sloppy_diffuser
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- Comment on Monopoly 1 week ago:
Yeah seems like it was more capitalist propaganda. Thanks Lemmy for ruining my childhood memory, lol.
- Comment on Monopoly 1 week ago:
There is a Public Assisstence board game from the 80s. We had one when I was younger. I can’t tell if it was a “anti-welfare” game or just making fun of the whole system. I grew up pretty poor, so I always assumed the latter as a kid. Since the welfare track was easier from what I remember, now I’m not so sure, lol.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even bail out for COVID. I’m paying out the ass for insurance and still end up thousands in medical debt.
A gray area exists for small businesses, but fuck corporate welfare.
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 1 month ago:
I understand the protocol. If I have to reveal my identity at any point during a transaction to any party, it is not anonymous. It may maintain some privacy between me and the content owner, but my activities are no longer anonymous.
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
This goes for corporate and state level actors. I don’t trust Daddy Government or the age verifier to have my best interest in mind when they can start building a profile on the content I consume they deem not suitable for minors.
There may be a specific flavour of a zero knowledge proofs that works to maintain anonymity. Like, I’d rather pay with monero, and I do so when I can, than stripe for this very reason. My payment activity is decoupled from my real identity used to purchase the monero from a KYC institution.
That is not what this bill is proposing, so its not anonymous.
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 1 month ago:
Same conclusion in my research. All these bullshit bills are erosions of privacy and/or a poor tax. CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, CASE, KOSA, etc…
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 1 month ago:
theverge.com/…/florida-desantis-social-media-age-…
[It] does require websites to give users the option of “anonymous age verification,” which is defined as verification by a third party that cannot retain identifying information after the task is complete.
Its not anonymous if you have to give up anonymity to complete the process.
Also seems ripe to use as a poor tax. How many Lemmy instances could survive a 10-50k fine per offense? The NetChoice gang can afford to fight, and if they lose, implement this.
Just to be clear, I’m not arguing for children on social media. This is just not the way. If the authors of this bill actually gave a shit, they would be fighting for living wages and less work so families can actually spend time together.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for singups 1 month ago:
Worked for me just now using Proton Pass (@passmail.net).
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Company A submits a new device for certification signed by their private key.
Company B certifies the device signed by their private key.
Company C on boards a device for an end-user and is confident it came from Company A and has been verified by Company B since the device has a certificate that can be verified from Companies A and B.
Yes it prevents home brew (though you can do home brew by replacing Company C with your own controller), but it also prevents knock offs.
When this information is distributed (like Lemmy federation), between instances, one has a degree of assurances all these records originated from the signer.
While the ledger part is not required, it provides a nice audit trail for the companies who do not trust each other enough without the transparency. Sure a central authority like the ESRB could do the same, but we could also all be on Reddit and not Lemmy…
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
I’m not, it was just an example data broker. You are 100% sure that data is not getting sold?
I picked Google because back in my days of ignorance, their rewards app would ask if I made X purchase at Y store down to the penny. I wasn’t using GPay/GWallet, just my a debit or credit card. The Y I get with location services. Them having the transaction amount leads me to assume credit card companies/payment processors/etc are sharing this data in near real time. Probably anonymously but with enough data points to trace it back to an individual with a degree of confidence.
So I use XMR when I can. Locations services are also off.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Privacy is a crime? I pay for several online services with XMR (or BTC swapped from XMR): Jmp.chat (mobile service), EteSync (E2EE contact sync), Proton Mail, Mullvad VPN, Usenet (might have an argument there).
Why can’t I access Google’s individual transactions but they should have access to mine?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
csa-iot.org/…/distributed-compliance-ledger/
Matter Distributed Client Ledger. In use by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, and many more.
Contains all the attestation information for on boarding Matter devices. Where once it was Google Home vs Apple HomeKit vs Amazon Echo / Alexa, supporting devices can now work cross ecosystem.
Since many of these companies are competitors working together. A distributed ledger makes sense to keep everyone honest and provide a level of tech supported governance.
- Comment on Same?... Yes, Same 5 months ago:
You haven’t been married to crazy I see. Even if you manage to get away, the scars are forever.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 6 months ago:
Money maximizes the opportunity for happiness.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 6 months ago:
I always see the dude that is just two eye emojis for a username.
- Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos. 7 months ago:
Only segment of his show I ever saw was Bill Burr calling him a Knuckle Scrapper when masks were brought up, lol.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 8 months ago:
Bill Burr said it best: knuckle scrapper.
- Comment on Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies? 8 months ago:
- Comment on What foods would be best to give to someone living on the streets in a very hot/humid country? 8 months ago:
“Trail Mix” if they have that in your area. Usually a mix of dried foods (fruit, nuts, seeds). Some are healthier than others with the less healthy ones adding candy.
Canned/jarred foods that do not require a tool to open.
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 9 months ago:
So Google, Amazon, Apple, and many other large companies in the IoT space are using a blockchain as a federated data store: github.com/…/distributed-compliance-ledger
It stores the data needed for Matter [ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) ] device attestation.
I think its an interesting use case on how entities that don’t particularly trust each other can operate a federated system. Accounts are linked to an identity out-of-band in order to have write permissions to the chain. When an account writes, all the readers of the chain have reasonable assurances of the author of that write. No company can inject false state as another company without that company’s guarded private key. All transactions are also auditable as an additional assurance the data isn’t undergoing a malicious act.
tl;dr; interesting use cases for tamper proof federated ledgers.