Whoohoo Viva Ponzi baby!

Edit: But also very little is being said here.

This is really badly written, and that particularly annoys me because the subject matter is actually important.

Idk I wonder how abrupt this actually was. Russia sanctions have been happening for a while.

Indeed, what is the opposite of “Whoop whoop?”

Regardless of the content of your comment, I respect bringing back eth and thorn.

Cool. Would love to dee this done for all the “Smart” appliances.

The major credit cards are essentially infrastructure, and really should not have the right to refuse to serve a lawful business.

Do you have any info or links about that?

One benefit to payment processing for crypto is that there’s little in the way of material limitations on processing payments. The blockchain for a given coin already exists, your job as a processor is primarily to convert those on-chain transactions into and out of other currencies. Only requiring intervention at the point of entering or exiting dollars to and from the system changes a lot of the dynamics.

I truly don’t understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.

What’s someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don’t stop a store that person doesn’t even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?

I don’t get how these campaigns are even effective.

I would not recommend relying on Tailscale. They have been soliciting a lot of venture capital lately and are probably going to go for an IPO sooner or later. I would not put a lot of trust in that company. The investors are going to want their money.

I think it’s good that Reddit is trying to continue to allow adult content within the legal framework in which it must operate.

I guess what I’m not clear on it is what the legal framework is for verification services. Absent rules that require robust privacy protections market forces will push a race to the bottom in terms of cost and data security will be the first to take a hit.

I know this might seem weird but I think this is one of those cases where a blockchain based smart contract might be the best solution. I’m not exactly sure, as any system that allows one to consume content generally also allows one to copy it, but having a system defined in code in a publicly auditable manner that cannot be changed without notice seems to me to have the capacity to grant the most reassurance.

I mean I assume that all the verification company is doing now is verifying a person’s age and then giving a kind of authorization token that’s cryptographically secure that basically says “the owner of this cryptographic key is of age”.

Keeping the age verifier seperate from the content host is good. Destroying the files used for verification is good. On paper it’s not too a bad system for age verification, but it really hinges on if you can trust them. Given the track record of basically almost every company and government ever…

I for one am celebrating the Trump administration’s commitment to ending US military hegemony.

Oh no, not quality and craftsmanship!

It takes 7 seconds for the terminal to load on my brand new laptop. I’m sure there’s some way to fix it, but that…just enrages me.

And it’s dog shit too.

The US military is not for national defense, it’s a pay pig for a handful of corporations.

When civilians want something, it’s always “those poor corporations!”

At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of “combat readiness”, “supporting the troops”, “taxpayer dollars”, and other things that politicians often say they care about.

They are examples of complex and difficult tasks that humans are capable of when working together, implying through comparison reordering society is also achievable.