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LemmyHead ,

They didn't delete your account. They deactivated it. It's still worth money to them

LemmyHead ,

https://xmr.directory/ also a good source, and https://kycnot.me/

LemmyHead ,

Wise also has virtual visa cards you can generate and delete. Great for not being victim to leaks

LemmyHead ,

Isn't matrix encryption beta? I remembered element always warns about that

LemmyHead , (edited )

Why should that be an issue? It's fully open source

LemmyHead , (edited )

I think it's just that there are too many options and the communities are so fragmented. I'm trying out simplex but it still feels like beta software. Regardless I'd like to see it succeed so we have a real private alternative that doesn't rely on big tech or shady government sponsorship.

LemmyHead ,

I'd vote against shift phones. Support is also a crucial part of what you're paying for and most of their communication on their website is in German, which doesn't tell much good about getting customer support in another language. Maybe they don't offer support in English or maybe very limited with longer waiting times.

LemmyHead ,

Ntfy - no more google reading notifications
Jellyfin - media served without questionable Plex account
Arch - on so many levels allows me a private computing experience
Posteo - simple but efficient email service
Resilio sync - cloudless syncing

LemmyHead ,

It's a more complex setup to have vpn active on your router though. It's not noob proof, because you'll get blocked from websites like Netflix. I have an openwrt based router that allows be to use device based vpn policies, which is more efficient and effective

LemmyHead ,

It's based on unifiedpush standard https://unifiedpush.org/. So a central notification middleman like google firebase for all your apps (that support it). There's messengers like mercurygram, fluffychat, Molly that support it and you can also send notifications yourself via a simple curl command.

LemmyHead ,

Ssh over wireguard to a container in my bastion

LemmyHead ,

I see a lot of support for Mulvad but they don't own their hardware afaict. How can you trust that the hosting provided doesn't have backdoor access? Azire for example owns, collocates and minimize their hardware (driverless etc.)

LemmyHead ,

Depends on how they're implemented. Signal and WhatsApp are e2e encrypted, but they track your phone number, your contacts and IP address. Maybe even metadata

LemmyHead ,

In your Mumble opinion*

LemmyHead ,

Yeah I'm also not getting it tbh, got shit load of RAM that's unused anyways

LemmyHead ,

All fair points but some can be avoided by running discord in browser

LemmyHead ,

Also no plans to support it. It meets their requirement of long support.

Me too fairphone for the repairability of it and long update support.

LemmyHead ,

Same problem with ghost touch here lol

LemmyHead ,

Thanks

LemmyHead ,
  • tacking of payments gives those in power (banks, [bad] governments,...) Mechanism to completely profile and manipulate you. Your spendings says EVERYTHING about you. You might not care because you're living in peaceful and stable (e.g. not in economic crisis like Venezuela) times, but the world and many governments are visibly changing for the worst. It gives them unlimited power to introduce any kind of taxes and fines or means of blocking you from moving away with your money to somewhere else. You don't agree? They can still get to your money.
  • limiting cash or anynomous payments takes away your financial freedom and strongly increases your dependency on banks. Banks put limits on your money that you can't fully control, they block your transactions for whatever they find suspicous. They can charge you whatever they want. There's a lot of corruption and money laundering with banks, that are the the most regulated institutions in the world ( except for armies probably), proving that even with a lot of control and legislation, those in power can still do whatever the fuck they want. Banks also take risks with your money and there have been crisises caused by them before. Most of them invest in oil, war and other ventures that are profitable for them. They manipulate markets for profit and for the worse of the common man. There's a lot you can read about those things. Becoming so strongly dependant on banks give governments limitless power on what to do with your money and block it whenever they want. Truckers protested against government in Canada => bank accounts blocked.

Whether or not some or all of these examples matter to you, one thing you have to understand and always defend is: you are the boss of your of money. Your ownership and control over your money is evenly linked to how much freedom you have.

Another thing you also have to understand, even if you think full visibility and control for governments is a good thing to solve crime, corruption and/or money laundering: there are and have ALWAYS been black markets. And the worse countries are off, the stronger these markets become.

LemmyHead ,

Also note that lightning is an off-chain centralized approach. It loses a lot of benefits of decentralized layer 1 like bitcoin and monero. Privacy at a centralized entity is like having no privacy at all.

