The most appalling thing is the advertisers and whoever approved this live in a bubble where people are ok with massive surveillance, and don't imagine people will freak out when they see how Amazon can watch them.
At least Meta knows their users hate them but are hostages of their network, that's why Meta buys or crushes competitors before they become too big.
I've not seen that since a Ford's VP bragging about how much Ford will know absoltuely everything you do with "your" car (is it really?) and backpedaled live as he realized journalists were horrified. That was a long time ago. Today it's common.
Just how many data breach does it get before we collectively realize it: as long as the pain of the breach is on us, corps will never really care about security.
Slam them with 10% of their yearly revenues on the first breach, and they'll start taking that seriously.
A system that guarantees privacy for the consumer but transparency for the seller (to avoid tax fraud).
But It's basically a digital wallet for the consumer. If you lose control of the wallet, you lose the money on it.
The Bank of Canada has considered a digital CAD but not started anything yet. Maybe they are taking notes?
Meanwhile, we could give biz the option to lower their prices and in exchange pass down the cards fees to customers (transparently of course, big display: Visa +n1%, Mastercard: +n2%, ...).
The current system makes all prices higher but cards provide rebates or other benefits. That's pretty much a tax on the poor who can't access "high end" credit cards.
So he'll probably ban OTHER stablecoins to get a monopoly, and probably have the government sign a 10 years long binding contract with his own business.
The absurdly and laugably slowness of the protocol evolution on critically needed features: it was bleeding edge years back. The XSF totally screwed up the VoIP extension management. Google dropped a working out-of-the-box solution on the table in 2005: "Take it and use it! You're welcome!". They took 4 years to improve it before declaring the extension stable. Only then did clients start implementations, and bummer: the spec was not perfect, there were a lot of hiccups and "client A can make calls to B but not C" issues, because, who would have guessed, the only way to improve a spec at some point is to test it out there, and not stare at it and make some minor changes. By the time, most XMPP users of the time who wanted VoIP had moved on to others tools, XMPP went from at the top to very late. They're doing it again with MIX (next gen rooms): the first draft is from 2015. It's still "experimental", though some servers team started implementation (such lack of patience...)
An ocean of servers/clients with no consistency. You get to Matrix, and you have Element for all platforms. It can be native code everywhere, but it's the same look and feel. You can tell your pops "just install Element". In the XMPP world, there is no equivalent, though Snikket seems to be going there (consistent UI across platforms): all clients are different, different UI, platform specific with different set of features, some are a 1 guy project. If you're not guided by a tek-savvy person, you have no idea where to start.
With all that said, I run a server for our family and its resources consumption is barely a blip on the radar. The lightest Matrix servers are an order of magnitude hungrier. And the difference increases with scale!
XMPP is the absolute best solution to multiply small servers, a very good thing for a healthy federation.
That worked like a charm in Russia. Every idiot (or nearly) know they're rigged.
You assume there's a red line he shouldn't cross.But:
gross corruption
abducting people in the street
executing people in the street
arbitrary arrests
journalists arrests
multiple violations of the Constitution
child rape ring
None of them was a red line eventually. All of them should have been.
If he rigs the election, you will hear people scream and rage, and demand courts to fix it (they're toothless), and demand congress to fix it (~half is complicit, ~half is spineless). But no one will take arms. No one did it for all the other red lines.
CEOs will not be replaced any time soon, because they're all in each other companies board and they'll stand for each other (or more exactly from setting examples that could apply to them).
Yeah but somewhat Biden was running child/organs/other trafficking and/or was a commie who wanted to destroy the US, and/or a satanist and a nazi.
And probably more things but I'm a bit lost in all the batshit crazy conspi cloud. Anyway: Newsmax, and probably Fox still, won't say Biden was better. And the other media are lying.
And the income follows somewhat inflation, otherwise you'll need 600% of your income to barely afford one meal per day, and you won't have anything left for the house.
Or ask firmly the wearer to take off his glasstapo or else you'll punch them.