Developmental informatics hacker

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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Uhh dude have you ever looked into what types of characters run these companies? You’re just an npc to them.

    Do you really think our current economic system incentivizes good behavior? It’s all about being exploitative, and so it filters out anybody who cares about others. If they don’t, then someone else will. Take a look at starbucks. They don’t pay taxes in for example Germany. If they did, as other coffee shops do, they will go down. So the system dynamics filter out the people who are prepared to not care about others.






  • 😂 The way you wrote it I imagined your pants dropping during a fight.

    When I exchanged it I’d always end up with well over 100 euros, even 200.

    It was also useful when I was low on money. Just yesterday my account was in the negative because… apparently it is possible for companies to get money from me when I have none? Well at least the coins were always safely there in my drawer so I could you know… eat?


  • I’ve lived in Germany and cards are just not really a thing there. The only real thing I hated about it was that everyone was somehow incapable of just prepping their cash, so I’ve wasted countless hours waiting in line at banks.

    The other thing I hated was during corona. I worked in a store and we had to handle all that cash 🤢

    Other than that, the coins are quite annoying. They’re bulky and heavy. My trick was to just empty them out every time I came home into a bowl. Then once a year or so I’d get it turned into paper money.


  • My bank recently got rid of their own contactless payment app and now I am forced to use Google pay. You have to accept Google’s privacy terms and they’ll have access to all your transactions. No thanks.

    Beyond that I quite like using tech. Still waiting for bitcoin to take off after more than a decade. For budgeting you can use programs and it’ll notify you real time on your expenditures.






  • Ya you definitely have to pick your battles! I just use plain Samsung android with a sim and am aware of the vulnerabilities it creates. I see it as a low security device, so it can’t just access everything willy nilly. I also work with XR and I am not sure if all the stuff works properly if I’d pick a different solution. I think it’s best to remain practical and keep moving, but to invest a bit of time over the years, which has good results for me.



  • I only quickly looked into it. I’m also looking for a solution for my work. It seems very privacy focused and works a bit like tor, so like you say, you don’t really know what’s going through your system. But it also has a trust system that trusts friends of friends and so on, so perhaps that isn’t a problem.



  • I appreciate your work. I’m thinking it should be easy to reach out to non tech content creators to get permission to migrate their stuff, and for end users like me to request that without a technical barrier. For example: I was watching a self defense channel throughout the week until the youpocalypse happened. What if there is a simple button for me to request his data to be integrated into your system? I’m pretty sure he is more focused on exposure and reach rather than ad revenue, so he might consent. You interpret this to be consent to ytdl it, store it, spread it.


  • Ah I mean when you buy for example an Intel CPU it has IME enabled. Some vendors turn this off for you, because doing it at home can brick it. For phones you have some kind of micro Java running on the sim chip and it has full system access and can be patched remotely. I haven’t looked into a real solution yet, but you can also use a solution where the sim is connected via USB. Or don’t use one. There might be other hardware vulnerabilities, but that’s one I know of.