Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 20

@pettter @lnxw48a1 lack of a single baseline set of standard extensions that can be reasonably expected to be implemented by all clients and servers.

Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en

Effects have been observed in humans in response to stimulation of the skin with electromagnetic fields pulsed with frequencies near ½ Hz or 2.4 Hz. Many computer monitors, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a monitor.

@007 Ugh, not again

@silverwizard and when I say "leaving traces" I mean it. That's how things like these can happen:
https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromat/
https://www.occrp.org/en/azerbaijanilaundromat/
https://www.occrp.org/en/paradisepapers/
https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/

If the same people had a way of moving the same amount of untraceable money using "privacy coins", none of that reporting would have been possible.

@silverwizard there are projects (Monero comes to mind) that will have cash-like properties like untrackability, but the issue is that large amounts of cash (say, 20mln USD) are hard to move around. That puts a cap on how much money you can launder/move illegally with cash.

There is no such limit in Monero et al, and that -- I feel -- tips the balance in favour of bad actors (who now either have to risk moving wads of cash, or going through the banking system and leaving traces).

@silverwizard let me pour some gasoline: so-called "privacy" coins will only or mainly be useful for bad actors (enabling much easier money laundering of huge sums), while the general public will neither have interest in them, nor going to be using them in any way.

The net outcome for personal freedoms and well-being (both on a personal and societal level) of so called "privacy coins" as they are currently being designed will be unambiguously negative.

And I say this as a privacy activist.

@grmpyoldman @nextcloud @bes ah, since there's already chance somebody from Nextcloud will read this... for the record, I love Nextcloud to bits and I do believe it's a very important piece of software.

That's one of the reasons why it pains me to see birdsite things in nextcloud's feed here. This community is where the strongest advocates for NC can be found and treating it well is worth it.

@grmpyoldman @nextcloud @bes yeah, it's embarrassing. I don't think they're even reading the toots here. Fediverse seems to be a write-only medium for them.

This is a "satirical" drawing published in one of the biggest right-leaning weekly magazines in Poland.

I can't even start to describe how livid I am.

What kind of person do you have to be to come up with something like that? What kind of person would conflate and try to muddy the waters between victims of the biggest atrocity in human history, and those who committed it?

I am ashamed to live on the same planet as the author.

https://mastodon.social/media/cgjJRpscoJcpx4E_VP0

@nextcloud see, I would have boosted, bit not with a birdsite link, sorry.

@Wolf480pl nah, I think the Police kindly took care of it already.