I do this and I use Proton as my email provider. I think as long as you set the email security standards, which Proton, for example, teaches you how to do, you should be fine.
From what I understand, silent payments only gives the sender the ability to generate addresses that the receiver can pull Bitcoin from. So it protects the receiver, but it does not protect the sender and it does not protect the amounts. This is a step in the right direction for Bitcoin, but it's still nothing compared to Monero.
Edit: Instead of having the receiver manually have to give you a new address that's fresh every single time you want to pay them. This automatically can generate new addresses to pay them without their input.
Started using Linux in 2010 on a virtual machine on a Windows XP machine that was really not meant to run it and it was God awful. But I knew that it was the virtual machine not Linux itself. After that I was using my laptop for school and a Windows update completely broke it and I absolutely had to use it for the next class that I was going to in like five minutes and I had a flash drive with a live Linux environment already on it and so I just used that. However, once I was done with class that day, my first thought was why should I even go in and attempt to fix this Windows machine when Linux has been working fine for me all day. And so I just went ahead and wiped the disk and ran the installer. And I've been using Linux ever since. I do generally keep a Windows virtual machine around, just in case, but it's extremely rare that I've ever needed to use it.
I mostly follow the Dave Ramsey every dollar plan. So I have my budget worked out in such a way that once I'm done paying everything and moving money around, my bank account has like $5 in it that's just there to absorb any weird charges I might forget about. It doesn't normally happen, but it helps to have it just for that reason. I also have a specific amount that I put into my savings every month and the vast majority of my money I take out of the fiat system entirely every single month.
Sorry, its pixelfed. I corrected the original comment, but wanted to make sure that you knew there was a misspelling.
Why insta and not pixelfed?
Keep in mind that article is two years old.
I personally don't have a PDF reader since Firefox can open them and so can Fossify Files
None that I'm aware of. I guess it's possible, but I have not seen it be the case yet.
Edit: I can tell you for a fact that the ones I'm listing are legitimate. And if you don't believe me, try purchasing one with the multi-signature escrow.
I've been involved in crypto since like 2013 or 2014 and the most common thing that I buy with crypto is my groceries.
It's also used to buy baking pans, dove soap, coffee makers, and toasters. Xmrbazaar.com
Firefox gets tons of funding from Google, and their code is quite frankly humongous. From what I understand, it's extremely hard to get the gecko web view engine to work. In another browser, unless it's a fork of Firefox, unlike Chromium where you can just redesign an entire browser around it.
Fair enough, there's some really golden information in this thread.
What about those military things that they use to disperse crowds? Where it makes you feel like your skin is cooking, but it's actually not. I feel like that uses high power and high frequency radio waves to accomplish that.
The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.
You know, that's a good point. I didn't even think of that. But you're right.
Mind crossposting this to [email protected]?
Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.
By using PeerTube instead
I loved that right up. I would totally want something like this. However, I don't do anything that would require insurance for the scenario that was laid out in this onion link, but I would like a cypherpunk car insurance or house insurance or something.
FOSS replacement for Firefox Focus?
Title. I use Firefox Focus because it's easy to clear history by just hitting the Delete button and it saves very little to no information on app exit. I know the Duck Duck Go privacy browser does this as well, but it's more of a full-fledged browser with bookmarks and everything else. Where I'm just looking for something super lightweight and quick.
USA: The financial meltdown is beginning.
A court dispute has ensnared potentially millions of Americans, leaving them without access to their money for nearly two weeks.
They are keeping this quiet, but this affects 2.9% of US bank customers.
Telecom Giant and T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Plans to Mine Bitcoin
How much is privacy actually worth?
I can't seem to find an actual currency estimate of how much privacy is actually worth. I see a ton of articles talking about why privacy should be worth more to people or what people would pay for privacy services or how much people would sell their privacy for, but I don't see anything that gives a value for the privacy industrial complex, so to speak. Like if you take every company and non-profit and everything else and throw it all together, how much is the privacy industry actually worth?
Edit: It's worth at least $2.8 billion US dollars because that is the market cap on average of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero.
Edit 2: If you put Monero, Zcash, and Dash together, you come up with $3.4 billion US dollars.
Edit 3: All the above plus Signal, Proton and EFF bring it up to 3.5 billion.
Monero mentioned in the news
"That’s why, while almost no one pays for coffee with bitcoin, many use the privacy coin monero (XMR) to buy this or that"
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/06/14/mass-adoption-would-ruin-crypto-keep-it-a-niche/
Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?
cross-posted from: https://social.hai.haus/objects/ed94b6d5-d8c9-4788-8909-6688c5fdc4ac
@[email protected] Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176304/flow-computing-startup-parallel-processing-accelerator
My thoughts on Tortured Poets Department.
