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arkanciscan commented on US Recovers Millions in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Hackers breaking911.com/us-recove... · Posted by u/hammock

simonblack · 5 years ago

That might be good for Colonial, but it highlights the fact that BitCoin, and all other cryptos, ARE NOT YOURS. They can taken from you at the stroke of a pen, unlike real assets like gold, property, etc.

I'll say it again: "If you can't touch or hold it in your hot little hands, it doesn't really exist."

That's why a Gold Certificate is NOT the same as physical gold. A paper dollar is not the same as a silver dollar.

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

The gov't can take your physical gold just as easily as they can take the computer with your wallet. Nothing is yours if the state says it's not.

arkanciscan commented on US Recovers Millions in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Hackers breaking911.com/us-recove... · Posted by u/hammock

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government involved?

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

Seems that the bitcoin was conveniently stored in a wallet on a computer in Northern California. https://duo.com/decipher/u-s-seizes-usd2-3-million-from-dark...

arkanciscan commented on US Recovers Millions in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Hackers breaking911.com/us-recove... · Posted by u/hammock

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government involved?

arkanciscan commented on BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass secret.club/2021/01/15/bi... · Posted by u/rdpintqogeogsaa

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

Who leaves sticky keys on?

arkanciscan commented on Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter text.npr.org/934833214... · Posted by u/intrepidhero

jackfoxy · 5 years ago

All of this could have been avoided with more robust filtering capabilities in the hands of users, which Twitter has consistently refused to provide.

The big social media platforms should be treated as common carriers, and as such only be responsible for preventing malware and flat-out illegal content.

Expecting Big Tech to moderate content (for what?) while allowing them to force feed unwanted/unrequested content to users is the perfect shit-storm we have today.

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

There was a time that I thought that Twitter should do what Parler is doing; let the original author approve replies before making them visible. Now that I've seen Parler demonstrate it, I think that Twitter would never have become as popular as it is if they had done so from the begining. The feature that allows for the wide conversation that Twitter is famous for is also responsible for it's abusability.

arkanciscan commented on Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter text.npr.org/934833214... · Posted by u/intrepidhero

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

I tried Parler, and everyone is missing the point. Parler doesn't censor content because replies aren't linked to "Parleys" by default. All replies must be "approved" by the author. You can troll, but nobody will ever see it except OP. It absolutely solves the abuse problem that Twitter has, but it also limits discussion. The appeal of Twitter is that you get to see what everyone thinks. Parler is for sycophants only.

arkanciscan commented on Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter text.npr.org/934833214... · Posted by u/intrepidhero

frasermince · 5 years ago

I think a lot of people in these comments are missing the core dilemma a lot of these tech companies are dealing with. How do you deal with rampant misinformation that might be harmful to society as a whole? I think moving to putting disclaimers on posts instead of deleting them might be the right move but it’s honestly just a hard problem.

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

Parler doesn't deal with this problem at all.

arkanciscan commented on Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 theverge.com/2020/11/11/2... · Posted by u/mvgoogler

actuator · 5 years ago

Is it cheaper and better though?

You will need to setup redundancy if you use your own hardware, verify your client and server scripts, take care of encryption etc.

Also, syncing anyone from Dropbox to Onedrive can do. I like the photo tagging to be powerful when I am looking for old photos.

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

Depends how lazy you are!

arkanciscan commented on Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 theverge.com/2020/11/11/2... · Posted by u/mvgoogler

liminal · 5 years ago

I've found Microsoft Office to be the best deal for online storage. $70/year gets you a bunch of useful apps and 1TB of storage, or $100 year provides 1TB for up to 6 accounts. Nothing else seems to come close.

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

How do you store photos there? Do they make an Android client that syncs your phone's photos to the cloud?

arkanciscan commented on Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 theverge.com/2020/11/11/2... · Posted by u/mvgoogler

chrismeller · 5 years ago

More like “tapping that lucrative subscription revenue” because they finally have enough people locked in

arkanciscan · 5 years ago

That's my cue to start self-hosting again!

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