Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

  Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is. Keonne Rodriguez pleads guilty to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business? Only if you know who Keonne Rodriguez is and that conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business carries a prison sentence of up to 5 years. A privacy tool dev sentenced to 5 years for a conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business? Is this any better? I don’t think so. It still doesn’t tell you anything about the actual case. You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise, and trying to do so risks glossing over important details and misinforming the viewer. Also, it’s not the titles job to give you details about the story, just a basic overview of what the story is about.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

    …yeah?

    Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

    Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

    Correct again. I mean it’s infinitely better than the current one where it doesn’t matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with “crypto” and baby you got a stew goin’.

    You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise

    You don’t have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That’s the entire point of a title. It’s not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words.

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    • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative. Replacing samurai with crypto can only misleading the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part. It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned, while with “He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.” it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool).

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

        No.

        Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

        No.

        It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

        Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”.

        it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool)

        A “privacy tool” could be an infinite number of things. A “crypto wallet” is super specific.

        At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

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