The job loss in luxury horse carriages was for sure bad too.

That depends on the usage, see: https://www.xda-developers.com/smr-hdds-are-fine-for-your-nas-until-you-try-to-resilver/

If you keep this issue in mind and avoid resilvering / balancing they can work just fine in a media storage NAS.

They use a lot less power too. For small home NAS they are really an often overlooked option.

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This might be a good choice: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/x2e-n150.html

If you have a Wi-Fi router in your home you are technically already running a server. With OpenWRT even quite practically, although sadly most routers are slighly too underpowered to do much with them.

They are late, but this upgrade seems reasonable and if reuse of the upper stage will ever become economically viable remains to be seen.

https://codeberg.org/TheCoffeMaker/shm/src/branch/main/MANIFESTO_EN.md

Taler isn’s a currency but a payment system. So yes, each token generating entity (exchange) would have their own token. There could be some sort of backend settling mechanism between exchanges (I think Taler is working on that), but basically the person receiving the token would have to redeem it with the same exchange that issued it. Legally it can’t be directly exchanged back to fiat money, but the exchange could issue a service contract with the person and pay them according to the tokens they hold.

There is no need for a central org. It could be many different ones all using the same Taler software. In fact given the legal limitations that’s probably the only way to do it.

Such a system could be easily set up with GNU Taler. I have been thinking about something like that for a while, and the main issue is the legal regulations for the organization that receives the real money. If you are not registered as a bank it is severely restricted where and how you can operate. The laws in Europe are basically ok if you want to have some temporary cashless payment system in a music festival or so, but something permanent and with more money involved is hard to do under the current rules.

Such a system could be set up relatively easily with GNU Taler. The problem is rather on the legal side for the organization that holds the funds and converts it to the tokens. Unless you are registered as a bank there are severe limitations on how much money you can hold and covert.

The EU can try to make it illegal, but as I said, there is no way to enforce such a law and no real way to prevent decentralized e2ee messengers from continuing to work.

So really what you are saying makes little sense.

No, any normal easy to use federated XMPP app will work with built in e2ee. There is no real difference between an app communicating with a server and a browser communicating with a webserver, and for an outside observer there is no easy way to tell them apart.

Please educate yourself better about this topic. You make yourself look really stupid 🤷

Oh and WhatApp is already e2ee.

Look, this discussion is going nowhere, as you clearly have no idea how the internet actually functions. If websites keep working you can continue sending e2e encrypted messages from an unregistered app. Please educate yourself first and then you will realize how nonsensical your idea is.

So you are saying the entire internet needs to be shut down?

You are not making sense. You can register as many apps as you want, if there is no way to distinguish non-registered app traffic from regular internet traffic.

How? You have two arbitrary computers exchanging TCP packets. There is no way to tell any difference.

Yes, but how do you distinguish between two identical TLS connections? You can’t and hence you can’t figure out if the content inside is additionally e2e encrypted. So what you are suggesting just doesn’t work technically.

Again, what is a “e2e connection”? There is no such thing and it is nearly impossible to distingish a e2e encrypted data stream inside a TLS connection from regular TLS encrypted connection.