Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Just prepared this sign to bring to the demonstration against #ChatControl that starts at 18:00 tonight at Mynttorget in Stockholm.

I hope you are coming too!

https://konstellationen.org/2023/09/10/demo-chatcontrol-september/

https://chatcontrol.se/

#ChatControl #StoppaChatControl #svpol #eupol #democracy

@aphistic I found these about UK and US:

"Cashless society draws closer with only one in six payments now in cash": https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/16/cashless-society-draws-closer-with-only-one-in-six-payments-now-in-cash

"Americans Using Cash Less Often; Foresee Cashless Society": https://news.gallup.com/poll/397718/americans-using-cash-less-often-foresee-cashless-society.aspx

Everything gets more scary if we think about China where the government is likely to soon force use of a state-controlled digital currency connected to some "social credit" system. An efficient way for the state to control people, tracking suspicious purchases etc.

@aphistic oh but cash is already starting to get harder to use.

Where I live (Sweden) there are now often situations where cash is not accepted, instead everyone is expected to use a digital payment system called "Swish" which is managed by the big banks, requiring use of their digital ID for each payment. Here, if you don't use "Swish" then you are an outsider, hard to participate in society.

It's like that now, and getting worse. Cash is increasingly seen as something used only by criminals.

@aphistic

> Aren’t all people involved in
> “crypto“ at this point just
> scammers and grifters?

No, I don't think so, although it can be tempting to assume that because there are certainly many scams.

The topic of how to handle private digital payments is an important one, especially as we approach a future where traditional cash will no longer be available.

I recommend the #MoneroTalk podcast, lots of interesting interviews there: https://www.monerotalk.live/

#cryprocurrency

@web3isgreat

@avakining @viticci

Apple is terrible regarding vendor lock-in, be wise and move away from Apple and other Big Tech firms, don't let them own you.

@nextcloud is there any other way of watching this, something that is not youtube (Google)?

@murdomaclachlan @bagder

Yeah why does Google think they know the age or gender or anything about people watching, apparently with 100% certainty?

Oh well, I guess Google is just a small company trying to get started, how would poor little Google know anything about handling user data. 🙃

Seriously though, please publish videos elsewhere, at least if you want me to watch them. Not going to Google's sites, whatever my age and gender is I don't want them to try and guess it and lie about it.

@seldo

> At some point along the line,
> prediction of the next most
> likely word became reasoning.

No, I don't think so.

See this: "GPT-4 Can't Reason"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03762

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03762.pdf

@dashall@hachyderm.io

> i assume its a biz idea

What do you mean, who has a business idea?

@msavoritias @jakub

@waspfactory jag är helt med dig här: kabel är bäst!

Bland annat gör det att man lättare kan veta vad man sysslar med. Man kan tydligt se och själv välja om den är inkopplad eller inte, bara en sån sak.

@mttaggart just to see if I understand what you mean: the risk you talk about here, is the risk that it can suddenly happen that you can no longer use the software you have been relying on?

@fantomtexter jag tror att en klassiker som pågått i alla år med alla regeringar är att man kallar det en "satsning" när man ökar antalet kronor som läggs på X även om det i praktiken handlar om nedskärning eftersom inflation och ökade behov gör att mer pengar än "satsningen" hade behövts för att upprätthålla samma nivå som tidigare i verksamheten. Kan gälla vård/skola/polis/vadsomhelst.

@jajo 🎉 tjoho hurra hurra 🎉