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?
Still doesn't explain how they got a hold of the wallet's private key. Yes, it is possible to trace bitcoin between wallets and if you're working with the NSA it seems also easy to get a hold of IPs that accessed them. But getting to the actual computer that was behind an IP, much less the cryptographic key that may or may not be stored on it, is a different question. Maybe they don't even want people to know the process, to prevent others from evading it.
I checked--if you have turned 5x-shift sticky keys off, you don't get that window when locked, defeating this exploit. So that would be a good workaround. Many users turn it off!
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.
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.
Yup, on Android photo upload works the same as Dropbox/Google. It doesn't have the AI smarts of Google Photos though. Just tried searching for 'cat' and the results were useless. But the storage works.
The android app exists but it's wonky as in sometimes the thumbnails of your photos simply won't load They are there, you just have to click on a blank thumbnail to watch the photo.
Hosting yourself is better than Google reading and disabling your account because you used a couple words that might violate it's TOS. I can't imagine a researcher trying to write a book in Google Docs about 1960's civil rights without tripping Google's abuse engines. It is creepy
You need redundancy with google too. I personally use google, but I have a home server that pulls my photos and emails via the google api. Then I backup that to a 2nd internal drive and the cloud. I use a time4vps storage server, if anyone is interested (https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=1881)
I have a synology setup with a syncme app on mobile that I run every month or so to dump pics on home nas. I have a amazon glacier backup plugin on NAS that backup's periodically. thats it.
Even if the house catches fire I can still get my stuff out of amazon.
Mastodon doesn't prevent censorship. If anything it makes it worse. Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some random nerd running a server from his mom's basement. You can run your own instance, but then you're just talking to yourself. Nothing is stopping you from building your own Twitter, hell we had blogs for years before Twitter. You go to Twitter so you don't have to promote yourself to get an audience, and abiding by Twitter's censorship policies is the cost of admission.
> Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some random nerd running a server from his mom's basement. You can run your own instance, but then you're just talking to yourself.
~15 years ago, when blogs and forums were where most Internet discussions happened, we had that same scenario, and we now consider that at least a silver age of free speech.
(And if you went and made your own blog, it was much harder to connect with other bloggers and commenters, compared to running your own instance and tooting at other like-minded instances).
If the Fediverse grows and create something similar to that age, I will be overjoyed. I will certainly prefer it to the giant cloud conglomerates' "professional community managers", whose rules may or may not be clear but it doesn't matter when they're based on the politics and concerns of Silicon Valley instead of those of my country or my community.
I run my own instance and talk to thousands of people on their own instances every day. I don't think you know how this works. Its federation, like email. People with GMail accounts can communicate with Yahoo users in case you missed that...
Literally nothing about this article is about censorship. (Also, I have a ~single-user instance and... follow and have followers through federation? As is the essential point of the software)
> ....but, for most of us, that will not be the case.
Article then written 100% about Not That. Really: thinking this had anything to do with censorship would only be defensible in the context of a realllll naive bag-of-words model, not a human brain.
