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@DarkMahesvara I just use Paru's inbuilt option. There's a setting you can uncomment in paru where it'll give you any new news when the arch linux website makes a post before you upgrade.
@DarkMahesvara in my case usually when I do a update for archlinux I go to the tty because having your desktop environment crash in the middle of an update is ass, it's something I never want to happen again. So I'm not looking at anything before I commit to an update.
@DarkMahesvara snapshots don't mean shit if it crashes when grub is generating a new grub.cfg. 🤡 I learned that the hard way and had to use a live usb to save my install by running the grub.cfg generation tool.
Rerunning pacman didn't do anything either because to pacman it saw everything as updated. I restarted and everything went into the bin.
O Zygmunτ Bauman, Πολωνοβρετανός και Εβραίος φιλόσοφος έλεγε το 2005 σε μια διάλεξή του στο Βερολίνο και μετέπειτα σε συνέντευξή του: "The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins," he tells me. "When Cheney, Blair and Berlusconi go to celebrate the memory of the Holocaust, it acts in such a way that it allows them to say: 'Whatever we do is against evil.'"
Ο ίδιος έχει γράψει κι ένα βιβλίο για το πώς προέκυψε το Ολοκαύτωμα (Modernity and the Holocaust), τις τελευταίες μέρες διαβάζοντας για Παλαιστίνιους που βομβαρδίζονται ενώ περιμένουν στην σειρα για φαγητό έβγαλε πολύ νόημα, αν πέσει στα χέρια σας δείτε το, δεν είναι δυσκολοδιάβαστο.
Let's recap how many hospitals and health facilities Israel has bombed & besieged (a 🧵):
Gaza
Al-Ahli Arab Al-Shifa Indonesian Hospital Al-Quds Al-Amal Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Jordan Field Al Awda Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Doctors Without Borders convoy Al-Shifa ambulance Kamal Adwan Yafa Nasser Medical Complex Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr children's hospitals European Hospital Field hospital at Khadija school
Al Basma IVF center Rehabilitation Centre for Visually Impaired Palestine Children's Relief Fund Al-Aqsa Kuwaiti Hospital Indonesian field hospital in Rafah Red Cross facilities Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital
and of course, they killed thousands of healthcare workers.
That's all I could find, but I might have missed some. Just to remind everyone, that there is only one bloodthirsty aggressor here, and it isn't 'the Arabs' or Iran
CLARIFICATION EDIT: Of course, bombing hospitals is ALWAYS a war crime. Just ask yourself why our western governments have allowed for 30 hospitals being bombed, besieged, flattened, medical staff abducted by Israel in the first place.
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Guerre contre l’ #Iran : les télévisions israéliennes dans l’euphorie de la guerre
En #Israël, les écrans de télévision sont allumés en permanence dans tous les foyers depuis que l’État hébreu a lancé sa guerre contre l’Iran. Nous avons regardé les JT des principales chaînes du pays. Portrait d’un paysage audiovisuel sans contradicteurs.
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12coop.com/cupon/ctn/ Así amanece hoy Cádiz y así termina el comunicado d la confluencia sindical de la Bahía de Cádiz ante la huelga del metal junio 2025. "… es un llamamiento al amparo, la solidaridad y la protección hacia nuestra vecindad, familiares, compañeros y compañeras del metal en el nuevo despertar de su justa lucha por la dignidad de la clase obrera, que ojalá se extienda por lo largo y ancho del Estado español" Coordinadora de Trabajadores del Metal Bahía de Cádiz
Eigentlich muesste die Zeichnung angepasst werden und nicht mehr auf das "Empfangsgeraet" bezogen werden, sondern dass sie in einer Wohnung wohnt. Aber ich verstehe natuerlich den Witz dahinter.
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First, X.org will be even more abandoned. I'm not saying every distro will drop it entirely, but I'm expecting way more distributions and desktops to announce in 2024, that X.org won't be a supported platform anymore in 2025, or at the very least won't be the default session.
I would be surprised if, in 2024, Ubuntu didn't announce something similar for the following year.
The second thing I think we'll see is a fully open source stack for nvidia being available for Linux users. With the Linux kernel 6.7 bringing support for the GSP firmware, letting Nvidia GPUs be reclocked by the open source Nouveau drivers, and NVK now part of Mesa, and providing decent performance already, I'd say 2024 will be the year where Nvidia users can finally enjoy a good experience on Linux without anything extra to install.
