Notices by pixelherodev (pixelherodev@fosstodon.org), page 2

@thatguyoverthere @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner @ademan I don't agree with your premise.

The government's currency only has as much weight as we give it. They can design a digital system all they want, but if everyone is still using cash, they're not getting rid of it so easily.

I think communities can find ways to pay lip service to the government without caring about its currency, and remain convinced that putting anything important online is a good way to ensure it ends catastrophically.

@thatguyoverthere @Zergling_man @icedquinn @kroner @ademan Put a bit differently:

Anyone who's ever used a computer in their life probably knows how bad many software engineers are at their jobs.

As a software engineer, there are exactly zero software engineers I would trust with my life. (There's a fair few that I trust not to, like, stab me? but NOBODY writes perfect code.)

For most people, if your money disappears, you're basically dead (no food). Why would you trust software with money?

@sjw > The image format wars are so fucking fucked right now. On the Chrome (and Firefox because they have no significant market share anymore so they just have to follow whatever Google decides)

Backwards. Mozilla follows google so they have no market share.

@sjw Yes, I'm aware.

The point is this: by only following what Google does, they doom FireFox to be an inferior version of Chrome. There's a reason there's a lot of sites which only work in Chrome, but none which only work in FireFox, and it has everything to do with the giant paycheck Google gives Mozilla.