How exactly would a payment registered with the government be “whatever they want”?

I get, that cash is a critical exchange method and shouldnt be limited. This forces people to use banks and/or online payment providers

What could go wrong when making laws depending on entire generations

Good point for investing in local sodium-ion-technology. No graphite or rare earth metals needed, and sodium is extremely abundant.

Universities still using Zoom, Webex and MS Office

Yanis Varoufakis, the leftwing firebrand who briefly served as Greece’s finance minister, has criticised his “ridiculous prosecution” for allegedly promoting the use of recreational drugs after his public admission that he once took an ecstasy pill almost 40 years ago.

The 64-year-old, who reminisced about the experience on a podcast, was charged on Wednesday with “inciting others in the illegal use of narcotics”. If convicted he faces a prison term of at least six months and up to €50,000 (£44,000) in fines. A court hearing has been scheduled for December.

On Friday, Varoufakis described the indictment as indicative of the far-right turn in politics across the west.

And we get open source apps and infrastructure for that money, right? Because independence etc?

Amazing… I guess they dont want workers then?

Or all the arr things

Havent heard of popcorn time yet

Edit: while I like the idea, I hope that the software at least seeds to ratio 1 by default. Otherwise it is pretty unsustainable for the network

Get torrent archives when they are ready, select the music you like and share that. Way more sustainable than streaming from a hobby project that already costs them insane amounts

Thanks for that info!! Didnt know that

Btw: Germany is working on some “tech stack” they wanna use for public projects or something.

It is pretty weak, contains little bullshit on the technical side, but in politics and law you know that everything has to be precisely written out to avoid people fucking it up:

They mention “open source” like twice, and “free software” is mentioned nowhere. In contrary, many requirements are heavily corpo-shaped, like the original idea of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), with audits and compliance and stuff, but no mention of software needing to be

• auditable not only once, but open forever
• free to study, adapt, fork and reuse
• trustworthy by design

The Free Software Foundation Europe made a statement on that recently

Biggest thing here: I hope they donate 5mio€ to Libreoffice and others instead!

I never read that this is a big step to invest in free software.

Paying for private companies is one of the most absurd things that our lovely economical system invented

Good old Umverteilung, love it

Makes sense

Baseless bullshit as counterargument to force people to be “neutral” and discuss nonexistent problems instead of just discussing how much more rich people should pay. Not “if” and not “what about the poor”

Cheaper energy maybe?

But yes this would make way more sense in combo with long distance heat

Not bluesky please

Improve the fedi, a lot

Awesome, solar and wind are way too predictable anyways…

Instead of investing in sodium-ion batteries, Hydrogen generators and -converters and plastering everything with photovoltaik…

They invest in Chernobyl-shit with no permanent storage for the waste anywhere to be found?

Still 200.000 needed or more, to avoid bad signatures