In terms of market share, we've seen some healthy growth in 2023, ending the year on a potentially anomalous 3.8%, the highest the Linux desktop has ever been. In 2024, I'd expect this trend to continue: people don't seem to enjoy WIndows 11 that much, and they already didn't enjoy Windows 10 all that much either, and with Microsoft cramming more and more ads in their OS, and potentially moving to a subscription based model for Windows 12, I'd expect more people to give Linux a go, and mathematically, some of them will stick with it.
All in all, I don't think we'll jump to something like 8 or 10%, but I'd be surprised if the Linux desktop didn't reach 5 or 6% on its own, and about 10% combined with Chrome OS.
I would also expect 2024 to see a standalone release of SteamOS for any computer, and I'd say our market share will probably rise to about 3, maybe 3 and a half percent, but it won't be a major change, and the situation in terms of how many games we can play will be relatively stable, with major names still missing.
Now let's talk about the things I feel will stay exactly the same in 2024: starting with packaging formats. What we might see is more distros deciding to provide specific apps using the official snap or flatpak, like RHEL is doing with LibreOffice, because for some apps, it simply makes no sense to repackage them all the time, but that won't change the status quo.
Same thing for what we generally call Immutable distributions. I don't think they'll gain that much popularity in 2024, because they're often linked to using either flatpak or snap, or Nix packages, can't forget about Nix or I'll get comments again, and since we're not making these formats the only choice any time soon, I don't think this group of Linux distros will conquer the general Linux desktop audience either.
As per app support, that's another area where I feel we're not going to see much progress. And I'm talking big name apps, like Office, the Adobe Suite, Autocad, and the like. Even if my predictions for Linux market share come true, the potential revenue from supporting Linux is still low and will still be low, compared to the effort of porting the app, finding a packaging format that allows you to do everything you want, and then supporting that version.
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Just got through replacing the power cord and switch on an old lava lamp while keeping the appearance, other than the cord color, identical. The original cord was brown, the new one is white, but otherwise identical.
I got this so long ago probably 40-45 years ago and I just recently pulled it out of storage and added it to my office decor, add a little red light which the LED bulbs do not produce, and some motion.
The switch had become intermittent and since it was integral to the cord, fixing it really required replacing the whole thing, but this was challenging. First there was a cardboard with felt disk on the bottom I had to remove, it was glued on but careful work with a pocket knife released it intact. Then the socket was held to the bottom with a nut but you could not remove the bottom plate as it was spot welded to the base, so the only way for the socket to come out was through the opening for the bulb and given this was only about 1/32nd of an inch larger than the socket itself this was no fun.
Reinserting the socket back into the hole in the base was tricky since it's basically a blind operation but after much futzing finally got lucky and got it through and put the nut back on.
The cord was mounted in the base with a heyco, but I managed to compress with vice grips and remove intact and use with the new cord.
All in all it was a challenging operation. Now I just have to wait for the glue on the felt pad on the base to dry and it will be as good as new.
I was worried about being able to get bulbs since most incandescents are outlawed, but there is an exception for oven bulbs and that happens to be what this uses. So $6 got me a two pack from Amazon.
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Or better yet: XMPP with OMEMO (which uses Signal Protocol).
XMPP doesn't require any personal information from you, like a phone number. You can be completely anonymous.
XMPP is decentralized. No centralized server anywhere!
XMPP can be self-hosted and therefore can be installed on servers that Big Tech does not own.
I've read on Signal's blog (can't find the blog post) that they are working on seperate themselves from Big Tech's servers and use their own servers, but that have not yet happened. I read the article maybe 2 years ago.
Suspicious.
And if Signal now is such a privacy oriented chat service, why do they require your phone number?! They can switch from the phone number requirement and let the users report spam/scam accounts. "Problem solved" (it's not that easy).
Not AI, PI. Pseudo Intelligence. Not that I want either but actual AI is not a thing. It'll turn up at some point though, so we need to build the distinction now.
Thank you so much. I am trying to switch to signal ever since they started with this AI bulls**t.
It is important that we dont depend on closed source, propriatary software to keep in touch with our friends and loved ones, as well as use it for important communication.
