pupbiru
@pupbiru@aussie.zone
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 10 hours ago:
cc companies
best to say card networks, as cc companies both include a lot of other things (like issuers), and doesn’t include some things (like debit cards, which still use the card networks)
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 13 hours ago:
that’s absolutely the main thing yup… in almost every circumstance where people implement blockchain, a trusted entity is involved so there’s no point to the blockchain
almost always there’s a single entity issuing a thing, and then that same entity also consuming that thing
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 day ago:
it does still hold value, but the value is super niche and generally shouldn’t be exposed to the user… it’s an implementation detail
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 3 days ago:
i’d imagine the company would make 2, 4, 6, 10 drink dispensing machines… having commodity hardware makes it super cheap to just have different shells and a power bus that you bolt electronics and mechanics onto in discrete parts
heck each individual controller could read an RFID tag embedded in the syrup and update its display automatically just from the inserted cartridge
adding all the sensors for each, a display out for each… it’s really just way simpler to duplicate the hardware… honestly, good engineering
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 4 days ago:
or i share similar concerns with the person from the quote in the final part of the article…
i’m not sure how bringing up something in the article makes it “clear” that i didn’t read said article
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 4 days ago:
next they’ll probably want to ban LGBT content since it’s “clearly pornographic”
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 5 days ago:
the card NETWORK is the part at issue; not the type of payment
the same is roughly true for europe and the rest of the world too: payment processors facilitate transactions over various card networks which communicate between banks
a single payment probably involves at least 6 different business facilitating the transaction, and only a couple of them are your bank, and the business you’re paying
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 5 days ago:
who would sue who? who is being harmed? the crazies sure can’t: what harm have they suffered by mastercard facilitating transactions between 2 unrelated parties?
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 week ago:
visa have similar restrictions… the issue is that payment processor, merchant, card network, issuing bank, and acquiring bank (and a few more) are all different layers to facilitating a transaction… there are very few card networks in the world, and essentially people pay online using mostly either just visa or mastercard
technically you could probably run a site that only accepts amex, diners club, jcb, discover, etc but it really wouldn’t go well: people want to whip out their card (often their only method of online payment) and just pay and go
you’d also need to find a payment processor that would be comfortable taking on the risk of facilitating transactions around mastercard and visa… they might just cut them off from access to their network
making things even more difficult is that by law in the US payment processors must offer at least 3 (i think? it might be 2?) “routes”, so you probably have to have a pretty mature payment processor because they’d have to accept several of the alternative card networks
oh and you have to push various stats to the federal reserve which is a massive back and forth bureaucratic challenge even above the technical challenge of interfacing with some pretty awful systems
there are a buuuuunch of other spanners that get thrown into the works, but i’m not sure where the NDA line hits so i’m gonna just leave it there and say trust me, payment processing is an absolute nightmare mess
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 1 week ago:
medium maccas coke here … that i randomly had laying around <_<
there’s a large which is marginally bigger, but no super size or anything
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 1 week ago:
that cup seems pretty regular sized to me, as aussie…?
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 3 weeks ago:
yes but there’s still a EULA you agree to about redistribution and how you’re allowed to use the software etc… if there’s terms in there about being able to back out of the agreement, i’d imagine there would be a clause about destroying copies of the software
that all seems very reasonable
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
nobody can say that for sure… republicans still support him, people protest voted, kamala was unexciting… there are so many reasons that probably contributed
i’d guess his campaign probably got some people to vote when they otherwise wouldn’t have, but i’m not sure it would’ve changed anyone’s vote
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
we can’t really know that… musk paid people to vote, but we and he have no idea if people actually voted how he wanted
i’d say selection bias (people willing to engage) played more of a part than actually telling people how to vote
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
the point of anonymous voting is coercion. if you can validate your vote outside of a safe polling place then someone else is able to validate how you voted and force you to vote a particular way
- Comment on I would like to know about websites ending with .onion Is there anybody who can tell me more about this ? 3 weeks ago:
slightly more info: when people say “dark web” they probably mean TOR. TOR has more users outside of just “the dark web”, but this is the most prominent pop culture representation of it
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks ago:
honestly with online only games i’d be “okay” (not that it’d be great but okay) with them just releasing a bunch of internal docs around the spec. you’re right that open sourcing commercial code is actually non-trivial (though perhaps if they went in knowing this would have to be the outcome then maybe they’d plan better for it), but giving the community the resources to recreate the experience i think is a valid direction
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 4 weeks ago:
you can’t sign away consumer rights in a EULA
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 4 weeks ago:
over COVID, the company i worked for did the best possible thing: they called an all hands and said they didn’t want to let anyone go, but would likely need to unless everyone took a voluntary 20% pay cut for a bit… they expressed that not everyone is in the position to do that, and if you can’t you shouldn’t feel bad… executives and leadership making the decision took a 40% pay cut for the same period, and any profit that the company made went to reimburse people’s salaries in proportion to the amount they lost. they didn’t have to fire anyone, and we ended up getting about half of it back
- Comment on In heat 4 weeks ago:
… that URL slug is quite a thing
- Comment on In heat 4 weeks ago:
Huge dicks with tiny dicks
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
i agree in principle, but that clip leaves a lot of nuance out. if taken to the small scale, pretend you’re trying to get into a bar with a trans friend and someone says some transphobic remark… yes, you have more power to make a scene than your friend, but being in a minority group can feel like a constant fight… they might not want to make a scene, to fight; they might just want to drop it and get on with their night in that moment. going above and beyond like keating did is admirable if they know it’s what mcbride wanted, but it could also have been more upsetting to a lot of people than just replying with the quick quip and getting on with their day
- Comment on Doctor Debates 4 weeks ago:
and as a gay man that’s into fisting i know from personal experience that you can fit an arm up to the shoulder inside your digestive system!
plenty of videos of that online too
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 4 weeks ago:
meanwhile in australia: FUCK YEAH INVASION DAY CUNTS 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🐨
while our politicians say that not loving australia day and wanting to move it to literally any other significant day in australian history is unaustralian 😔
… im sure we’re not alone
(and then i looked up canada day - nope that’s their day of confederation, south africa - their day of their first non-racial democratic elections, nz - … waitangi day, perhaps seems controversial in similar ways?…)
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 5 weeks ago:
i don’t understand how companies don’t just… provide milk tbh… milk, cheap coffee and tea… it’s such an incredibly cheap way to make people feel slightly less like garbage
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 1 month ago:
also weirdly significantly increasing your fiber intake in a short time (going from 0 to 30g - 100% RDI - of psyllium husk for example) can actually cause diarrhoea
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 1 month ago:
and if you go from 0 to 100% RDI instantly you get constant diarrhoea
fibre really covers the full spectrum of brown shades
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
meanwhile if yall ever come to australia and try to tip i will never speak to you again
tipping is a fucking scourge
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 month ago:
filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?
there’s not much that i like about the american healthcare system but the idea of fElon eventually ending up bankrupt because of that fucking black eye really had me thinking “maybe there’s something to this”
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 month ago:
honestly wealth at any level requires luck… intelligence barely factors into it
