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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:28:13 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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   @URH1
   Thanks.
   That's true, "optional."

   For the people who "need" to be found that might be an option. I think that is rather unwise, though.
   A phone number is stored in so many webshops, etc., there's hardly a better primary key for aggregating information about a person.

   So, hands off the phone number option.

   Selling each bit of information there is of users is a multi-bn $ global industry.

   @thevril

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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:05:09 JST timberwraith

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   I *have* dipped my toe in the realm of romantic/physically intimate relationships in the past, to a limited extent.

   And what I learned is that the outcome is always emotionally toxic for me, regardless of who I'm with. I'm not wired in a way that makes this possible without hurting myself and the other person.

   So, I don't bother at this point. Also, I just don't feel the need? Now that I understand that I'm not wired for this to work, it all became a big shrug for me.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 20:23:35 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @amerika

   That is certainly one very primary role, to prevent harm to good people.

   The problem is that by simply taking the stance that anyone who does harm shall be cast into the sea in itself does harm and therefore does not cause your intended goal.

   If a government for example forces against their will someone to be a murderer for 4 years (what we call drafting someone), and that person winds up being a violent person due to their traumas inflicted upon them, and then the consequence of that violence is for them to be cast into the sea.. then we have not prevented good people from harm, we have in fact infliced harm on a good person.

   So unfortunately this mentally is contradictory to its own purpose when applied universally.

   @Humpleupagus

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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 04:51:27 JST silverpill

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   @kycnotme I think the rating should be lower (currently it has 10), but I'm not sure about the exact number.

   I did investigate it further and had a look at their code:

   https://github.com/tecnovert/basicswap

   The readme says it's in beta, so it is possible that some features have not been implemented yet (the website, however, presents BasicSwap as a finished product). I was able to locate code that does BTC-XMR atomic swaps, and @kayaba suggested that their implementation could be real. I didn't find atomic swap implementations for other currencies listed on the website.
   The orders are sent to a local Particl node. It's a fork of Bitcoin Core with various additions, so the P2P network is probably real (Bitcoin Core provides that), but it is not clear how decentralized it is.

   The Particl blockchain is a PoS chain powered by the PART token, which lost 99.48% of its value since ATH. I think it is reasonable to assume that the people behind this project are the only ones who hold significant amounts of coins, because everyone else had quit long time ago. And since it's PoS, this means they have total control over the chain, and in my view that makes it equivalent to a single server.

   I can't find any information about past security incidents, apart from this strange github post talking about an inflation bug: https://github.com/particl/ccs-proposals/pull/5

   Particl-Core and most of BasicSwap were developed by a single person.

   So my conclusion is that foundations for "Privacy-First Cross-Chain DEX" might be present, but the product is presented in a misleading way, not properly documented, and not independently audited. Furthermore, the market valuation of PART token indicates an extremely low trust in it, which might have caused by past incidents.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 08:44:35 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @toiletpaper

   that the beauty of it, being marketable does not mean they have to design to a particular persons whims..

   An artist who is good, but follows their own internal vision will usually create great works, and that will be **more** marketable than a design intended to target a particular person.

   So even here it is in support of what Im saying, creating good art, by whatever mechanisms createt he best art, is inherently marketable because we value that as a people.

   In other words you have the cause and effect wrong, an artist is marketable because we put value in good art... he doesnt create good art and is marketable because he is designing for the market.

   @scottsantens @Shamar

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 22:01:26 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   This is an absolutely true story okay:

   One of my friends DM'd me in TEARS a couple months ago, because she'd been blocked by a single user instance.

   Like, some guy came into her mentions, and they got into an argument about whatever she was posting about and he made a big announcement of blocking her cause she's a bad person.

   So now she's DMing me to say she's been banned and has no idea what to do - it was a single user instance that blocked her.

   The disconnect is real.