shortwavesurfer 3mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Possibly.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 71%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 66%
It is definitely possible to place rent some places with crypto. Any that will accept a debit card at least. As far as the credit card bill you could be right about that one. Credit card bills, car payments, and mortgages are the hardest ones to deal with since they are direct bank withdrawals.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Sorry, its pixelfed. I corrected the original comment, but wanted to make sure that you knew there was a misspelling.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 40%
Monero
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Why insta and not pixelfed?
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Keep in mind that article is two years old.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 33%
I personally don't have a PDF reader since Firefox can open them and so can Fossify Files
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 66%
I've been involved in crypto since like 2013 or 2014 and the most common thing that I buy with crypto is my groceries.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 64%
I got some oceanfront property in Arizona. I'd be glad to sell you.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
It's also used to buy baking pans, dove soap, coffee makers, and toasters. Xmrbazaar.com
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Yes, you absolutely can. Decor apps are actually very nice.
I highly suggest clicking the link to the cross post and reading it as those comments are super good.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
Fair enough, there's some really golden information in this thread.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 100%
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.
shortwavesurfer 4mo ago • 72%
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.
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.
I just got an update from the Guardian project here recently for the Tor Browser version 13.5 on Android. Before, there always used to be a notification in the notification tray that would say the download and upload speed and have a new identity button to switch circuits if one was lagging. But I do not see that anymore. So how do I change circuits now without completely closing the browser and reopening it which would be a total pain in the ass?
They are keeping this quiet, but this affects 2.9% of US bank customers.
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.
"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/
cross-posted from: https://social.hai.haus/objects/ed94b6d5-d8c9-4788-8909-6688c5fdc4ac > @technology@lemmy.world Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster? > > https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176304/flow-computing-startup-parallel-processing-accelerator