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The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.

That's not to say you can't use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.

"Crypto" is such a vague term it's almost comical to imply it's private. Sure there are ways to use crypto privately, but it takes a lot of steps.

They were talking about Nova, not Lawnchair. Nova hasn't officially been abandoned, but they were purchased by a big data broker a few years ago, and just a few months ago Branch (Nova's owner) laid off almost all of the Nova Launcher development team.

Nova is not dead, but the writing is on the wall.

But that's not a burner phone, that's an off phone.

burner goes from your house, to abortion clinic, to your office, back to your house

Hmm, must be someone else, I don't recognize this number

-The Government

Similar, but lighting system as a sleep tool. Lights start off warm white and slowly dim to amber / red, then off at the push of a button every night.

How's about a patent that expires 5 years after its first use by a billion+ dollar company? 5 years after it is used in more than 10,000 products? 5 years after its licensing has yielded over $1M in profit? 5 years after spending over $100k on advertising? 5 years after your first major court settlement?

I think there are ways to protect individual innovators but also lessen patent abuse

It's a poor analogy, but imagine a public IP like a hotel, there can be lots of guests (clients) at this hotel. Hotel policy is they won't let any outsiders in unless you know the room number (port) of the person you're trying to reach.

Imagine you and a friend are staying in separate hotels and want to give each other copies of your favorite Linux .ISOs, but neither of you knows the other's room number - you show up at the hotel and the front desk tells you to pound sand because you don't have their room number.

As long as one of you knows the other's room number though, you can meet.

Torrenting without port forwarding means you can only trade your favorite .ISOs with people who have port forwarding enabled (sharing their room number to the tracker), which makes you less effective of a seeder. Enabling port forwarding allows you to share with anyone (sharing your room number with the tracker).

All of the banks I've used in the past utilize email or SMS for 2FA, which isn't the must secure, but doesn't require an app.

It looks like you're missing the "Manage shared info" section and "Personalized Shopping" link, which yields the above toggle for me (CA, US)...

The question is, is it gone because your privacy laws make it impossible to even offer, or because your privacy laws don't require them to care about your opinion at all?

"This sub is now entirely dedicated to discussing u/Spez's involvement in moderating jailbait subreddits"

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.