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- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 hours ago:
That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.
It’s a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it’s still incredibly interesting.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 days ago:
In other news, today is “no shit” day.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 days ago:
I think the best idea would be to duplicate it multiple times and share it with multiple people encrypted so that only you can open it.
Things like IPFS, for example.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I can think of one useful function. I have a lot of friends who are totally blind, and there’s an app called Be My Eyes, where a sighted person can take a look at something through your phone’s camera. But, being blind, a lot of blind people are absolutely terrible at aiming cameras, because they can’t see what they’re aiming at.
In this case, the object ends up out of the camera’s field of view, or at an angle, or upside down, etc. etc. etc. Whereas, I think having a pair of smart glasses on your face would make the camera platform be much steadier.
- Comment on ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? 2 weeks ago:
Proof of work.
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 2 weeks ago:
The internet is fragmenting in front of our very eyes. The only things that will be left when it’s all said and done will be Tor, I2P, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Nostr.
- Comment on PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto 3 weeks ago:
Agree. monero or GTFO
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 3 weeks ago:
I see both sides of this. As a blind person myself, I frequently interact with people who have service dogs and such. Hell, at one point in my life, I had a girlfriend who had a service dog because she was deafblind and I have seen her be denied rides in person.
Every driver who signs up for Uber in the Terms of Service has a thing about having to accept service animals, no matter whether it’s a pet ride or not. It’s just in the account Terms of Service when you create your driver account. If you read them, you will find it.
So if you absolutely unequivocally do not want service animals in your car, you cannot drive for either of these services.
I guess you could do like the restaurant deliveries or whatever, but to take passengers, you couldn’t do it.
- Comment on Blockchain lender Figure valued at $7.6 billion as shares jump in Nasdaq debut (Sept 11) 3 weeks ago:
A lot of crypto backed loans, where they will give you fiat for crypto, are actually over collateralized. So for example, if you want a $10,000 loan, you have to deposit $20,000 worth of crypto. That actually makes the loans quite safe, and if the price of crypto falls, you will lose your crypto unless you deposit more collateral.
- Comment on Nepal’s Gen Z picks new leader on Discord, crypto community in shock 3 weeks ago:
The way real crypto people find fake crypto people is to figure out if they are on Discord.
Real crypto people use things like matrix and SimpleX, because they’re not centralized.
Those crypto people on Discord are just virtue signaling cucks.
- Comment on The myth of central bank independence 4 weeks ago:
IMO, right idea, wrong conclusion. We should have no central bank whatsoever. Those closest to the money spigot in a fiat currency will always disproportionately benefit, and those farthest away will always be harmed.
I trust Monero and Bitcoin far more than I trust any fiat currency on planet Earth and no longer consider my wealth in a fiat currency.
I save in Monero, and if I need to purchase some fiat in order to pay for something specific, I will do so at the time of requirement. Just like I would go to purchase a dozen eggs at the store when I need a dozen eggs.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
Tor and i2p say hello. The internet itself will be totally usable. The clear net is what will become unusable.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
People just go to the porn sites that aren’t hosted in a jurisdiction that requires ID verification and the ID verifying platforms lose traffic or people use VPNs.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
Just goes to show that blue sky isn’t as decentralized as they would like you to think they are.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
Its called i2p and tor
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
I completely agree. The minute a platform asks me to do age verification is the moment I leave that platform.
I will take my traffic to platforms that won’t do shit like that.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
What would make me really happy is if viewership across YouTube entirely was down because people were getting fed up with YouTube and shifting to alternatives.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Meshtastic LongFast is a blazing 1.09kbps and even ShortFast is ~10kbps. Wifi 802.11ah halo can do 4mhz and 16mbps max.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is what IPFS is for. Instead of linking to a location that would be way far away off planet, it links to the content which could very well be cached on planet or on a relay station closer. Sure, one person has to pull it down from the incredibly far away place, but once it’s pulled down at least one time, everybody else pulls it from the more local version that that person has. However, though, timeouts will need to be increased. Maybe not to some insanely stupid amount, but they will need to be increased somewhat.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
Are there any instance administrators in Nepal to jail?
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that if you can access one, you can access all of them. It doesn’t even matter how you access the one. Even if you access it over tor, as long as you can get to one instance, you’re in the Federation.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
They’re still tor.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
I’m betting GitHub is not the only place that the code repo is mirrored. Sure, it might be there, but something tells me it’s on a bunch of people’s computers as well, for people who work on it, or have just forked the repository. And there’s probably even copies of it on other mirrors, such as Code Bird, etc. in private repositories.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
And as we all know, that would not ban it entirely. They’d have to block every instance, every new instance that comes online, the main web page, the code repository, etc., to even have a hope of banning it.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
I wish them luck banning Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr… Oh wait, they cant
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 4 weeks ago:
Can’t have sex with an AI though… Yet…
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was just using Sidewalk as an example of something a smart TV could use something like that.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Actually, it’s true. Amazon’s sidewalk works in a similar way, where if the sensor is not connected to the internet, it will talk to local Echo devices like your speakers that are connected to the internet and pass the data to Amazon through your device’s network.
TVs will look for open Wi-Fi networks. And failing that, they could very well do this exact same thing.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
I’ve hit that same wall. I’m perfectly happy with a $300 smartphone, because it does absolutely everything I need to do, fast enough to not make me want to throw it across the room, and well enough that I don’t notice the difference between it and a high-end device.
Do I notice the difference after three or four years of having the device and finally upgrading it to a new device in that price range? Sure, I notice it. But day to day use, I don’t notice it and that’s what matters.