That’s really bad luck because now you’ve got to be the default which is American.

Since nobody else has linked to it, the video in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Yo7PULlPs&t=614s

“This is a particularly sophisticated supply chain attack,” noted Mika Aalto, Principal Threat Researcher at Withsecure.

Mika Aalto is an incompetent clown. A “Principal Threat Researcher” at any company should understand the difference between a trojanized version of an app distributed through phishing, and a supply chain attack.

Security experts have identified multiple attack vectors, with the primary distribution channel being tampered download links spread through phishing emails and malicious advertisements that redirect users to convincing but fraudulent KeePass download pages.

🤡

How is nobody talking about the fact that

What is this title?

This has been their policy for many many years. It sucks and I won’t even fly Ryanair again, but they do advertise that this is the policy quite clearly.

F-Droid on iOS?

Something a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBAFOmdNgU

CarPlay support requires a subscription for OsmAnd

Organic Maps

Usenet is federated (which is a type of decentralization), and I think OP means peer-to-peer (fully distributed).

But it seems you are totally missing the point of Taler, as it doesn’t even aim to be anything like so called crypto-“currencies”. It’s a digital payment system like Paypal, but decentralized.

No, I’m not missing that point, I understand the design goals of Taler. You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. I am pointing out that the inability to store Taler currency in a cold wallet is counter to existing user education from similar systems (digital currencies) and therefore will lead to loss of funds of users who don’t understand how Taler works.

From the FAQ:

How to avoid digital cash expiration?

Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, your wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period. However, if your wallet is offline for an extended period of time, it may be unable to do so. Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!

You can lose money if the coins in your wallet “expire”.

The fact that this system is shipping v1.0 with such an anti-user design deficiency tells me all I need to know. I wonder how many Taler “beta” users will lose their cash before they fix the design. I wonder how much of the customer support load of the exchanges will be dealing with this issue.

And this comes after a decade of the cryptocurrency industry educating users to store their funds in a cold-wallet to avoid getting hacked, so it’s counter-intuitive to anyone with passing experience of digital currencies. If there’s one thing that we learnt from the cryptocurrecy industry, it’s that users don’t care to understand how the technology works, and will do stupid things. Anything that seeks wide adoption needs to be designed for non-technical people.

What a terrible design decision.

b3ta.com is still going? bloody hell it’s brilliant

Does your client not allow you to make a text-only post without the keyboard-mashing URL?

Where are the sample queries and corresponding results to demonstrate that it works well? Oh there aren’t any?

Good job we have free trade with our closest neighbours… oh.

I thought this was going to be a new article or news, but it’s from April 9, 2024.

I think this situation has been picked over and rehashed now to the point where anyone who was going to change their behaviour will have already done so. If there is no update on the situation then all I see is you dragging up drama from a year ago.

guten abend