When was the last time YOU have “laundered money with crypto”?

Nice try, fed! (/j)

I’m with you. However, the current state of things is not what I envision when I think of decentralized currency and immutable public ledgers.

The Fediverse is only as good as we make it. Keep being excellent to people.

I like your measured view of crypto. I still am not convinced by your argument, mainly because I do not believe in capital as something to be protected, but I do think that regular people having the means to act apart from government oversight is good.

My issue is still that it doesn’t level the playing field. The benefits of privacy and decentralization for the wealthy outclass what benefits the rest of us get from the same thing. It’s just another way for the rich to get richer, while the poor stay poor.

While good things are done with it, my opinion is that it’s still a net negative.

Either way, have a lovely day. Hopefully I didn’t come off too harsh.

I’m kinda surprised there hasn’t been a foldable with an e-ink interior screen. Reading would be my use case, too, but the cost is too high to justify that single use case for me.

Nonpartisan doesn’t mean it’s not a scam.

Anybody can use them for anything*, but isn’t it so convenient how easy it is to launder money with crypto? And isn’t it convenient how they’re happy to spend taxpayer money to set up this fund?

We’re not talking about systems like VPNs, where you could argue they hide criminals in addition to human rights activists. That levels the playing field and protects people’s right to privacy.

What rights is crypto protecting? We’re talking about a vehicle where entire governments can pump up the value and reap the inflated price. We’re talking about foreign billionaires who can covertly and easily “invest” in their favorite candidates without taking the roundabout way of using dark-money PACs.

Crypto is just another empty, ultra-capitalist “American Dream” promise shrouded in tech.

If you needed more proof that crypto is a giant fraud scheme: Republicans love it.

My instance doesn’t even keep them. They get dropped before they hit our database.

Yeah, I should have mentioned that it’s not production ready or released to the public. They’re quietly building it on whatever schedule they have so that when Cosmic is complete, they’ll already have something to offer everyone.

ETA: I just happened to discover it when I was poking around their GitHub repositories. It’s not documented for a reason 😅

Universal Blue already beat y’all to it.

https://github.com/ublue-os/cosmic

Goddammit Biden. Your time is done. Know when to fold.

Now when it’s 2025 and beyond, Trump won’t have to do anything with Chinese tariffs. If people complain about tariffs causing price hikes on new solar installations (for which he’s probably gonna get rid of tax incentives on top of that), he can just say, “NoT mY fAuLt, Biden set up the tariffs.”

Quit while you’re ahead, dude!

Glad you like it! Yeah, I wish there was some way to easily discover new ones, but that would take some kind of per-user assessment and a category system for the various podcasts, so I understand why they don’t have it! Probably beyond the scope of what is essentially a volunteer project.

Bummer! It’s kinda neat to use, but yeah, they dropped older hardware support (though it’s still fairly young, so maybe it will be a thing in the future).

And it sounds like it’s not just batteries. This has applications for memory and data storage (though I’m just parroting what they said). We’ll see what happens in the next decade or two!

Yes. Researcher said 10 years (probably at the earliest), but I’m more of an “at all” kind of person. I like celebrating scientific achievements for their own sake, because it’s something we humans figured out.

Yeah, one of the researchers said 10-ish years. Which is fast for new tech but slow for life.

Super cool. I hope this goes somewhere

Not really caught. The devs intentionally connected it to specific systems (like other servers), gave it vague instructions that amounted to “ensure you achieve your goal in the long term at all costs,” and then let it do its thing.

It’s not like it did something it wasn’t instructed to do; it didn’t perform some menial task and then also invent its own secret agenda on the side when nobody was looking.

Not planning to publish a game, but packing up an app has been mystifying. Hopefully this guide can dispel some of that!

Not sure, but it’s supposed to be near-bleeding edge for everything. I couldn’t get the Hyprland version to boot in a VM, so I can’t be sure