5ubieee

@5ubieee@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yayyy ^-^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Monero's Privacy Matters (Video)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sure it should be used for its utility on a needs-basis, I don’t really disagree with you or care if people use it for whatever reason they want to.

  Point was that as a global general-use currency it doesn’t provide much added utility for the average person or provide a real solution for any of the underlying structural issues that people say it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which country treats privacy at worst ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so many more comparisons to be drawn between the US and China than most in the west think, the credit system is a great example of that since a lot of people don’t realize how fucked it is in the US.

  Just the idea of permanently ascribing a number to how profitable someone is for banks and dictating what opportunities they can get based off that number is horribly dystopian in itself, but people are so accustomed to it and have so many misconceptions to its purpose that there’s not nearly as much criticism over it as there should be.

  Another part of it is the rigid west-east dichotomy that’s still brought up so often even as it’s become increasingly irrelevant in the past several decades, I’d recommend anyone who’s interested check out There Never Was a West, it’s a short read but I think it can be pretty eye opening and puts a lot of the modern day rhetoric about international politics into a broader historical perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column

  absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than a lot of others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes