jabjoe

Advantages of cash and digital, without the swings of raw crypto. Also leaving the ability to usefully manipulate your country's currency.

Crypto means easy, open payment systems. No gatekeepers like WorldPay.

Proof of stake uses a load less than proof of work.

Be really good if currencies could go in and out of crypto. Could cut out a lot of middle men.

They think they have a captured market. They aren't completely wrong. Normies don't know how to sail the high seas.

The problem is power dynamic. It is a DRM service built round closed apps. You will take what you are given and like it. You can not view their cultural work without agreeing to these terms (Legally). The deal will keep getting worse until it starts losing money.

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Also depends on the country. It isn't everywhere. Non-commercial file-sharing is legal in a number of European countries and I'm sure elsewhere.

It could be taken as a sign of the health of the democracy's function and technically literacy of the population. In a society of tech heads with a highly functional democracy, it would be DRM measures that would be illegal.....

Just a follow up to this.

So I never ended up contacting O2 to say "please stop this", I just used Wireguard to home and ignored it. Until the local Morrison's wifi started doing the same thing but worse and I couldn't event Wireguard round it.

So I finally just bought a domain and setup my Apache to redirect the old duckdns to the new domain.

So far this all seams to be working great.

Even modern cars don't all have self drive and collision avoidance. I've driven a few new cars recently and none do more than flash messages and beep when they forsee a crash.

What? No, I want people to be responsible because that is what works.

Search "car slams breaks in false positive collision detection". There are loads of stories. Mine beeps sometimes, but thankfully doesn't apply the breaks itself.

Even those are riddled with proprietary devices. Cars have had a CAN bus network of devices for decades. These closed smarts alone have caused things like the emissions scandal. These alone interfere with right to repair and competition. What is new is the spying and direct control, but the problem is older than that.

Nope. The vandalism is by the troll farms and a weapon of the quiet information war waging against reality.

Unfortunately there is no car that isn't proprietary and even ones without "auto pilot" have things like collision detection that can slam on the breaks for you.

I think even without government sweeteners there would be plenty of buyers.