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Very cool! Always good to see more countries get closer to embracing FOSS. Really helps with the collaborative benefits that FOSS can have, plus allows for organizations to have more control in their digital destinies instead of simply being customers.

Hope the best for the project!

Many national governments collaborate on Linux security as well.

It's that there is significant institutional support to keep the current monitory regime in power. There have been plenty of volatile state controlled currencies too.

Hey, reply to the wrong comment?

It's like pruning. Sometimes needed for infected parts, or suckers growing before their time. Too kills the plant.

In order of trust I put it third for browsers that I expect to work with most of the internet. It goes Tor, Firefox, and finally Brave. I like Brave's direction and appreciate them trying to find ethical and sustainable funding models, but they're just not as heavily audited as the first two

I don't trust VPNs that I don't run, Tor is the answer here for me too. Search I am not sure how it compares to DDG tbh so no idea

In terms of level of trust, it's enough for a threat model that doesn't include state actors or any other APT, but nothing more. it shouldn't be ran with elevated privileges and should be sandboxed (i.e. flatpak) and if possible on a separate system from sensitive information. I could be convinced otherwise but I haven't seen a reputable organization discuss an audit of it's code nor have I audited it's code

It depends, while all transactions from accounts is known, the details for the owners of the account don't have to be.

Provided an alternative reserve currency that isn't controlled by countries clearly trying to gain economic domination over smaller nations.

Isn't it's crypto scheme to provide a universal donation mechanism or payment mechanism for ads the obvious business model?

That's an known issue with any customer driven org too. Prioritizing existing markets and customers vs up and coming ones.

The postal service almost was set up to do small time banking and email services but got cut down by Congress. So they had tried to push for providing more services to meet existing demand, but we're hamstrung on their efforts.

The push towards privitazation at all cost has really hurt the effectiveness and efficiency of government ran orgs in the United States.

They made Metal and choose not to make it what Vulkan is. Vulkan wouldn't have even need to be made in the first place.

At the very least no fine or enforcement mechanism. I'm ok with for example a postal service charging for some service. But involuntary charges going towards funding the institution charging it is just rife with perverse incentives.