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dankboys··on UK inflation falls to lowest level (7.9%) in more than a year
Unlimited migration from Schengen depressed UK wages, a lot of the people you're deriding had no chance to do skilled work and had to compete against people willing to work for pittance because it was more than in RO/BG.

(The fact that the government has replaced that with cheap labour from outside the EU doesn't help)

dankboys··on HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)
One of the key bits is that the cartel worked out the OFAC check by HSBC was shitty so could add spaces etc to bypass it. It wasn't a conscious decision, but a failure of their process.
dankboys··on People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ
The embedded tweet was a prank, guy gives his name as "Rahul Ligma"

https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=...

dankboys··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
Yeah, but literally nobody knows who he is.
dankboys··on Keffals: “I’m being forced to leave the continent because of Kiwi Farms”
Keffals has promoted getting hormones to kids without their parents knowledge[1], and links with BobPosting, who produces them [2][3]. Keffals has previously been involved with Discords where concerning my young people were taking such drugs and having sexual conversations [4]

[1] https://archive.ph/zQoMl [2] https://archive.ph/iDj9v [3] https://archive.ph/qHEDN [4] https://archive.ph/03p8r

dankboys··on Keffals: “I’m being forced to leave the continent because of Kiwi Farms”
Swatting is never acceptable but if you're trying to hook people's kids up with DIY chemicals brewed in a bathtub then people are going to be quite pissed
dankboys··on Brazil is also considering making USB-C chargers mandatory for iPhones
There argument is that lightning is more waterproof (which makes some sense as the only devices apple uses it with have higher IP ratings) but I doubt how significant that is in reality
dankboys··on ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace
I agree. I recently went looking for a car part and was able to easily find the phone numbers for sellers to check. In the UK at least they also do end of month 15/20% sales where I've scored some bargains. I got a bit fatigued of Amazon and how the minimum order price was like £10
dankboys··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
The...legal policy?
dankboys··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
Nothing says "British far right" like a Cabinet full of ethnic minorities.
dankboys··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
The Tory party of higher taxes, pride flags covering every government social media account and currently minting coins with the "progressive pride" flag? Sounds like they're about to burn down the Reichstag.
dankboys··on The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch
console hackers and game programmers have little overlap, though. If you've spent the time to understand VR/ED you probably want to do that, in which case you're not programming.
dankboys··on How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
or, the dogs that would go hell for leather across the road didn't have good outcomes
dankboys··on Alyssa Rosenzweig: Conformant open source support for Mali-G57
I feel like we're on the same side of the aisle but what the fuck, unpleasant and unnecessary.
dankboys··on EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
Apple's argument behind keeping the lightning connector is that it offers a superior standard of waterproofing than the USB-C can provide. The iPad and MacBook, to my knowledge, don't make any claims about being waterproof.

(Not to say anything about the veracity of the waterproof argument, just that they make it)

dankboys··on UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'
Oh gosh, how unnecessary.
dankboys··on Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?
This article makes me want to use Brave lol
dankboys··on Final year medical students 'can't afford to pay rent'
That's fair.

Unfortunately in the UK at least, the question of "how come student doctors can't afford rent when we give 25% of tax receipts to the NHS" it's too close to criticism of the NHS, a secular heresy.

dankboys··on Beginning in late 2022, you'll no longer be able to send MOBI files to Kindle
And used Kindles/Kobos are even cheaper
dankboys··on California’s population shrinks for second year in a row
Which is ironic given the excrement situation in "enlightened" California
dankboys··on Ford Motor layoff – 580 engineers
Not to mention that they'll have to increasingly invest in infotainment and their software package as cars become places people spend more time (while charging)
dankboys··on UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
Then it's even more useless than being an auditor at the commission
dankboys··on UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
Ah yes, famously brexit didn't happen
dankboys··on Lenovo Forums stores plaintext password as a cookie
Not in any way a web dev, but couldn't an XSS on Lenovo's site make it possible to leak these?
dankboys··on New Apple Cash Accounts Now Branded as Visa Cards
I've seen the opposite* - I had nothing but Mastercards a year or two ago, and now I have none.

* in the UK

dankboys··on I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (2020)
Good, this is how community is formed and seems much better than people defecating on the street.
dankboys··on Ubuntu Continues Falling Like a Rock as a Gaming Distro
I think people use popOS now which is Ubuntu but some of the gaming-specific headaches ironed out
dankboys··on Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic
Nobodies throwing zero days against Dave and Susan's Toy Store, it's just not economically feasible.
dankboys··on It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
Yeah LGs are great, no long loading times. Only issue I've found is that it doesn't like antenna signal being too strong (I've got an attenuator to make mine work)
dankboys··on Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide
Maybe it's different there, but in the UK which has a significant Muslim population, concern for Palestine, Yemen and Syria (and even the Uyghurs to a lesser extent) is common. The Rohingyas also had support in the UK, which again has a lot of Bangladeshis.
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