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How to get rid of Mastercard and Visa?
China has UnionPay, Japan has JCB, Russia has MIR. Europe should have its own credit card network
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How to get rid of Mastercard and Visa?
China has UnionPay, Japan has JCB, Russia has MIR. Europe should have its own credit card network
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It's a great day to delete your X account(s)
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The problem with Bluesky is that it's essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.
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Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros
EU getting serious on something? Don't give me hope.
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Why Chrome only?
Have you tried changing the user agent ? You need an extension for that
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Europe Is Breaking Up With Visa and Mastercard — and It’s a $24 Trillion Problem
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It's easier to replace AWS with a European alternative, than Visa or Mastercard. So the problem is smaller.
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Spain rules out buying F-35, choosing between Eurofighter or FCAS
Based Spain
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Our payment systems are too dependent on the USA
We need digital euro. There are advances, but it's still going too slow.
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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff
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My issues with snaps are:
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Reminder: Apple gets up to 30% of subscriptions set up in *any* iPhone app! It's a huge tax on the European economy. 💡 Tip: Cancel and resubscribe on the app's website.
More or less it's the same for Android. Always subscribe using the browser
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‘We’ve been too dependent on the United States’: Canadian province of B.C.’s premier headed to China in hopes of expanding trade
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Time to diversify your trading partners and not be overly dependent on one country.
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Top 10 countries with the lowest racial diversity
Racial or ethnic diversity?
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Digital euro is the solution
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Which EU-based companies or their CEOs align with or support far-right, nationalist, or MAGA-style politics?
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The irony of calling out nationalism in a community named “Buy European”…
“Yeah, we are nationalistic, but not that nationalistic!”
I know, unpopular opinion, just vote me down.
(I agree with the “don’t support Nazis” part independent from the nationalism topic, though)
Kind of, but remember that Europe is not a nation, so I don't know if nationalism is the correct term.
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Auth apps
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I think OP means server side auth apps
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Reassessing Wayland
For example, the recently publicized about mouse latency differences is true and something I've noticed but the difference doesn't particularly bother me. Something like that is just one of those inevitable consequences of the design of Wayland being so fundamentally different.
It would be interesting if someone explained the relationship between Wayland design and mouse latency
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Session Chat, decentralized messaging app, from Switzerland 🇨🇭
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There are 2 reason: providing protection against Sybil attacks and rewarding nodes (i.e. the “servers”). From the whitepaper you linked:
This staking system provides a defence against Sybil attacks by limiting attackers based on the amount of financial resources they have available. The staking system also achieves two other goals which further reduce the likelihood of a Sybil attack. Firstly, the need for attackers to buy or control Session Tokens to run Session Nodes creates a market feedback loop which increases the cost of acquiring sufficient tokens to run large portions of the network. That is, as the attacker buys or acquires more tokens and stakes them, removing them from the circulating supply, the supply of the Session Token is decreased while the demand from the attacker must be sustained. This causes the price of any remaining Session Tokens to increase, creating an increasing price feedback loop which correlates with the scale of the attack.
The other advantage of a staked blockchain network is that Session Nodes earn rewards for the work they do, paid as Session Tokens from the Session Node Staking Reward Pool. This system makes Session distinct from altruistic networks like Tor and I2P and instead provides an incentive linked directly with the performance of a Session Node.
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Perché le persone non si sono allontanate in massa da Reddit?
Io direi che i motivi per cui la gente continua ad utilizzare i social tradizionali sono più o meno sempre gli stessi:
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Your stance on (non-European) foundations
OpenOffice is dead and nobody should use it. Anyway for me anything that is free software or open source is acceptable
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Jewish father attacked by mob at Italian service station
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Has there actually been a rise in antisemitism, though?
Considering the comments I see on Twitter, TikTok, and even on YouTube, I would say yes.
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Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
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Most people can’t afford a google pixel and if they can, aren’t going to risk it.
And they shouldn't. By buying Pixels you are supporting Google, the same company that is destroying Android freedom.
Today's best alternatives are phones that come preloaded with custom ROMs (Brax3, Fairphone, Murena, Iodé, and so on), or if you're feeling more adventurous, a Linux phone (I have heard good things about FuriLabs FLX1).