ReversalHatchery

the writer couldn't even bother to remove the si tracking parameter from youtube links, so there goes any credibility on security topics and what is fearmongering or not

and don't forget that using encrypted messaging services is likely to be illegal soon in the EU

couldn't it work in such a way that it's hybrid, but PoW transactions are stronger?

PoS verifiers make the process fast, and PoW verifiers will make sure with more effort that the transactions are valid. but if PoS verification gets gamed somehow, PoW verifiers will override it in 10 minutes. Basically a 2 level verification procedure. and everyone who accepts Monero as payment can decide which verification process they want to rely on: the fast one, or the one that can't be easily influenced by the rich. I think often the latter is not a real concern, like with small value transactions.

maybe we could have a safety system that in case enough PoW verifiers find that a PoS verifier incorrectly verified the transaction, the PoS verifier's stake could be taken from them.

not everyone has nudes on their phones, not everyone will get to know that they are leaked, and afaik google hasn't even leaked user images ever.

they. won't. notice. it. they wouldn't notice even if they were subjected to personalized pricing.

maybe flagship phones are different, but I don't think I ever had such a device in my hands. I regularly help people with affordable phones, and as far as I can tell each had them preinstalled

you still have to trust them that they don't save the plaintext email somewhere else before they run tbeir encryption.

and that's what I do. I trust that they are doing it. what better can I do? the other option is to use a provider that 100% is not doing that, which does not seem to be better. or hosting it for myself, which maybe a small minority of people are capable to do it

but how does edge get opened? firefox, and pretty sure chrome too, aren't searching the OS file associations for each asset they received from the site. they won't decode the png images with Windows Photos or whatever, they will use their internal tools to process it.

file associations would only affect if you open an svg file in the filesystem with a file manager. but I don't see how edge gets into the picture when the user is just using another browser, because it's rare that a user saves an SVG

that does not explain how does it happen when the svg appears on a page in firefox. firefox won't try to open all embedded assets with the default file handler in the OS, it will directly use its built in tools to handle it.

Where does this come from? An ultra conservative tabloid?

umm, no, I haven't read it anywhere. It's just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?

are you immediately imagining me as a russian tankie?

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say, which is amusing because they are the authoritarian ones, including some big fan of Putin, MAGA, and Hitler. When you think about it, it's not surprising that an "healthy dose of sovereignty" goes side by side with far-right ideas.

well their dose is not healthy

what is becoming a political block that could eventually compete with the USA, China, and that could stop the imperialism of Russia.

as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country's laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest), but something very hard to achieve because that would need to be maintained for multiple political parties when they are elected.
or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country's political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful, but only an EU-wide election. which I'm not sure if it's bad, it's certainly a lot different. but it's not something I like that after that, moving to another EU country is not an option if what you want is to leave a bad legal regime.

you know, maybe I have these main problems with the eu cloud act:

• 10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there's a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)
• you won't get to know if a country has held the gun to your email or other provider to hand over your data. yes this is the case already, but this change makes it even worse.
• if a country bans encryption, does that mean my online service providers have to ban me from the encrypted functions?

because it's a pocket computer that fits in a small place and can drive an external display

how exactly do you think they'll notice that it backfires?

What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe of the early 1900.

to the 1900? what? do you think that currently the EU is one big country with no major differences?

the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking. I think each country should be able to keep its healthy dose of sovereignty. I'm not saying what we have today is ideal, but turning everything to be more authoritarian is not going to make anything better.