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It forces you to consent to whatever arbitrary EULA that the people running the coworking space probably haven't read.

I came across your project right around the time that I was considering building something similar.

Instead, I decided to let you do the work for me. I love these updates. Keep up the great work!

You've just described the value proposition for bitcoin, a peer to peer electronic cash system. Sadly, bitcoin has been captured by banks and is now only useful for gambling and parasitic investment scams.

I cannot imagine not being furious about both, simultaneously.

That being said, one of these is the culmination of tens of thousands of tiny consent violations made by hundreds or thousands of immoral, largely anonymous villians.

The other is one enormous and brazen violation of the constitution, made by a government organization which is funded by citizens to protect and serve them.

Both violations warrant the strictest repercussions.

I sat next to this guy at a security conference once and it took everything in me not to fanboy out and annoy the hell out of him with questions abput his work. This guy should be the standard for journalists.

Implying that someone has access to Satoshi's coins should tank the price, if anything.

If those were to be dumped on the open market, it would eat a lot of USD.

I would quit my job tomorrow and move to Oregon to work on his campaign. No joke.

I'm one of these people.

The problem I have is trust. Ads or nit, I no longer trust Facebook to not continue violating my privacy WHILE I'm a paying customer.

The trust has been broken and without data transparency and regulations with teeth, I simply won't give them another chance.

> The crypto dynamics have shifted the expectations so far to cheap, quick moment they most VCs, especially the a16z kind are more about “Can I juice this business and it’s metrics enough to sell it to someone to hold the bag”.

This strategy existed long before "crypto"

TikTok trackers aren't built into my phone's operating system.

> * "Companies are using your reading history to build a profile of you, including political stance, age, gender, location, religion, group affiliations, network of people you know"

... to then sell that profile to your government, legally.

As someone who has been deeply interested in this type of manufacturing technology for ages, my jaw is on the floor. Kudos to the person that made this. I'm so impressed.

> We are a crazy but exciting bunch of organisms.

I read this as "crazy but extinct bunch of organisms"

> The other option is that people would pay to use Reddit or Twitter. But they would lose 90% of their users if they took that route, because what they do does not provide enough value that a typical user would pay for it.

I see this repeated all the time but I've never seen any evidence cited to support it.

Also, 90% of the users leaving when the site switches to a paid model doesn't necessarily mean the quality of the site or their profitability will go down. I'd pay a pretty hefty monthly fee for most of the social media sites that I've now stopped using as a result of their heavy handed strategies to maximize ad revenue.

Also, since when did we start deciding how much value a thing could potentially provide to an individual? Isn't that what "the free market" is supposed to sort out?

> This energy would've been better at the time of peak-ICO, directed at the worst offenders.

Peak-ICO means peak resources to spend on legal defense. The best time is after at the end of a bear run.

> Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server.

I want this. I want this because it's a sustainable way to have Reddit without the ads. The bad UX is an acceptable tradeoff for a platform that doesn't go to shit.

Can you elaborate on this or cite some examples of how consumers could be disadvantaged?

Any recommendations on a genetic test to check for susceptibility?

As someone of a similar age, about to pull the figurative trigger, I really appreciate your anecdote.

I'd welcome more if you're up for it. Especially as it relates to family/personal life balance and the compromises you've had to make.

Sorry, no. I don't trust a government API/website with my personal information. They collect and abuse the private data that I DON'T willingly give them access to. Imagine what they'd do with the data I do.

> They are in the unique position to enable local AI tools, such as assistance or text generation, without the difficulties and privacy concerns with the cloud.

I don't see why client-side processing mitigates the privacy concerns. That doesn't stop Apple from "locally" spying on you then later sending that data to their servers.

No, friend. Your anger is misdirected.

Advertising. It's advertising that has ruined the internet. It's advertising that created this surveillance dystopia, enabling businesses and governments, large and small, to exploit you and your loved ones. Not the EU. Advertising.

GDPR is just a tiny bandage on the thumb of an encephalitic newborn, infected at birth with an opportunistic pathonagen. That pathogen is called Advertising.

> I don't like that either and some years ago I stopped providing my ID on request.

How does this work with picking up prescription medication?

Why would micropayments require users to make "a hundred purchasing decisions per day"?

One of many counter examples is the streaming media use case. The user agrees once to a certain price per minute/second streaming rate then the wallet software does the rest until the user is out of money or decides to stop watching/listening to the stream.

The reason micropayments aren't a thing is because BTC decided to pivot away from being cash in favor of being a speculative asset so the software that would make use of micropayments never got built.

If you don't think Meta makes money from the WhatsApp user contact network and linking that data to their other data sets, you are most certainly mistaken. There's tons of money in it, even now, before they start adding new privacy compromising features.

> These actions don't strike me as "censorship" because my enforcement of IP doesn't stop you from expressing yourself in any way.

This is a super slippery slope and we're sliding fast

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican...

It's hard to keep morale up after spending multiple hours composing a few thoughtful, "good fit" applications, just to be auto-rejected immediately upon submission without them even being seen by a human. I don't even bother anymore unless I have someone on the other end who's willing to usher my application straight to a hiring manager.

I expect youre being downvoted for the same reasons I felt the need to reply. I'm skeptical that any "local" news station is able to give you useful content without also pushing strong partisian agendas.

What station is it? Asking with an open heart and mind. I would love it if such a thing exists in this day and age.

I think they are suggesting that the exchange would use bot accounts, exempt from trading fees.

" Anyone else in the world " cant build a criminal case against you using parallel construction tactics while bypassing American's constitutional right to due process.