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by dmantis 7mo ago
And in post-soviet countries you blink and you owe 15+% interest. I know many people who couldn't meet basic needs and pay a never-ending percentage. Or forgot to close the debt and lost more than ever gained from this tool in one paym
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by dmantis 7mo ago
Probably, but making a non-used CC just for using your own phone sound a bit weird, don't you think? And I don't criticize US way of living here, but Apple is an international company and could do better adjusting to local cultura
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by dmantis 7mo ago
Yes. The point in the post is that it's very American to assume that every adult has a credit card. I'm in my thirties and I never had nor plan to have a credit card. I always have had only debit cards. In countries I've been
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by dmantis 7mo ago
Quick google shows that in 2024 half of the Motorola phone sales were in LATAM, especially Brazil. What makes you say that the key market is the US?
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by dmantis 7mo ago
Would be great if true, but that doesn't really correspond in reality truly, especially in intellectual products. Compare even Linus Torvalds fortune with e.g. snapchat founder. Not even talking about thousands of 0 profit open source
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by dmantis 7mo ago
On the other hand, it provides the whole world with the information and not just some spy agency. Isn't that more fair system? And people dying in question is army, professional murderers for hire themselves, not a big loss.
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by dmantis 7mo ago
The original post laids out why it's not possible to do well: privacy apps, sanctioned countries, apps made by people for themselves to avoid clouds and third parties, etc. Simple example: I have a foss VPN app running on my phone to a
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by dmantis 8mo ago
That's not universally true, there is a class of privacy coins whose txs are not (at least in theory) traceable. I'd argue that's actually a more anarchist original view and transparent ledger is a bug of the first implementa
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by dmantis 8mo ago
Exactly. While trying to degoogling, removing most proprietary software and use sandboxing for everything that's still needed as proprietary, you would often hear that stupid pro-surveillance thesis: "oh, what's wrong in some
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by dmantis 8mo ago
Publicly reproducible attacks are great, because now we know where there the problem is and how to fix it. You can be pretty sure some three-letter agency trash had been already using it around the world along with shady spyware startups.
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by dmantis 8mo ago
Questionable privacy implications are the feature, not the bug. Surely three-letter agencies, "unknown creators" of chatcontrol proposals in the EU and other state psychopaths care very much about the children! No, they don't
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by dmantis 8mo ago
And i2p rust router https://github.com/altonen/emissary
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Why are saying that Firefox or even Chrome reskin can't compete with Chrome? I haven't been using Chrome for maybe 10 years or more, so I'm genuinely interested. Even if you hate Firefox, something like Brave is felt the same
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Standard wireguard is blocked by DPI in Russia, China, Iran, etc. The soluton in the post for VPNs as in "censorship bypass", not as in "virtual lan over the internet for businesses". Like AmneziaWG or VLESS protocols.
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by dmantis 9mo ago
And the internet is originally made by the US army (i.e. professional murderers). Doesn't make the internet bad as a technology. Simplex is quite well designed. Even if it doesn't succeed, I think we'll see its forks and simi
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by dmantis 9mo ago
But it doesn't make Signal bad. If Americans blindly process our messages without knowing what's inside, it's worse than not depending on them, but better than showing your private correspondence to somebody. At least we don&
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by dmantis 9mo ago
They work on that, https://geti2p.net/el/blog/post/2025/10/16/new-i2p-routers The current focus are new rust and go implementations, but embedding lib for applications is also in the roadmap. I
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by dmantis 9mo ago
I still don't get how to bypass a theoretical block, you need to access at least one of the current major relays or a side channel to find a follower, only аfter that you can re-translate the new set of relays. The autosub is good, but
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Clients are never used as relays in TOR. You never route anyone's traffic until you setup it yourself. And you can't miss that part, and it's not a default, and requires additional configuration. Also relays (not exit nodes)
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Where does the nostr pubkey announce it? Let's say you are banned from main default relays. Is there any side channel?
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Tor and I2P is a better fit. Nostr is very weird. It sells itself as decentralized, but basically all frontends provide same several relays. When those relays get subpoenas and remove your resource, you're done. You can use some unknow
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by dmantis 9mo ago
We've seen only the world where everything has been adopted to IPv4. p2p technologies strive even under it, but they could really shine with the ability to connect directly between devices. Imagine BitTorrent on steroids, where you don
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by dmantis 9mo ago
There should be no way the government can 'debank' someone in the first place. Monetary relations with other people have always been untouched by the state until very recently, even for revolutionaries. A private transaction is no
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by dmantis 9mo ago
It doesn't prove that DRM free is not a viable business. I also grew up pirating, but I haven't been pirating games for more than 10 years now. A few bucks costs much less to me these days than a headache with finding a cracked ve
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by dmantis 9mo ago
Probably because the post is not about the good or bad, but about fighting with censorship technically. Usual tor connections have been blocked for a long time in Russia and Iran. They explain the way they bypass these blocks and advancing
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by dmantis 10mo ago
As it is so easy to start a mass production of vacuum cleaners, yes. Give me a week in my garage. TBH I have zero idea where I should go to start a business of such scale even if I have a 100% zero-risk shot which is never the case. Not eve
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by dmantis 10mo ago
For me it's so weird nobody makes a thing you can trust. I would happily overpay 3-4x for the good vacuum without the cloud and the need to do some hacking with valetudo, with an official service and support for the device. Yet nobody
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by dmantis 10mo ago
Why not putting NSA officers to the jail first? Can't they "face a fair trial like a men" for illegal spying program?
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by dmantis 10mo ago
Until you hold a passport of one of the US enemy states, which are plenty of and have permanent risk of getting your account frozen and money stolen. Crypto doesn't have this issue.
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by dmantis 11mo ago
As far as it's an optional separate window, I don't see any issues with that. E.g. I had a very good experience in reversing a local bank API with LLMs to download my bank statements in a few seconds by local python scripts instea

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