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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I don’t know big American banks to be very consumer friendly, and

    There is currently no fee or charge on the transaction to users.[1] Instead, participating banking institutions are charged a fee per transaction.[4]

    This part tells me that your individual bank probably isn’t a huge fan of it, and there’s no guarantee that it won’t change in the future. And finally,

    The Zelle service has received negative publicity due to fraud incidents where bank customers’ accounts were compromised through social engineering tactics. In these cases, fraudsters set up Zelle accounts in the victims’ names and used them to transfer funds out of the victims’ accounts, often leaving the victims with limited practical or legal options for recovery.

    If there is a problem with the service, I’m not sure how helpful Zelle would be in fixing it.












  • It was me explaining how GOG are the good guys, for not charging twice, for their monthly donation subscription.

    It’s objectively the right thing to do, but it shouldn’t even matter because anyone donating to a for-profit company should be financially secure enough to handle a late withdrawal from their account.

    So again, while GOG not charging people on the donation subscription plan is the right thing to do, GOG doesn’t provide much (if anything) of value for that subscription in the first place.


  • Daniel Berntsson is the co-founder of Mullvad, a highly regarded Swedish VPN service. That reputation is likely about to take a hit, though, since we’ve just learned that the guy donated 5 million kronor (around €450,000) to the Swedish far-right party Örebropartiet.

    And don’t go thinking this is just a rumor - Berntsson confirmed it himself by email to the journal Flamman, which broke the story: “it’s a personal donation from me.”

    Those 5 million kronor represent roughly 72% of everything the party took in during 2025, and it’s also the largest private donation made to any Swedish political party that year. That’s not nothing. And Örebropartiet’s obsession is “re-emigration” - i.e., sending all immigrants out of the country - which their leader Markus Allard describes as getting rid of “parasites.”

    https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html

    It wasn’t that long ago we learned that the Mullvad cofounder was using his money to fund a far right party trying to kick out all immigrants. We can absolutely still learn new things about people, even if there are a lot of Nazis running around out in the open.