Science is influenced by academia. Still an important distinction.

Leaving the musky fields for where the sky is truly bluer.

To prosecute criminals. Like women not following a shit take like “Your body, my choice”. Or terrorists. With wombs? Idk.

This shit is just fucked up.

This is awesome, thank you for your service! Goddamn, the premises around that are just… sad.

I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

I think the idea was that you can’t hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it’s normal bank standard.

What do you mean with “dystopian statist money”?

Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.

GNU Taler to the rescue!

The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/

The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.

The amount of people thinking they are getting ripped off by steam now is astounding.

They are the reason this step is incredibly necessary.

They are welcome to do both. Immediately stop selling and after a X number of days allow refunds at the publishers expense.

To be fair, that was likely some first level support reacting to you trying something that is not supposed to work, as in not supported (playing on Linux).

How the strategy pans out after those talks we will see.

It is. I really like the direction of the steam deck. A PC that’s very open, but still is able to hide most complexity from users that don’t care for that.

They already are. Just shut off from unauthorized (read:your) grubby hands.

Yeah, was thinking about joining the room to see what is written. Not what was asked.

But your username and server will be seen and could potentially be noticed by someone you don’t want.

I disagree. There is nothing stopping that as it is. What this really does is remove one more level of control from the end user on their device.

That is exactly what I meant with that. Less control for you means more control for the banks/app creators.

I myself also want to let go of the likes of Google. It’s a pretty bumpy ride, but better than a future where the Tech Bros are in control.

Let’s hope we don’t have to.

Very good. I don’t like using apps for every little shitty website like discord or WebEx either.

Just know that this is a step forward in the direction of making it technically possible to force people to usw the app. Ask yourself if you trust them to not try and profit from this.