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ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TVEnglish
2·2 years agoIt can possibly run Asahi Linux in the future. I had the same idea
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
News@lemmy.world•Americans in Puerto Rico can't vote for US president. Their anger at Trump is shaping the race
8·2 years agoYes, they have a right to vote in the state they last lived in (or, if they never lived in one, perhaps the state their parent last lived in?) but unfortunately Puerto Ricans can’t vote in presidential elections.
They now built a bridge that allows drivers to avoid the border checks by staying in Croatia
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
World News@lemmy.world•NATO scrambles fighter jets to intercept five Russian aircraftEnglish
3·2 years agoGuard is 121.5 isn’t it?
Is this exclusive or inclusive of the energy tax? IIRC that’s about €0.15/kWh in the Netherlands
“🇮🇪”.reverse() = “🇨🇮”
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Finance@beehaw.org•Migrants hit by high fees to send money home
2·2 years agoThere may be some situations where this makes a lot of sense, particularly involving currency manipulation. For example, in Argentina, the official exchange rate was much less favorable than the actual (black market) exchange rate. Monero could enable someone to sell at the more favorable exchange rate locally, rather than relying the transfer provider in the source country to do it.
However, it’s important to consider potential market effects if this is done at scale. For some people, it could work, but probably not yet on such a large scale.
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Finance@beehaw.org•Migrants hit by high fees to send money home
2·2 years agoThere’s at least a decent chance that Monero may actually be a better store of value than the destination currency would be and the receiver might just choose to keep it in Monero instead of converting it to their local currency.
That could make sense if Monero was a widely accepted currency for goods and services in the destination country. However, as far as I know, it usually needs to be converted to fiat currency for this.
So you would purchase Monero peer-to-peer in your country send it to them and if they need to exchange it when they get it they can choose when to do so and how much to convert.
Sure, P2P is the ideal without KYC, but if used at scale, this is going to eventually lead to an increase in value of Monero in source countries and a decrease in destination countries, especially since P2P exchanges are usually local in nature and less liquid than centralized exchanges. There would be heavy sell-side pressure in these P2P exchanges, whereas likely not nearly as many people would be buying Monero there. The spread between the buy price in developed countries and the sell price in developing economies could exceed 6%.
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Finance@beehaw.org•Migrants hit by high fees to send money home
5·2 years agoThis could work if there are reliable exchanges already available in local currency on both sides, and if both sides have bank accounts and the technical know-how to use exchanges. However, if Monero were to become a large scale method of remittance transfers, then Monero could be overvalued in exchanges in source countries and undervalued in exchanges in destination countries, especially in situations where the currencies are not freely convertible. With P2P exchanges this situation may become even more exaggerated.
Eventually HFT traders may catch on and level the market, but this would essentially mean a transfer of wealth from the masses sending remittances to a few HFT traders.
My point is, though sure it works fine in limited situations in strong economies (where there are liquid, freely exchangable fiat currencies and fair exchanges with low fees), it is a lot more complicated than it seems to use it at such a scale or in countries with underdeveloped economies.
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Technology@beehaw.org•You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse
8·2 years agohttps://social.overheid.nl/about is the official Dutch government mastodon server
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EUEnglish
3·2 years agoI wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the country where the SIM originates. A prepaid eSIM from an EU carrier (as secondary sim) is pretty cheap though and might work if this is what they do.
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Eurostar: Petition for services to stop in Kent reaches 40,000 - BBC NewsEnglish
3·2 years agoBrexit means that there will have to be a border checkpoint installed in Kent. This isn’t practical unless there is a lot of demand
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The DataEnglish
22·2 years agoAWS is very expensive. There are other compatible storage options, like Backblaze B2 and Wasabi, that are better for this use case
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!English
3·3 years agoI think that if, in good faith, the person is unable to accept more CSAM due to the fact that their hard drive is full, there isn’t an issue. The intent of the law is that, it someone knows something is CSAM, they need to report it. I don’t think the government is going to come hard on Lemmy server owners unwittingly receiving CSAM through federation (though they certainly would want them to report and take down the CSAM on their servers)
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!English
493·3 years agoBe careful with this though. I think I remember some jurisdictions require server owners not to delete CSAM and report it instead. Verify that you aren’t obligated to keep it before deleting it
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Android@lemdro.id•WhatsApp will soon be your one-stop solution for all your chat appsEnglish
16·3 years agoApple just claimed an exception. It’s still up to the EU to determine whether it is actually exempt or not.
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Environment@beehaw.org•Dutch government presses ahead with Schiphol flight cap as airlines protest
4·3 years agoI’d like to see a direct connection Schiphol-Frankfurt. There is already a direct connection Schiphol-Paris, there should be air-rail tickets sold on this route just like there are Brussels-Schiphol
ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nlto
Debian operating system@lemmy.ml•NetworkManager setting "nameserver ::1" to resolv.conf no matter my settings.
2·3 years agoDo you have any DNS server on port 53? If so, could you check which process or application it is?




You could try Bunq, a Dutch neobank. It’s a paid service though and only supports customers in the EU.