froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

politely: while I understand the impulse behind this discursive angle, it's probably not the greatest idea to have it here

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

it sucks when you learn a thing like that about a person. it’s like blowing an efuse: generally one way, not easy to go back without a lot of work, and you may not want to bother

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

I’m sure specifics and timing don’t matter. can always tune that efficient later, amirite?!

(although once again a very I am the scream at how rapidly this toxic waste is becoming rampant in the commons :|)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

jesus, that seems insidious

and unfortunately I speak enough ghoul that I suspect I know how that’s being sold, too! a way for companies to “manage outflow”? and perhaps a dash of “cultivating a reputable $x base” in there too?

nvm that these intermediation fuckers are going the standard Bridgetroll[0] route too, which is also a problem

[0] - rentseeker

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

I’d be lying if I told you I knew! my most interesting interaction with technisch-mechanisch deutsche has been through the lens of shorthand column names in an oracle db (where truncated col name length limit caused applied). no, not kidding. that was an interesting project more ways than one!

(very Choose Your Own Adventure db schema too, and I suspect I’m still among the only in country who have strong knowledge about it today)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

right? for like 18~24mo now, the autoplag "boom" and the fucked up neo-credit-arrangements in real estate (again) have been my primary guesses for how this shit is all going to up in vapour

and then suddenly a surprise third entrant!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

let's hope that the outcomes of this helps them become a weeeee teensy l'il curious financial service again 😶

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

no bolts!

but otherwise? I mean, pretty close.

(yes I did upvote this post)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (18 children)

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"?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
 

Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?

 

Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

 

will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:

it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet

flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale

 
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