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5 out of the 7 CDU cabinet members are lawyers.
I hope this article is well peer-reviewed. Otherwise this reads as if some LLM came up with the idea
„Verkrempelung“ finde ich eine schöne Übersetzung für „enshittification“
Move fast and leave things broken
Can we please call it EUtube?
Users can choose it, but it isn’t the default
The second generation of Spectrum will be larger and could potentially be reusable. As I understand this, the current version is simply too weak for all the extra components that reusability requires.
There are other companies tasked with the development of reusable rockets for ESA, though.
https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-selects-four-companies-to-develop-reusable-rocket-technology/
Some background info on the company:
Isar Aerospace was founded by former students of the Technical University of Munich, who already participated in the WARR group which also won Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition several times.
They received fundings from (among others) Airbus, NATO and a former SpaceX executive Bulent Altan (who studied at TUM as well).
Very impressive achievement already and a real hope for European space programs and independence!
I get what you’re saying and agree that high transaction fees keep merchants from offering it as a payment option.
However, in my rant I’m merely talking about P2P money transfers, nothing B2C. And since most people are lazy and scrimpers, a service needs to have a very good offer for people to start using it. That’s where Wero could improve, in my opinion.
Plus, having a large user base would help them in the long run with convincing merchants to offer Wero as a payment option, wouldn’t it?
I think it‘s inherently difficult to persuade thousands of banks in Europe (and potentially worldwide) to actively join Wero, or any other service for that matter.
In my opinion, Wero – to be a viable option for anyone – should make their service something that the people can and WANT to use. Maybe I’m naive but adding the option to connect a bank account via IBAN and SEPA mandate shouldn’t be too complicated, right?
Rant about Wero (European PayPal competitor)
(I don't know if this community allows such rants or if there are other communities better suited for it. Please let me know!)
So, I wanted to replace PayPal with a service that's not owned by an American megacorp. Last year, Wero (wero-wallet.eu) launched with much media attention as a self-proclaimed competitor to PayPal owned and operated by European banks. I love the idea!
Now here's the issue: I can't use it. My bank (DKB in Germany) isn't a part of the European Payments Initiative, so I can't use the service. And so are many other banks across Europe.
I understand that the owning banks want to have a competitive advantage over one another, but what really bothers me is that a system intended to compete with PayPal isn't even designed to seriously compete. With PayPal, I can just link any bank account from any bank using my IBAN, but Wero doesn't support this. This is one of the reasons why Giropay (or Kwitt) in Germany didn't really catch on – it is too complex and too inacces
You could in the past (until around 1-2 years ago). I don’t know why it changed, though.
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I’m still waiting for the day that I can make a full backup of my chats and save it on an external hard drive so that I won’t lose all of my message history when I lose my phone.
In Germany, MPs can request to ask the speaker a question during their speech (Zwischenfrage). The president of the Bundestag then asks the speaker if they allow it. So it doesn’t end in chaos, but makes it possible to have a small debate during the speech
I already proposed some things to them in the past. They responded really quickly and added my suggestions right away. I just wrote them a private message on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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[…] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
[…] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.
Ouch.
Norway has also profited from the war thanks to the increased global oil prices.
Nevertheless, I think this will be a very welcome and important support
In Germany, they tried a similar thing two years ago, blocking only the de. subdomain.
Within less than 24 hours, xhamster changed the subdomain to deu..
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/netzsperre-fuer-pornoseite-xhamster-fuehrt-medienaufsicht-vor/