professionalspooner

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[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org -5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I am sorry. I would never make it justice to the whole discussion.

Here's a troddit link which I just learned that exists andis open source.

https://www.troddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1ixywld/lets_settle_the_debate_proton_ceo_is_not_protrump

I hope that's helpful.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! That sucks.

From what I understand, that's their way to do e2e encryption between proton emails. They have this bridge thing, which unfortunately you can't use on free plans.

Proton Mail Bridge is a desktop application that runs in the background, encrypting and decrypting messages as they enter and leave your computer. It lets you add your Proton Mail account to your favorite email client via IMAP/SMTP by creating a local email server on your computer.

https://proton.me/mail/bridge


I agree that this is a problem, and that it is worse than Google.

But for me personally, putting it all on a scale I still think it is better than having your emails mined for ads targeting.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27037278

Threatened by potential EU regulatory changes, the movie, music, and sports industries are vehemently defending the practice of geo-blocking, as an essential part of their business models. Rightsholders argue that eliminating geo-blockades would devalue content, force price hikes for consumers in some countries, and ultimately reduce investment in content and localized services.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the post?

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250314-3

The Eurostat page looks much better in terms of the information it provides.

Even better: Eurostat | Statistics Explained | Mortality and life expectancy statistics. It has life expectancy at birth and at 65.

Life expectancy at birth has risen rapidly during the past century due to a number of factors. These include a reduction in infant mortality, rising living standards, improved lifestyles and better education, as well as advances in healthcare and medicine. Official statistics reveal that life expectancy has risen, on average, by more than two years per decade since the 1960s. In 2020, however, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this indicator declined in 25 EU countries compared to 2019, the exceptions being Denmark and Cyprus. In 2023, life expectancy at birth was equal to or higher than in 2019 in 21 EU countries. By contrast life expectancy fell in 6 EU countries: Finland (-0.5 years), the Netherlands (-0.3 years), Germany (-0.2 years) to Italy, Latvia and Austria (all -0.1 years).

There's also an entire book on "The imapct of Demographic change": https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2023-01/Demography_report_2022_0.pdf

Ohh your are 100% right. I completely missed it. Thank you for the correction.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I would love to share the Nubula link for this instead. But they didn't publish it there yet.

Edit: Nebula is not EU - maybe partially because of some EU creators. But it's also not Google.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Exactly. Even the most inclusive are hard to use when compared with using the Visa/Mastercard networks which are integrated with most banks and merchants.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 58 points 1 day ago (21 children)

The problem in Europe is exactly the fragmentation of payment systems. For most you can only use them if you are a resident and have a bank account on that country.

•	Wero: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
•	MB WAY: Portugal
•	Twint: Switzerland
•	Swish: Sweden
•	MobilePay: Denmark, Finland
•	iDEAL: Netherlands
•	Bancontact: Belgium
•	BLIK: Poland
•	Satispay: Italy
•	Vipps: Norway
•	Giropay: Germany
•	Sofort: Germany
•	Cartes Bancaires: France
   -     Etc....

People should really stop talking about Tesla. Everyone knows what a Tesla is, even people who can't name any other car brand/model.

[–] professionalspooner@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

People from Greenland would surely accept to exchange their land with California.

 

Apple has a very limited list of search engines that it allows.

There are a couple of extensions that do reddirect, but that doesn't even prevent the request from going to the Search Engine defined in settings.

Alternatively, I can try a different browser, but they are objectively worse, and none of them can use extensions.

I'm wondering if I'm the only one stressed with this or has everyone found a alternative that I don't know.

This looks like proper monopolistic behaviour btw

 

I am sorry the question is confusing.

But some Google searches give much better results if you add "reddit" to the end of your query. This ends up generating a lot of traffic for Reddit.

Anyone found a way to search something but hint Google to look at Lemmy?

 

Wealth tax is a common topic every now and then, but somehow it ends up being dismissed quite quickly. I thought this post about how wealth tax works in Switzerland could be interesting.

We might see more of this in Europe in the near future.

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