Now, I have to go write a sternly worded crunchwrap for these #Klarna folks.. wish me luck because clicking on #customersupport on their #website just takes me to an "Ask Me Anything" #chatbot prompt and `NOTHING ELSE`. No FAQ, no knowledge base to search, NOTHING.
7/7
This wouldn't be so horrible if it weren't MY BENEFITS CARD, and I'm trying to use it to obtain a VERY EXPENSIVE PERSCRIPTION for a medication I take.
So, fine. Open #vivaldi browser on my phone which works and go to #Klarna's website and after TWO 2FA's I finally pull up my benefits card.
But _come on._
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> "This app isn't compatible with your device anymore. Contact the developers for more info."
The `Open` button just brings you back to the "New version available" screen.
So now I have no way of reading any of the cards in my #stocard ne #klarna #wallet.
Look, #enshittification is one thing. But this was working ... ON THIS DEVICE.. as recently as last week. How do I know? Because I used the same fucking card Im trying to use now at exactly the same fucking place!
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When I switched to using a #ridgewallet (which I quite like and recommend), I ditched all of my loyalty and "lesser" ID cards in liu of #Stocard - a mobile app with digital copies. But now Stocard is #klarna (and we had no choice in the matter).
So I'm trying to open one of my cards on my phone; open Klarna.
All you see is this:
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US markets saw S&P 500 futures slip and Treasury yields rise in Asia, as Fed policy uncertainty, falling food prices, and warnings on financial stability dominated headlines; Bitcoin neared seven-month lows, while Japan's machinery orders beat forecasts.
Klarna, un service qui permet de payer en plusieurs fois sans frais, sera bientôt compatible avec Apple Pay en France. Le géant du paiement fractionné a annoncé qu’il allait prendre en charge la méthode de paiement d’Apple « dans les prochaines semai...
‘I’m nervous’: #Klarna founder challenges trillion-dollar spending on #AI - OpenAI backer Sebastian Siemiatkowski says tech industry is committing too much money to huge computing infrastructure https://www.ft.com/content/61ce397b-968c-403e-aecf-16d4b2ff08cd
N.B. Mirror: https://archive.is/eh7Vs
@txt_file @lina the Problem with #PayPal is that they have NO REAL #COMPETITION, so being an asshole corporation has no real consequences.
I mean, look at the state of #OnlinePayments:
#TradFinance fearmongered regulators and institutions into #Monero #delistings and bans.
#wero doesn't even get mandatory acceptance within the #SEPA-Area and doesn't support non-SEPA accounts, thus is less useful than #UnionPay, #AliPay & #WeChatPay in #Germany.
The 3 before-mentioned providers won't even offer their services for #EU citizens/non-"P.R." #China residents.
#WesternUnion, #RIA, #MoneyGram, etc. are absurdly expensive and don't work well nor can be integrated as #OnlinePayment.
#PerfectMoney, like #Mir, is basically useless outside #Russia & #CIS member states.
Same goes for all the other national providers like #SOFORTÜBERWEISUNG (absorbed by #Klarna, basically only seen in Germany), etc.
PayPal OWNS the market for #payments harder than Autodesk for Engineering Software and Adobe for Creative Software because #regulators like @EUCommission refuse to regulate!
People who have neither #CreditCards (from the 2,5 Oligopolists from the USA: #Visa, #MasterCard & #AMEX) nor a PayPal account are basically "banned from #OnlineShopping"!
#Stripe can't even do #WireTransfer or #Widthdrawals from SEPA bank accounts!
@txt_file@chaos.social @lina@vt.social Yooo, WTF? How is that not a violation of #ConsumerRghts? - Can someone at @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu, @BaFin@social.bund.de and @bsi@social.bund.de phone their colleagues at #CSSF in #Luxembourg and tell them to *bonk* #PayPal for [that?](https://vt.social/@lina/115568401302718163) Cuz in my eyes it's none of their business *how* and *where* I use their stuff - *if at all*! - Like: Even if I were to use @torproject@mastodon.social / #TorBrowser that would be unacceptable!
“#Klarna chief #SebastianSiemiatkowski has become the latest prominent artificial intelligence investor to warn against the #tech industry’s multibillion-dollar dash to build data centres to #power #AIModels.
Siemiatkowski — who holds shares in prominent AI companies including OpenAI, #Perplexity, #xAI and #Cerebras through his family office #FlatCapital — told the #FinancialTimes that the huge sums being poured into computing infrastructure made him “nervous”.
“I think [#OpenAI] can be very successful as a #company but at the same time I’m very nervous about the size of these investments in these #DataCentres,” he said. “That’s the particular thing that I am concerned about.””
#AI / #economics / #costs <https://archive.md/eh7Vs > / < https://www.ft.com/content/61ce397b-968c-403e-aecf-16d4b2ff08cd> (paywall)
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El contenido principal es el seguimiento de un plan de pagos para un reloj Casio F-91-W. A la izquierda, hay una pequeña imagen del reloj digital negro. El precio total del reloj es $24.99.
El plan de pagos es de "Pay in 4" (Paga en 4), con cada cuota de $6.24. Una de las cuatro cuotas ya fue pagada el miércoles 22 de febrero. Quedan tres pagos pendientes: el jueves 9 de marzo, el jueves 23 de marzo y el jueves 6 de abril.
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