1. Tiktok is a company comparable in scale to Google. 130Bn in revenue last year.

2. Patreon is nowhere near the scale of YouTube. But I also think it’s the only viable solution to privacy and supporting creators.

Destiny 2 is my only hangup at this point.

Glad it is working well for you!

The only statistic that matters is sold not occupied and even that is only useful if it excludes houses that just haven’t been moved into yet.

The majority of those figures are just showing that houses are unoccupied in resort towns because there’s nothing there half the year or that houses sit empty for a month while a new renter is sorted out or a new owner is moving in.

We don’t need to shove the homeless into a remote resort town where they have no access to services - we need more housing in our cities where support networks can help those in need.

The fact is that there arent enough houses to house every homeless person in the USA and maintain sufficient housing stock for people to move houses.

Anything below a 5% vacancy rate is considered a housing shortage - it indicates there’s too much demand for housing and not enough supply.

Very few American cities are sitting at or above 5% vacancy.

He could refuse to resign and be expelled by the majority

That’s one of the reasons it was popularized - coal miner unions wearing red bandanas. But late 19th century usage appears to be sunburnt workers.

It’s impossible to do without exposing a private signing cert to everyone, yes. That’s the issue.

You can’t do asymmetric key signing anonymously and with a central issuer.

So either you have to just trust the assertions (0 security) or you have to have a trusted issuer (not anonymous)

A pseudonym issuer is a trusted issuer. There’s no way to do it otherwise. You have to trust someone to make this kind of system work.

Agreed that law enforcement should not be involved but the quote I posted was also from the article and it seems impossible.

Most of these make sense and are definitely blockers for this ever releasing but -

Remove the concept of the Pseudonym Provider and ensure pseudonyms are generated and stored locally without the possibility of linking back to real identities.

Correct me if I’m wrong but this data all has to be signed somewhere right? Like the eID contains cryptographically signed assertions about the user in some standard (JWT?) format.

What use is signing the assertions locally? There would be no way to tell if the citizen actually had any valid id at all. A pseudonym provider is the privacy layer that allows for signing of new tokens after ensuring the validity of the old.

How could you sign an anonymous token using a valid one without it being linked back to the valid one? It seems like impossible constraints.

Am I totally off base here?

Hmm maybe I stop donating then… I’ll have to dig into where my money is actually going.

Sorta. The foundation does.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

Yes. Just like I donate to my Lemmy host on a regular basis.

I even pay for YouTube, despite using Vanced.

Fuck ads.

The issue is fuck ads

He won by 7k votes in an election with 21% registered voter turnout.

He won not by broad appeal but rather by apathy - his voters were engaged by fear mongering bait plastered on every news outlet about “crime” so they elected a goose stepping cop.

Of course we’re to that: the US is doing very little to slow climate change at all, is anything it is accelerating it. The natural result of this will not be food insecurity in the USA: it will be famine in South and Central America. Climate migration will see tens of millions of immigrants at our borders.

And the government has 0 intention of helping them. It military will directly cause a mass casualty event at the border before the turn of the century.

I have a very handy command in my .vimrc for this -

command! JSON setlocal filetype=json | %!jq .

Anytime I’m in a json file that isn’t formatted it’s as simple as typing :JSON to have it all sorted.

Yeah but most rpi projects don’t need a powerful alternative. I don’t need a full computer to run octoprint… But it’s still too hard and pricy to get a RPi

I’ve used them and they’re great

There’s totally a use case for a peripheral like a watch… But it’s only so you don’t have to pull your phone out of your pocket.

Resources are just way cheaper than developers.

It’s a lot cheaper to have double the ram than it is to pay for someone to optimize your code.

I don’t see where you’re reading that idea.

It’s a lot cheaper to double the ram ergo you do not have to pay someone to optimize your code.

Where are you getting this bizarre inverse from?