Özgür Kesim

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In honour of the day you all did those despicable things to Jesus I am posting my favourite @warandpeas comic
A paper from an Austrian Central Bank economist worth reading: "Privacy by Design for Public Digital Money" by Martin Summer.
The framing says it all: privacy in payments is dismissed as a niche concern, but that fundamentally underestimates what is at stake.
When central bankers start writing this, the conversation is shifting.
🔗 https://www.oenb.at/en/Publications/Economics/Working-Papers.html
#GNUTaler #FLOSS #PrivacyTech #DigitalMoney #CBDC
Working Papers - Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)

All I'm actually saying here is that (waves broadly) a lot more people who have never opened a PR or maintained a project being in a position to either open a PR or maintaining a project is going to result in them not behaving within the social norms we've developed as a group that is, to be fair, far less insular than in the 90s but is still somewhat insular compared to society as a whole and yes we are going to have to get used to the equivalent of HTML mail and top posting
Wenn man mal die Tatsache ignoriert, dass es total wahnsinnig ist, seine komplette wirtschaftliche und private Existenz vom Gutdünken einer Firma wie Google abhängig zu machen, sind das die realen Folgen von Ideen wie der Chatkontrolle.

Automatisiert zu entscheiden, dass CSAM vorliegt, wenn Heranwachsende mit den sie selbstverständlich umgebenden technischen Werkzeugen ihre Sexualität erkunden und dann das gesamte Umfeld aus übereifriger Compliance vorsorglich zu bestrafen, kann man dystopischer gar nicht ausmalen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1s92fql/my_son_pleasured_himself_in_front_of_gemini_live/
@erd Wat haste wida anjestellt?

@reiver

You wrote:

Or, a parent giving money to their child.

On a tangent: #Taler not only supports P2P payments, but offers a privacy-preserving mechanism for age-restriction, built-in into the coins, as well.

Parents can give their children coins that are usable only for items up to - say - 12. The proof of the requirement doesn't reveal the actual age of the payer.

See our paper: https://www.taler.net/papers/esorics2022-age-restriction.pdf

@reiver

The general rule in #Taler is: who pays is guaranteed to stay anonymous and who receives is guaranteed to be known to the exchange. This is true for normal payments and also for P2P payments.

Because legally, receiving money is a form of income, potentially taxable, the exchange requires a KYC process performed once by the receiver of the money.

In Switzerland, the KYC process with taler-ops.ch only involves a Swiss mobile phone number, able to receive a code.

@reiver

#Taler does offer peer-to-peer payments, when the corresponding exchange supports that feature. F.e. in Switzerland you can pay and p2p with Taler, see https://taler-ops.ch/en/users-android.html.

See also the REST-API for it: https://docs.taler.net/core/api-exchange.html#wallet-to-wallet-transfers

GNU Taler for Android users

This page explains how to use GNU Taler to make payments.

I'm still ecstatic about tree pruning and the lost art of it.... I drove today an hour to cut an apple tree at a friends place. I was already awaited by neighbours who want their cherry tree to be cut... fascinating how all of this knowledge seem to be lost or getting lost these days. cherry trees are esp. nice to cut when the cherries can be harvested, so you have a nice tree and all the cherries... thus looking forward to go there again in late June \o/

to preserv our nice fruit trees, go out and take some tree pruning workshop and make good connections with your neighbours :)