Amberskin

@Amberskin@europe.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also null and void in Spain. Judicial recourse is an non-waiveable right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a catalan actively involved in the 2012-2017 push for independence, I call bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worked? Mine works perfectly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM releases a new mainframe built for the age of AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.