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glowie ,
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Yup, it's sad. Oxen is/was a Monero fork, with some actual privacy. Now their pivot to a centralized, VC-backed PoS like Eth that has no privacy is just overall disappointing. It more or less confirms my earlier suspicions that Session devs only care about enriching themselves. The "Sybil resistance" excuse for requiring such a high amount of capital to contribute a node is just a bunch of BS.

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    glowie ,
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    If you want layman's for all of those then use beeper.com heh. Those all are the open source Matrix bridges and a reskinned Element app

    glowie ,
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    fiat cucks downvoting your comment

    glowie ,
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    And sadly the biggest competitor is Rumble and it's terrible

    glowie ,
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    You should check out Orion. Now that’s the best browser for iOS with both Firefox/Chrome extension support.

    glowie ,
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    Nostr

    glowie ,
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    Crypto and Bitcoin are not the same.

    glowie ,
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    I suggest reading this article and jump to the "WHAT ABOUT BITCOIN?" section, which explains this concept of their differences.

    glowie ,
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    Bitcoin is not a Venture Capitalist controlled, pseudo-decentralized scam. There is no CEO. The rest of crypto are all scams or were built to "fix" a utility that didn't need fixing. Only the money supply and its ownership needed fixing, which is why Bitcoin was created as a permissionless, immutable, decentralized, and deflationary currency. Unlike all fiats, which have been grossly debased in recent years through manipulation by bankers.

    glowie ,
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    No, you're still missing the point. Bitcoin is the only one that was built out of a self-less, cypherpunk cause, to allow the dismantling of central banker's grasp on people's financial sovereignty. The crypto that spun up after bitcoin are all garbage, save for maybe Monero.

    glowie ,
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    Wtf is this spam?

    glowie OP ,
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    Great, thank you, appreciate your thorough explanation

    glowie OP ,
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    Ah, good idea using multiple vendors, thank you

    glowie ,
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    This. In fact, it's the opposite and designed for transparency.

    glowie ,
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    Two bullet wounds to the back of the head is perfectly normal. Happens all the time.

    glowie ,
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    No. Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.

    glowie , (edited )
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    https://h4x0r.host/pictrs/image/9bcd1dbb-3e66-4397-be16-620bff817208.jpeg

    Sorry I don't have Wikipedia memorized

    glowie ,
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    How for bitcoin?

    You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)

    It's sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It's like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It's sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what you...

    glowie ,
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    So this is centralized?

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    glowie ,
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    Sora is going to allow a single person to produce an entire movie by themselves. Surely, we'll see these new emergent AI-powered films emerge on YouTube and other video platforms, including (my guess) of new platforms that will spring up completely based around "amateur" AI movies.

    glowie ,
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    Agreed. Someone needs to buy RottenTomAItoes.com lol

    glowie ,
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    Surprisingly, I've had the opposite effect. Wherein, it has increased my productivity by tenfold and has helped with code review and/or confirming various logic, etc. Although, I wouldn't necessarily take what it tells me as gospel from a recommendation standpoint in terms of my career as a whole. I've definitely caught it numerous times being wrong, but the inaccuracies pale in comparison to what it gets right, imo.

    glowie ,
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    Fuck reddit

    glowie ,
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    1 down vote. Must be Spez.

    glowie ,
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    Wall•e

    glowie ,
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    Yes. Legacy banking systems use way more than at least Bitcoin.

    "Bitcoin's emission intensity, a measure of emissions per unit of power, is now its lowest ever, dropping 18x faster than the banking sector over 4 years."

    https://www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-001-the-narrative-is-shifting

    glowie ,
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    What is fiat backed by?

    glowie ,
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    It may require a bit of TradFi history to truly understand Bitcoin and why it was even created in the first place. Much too long to even attempt at concatenating in a lemmy comment. Bitcoin wasn't a get-rich-quick scam like the majority of shitcoins today. CypherPunk movement had been working on a trustless system without a governing authority pre-Bitcoin (see e-cash).

    Government backed currencies require trust. In the US you are trading IOUs issued by the Federal Reserve, which isn't even a Federal branch, but privatized business. There have been numerous times where the heads of the Fed have outright stated they simply enter numbers into a computer to issue money to Central banks, etc. Since Americans were robbed of a tangible currency, backed by Gold, the money printer has quite literally gone "brrrrr".

    I don't trust the government or the bankers who have repeatedly financially rape the citizens. Remember the 2008 collapse? No one was held accountable. So, they've found new loopholes to continue pillaging the fiscally uneducated. The trust has been long gone as we're repeatedly lied to.

    This is what Bitcoin has sought to solve in that it's not debased due to over issuance, unlike most fiat currencies. It doesn't contribute to inflation, causing your purchasing power to be decreased. It quite literally removes the powers from corrupt bankers and gives it to the people.

    On the subject of energy consumption, yes it has historically taken quite a lot for Proof of Work miners. However, in year's past the miners have done a significant job at only using either green power sources or buying overproduced energy from companies. This has seen it drop far below the energy consumption of legacy banking or the Military Industrial Complex.

    So, what you're saying is, if fiat is backed by militarism, it's really backed by death.

    glowie ,
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    NFTs aren't bitcoin lmao. Nice try though.

    glowie ,
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    The link isn't the sources but merely a conduit for the cited information. Also, you don't have to pay to read it. Clearly you didn't see the "continue reading" link to get passed the popup.

    glowie ,
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    You have zero power as a citizen over the currency you use. You do not directly vote for the Central bankers, Federal Reserve board, etc. Even the politicians you might vote for who appoint them will almost always side in their own favor than their constituents. I'd hardly believe a word a politician ever utters. Just look at all the lies and false promising during the campaigns of the last 5 presidents and what they actually accomplished. Biden and college debt as a more recent example.

    You are also confusing Bitcoin's Proof of Work with a shitcoin's Proof of Stake, which is where wealth gives you more votes. As for the hash rate you're contributing as a miner, there's no additional power you're given. Even if you attempted to 51% attack the network, it'd be gaining nothing beyond a double-spend by rewriting the blockchain transaction. Likely causing the currency's price to crash. Zero financial incentives for any rich people to do that, unless they're part of a nation-state hoping to try and destroy the currency.

    lost website UPDATE: I FOUND IT

    someday ago I saw this website about privacy and anonymity that had links to other websites, it had something to do with the durian fruit, the website was something like "durian network", I cant find it, literally, I cant remember the developer's name or anything that could help me find this website, it also had a link to an...

    glowie ,
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    I can't help you there but I can recommend one I contribute to: AnonymousPlanet.org

    Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

    Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

    glowie ,
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    Kanye?

    glowie ,
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    Crazy that Windows users can't even do proper humor

    glowie ,
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    Trust the science

    Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)

    Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.

    glowie ,
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    No. The intelligence community would never give up such control.

    glowie ,
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    Oh it's open alright. Open to making money.

    glowie ,
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    Bluesky is trash and not even decentralized

    glowie ,
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    Might as well just pay for a prostitute

    glowie ,
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    Fuuuuck Amazon

    glowie ,
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    The simplest solution would be to use a Nostr app to create a keypair (aka account). Then add the Mostr.pub relay. This will let you search for ActivityPub users and follow them as if it were a Twitter-style feed.

    Changing domain on existing Mastodon server question

    So I know, I know you're not really supposed to change the domain of an already existing Mastodon server. But I did anyway and set the previous domain as alt domain in config. However, to see content of accounts I previously followed, I need to keep the old domain running. With a redirect in place to the new domain it breaks...

    glowie OP ,
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    Ope (ノ°▽°)

    glowie ,
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    Wish there is was a webOS variant for LGs

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