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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only correct response. Middle finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This would not have affected me since I use Lineage OS without Google Play Services, but I am now more seriously than ever looking into using a Linux phone like Postmarket OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I am more seriously than ever looking into using Postmarket OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the 24 hour wait is at least a sensible alternative. Anybody who’s going to be seriously installing apps on their devices like this is probably going to be using Lineage OS or Graphene OS or /e/OS or something like that anyway. And in that case, they will be using AOSP and not be subject to this because they’re not running a Google certified device.

  While I’m not particularly happy about this change, I think it could be way worse.

  Something tells me that Google drastically underestimated the amount of pushback they were going to get when they announced this. I mean, very drastically underestimated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the article yet, but I’m about to. But no matter what, I’m still looking a lot more seriously into Linux on mobile, such as PostmarketOS than I was before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflation. You are putting your labor in and getting a money that your government can almost literally print for free in their basement. When you do it, it’s called counterfeit and you can be sent to jail for many years or killed. If they do it, it’s called inflation and is perfectly acceptable. STOP USING THEIR CURRENCY and your life WILL get better. Use Monero, Gold, or Silver. Since the government can’t print those things, they will retain their value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually very, very, very seriously looking at post-market OS since it is mainline Linux on a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet, Reinvented. Introduction to Reticulum.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only with R-nodes, which are L-O-R-A. If doing it over a faster connection such as an ethernet cable, a wireless Wi-Fi type link, etc., it can do 40 MBPS according to the documentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran says it's ready for a long war that would 'destroy' global economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, when you price gas in Monero, prices are down 28.2% since May of last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the government hates Monero so much, that’s actually not as big of a problem with Monero because people want to earn it and trade it for goods and services in the real world. Also, people who use Monero are incredibly against centralized exchanges and would like to see it banned from every single centralized exchange on Earth so that decentralized exchanges would be the only place you could obtain it or through permissionless atomic swaps and peer to peer. The Monero community also mocks number go up people and calls them state plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, unfortunately you’re really not going to be able to do that until such time as the state is defanged. You’ll have to wait until there’s a point where a state can’t enforce a monopoly on violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, absolutely. But that’s because the way we’ve always done the stock market is through centralized systems. If a company were to be formed today and only ever issue their stock tokens on a decentralized system such as Ethereum, then the Ethereum system would be the final arbiter of who does and does not have shares in that company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In today’s world, we are moving from analog systems to digital systems, and therefore, physical proof of ownership supersedes electronic proof of ownership.

  If a company is digital native and issues their shares on a blockchain without ever issuing any kind of analog shares, then the electronic proof would supersede the physical proof, no matter what happened.

  Say Alice has a hair salon that’s called Alice’s hair salon, and she issues one million tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, and each token represents one one millionth of the company, Alice’s hair salon. Well, since she never issued any stock on the analog systems, the Ethereum system would be the final arbiter of who does and does not own any of those Alice’s hair salon tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming you didn’t watch the video, because it did discuss that.

  Alice, who is a subscriber of Dawn Defense, was murdered by Bill, who is a subscriber of Tanner Justice. Dawn Defense is pro-death penalty for murderers and Tanner Justice is not. Therefore, each company does a calculation to figure out how many users and how much revenue they will lose if their side is not upheld and the side that is likely to lose more pays the other side to stand down. In the case of the video, the assumption is that if Dawn Defense loses, they will lose one million currency units worth of customers, where if Tanner Justice loses, they will lose 500,000 currency units. So, Dawn Defense pays Tanner Justice 800,000 currency units to stand down, which is more than the 500,000 they would have lost, and less than the 1 million that Dawn would lose if they weren’t able to enforce the death penalty on Bill.

  These stand-down arrangements would be known beforehand, and therefore, when Bill subscribes to Tanner Justice, he would be informed that if he murders a client of dawn defense, that he will not be protected from the death penalty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, for sure. I saw another video somewhere yesterday that said you needed like seven pillars for a decentralized society. Decentralized communication, food, contracts, law, physical manufacturing, energy, and money. While I agree with that list, I think that an eighth one should be added, and that would be education. You might be able to fit education under communication, but I feel as though it doesn’t properly fit there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The true libertarians and anarchists in the room would call out the fact that they are attempting to build a world where governments don’t run courts because governments don’t exist and that all courts would be arbitration courts and decentralized and run by the community. If I have a problem with you, I tell my arbitrator about it, and my arbitrator tells you that I have a problem with you. If you don’t like my arbitrator, then you choose your own arbitrator, and if I don’t like the arbitrator you choose, then the arbitrators choose a third party arbitrator that they both agree on, and we agree to be bound by what that arbitrator says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the rise of Monero over Bitcoin is a very positive sign. Since it has privacy, the government absolutely cannot stand the fact that it exists, and therefore, institutions don’t want to touch it. This means the “number go up”, “to the moon”, and “compliance”, shmucks are all driven away in horror and you are left with the real core who want to see a better money in a digital world. If that sounds interesting, you might want to listen to “darknet Market Maximalism” a manifesto by xenu. You can listen to the audio version of it on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anybody sees this and doesn’t know the context, this is the note that was published in the Genesis block of the Bitcoin blockchain, Satoshi wanted to engrave forever the fact that at this time the chancellor was on the brink of second bailout for banks. It was a call-out against the fiat system, and it’s one of the best call-outs in history. and will be there forever more.

