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by cowtools 4y ago
Seems pretty reasonable to me. Part VI doesn't go in depth about firearms. In any case, it would be pretty alarming to me if a cryptocurrency exchange wasn't oriented towards freedom and against regulation. Cryptocurrency, like cr
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree. I think everyone in this thread needs to take a step back and stop being so prejudiced about some situation when no one in the public has the full story yet.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Pretty sure "digital assets" is the wording used in legal contexts, especially because many "cryptocurrencies" are not really cryptocurrencies but instead tokens on someone else's cryptocurrency, or systems that are
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've used it for a couple months. Battery life and CPU power are a major hurdle, but it is promising because calling and SMS works just fine with the open-source modem firmware. I might try it again in 6 months, as I heard the next rel
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by cowtools 4y ago
What is the convenience?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree that all cryptocurrencies should be banned. This would root out all of the weak cryptocurrencies which are not private or resistant to censorship.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The internet is already monetized (services have real costs, and someone has to pay for them at the end of the day)- you can pay for services directly, or you can accept the consequences of intrusive advertising, surveilance and manipulatio
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by cowtools 4y ago
>I'll bite! Why does it have to be crypto currency? It doesn't. It could just be some secure, open cryptographic payment system like Digicash or GNU Taler, but financial institutions refuse to implement those types of systems b
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by cowtools 4y ago
Allow me to make the case for cryptocurrency as a payment system. There are still systems like Monero, Firo, and others which are heavily used as payment networks on the DN due to their ability to obfuscate the source/destination/
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by cowtools 4y ago
Is it really any revelation that many (if not most) cryptocurrencies in the top 100 market cap are useless and scammy? Also, why make us wait instead of releasing the leak immediately? Why disseminate the leak via twitter? Something fishy i
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by cowtools 4y ago
I can just plug a usb-c dock and use my android phone with a keyboard and mouse if I wanted to. I could plug two android phones together with usb-c and transfer files from one to another. Apple's phones are quite locked down, and I thi
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by cowtools 4y ago
temporarily
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think you're leaving out the fact that the airtags system is part of an intrusive global surveilance botnet run by the likes of apple. But I suppose putting all this power in the hands of so few people is worth it if some clueless co
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by cowtools 4y ago
You couldn't just emulate the secure enclave?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Apple forces safari on users in iOS, has icloud ads and integrations built into the OS, and sells devices with locked down bootloaders/filesystems that don't let you sideload your own programs. Who is the bigger threat here? The r
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by cowtools 4y ago
why does web development require so much memory and computing power?
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's a false dichotomy. You could say the same about either company. Those are the inevitable consequences of proprietary software and vendor lock-in (my original comment was some rhetorical question, I edited it to be more direct and
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by cowtools 4y ago
even if they can get windows on ARM working, they still need to get vendors to distribute ARM versions of their software. This is another leg up for apple and the humble penguin.
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by cowtools 4y ago
pretty easy to get away with if you register the original domain using a shell company/pseudonym in a foreign nation
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by cowtools 4y ago
>FOSS solutions lack the UX and care more about the tech than the UX and solving the actual problem. I read this sentiment all the time here but I am not sure it's true. Element works just fine. My family has moved from facebook to
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but you already have a business relationship with your exchange. so there are fewer points of failure. >I have USDT that is in my own wallet and not on an exchange that I could send directly to you if I wanted. I suppose, but this
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't even understand what the purpose of USDT is. Why use it over a stablecoin that is backed by your crypto exchange?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think free software is apolitical, but it is often non-partisan. It is not about inter-institutional power struggles. It is about giving individuals the technology to defeat and replace tyrannical institutions in the first plac
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by cowtools 4y ago
>they do have a fairly uniform community. I strongly disagree with this. Although there is some minor overlap between the different boards or *chan sites, the community is hardly uniform. There's a huge difference between the likes
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think it has something to do with the adoption of the meme beyond channer culture. To anyone using the site, it's obvious that some random tripcode user holds no more credibility than an anonymous one. But perhaps baseless, pseudo-an
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by cowtools 4y ago
I read a similar article (i suppose it cited this wired article) on Ars Technica this morning. Although it tries to frame the site as some sort of right-wing terrorist incubator, I still found it interesting that the imageboard is owned by
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, but at some point you have to actually learn skills yourself and stop relying on others. And that point is high school. These are people who will eventually go into the workforce, into jobs that have certain expectations of individual
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by cowtools 4y ago
>They control it, they constrict it -- how would you describe it? They buy an undervalued commodity and resell it at its "true" market value. They hardly restrict the supply: if they fail to get rid of their inventory, then tha
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>Alternate character interpretation: these companies understand that this is a reasonably sustainable price for their customer base, It's not sustainable. It's being sold for too low relative to demand, so they would all just b
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by cowtools 4y ago
If I have to learn a programming language just so I can use a single thing, then it might as well be an application-specific language. That being said, I will look into guile anyways. I have a little project I'm working on that could b

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