shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 20 hours ago:
I have all of my email sent to my own domain, so while I would lose previous emails, if my provider just up and shut down, I could just switch to another provider, change a few records on my DNS, and all of my emails would go to my new provider from then on with no problem. I control the domain after the “@” sign.
- Comment on Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media 20 hours ago:
Or I think you know, users are going to have to get over themselves because they are currently going from centralized platform to centralized platform to supposedly decentralized platform. Eventually, maybe one day they will figure out that platforms do not work and protocols are what people should be using.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Updated to 0.19.6 6 days ago:
Good point. It seems like a coverier-own-ass clause would be required for screen dwelling monsters.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Updated to 0.19.6 6 days ago:
If someone tries to crawl out of my screen and eat me, and it turns out they are unsuccessful, does that mean that I can take you to court?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
With all of the matrix issues, with Federation and Matrix org having so many users and moderation and stuff like that, have you considered opening a SimpleX room as well?
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
because no one accepts monero offline.
With the XMRBazaar map this may change
- Comment on Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost. 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s actually been around for three or four years, but I didn’t start using it until the Reddit API stuff last June.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Look into Monero. You get the benefits of digital payments, but you get the privacy of cash.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Since taxation is theft, the proper thing to do is evade taxes.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
Thats my hopes anyway. Humans have allowed the existance of tyrants for far to long
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
With Monero as a currency, governments will not exist because they will not be able to enforce taxation and nobody will accept their fiat money as valuable.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
Actually, yes i would. I dont want dollars and only keep enough around to have liquidity. (About 10% of my net worth).
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s what you’re missing. Crypto is a currency. It is meant to be used in transactions for buying a car or buying a house or buying groceries or buying a pet or buying a computer. It is a currency and is used as such. To be fair, Bitcoin has failed as a currency because it’s traceable, which is bad for a currency, and it can’t do enough transactions per second without extremely high fees. And those two things together have caused it to fail as a currency. Monero, on the other hand, does work as a currency, because it’s not traceable. So no, not satire at all.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
Monero is also just quite a bit easier since it is on layer one where lightning is a layer two solution and introduces more complexity.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
How do you figure a completely digital irreversible payment system is worth a lot in today’s day and age? Also, I just read an article that was talking about a small town near the Arctic Circle that was heating their city hall building and the stuff with mining instead of oil boilers. Plus, it could replace the global banking system with all of its buildings and employees shuttling back and forth to work, etc. And it’s also less energy intensive than heavy industrial processes that use high temperature heat, such as glass making. Also, it allows for new electricity sites to be made over capacity in order to grow with a local area and still have a buyer willing to take as much electricity as possible until it’s needed by somebody else. And then they can just easily shut off temporarily.
Overall, mining is probably more of a net positive than a net negative.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
Two big issues with lightning network are that channels appear to get force closed for no apparent reason and most lightning wallets are custodial lightning and so you don’t actually have control over your money and doing it in a self sovereign way is quite difficult for the vast majority of people
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
I have much more faith in Monero than I have in the US dollar. If you were to offer me dollars or Monero, I would take the Monero every day without questions. This article says that Bitcoin is based on thin air, and as the other commenter pointed out, this is exactly what all fiat currency is based on. In fact, at least with Bitcoin and other good cryptocurrencies, you know how much supply exists and what supply will exist in the future, where with any fiat currency that is determined minute by minute by guys in suits that have nothing to do with the ordinary citizen.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
I’ve played with a few VR headsets and there’s absolutely none of them that I have found that I would enjoy wearing for eight hours a day. They’re all far too heavy.
- Comment on Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies 3 weeks ago:
They could just work that into the cost of service. So you make an appointment and it costs whatever amount it costs. And that cost also includes the mailing to you of a Faraday bag.
- Comment on Verizon, T-Mobile reportedly lose 4.9GHz battle to AT&T's FirstNet 3 weeks ago:
That was honestly to be expected.
- Comment on History's Major Downtimes: Lessons from the Biggest Outages 3 weeks ago:
Easy answer. Don’t use platforms. Use protocols. Lemmy doesnt go down, Mastodon doesnt go down, nostr doesnt go down, Monero doesnt go down, Bitcoin does not go down.
Facebook goes down, zoom goes down, AWS goes down.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
Its called Keepass. You are welcome
- Comment on Maintaining a level of anonymity. 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I hear you on that one. I use Proton for my email, but I use my own domain, so I had to set up all these security things like DKIM, etc. So that my messages would not be marked as spam in big mail providers. Adding the proper records to the DNS was a bit of a pain, but other than that it went pretty well.
- Comment on Maintaining a level of anonymity. 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t had a Google account for over a year and a half now and I stopped primarily using the one I did have in 2019 and would only log into it like once a year.
- Comment on Is there any privacy-friendly way to use Facebook on iOS? 4 weeks ago:
No, there is no private way to use Facebook on any platform. The use of Facebook itself completely murders all privacy and should never be considered for use.
- Comment on How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up. 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly what I do. I subscribe to the YouTube channels via RSS in my local RSS reader and have it set to display notifications so that I still see video updates and then use newpipe to open them.
- Comment on How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up. 4 weeks ago:
Same here with newpipe
- Comment on How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up. 4 weeks ago:
I followed you in 2019 and did the same thing. So it would not affect me very much either.
- Comment on Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, blowing away forecasts 1 month ago:
Exactly. And with how the government turns out to be with information in general, it’s a pretty good idea to take anything they say with a massive dose of salt.
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
News at 10! It was time to stop taking his word for everything. Quite a while back.