15 minute old account, posts glowing review of some illegal service in a technology sub

Not suspicious at all!!

Is Orange not available? We use them on the mainland and they’re decent

Yep, same. FF has been my go to browser for years

Browser: https://arc.net/

Story has been debunked. It’s a theoretical paper that was misinterpreted by a journalist

Archive version: https://archive.is/2024.02.06-172510/https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/

And always 1 day old accounts posting this stuff

Depends on the landlord - some are dodgy and won’t register you because they don’t declare the income

Gotcha

Internet is somewhat restricted but only the most common sites are blocked

Renting requires ID - passport or Spanish ID, same with Internet or a SIM card

Transportation there’s no ID requirements on buses and trains

Here in Spain there’s minimal surveillance outside the big cities. My town (circa 40K residents) has no public cameras in town (I lived in the UK and they were everywhere).

I can’t because I refuse their cookies and then it’s subscription

We already have digital certificates to identify ourselves on government websites to access services.

Most likely the implementation will require sites to demand the cert for verification. What happens after that is the privacy creep

I use TekLanVPN and they accept crypto (ETH included).

Yeah. It’s pretty common here

We have them in Spain. Really useful as my accountant has a copy of mine for my tax filing on their windows machines and I have it installed on my Linux laptop for interfacing with gov sites

I believe it is

It does, yes.

The EU has released an open source CAPTCHA solution

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/eu-captcha-under-eupl-12

In Spain we have Bizum - transfer money using a persons mobile phone number (as long as you’re both registered with your bank). Instant and free