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I suspect it didn't share a user's number, it hallucinated a set of 11 digits that looked like a phone number and it happened to be valid. But that's not as good a headline.
Not a mistake. A mistake requires intent (to do something else), and intent requires knowing wtf you are doing, not stringing together words with a sufficient probability of looking like a sentence.
Oh, I see what you're doing; surfing on the growing anti-AI sentiment to promote you junk, hey?!?
Well, good. Excellent. 100% unironically. Go for it, this is the right thing to do. But please, for goodness' sake; DO NOT BACKPEDAL IN A FEW MONTHS TIME WITH SOME MEEK "WELL, ACTUALLY AI IS GOOD NOW" BULLSHIT.
I know this is only semi-related to your post but can we pause and appreciate the moment where that guy on Bluesky tried to explain to the PRESIDENT OF THE SIGNAL FOUNDATION what Signal’s future plans and business strategy are? Because it was such a chef’s kiss moment for me that I want to tape the screenshot to my wall.
There are innovators, and there are people that don't mind playing with fire, it's fairly difficult not to end up in the second category when you do AI
The last two years of Gen AI reminds me of a debate I had with developers about bug severity. Dev Mgr would only rank level 0 if the app broke and wouldn't run. I found a calculation that provided erroneous results in the final report of our business analytics app. Dev Mgr would not call people in on the weekend. "But our customer is going to make bad decisions based on false data we made and go out of business! That's worse than no answer"
"Signal requires that the user provide a telephone number for verification [...] eliminating the need for user names or passwords and facilitating contact discovery". "This mandatory connection to a telephone number (a feature Signal shares with WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, and others) has been criticized as a "major issue" for privacy-conscious users who are not comfortable with giving out their private number." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal…
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"Στα όνειρά μας έχουμε δει έναν άλλο κόσμο, έναν τίμιο κόσμο, έναν κόσμο σαφώς πιο δίκαιο από αυτόν στον οποίο ζούμε τώρα. Είδαμε ότι σε αυτόν τον κόσμο δεν υπήρχε ανάγκη για στρατούς. Η ειρήνη, η δικαιοσύνη και η ελευθερία ήταν τόσο συνηθισμένες που κανείς δεν μιλούσε για αυτές ως μακρινές έννοιες, αλλά σαν πράγματα όπως το ψωμί, τα πουλιά, ο αέρας, το νερό, όπως το βιβλίο και η φωνή."
"Η επιλογή μας δεν είναι ανάμεσα στον πόλεμο και την ειρήνη, αλλά ανάμεσα στη ζωή με αξιοπρέπεια ή χωρίς..." Σαν σήμερα, 19 Ιούνη 1957, γεννιέται ο εξεγερμένος υποδιοικητής Μάρκος (#SubcomandanteMarcos) του #EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional)
The IDF is carrying out large-scale demolitions and flattening entire areas, mostly in the northern Gaza Strip, away from the cameras and behind the scenes. - MenaLive
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What's is it with WhatsApp ? I recently agreed to take part in a local representative group. We were informed of the meeting by email. We had just started our face to face meeting and someone said. "Let's set up a WhatsApp group ". It seems to me everyone and their granny is in a bloody WhatsApp group. WHY ? I feel as if I am being dragged screaming and kicking into yet another....
Now I read that WhatsApp will start delivering adverts at the end of the month.
Please tell me there are some of you out there who are not on a WhatsApp group.
At around 3:00 a.m. Jerusalem time on June 13, 2025, I was jolted awake by a siren that echoed throughout the walls of the Old City. “It’s probably a Houthi missile,” I originally thought.
Tired: "please don't click any suspicious links on emails"
Wired: "don't click on any links on emails, preferably don't click any links EVER, throw your computer in to sea and free yourself of this infernal hell we call society"
@Catweazle this inspired me to come up with a third category:
Chaotic: "click everything, explore internet like the original authors intended: trusting anything and without any protection, every malware and hack attempt is just a potential new friend"
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No one has been able to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, but could Russia help end the war in Iran? Russia is one of the rare powers that has very close relationships with both Iran and Israel, and both Iran and Israel trust Russia.
