I don't know about them but zoomers are insufferable now with their "late stage capitalism" cliche. Everything they don't like is capitalism, and it's a symptom of "late stage" capitalism. They are as fucking annoying as boomers with their "this country is going straight to hell" bullshit. Both are obnoxious and unprofessional, voicing political opinions no one ever asked for.

Since the french "right" proposed cooling government buildings and schools in France, the left is, of course, opposing it. They claim air conditioning is "far right".

https://www.liberation.fr/idee...

AC penetration in France is very small, only 7% of french houses have one. The mortality rates in Europe soar over 150% during heat waves.

This guy is completely disconnected from reality

And in the process you also break HSTS and are unable to access half of the internet.

Except KB5063878 and, of course we haven't heard about it since Slashdot is slower than Internet Explorer, but this update wrecks your hard drive. If you have an SSD, and copy a folder larger than 50GB, your drive stops being recognized, and it's not fixed by a reboot.

So yeah, no. Any windows user knows NOT TO UPDATE on the first day. Every fucking patch they release breaks something. And this has happened since the first day of Windows Update.

As for "users welcoming updates", no. Absolutely no. Most non technical users hate updates because companies feel the need to move things around, or add features no one asked for. You just want to USE the computer but no, now the developer decided that they need to showcase this new feature, with a full-screen unskippable wizard showing you everything new. GO AWAY LET ME WORK. Or worse: no indication whatsoever that they decided to move everything to a different location.

L7 filtering hasn't been a thing for over a decade now. All traffic is now encrypted.

No. Wikipedia has editors and some editors can prevent editing completely, and this is often used for "controversial" stuff.

The problem is that the definition of controversial is left to the editors. And editors are heavily biased (generally towards the left).

so what's the point? were the articles bad, had no facts, or did they violate any custom-made-on-the-spot rule from the editors?

If the guy is posting his biography in 92 different languages and hasn't done malicious edits or any other foul play why would you delete the articles?

or is it about neckbeard pride? It's very well known that wikipedia editors are a special kind of asshole, right up there with StackOverflow editors.

also editors are as biased as anyone else. Every wiki article about Argentina, especially argentinan politics, has been co-opted by peronist editors (financed by the kirchner government) and the tldr of every subject is "the Nation was founded in 2003 when Kirchner created it from the dust of the old argentina destroyed by liberalism".

Google keeps trying to provide summaries and it has been getting in trouble for it for a long time now.

These summaries generally provide little if no benefit to most users (except, maybe, googling a restaurant and it'll give you their phone number as a first result - but this news article today proves how even this can be dangerous). Other than that, they're a shallow interpretation of the first few results, and prevent traffic (and ad revenue) to the original sources of said traffic. Google has been benefiting from other people's work for way longer than AI companies.

A few years ago, Google's excerpt for searches on Cristina Kirchner (former pesident of Argentina) was "thief of the argentine nation". She sued for defamation. According to her, she was seeking damaged but more importantly she was trying to raise awareness of such behavior by google. Anyone can write something in wikipedia and Google's summaries take Wikipiedia as an authority and uses it for that info. It's not curated by a human but by an AI. And with the amount of traffic Google gets, it's a rather large billboard that can be easily abused.

THAT SAID:

The web has been turning slowly into crap for a long time. Before the GPT era you'd get a link to some random content farm blog which will bury the information in text so you really need to scan the whole document for the info you're looking for - except every 3 paragraphs there is an ad. And about 4 lines scroll down you get a full screen popup asking you for your email to add you to their mailing list. Also you'd get a half-screen popup for cookie consent. And another popup offering you a free white paper/ebook on the subject.

This has turned for the worse now, since these content farms use AI to generate VERY long content with absolutely no substance. And besides all of that, you now get an AI ASSISTANT!!!! popping up on every page.

As for Kirchner... well, she has been found guilty and is now serving house arrest for being a thief so I guess google wasn't right about that one.

