reassure6869
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- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
I did, and am still
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
That’s a unique interpretation
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
yeah i dont think anyone seriously buys into bitcoin=private in 2024 thankfully. they are still deluded on monero, but its only a matter of time.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
It is similar to open source social media.
thats federation, not open source. reddit was open source for a while, but not federated – and now we are here. whatsapp uses an open source protocol, but isnt federated – some asshole hawaiian (resident of hawaii, not the other option) controls it. Signal is open source, but won’t federate, its controlled by people who are way more into crypto than helping their users.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
You are 100% sure that data is not getting sold?
lol no, im 100% sure its being sold in some way, no matter how many things I opt out of. while i do have a lot of privacy focused things in my life, from email to chat to phone, i just can’t find myself caring that much about someone tracking my gasoline consumption or knowing that I go to the same bar every week for game night.
the obvious downside to something like XMR is that its a ticking time bomb from a privacy perspective. at some point the security will fail as all security does, and then the data is totally public.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
don’t recall, it covered both bitcoin and etherium and investigated who owned what. ill see if i can’t find it.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Please clarify why the TPM, a decade old security chip, is bad for gran
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
no
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Like the rest of society, some people get ridiculous wealth by luck of being at the right place at the right time. That is no reason to not have open source money.
thats not the point, there have been studies that show bitcoin is fairly vulnerable to 50% control due to early adopters and other wHaLeS controlling the currency. and the studies can show this because bitcoin isnt private.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Bitcoin Core is MIT licensed.
the software is, but what relevance does that have to people using it as currency?
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
More people will switch to Linux once and for all.
lol, so 2025 will truly once and for all be the year of the linux desktop? do you like…ever learn history? should try.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
I am not defending scammers but grandma and grandpa do have access to the internet. There are tons of resources to educate yourself on how avoid being scammed.
What scammers are doing is illegal but grandma and grandpa are not blameless.
thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to scamming grandma
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
I’m not defending rapists but there’s no reason women can’t educate themselves on how to make it so they’re less likely to be raped.
Yes what rapists are doing is bad. But the person being raped can’t be completely blameless.
thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to rape. adds flavor.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
The only real ‘groundbreaking’ new feature (multiple desktops) was something that Linux had fifteen years ago.
what are you talking about? if you mean virtual as the others think, both linux and windows have had that for 20 years. if you mean something else I really really want to know.
anyway it also has better wsl (backported to 10 eventually), generally better performance and battery life, etc. it also had a mac dock that prevented me from doing the upgrade for 3 years lol.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Why can’t I access Google’s individual transactions but they should have access to mine?
why are you giving google access to your transactions to begin with? all my credit card transactions are between me and visa and my credit union and the federal government, but not google.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
this gives off illegal vibes
i think its the part where he said banks, the same collection of people who supported enron and coached them on how to extract billions from several states while killing people…dont want his money.
when a bank doesnt want your money you reallll shady
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
I can’t find the case study, but this blockchain project by IBM was implemented in Singapore and was shown to reduce customs processing times from several weeks to just several hours.
the real question is what part of this was specific to blockchain, something that would be difficult or impossible to do without it. if you want to put forward this argument you need to at least provide a simple, clear, coherent answer to that.
in this case, i could easily argue a sqlite db hosted on gitea would work better and theres no way to prove im wrong.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
the technology itself has its use cases.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI I would love to hear the counterarguments. video is <15 mins, academic setting.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Open source everything except the money.
this is a truly perplexing statement. what about a currency that is controlled predominantly by early adopters is open source?
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
not smart