  If you happen to have an original copy of this newspaper, it is a genuine artifact, and you can make absolute tons of money on it. No bullshit.

  Based on this headline and the fact that Satoshi mentioned digital cash in the white paper as much as he did, you can clearly tell that he was frustrated with the fiat system and all the excesses that came with it and wanted to create a whole different system that was out of the hands of governments and corporations. He came close to succeeding but didn’t quite finish the job because he couldn’t figure out a way to add privacy into his ledger, which makes the entire thing completely transparent to law enforcement and government crooks.

  However, on April 13th, 2014, the final puzzle piece was added with the launch of Monero, which has a fully private blockchain that does not have sender, receiver, or amounts being shown.

  If you ever happen to read this comment, Satoshi, thank you for your great work. We will be forever in debt to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I purchased a really cheap NFT domain that I can link my cryptocurrency wallet address to so that instead of having to type out the 90 character string and get it right, you can type out a human readable domain. Other than that small use case, I’ve never had any other reason for it. But hey, it’s kind of cool. And I don’t see why not keep it since I already have it. And as I said, it wasn’t that expensive anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not absolutely everything in crypto is a scam, though 99% of it is, and I will definitely agree with you there. But there is 1% that is actually trying to do something useful, and you’ve got to be able to find that 1% and not throw it out with the bath water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s absolutely brilliant. Don’t let the rest of the world suffer for some people’s government’s stupidity. If the users in those regions disagree with their government, they can figure out other ways to get it and use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 on Age Verification Laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is going to end up in the Supreme Court as a First Amendment challenge because if code is speech, then age verification is code and therefore compelled speech by the government.

  Anybody who complies with this is a fucking sheep. We need people who will stand up and strip age verification code out of any Linux operating system that dares to implement it. For example, if Ubuntu implements it, we need somebody to stand up, strip the verification code out of it, and then release it as Ubuntu free or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve specifically heard that it’s going to be a flagship chipset at first, especially, so it definitely won’t be the Moto G line. I’ve heard it’s going to be closer to the Moto Signature, which is like 3.3 Monero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that’s fucking funny as hell. They totally deserved that. FUCK THE STATISTS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am seriously considering going to a Linux phone at some point in the future because what’s to stop Google from deciding that we can’t install apps even on AOSP? Like sure, for now it’s only going to be devices with Google Play services that won’t allow you to install your own apps, but who’s to say Android 19 won’t be released and completely kill the ability to install apps outside of the Play Store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was talking with somebody about it, and they think it will be a device that will cost something like 3.3 Monero. That’s a lot more than I want to spend considering I can get a pixel A series for something like 1.5 Monero, or if I don’t want to go with graphene, I can get the Motorola Moto G 2024 and put Lineage OS on it for like 0.4 Monero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I very seriously doubt this happens, but it would be incredibly amazing if it was the Moto G line of devices. Absolute premium specs are not needed to get a great experience on operating systems that don’t have Google spy services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I do when I’m shopping for a new phone is go to the LineageOS download site and look at what the mid-range devices are available for each of the OEMs and then make my choice from that list. Otherwise, the Moto G 2024 probably wouldn’t have crossed my radar screen. A couple of years ago I had the Moto 1 5G Ace and thought it was a great device except that the charger port started to give out on it and so I couldn’t reliably charge it. That made me realize that at some point I would like a device with wireless charging even if I do primarily use the USB charger so that if the USB port ever breaks I can just charge it wirelessly and not have to give the phone up entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need high specs these days. I was looking at the Moto G 2024, because it’s the latest version to support Lineage OS, and it has a Snapdragon 4 Gen 1, I think it is, which is actually just slightly better than my OnePlus Nord N200 on Geekbench, which is fine.

  The main difference is that my OnePlus Nord N200 was released in 2021, and it has a lower geekbench score than the Moto G 2024, which was released in 2024, with a lower-end chip. But my OnePlus cost $300, where the G24 was released at $200, and is now available for $130.

  So at its release, I would have gotten more storage and a better CPU for $100 less, and now it would be $170 less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you can't get a signal at festivals and sports matches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meshtastic ftw