a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

Even AF_BLUETOOTH sockets are… sockets, where one machine ("server’) opens to listen, and the other (“client”) initiates the stream

This is how you get under-18s to use Tor browser

My mistake

hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite

ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy – but both are referred to as “capitalism”

The Monero community spent a long time trying to find a “useful PoW” function. The problem is that most computations that are useful are not also easy to verify as correct. javascript optimization was one direction that got pursued pretty far.

But at the end of the day, a crypto that actually intends to withstand attacks from major governments requires a system that is decentralized, trustless, and verifiable, and the only solutions that have been found to date involve algorithms for which a GPU or even custom ASIC confers no significant advantage over a consumer-grade CPU.

Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits

1. Whose happiness and freedom?
2. How is it to be measured?
3. Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above

It’s definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2

I would give this reddit gold

Instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Capitalism today sound an awful lot like the instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Communism I used to hear from rednecks

Ask someone who starved & died under either system how obviously superior it is, you will find millions on either side

Monero

Satoshi was right and Crypto absolutely has valid use cases. What if your government doesn’t want you accessing meds you need at prices you can afford? What if your government doesn’t like your sexual orientation, but you want a subscription to a dating site? What if your government throws up unjust export controls or tariffs that suddenly make you and your business impossible?

Crypto’s best killer use case is uncensorable, untraceable money

Bitcoin is neither of those things. There is a reason people buy heroin with Monero. It actually does what crypto is supposed to do, which means it could safeguard your Grindr XTRA subscription.

client-server model. I want sharing model. Like with Briar

Guess what

Briar itself, and every pure P2P decentralized network where all nodes are identical… are built on Internet Sockets which inherently require one party (“server”) to start listening on a port, and another party (“client”) to start the conversation.

Briar uses TCP/IP, but it uses Tor routing, which is IMO a smart thing to do

OCR could be done effectively without AI

OCR has been neural nets even before convolutional networks emerged in the 2010s

This is why I am waiting for selfhosted

Please God bring back Sam Kinison

What a perfect anti-Trump candidate

Somebody start monitoring GOP members for trips to Spain

LOL I’ve been on super niche blockchain based socials with dozens of active users … and still had advertising spam for penis pills and random mattress stores.

As for Reddit, browse it read only to save your sanity via a libreddit instance

It’s like cancer.

It’s never good. But when it’s already taken hold once, you want to be extra vigilant.

Dystopian, yes

Also Fascist

Something we never want to see in German politics in particular

If you have a physical Dymaxion Map, you make each vertex a hinge so you can swing to connect the bits you want to be adjacent for the purpose at hand.

Get some hope about the future. Stop listening to people who don’t have PhD’s in physics. Those that do are sometimes both optimistic and entertaining

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tqs1iQlvV-g&pp=ygUbaXNhYWMgYXJ0aHVyIG1lZ2FzdHJ1Y3R1cmVz

Yale economist interviewed by the NYT has a slightly more nuanced opinion:

“In a world where I think we are fiscally unsustainable, debt to gross domestic product is rising much too quickly. Part of the reason for that is the tax bill that was passed last month, but it’s rising. Finding ways to raise $3 trillion is a feat, and that’s just a fact.”

(She estimates $3T from tariffs)