Amberskin

Banking IT engineer here.

In our case, everything ‘core’: checking and savings accounts, loans and credits, credit and debit cards… anything requiring a sub-second response time while being bombarded with tens of thousands of transactions per second AND requiring strict ACID transactions end to end AND 24x7 availability with quick recovery in case of disaster.

Secondary stuff is being moved to other architectures. And new core stuff is being written in Java… and ran on the mainframe.

I am.

First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.

But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.

So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.

I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.

Please offer her asylum in the US.

And extend that offer to Orban, Fico, Farage, Abascal, Weidel and the rest of fascist scum.

Dear Mr. Rubio

Please gently fornicate yourself.

I don’t want a singe euro-cent of my taxes spent in the American industry.

You reap what you sow.

Yeah, but we don’t try to apply our rules in their country. We demand they apply our rules in our jurisdiction.

They want to sell chlorinated chicken breasts in the US? No problem, but we don’t want that shit here.