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Please, improve this. As a user I want Tox to be secure. But also, as a user, I'll use it rather than Skype even if it does have some concerns. It's a genuine, open source, Skype replacement that more-or-less works. The encryption stuff is just the icing on the cake.

It would be a great project even with zero encryption.

/ramblerant

(Hint: Certain libertarian leaning early adopters who want Bitcoin to remain as a government-proof store of value, viewing any small reduction in decentralisation to be a terrible thing, and not caring about its use as an actual payment network)

> it's like airbnb but with less privacy?

A lot of these "nomad" ventures have a huge focus on networking, socialising... I'd like to see something catering for introverts as well. Something that ticks all the boxes - self contained room + kitchen, Wifi. Desk, with chair.

Kind of like Airbnb apartments but with a more razor focus, a place with quality control where I know I can get work done. The Airbnb of (small, low budget!) serviced apartments.

General "serviced apartment" facilities might fit this, however they all appear to focus on the premium end - large spacious apartments fit for well salaried business travellers, not freelance tech guys just scraping by.

Heck, all I want is a sound proofed box with Wifi, bed, and a tiny Kitchen. Somewhere I can work in absolute peace, self cater if I wish, but also venture out from now and then.

I understand this is not what you are aiming for, but if you ever need any other ideas... ;)

For the record, I appreciate your technical critiques! But you seem to take a perverse delight in being the critic.

ChangeTip is cool. It is a Bitcoin killer app. Like it or not, giving tips, even to people who don't need them, is fun. And for every person who is tipped who may not want or need it, I've seen some kid who is quite happy as they realise they've just been gifted something worth a few dollars. And then their journey into Bitcoin begins as they try to figure out how to actually spend it.

(I'm pretty sure Silk Road never allowed assassination, and the similar claims against him personally seem quite dubious and designed to shape opinion.)

A truly awful article.

Huh. I've tried quite a few different meds in the search for a chemical cure for social phobia, and always, somebody eventually suggests opiates as the only thing that will truly act as an "off" switch. (Accompanied by the usual dire warnings.)

I don't think I'll ever risk it though. But I can see why some people do. I wish the pain killing component could be separated from the addictive part.

That reddit link was a very interesting read.

I've often had problems when using a VPN too.

You can appreciate a persons body, you can appreciate a persons personality. Doing the former doesn't magically invalidate the latter. That I appreciated just the body with a glance, at a point in time, doesn't mean the women has no worth other than this.

If I went around saying women had no value other than for pleasuring a man - now that would be objectification. I do not think that.

The article in question could have addressed the real issue of doxing and online threats without taking a side in this political GamerGate fiasco.

Yes, there are. The majority, in fact. And there are a fair few women in the movement too, but I suppose you think they are poor deluded fools who are oppressing themselves and need the guiding arm of the authoritarian left (including its legions of male feminists) to help them think proper thoughts.

>justify some pretty terrible actions

I'm asking that the terrible actions of BOTH sides are reported. There is an awful, hateful minority on both sides, but in the mainstream media, only the terrible actions of the GamerGate side is reported.

(And there is surely legitimate argument on both sides, too.)

Keywords "gamergate knife".

Please don't whitewash the GamerGaters who have also experienced such attacks. (For example, one was "doxed" and mailed a knife with a suggestion to kill himself - which I'd argue a far worse "attack" than any online threats. The anti-GamerGate media of course doesn't report on this.)

Perhaps it is possible to ship a client with some default blacklisting of certain products, sellers etc, if a person wants to avoid stumbling by accident across such stuff. (Maybe even such blacklists would become updated and mandated by law.)