Another bad experience related to Mastercard: https://monero.town/post/1791576

We have uBlock Origin on Tails, not just Tor. If you were on Tails, you’d know a working Nitter instance.

PS.

1. When a random instance is randomly called, the instance might be behind CloudFlare, which wants to “scan” Tor Browser, saying “One moment please…” (TB users know this too well.)
2. While this is annoying and time-wasting, if you’re using a vanilla version of TB, chances are they’ll let you go.
3. On Tails, however, we have uBO, so fingerprints are different. This sometimes causes an infinite loop of “One moment please…” perhaps b/c uBO blocks CF scanning scripts.
4. Because of this, and because CF is everywhere nowadays, when something doesn’t work on TB on Tails, the first thing a user might say is “We have uBO.” Hope this makes sense! And sorry, I was not clear enough.

I’ve found two possible solutions:

• If you use some kind of Lemmy reader instead of using a browser, it may have a filtering function, like “hide post including this word” like using regex.
• “After complaining yesterday about seeing too much Linux content in the Fediverse” — this Lemmy user seemed to have experienced a similar problem, and finally found a fundamental (albeit rather unexpected) solution. Read more: https://lemmy.world/post/8107430

Crypto’s reputation is just that bad.

That’s what I was vaguely assuming too. So those rather favorable (pro-privacy) vibes there were unexpected.

I don’t think BTC is all bad, nor XMR is all good, but I think you have a beautiful dream.

Someone once said something like: “A dream without a plan is just a dream.” Then I was like, “A dream with a plan is just a business plan. If you think your dream may well come true, your dream is not big enough.”

You’re right. I’m new to social media in general, and was misunderstanding that Monero.town is where Monro-related discussions take place on Lemmy. A better interpretation seems to be: Monero.town is for Monero users, while !Technology@lemmy.world is where people talk about (computer) technology in general.

One is for Monero users, so it’s relatively small, quiet and cozy. The other is about technology, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies, so it’s large and busy. Since Monro is a technology, they may talk about it too. Makes sense.

https://monero.town/post/894750 So you did f2f… Glad it works, though. But how to buy it is irrelevant to the OP and is off-topic, so we shouldn’t be talking about that here.

Basically I’d never recommend anyone to buy a significant amount of crypto hoping that you can get rich quick with that. Yes, it might go up, but it may go down. Encouraging such sketchy gambling would be crazy and irresponsible, and more importantly that’s not the original purpose of this technology. Yet you already even know localmonero, so yeah, you’re simply one of us. If you’d like to you can join monero.town or subscribe it from your instance :)

It doesn’t need to be today. You don’t need to ditch it completely, but if you’d like to, you can use two machines side by side. It’s about freedom. No one should force you to do anything. Good luck!

Come to think of it, any CDN may have the same problem (MitM-ness etc). Not sure. Considering alternative options is good in general, though. What I hate about CF is indiscriminate Tor blocking. Tor is also used as a humanitarian tool, helping various vulnerable users (like those who live in an oppressive country with heavy Internet censorship). Blocking it is like collaborating with oppressive regimes.

You can try & share your experiences. I’ve never used a non-SSD for a full node, hence no experience-based knowledge about this but it should work. Just don’t expect too much, you may just get a few cents from time to time. Also if your CPU is 32-bit, your options are probably rather limited.

Ask them to understand that CloudFlare often blocks Tor users. Providing onion while accepting donations via ko-fi doesn’t make sense b/c ko-fi is behind CF.