shortwavesurfer
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- Comment on PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto 2 days ago:
Agree. monero or GTFO
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 4 days 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) 5 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Its called i2p and tor
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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 1 week 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Can’t have sex with an AI though… Yet…
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on The frightening world without the dollar 2 weeks ago:
I have begun measuring my net worth in Monero, and the dollar is just a currency I use in small amounts in order to get the things I need day to day, but I do not hold dollars in any significant quantity. I don’t want them. When I receive dollars, I keep just enough around to pay for my normal expenses and get rid of the rest into Monero as fast as possible. It’s somewhat difficult to do right now, but I can even do some expenses in my head directly in Monero without thinking of the dollar at all for what an item would cost. And that mental shift is a big step away from the dollar.
Just as a quick example of what I mean is that I absolutely would not pay more than four Monero for a phone, no matter what phone it was, and I would much rather pay closer to one Monero for a decent mid-range device.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
Mainly goal setting and tracking. You could say, for example, that your goal is to raise 50 Monero, and each donation to that address will show up on the site as adding to it, and the donor can leave you a message if they wish.
It allows everybody to see exactly how close you are to your 50 Monero goal, etc.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah. Kuno is Monero only
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
You could also set up a page on kuno.anne.media.
It’s a Monero donation platform, so even if they were to remove your page, the donation wallet you set up for it would still be able to receive donations even without them.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 2 weeks ago:
Hosts proprietary apps, no thank you, and does not allow for third party repositories, so if they are told to take down an app, there is no recourse.
F-Droid FTW