Taler ensures asymmetric privacy. The buyer does not expose their identity to the seller (or the government), nor what they bought to their bank/payment-provider. But the seller needs to expose their income for tax purposes. This is a good compromise as it follows existing law and prevents tax-evasion and (to some extend) money laundering.

Yes, like cash.

This AFAIK happens when the pollen of the plants they visit do not provide enough energy for them to do the collection. And yes, that is why you can sometimes find a lot of stunned or dead bumblebees under certain tree species. It is a kind of parasitism of these plants as they depend on other plants (and the bumblebees ofc.) to provide enough fuel and they are just freeloading.

Edit: but sudden cold spells can also have a similar effect as bumblebees use their wing muscles to generate some heat during cold spring days to allow them to operate when normal bees can not. This of course also takes a lot of energy.

An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

Except for some very niche crypto-currency users no one stores “money” like that. You have a bank account where you store money.

The same audience as Paypal, which seems to be reasonably popular. Except this is privacy preserving and an open standard that many providers can use.

It can be many different ones. Usually your home bank would allow you to exchange some Euro into Taler tokens and then use those to pay in compatible stores. But instead of a centralized system there can be many different exchanges that follow the same standard (protocol) and can be used with the same software and wallet apps.

Taler is not a store of value. Exchanging some Taler is like going to the ATM and withdrawing some cash to put in your wallet.

If there’s one thing that we learnt from the cryptocurrecy industry, it’s that users don’t care to understand how the technology works, and will do stupid things.

Yes, like turning a digital payment system into a speculative asset and making it basically impossible to actually buy anything with it.

But it seems you are totally missing the point of Taler, as it doesn’t even aim to be anything like so called crypto-“currencies”. It’s a digital payment system like Paypal, but decentralized.

Apparently this is using face recognition technology from Russia 🤷

You can modify it to do what you want more or less. The only common core is that it is all federated via ActivtyPub, the rest is decided by modules, which include microblogging like Mastodon, but I think (not entirely sure) also group forums like Lemmy. It’s early days for the project still.

It is what you make out of it. Basically it is an ActivityPub federated framework with various modules including one for microblogging.

The article is suspiciously avoiding the question how they were caught or how police got access to the phone of one of them.

Na das mit der Schwangerschaft ist noch nicht das Hauptproblem. Danach sind die jungen Eltern dann ne weile total übernächtigt und gestresst, und wenn das Kind alt genug für den Kindergarten ist auch noch dauerkrank weil alle Keime angeschleppt werden (oder halt mit dem kranken Kind beschäftigt).

Der ist eigentlich Peruaner. Vor Jahrzehnten als Missionar dahin ausgewandert, peruanische Staatsbürgerschaft angenommen und ist dort Erzbishof geworden.

Ist echt irreführen das die Presse seinen Gebursort in den USA so hervorhebt.

Yeah, free for open-source projects or so. Never used it though as I either use the Codeberg one or a self-hosted one I recently set up. But for a small project I would not recommend self-hosting it as it is surprisingly heavy on server resources.

Should be possible yeah, but I think the official weblate instance is better set up for github.

Weblate. You can use the instance from Codeberg.org if your project is open-source.

Probably not, but you can likely improvise by binding the audio mute to a button in your OS.

You cam try https://jami.net/

But I also think Mumble is the better solution, but of course not p2p.