I had the same feeling reading the text. It's filled with repetitive sentences in reused topics, like the basic texts from some years ago when AI bots produced bio web pages about famous people.
He also believed a phone or a computer should cost months of an average salary.
And don't forget about littering the world with planned obsolescence of millions of electronic equipments yearly.
All the harm he did to himself is just a drop in the ocean compared the the cult he created of people willing to pay literally anything for the crap he sold.
No. Those portuguese banks failed in different years because of internal corruption. It had nothing to do to the failed investment assets that caused the subprime crisis.
The Icelandic banks failed because they invested heavily in toxic assets.
From what I've read in other news, the digital euro wallet will have a hard limit on the amount you can store in it, something like 1000 euros for example.
Also, it needs to be linked to a physical euro bank account.
Those features combined prevent fraud and speculation. It's mostly to be used as an online payment method to circumvent the Visa/Mastercard american payment duopoly.
I used mailbox.org for some time. They gradually removed features from their "basic" 1 euro plan until it was the same as posteo. So I moved to posteo.
I've managed to screw up every self-hosted service whenever I've made an update, edit a config file or just by looking at it.
But my Prosody XMPP server? It's rock solid. That thing never fails, for years and years.
I had the same feeling reading the text. It's filled with repetitive sentences in reused topics, like the basic texts from some years ago when AI bots produced bio web pages about famous people.