Yeah I think they want the front end experience to be as much like what we have now, but the inner workings of the digital euro (or any CBDC) is very different compared to what we have now.

Crypto coins are a digital currency just like the digital euro is, but there is a big difference in how they are managed. I don’t know enough to explain the difference in details but a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) doesn’t necessarily have a Blockchain behind it and the coins aren’t mined like the bitcoins are for example. The big win is you will no longer need a 3rd party for moving the money. If you now move money on your account to my account our banks need another company (likely either visa or MasterCard) to ‘verify’ that the money actually moves from a to b or something like that. There was a post with a link posted just 2 hours ago on Lemmy here: https://lemm.ee/post/60966980

We fixed this with glass, surely we can find a way with wind mills too. We just need to update these:

That might happen, who knows, but that is not what this article is about af all.

I didn’t mean it as a boycott us comment, I am surprised you can pre-order it anywhere but in their own country is all. Also understand why, don’t need an explanation.

Thanks for sharing, this could actually be very helpful research for the development of Lemmy and other fediverse platforms. Here is some text from the article that explains what appearantly happens by using bots:

[…] not all bots are the same in the bustling world of Reddit.

Some bots are simple, […]. Take WikiTextBot, for example. […] Using Reddit’s API, it scans every post and follows its hard-coded rule: “If there’s a Wikipedia link, post a summary.” These bots, [are] known as “reflexive bots,” […].

Then there are […] the “supervisory bots” tasked with moderating discussions. […]

[… ] it’s important to understand how the presence of these bots affects human-to-human interactions in these online communities. […]

They observed that reflexive bots, which generate and share content, increased user connections by providing novel content and encouraging engagement. However, this came at a cost: human interactions became shallower, with fewer meaningful back-and-forth discussions. Instead, bots often replied to posts, limiting deeper conversations between human users.

On the other hand, supervisory bots, designed to enforce community rules, reduced the need for human moderators. Previously, key community members would collaborate to set and uphold norms, strengthening their roles within the community. With automated moderation, this coordination became less necessary, leading to a diminished role for human moderators in fostering community engagement and culture.

The story of bots on social media is still unfolding, with platforms and their creators tasked with finding the right balance between innovation and authenticity. As firms weigh the impact of bots, they face an essential truth: how these digital entities are managed will shape the future of online human connection.

So the last part is why this matters, but I wanted to include lines from the first part because they explain what the basis of the research. I took the liberty to put the last line in bold because that is why I felt the need to write this response. Also worth mentioning is the size of this research:

Between 2005 and 2019, Lalor and his team studied Reddit communities- almost 70 million posts- experiencing a rise in bot activity.

[the malware] trojanize apps that are of interest to the target communities, such as a Uyghur language Quran app, and have appeared in official app stores.

Hashtag how low can you go.

Many Serbian students feel they haven’t received enough support from the European Union, despite garnering huge support at home.

Huh, Serbian people don’t feel support from the EU? That’s weird, doesn’t the EU like it when the people from a country want more democracy? I don’t get it.

Despite the political turbulence, France has big economic interests in Serbia.

O, nevermind. I get it.

He might* since I believe there hasn’t been a call or visit yet. I’m not a fan of Meloni or her politics but to be honest I’m positively surprised by her realism compared to some other far-right leaders. There is still hope.

O yes I don’t mean anything by it, just that it makes it extra weird you can pre-order anywhere but their home country

But isn’t this an American company?

I know someone from Taiwan who lives and works here in the Netherlands and she told me how she and friends of her from time to time get intimidating messages and once someone even following her and she says it’s the Chinese government looking for Chinese (and Taiwanese) people publically speaking out about the situation of Taiwan or any other negative thing about China. I read and heard about this years ago but to be confirmed that Chinese (and Taiwanese) citizens are only safe in the west if they behave well. I am not surprised they also keep tabs on Uyghurs.

I once got in an argument on an hexbear post and a bunch of people made fun of me for ‘still believing in that stupid story about the Uyghurs’ posting links about all of that is a conspiracy theory and trying to give sources of how happy the Uyghurs actually are. Don’t forget there are more Chinese than Americans + Europeans, they have the money and the numbers to ‘police’ their citizens and parts of the internet.

I don’t think these kind of spies leave their dictorial country and then afterwards decide to ruin it for others. Much more likely they left their country with the goal of tracking ‘dissidents’ already or they were pressured into doing this. Happens more often that a regime threaten or actually torture left behind family to get people far away to do what they (the regime) wants them to do.

O the hardship Russia has to go through, all the Russophobia and then also having to be held against your will in a border zone of an airport. So unfair.

Also a paywalled link for nebula subscribers: https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-how-the-eu-can-win-trumps-trade-war/

Never heard of IP4 but Japan + South-Korea and Australia + New Zealand are two sets of valuable assets when it comes to countering the enemies NATO is defending from.

Imagine ‘EU’s trade bazooka’ being sold in Call of Duty or Fortnite or whatever.

I agree a step in the right direction, and I think better late then never. But I think it’s more a message than anything else. “The Dutch government will now assess exports of military equipment and dual-use goods to Israel on a case-by-case basis, …”

I’m a visual thinker, trump eating shit might be my best visual thought of today.

Rip human life on earth