@k4r4b3y TBH I stopped paying attention to SSB about 2 years ago, and even when I was active I just used the web interface (and sometimes the CLI for pub management)
@Lokjo @librewolf
Today I completed my daily driver transition to #LibreWolf ; this thread was the catalyst.
I love love LOVE the idea of a simply stripped-down, un-f--ked #FireFox
I love that it was able to use Sync and pull all my saved stuff directly from mozilla.
My only complaint is that LibreWolf demands to be pro-bono libre volunteers; they won't shut up and take my money!
I still contribute monthly to FF; I pretend it's to fund upstream development.
@freedomtools Finally? Like, what took them so long?
Except the need for private transactions is never going away. And there is no better solution anywhere on the horizon.
It's like a scare campaign against closing the bathroom stall door. GLWT.
@magicbeergut @hetzlemmingsworld Minimum 50 years, possibly never. If you believe the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.
@beeng IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that "enabling the use of privacy coins" has not been the charge in any US case.
"Money Laundering" is the charge.
And this is why WE NEED DEXES, and why I do what I can to support my preferred project (Haveno)
@mister_monster @snitchy_asc I had the same skepticism about monotonically increasing blockchain sizes.
I wish I had looked at storage and bandwidth curves a lot earlier.
Long term storage size is no longer a concern I worry about.
@rattie_ok All we can do is keep Monero honest. It is the only crypto actually being used as currency
@rattie_ok @Saki The goal is a "Peer-to-peer electronic cash system". If and to the degree that such is realized, this goal has society-changing ramifications. It is money that plays by Internet consensus rules, not by coercive governmental ones.
Realizing this goal requires many design choices.
When faced with its (rather obvious) scaling problem, BTC chose not to change its design but rather to rebrand as "store of value" instead of "electronic cash".
That was the death of honest crypto.
“Why?”
Because it’s cool AF to make Things
https://www.cnet.com/culture/programmer-makes-original-doom-playable-on-pregnancy-test/
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee's marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier... but not from their own advertising & tracking.
dragonsidedd
joined 2 years ago
@k4r4b3y I got thru #8 and they were all the same nonissue IMO -- yes, it's an append-only log like a lot of decentralized systems and yes that means it's not inherently linear and that you can't delete stuff.
I'll look over the rest later