I don't know why - they said there was a significant chance of failure, they have quite mature technology for it to be driverless. What's the point of putting a meat puppet in there?
I've used Cryptomus for checkout. It was a terrible experience compared to other crypto payment processors like BTCPay. It has tons of trackers and fingerprinting and makes you wait for all the confirmations.
at least they both accept xmr. I've seen services that only want me to "connect your Coinbase/Metamask wallet" or whatever.
It's like custodial-to-custodial crypto is being normalized end-to-end, which is insane. At that point you have just reinvented the conventional banking system with extra steps.
but I think the advantage of cryptomus is that they have some sort of debit card or something that automaticially exchanges crypto->fiat whenever you make a purchase. Don't know because i'm not in europe.
Yeah, I do believe crypto has little usecase besides XMR. Coincidentally it's doing really well while the rest of crypto is in a bear market (I think). It's the only real crypto where everyone cares about using it instead of mainly the price.
There's so many common sense, bipartisan things like those. A few are are uncapping the house, a federal holiday for election day, stock trading ban for politicians, data broker loophole, warrant requirement for your data on service providers.
I fear to think about where we would be without the constitution considering how authoritarian law enforcement is in the US. It's definitely lacking, but I am still grateful for it.
This is primarily a failure of the police, but second place goes to data brokers and anyone who collects unnecessary data and doesn't secure it. A flood of personal information already leaks illegally through cybercrime and companies not protecting data, and we haven't even stopped the huge legal industry of public-info data brokers. You shouldn't be able to look up an email or phone number and get someone's family and address.
The powers that be like phone numbers because they're like a medium-level KYC. In many countries getting a phone number requires ID, and there was a recent proposal to do that in the US. Of course swatting and spam are used as excuses to introduce KYC requirements, but those problems are endemic to phone numbers, and more identity verification just causes more leaks, which gives them excuses to require more KYC.
My idea for replacing phone numbers and email: SimpleX for calls and texts (no accounts and therefore the least PII possible), and Monero micropayments for spam prevention. Most people spend way more on their wireless plan then they'd need to spend in Monero to make the initial connection, for publicly posted SimpleX links.
I'm trying to do the same thing to share my well being apps. I've only released one out of the two so far (a GrapheneOS dumbphone solution), but I can't post it on Reddit or Hacker News until I build up much more reputation.
I just made a Reddit account as a forward thinking to be able to use it eventually. Surprisingly I was able to sign up on a Mullvad exit IP and not get shadow banned immediately. I did use an anti-detect browser so maybe the browser is winning against Reddit's spam filters today?
1/3 of my comments are shadow banned, though. The only one that isn't is, "Petting my dog" in response to a random post asking what puts you in a better mood. While two other actually helpful posts have either been blocked by karma minimums or Reddit.
I can't really blame anyone, it's just a bad situation. Hacker News handles it better than most with the vouching but you have to understand how it works and the AI still gets through.
I’m struggling with this as I have apps I would like to share but I literally don’t know how. I can’t post on Reddit. I can post a Show HN, but I’ll probably break some unwritten rule and get shadowbanned. I can share with my friends, but they’re not really the target audience.
The only option I can think of is to just pay influencers, and I’m guessing the cost of influencer marketing is going to be a multiple of what I spent actually developing the app. What am I missing?
> I’m struggling with this as I have apps I would like to share
Youb and half the internet. How many apps did you install today from forcefully reading it on some social media or website your accessed to do anything other than look for apps?
Yeah, this bodes well for my meditation app frontend I'm going to release on GitHub. It should be fair use ish but it does seem GitHub is fairly friendly anyway.
Headspace without being tracked and having data brokers cross reference "anonymized" (sic! word wasn't in keyb. dict) info on when I meditate, using which program etc.?
Headspace updated it's privacy policy info recently, which got me to have it checked with an LLM. And it turns out that what you're doing on $100 per year meditation app is still being sold to anyone willing to pay. Using headspace lost it's charm. I wonder if Andy ever agreed to this.
