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I may be ignoring the external horrors but the Internal horrors will never let me know peace I feel

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itt ergonomic keyboard

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while i'm at it - Heroic worked for my Epic games, and I haven't had any issues playing my steam games since setting the drive up right, so it Seems like gaming on linux is going to be fairly chill (touch wood lmao)

the only real remaining pain point is god damn mother fucking clip studio. if i can get that working, I genuinely don't know if i'll have Any reason not to fully commit to shuffling on over to linux.

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oh, while i remember - the solution to the Files Thing btw was just to move everything Except the art over. the art makes up like, Half of our files, and will need me to sit down and export everything, but doing everything Else freed up plenty space, and made it much more manageable. I wasn't dealing with Everything All At Once, and that made it easier. 10/10 would recommend breaking Awful Task into smaller, Less Awful tasks wherever possible.

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more pyaari everyone say hi to pyaari

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okay, took a walk, took a shower, the despair is no longer All Consuming. peace + love on planet earth

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anyway this worked. yay i guess

well the timer is going Up instead of down so I fear we may be here a While

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The UK government is basically saying 'lol no' to our demands and pressing ahead with the 'Online Safety Act', I think there needs to be in-person protests to help them get the message (though I'm too disabled to attend)

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I cannot overstate how transparent it is to see Reform of all parties talking about repealing the OSA. someone in the replies compared it to when Trump "saved" tiktok and it is the exact same. Reform are a fucking vile party led by Vile people and I can't believe they're trying to leverage this in their favour or that it Might Work. it is a Dire Fucking Time.

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Everyone in Britain using a VPN so they can listen to songs with naughty swear words without getting banned from Spotify

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it's so funny seeing people talk about trams as a Certified Tram Hater. I love public transport a lot + I think it should be universal and free and accessible But Also my city has sunk literal tens of millions of pounds into the most pathetic tramline you've ever seen that serves a route exclusively for tourists and in all honesty, they seem like Buses But Worse In Every Conceivable Way. but I am a hater. I'm sure they're good for. something. probably.

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Link

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a little dude with a secret he can’t keep very well ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.

"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.

Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?

That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.

And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.

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well the timer is going Up instead of down so I fear we may be here a While