same thing happens in italy

Strongly agree, frequency may be the enemy of quality

Kind of funny coming from people who levy taxes on tobacco products all the time

Some "developed" countries are not much better in that regard

Installed on raspbian, works wonders, much better than the thing i vibecoded yesterday. One feature I'd like: recording new arrivals to a log with all the info so it can be used as a barebones IDS

It was The original brushed metal computer.

Universal Basic Tokens allowance?

It is actually incentivized in some cases

This is already happening in a number of countries in some way or another

TFA mentions "european governments" but this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission or the union. In short it tries to depict a group of old farts as an overreaching snooping authority.

I wonder who could have a vested interest in depicting the EU as a repressive regime...

> this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission

Well, here is the guy from where that comes from, the minister of justice of Denmark. He certainly represents a good part of Denmark, even though he may be irrelevant to any other EU country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hummelgaard

This legislation is not proposed by members of parliament, only the commission can draft legislation, the parliament can only approve it.

However the European Council consists of the heads of state / government of EU member states, not MEP's.

Are you saying that a neutral observer would not see this as repressive?