Elise

I’m skeptical of this making a difference due to this act that was passed in the Netherlands, which allows for sending data to foreign parties without any oversight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Dutch_Intelligence_and_Security_Services_Act_referendum

And that’s gonna fix the yt comment section? People are just dicks that’s all.

I’m curious what you mean by flooding a VPN pool

I’d totally be on board with this if the moderation was aimed purely at such cases.

I’m afraid it will be used to oppress minorities and suppress political opinion. Are we going to keep putting people in jail for their political opinions?

Uhh dude have you ever looked into what types of characters run these companies? You’re just an npc to them.

Do you really think our current economic system incentivizes good behavior? It’s all about being exploitative, and so it filters out anybody who cares about others. If they don’t, then someone else will. Take a look at starbucks. They don’t pay taxes in for example Germany. If they did, as other coffee shops do, they will go down. So the system dynamics filter out the people who are prepared to not care about others.

Check out the Snowden movie. That’s so much worse.

😂 The way you wrote it I imagined your pants dropping during a fight.

When I exchanged it I’d always end up with well over 100 euros, even 200.

It was also useful when I was low on money. Just yesterday my account was in the negative because… apparently it is possible for companies to get money from me when I have none? Well at least the coins were always safely there in my drawer so I could you know… eat?

I’ve lived in Germany and cards are just not really a thing there. The only real thing I hated about it was that everyone was somehow incapable of just prepping their cash, so I’ve wasted countless hours waiting in line at banks.

The other thing I hated was during corona. I worked in a store and we had to handle all that cash 🤢

Other than that, the coins are quite annoying. They’re bulky and heavy. My trick was to just empty them out every time I came home into a bowl. Then once a year or so I’d get it turned into paper money.

My bank recently got rid of their own contactless payment app and now I am forced to use Google pay. You have to accept Google’s privacy terms and they’ll have access to all your transactions. No thanks.

Beyond that I quite like using tech. Still waiting for bitcoin to take off after more than a decade. For budgeting you can use programs and it’ll notify you real time on your expenditures.

Well, I must also say that I realize that a lot of these places hide revenue.

But it course that is necessary if you want to compete with larger companies that evade taxes.

He had a shop and taught workshops in his studio.

I’ve also heard a claim of someone going full bitcoin, back in ~2013

I knew a guy who didn’t even have a bank account. He only accepted cash.

Regarding homeless people I’d say just carry a bunch of 2 euro coins. You can get them in a roll against a small payment at exchanges and it’ll last you a long time. That way you can also budget your donations.

I only quickly looked into it. I’m also looking for a solution for my work. It seems very privacy focused and works a bit like tor, so like you say, you don’t really know what’s going through your system. But it also has a trust system that trusts friends of friends and so on, so perhaps that isn’t a problem.

I’m wondering what your thoughts on IPFS are.

I appreciate your work. I’m thinking it should be easy to reach out to non tech content creators to get permission to migrate their stuff, and for end users like me to request that without a technical barrier. For example: I was watching a self defense channel throughout the week until the youpocalypse happened. What if there is a simple button for me to request his data to be integrated into your system? I’m pretty sure he is more focused on exposure and reach rather than ad revenue, so he might consent. You interpret this to be consent to ytdl it, store it, spread it.

Well, it’s one thing to say an ‘artificial agent’ looks at someone’s work on deviant art and learns from it. It’s another to use that to make money, as I personally can’t imagine many of the posters would have been on board with that.

Yeah, but anything you create automatically has a copyright, so for example this comment is not in the public domain. Its use is limited to the context I am using it in; that is, I expect it to be copied for federation purposes, but I wouldn’t say that AI is covered in this context, just genuine readership, moderation, and bots that are ‘part of the community’.

At least that’s the EU stance afaik. Like if I saw this comment on a billboard somewhere I’d see that as a clear breach of copyright and even privacy.