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New comment by hermanzegerman in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

hermanzegerman — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:33:05 +0000

Germany didn't turn off Girocard that's just fake News. I literally paid yesterday using Girocard.

It also works with some big German retailers outside of Germany (like with Billa in Austria which is a subsidiary of Rewe Group)

Maestro and Visa just stopped offering Maestro/V-Pay so they can charge the higher fees vor Visa/MasterCard. The only thing that changed is the Co-Badge on most Girocards

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:19:37 +0000

That's true, but nobody buys a GR by accident because he doesn't know it will be less fuel efficient. Same with the AMG or BMW M-Series

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:17:05 +0000

It's their main business

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:16:16 +0000

The US is also disappearing people without due process by agents without uniform hiding their faces and using unmarked vehicles.

This guy is really tone deaf when he tries to paint current Germany as worse than the US right now

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:12:55 +0000

That's funny coming from an American.

Throwing Stones in a Glasshouse

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:08:40 +0000

Why does the Dutch Central Bank need scalability?

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

hermanzegerman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:06:41 +0000

Name one example of a 2026 car with the same size, fuel type and class where the difference in mileage is >=50%

I have a very hard time believing this, especially with fuel economy and emission regulations

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:09:46 +0000

It's not a If/Or Question. Agrisolar is even beneficial to farmers

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:03:17 +0000

They lobbied for tax exemptions for 10 years or longer in most cases. Which probably is the useful lifespan, from most of the stuff in there

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

hermanzegerman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:26:58 +0000

Thanks for spotting the mistake. No Idea how I got to 192

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

hermanzegerman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:27:01 +0000

Nvidia is definitely preparing for this with the Opensource LLMs they are currently developing

New comment by hermanzegerman in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

hermanzegerman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:25:35 +0000

Framework offers the AI Ryzen Max with ̶1̶9̶6̶G̶B̶ 128GB of unified RAM for 2,699$

That's a pretty good deal I would think

https://frame.work/de/de/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax300/c...

New comment by hermanzegerman in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:50:23 +0000

He's rambling about "left-wing DNA" in the Verfassungsschutz, who is famously quite good at turning a blind eye to right wing extremists. Probably because AfD got rightfully classified as far-right-extremists.

So to him they are probably left-wing.

New comment by hermanzegerman in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:45:43 +0000

Obviously you can revoke Laws.

And not being able to deny the Holocaust doesn't mean you don't have free speech

New comment by hermanzegerman in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:42:58 +0000

They are conservatives. In Germany they also try every time to enact Mass Data Retention ("for catching Criminals"), then the courts decide it's not compatible with the constitution, and after a few years they try again.

I highly doubt they have given up here too

New comment by hermanzegerman in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:59:06 +0000

They are the ones pushing for it right now.

And other all-time big brain ideas like Upload-Filters for copyright enforcement, or privatising the water sector also came from them.

New comment by hermanzegerman in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:57:01 +0000

There are luckily not millions of conservative politicians. Those we have right now do already enough damage.

The older ones who resigned when they fucked up, or had a moral compass seamed to have disappeared. Instead we have more and more "MAGA-Style"-Politics

New comment by hermanzegerman in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:20:08 +0000

FDI is not in EPP

New comment by hermanzegerman in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:47:45 +0000

"Conservatives" feel no shame.

But they are first-class in acting like a victim

It's the same thing as with your republicans.

New comment by hermanzegerman in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hermanzegerman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:46:51 +0000

The Commission consists of the Member States. So obviously they are also voted-in parties since the government of the Member States is democratically elected