I did, and am still

That’s a unique interpretation

can confirm, you did indeed make it better. not the it I meant, but certainly a proximate, relevant it was selected.

yeah i dont think anyone seriously buys into bitcoin=private in 2024 thankfully. they are still deluded on monero, but its only a matter of time.

It is similar to open source social media.

thats federation, not open source. reddit was open source for a while, but not federated – and now we are here. whatsapp uses an open source protocol, but isnt federated – some asshole hawaiian (resident of hawaii, not the other option) controls it. Signal is open source, but won’t federate, its controlled by people who are way more into crypto than helping their users (moxie was actively against federation, using such examples as email to prove how federation is a failure)

You are 100% sure that data is not getting sold?

lol no, im 100% sure its being sold in some way, no matter how many things I opt out of. while i do have a lot of privacy focused things in my life, from email to chat to phone, i just can’t find myself caring that much about someone tracking my gasoline consumption or knowing that I go to the same bar every week for game night.

the obvious downside to something like XMR is that its a ticking time bomb from a privacy perspective. at some point the security will fail as all security does, and then the data is totally public.

don’t recall, it covered both bitcoin and etherium and investigated who owned what. ill see if i can’t find it. edit: this seems to be the academic version of it, but theres a prettier journalism version with more stories and pictures: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02871

in this case i seem to have misremembered owners vs miners, but I’ll keep poking around. this one is also older than i remember.

Please clarify why the TPM, a decade old security chip, is bad for gran

no

make it better

Like the rest of society, some people get ridiculous wealth by luck of being at the right place at the right time. That is no reason to not have open source money.

thats not the point, there have been studies that show bitcoin is fairly vulnerable to 50% control due to early adopters and other wHaLeS controlling the currency. and the studies can show this because bitcoin isnt private.

Bitcoin Core is MIT licensed.

the software is, but what relevance does that have to people using it as currency?

More people will switch to Linux once and for all.

lol, so 2025 will truly once and for all be the year of the linux desktop? do you like…ever learn history? should try.

I am not defending scammers but grandma and grandpa do have access to the internet. There are tons of resources to educate yourself on how avoid being scammed.

What scammers are doing is illegal but grandma and grandpa are not blameless.

thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to scamming grandma

I’m not defending rapists but there’s no reason women can’t educate themselves on how to make it so they’re less likely to be raped.

Yes what rapists are doing is bad. But the person being raped can’t be completely blameless.

thanks for comparing requiring a tpm chip to rape. adds flavor.

The only real ‘groundbreaking’ new feature (multiple desktops) was something that Linux had fifteen years ago.

what are you talking about? if you mean virtual as the others think, both linux and windows have had that for 20 years. if you mean something else I really really want to know.

anyway it also has better wsl (backported to 10 eventually), generally better performance and battery life, etc. it also had a mac dock that prevented me from doing the upgrade for 3 years lol.

new phone who dis?

thats fine, but installing youtube-local and a redirector addon is probably better than relying on some bot to pick one of 10 possible alternative front ends.

Why can’t I access Google’s individual transactions but they should have access to mine?

why are you giving google access to your transactions to begin with? all my credit card transactions are between me and visa and my credit union and the federal government, but not google.

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