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specially trained can accomplish the task of tracking a moving object. according to the theories of image recognition and geolocation. embed that software on a swarm of satellites and voilà. add to that any other kind of metadata (heat, size, height, video, image, speed...).

military tech that is operated from the sky is an absolute advantage in this century.

Whistleblower in times of war is less likely. Going public with secret info is exponentially risky because of information overload and lethal punishment. Exile, sedition or refuge-seeking would be more rewarding to a top-notch professional wanting to spill the beans to the West.

I think that OP does not believe in RT.com. Most probably, OP is bringing forward information that corroborates what's wrtitten in the Twitter thread. By reading the post's source, you may understand the intent of the parent comment.

The article has diverse undertones of overthinking. Looks like someone who has not lived in a conflict zone found a neat opportunity to do self-promotion. No one fighting off an invasion has time/energy to listen to anyone's smug opinions on Twitter.

They voiced their needs, those wishes were granted. They said thank you to the benefactors. Let's hope it goes as smooth as possible! This kind of posts are gonna come up a lot, wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war.

Dude that is karma points accumulated throughout your life. Proud that you won! I may have used and enjoyed for FREE some of your software while jailbreaking or bricking mobile devices in my university dorm room (Beijing, 2014). Stay blessed!

Right! Most of EU countries have one dominant e-payments provider. Some of these national fintech startups are owned by or have links with local banks. Hard to find a product that is 100% usable in every EU nation, besides traditional US players. Once, you cross borders, you have to adapt. This Facebook initiative has the potential to unify a dislocated ecosystem and facilitate users' convenience and adoption of P2P digital payments.

Some risks that would put a halt to this? The EU regulatory bodies in Brussels. They'll find any reason(s) to put some breaks/guardrails and slow down the exponential adoption of FB Pay. Not being too pessimistic, but their mutual relation isn't in the best shape nowadays.

The actual fools that you reference call themselves "degenerate". They consciously degrade their pride by choosing a less noble title.

Anyways, this is new technology being developped. Anyone interested or looking for solutions will adopt it. Personally, I've been living in a land where people obviously hate me as foreigner. I am an undocumented human. When I see Bitcoin, my heart races super fast. It is the only technical solution to my problem of being outcasted by financial institutions. Therefore, as a sort of struggle for financial rights, I allocate at least one hour per day to learning what it is about.

We're not equal on this Earth. My life choices will not be similar to yours because we're neighbours but don't face the same issues. Talking about the effects of the 2008 financial collapse without having lived in a third-world country destroyed by debts in foreign currencies is purely self-centered. Get out of your comfort pad and see that you've suffered a 10 degree financial burn while other had to bear a 100 degrees one. It's matter of perspectives.

Sad to hear this. I hope that decision gets reversed.

Reason that I give donations in BTC is that it's impossible to do so in regular ways, like with bank transfers. In the european country where I live, I'm excluded from banking services all over the country. Why isn't that a common life feature for other humans here? Well, a majority of the country chose to implement laws that restrict my access to everyday needs. In short, I'm categorized by law as an african immigrant without residency status. It's been like this for 5 years since I landed in Europe.

So, I have capital in the form of cash (earned by doing menial jobs and developing my own software projects) but I can't spend it online because I don't have the allowed ID !? I clean and do gardening in the homes of people who later choose to implement laws that forbids me to have a have my own home, my car, medical treatment... Then after those daytime gigs that pay shit money, I go back to my "home office" then open my laptop to start coding or learning. The next day: rinse and repeat.

A donation is like a financial thank-you note! Accept it or not, it's your choice. As, a user of various Mozilla products, I'm grateful of their work and all that they build and make freely accessible. Thanks to them, I'm able to earn a living (food, transport and housing), to gain capital that is 10x of what I'd bring in without Internet-related work.

