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by jrm4 1y ago
I see this both ways; and the answer is obviously supply and demand, but it's not hard to think that the tech shouldn't be like 5 bucks a pop; e.g. if it became more popular to also use these as displays etc, in much the same way
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by jrm4 1y ago
Personally (as I mentioned elsewhere) I still use Tinc for my devices because I prefer "set the thing up once and never much think about it again;" The loss of a "central server" or whatever never matters.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Anyone know how this compares to Tinc? I don't much know what development on it is like these days, but it for me is one of the best "set it and forget it" things I regularly use to keep my devices talking to each other. I&#x
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup. As someone who generally believes in a lot of cryptocurrency ideals while acknowledging the vast amounts of mess -- right now e.g. "widespread adoption of Bitcoin, an inferior technology, by banks and other established players&quo
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by jrm4 1y ago
I mean sure -- but right now there's no such thing as "realistic money anonymity for the average person." In roughly the same way there's no such thing as "very good cybersecurity for the average person."
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by jrm4 1y ago
A known pseudonym doesn't destroy anonymity?
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by jrm4 1y ago
I mean, to get negative but real. The point is for banks to remain powerful in a world where cryptocurrency is at thing; in other words, to subvert the point of cryptocurrency.
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by jrm4 1y ago
E.g. Automatic bill pay to a VPN. Now you have very good anonymity.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Not sure why op didn't go with "$100 on the 1st of every month." That's just "automatic bill pay" without a bank, etc.
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by jrm4 1y ago
The hardest issue in "fixing" this is "reminding people that the web is open and you can kind of do whatever you want here."
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by jrm4 1y ago
Having used multiple machines; some are "better" at this than others -- might be time for you to just get a new one? Probably technically you want an APAP.
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by jrm4 1y ago
It's kind of funny how many people here are giving such BIG PICTURE answers to the question? You don't need to question the person's life choices; just, like, where do people talk about this stuff?
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by jrm4 2y ago
This feels...bad in a way. Like, I feel like there's probably some importance in reinforcing the idea of "this is valuable enough such that you should take a copy for yourself that you can keep forever if you want, on your machine
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by jrm4 2y ago
Right. The only sort of person who could write something like this is a person who is not affected (or percieves themselves to not be affected) by "politics."
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by jrm4 2y ago
As a Black person, I don't much see a large difference between the two things you mentioned? Which is to say, it's certainly convenient to think that racism works like "there are racist cops on one hand and innocent well-me
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by jrm4 2y ago
I'm always weirded out by such "domain-specific knowledgey" statements like this. I just don't get how someone simultaneously e.g. knows what a Roland Drum Machine is, but also manages to stay wildly ignorant about an e
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by jrm4 2y ago
In this field? The answer is easy. Data, even pretty data -- maybe ESPECIALLY pretty data -- is not "information," and especially not "wisdom." At the risk of using an odd term -- it's like -- "Data porn?&qu
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by jrm4 2y ago
A simple rule. When a company promises to never do a thing (e.g. be careless or sell off important data like this,) but there is no legal consequence or assurance, that company -- or some different company related to it -- is definitely, a
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by jrm4 2y ago
Wow. Found the guy that actually wouldn't download a car.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Law aside, LibGen is probably the best and most complete library-of-books humanity has ever created, no? Seems like that should be the lede a lot more.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Pretty much everything that's - High fixed cost - Low or zero marginal cost and - very important to a lot of people fits the bill for a public service?
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by jrm4 2y ago
I mean, the root of the problem is that there is essentially only one "Youtube" that isn't a public service. Not sure if you make this better by leaning into it or not.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Nice, I think you're nailing the important thing -- which is "what exactly are they good FOR?" I see a lot of talk about good and not good here, but (and a question for everyone) what are people using the non-local big boys f
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by jrm4 2y ago
We're taking statements from the current White House seriously? Why would we do that here?
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by jrm4 2y ago
"State Department Will Use AI as an excuse to..."
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by jrm4 2y ago
Are either of these related to s5? What's wild is that I've been using zim-wiki -> html -> s5 slides for years, and still do, and I've completely forgotten "how s5 works?" It's just so easy to do things
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by jrm4 2y ago
I think this, along with ACTUAL therapy as practice, might be the most "your mileage may vary" thing ever. Ultimately (I'd say unlike perhaps other professions that try to fix things about you) -- therapy is 100% coaching. Wh
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by jrm4 2y ago
Ha, people didn't like that "of course," did they?
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by jrm4 2y ago
This -- like a LOT OF THINGS IN THIS SPACE -- is one of those things where you just *have to experiment* to find out. Do not strongly take advice from anyone or anything, it's probably a lot like e.g. 'favorite text editor' w
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by jrm4 2y ago
FWIW, I ended up doing a lot of org-mode-like things by starting with https://zim-wiki.org a VERY long time ago; I use it for notes, scheduling, publishing my own website, and even slides with the s5 thing. Somewhere in there, I

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