and not all have them)

(some others know but posting it here for everyone else to see:)

I'd been attempting to avoid responding to blue's posts for a while now (probably can guess why), but, yeah. I apologize for going that far with those posts, it was definitely too snippy

(edit: advance warning that clicking these links might cause eyestrain and trigger rage)

so for a while now sheer outrageous ludicrous nonsense of the trumpist-era USA politics has been making a bit of an impact on the local ZA racists (and, weirdly, not only the white nationalists but also the black nationalists - some of it has shone through in EFF and BFLF propaganda strains), and I knew that with the orange godawful-king ascension to his hoped-throne it was only a matter of time before shit here escalated

anyway, it's happened. the same organisation also put up some ads along the main highway ahead of the G20 summit

(upside: some of those have already been pulled down. downside: the org put up some more. don't know what's happened with the latest yet)

fuck these people