So it seems to me that things like tortured poets department and midnight have been more mellow than her previous albums such as 1989 and reputation. Personally, I don't like them as well. They are still good. There's no question about that, but I prefer the more upbeat style she used in reputation, especially.
Edit: Pretty sure my favorite song from Tortured Poets Department is probably "Down Bad".
We shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week to afford a basic life. We do because our currency is constantly losing value. This is by design.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16569040
There's a lot of talk about inflation and its causes. Is it corporate greed? Supply chain issues? One clear base cause of inflation less talked about is having an inflationary currency supply. Any other inflation caused by supply chain issues, corporate greed, lack of market competition, etc is just added on top of that. Fiat inflationary currency is a rather new invention in terms of the human timeline. In the US, Nixon is the start of it. Central banks aim for 2-3% inflation in "good years". The money supply expands, the portion of that supply a single dollar represents, and therefore its value, decreases. This isn't a conspiracy, it's government policy, and both parties gleefully support it because it benefits their rich donors.
Think of it: in the last 50 years, everything has gotten cheaper to produce thanks to increasing mechanization, outsourcing to cheap labor/low regulation countries, and extremely efficient supply cha
Inflation is higher than they would like you to believe.
The US government is telling everybody that inflation is 3.4% per year. That is not correct. Try 14.2% and that's about right. Source : gold/usd 1 year simple moving average.
monero.com has lost weight
I just noticed that the last couple of versions of the Monero.com wallet have lost like 130 megabytes of weight. Maybe it decided to lay off on the Cake.
Flicky Bee
So i saw TWIF And a new game was added called Flicky Bee. It caught my attention so I decided to test it out and it's disturbingly more entertaining than it has any right to be. Lol
A potential small-scale spam attack?
In recent days, we had been hovering right around 35 to 40,000 transactions per day, and just in a very short amount of time, it's went from that level up to 53,000. I am not aware of any major purchasing holidays, such as Christmas or back to school, that might cause a bump in transactions like this, so I'm wondering if it might be the beginning of a low-grade spam attack.
coindesk wrote an article about the "M" word
It is getting harder to buy XMR, but every day that monero continues to exist is proof positive of its value, says CoinDesk's Dan Kuhn.
They even included a quote from a redditer that I thought wouldn't be included.
Feds really must hate monero. Guess it’s a proof to keep using it
My thoughts on Read You RSS reader
I want to like it, but it is not sending me push notifications, and that is a deal breaker. I run lineage OS and have ntfy as a unified push provider but expected that the app would be able to have a check interval at which time it would send me notifications if anything was new. The description says it's capable of doing notifications, but I did not see them in several hours of using it with notifications turned on. This is probably one I will revisit in the future to see if there's any progress on it.
Edit: I just realized in filing a comment on a bug report with my experience this morning that the system never did prompt me to allow notifications for the app. So I manually went in and allowed notifications and so we will see if that works.
Edit 2: that worked. Add a new feed, swipe up to go to app switcher, tap read you icon, tap app info, tap notifications, and turn them on. Switch back to read you, long press a feed, and tap allow notification (it doesnt respect the setting when
issues loading a web page
I have no clue why, but i am not able to load http://feder8.me/p2pool/ on fennec 124.2.0 (android) but it loads fine on firefox focus 122.0, tor browser 13.0.12 (android based on firefox 115.9.0), and firefox desktop 125.0.2.
Can anybody else see if it's doing the same thing? Because I'm wondering if the desktop Firefox and the mobile Firefox are formatting in different ways when it retrieves the AAAA record from the DNS or something?
Large loans in monero
How would you go about doing this? As an example, if you loaned someone 167 monero to buy a car and expect them to pay you back in 7 years like a bank does you would be requesting 167xmr*6.02% (to counter xmr inflation) for a total of 177.053xmr. 177.053xmr/84 (months in 7 years) would be 2.107xmr a month. At the moment that is fine, but if the usd price of monero rises and the borrower is being paid in usd then they are going to default and you will loose the xmr. The only way I could see to counteract this would be to lower the Monero payments per month, but then that would take even longer to be repaid.
HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY MONERO! 🎉🎉🎉
On #Monero's 10th birthday i think it is also important to look at the #Bitcoin genisis block.
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
Thank you for all your great work #Satoshi. I hope wherever you are, you are proud to see the results of your work.
Trump advisers are plotting to deliberately devalue the dollar if he’s re-elected, report says
Top advisers said to be ‘actively debating’ move in order to bolster US exports
Talk about an excellent thing for Monero
Fossify Notes is out (IzzyOnDroid)
Fossify Notes Is the replacement for the simple notes that was acquired by an Ad tech company. And further updates were closed source.