Say no to CBDCs! (Central Bank Digital Currencies)

They go directly against all the core principles of crypto!

Which is to take away the power of centralized abusing parties (who slowly steal the value of our current FIAT currencies through deficit spending + fractional banking) and put them back in the hands of the people through a fair de-centralized system (which should not allow for deficit spending, nor fractional banking, and respects your privacy on top)

I highly recommend to read more about the risks of CBDCs here: https://www.cato.org/study/risks-of-cbdcs

I’d recommend to use both.

uBlock does a nice job of blocking well known advertisements.

However NoScript, is more secure because it disables all JS by default.
While offering you an easy UI to (temporarily/permanently) whitelist individual components.

Keep in mind, this will cause rather heavy site breakage in the first few weeks of using it.
However that will get better once you whitelisted the bare essentials for the sites you regularly visit.

Most sites use 0 to 3 JS sources enabled in NoScript to read/work correctly.
While spy-ware/telemetry infested sites will ship with up to 15 or so JS sources.

It appears to require an account though?
Which I call a downside for privacy concious users.

I can see a lot of spyware on that site through NoScript.

If you use this site without blocking JS components then following parties will be spying on what you click, to sell it to the best bidder:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google
• TikTok
• SnapChat

Still up for better alternatives.
But for now I’ve been using TheMovieDb.

https://themoviedb.org/movie

Then use the Filters section:

• Select Genres you want to watch
• Set User Score between 7 - 10
• Set Minimum User Votes to 50
• Alter the Filters more if you desire
• Click Search

For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

https://noscript.net

Beware, NoScript will break some sites,
and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

Waddle waddle waddle

Sugar, Salt, Fat, the perfect ingredients,
to cultivate obese addicts with failing kidneys.

But you’re “loving it” right?
Same as I, why would that be?.. :)

You’re both kinda right afaik.

MicroG reverse engineered, and re-written as much as possible from GApps libraries, from the ground up, as open source software.

These re-implementations are as light weight and privacy respecting as possible on your local device,
however the same does not count for the Google servers it communicates with (if you choose to enable them).

For SafetyNet attestation, a proprietary, isolated, DroidGuard blob is downloaded (if you choose to enable it).

How about GApps tho? You know, the piece of spyware Google embeds in Android’s system partition?

FYI:
Private open source alternative to it,
is MicroG

Heya Antik :D

You can’t blame people for the (sometimes) limited brainset they receive.

If it’s unclear to the majority, then it’s Lemmy which should aim to simplify the process of joining/explaining it to the general population.

Federated software is awesome, but sadly the recruiting process is still too difficult for many.

If it’s unclear which app to download / which instance to join, then that’s where a lot of registrations are being missed out on.

In the meantime, you can spread public awareness about the issues with FIAT currencies around the globe.

I’m mostly talking about:

• Deficit spending: Where your central bankers are allowed to lend out more then they have, but ask interest for it.
• Fractional banking: Where your regional bankers are allowed to lend out X% of money that you deposit.

In laymans terms “printing money”.

Both lead to eventual but guaranteed hyper inflation due to increases in the money supply.

See for yourself by looking up the EUM3, GBM3 and USM2 charts, which visualize the total circulating money supply.

Economics 101:

• Chart goes up? More in circulation, each unit worth less, due to abundancy
• Chart goes down? Less in circulation, each unit worth more, due to scarcity.

If you look up the charts, you’ll see them generally rising over-time. With a small periodic dip here/there, but generally rising.

However, we need a system that has a frigging straight line… Instead of centralized private entities (ECB, FED, BOE) pulling the strings as to where it goes.

My hope lies in crypto for this, which humanity is doing a good job of, of ruining it’s reputation. But my faith in the OG crypto principles/projects remain.

Have not used FreeTube myself.
However it appears to be reputable / decent.

• It’s source is open: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
• It’s mentioned in the Invidious repo: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious#projects-using-invidious

Rule of thumb:

• Steer clear of proprietary / closed source software
• Always aim to use open source software if possible

Big tech writes the equivalent of digital heroin.

The longer they can keep you on their platforms,
the more they can data-farm you,
the more data they have on you,
the more they can sell about you / earn on you.

Detox yourself from your bad heroin addiction,
by switching to fair FOSS (Free Open Source Software) alternatives.

E.g. Use Invidious, Grayjay or NewPipe instead of YouTube.

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Well, the post was about copilot,
so that’s what my comment was about.

But I agree, fck all big-tech software.

If it’s not produced by a non-profit as open source, then it’s not worth your time.

(Due to anti-consumer practices, spy-ware/telemetry or vunerabilities to worry about)

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Not on my machine. Or at least, I do everything humanly possible to limit it.

Either through:

• Switching to FOSS alternatives
• Custom patches applied to proprietary binaries.
• Blocking network access for certain processes

I don’t expect everyone to become a privacy expert though.

However I do believe systematic privacy is important, and that we should aim for better privacy laws to keep the intellectual property of the average user safe.

Now they can also train their gray area trained model (trained upon our Github projects without consolidating with us if it was alright to do so) further!

By spying on every command you type in your CLI, and phoning home to MS about it, to train it further.

I guarantee you,
If you use it, you’ll be their free training monkey.

And once they used you for free,
and the product improved enough,
they’ll subscription charge you forever to make use of it.

Hi, I’ve been struggling with similar things lately.

So I spent the day writing out a launcher tool similar to yours, but a bit more full featured :)

Check it out at: https://github.com/Rikj000/XWaydroid

Right now it only works for KWin_Wayland though,
which in my experience has been more stable / easy to work with compared to Weston/Cage.

However I’m open to merge in support for them too :D