We don’t need these datacentres.

We also don’t need to be growing alfalfa in the nevada desert

Take out a loan then, at least at the end of it you still have a car

“I’ve heard somewhere that they’ll require a constant api calls from each system to an external verification system that is even paid”

or what? you can’t use the software store? most of the stuff on there is open source and you can compile it yourself

if it comes down to it you can just compile your own kernel that doesn’t do that.

what about airgapped systems?

It just doesn’t work

You could just put a fake date in at user setup from what I understand. It adds the field to the user database but there isn’t any verification that that date is true

Oh well if Dessalines says so it must be true

My local pub is older than your “empire”

I did some larger transactions successfully on changenow.io

For safety I think I’ll stick to exchanges. If you want some litecoin and have some XMR and you aren’t a scammer trying to get ur mitts on me coins then you can probs do the reverse transaction on changenow.io too

They did a lazy season when they traveled back in time

gotta be honest, i wasn’t a huge fan

I was thinking of RCS security apparently, but was mainly talking about what’s theoretically possible.

There’s nothing stopping someone creating a E2E encrypted SMS app. The medium doesn’t matter, only the data. You could have end to end encrypted carrier pigeons if you want.

Yep, you lock with the public key and unlock with the private.

You can’t unlock with the public, it’s one way only

don’t they also receive the public keys and can then also decrypt the messages??

A public key is used to encrypt a message, you need the private key to decrypt.

That’s why you have public key servers. it doesn’t matter who has the public key, all they can do with it is encrypt information that only the private key holder can decrypt.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced I don’t understand how any encryption works because the intended recipient needs the key to decrypt it

The way it was explained to me that finally made it click was so:

Imagine you have a lockable box (public key) and a key (private key), the box is empty so you give it to your friend. it doesn’t matter if anyone sees the open box because there’s nothing in it. your friend puts something private for you in the box and locks it. People see the box as he’s bringing it to you but they can’t see what’s in the box because neither him nor the people watching have the key to the box; only you do. once it gets to you you can open the box with your key

It’s not misinformation. SMS can have end to end encryption if the messages exchanged between two people in a conversation are encrypted.

It’s an add on, in much the way PGP encryption works for email. the first handshake is unencrypted and includes each participants public keys, after that you can have it automatically encrypt each message

you can configure some phones to encrypt all sms messages.

It’s a bit like PGP email though in that, despite it working, no one seems to use it

Mint. it’s slick, stable and similar (usability wise) to people coming from windows

Thanks

Nice, thanks

which turns out, he’s the Groyper

do we actually know that yet? everything i’ve seen so far still has it up in the air

So the people who have lived through communism think it’s bad?

There’s a communism museum in prague that i wanted to go see, since they actually experienced “communism” i think it would be pretty good. didnt get the chance when i last went though.

I can’t imagine that the VOC Museum in Washington would be as objective though.