Crypto is a tool that's beneficial to whomever can make use of it. BTC is not under control of a single human or a small team. Its decentralized nature makes me a truckload of hope to live day after day in a racist country. Those priviledged citizens complaining about crypto's climate impact are similar to those who want to ban nuclear reactors. They have fantasies in their mind larger than their collective egos and technological ignorance. They have houses full of household robots (which I compete with nowadays while cleaning houses) where they daydream about some naive version of the future. Instead of screaming illogical facts in public discourse, why don't you pick up all your belongings and go live in civilizations with much less basic infrastructure and tech prowess? What's stopping you? When will you give up your comfort? Let's stop with the hypocrisy.

As a donor, I will give in BTC to others. The habit is in my DNA. In the real world, I'm an undocumented immigrant. In the online world, I'm myself and free to make use of my full potential. Mozilla's browser is one of the gateway to the worldwide web. Firefox doesn't ask me my ID to start having fun or working online. Firefox and Bitcoin are tools that I enjoy and will always cherish for their great utility in my digital projects. I will not trust the opinion of anticrypto people because they have countless choices in their lifespan and mine are limited by default.

It'd be lovely to get references or links to verify your claims.

I'm having doubts regarding that art exhibit titled "Afrofuturism" which is "speculating about history which never was". My main issue is that the exhibit name contains "futurism" which would imply anything related to a potential future, not past history.

Reluctant to dig around on the web as I sense some bullshit logic in the previous statement.

That'd be great for some specific countries or markets. One gateway to a network being removed isn't bad news. More traffic and bandwidth is used by Wi-Fi nowadays.

Just in case that future phone will be connected to a headset or IOT devices, it makes sense to give less priority to GSM functionality.

I saw "password less login" on your homepage, then a smile took over my facial expression. Your product is innovative, that's an advantage over potential competitors with bigger teams and wallets. Another great plus is that you have a walk-through video ready for onboarding new users and visually guiding curious web explorers. Wish you get plenty of success and keep building SlikSafe!

It's infuriating how information about his track record is less saught for and discussed publicly.

With what you've just added about Parag, I now see him as someone mistakenly judged, someone who's not given a chance or the benefit of doubt. Can't wait to marvel at the good decisions this stellar and technically-fit person will take as Twitter CEO.

Jack Dorsey may have selected the most logical executive in the board room with a decade's worth of familiarity with the company and its products.

Your last sentence just made me freak out thinking that I've previously done such stupidity in front of a "law officer". I never for one second thought it could be a trap; I was overly willing to cooperate and truthfully respond to a "theoretical" inquiry. Damn, it hurts in retrospective.

Glad you shared these valuable resources. As a self-taught coder, I always admired the quality in writings published by these big orgs but I couldn't emulate them. On the links you get access to various clear guidelines which are quite helpful for open-source technical docs and project description. Thank you Ser.

There is a marketing bonanza going on that's led by them. I lost count of how many PR or advertising deals that they have launched in the last 3 months on the Internet or in the real world. Add to that the listing of their own token! WOW

Well, a lot of money being pumped in by income from new users on their platforms and flowing out by making themselves know more publicly. Rinse and repeat at a fast rate. I wish I could see the growth numbers about daily active users on the exchange after the end-of-year holiday season!?

Plus, at the end of the week, announcements related to Web3 services during a broadcast on Cloudfare TV. Their CEO will be talking to a prominent crypto investor.

Thanks for your link. I can only imagine a future where remote dev work is the new norm. As the rest of society discovers the joys of working from anywhere, such browser-based coding innovations are helpful to on-board new curious developers. We no longer need costly setups/desktops to run very useful software like VSCode.

After seeing this post, I started searching for a cheap and good tablet which led me to a soon-to-be released Android tablet from Nokia (less than 250€). Tablets are trending again! Coupled with other existing affordable solutions like Termux and Git, software development will attract more people regardless of personal background/status/location. We won't be seen as hipsters for long.

I am heading towards making life changes similar to yours (hopefully after Santa delivers his gifts on-time), so I feel grateful that you shared your experience.

