If you mean this article on Wired itself, it’s not pay walled, though annoying. Click the V (chevron) to hide the Subscribe Now thing.
Or if it’s indeed pay-walled in your area, open it via Germany by search this -> https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=A%20Controversial%20US%20Surveillance%20Program%20May%20Get%20Slipped%20Into%20a%20%E2%80%98Must-Pass%E2%80%99%20Defense%20Bill
find the article, and use the “OPEN ANONYMOUSLY” link. Many annoying things will be filtered too.
The monero.com domain has been taken by a for-profit company, Cake. The Monero community is not wealthy (nor motivated) enough to buy it back.
What exactly does one need to do for “activation”? A phone number and/or GeoIP are involved?
This item in you FAQ page is also cool :)
The product I want to buy is not listed, can you help?
Yes, please contact us to create a special order. We can buy any digital & physical products for crypto.
I truly hope this will become a popular and convenient element for the Monero community and your business will be fruitful. You may want to consider talking to Kycnot.me; if recognized and listed there, that may mean a lot. Thanks for joining monero.town and sharing this interesting news. It’s still iffy, but it does sound great if it works 😊
On the other hand, your blog article, How to Buy a Domain 100% Anonymously?, suggests that you may not be very familiar with these privacy topics. The most obvious and easiest options (Njalla, Incognet) are not mentioned—both directly accept Monero. Also, your knowledge may not be up-to-date, unaware of the ramifications of “Thick Whois”, esp. NIS2, Article 28.
That might be a good point :)
Never seriously checked these stats. As of writing this, !monero@monero.town = 1.05K subscribers and only 8 users / day, that’s the largest community here if I’m not mistaken; whereas !technology@lemmy.world = 47.1K subscribers, 974 users / day—roughly 100 times bigger, they’re a whale compared with monero.town. It seems our 2nd largest community is !privacy@monero.town: only 260 subscribers, 1 user / day. I (Saki) seem to be one of “privacy” mods, whatever it means. Is this a status automatically given after you created a certain number of new posts?
Anyway, I was assuming that most general people were seeing crypto negatively (because crypto-related posts tend to be automatically downvoted, even if it’s just an innocent joke as in memes, or a normal post like “Use p2pool, it’s zero-fee”), and was surprised to see those positive comments from “outsiders” (?). Apparently there are quite a few people who know Bitcoin was originally not like a “get rich quick” scheme, but it was experimental with some deep philosophy; and that Monero is in a way its spiritual successor.
Then again, many people in !technology@lemmy.world are probably Linux-using geeks. As such they’re tech-savvy, not representing “general people“.
Originally Bitcoin had nothing to do with “get rich quick”. It felt vaguely like Freenet. It was experimental, philosophical, mathematical, cypherpunk… Almost no one had imagined that investors were going to be interested in it and something like that fad would happen.
Unfortunately it’s not easy to get Monero. In several countries, CEXes don’t support it (delisted). Besides, getting Monero from CEX is not ideal privacy-wise. So, a typical Monero user gets it no-KYC, without using CEX. Which is legal, but rather complicated. That’s why I wouldn’t recommend Monero to regular people.
As you said, Monero is such a great way for payment in a practical sense. Very low fees (~1 cent, no matter how much you send), private (only you can authorize transaction, no need to get a permission from someone else). The community is relatively small (monero.town on Lemmy), but generally nice and cozy. We seldom, if ever, talk about investment… It’s so different from what people think when they hear “crypto”. It’s understandable that some people assume it’s just one of those alt sh*tcoins.
If what you’re talking about is something OS-level, chances are that you can trivially do the same thing. But if it’s application-level (a tool for Windows): while there’s a way to run a Windows application, apparently it’s not always perfect. If you really need to use a program that only runs on Windows, that’s a valid reason for you to keep using Windows. I hope you can find a libre alternative. You’re free to code your own tool (which behaves exactly the way you like), but admittedly that option is not always realistic.
Nevertheless, at least when doing something generic like browsing web pages or writing email, you don’t need to do that on a privacy-invasive OS. If more and more users start noticing that, Micro$soft might realize that annoying paying customers is a bad idea in the long run.
It’s preposterous to pay (buy an expensive license) to be abused!
This issue has been clearly documented since forever in the docs of Feather Wallet, a free (libre) Monero wallet.
Can I manually adjust the transaction fee?
It is not currently possible to manually adjust the transaction fee in Feather.
Transaction fees are visible on the blockchain, therefore setting it manually can make your transaction stick out and harm your privacy. In the interest of transaction uniformity, we have decided to not add this feature at this time.
In other words, you can only use the “standard” fee on Feather.
A serious/critical study like this is valuable, as opposed to “easy” & “practical” write-ups (which are sometimes too simplified, even harmfully problematic: e.g. an unfounded “guide” stating that one should not use Feather on Tails).
Somewhat more trivially, one could also wonder if the freedom where a user can customize fees is a really good idea—for example a person who always selects a non-default fee (e.g. “fastest” or “slow”) might stick out.
Could you please answer a question about the motivation behind AGPL - MIT asked elsewhere?
@VolunTerry Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I was waiting for the OP to answer first. What they wrote in that webpage might be relevant in some unusual situations, and if so, I'd like to learn about that.
@ShadowRebel Sorry again, my 1st comment here was unfocused and poorly-written, I'm afraid I upset you. I meant Coin Control, but didn't explain it properly. IMO Important points of Feather include (1) Electrum-like GUI & (2) Coin Control. (1) is the definitive feature in the sense that I'd recommend Feather to someone new to XMR, if they're familiar with Electrum. "Embedded Tor" is not that important because equally possible with Official GUI: please see https://monero.town/post/402343
If @ShadowRebel doesn't reply, perhaps too busy, I'll write about (1)(2) here so we can share various point of views, exchange opinions. Ideally, we can improve their web pages, correcting minor misunderstanding if any, so that that resource may become more useful for the community; and they can have more traffic to their business site too, which should be win-win. Obviously there are many things I don't yet know and I'd like to learn more, corrected if I'm misunderstanding something. I hope the feeling is mutual.
I can see your point + I know nothing about this OnionKet thing. Generally, though, afaik, Dōjinshi is not a kid porn, abusing real-life, existing children. Those stories are typically based on manga/anime, where characters are totally fictional, unrelated to real-life children at all (thus no real victims, except ethical questions are still possible). In some countries, drawings of non-existing (fictional) persons may be still illegal. In some other countries, they're legal (as in Finland, maybe). That's what I think, though not too sure and I'm not a dōjinshi writer/reader at all. Honestly, not sure how "bad" they are.
But generally, it's a nice thing that creators try something new, something experimental, fighting back against excessive, censorship (not to say, it'll be absolutely good, though).
＠onionket_staff@mitra.anon-kenkai.com よく分からないけど、うまくいくといいですね＾＾ 弾圧の口実を与えないように、あまりにアレなのは排除した方がいいかもみたいな気もするけど。。。とりあえずグッドラック♪
Can’t tell; I don’t watch video—not only none of yours, but in general, unless it seems really interesting. A few people find your videos informative, so you’re helping a few users, nevertheless. Don’t mind me…