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On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: According to a new Economist/YouGov poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans - including a majority of Republicans – oppose getting militarily involved in the Israel-Iran war.
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Ici, les gens n’arrêtent pas de justifier le bombardement des hôpitaux de Gaza, cherchant une excuse dans les décombres. Mais dès qu’un hôpital est bombardé ici, les cris s’élèvent et les drapeaux du droit international sont hissés.
Nous sommes comme un joueur qui continue à faire des erreurs grossières sur le terrain, et dès que quelqu'un le touche, il s'effondre au sol en criant : « Faute ! Faute ! »
si on compare les 1500 bléssés, dont 24 en état critique à paris à l'occasion de la fête de la musique, et ce qui se passe dans les rues aux satess, c'est un concours de déchéance qu'on n'est pas sûr de gagner!
To the dismay of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the law currently prevents Big Tech companies from opening banks. But if Congress passes the GENIUS Act, tech firms may start issuing private currencies and forcing us to use them.
Gardez bien ça en mémoire : le seul pays à avoir recouru à l'arme nucléaire avec la volonté claire de massacrer des centaines de milliers de civils est une "démocratie" occidentale. Il s'agit des États-Unis d'Amérique contre le Japon.
Quand les Géants de la Tech veulent devenir leur propre banque
Au grand dam d’Elon Musk et de Mark Zuckerberg, la législation actuelle interdit encore aux géants de la tech d’ouvrir leurs propres banques. Mais si le Congrès venait à adopter le GENIUS Act, ces entreprises pourraient bientôt émettre leur propre monnaie privée, et nous contraindre à l’utiliser.
Source : Jacobin, Luke Goldstein
À la suite d’une vague de lobbying à Washington et de la capitulation des Démocrates, le Sénat s’apprête à adopter le GENIUS Act, une loi tentaculaire sur les cryptomonnaies qui pourrait favoriser la propagation de monnaies numériques instables et propices à la fraude dans l’ensemble du système bancaire. Toutefois, les législateurs et les experts en protection des consommateurs avertissent que le projet de loi présente un problème encore plus grave : il autoriserait Elon Musk et d’autres magnats de la tech à émettre leurs propres monnaies privées.
Cela signifie que nous pourrions bientôt vivre dans un monde où toutes les transactions en ligne devraient être effectuées dans une monnaie privée style monopoply inventée par les milliardaires, qu’eux seuls contrôleraient, et sur laquelle les géants de la tech pourraient prélever des frais de transaction exorbitants.
Ce scénario n’a rien d’un simple fantasme. Il s’inscrit dans une stratégie de long terme menée par les plateformes technologiques pour prendre le contrôle des réseaux de paiement. Ces dernières semaines, Meta a d’ailleurs commencé à, de nouveau, préparer le terrain pour lancer sa propre cryptomonnaie.
De plus, grâce à un « compromis » bipartisan qui a convaincu les derniers Démocrates réticents de soutenir le texte, la plus récente version du projet de loi pourrait empêcher le principal régulateur gouvernemental des secteurs financier et technologique de superviser ces potentielles monnaies numériques.
Le GENIUS Act [Acronyme de « Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins », Orienter et promouvoir l’innovation nationale en matière de stablecoins américains. Le mot genius (génie) est un jeu de mots implicite visant à présenter ce projet de loi comme une idée brillante. NdT] a été conçu pour instaurer une régulation minimale des stablecoins, une forme de jeton cryptographique de plus en plus utilisée, généralement indexée sur le dollar américain à valeur équivalente (un stablecoin peut être échangé contre un dollar).
Si la loi venait à être adoptée, toute entreprise, qu’elle soit bancaire ou non, pourrait obtenir une licence pour émettre des stablecoins, avec un contrôle réglementaire minimal. Une telle mesure risquerait de déstabiliser l’ensemble du système financier et de rendre indétectables des activités illégales comme la fraude ou le terrorisme, tout en ouvrant de nouveaux marchés lucratifs aux entreprises émettrices de ces cryptomonnaies. La société Tether, basée au Salvador, est actuellement la plus grande plateforme d’échange de ces devises et a fait l’objet de nombreuses poursuites judiciaires aux États-Unis pour fraude.
