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Digital Euro – What the FAQ, ECB? [video](media.ccc.de)
4 points by prognu 1y ago|1 comments
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How to Detect Text Truncation in SwiftUI?(fatbobman.com)
2 points by prognu 1y ago|0 comments
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ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services(taler.net)
58 points by prognu 1y ago|30 comments
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by prognu 1y ago
https://taler-ops.ch/ is live in Switzerland and allows exactly this: anonymous microtransactions. What law exactly would prevent someone from doing the same in the US?
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by prognu 2y ago
He's trying to rewrite history by having FLOSS start with Linux instead of with GNU.
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by prognu 3y ago
Hot water has less oxygen, the fish suffocated. This was on the Japanese news over a week ago, but without the "nobody knows why" part: it was blamed on unusually warm ocean temperatures.
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by prognu 3y ago
The article is focusing on the technical side, but the economics are also silly. The ECB says that the Digital Euro will be free of charge for consumers as a "public service". And that it will ensure low fees for merchants because
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NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments(nlnet.nl)
2 points by prognu 3y ago|0 comments
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by prognu 3y ago
Teaching users is of course the tricky part, and I'm not trying to excuse the insane draft regulation here. That said, eIDAS doesn't force browser vendors to visually distinguish Article 45-forced CA certificates from traditional
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by prognu 3y ago
The logical solution for browser vendors is to also roll back the URL bar by 10 years, where we had different indicators for extended validation, normal certificates and plaintext. I guess a blue EU-logo whenever Article-45 compliant CAs ar
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by prognu 3y ago
May I suggest: With Free Software ( https://taler.net/ )?
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by prognu 3y ago
Sorry, but some people will run routers (and other IoT devices) for > 10 years, and long past some random 2 year EOL a manufacturer may set. We need less e-waste, and if manufacturers have to warrant security for 30 years, they may also
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by prognu 3y ago
Simple. Give the manufacturers the choice: either they must provide full (FLOSS) source code and documentation (full schematics) to the user to enable them to maintain, patch and thus secure their devices (see also: right to repair), OR the
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by prognu 4y ago
https://arbor.bfh.ch/17195/ describes how to accept BTC or ETH using GNU Taler.
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by prognu 4y ago
Do you have a wallet v0.9.0? Which wallet are you using? Last I checked it worked fine with the Firefox wallet and the Android wallet.
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by prognu 4y ago
To answer the last question in your blog post: gnunet-config --diagnostics tells you where the configuration file(s) are.
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by prognu 4y ago
RFC-style spec is at https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001/
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by prognu 4y ago
Eh, GNU Taler does enable income transparency (income = business) while enabling privacy for private (personal) expenses. So the only thing absurd here is for the article to call this a research priority, given that since Chaum (1983) solut
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by prognu 5y ago
http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint lists GNUs looking for help.
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by prognu 5y ago
The author presumes that a CBDC has to be account-based and privacy-invasive. As pointed out in this other posting [1] that was made today, that is not the only option. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625163
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by prognu 5y ago
Central bank accounts would clearly be a convenient tool for financial warfare, especially once cash has been digitized. Not just against Russians. Against any kind of opposition, like with the extrajudicial bank account freezes. So clearly