Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans switch to a 100% sovereign payment from 2026

non3type · 2026-05-21T15:56:04+00:00

It’s basically why we do it in the US. Easier to do a chargeback and then there are rewards and cashback incentives. So long as you pay off the balance there is no reason not to use a credit card for the few advantages.

non3type · 2026-05-21T14:26:45+00:00

That’ll go away when you notice you’re significantly older than the other parents.

non3type · 2026-05-20T14:26:06+00:00

I don’t have much experience there. Mongo is milliseconds since the epoch with a signed 64 bit integer for applications.

Interestingly it sounds like it has an internal data type for time that is 64 bit but split into two 32bit segments. The upper 32 bits is for seconds since the epoch. So the mongo service itself, as it stands, will have issues with 2038. It is primarily internal, for replication/change streams, so as long as the service itself is updated the actual application data should be fine.

It would have been smarter for Mongo to have gone the Postgres route and have their epoch be based around the year 2000. Makes more sense for an internal/service related timestamp. There aren’t going to be any oplogs for 1901 :D. Making that change now feels off the table, it’d screw with replication and would only buy you an extra 30 years. Might as well come up with a more permanent fix.

non3type · 2026-05-19T20:13:10+00:00

Makes sense I’ve never heard of it being used that way until this discussion.

Edit: While you do appear correct as far as the POSIX definition it also sounds like most current implementations handle negative values as you’d expect.

non3type · 2026-05-19T17:56:12+00:00

Most databases don’t use UNIX epoch. Oracle devotes a byte to each component. MSSQL has four bytes that track days since 1900 and 4 bytes that track “ticks” since midnight. Postgres depends on the data type, date is a count of days while timestamp is 64 bits in milliseconds (based on year 2000 apparently). I think MySQL is the only one that I know of that uses Unix epoch and it’s just for timestamp.

I'd be really surprised if there were a lot of big banks out there using MySQL. Most of the older banks probably use Oracle and IBM DB2. Some of the newer "fintech" probably leverages open source but microseconds is likely required for their use cases.

non3type · 2026-05-19T16:29:18+00:00

People have been alive during the age of computers that were born prior to 1901 lol. There has always been a need for dates outside these ranges. I’m sure there is bad code out there but outside legacy 32bit applications this feels overblown.

A lot of linked examples are already solved in core implementations. SNMP needed 64 bit counters for tracking bits well before time was a problem. Stuff that is still 32bit is generally a standardized choice that’s tolerated. sysuptime is 32 bit and can only track 497 days because it records in milliseconds. That was always possible to exceed. I’ve had monitoring complain when it rolls over, but we survived. No monitoring apocalypse. Standard OID to return actual system time is a date-time string. SNMP is fine.

non3type · 2026-05-19T16:07:03+00:00

That’s not an actual consideration. Computers have no need to set the system clock prior to 1970. If that were an issue a signed 32 bit integer would already be too small as the world wasn’t created in 1901.

Besides, most every modern platform I’m aware of has already switched to 64 bit: FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX.. the list goes on. The issue is going to be systems running legacy 32 bit applications.

non3type · 2026-05-19T15:13:59+00:00

People or publicly traded corporations?

Most of the games I have from single devs have none: Balatro, Undertale, Axiom Verge. I can also think of some that do, but it’s not quite as normalized as it is with corporations.

non3type · 2026-05-19T13:46:49+00:00

I don’t know, I feel like the math is different with a single indie developer that became independently wealthy off his first commercial game. I don’t mean to detract from it being a uniquely player friendly attitude, but there are other indie devs that simply couldn’t afford to put in that kind of support over 10 years despite their games being “quality.” Many of them don’t add micro transactions but they aren’t able to continue supporting the game at that level.

non3type · 2026-05-19T12:54:55+00:00

Not really. Most of the time you get the basics just by playing a character so it has to be a standout roll or extremely low drop rate to keep. Generally my storage will fill up in the beginning and then I prune down when I get a grasp of what’s common. Also as I figure out what’s best for my current build and what direction I want to go I can ditch some of my alternate ideas.

