Hirom

Will there be singing again?

Banan for scale

Had a quick look. The software and electronic are the annoying bits, as usual.

Shame!

Cash for small physical payments. It's the most private payment system. There's no third party payment provider involved.

The goal is to make GNU Taler available as payment system via two European banks - GLS Bank (Germany) and MagNet Bank (Hungary).

A couple banks in the EU are planning to support it. If you're in those country you could ask them for more info.

Banks appear more eager to support Wero, which might be easier for them to support since it's a more typical architecture, and it allows collecting much more informations about customers and their payments.

That sounds great. It may be bank-specific then.

Taler should be the one wearing a tuxedo

These technical workarounds may work for a little while, and are useful to some extent.

But they're not long term solutions for a government that regularly increase its surveillance powers at the expanse of privacy.

China and Russia reached a level of surveillance and repression where people may get arrested for merely using Matrix/VPN/Tor, regarless of what it's used for.

Political action is a better way to address bad politics before it reaches this point. This could include voting, activism, supporting privacy-friendly NGOs...

Waiting until the last moment and then rioting isn't the best option.

There are a few red flags that make wero not -privacy friendly. It apparently uses a phone number as identifier, and Android users are required to have revent version with the Google Play Services badware.

It's good to have a local alternative to EMV, but privacy-wise those apps may be worse than EMV cards.

Technology cannot solve purely political problems.

Pas convaincu que les droits de douane soient nécessairement mauvais. Ça dépends du mode de redistribution.

Le libéralisme économique soutien le libre échange et la baisse ou suppression des droits de douane.

Le risque est de favoriser moin-disant : les productions locale et importée sont vendus dans les même conditions et avec les même taxes, même si ce qu'on importe est produit à bas coût grâce à des conditions sociale et environnementales incompatibles avec les normes locales.

Ça se manifeste depuis quelque temps l'import de vêtements, électronique, production agricole... de l'étranger.