LemmyHead ,

"Monero’s privacy features can be absorbed into the Bitcoin protocol whenever Bitcoin decides it wants to"

I think that's the biggest flaw in your thinking. Monero has this built-in from the start and everyone using it knows it and supports this approach. It affects how legislators can manipulate the coin because they can't, it will keep on living. It already affects the true value of the coin with all privacy included, because you can see how exchanges are unwilling to list it or are delisting it if they already did so, so there are no (or hardly any) institutions or billionaires manipulating the price because of the high risk factor of losing their money. You're forgetting that people in power nowadays are brainwashing us to accept that a wanting a fundamental right like privacy equals you're doing criminal activity or have plans to do so. There are A TON of reasons why bitcoin will never include such strong privacy features, because there are so many factors that influence this decision to make it possible, and the dominant reason you see that matters to btc holders (or any other crypto token for that matter) is NUMBER GO UP. Privacy is not a number go up reason. So it's not a tech issue, it's a people issue

LemmyHead ,

You can also not use euro to pay for your federal taxes in USA. You can however convert your euros to USD in order to pay for them. If you think euros are more trustworthy and give you full self custody, then it's a good reason to hold your money in euros . Plenty of people do that in the world; they store their money in USD rather than their inflated less reliable national currency.

Victim to speculation? Unfortunately yes, but same thing goes for stocks, even basic foods and raw materials nowadays. What do they give you? Whatever matters to you: full privacy? Full ownership? Freedom of movement for your money? Not one central entity deciding on the amount that's printed? Voting power in the tech that's being built? Most stocks nowadays don't give you anything as well, but the fake belief on how much it's worth and a lot of people agree nowadays they don't represent true value of the company in many cases (Apple, Facebook, Tesla, etc.). You don't get voting rights, you don't get dividends. A lot of Cryptos do give those.

Having said those counter-arguments, of course there's flaws too and frankly more with the majority of them. It's those select few that could matter on long-term

LemmyHead ,

A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There's just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they've never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can't modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain't that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.

LemmyHead OP ,

Check out cryptpad. Maybe that's a good alternative for you

LemmyHead ,

I'm in NA meetings on discord. There's also a big God involved but just try to look besides that. They're open ans very welcome to anyone that wants to stop

LemmyHead ,

That's one of the steps yeah. And it's recommended to follow all steps but nobody is forcing you. You can just go as you want and try to follow the other ones as much as possible. Also a higher power could mean different things if you're creative enough.

LemmyHead ,

It's really time to get organized before the cycle starts: I wasn't a Jew so I minded my own business, I wasn't a....

LemmyHead ,

Totally agree with that, but I've not found a decent one. So I'm glad that these ones are available because the NA one I'm joining is very supportive

LemmyHead ,

Tuxedo

LemmyHead ,

Yeah def not enough. It's funny how governments and companies are willing to pay overpriced proprietary software that even comes with no or horrible support, but when they use OSS they hardly contribute and sometimes even get great support via github. But sometimes that's also the other way around. You pay for expensive license and get shitty support even if it's OSS. Looking at you Teleport

LemmyHead ,

I don't think that's a good argument though. Any other email provider is as easy to set up an account with and is more privacy friendly: proton, skiff, posteo. If they made a big blunder like that, I can only expect them to use other big tech stuff in the background like google DNS servers etc. Unti someone points it out

LemmyHead ,

I always wanted to start playing the game

LemmyHead ,

But their support is horrible

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    LemmyHead ,

    I also couldn't find anything. Not even any banking apps support it because they all work with google pay on android.

    LemmyHead ,

    Yeah it's stupid and not privacy friendly, but it's not like any bank is privacy friendly nowadays from my experience

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    LemmyHead ,

    That is part of the problem though. Proper privacy allows you to express what you want to, without self censorship. The issue is not: don't speak about x, but rather: speak about it and feel comfortable that you can do it in a safe environment. I fully agree with the account linking though

    LemmyHead ,

    It doesn't necessarily need to remain that way. For example,we should have the option to make our profiles private. We should also be able to create pseudonyms for content we submit. The content will still be federated, but not necessarily linked to one user ID

    LemmyHead ,

    I don't get all the noise around AUR being unsafe. Just verify the PKGBUILDS whenever you install or update something.

    LemmyHead ,

    I would argue that it's their own fault then. Laziness is not a valid excuse to put yourself so much at risk. If you start doing it consistently, it becomes a habit and won't take much effort. Of course, the familiarity with PKBUILD syntax has a learning curve

    But a peer-reviewing system would be a better approach in AUR. Weird that it's not been implemented yet.

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