@mister_monster @Saki

>Use things incapable of complying with anything in the first place.

This is it.

@mister_monster @4rkal Agreed. Surprising for me, as well. I suppose for the git-stuff, the community is complacent with the fact that github still hasn’t tried any shenanigans. Most of the issue tickets are opened there, and most of the code and protocol related discussions use github’s infra. There is too much inertia to overcome to make the change from github to a git[dot]getmonero.org, for instance.

Regarding the forum: agreed. However, we still have monero.town that is positioned to become the forum-like discussion medium, which is independent of the reddit.

@HardenedSteel yeah… basically proton is a honeypot:

>cannot use their tor hidden service for anonymous account creation

>cannot use the btc payment option during anonymous account creation

>no XMR payment option at all

I think Monero community can do better. Just create a version of cockli service that forces people to pay a buck a month in XMR. Promise to keep their emails encrypted in the server SSDs, or allow them to use POP to pull their emails to their local devices. etc. etc.

Someone can be the new lavabit…

@HardenedSteel this is a niche still awaiting for its entrepreneur.

Proton accepts btc (sigh (put +1 to the column that argues for them being a honeypot)). You might use trocador to exchange from btc to xmr and make your payment.

But, again, some sort of email service that takes XMR in exchange of service would be good. The operators of the email service can even use the XMR payment as a sort of counter-spam measure against bot accounts, and spam senders. The service can also use “Mullvad-style” random digits per the customer in order to track their XMR payments for the service, and demand no personally identifiable information, at all.

@Wave Looks good. So it indeed is a stack of 6 CPUs with their adjacent RAM sticks. Cool packaging. I wish the also did the noise measurement. I wonder if these X5’s are also as ear-raping as btc-miners are.

@simping4xmrchan the only ones that should be responsible for caring about the children are their parents. Let go of the nanny-state bullshit.

@jet @monerobull how can monero network be sustainable without an operating fee?

@simping4xmrchan

>Instead, he points out the ease of creating incentives for individuals to voluntarily register for an Internet ID by making life significantly easier \[2\] for those who do so (similar to how a driver’s license is not required, but life is difficult without one).

This is also called “nudging”. It is an important mass-control tool the modern techno-industrial-media state has.

http://ybgg2evrcdz37y2qes23ff3wjqjdn33tthgoagi76vhxytu4mpxiz5qd.onion/wiki/Nudge_theory?lang=en

@simping4xmrchan fucking sucks. Outrageous to know there will be no push-back from the normies. We have a similar situation in Turkiye, too. One cannot travel without the all-seeing eye of the government digital surveillance systems…

Again, there won’t be a push-back by the populace. They are too de-sensitized, made devoid of their agency, and turned into a cattle by the techno-capital’s many forms of brainwashing entertainment systems.

Given this, what else legitimizes the fairy-tale of democracy, then? “Power to the people,” but which of them are willing to use power?

@monerotalk this episode was quite a mess. Really wasted my time here trying to make up what the guest’s claims really are. Doug was utterly unable to set the guest straight, and was unable to make him present some coherent train-of-thought arguments supporting his claims. The whole episode was a stream-of-consciousness style rambling coming from a seem-to-be deranged mind.

I expected better.

@Saki I run whatever I want on my computers. Politicians can go pound sand.

@shortwavesurfer unbelievable that some corpos turn to subpar solutions like LN. Many people can’t get that working (re: SethforPrivacy’s recent tweet).

Monero could’ve easily supplanted bitcoin for use in paying kagi, or to ivpn for that matter. Ivpn has recently announced a small-time vpn subscription service, and they also announced they will take LN payments for it. Good luck getting it working.

@shortwavesurfer

>Plus they now accept crypto as payment

They aren’t accepting Monero yet, I guess.

@shortwavesurfer @rar any advantage in using kagi instead of various searxNG/whoogle instances that are free to use? Also, brave’s search engine is getting better.

@rar I pay for my own domain name + VPS for ~45 USD per quarter. (I know there are cheaper providers, but I am happy with my current one).

I don’t use VPN, I use Tor while browsing and use I2P while torrenting—so I don’t pay a dime to obfuscate my online trails.

I use a free tier from a “privacy-conscious” email provider, so I don’t pay for that either. I don’t self-host my email and I don’t seek die-hard email privacy with mine, currently. At most, I PGP-encrypt some of them.

I self-host my own matrix server, which is an e2ee chatting service. So, that goes into my VPS subscription.

@shortwavesurfer why did dgoon stop making the developer segment?

@nyakojiru Definitely Local Monero. It has mobile apps, and you don’t need to link a bank account. You can totally stay anon on there.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MONERO DEALER!

@Subject6051 I pirate anything digital. I don’t give AF. If it’s available for free after a few clicks, I have it. Fuck the intellectual property noize.

I torrent over the I2P, too. Feds, glowies, and the hollywood cartel can’t even spot me.

@tusker

>there’s a need to stop putting the state on a pedestal

damn straight

@simping4xmrchan

>demonstrating that their funds (do not) originate from known (un-)lawful sources, without publicly revealing their entire transaction graph.

tbh, I am skeptical about how the current status quo of government apparatus defines the “lawful” and “unlawful.” So, it is total obfuscation without compromises.