Après que certains Démocrates favorables aux cryptomonnaies ont temporairement renoncé à soutenir le projet de loi au début de ce mois, les Républicains sont revenus à la table des négociations. Ils ont proposé ce qui semblait être quelques modestes concessions, destinées à apaiser les inquiétudes des Démocrates quant à une utilisation frauduleuse des cryptos par Trump à des fins personnelles. Mais une analyse juridique menée par l’équipe démocrate de la commission bancaire du Sénat a dynamité cette nouvelle version du texte, notamment parce qu’elle permettrait aux géants de la tech de créer leurs propres monnaies, en plus de nombreux autres problèmes pointés du doigt.
Le projet de loi accorde également une large dérogation à X (anciennement Twitter), la plateforme sociale d’Elon Musk, pour l’exempter même des restrictions les plus légères. Selon l’analyse de la commission bancaire, cette clause revient à « offrir au plus proche allié Big Tech du Président un avantage concurrentiel pour créer sa propre monnaie privée ».
Elon Musk ne serait peut-être pas le seul à profiter de ces avantages. L’administration Trump pourrait également accorder des exemptions aux entreprises technologiques de son choix, en les soustrayant aux exigences les plus strictes du projet de loi, selon l’équipe de la commission bancaire du Sénat.
À ces exemptions s’ajoute une nouvelle disposition juridique discrètement intégrée au texte, qui retire tacitement au Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), l’un des principaux régulateurs des secteurs financier et technologique, son autorité pour superviser l’émission des stablecoins. Le CFPB enquête sur les réseaux de paiement de Meta et d’autres entreprises technologiques, et a pris des mesures pour les soumettre aux mêmes règles que les banques.
Malgré ces inquiétudes, seize sénateurs démocrates viennent d’approuver le passage du texte révisé en séance plénière, ce qui rend son adoption par le Sénat quasiment certaine. Seuls deux Républicains ont voté contre la mesure : Rand Paul, sénateur du Kentucky, et Jerry Moran, sénateur du Kansas. Ils s’opposent à toute intervention fédérale visant à soutenir les cryptomonnaies et les géants de la tech.
Selon les membres démocrates de la commission bancaire du Sénat, leurs collègues viennent d’avaliser une logique de clientélisme politique, précisément ce qu’ils affirmaient vouloir combattre dans la version initiale du GENIUS Act.
Les géants de la tech qui pourraient bénéficier de ce projet de loi ont versé des millions de dollars à des candidats-clés aux sièges les plus disputés lors des dernières élections. On y compte deux alliés déclarés des cryptomonnaies, Ruben Gallego (Démocrate, Arizona) et Elissa Slotkin (Démocrate, Michigan), qui ont chacun reçu 10 millions de dollars de la part de comités d’action politique financés par des intérêts liés aux cryptos. Le Protect Progress PAC, branche Démocrate du lobby crypto en matière de financement électoral, a dépensé 33 millions de dollars tant pour les primaires que pour les élections générales de 2024.
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Officiellement, le GENIUS Act vise à faciliter la tâche des entreprises de cryptomonnaies, dont les groupes de lobbying ont fortement milité en faveur du texte. Mais selon Brian Shearer, ancien conseiller principal au CFPB et expert en droit à l’université Vanderbilt, ses implications pourraient aller bien au-delà, en affectant un large éventail de secteurs non bancaires.
La formulation du projet de loi remet en cause un principe juridique vieux de deux siècles, qui impose une séparation entre les banques qui vendent des produits financiers, et les entreprises commerciales qui vendent des biens. Cette séparation avait été instaurée pour empêcher les firmes industrielles de concentrer un pouvoir excessif dans la finance, ce qui leur aurait permis de restreindre l’accès aux services bancaires pour leurs concurrents ou leurs clients.
Dans le passé, le fait de brouiller les lignes entre la finance et le commerce a causé des problèmes majeurs.
Par exemple, dans le secteur financier, l’abrogation en 1999 du Glass-Steagall Act sous la présidence de Bill Clinton a supprimé une barrière de longue date entre les activités plus risquées de la banque d’investissement et l’aspect plus stable de la banque commerciale, centrée sur la gestion des dépôts des clients. De nombreux experts estiment que la disparition de cette séparation a contribué à ouvrir la voie au krach financier de 2008.
