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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Better but still pretty bad, in that case can only hope the software/trading ecosystems for p2p improve enough to be more generally viable and that once that happens there won't be reactive legislation to stamp it out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Because of inflation, it's not going to stay 3k. All rules of this type have fixed amounts that never get updated and every year encompass more transactions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Supposedly this legislation also bans anonymous cryptocurrency.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do you need special qualifications to work for Door Dash lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Seeking individuals of refined taste to dissertate nuanced perspectives on the clussy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Being addicted to the internet

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What gets me about this is that, while it would still be bad, they could have mostly avoided the privacy nightmare here with some kind of Zero Knowledge Proof scheme, but the tracking is obviously part of the point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Explicit types are just laziness, you should be catching exceptions anyways.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The police believe that the motive behind this hacking was to reduce network-related costs, as torrent transfers can be costly for internet service providers. KT, however, claims that it was merely trying to manage traffic on its network to ensure a smooth user experience.

Sounds like they admit it but object to the negative tone lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

more limited risk

Doubt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Microsoft hasn’t detailed ESU pricing for consumers yet, but the company did previously reveal it will offer these extended updates to consumers for the first time ever

They're actually gonna make us pirate security updates huh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Really interesting article. The general idea seems to be that people having their access to banking shut down has been a real problem for a long time, and is most commonly imposed on marginalized groups, but people don't realize it's going on, and the people on the right making noise about this issue ignore where the bulk of the problem is.

This is sometimes how I feel when I appear on the 'anti-mainstream' 'free thought' media outlets. They want to hear about the financial censorship of the Freedom Convoy, but they don’t want to hear about restrictions on Aboriginal payments. This hints to a skew in their freedom of thought, and it’s certainly not open-minded. When they approach me, they’re trying to recruit that mercenary side of me who is nominally prepared to defend their narrow free thinking, but this poses an ethical dilemma, because their selective curation of what examples of payments censorship they’re prepared to ask about or listen to amounts to a silent form of censorship in itself. Selectively hearing, and amplifying, one set of injured voices - the Truckers - can be very similar to blocking another set out.

Firstly, yes, it’s very important to fight the general principle of payments censorship (and, by extension, to protect the cash system that provides a buffer agai nst it). Secondly, I must inform them that the actual chances of payments censorship being used against them is smaller than the chances of it being used against refugees, migrants, the homeless, or sex workers, who face recent real-world cases of financial censorship.

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