[-] rysiek@szmer.info 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wybronić nie można, ale podzielić się na Xitterze czemu nie!

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 9 months ago

Tia, wyszukiwałem nawet ale jakoś nie ogarnąłem. Internety trudne, nie umię w lemmiego no.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 9 months ago

A no jak przeprosił, to spoko.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 10 months ago
[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wszystko się zgadza w zasadzie. Fakt, że Niemiecki sąd ostatecznie ten proces zakończył takim a nie innym wyrokiem ma tę wadę, że nie poszło to wyżej, do TSUE. Zobaczymy co z włoską sprawą.

Jedna uwaga: procesy poza UE też mają znaczenie, niestety. Ale zdecydowanie rozstrzygnięcie na poziomie TSUE byłoby bardzo mocną rzeczą.

(fun fact, pracuję w Quad9)

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 11 months ago

Bardziej wierzę, że nie wdrożyli tych kontrolek, niż że je już usunęli. Ale to nie oznacza, że dane nie idą do OpenAI, oczywiście.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This will help:

The source is well-worth visiting and taking the time to read, plenty of additional info!

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think this phrase means what you think it means; I do in fact put my money where my mouth is.

My mouth is clearly in the "blockchain-based privacy projects are very likely to be either misguided or outright scams, and this particular project has red flags all over" area. And so my money is on "I need to use tools that actually work; there is low likelihood that this project is such a tool; therefore I shall not waste my time on it".

Demanding that I spent hours analyzing a project that has so many red flags just because you happen do disagree with me is somewhat weird. I've spent enough time having this conversation at all, but hey, that's good entertainment value!

It's not on me to disprove random project's exorbitant claims ("prevents traffic analysis by an adversary capable of watching the entire network, including the NSA"). It's on the project in question to prove them.

So far I have not seen such proof. I have, on the other hand, seen quite a lot of things that suggest that these claims might, in fact, be unsubstantiated.

I could retort by saying: prove to me that the project's claims are true, "instead of going hurr durr it’s great I love it" (nice veiled ad hominem there, by the way). But I won't, even though so far I have arguably provided more concrete reasons why I see this project as problematic than you did for your positive take on it.

Telling persons why they’ve decided to use tokens and not rely on pure altruism is not token hyping.

When the rubber hits the road, "using tokens" in this case means simply relying on greed. And relying on greed instead of altruism for something as fundamental as privacy is very telling. It's not going to end well.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 1 points 2 years ago

Sure, here's my comment:

They make extremely strong claims, and strong claims require strong proof. I do not see such proof anywhere. What I see is that they play fast and loose with website visitor privacy and seem to focus mainly on token hyping.

I would not trust it for anything even remotely sensitive. And I still fully expect them to show up on https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ sooner or later.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've read through dozens of white-papers of "revolutionary" blockchain-based tech startups, all promising to solve Very Important Problems, none actually solving such problems. But sure, let's start here:

Nym tokens provide credentialed access to privacy-enhanced and uncensored internet communication for a unit of time.

This is "privacy for the rich" model. Unsurprisingly: poor people can't push the token to the moon! And looking at their website it is clear they focus more on hyping the token than on actual privacy.

Speaking of their website, this privacy-focused project done clearly by people that care a lot about digital human rights and want to fight surveillance capitalism directly includes on their website stuff from fonts.google.com, googleapis.com, youtube.com, play.google.com, doubleclick.net. Looks legit to me!

It's fascinating how they talk down Tor ("because Tor does not add timing obfuscation or cover traffic to obscure the traffic patterns in circuits"), but fail to mention i2p which solves these issues without the need for bollockschain tokens. Makes sense — Nym seems to basically be i2p with a blockchain token bolted onto it so that it can become an investment vehicle.

So either they did not know about i2p, an important and reasonably well known project which has been around for almost 20 years and is very clearly in the same problem space, or they intentionally decided not to mention it because it would make them look bad. Take your pick: are they ignorant, or disingenuous? Either is a great trait for a project that aims at protecting privacy from the NSA, no less.

On a general level, it is safe to assume any blockchain-based project that offers any kind of token and is in any way monetizable is (at best) a solution in search of a problem, or (at worst) a scam, often Ponzi-shaped, until clearly proven otherwise.

I mean, even the most basic promise of Ethereum smart contracts — that smart contracts are binding, transactions are not going to be reverted, and nobody controls the whole network — flew right out the window just because DAO smart contract had a bug and somebody exploited it; and we can't have that, can we, if people are meant to invest in this, eh?

Privacy and decentralization are too important subjects to be used by cryptobros in their money extraction schemes.

If you think my opinion was not well informed, think again.

[-] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago

Can't wait until it inevitably ends up on https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ 👀

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