I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

I think the idea was that you can’t hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it’s normal bank standard.

What do you mean with “dystopian statist money”?

Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.

GNU Taler to the rescue!

The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/

The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.

Nonono, be more specific. If the cops do it, then yes. If other grand/mass surveillance things do this, then yes.

But this could just as easily be taken as “You had your phone with you and didn’t record during the time of the crime? Sucks to be you!”

This is the result of having too many “nothing to hide” idiots.

They are all meaning to say “not my problem”, but all they’re doing is create problems for themselves and their kids. They only notice, as always with privacy, when it’s entirely too late.

In the video you can hear them yelling “Hey! Release the kid!” and stuff like that. They also call the police “murderers” for protecting the child against the thrown stuff, so I don’t really take them seriously.

I haven’t found any statement from the father, or someone adjacent to them, so I don’t know what they have to say about this. Maybe someone can find something.

Source is the police, here is the Link to the news ticker

Here’s the relevant part as a screenshot:

Gegen 18 Uhr wurden Einsatzkräfte auf einen Jungen aufmerksam, der zuvor offenbar ohne Begleitung an der Versammlung teilgenommen hatte. Aufgrund der noch andauernden polizeilichen Maßnahmen im Nachgang der Versammlung wurde der Elfjährige zu seinem eigenen Schutz in Obhut genommen. Sein Vater wurde benachrichtigt, der ihn circa 90 Minuten später abholte.

Translated by me:

At about 6:00 PM officers noticed a boy attending the event clearly unsupervised. Because of police activity after the event the 11-year-old was taken into police protection. His father was notified and he took the boy with him after 90 minutes.

According to the police the kid was being chased and secured for his own safety because he was unsupervised at the event. He was returned to the father.

What? Authoritarians need their cattle for their system to work? Who’d have thunk?

Well, it is freshly made.

That’s a pretty sound. Very nice work!

Yeah, it does need a lot of getting used to, especially if you want to change some settings.

With AndroidTV I have the same problem as with Windows: More and more of the “features” seem to be against my interests. That might be a view tainted by the SmartTVs, but it’s the only experience I have with it.

Yeah, fair enough. Did you try kodi with a different hardware? Might be a bit easier on the clunkiness. But besides AndroidTV, which I hate because it doesn’t do what I want, I have no alternative.

I haven’t dabbed in it, what does the select keycode being higher than 255 do?

That’s already plenty, thank you very much!

How does the interoperability work for your setup? Did you set up something special? What backup system do you use?

I ask because I plan to integrate some Apple stuff so my family can interact with it, like local-only backups, interacting with the TV (kodi) and music (mpd). I will not use software from apple on my side (well, beside the FOSS stuff from them, like bonjour or the printer stuff).

Margherita, Sssamssson, Snoot-di-loop

I use a raspberry pi with LibreElec/Kodi. It works with the HDMI-CEC, meaning I control it with the TV remote.

Jellyfin can be used as a source for movies and stuff with a plugin.