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shortwavesurfer ,

And this right here is why you use open source apps.

shortwavesurfer ,

Yes, of course. However, when it's open source, at least somebody is capable of checking those things, even if it is not you. Somebody in the community is capable of doing so.

shortwavesurfer ,

Oh, absolutely, that's true. Definitely smaller projects have less audited code, and even bigger projects can have bugs. Heart bleed ring a bell, LOL. However, when open source software has a bug and it is discovered, it is fixed by somebody in record time, whereas in closed source software, you don't know that there is a bug that can be exploited and it definitely won't be fixed until it's reverse engineered or something or exploited.

shortwavesurfer ,

You're right, I should clarify better. When I say open source, what I mean is totally open and totally free to contribute to, like the MIT or patchy licenses. Source viewable is a whole different can of worms and not what I mean, so I should be more specific in future.

shortwavesurfer ,

The answer to that is obviously going to be Monero.

shortwavesurfer ,

Run Linux as your host operating system and run Windows in a virtualized environment such as VirtualBox. That's how I made my transition. I was Windows only and barely started playing with Linux. Then I installed Linux entirely and put Windows on a virtual machine. And now I don't even have the Windows virtual machine anymore.

shortwavesurfer ,

Interesting idea, but the removal of perfect forward secrecy and Stuff like that is just a no. I have it just to play with, but nothing serious. I use SimpleX and Signal, and Matrix.

shortwavesurfer ,

I agree, the wall paper is actually really nice. The rest of the system, not so much.

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS's own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....

shortwavesurfer ,

I have never had this happen to me thankfully but I absolutely go out of my way to make sure the device is unlocked before I ever lay hands on it and if it's not for some reason I will absolutely return it because I flash lineage as soon as I get a new device. What I've found myself doing is buying new mid-range phones instead of used high-end devices. So I often find myself with like OnePlus Nord or Moto G or Pixel A or something like that.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

shortwavesurfer ,

Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3's formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.

shortwavesurfer ,

Nope, it sure doesn't. You know why? Because I don't use windows. That's why. Haven't used Windows on a daily basis since like 2018 and have no plans on doing so ever again.

shortwavesurfer ,

Take your DKK, buy Monero on Haveno, send to mullvad, done

https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto/actions

shortwavesurfer ,

Because it isn't in the tags or releases section yet, but it is available as executables under the actions. So you choose the latest build and scroll all the way to the bottom and you will find the installers. You do have to be signed in though in order to download it for now.

Edit: And yet we still have almost 200 monero on the offer books after only a week of being active and being hard to download.

shortwavesurfer ,

Nope, but they will support Linux. All the users who do not want Windows 11, AI spying on them, or don't want to buy new hardware, will be going to Linux. So thank you in advance Microsoft, we appreciate it.

shortwavesurfer ,

I have no idea. I'm rocking a Dell Latitude from like 2014 with an Intel Core i3 something.

shortwavesurfer ,

Mind crossposting this too !t_mobile?

shortwavesurfer ,

Thx

shortwavesurfer ,

Seriously, you just had to throw that pun in there. LOL.

shortwavesurfer ,

I actually had the same thing happen to me because I discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and dismissed it as crazy and that the governments would never let it exist. And then several years later heard about it again in a news article and was like, wait, the government hasn't shut that down yet and started doing some reading and really understood

shortwavesurfer ,

This is such a good point.

shortwavesurfer ,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202503/global-cryptocurrency-user-base/

This is more Australia-focused, but https://www.forbes.com/advisor/au/investing/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-statistics/

https://www.bankrate.com/investing/cryptocurrency-statistics/

shortwavesurfer ,

No, it can't. It's built into the protocol and enforced. On other currencies such as Zcash, you can turn off privacy if you wish. But on Monero, it's not possible to opt out at all. You either have privacy or you don't use it at all.

shortwavesurfer ,

I only use Monero, but still, it's a very good one.

shortwavesurfer ,

I mean, hell, I would like you to participate too. But I understand that may not be your thing. And that's okay. I don't want you to participate for some number go up mad gains stock casino thing. I want you to participate because I seriously believe that Monero can help move human freedom forward by eventually replacing government money.

shortwavesurfer ,

Inflation occurs when governments print money and so with these cryptocurrencies, at least the good ones, the amount that is printed is known in advance and will never exceed certain boundaries. So even though the greedy people may wish to print more for themselves, they cannot do it because the system will not let them. And right now the system is perfectly happy to let them and fuck everybody else.

shortwavesurfer ,

I mean fair enough just that another money could get you out of that situation before it gets that bad. If nothing else than through bribes.

