HaraldvonBlauzahn

joined 2 months ago

The article is lacking some hard numbers.

It cites Bitcom on constant high screen time But Bitcom is an industrial lobby group. They are for example anti-privacy and anti-data protection. I wouldn't expect them to publish anything which is not in the interest of Big Tech.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Other things I use are a chip card for local train tickets (it never runs out of battery) and a PC with a solid real two-factor authentication based on chipcard and an optical TAN generator for banking.

And when I am exploring new areas on the bike, I sometimes just use the old paper maps - they don't run out of battery either, and they give s much better overview than a tiny phone screen.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 32 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Interesting that for many people one obstacle to a desired reduction in phone usage is that it has become in practical terms more difficult to not use a phone.

It is tech with a lot of addictive design, and people are increasingly becoming aware of it.

But there are quite a few things one can do. For example, I am using again a traditional wristwatch, instead of looking at the phone. The reason is that I do not like to constantly look at my phone when I just need to know the time.

 

I think this is relevant for Europe because the Passkey technology, being exclusively in the hands of smartphone OS vendors and platforms like Google, Apple, and Microsoft, has very strong implications on European digital souvereignity. Basically, if you use passkeys to access accounts, the vendors can switch off your access to all your accounts at once, because you won't have working copies of your keys and devices.

 

Here Meadway draws parallels between Trumps tarrifs and Volcker's interest rate shock in the 1970ies. Is this justified considering the world economy has a totally different structure today?

There is another argument that what Trump actually wants is a reactionary economic policy more similar to the 19th century where interests of small, wealthy, powerful groups were dominant over the well-being of normal people. For how much of a difference that can make, Germanys rapid economic development which was then to a large part attributed to Ludwig Erhard, Germanys minister for economic affairs from 1949 to 1963.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

Yes. The Brexiters argued that they would be better off without an agreement with the Europesn Union on future trade policy and sgreements, seeing a "No-Deal-Brexit" as leverage which left the UK free to make more advantageous trade agreements with other countries.

Years later, not a single agreement has materialized which could even remotely make up for the lost trade with the European Union.

And, ironically, business sectors which thougth that they would profit from Brexit like fishing companies or farmers, suffered the most because they were completely unaware how much advantage the collaboration within the EU was giving them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49325620

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48631741

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

SURPRISE, that is EXACTLY the same thing that the Brexiters wanted! How come?

(And look at how it's going...)