We don’t use USD here. Even so, USD isn’t as bad a Monero, there’s even privacy when using cash.

Except the lack of government AND the massive amount of pollution and resources waste.

Monero is more about polluting and money laundering than privacy.

There is some privacy in it, but it’s overshadowed by the other things.

Blocking of piracy websites are a good example of a decision to block escalating to rediculous levels, and becoming increasingly problematic.

Companies from the from music/cultural industry convinced a court to order ISP to block some websites, and they did by meddling with their own DNS servers.

Then those companies came back to request blocking by alternative DNS providers such as Google and OpenDNS, since people used them to workaround blocks.

And next of course these companies attacked VPN providers, asking for more blocking, again because those allow working around previous blocks.

These ISP, DNS and VPN providers are third parties with no involvment in piracy, but they’re being forcully involed into that fight anyway. This is completely disproportionate. If they want to fight piracy those companies should only be allowed to attack those actually involved.

If they have their way, we’ll end up the having the equivalent of the great firewall of china dedicated to tracking and blocking anything remotely looking like piracy or p2p.

That’s an option but doesn’t seem realistic. If a service is freely available on the Internet, it’s hard to ban it in a specific country. China and Russia are doing it and that require massive Internet censorship apparatus, strict measures against VPN, Tor, and online privacy tools.

I hope the appeal ends up increasing the fine.

Any Brave alternative that works on iOS?

I’ve installed brave on some familly iOS device because that’s the best I could find at the time. But hope to find a good replacement.

Cromite use a third party repo, rather than being in the main one. And I’m hesitant to add repos for my system’s security.

Do anyone has some informations or sources on Cromite’s maintainer, whether cromite.org is safe to add to repos?

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

https://medium.com/@ed.sav/enabling-airplay-from-linux-1f6358c9ca1c

I setup brave on my relative’s iOS device because it has anti-tracking builtin. But would welcome suggestions of iOS browsers that preserve privacy.

If Apple didn’t effectively prevent browser extensions I would setup Firefox with privacy badger, and uBlock origin with an anti-malware list.

Ecosystem collapse

That sounds reasonable assuming it’s instance-specific and is a function of hosting cost.

Any instance should be able to set a price to help pay the bills.

Not using Kickstarter is perfectly fine. Definitely avoid Kickstarter if you want a guarantee of delivery.

No. And you shouln’t expect a refund when giving money via kickstarter. This is not platform to buy products/games. People are basically donating money to a project, sometimes with the promise to get a copy if the project succeeds, or nothing if the project fails.

What makes you think this would only affect YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0

They’re not assholes. If this is the work of the federal gouvernment then they’re just following the law.

A work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties”.[1] Under section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States

The two trade unions supporting Ubisoft employees are STJV and Solidaires Informatique.