Yes, you're right. Four main reasons that drove me towards Mullvad:

1. Mozilla VPN is built on top of it.

2. Cheap and stable price. 5€/month.

3. Ability to pay by cash.

4. Founded and based in Europe (Sweden).

From an American perspective, it is understandable that a group of religious fanatics grabed all attention by acts of extreme violence. But, from a non-American perspective, I think that too much resources were needlessly invested by the US to chase a faraway bunch of lunatics. Our attention was purposefully oriented by the USA towards the Middle East for what was unclear and uncertain at the time of invasion.

Why not simply take out the top leaders or commanders? Why not stage a coup d'état? Why not put in a place an embargo? Why not sanction the financiers of radicals?

The issue with China is they are deadbeat serious about economic growth. Masquerading as communists, speaking out as socialists but deep down thinking like mere capitalists. The historian makes comparison between Soviet Union and PRC that I think are erroneous. Crimea and Taiwan could be compared on the basis of territory size or cultural affinities. But unfortunately, China decided to focus on the Xinjiang region. From there, it borders more than 5 huge countries and the region is the basis for implementing their next decade growth engine i.e. belt and road project. They have more official manpower over there than on the Taiwan borders. They are effectively able to colonize the Uyghur region more than the overpopulated Taiwan island. Why bother making scenarios that China might invade a wealthy nation instead of a lawless region? The terrorists for America were in Middle East; the terrorists for China are not far from that location.

Really, China and SE Asia will continue their rise as it's evident that Americans are self-obsessed and lack commitment to long term goals. Interagency fights lead to zero sum games in the federal administration which will then destroy any valuable foreign policy strategy. Let's learn the lesson for goodness' sake. Truly speaking, the US has always been an immigrant country, so growth will certainly come from the new-comers. The issue is that for the last five years, the USA has portrayed itself as the most anti-immigrant land. It's been losing its appeal for talented professionals. Then it's hard for me to agree with a historian who is predicting the future out of thin air with plenty of bias.

Most probably, Xi's administration will move to Taiwan... to poach its tech talent pool. Until now, the Chinese media has not yet started beating drums for their army to go hunt ennemies in the South East Asia. Their focus and attention is really elsewhere.

Besides the assumption about the number of holders, it's not clear how a holder contributes individually to power consumption. What if you own a wallet and don't do transactions? What if you're "hosting" it on a publicly traded company's servers?

In my understanding, there are many stakeholders when it's about bitcoin technology. Be it miners, traders, holders, exchanges... BTC is not solely a common legal entity (like: country, company) nor a widespread regular resource (as: oil, gas, water). It's more like the Internet; another protocol to exchange information(+value). Then, who is going to fairly assess the overall energy consumption of The Internet? Thus, the logic followed in that assertion is incredibly hard to understand (but unfortunately popular nowadays).

That is very interesting. It seems to me that the Norwegian society treats personal wealth information like what could happen with cryptos and blockchains.

Makes me want to dig deeper and understand the WHYs and HOWs it's been accomplished.

As someone born in a war-torn country, interpersonal trust is very hardly imaginable outside blood-linked relatives. Overall, in such a society there is a high degree of mistrust between individuals from different social classes or regions. Publicly displaying resources like yearly income is the last thing that would come to anyone's mind. As an adult, I have no concrete idea how much a sibling/parent makes per month. We've become so used to being vague while uncomfortably sharing our earnings.

A place like Norway seems like utopia to me. Does the government intervene by sharing citizen's reported income? Who gets to verify, record and archive such info? Is there a kind of punishment for liars/cheaters/abusers? Is the disclosure of personal income a strict legal obligation or a non-binding local tradition? I'm fairly puzzled.

Well, I believe that there are many other endeavours under the umbrella of Mozilla Foundation.

Another project (personally I'm more familiar with this) that's not very notorious but has a whole team of researchers is Common Voice, i.e. open-source datasets for training voice tech systems.

From their website : "Mozilla is a global non-profit dedicated to putting you in control of your online experience and shaping the future of the web for the public good." -> https://foundation.mozilla.org/