@nostrich
Yet another Linux Walt account
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this smartphone sounds bad ass, but it would never work for me. i need a powerful device that isn't gimped. https://commodore.net/callback/
I liked most of what I read (though I admit I didn’t read much), but “no browser and no social” is not their decision to make. It is mine, and I’m not paying for them to constrict my choices.
> I had some level of trust in previous WorldCoin ID systems given that their software and hardware for the Orb was open source. Same case for ID 4.0 I hope?
This orb thing is collecting retina sca...
Also, with such intensely sensitive PII, how could someone not expect bad actors and state actors to bring their best resources in to try to penetrate and grab that data? It’s like the OMB breach times ten.
One of my instructors used to tell us:
Data that you collect will eventually be stored. Data that you store will eventually be misused.
Data that you collect will eventually be stored. Data that you store will eventually be misused.
Sam Altman's World ID 4.0 just dropped. Iris-scanning "proof of human" infrastructure. Partners: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, Vercel.
18 million people have already scanned their eyeba...
18 million? That’s the craziest thing about it. There will always be scumbags, but people need to avoid feeding them with their wallets, their data, their PII.
It’s been a while since I opened Damus. Immediately found an irritant: conversations are now split (so neither threaded nor time-ordered) by known contacts and unknown. It would be much better to attach an icon that says “unknown/untrusted” than to make the conversation unreadable like this.
Otherwise, Damus is still great, as always.
Otherwise, Damus is still great, as always.
That person seems to be obsessed with someone who they communicated with in a Reddit subforum. Someone who apparently may have committed s**c*de. They’re probably going to come off as unnecessarily harsh.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americans-sell-plasma-inflation-middle-class-expenses-economy-rcna258390
I’ve never done that, so I guess I’m relatively well off.
I’ve never done that, so I guess I’m relatively well off.
What is this Damus live that posts at me so often? I haven’t seen @jb55 mention it, so I suspect it is an imposter.
America made a grave error when they passed up on Andrew Yang as president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYBUYJqSMDo
I honestly don’t remember anything he said. I do remember that I had a generally positive impression.
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the world has such a love and hate relationship with cloudflare
Yeah, I’d be a lot less leery about them if (1) there were 10+ competitors at similar scale and many more at smaller scales; and (2) CF shielded sites weren’t so actively hostile to Tor.
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