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- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 hours ago:
I’m on ryzen 9 5900x, rtx 3080, 32 GB DDR4, with mobo and psu that’s ~€850 today and it will play most modern games on high settings 1080p at +100 fps. Computer hardware these days is a lot more like car hardware than it used to be. Generational improvements aren’t as big and the price for a used 5 year old unit is a ⅓ of a new one. Unless you absolutely need the latest and greatest go with a used last gen.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 6 days ago:
"If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.
No."
What do you “no”? It absolutely would be. A samurai wallet could be a physical wallet for cash, some hidden blade device, a toy, a regular non privacy centric crypto wallet. For example lets pretend there is this crypto wallet you haven’t heard of. Would a title like “Developer of Ninja Pocket goes to prison” be more or less informative to you?
"Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.
No. "
Again, what do you mean “no”? “Developer of crypto wallet imprisoned” tells you nothing about why he was jailed and completely misses the whole point of the story - that he was imprisoned due to the privacy features of the wallet.
"It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned
Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”."
Like I said it’s implied. The title doesn’t need to tell you that it has something to do with a crypto wallet because that’s not the important part. The privacy preserving characteristics of it is what matters. His “crime” isn’t making a crypto wallet, it’s making it private.
At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.
IDK how you came to that conclusion but ok.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 6 days ago:
If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative. Replacing samurai with crypto can only misleading the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part. It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned, while with “He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.” it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool).
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 6 days ago:
What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?
Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is. Keonne Rodriguez pleads guilty to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business? Only if you know who Keonne Rodriguez is and that conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business carries a prison sentence of up to 5 years. A privacy tool dev sentenced to 5 years for a conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business? Is this any better? I don’t think so. It still doesn’t tell you anything about the actual case. You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise, and trying to do so risks glossing over important details and misinforming the viewer. Also, it’s not the titles job to give you details about the story, just a basic overview of what the story is about.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 1 week ago:
He is being penalized because of the privacy part, the prosecution argued that the sole purpose of and the intent behind the samurai wallet was money laundering (which he’s not actually being charged for nor was he ever. He was charged with a conspiracy to commit money laundering until that particular charge was dropped as a part of a plea deal) because he knew that it can be used by criminals. So he’s essentially being prosecuted for writing code that other people allegedly used to commit crimes, an equivalent of tor devs and relay operators being charged with a conspiracy to distribute CSAM and facilitate trade of illegal substances. He never held or controlled any funds yet he’s been charged for running an unlicensed money transmitting business despite finCEN explicitly stating that what he was doing did not qualify as transmitting money.
I can’t explain this nearly as well as the video does so please just watch if you have the time, it’s really interesting and there’s a lot of crazy, outrageous legal fuckery that the prosecution pulled. It’s worth a watch.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say that not going with an overlay descriptive title classifies a bait. You can always add more context but that’s what the actual article/video is for, a title is just a brief general description to catch the readers attention. Something like “Interview with Keonne Rodriguez, the founder of Samurai Wallet - a privacy focused bitcoin wallet who’s going to prison after being compelled to pleading guilty to running an unlicenced money transmitting business.” is very descriptive but doesn’t make a great title IMO. It’s like saying that “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” is a readbait because calling it “A Wizard Orphan and a Magic Rock” would give more context.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 1 week ago:
How is that clickbait, that’s exactly what happened?
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- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 1 month ago:
I don’t see how this can be enforced. Are they gonna ban linux, FreeBSD, Windows 7? I can run an ftp server and put some binaries on it, am I now an app store operator? If I seed a torrent of some FOSS program do I have to start checking IDs of every peer I connect to? Unless it’s only for the corpos it’s a DOA law.
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 1 month ago:
Required age verification by operating system and app store providers
Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
No problem, glad I could be of use.