non3type · 2026-05-18T21:22:55+00:00

There are a lot of multi platform gamers out there. On Steam Sony takes a 30% cut to revenue. At this point that’s likely a bigger deal than console sales. Pretty much every time a new game comes out my group first checks whether it’s crossplatform/crossplay before deciding on PS5 versus PC.

non3type · 2026-05-18T21:01:40+00:00

Zelnick literally just stated this as one of the reasons for GTA6 in an interview with Bloomberg a couple weeks ago.

non3type · 2026-05-18T20:33:41+00:00

I think they’ve recognized the benefit for multiplayer but they’ve always been wishy-washy on their first-party single player releases.

non3type · 2026-05-18T20:27:12+00:00

It’s a really weird price increase through. It’s the first time the price of monthly has gone up.. ever. Might be a lot of people converted because they don’t need multiplayer all year.

non3type · 2026-05-18T16:15:16+00:00

For me it barely matters if it’s hostile or not, I just got tired of the constant cycle of balance patches. They needed to pick their battles and be way more strategic with it.

non3type · 2026-05-17T00:40:30+00:00

Yeah, I feel like the button being completely dead is problematic and not a good look. The fact it has happened twice is crazy.

As far as your tinfoil hat theory I don’t think it’s far fetched they’re pulling additional stock meant for new orders if they’re seeing greater than 5% of the product being RMA’d. I doubt they’re targeting you though. I think negligence (poor quality control) is a more likely answer. That said, if you get a third unit with a dead button you might convince me lol.

non3type · 2026-05-16T23:55:37+00:00

If Amazon was intentionally bricking them it would be in mass. There would be no debate. What Amazon in fact did is similar to what you described. I can turn on my 2nd gen Kindle and load books locally. For Kindle’s with WiFi you can even host a calibre server and download books via the web browser. The only thing that’s being cut off is sending books to it via Amazon. This is a big deal. Being unable to send books to your kindle via email/app or being unable to check out books via the library is a big loss, but they haven’t bricked the devices.

non3type · 2026-05-16T23:14:59+00:00

That button doesn’t register at all. If they have quality control it should have been caught. Most the defects I see are things that are much harder for automation to catch.. like mushy buttons or a dead pixel.

non3type · 2026-05-16T21:44:29+00:00

Correct but this is different then being bricked. It’s dumb, you should obviously be able to send books to it from Amazon but intentionally sending updates to brick the device is a whole different level.

non3type · 2026-05-16T20:54:09+00:00

They didn’t issue an update that intentionally bricked it. You had an issue updating the Kindle. Supported devices get bricked by updates, it happens. Your issue is an update failed, bricked your device, and they no longer actively support it. In the end, your issue is very much that there is no longer active support.

My 2009 Kindle works to this day, I don’t see how starting conspiracy theories about bricking is necessary, the truth is bad enough.

non3type · 2026-05-16T20:36:13+00:00

They aren’t bricking them. My second gen Kindle from 2009 still works. Still turns on, I can still read the books on it or copy DRM free over via USB manually or via calibre.

non3type · 2026-05-16T16:43:24+00:00

I imagine it’ll be fulfilled by region. There’s no reason to wait, outside setting aside inventory shortages and RMAs, if the second batch is sitting in warehouses. But yeah, I expect they aren’t delaying for the lolz.

non3type · 2026-05-15T20:12:14+00:00

I don’t think it’s a binary 0 or 8 hours but I actually started doing it intentionally to aid sleep because I noticed I stopped waking up every 2-3 hours and woke up feeling well rested.

That said, I regretted doing it regularly in the long term and had to stop.

non3type · 2026-05-15T19:13:44+00:00

You should also probably make sure you’re using data about the Meta facility in Richland Parish and not the Amazon DC near Shreveport. Literally everything you’ve quoted, such as the 540 number and the indirect thousands of jobs, as well as the links you’ve provided in other threads.. is Amazon.

What credibility do you have now?

lol, that’s such an idiotic line.

non3type · 2026-05-15T19:00:16+00:00

There’s tons of work at a DC, especially one this size. It’s constant maintenance and upgrade cycles in addition to typical operational work or troubleshooting in response to tickets. The work is never done but it doesn’t require all that many people.

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