Well, this is in good measure what happened in 2020-2022 already, right? nostr:note1tatskrky6lvwtweq0hp2syefmur8j0c4aj646ul7qg678lwc0lkqqs2f7w
It ain't no Russian hacker stealing more than 50% of my money every year, if you prefer. nostr:note1y9ax04pfzt53a5kzqxjpxtquawjhzjhanwdh6wh6j5xl2pfvz8jq9zm4j3
The criterion I use for everything privacy- and safety-related is not whether some mysterious Russian hacker is going to crack my email passwords or my wallet keys.
I am not worried about that type of financially-motivated threats, because I can hid in numbers -- there are literally millions of targets as hard (or soft) as I am which can yield orders of magnitude more money than I would. So I bet on a small probability of being attacked.
The real threat for me is the infinitely hungry, infinitely abusive, infinitely relentless State, who doesn't want to control and break the top 1%, but the bottom 99%. As such, I am part of the priority target, and I have good reason to want to protect myself against it, with top priority relative to other threats.
I don't do it "for free", "volunteering" my ideas makes me feel morally virtuous ;)
It just doesn't work like that...
A "selling price" is really an "access price". If access is free, people will just not have any incentive or reason to pay, so they won't. Paying for stuff you can access for free is irrational.
Even the "token of appreciation" behavior can be explained rationally in terms of people getting something out of it, e.g., a feeling of moral superiority that they value to the point of paying money to feel virtuous.
All the big ideologies of the 20th century failed because they will refuse to recognize and accept how human incentives work. This is the same case.
Hoping that humans will suddenly stop making the economic calculation between "What's the most I'm willing to pay" and "How much do I have to give to access this" will not bring anyone to any sort of productive conclusion, only to frustration and resentment.
So I am not a tech guy (as I continuously remind everybody), so the biometrics conversation is above my pay grade. Thus, I watch people who know what they're talking about.
And Mr Braxman here caused a big stir a few days ago with a video in which he explained and actually recommended biometrics, as implemented by Google (of all people!), adhering to the FIDO standard.
A stir, to the point that he had to make this video yesterday further clarifying and reinforcing his arguments in favor of this (and not other) implementation of biometrics, and chastising his viewers for reacting automatically and not critically, just because it's "biometrics".
Anyone here has anything to say on the topic?
It's one of those things -- a hard pill to swallow when we are the sellers, but something we totally get when we are the buyers...
The maximum price buyers are willing to pay is always independent of the cost of production.
Seller are free to ask for a price that matches (and hopefully exceeds) that cost, but that's irrelevant to buyers, who will only pay as much as they are willing to pay, and not more.
What you're doing with a so called "V4V" scheme though, is ask for the buyers' MINIMUM price. How LITTLE they're willing to pay. And that has nothing to do with the maximum price, i.e., how much they would be willing to pay if access wasn't free.
This is because when access is free, buyers will identify the difference between rhe maximum price and the access price, and perceive that difference as an "opportunity". A bargain.
So, do not confuse the minimum price that "V4V" necessarily asks for with the value that buyers assign to the goods sold, and even less with the maximum price that "normal" market pricing aims to find.
That *some* people are willing to pay *something* as a token of recognition doesn't mean they are paying a market price at all, or that they're paying based on the perceived value, even.
This would be akin to expecting people who buy clothes at a store during sale to turn around and refuse to pay the discounted price, and ask to pay the full price. "Intellectual work" isn't different. nostr:note1hvn4awrjts53z0eltqfjmdhpa8eqcxzaenw48rpks7ag7lvg9qysx488xv
Me when I see that Primal desktop now has a "Quote" button.
I think public authorities who put obstacles on roads and purposely make them unsafe should be sent to jail.
Looks like on iOS Primal will only show one picture per note :/ nostr:note1mxr89g82pmk3r49adh43pszcsh7ptjzgdta8leed3p8da4qd0zgs9hv2c4
Sorry, I was so good... I DESTROYED it and when I thought of taking pictures of the meat... there were only some bones and sauce smears left 😂
But there goes a bonus wine picture.
#foodstr #grownostr 
As promised - after letting it sit for 6 full hours, it was ready to be served. Pictures following. #foodstr #grownostr nostr:note1vz669x99h672hz82297p4yvf8cwp4hk9jaylz6dq3xz4e5rk2vss0gv8nx
I does - unfortunately it's the stupid "trending" one.
A kind soul taught me how to get rid of it though. Tap on the "Explore" button, and there you can select "Following" > "Latest" and add that to your home screen.
Oh actually I forgot: she had a fire in 2002 where she actually lost her own "Family book" and all her docs. Again, because those are not original copies, and they can aways be retrieved from the government, she was fine.
Never, because it's not under her custody. It's in a government archive.
She and I both have lost personal ID cards many times though. I have lost passports, and I even lost a document called "Family book" that the Spanish government issues, where info on your birth, your marriage, children and death are registered (but not the original documents, which are in a centralized archive, as I said). Quite big.
I had to ask the government to re-issue all of those, including this last one, which was quite painful, but they just did it because they kept the originals.
Ditto for my mom's house ownership papers.
To me it's already flipped and thus, I self-custody. I'm just giving an explanation as to why most people don't care and most likely will keep not caring for the foreseeable future.
I don't doubt it. I'm talking about right here, right now though.
Where did I say anything about getting hacked or password-cracked? I said "lose".