You can bring down the stake amount to 6250 tokens (~300€) by running a multi-contributor node link, but your cut of the rewards will be proportionally smaller as well.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
It uses it’s own crypto. It’s not really a crypto -currency- in the sense that it’s meant to be used for payment or to store value. It’s more of a crypto -token- that’s meant to provide some limited utility in it’s ecosystem. Like an arcade token in an arcade, you can use it to play the games but that’s about it. Likewise the session token can be used to get some extra functionality within the network, like registering custom names on it’s dns like service that can be used to add new contacts instead of the long default user hash or as a stake if you want to run a node. The functionality is fairly limited right now but the devs plan to expand it soon. People also sometimes use these kind of tokens as a stock of sorts, so if the service/network becomes popular the value of it’s “stock” can grow so it can be used as an investment (personally I wouldn’t recommend that but whatever floats your boat [not a financial advice btw]). The node operators profit from selling these tokens to whomever wants to buy them.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
Inflation, those are new tokens generated by the network, the same way new bitcoin is generated by the miners roughly every 10 minutes, just without the proof of work mining part. It’s called proof of stake, ethereum uses it as well.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
Tor relays only relay the traffic, they don’t store anything (other than HSDirs, but that’s miniscule). Session relays have to store all the messages, pictures, files until the user comes online and retrieves them. Obviously all that data would be too much to store on every single node, so instead it is spread across only 5-7 nodes at a time. If all of those nodes ware to go offline at the same time, messages would be lost, so there has to be some mechanism that discourages taking nodes offline without giving a notice period to the network. Without the staking mechanism, an attacker could spin up a bunch of nodes and then take them all down for relatively cheap, and leave users’ messages undelivered. It also incentivizes honest operators to ensure their node’s reliability and rewards them for it, which, even if you run your node purely for altruistic reasons, is always a nice bonus, so I don’t really see any downside to it, especially since the end user doesn’t need to interact with it at all.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
Session is a decentralized alternative to signal. It doesn’t require a phone number and all traffic is routed through a tor like onion network. Relays are run by the community and relay operators are rewarded with some crypto token for their troubles. To prevent bad actors from attacking the network, in order to run a relay you have to stake some of those tokens first and if your node misbehaves thay will get slashed.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 2 months ago:
You can win in gambling, there’s no winning here.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?
The entire alt-tech sphere, I guess, but other than that I can’t really think of many projects that explicitly say they lean right or left. As far as I can tell, most projects focus on working on whatever they’re trying to accomplish and don’t mention their political opinions for whatever reason, maybe because they don’t want to alienate their users and contributors or maybe because they are made by many people, each with their own opinions, and there isn’t a single shared belief system behind it, like ThePirateBay for example. We can try to infer what political stance someone holds, like the CEO of Brave, for example, who donated some money to an anti-gay marriage bill in 2008, or the CEO of Proton, who said some positive things about the Republican party recently, but I don’t think it’s fair to assign a political affiliation to the entire project because some of the team members expressed their opinions.
Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning.
I think that you make a mistake and assume that just because someone agrees with you on not wanting to be reliant on big tech, they also agree with you on everything else, or you read something like
We want to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding
and falsely assign that to be a left-wing stance, when in reality most people, left or right, would support that. I haven’t seen any evidence that most people working on anti big tech projects are left-leaning. Most people don’t publicly share their political beliefs.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
FOSS is for everyone. Not wanting to be dependent on big tech isn’t uniquely a leftist ideal, and it should be obvious by now that the political affiliation and community guidelines of big tech companies are entirely dependent on the current political landscape, not any moral values or held ideals, and can change at any moment.
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 3 months ago:
Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 3 months ago:
It says that the content can’t be digital, you’d have to use video tapes or other analog medium.
- Comment on Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion? 3 months ago:
I was about to install it on my server until I found out that it’s developed by the UK government. Now I won’t trust it even though it’s open source.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 months ago:
Are they gonna ban torrents next? Https? You can ssh to a remote server and wget files all day long, or setup vnc and have a vpn like experience.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 4 months ago:
Nah, dark humor is like a child with cancer, it never gets old.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 4 months ago:
It’s ok to make jokes.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 4 months ago:
How difficult would it be to mirror most popular youtube channels to peertube if instance operators picked a few channels each and kept them updated?
- Comment on linus tech tip 5 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 months ago:
Monero
- Comment on To thy own self be true 5 months ago:
I hate those, it tastes like sweet fish.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 6 months ago:
Cool beans, see ya soon, I’ll keep you updated.