The truth is that it would be very easy to end the bullshit "modern web". Google just needs to severely de-PageRank AI slop (and email beggar popups while we're at it) and the problem will be solved within months as content farmers will scramble to remove AI slop

Except this goes against the AI is here forever techbro mantra.

Because MP's marketing and because most shops are forced to have a CC terminal. So if I pay with QR, you as a merchant can't know how much you're going to pay in fees or when your money is gonna be available. See https://aranceles.fiservargent..., at the time of writing this comment:

With QR Transfer: 0.8% + VAT feee, immediate.
With QR + Debit card: .8% + VAT. 1 working day
With QR + CC: 1.8%+ VAT, 8 working days
and then:

Plan Cuota Simple 10 DH, Grandes Contribuyentes 18 DH, Cuotas con Financiación otorgante 2 DH, Plan Cuota a Cuota 1 Cuota 18 DH, Tarjeta prepaga 18 DH

So: in "simple" installments, 10 WD. Large companies: 18 WD. In installments, but the seller pays the interest: 2 WD. In "installment to installment" 18 WD, with a prepaid card 18 WD.

so whats simple installments, installments, or installment to installment? God knows. And merchants especially small shops, don't have the energy to understand all of this.

18 working days to get your money is also a problem in a country that now has 2% monthly inflation but comes from 25% monthly inflation not even 2 years ago.

ALSO: tax withholding. The bank is withholding GST when you get a money transfer, but also, the CC processor is withholding. Double withholding, none of the fun.

So TLDR: anyone nowadays knows how to do an alias transfer, it's immediate, and it has no fees. With any other system you don't know when you'll get your money or how much of it.

QR payments in Argentina still charge you a fee (lower than a credit/debit card's fee, but still charge you) and are reversible. Small businesses don't accept these payments, only (irreversible) wire transfers.

The main QR payment platform, Mercadopago, makes QR chargebacks way too easy for the consumer and doesn't provide a counter-claim mechanism for the merchant. Well, they do, but they automatically refuse counter-claims. your money is effectively lost. Better luck next time (this is literally what they tell you in the automated response: "better luck next time". Needless to say, what do you think happens with such a system? Chargebacks are the norm. So small businesses have stopped accepting MP QR payments.

As for wires, we have a 22-digit CBU (unified bank account number, unique nationwide), and an Alias (alphanumeric alias linked to a CBU). When you want to do a wire transfer, it will confirm the receiver's identity and show you their full name and CUIT/CUIL (their tax ID/social security number. every argentinian or resident has it). So you can confirm the receiver's identity yourself.

Opening a bank account is also an online deal. You no longer need to go to the bank to do this. To open an account you need a physical national ID, and it'll start an identity verification of your face (it will take a normal photo of you, and a photo making a specific silly face like close one eye, or open your mouth). It'll also take a copy of your ID. This is validated at the government's identity verification platform.

this is, though, irrelevant to fraud because most fraud is committed by impersonating other people. Hijacking their WhatsApp and messaging trusted contacts and ask them for "hey I'm low on cash can you send some money to this account? i'll pay you tomorrow but i need to pay them first". So identity verification won't do anything for you here.

i don't know man, we're pretty happy here in Argentina with instant bank transfers between any bank in the country.

No fees to pay Visa, no payment processor withholding my money for days or weeks for no reason, and no bogus chargebacks from buyers.

Is the guy who submitted this a first-tier maintainer? If not, then all of this vitriol should have been directed at them for not doing a good job of filtering this PR.

Thats why I was testing in a VM...

LOL you wish. I literally just upgraded from debian 12 to 13 in a VM and guess what? Now my KDE is broken, all apps are disappeared, and open-vm-tools isn't working anymore.

And I've had to work on machines with "ancient" debian versions such as... 10! and guess what? The repos no longer work (they may have been moved to archive.debian.org instead of debian.org), and not even the signing keys have been updated.

So no. you can't just click "upgrade" and linux will magically update itself. Stop spreading this bullshit.