shortwavesurfer ,

No power or infrastructure required.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins

shortwavesurfer ,

Not yet, the government has their regulatory screws too deep into them, so they can't innovate like that.

shortwavesurfer ,

While the ones that do exist still exist, and that's not to say that somebody couldn't create other things that were similar. Just as long as the private key is not peeled away, then you know it's actually got the value it says. And you don't need the internet to verify that.

shortwavesurfer ,

Really depends on the country. If you are fleeing somewhere like the United States, there's about a one in four chance that it would be recognized. If you're fleeing some other place that has had currency issues in the past, then it's probably quite a bit higher.

shortwavesurfer ,

You do the same. Have a wonderful day.

shortwavesurfer ,

https://monero.town/comment/4613276

Edit: You are right. My bad. It's more like a one in five. Not a one in four.

shortwavesurfer ,

Well, there aren't many of those around. So if it's recognized, then the person would know to look for a QR code on it. And if it has not been destroyed by peeling the hologram off, then they will know it's good. Seems like bribing a border guard with chickens would be kind of difficult. Just for the noise they would make and the space they would take up. You might be able to pass them an ounce of gold or something. That might be a possibility.

shortwavesurfer ,

Hey, 1/5 to 1/4 arent terrible odds. Even if they haven't used it, there's a damn good chance they've heard of it. If they've heard of it, then they know it has value.

shortwavesurfer ,

That 1 in 5 to 1 in 4 is the amount of people who have actively used crypto in some form. Everybody almost has heard about it and knows it has value, even if it's to give it to somebody else.

shortwavesurfer ,

This one is a bit old, but... https://medium.com/@MUBC/privacy-coins-debunking-myths-about-illegal-usage-9150c49a31a7

I can't find it at the moment, but I saw a report for 2023 or 2024 that something like 0.4% of all crypto transactions are illicit activity. So that would mean roughly 1.9 million people use it for such activity, which is a far cry from 400 million.

shortwavesurfer ,

The metal coin has a private key embedded underneath a hologram. The private key has never touched the internet. And so if you throw it away, that value is lost forever. So the metal coin in and of itself does have value. As long as you can physically see that the hologram has not been peeled away and the private key exposed, which would be a dead giveaway, that it has been swept and is no longer of any value.

shortwavesurfer ,

Well, if the average intelligence level I see around me... They might not know a chicken is edible. LOL. However, only more serious note. It doesn't seem like it all goes down at once. I mean, people in Venezuela have issues for sure, but they just take their money as soon as they get it and put it into something else that will retain their value. So we won't go from an ordered stable society to Mad Max where everybody's stealing chickens from preppers in one day. It would take years to get there.

shortwavesurfer ,

At least from what I understand, Cuba.

shortwavesurfer ,

Admittedly, I have very little actual information on their situation, and it's more just hearsay. So if you've met them, then you would have more information than I do.

shortwavesurfer ,

Oh, I know. And for pointing that out, you will get downvoted as well.

shortwavesurfer ,

Oh, sorry. I was using voice dictation to type that and it put a period in the wrong place. That is not the beginning of a nuisance. I was intending to say that they flock to open source software the minute that a billionaire buys the thing they were using because they realize that a billionaire can't buy open source software.

shortwavesurfer ,

Yeah, I'm not in it for those get rich quick reasons and I despise people who are. I am in it for the tech and the potential to increase human freedom around the world.

shortwavesurfer ,

I don't know of any laws specifically against them accepting it, but I think it's probably demand-based because only about one-fourth to one-fifth of US citizens use crypto currently. I think that number will grow over the years.

shortwavesurfer ,

Mind telling me what most people use on a daily basis because numbers on the screen seems pretty common.

shortwavesurfer ,

The big difference, though, is that if a crypto exchange says that there's more crypto than exists, they have to make good on that promise. Or they, you know, go bankrupt because they don't actually have the money they say they have. Where would they government? That's not the case. There are only 21 million Bitcoin available. If a crypto exchange tries to make it sound like there are more than that, then people will pull their money off of that exchange and then exchange will go bankrupt because they can't produce the money.Also, real crypto people don't rely on centralized exchanges anyway. They either trade peer to peer or use decentralized exchanges that can't be manipulated like that.

shortwavesurfer ,

Thank you. I'm glad you pointed out my mistake. That 25% is world use of crypto, not just US.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/american-adult-crypto-use-dropped-2023-fed-survey

shortwavesurfer ,

Yes, but how do they interact with their local currency? Do they hold it in their hands? No, they don't. It's all numbers on a screen.

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