[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

Italian people are already used to having the army do public order tasks; operation "safe roads" was introduced in 2008 and has been renewed ever since, by every government. This operation is essentially just the use of military personnel for patrol, deterrence and setting checkpoint in Italian cities.

I believe it is important to sooner or later discuss this and to end it, as it has negative effects on the soldiers and also in general on how law enforcement is structured and thought of by governments and politicians. However this is by no means a proposal that for the first time would give military personnel responsibilities for public order nor it has anything to do with fascism.

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it -1 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MrAlagos@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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