dock

Not a permanent dock. Docks predate Apple any way.

activities (somewhat e mix between Apple’s mission control and launchpad

GNOME 3 was officially launched a few months after OS X Lion, but combined these things into one first.

How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.

It can happen when you have to develop all your technology on your own instead of relying on the work of a hundred-million dollar company that does the heavy lifting for you.

What does the founder of GNOME have to do with GNOME in 2022? He worked for Microsoft for 6 years.

Right, Midnight Trains was a French company trying to create a European night train network that centred on France, specifically on Paris. I think they found out the hard way that for various reasons, as they detailed in their blog, France might not be the best country in which to organise such a company; it also might have been simply too ambitious of a project for the current market.

Survivor bias, we don’t know about all the towers that did in fact lean to far and fell over the centuries.

Yes, bank accounts are still (only) bank accounts, which they have been for centuries with only cash (coins or banknotes) and paper-based accounting. Isn’t this the point? If the digital euro is to be a digital analogue for cash, surely one would expect it to play the same role as cash, which isn’t the form to store your entire wealth and belonging, but to serve as an easily tradeable and transportable form of money. The ECB doesn’t want to provide and manage bank accounts, or rather no central bank does as it’s simply not what banking has always been, it’s always been a private endeavour.

I think the digital convenience of “anonymous” payments is real, and also that the ECB wanting to implement the digital euro as an online e-commerce compatible system from the beginning, directly challenging various different payment circuits with a single universal one, is also a significant development.

At the moment the idea that I have understood reading the various documents and interviews is that the digital euro wallets will not be a sort of bank account managed by the ECB, but they will be managed by the private banks (with similar guarantees for banking inclusion as existing bank accounts) and will be interoperable in order to use the common ECB-backed digital euro.

Therefore you still have the banks managing the infrastructure; also to convince the banks to adhere and not to completely destroy the existing electronic payment circuits there is a proposal to have a limit on the maximum transaction amount.

I would also like to add that another horrible treatment of young men and women involved in the Japanese idol market (I would call it a meat market even) is the immense social pressure from the talent companies, which has been ruled illegal and unconstitutional, to keep romantic relationships secret, to always appear “available” to the fans. Despite the rulings there are still idols who get caught up in “scandals” from time to time and are more or less forced to issue massive apologies or leave their agency.

Ecuador is in a very vulnerable and dangerous situation at the moment, with three high profile political homicides in just the past few weeks and an ever increasing influence of drug cartels that are escalating violence, control and homicides to huge levels.

Thanks, that checkbox was definitely not descriptive enough for me to notice.

The centre-left parties in Italy have been pushing for a minimum wage law since the early spring, when the biggest party (PD) finished its congress and a new direction was elected. The right wing majority has now voted to delay any kind of discussion on the law proposal for two months, and the right wing minister for external affairs has gone on record saying things like “minimum wage is a Soviet measure” and “we need a rich wage, not minimum wage”.

I was very afraid that the themes would have been heavily skewed towards things like landmarks, famous people and events, which would plunge the subsequent discussions about the designs into a cesspit of nationalist in-fighting, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the presence of a number of more sensible options. Not necessarily good, but sensible at least.

I like the “hands” theme quite a lot, but it might come out a little bad on the graphical side if not well thought out. Still, hands and their symbolism has been present for centuries in Europe to depict values and moral concepts, both religious and secular, I think it could be the best idea to represent abstract European values. I bet that people will just choose the “pretty” option though, so I expect birds, also because it can once again be tied to nationalism.

Well yes, this is about a pre-graphical design stage.

You can go to the account settings, long tap on Lemmy.world and remove that instance, or you can do the same to remove any other instance.

Yes in some documents and slides they also talk about a card option.

There is a whole website to explain that. Specifically, there is a PDF under the “Why might we need a digital euro?” section, but also this interview says similar things.

At the moment, the plan is for the digital euro to be issued/“minted” by the ECB and also all transactions will be resolved by the ECB, however the ECB won’t offer any sort of digital euro account or banking service, the banks will do that instead. The ECB is planning for the digital euro to be free to use for paying for private customers, free to use for donations or exchanges of money between people and free to use for online payments as well. They also want provisions specifically for poor and underbanked people.

The ECB actually seems to be at the front of central bank digital currency development. Other have just vaguely announced their interest, the ECB has actual ongoing research and prototype development with public conferences, documents and updates.

The aim of the research on a digital euro is to have characteristics similar to cash. I suggest reading this op-ed and this interview.

Not at al honestly, I missed like half of the races and I find MotoGP a lot more interesting. Maybe some interest will come back now that MotoGP has its big break but it’s not a given. There’s also not much new technical or silly stuff coming out of F1 now honestly, everyone is converging extremely fast on a couple of design and we can only wait until they get there, which might be never because Red Bull has a massive advantage. I bet that by October or so interest in F1 will be significantly lowered.