It’s all fucked up but that’s just reality.

Interesting, I’ve never seen or heard of that before…

Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades.

Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They’re also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.

I have a e14 Thinkpad…with 8gb soldered ram

so I put a 16gb stick in

What?

Oh yeah, that’s a “home phone” or a “landline phone”. But these types of phones cannot receive SMS messages so they don’t solve the problem.

Well. I didn’t disable it.

I don’t know what a “small fix phone” is, but the phone is not the problem. The problem is basic services that require a phone number as part of your registration.

and used a controller more than we’d like to admit

What? Why would I care what kind of peripherals anyone uses?

Also these stats are def wrong because I was ~100% controller and Steam told me 25%, and I know I’m not the only one.

Yes and no. You can try and go without a phone number but I’ve found that to be literally impossible. Or you can change your phone # periodically, that’s what I do.

Yes but you can’t always disconnect. For instance, my healthcare provider requires in order to access your account you:

1. Get an ID card with Google or Apple Wallet, which I don’t have.
2. Verify over text message, except they refuse my phone # bc it’s VoIP.

I will quite literally die without this so I had to get a new phone and a Google account.

I have not done any of those things.

My point is changing providers is a fruitless endeavour. Your phone number is probably sourced and sold several times/day. Switch carriers and they’ll do the same thing. Why? Because no one will stop them, and most people don’t know or even care, so why wouldn’t they? And your phone number is already out there anyway, there’s no taking it back.

If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No.

Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No.

It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”.

it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool)

A “privacy tool” could be an infinite number of things. A “crypto wallet” is super specific.

At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

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What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

…yeah? That’s absolutely much more informative

Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

Correct again. I mean it’s infinitely better than the current one where it doesn’t matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with “crypto” and baby you got a stew goin’.

You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise

You don’t have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That’s the entire point of a title. It’s not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words. You’ve just provided several great examples yourself.

Sure, and we’ve always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.

They’re deliberately withholding basic details of the story so that you have to click the video to get them. That’s clickbait.

Ok but that is a separate discussion.

Get a mini PC with Intel N200. $200 more or less. Install your preferred Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Use Waydroid and Aurora Store to install streaming apps. That’s the best I got.

I mean if you consider the value of not being made by Meta and not having fucking ads plastered all over it, the value looks a lot closer.