But getting a DVD just to rip it is very inconvenient. Not only can there be scarcity issues with out-of-print disks, but also you’d either deal with the disks you never use lying around, throw them out or bother reselling, which I’d prefer not to do. I’d prefer having just hard drives of my media.

I use TOTP in KeepassXC (or KeepassDX on mobile) because it’s fully local and available for desktop.

• Do not upload pictures of your face ANYWHERE, period - including private chats
• Do not use any name even resembling your real one, or rederencing your known interests
• If something asks for a phone number, avoid using it
• If it is mandatory (like for government services) or very hard not to use (like Whatsapp or Telegram), ask the parent first, maybe there is an aliasing solution
• If the data sharing is mandatory, try digging deeper for alternative options because it may turn out to be not so mandatory
• Do not post anything political or even remotely questionable in the current climate (should be talked about with the parent), and must understand you can be arrested for pretty much anything and be made an example of
• Each time an application is installed, think about what data it is able to access, pay attention to permissions
• Prefer FOSS programs for everything possible
• Learn to treat a Windows PC or a non-degoogled phone as a fundentally unprivate device and learn to not trust them with personal things (if I were a parent, I’d install a privacy-preserving OS on a device prior to giving it to a kid anyway)

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Yeah, I transfer money not so regularly so I get why it wouldn’t work for everyone. But why not use the website?

I personally use ATMs to send money. And if I were willing to resolve cert troubles (long story), I would’ve used the bank’s website rather than the app.

Yes, exactly!

I got the impression that they like crypto as an industry, not as a tool. I doubt they would guarantee safety for, as an example, KYC-less Monero exchangers.

I do see that appeal, because we have already seen that surveilled KYC transactions are undesirable in many situations, like if you’re making a donation to a dissident. While indeed, crypto cannot scale enough to be a primary method of payment - it still needs to be there as an alternative pathway.

The energy usage was criticized not in absolute terms, but in relation to the numbers of transactions. Cryptocurrencies are criticized for consuming more energy while being much lower in volume.

That said, we do need projects like Monero now. At least at the present moment, it is the closest we have to “digital cash”.

That would only really work on mobile, though - and that’s assuming the OS isn’t custom.

I don’t see a problem with a slippery slope here though. Given how many people would have a strong motivation to evade said censorship, they would likely use it as an excuse to improve their censorship infrastructure.

At least in Freetube, there is an option to change to the normal audio. But yeah, the fact that it is on by default is annoying. The other sad thing is that the titles of the videos will be translated into your language if available, making you confused about whether the channel is originally in English or in your native language. Also losing some originally present puns in the process, which is just sad.

I was talking about Matrix - specifically the fact that it stores every message and piece of media on every participating server, unlike XMPP. Indeed not had such a problem on XMPP.

While storage is my main concern (my VPS is very limited in this regard), there is also the fact that you can very well end up with nasty materials stored on your server without a convenient way to delete it. Even if you don’t let strangers have accounts on your server.

I wonder how in the world Ofcom could enforce that?

Signal is pretty control freak-y, so would not be surprised if they can somehow prohibit third-party modifications entirely. That would be out-of-character for them, though, so doubt they would actually go through with this.

Still, if that went through, I’d discount all the centralized solutions.

I don’t see how this would be a problem either except on Apple. Blocking the sites offering the apk/deb/exe/etc - good luck, doubt their censorship skills are that good given that they’re unlikely to want a ton of collateral damage like more authoritarian places.

Monero-paid VPSes cost more, and given this fact, my €5 VPS (with a few other services already running there) would apparently not be enough for Synapse… But an XMPP server runs perfectly.

His point was the main Matrix.org server being way too prominent. In every given groupchat, chances are somebody is on this particular server. It is also the default for many clients.