Même si ce scénario peut sembler extrême, Brian Shearer souligne que « même des perturbations mineures des principes fondamentaux de la régulation financière peuvent avoir des conséquences profondes sur l’ensemble du système financier ». Des régulateurs ont d’ailleurs mis en garde contre un possible effondrement financier si les cryptomonnaies venaient à s’immiscer dans les marchés bancaires traditionnels.
Le GENIUS Act intervient également à un moment où les régulateurs financiers, sous l’impulsion du CFPB, intensifient leur pression sur les géants de la tech, accusés d’abuser de leur pouvoir de marché pour imposer leurs propres services de paiement, assortis de frais de transaction élevés.
Apple, Google et Meta disposent chacune de leur propre réseau de paiement, et Elon Musk a déjà exprimé son intention d’intégrer des services de paiement à son réseau social X.
Apple Pay a mis en place le système de paiement en ligne le plus avancé, avec près de 800 millions d’utilisateurs dans le monde. Dans le cadre d’un procès antitrust intenté par le ministère de la Justice américain, Apple est accusée de contraindre utilisateurs et développeurs à utiliser son propre réseau de paiement.
Brian Shearer, ancien juriste au CFPB, explique que dans le cadre du GENIUS Act, Apple pourrait lancer sa propre « carte de paiement » en stablecoin, qui détiendrait les dépôts de ses clients et offrirait au géant technologique un accès encore plus poussé aux données financières et transactionnelles de ses utilisateurs.
Les plans de Meta pour l’émission de sa propre monnaie sont probablement les plus sophistiqués qui soient. En 2019, son PDG Mark Zuckerberg avait annoncé le lancement d’un jeton crypto baptisé Libra, avant de faire marche arrière face aux vives réactions des régulateurs, tant aux États-Unis qu’à l’international. Plusieurs autorités de régulation fédérales, dont le président de la Réserve fédérale, Jerome Powell, avaient mis en garde contre les risques que ferait peser sur les marchés financiers une supervision laxiste de produits financiers comme Libra. Par exemple, les paiements effectués sur des plateformes technologiques ne sont couverts par aucune assurance des dépôts.
L’annonce de Meta concernant Libra a attiré l’attention du CFPB, qui a ouvert une enquête sur les réseaux de paiement des géants de la tech. À l’issue de cette procédure, l’agence a adopté en 2024 un ensemble de règles soumettant les services de paiement opérés par des entreprises technologiques aux mêmes normes réglementaires que les institutions financières classiques et appliquant aux stablecoins la législation relative à la fraude, à la protection de la vie privée et aux autres lois de protection des consommateurs.
Peu après l’annonce de ces règles, Mark Zuckerberg, lors de son passage dans le podcast The Joe Rogan Experiences a critiqué les décisions du CFPB, tandis qu’Elon Musk a appelé à la fermeture pure et simple de l’agence.
La toute dernière version du GENIUS Act pourrait bien retirer au CFPB son autorité pour faire appliquer ces règles. Sans son intervention, c’est toute une mosaïque d’autres régulateurs financiers, bien moins rigoureux qui serait chargée de surveiller ces pratiques pourtant potentiellement néfastes.
Alors que le projet de loi suit son cours au Sénat, des informations indiquent que Mark Zuckerberg envisagerait à nouveau de lancer un stablecoin pour son entreprise. L’une des raisons invoquées pour justifier cette initiative serait de faciliter la rémunération des créateurs de contenu à l’étranger sans avoir à se plier à des procédures bancaires internationales fastidieuses.
Si les législateurs adoptent la loi GENIUS et autorisent les projets de Meta à aller de l’avant, l’entreprise pourrait, en pratique, devenir sa propre institution financière, au service d’une clientèle existante de près de quatre milliards d’utilisateurs dans le monde de ses plateformes de médias sociaux.
« Les géants de la tech veulent ouvrir leurs propres banques, ce que la réglementation actuelle leur interdit » écrit Shearer sur le site de politique financière Open Banker. « Nous savons qu’il s’agit d’une menace réelle parce que Meta a déjà essayé et échoué une fois ».
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Luke Goldstein est journaliste pour The Lever. Spécialisé dans l’investigation, il vit à Washington. Il était récemment chargé de rédaction à l’American Prospect et travaillait auparavant à l’Open Markets Institute.
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