I don’t have any stats or anything, but I lived in China in 2018 and would see them on my way to work. Usually amputees dressed in very sad attire with a QR code on the ground in front of them. My coworkers told me not to give them money because all the money is going to organized crime groups that manage all the beggars in town. I have no idea if this is true, but I heard it multiple times

In China where digital payments are done mostly via apps like Venmo, there are beggars with QR codes in front of them. However they’re mostly being used by organized crime rings

Milei gets compared to the populist right in other countries a lot (Trump, Orban, etc) but he’s really a more old school libertarian. In a country as rife with corruption and financial mismanagement as Argentina, it seems like a bit of libertarianism was what they needed

There are multiple models for teaching that do something similar, let kids approach a subject when they’re ready. Yes, they goof off a lot early on, but eventually even STEM and literature call to them, and they pass equivalency exams in their late teens.

Can you link to some more information on this? I’m curious about alternative education models

I know lemmy is quite anti-crypto, but CBDCs seem much more dangerous to me

This is definitely a scam. I guess it was inevitable these would come to lemmy, but it’s still a shame

I don’t like it. I might be able to get on board with read-access to my brain (especially if I end up paralyzed or something) if I felt the tech was secure enough, but I’d be very worried about abuse of write access (writing in loyalty to the community party, for example)

I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up…

My apologies, he does make that point. I mis-read into your comment that the poor people using credit cards (who pay interest) pay for the rich person’s credit card rewards. But it’s worse than that, anyone who doesn’t use a credit card (which includes many poor people as you point out) are subsidizing the rich person’s rewards

Good video showing how credit card culture basically makes poor people pay for rich people’s luxury.

That’s not what the video shows. The real issue is that credit cards are a monopoly which takes ~3% cut on almost all consumer purchases in the economy and adds little value

This video is incredible! We need more action on this. Anyone know how one could get involved to ensure there are more reliable indicators of ethical meat

And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption…

Conservatism != racism

Frankly I’d love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can’t be a left wing echo chamber

But yeah, you can’t be a dick

I learned the basics of CS from this course online 7 years ago and it lead to a great career as a software dev. Hat’s off to the whole CS50 team for creating such an incredible resource and making it available for free!

He didn’t sell most of the drugs, he just provided a platform that allowed anyone to sell anything anonymously. Drug dealers used it because it was useful to them.

Drug dealers use private messaging apps like Signal as well. Should Signal be held responsible for drug deals facilitated by their app? (I know it’s not a perfect analogy, what he made was more blatant, but it’s an important distinction to make)

This is a very hard problem to solve, and people have tried.

Let’s say you do as you said: hash the data (screenshot, date, etc) and upload it to a trusted server. Nothing can stop me from generating fake data, hashing that and uploading it instead.

Ok, so maybe you decide to add a cryptographic signature to prove that it was the web browser that made this hash, not an unauthorized one. That might work for a while, but the private key needs to be shipped with the browser software, so a sophisticated person could extract that key and then generate fake data. Especially is the browser is open source (like most are).

Alright, what about if we add a special chip on the device that is hard to tamper with and keep the private key on there and do all the signing on that chip. Those do exist somewhat already, but hackers have found ways to break them.

Ok then you move everything to the cloud. Have the entire web browser running on a cloud machine by a trusted authority. Maybe then you can do what you’re discussing, but you’ve also entered a privacy nightmare where everything you’re doing can be monitored in real time.

What would be a better situation (and where I think we’re going eventually with Gen-AI) would be to put the responsibility on the website publisher to provide cryptographic proof of their content. For example, the NYTimes could create a digital signature of a photo and publish it on a blockchain or other trusted tamper-proof ledger as they publish the photo. Then anyone can verify that the photo is from the NYTimes and the date it was created.

Picking words at random from a dictionary would not be very compute intensive, the content doesn’t need to be sensical

Honestly, this one I can understand. They threw the book at this guy because he showed how privacy technologies can circumvent government control. He got 2 life sentences without possibility of parole for a non-violent crime.

What he did was illegal, but he’s been in prison for 10 years. He’s served his time

No true Scotsman fallacy

I’m progressive, but we should not deny the failure modes of progressivism