So long as crypto exchanges exist, kidnappers can do this to anyone and get away with it.

Whenever they do this I smudge the hell out of it, especially if it’s a nice clean sports car. Maybe a couple taps for good luck.

Plot twist: he had a correctly implemented duress wallet.

If I was a kidnapper, I would just go after people with visible wealth because their families can just buy crypto with it.

Democratic peace theory happens and they talk it out.

And end qualified protestor immunity!

Imagine being that millionth Russian, only to see confetti and corks popping in your final moment.

Professor X. He’s already responsible with even more power, and this way people would choose to listen to him.

Well yeah, it required a whole next level of Hot Pockets™ mastery!

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

— lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.

This is permission for vandalism.

The ledger being public doesn’t prevent illicit use, like darknet markets. They use mixers or onion routed payments.

In the context of this thread, the centralized exchange is Taler Operations AG.

Taler offers anonymity for consumers but not for merchants. Every transaction everywhere - including Taler - has a sender and receiver.

Sorry if this is rude, but you are spreading misinformation, not knowledge.

I’m not condemning Bitcoin. I prefer to make falsifiable claims over unfalsifiable claims. Which claim(s) are incorrect?

Bitcoin allows the seller to evade taxes, lacks a central exchange, and has no distinction between Merchants and Consumers.

For all we know it was a kid or someone off his meds.

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— Gandalf

“Pssst look at what that guy is reading!”

Both employer related:

• no biometrics
• birthday not for sale

We’re still feeling the damage done by the Microsoft monopoly from the '90s. Only historians will be able to say how far they sent us back.

We use a few Ubuntu and Fedora machines at work and I’ve been pushing for more.

Gnobody’s laughing at our Krogram names now!

That’s how Windows rolls out every unpopular feature.

• Simply don’t upgrade it!
• You can prevent the upgrade with this setting.
• You can turn off the upgrade in the control panel.
• You can turn off the upgrade in the registry.
• It’s a different place in the registry now.
• You can run a 3rd party app to make it stop.
• It’s always been like this and you’re being weird.