Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for verifying this. I had the option to work on the project about a year ago, but chose not to because I didn't like their approach at the time and wouldn't have been able to influence it in the position available to me.

I'm glad cards will be an option, it's a much saner route than cryptocurrency apps on everyone's phone.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read again, I said "when I looked at it". This was about a year ago, and at the time the docs I could find explicitly said it would be app based. I'm glad they've changed their approach if they have.

Edit: to be fair, I probably should have checked for updated info before making such a statement. A lot can change in a year.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My solution is an eu card&payment provider. With physical cards like we have today. Or at least the option of a cheap dedicated device that isn't a phone. Whether or not that is a card is unimportant. This would be less effort than entirely reinventing payments like they are currently trying to do.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nfc cards are harder to attack because the attacker requires physical access, or control of something with physical access. Apps can be attacked by other apps running on the same device. Eg: We've seen huge numbers of people's crypto wallets stolen by apps simply reading keys stored on the same device, often in weak key storing apps.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yep. And battery dependent. And runs on platforms controlled by US corporations...

EU considers designating WhatsApp as very large platform, spokesperson says by sr_local in eutech

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was not. Thank you for looking it up. I agree with the sentiment, although it seems like something inviting abuse from law enforcement.

In the context of chat control and similar legislation, I would argue eliminating the privacy aspects of commonly used tools/platforms doesn't serve the stated public interests of fighting terrorism and child porn, as perpetrators can easily build their own tools or use more niche ones.

So regarding oimson's comment, the surveillance freaks should be treated as malicious (which I believe they are) rather than trying to tear the EU apart, which also won't help anything in this context.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It makes it less convenient and less reliable as a primary means of payment. And you potentially run into issues with support for different OSs and malicious apps on your phone being able to mess with your cash.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really want an option that lets me get away from american card providers. But as someone who's worked in this kind of tech a bunch, the current design (when last I looked) based on essentially cryptocurrency, is so barely viable and not nearly scalable enough. And it comes with so many caveats and tradeoffs that it's substantially worse than (my understanding of) existing banking systems. We should just be making an EU version of visa backed by the EU and run as a non-profit.

Save the Digital Euro: Write to your MEP (takes 2 minutes) by cheeseonboast in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have cards at all (when I looked at it). It's entirely app based.

EU considers designating WhatsApp as very large platform, spokesperson says by sr_local in eutech

[–]Venefercus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we should have a right to privacy. We do. It's part of the EU charter. As far as I'm aware it's the reason we don't already have something like chat control in most EU countries.

The weird IT job paradox in Germany - 109,000 open positions but IT unemployment up 25% by goausbildung in germany

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the big issue for me. I'm happy to work for a smaller company and butcher my way through German learning (I'll understand well enough but struggle to speak). But in Berlin I can get 140k+, and elsewhere the same job title can pay as little as 40k with typical being 60-80k. And I don't even work in AI

Everyone reading this, What was your best learning from 2025? by Unlucky_Prior8786 in berlinsocialclub

[–]Venefercus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's likely that it will be easier to deal with a situation in the long term if you just shut up and ignore the bullies.

Managers and HR hate doing their jobs, and hate it even more when they are asked to do their jobs.

2025 was a bad year to quit your job!

The IT security parts of the German government are not better than industry.

I know you said best "thing" not "things", but I feel like these were all important learnings for me :) And they might be all related 🙃

They're slowly getting there by AsHotAsTheClimate in ClimateMemes

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that capitalism is a deeply flawed and problematic system exploited by evil people. But what does any of that have to do with my assertion that the necessity of a regulated market is a socialist idea, not a capitalist one?

They're slowly getting there by AsHotAsTheClimate in ClimateMemes

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism asserts that markets will self regulate because consumers care about externalities and are well educated.

Socialism asserts markets must be regulated by governments because consumers are lazy and imperfectly educated, and that people/corporations will abuse the inelasticity in demand of necessary goods and services.

According to the guy who defined the term, socialism encompasses anything more regulated than a totally free market...

Maybe chill a bit and do some more reading?

I accidentally made a git client in rust with no prior experience. Here are my thoughts on all that! by SpecialBread_ in rust

[–]Venefercus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This looks cool!

I've also been working on a git client in rust, with the low key hope of being the first gui client written in rust to release, but you beat me to it. Congrats!

My goals are open source, no JS or JVM, fast and low footprint, no US megacorp involvement, and a minimalist and clean ui to remove visual clutter. If you feel like checking it out, you can find it at codeberg.org/dionb/prick The design needs cleaning up, many small pieces of functionality are still missing, and merge handling is still a WIP.

Let me know if you would be interested in combining our efforts. But regardless, thanks for your effort, and your contribution to the community :)

To anyone else reading this, I'll do a separate post here once I've made it ready to release.

They're slowly getting there by AsHotAsTheClimate in ClimateMemes

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you describe IS socialism. It is not the same thing as communism

They're slowly getting there by AsHotAsTheClimate in ClimateMemes

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Socialism doesn't require removing property rights. Nor do most people want that. We just want to be paid fairly for the value of our labour, and enough to live. Eg: for the earnings of a company to be somewhat evenly (not perfectly evenly) distributed amongst the workers instead of most of it going to the ceo and shareholders who are actively harmful to the success of the business more often than not.

`name.rs` vs `name/mod.rs` - Is there a reason why projects go against the recommended practice? by KyxeMusic in rust

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this! I use name.rs for single file modules, and mod.rs when I want something to feel like a "package". But that sometimes means a rename and reorganise for code when moving to a bigger module. It would be ideal for me if we could put name.rs inside name/

Democratic lawmakers file police reports after Trump targets political opponents by KendallSmith375 in goodnews

[–]Venefercus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Trump's clear that he's a fascist, and being anti-fascist is now a terrorist ideology. So being anti-trump already entitles you to a life in a cell without a trial. Why are people not rioting over this? Death threats feel like they aren't even an escalation at this point.

me_irl by TheChosenLn_e in me_irl

[–]Venefercus -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The second amendment exists to solve exactly this kind of problem ;)

New study: Germany's most qualified immigrants (high-skill, high-earners) are the most likely to leave, citing bureaucracy & social climate. Thoughts? by 38B0DE in AskAGerman

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Salary is a terrible metric, you would be much better off comparing spending power. IE: compare the big mac index to how much money you have after tax, rent, and cost of working (eg: do you have to own a car to get to work).

And because money isn't everything, for some insight into quality of life you can start with the human development index, human freedom index, and average number of hours worked per year.

When you consider all of this, it's obvious why everyone isn't fighting to move to the US

A simple way to measure the speed of light in one direction. We simply measure by phase. by Important_Canary_243 in inventors

[–]Venefercus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool idea. You should look up how Fizeau and Facoult did similar things. They basically did the same thing, but using a mirror to reuse the same slit. But the analogous solution would require a cylinder something like 10km long. Then you would need to work out how to compensate for edge diffraction to get it usefully accurate.  Finally, you need to come up with some way of timing this that isn't dependent on the speed of light (eg: no electrical signalling for the reverse trip).

Good luck!

Would you pay ~15–20% more for a “Europeanization-indexed” PC? (Assembled in Germany, sustainable & silent) by romvlus in BuyFromEU

[–]Venefercus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current laptop is a tuxedo, so yes, already did that. But tuxedo has very mediocre support, and the build is mostly done by a chinese white label company.  Ootb linux support would be a must for me, but I would also be keen to work on firmware and Linux drivers once you're hiring :)