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161·21 hours agoIn order to retain our rights to private communications, we have to win every time.
In order to take them away, they only have to win once.
They will keep trying.
Stay vigilant.
GNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?
It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if covering batches of transactions. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?
10·2 days agoGNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?
It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if covering batches of transactions. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?
When the fuck will you people get it??
This is the wrong way to get people to care what you have to say.
In what part(s) of the world do you live?
7·9 days agoThis is also how some old glass terminals worked.
This does not spread privacy beyond them.
What does that sentence mean?
How does that work? The code has to be stored somewhere…
The code is replicated by everyone who works on it, and on various public and private servers, so you might say it’s stored everywhere.
I don’t think jobs this hazardous are generally done by plumbers. Sending in a robot instead of a human makes sense.
Especially when the robot is better at finding faults before people’s homes collapse into a sinkhole.
Won’t that make the front fall off?
I did call out data density in my first comment. Did you somehow miss that? Not all things that need storing are megabytes in size, though.
Why would you assume that paper means punch cards? Printers can store far more than a machine word on a page, are relatively cheap, and are widely available. For some things, this can be superior to both magnetic and flash storage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
Note that Apple has been participating for more than 12 years.
I was excluding media that are impractical for most people to use.
Strictly speaking, I think paper beats magnetic tape on longevity.
Unfortunately, it loses on data density.
I don’t trust Meta to actually delete all copies of my data if I “delete” my accounts, but I will lose access to any privacy controls if I do it.
So, I have been deleting my posts, comments, photos, etc… stripping the account down to a mostly empty shell. Sometimes you can find browser scripts to help automate this.
I might add some junk data to the account later.