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not trying to start a distro war, but I would advise against using ubuntu for the time being as their custodian has been somewhat incompetent in recent years, and they have been forcing users to use their "snap" system. It may give you a bad first experience.

It's hard to ignore the fact that we're swimming in plastic shit all the time

Why does the gov. have its nuts in a twist over a privately-owned timewasting service?

The gov. should use public forms of communication, like their own websites and mailing lists. Why endorse this privitzation of their communcation channels in the first place?

It's basicially the range limitation is what I mean.

Interesting how a company named crackin is run by a white guy. makes you think.

latency

What does it matter? Just use Tor for everything read-only.

If some service requires you to create an account, just give them false information. If they ban you, just create another account. At the end of day, the legalese is irrelevant. If it was relevant, then people would read it.

It is not like the user has any bargaining power with the platform owner to spy on them less for example, or even verify that they are upholding the privacy policy. These companies do not follow their own rules in banning you or otherwise.

I agree with your first statement about hoarding by early buyers.

However, the smug "write-only database meme" is getting a bit old. Cryptocurrencies, and even other crypto-payment systems (e.g. chaumian cash) obviously have different characteristics than centralized money. Come to think of it, you could just mockingly describe any computer program that has structured data as a database.

Cryptocurrency has almost nothing to do with databases or storing data. At its core, cryptocurrency is a system of distributing signed transactions that uses hashcash as a sybil-resistance and (order) synchronisation mechanism.

Google spreadsheets need not apply. The whole point is that you don't require a single party to sign transactions. The problem that cryptocurrency deals with concerns co-operation between adversarial parties. Centralization leaves you hopping from platform to platform forever.

Who gained from the BCH fork? Curious. The only people with anything to lose are those that bought BTC after the fork.

Really? what's your bitcoin address? can you sign a proof?

the cryptocurrencies are not necessarily tied to any specific network infrastructure

The problem with creating buchla recreation modules is that you can never adjust the pseudo-resistive attenuation (PRA)

yes

that's awesome. I don't know what I would do if I received that much cryptocurrency- probably launder it and give it to charity.

Agile isn't just a workflow or philosphy. It's a way of life. No one has ever ben sucessful without triaging first.

seems like a bit of a cope to me...

Odysee BTFO. Peertubers stay winning.

Boy, I sure do wish I had access to zuckerberg's tight portal

Sam Bankman-Fried? Sounds like Scam Bankman Fired. Makes you think.

Well, it's just like that old saying: you can prevent your website from 404ing but you can't prevent your tight manhole from being sodomized by hardened criminals in prison.

Dyson sphere? they should be calling it My-Son-Sphere. All my kid wants to do is play video games on his gamesphere all dang day. I tell him the weather is great out and that he should go out side and he yells back at me. Can you believe it?

I reccomend the Lenovo Surface Gogo Plus 4, it has a great screen and battery life for doodling on the go. The YangShi Utilipad Pro is another great option if you are on a limited budget

running over activists

Computer chips? back in my day, chips were something you would eat with salsa

This is false.

I have never seen /g/ discuss it outside of DigiCash's failure. In /biz/ there is a general sense of dread about anything related to "CBDCs". /biz/xmr has a more balanced opinion

You comment about cryptocurrency backed chaumian cash, there is already a project for this aimed at increasing the efficiency and privacy of bitcoin spends: https://fedimint.org/

Taler is superior to bitcoin because it implements sender-privacy.

One is a chaumian cash system, the other is cryptocurrency with sender-obfuscation by ring-signatures.

The technical differences are too many for me to enumerate here. They are completely different technologies that make different efficiency-privacy-decentralization tradeoffs.

Functionally, Taler (and other forms of chaumian cash) are payment systems and not currencies. It requires a bank to implement it, in this sense it is less de-centralized, but likely much more efficient as there is no need for network consensus (because it depends on a central entity's blind signatures, etc. anyway). It has different (possibly better) privacy charichteristics than monero. They are both free and open source projects.