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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow, people start caring when they come for their porn. These duopolies should be broken up, people should adopt crypto payments.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Nhaa fuck crypto. At least the crypto that are actually popular. Shit like bitcoin and ethereum are deflationary. And why the fuck would you spend money if there's a good chance your money is worth more tomorrow?

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe monero has protections to prevent this. All transactions are secret.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How would secret transactions make a the coin not deflate? The issue is control of the production of the currency. If you can't control it, it's a cointoss wether it'll be infaltionary or deflationary. A lot of inflation is bad, and any deflation is catastrophic, so I'd really rather not leave the economy up to random chance and private entities' willingness to control the production of their shitcoins.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It wouldn't help much with inflation, but it wouldn't fluctuate as much as bitcoin due to all transactions being secret It is relatively stable. With monero you wouldn't have to worry about the value changing a lot in the span of a couple of hours.

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So basically it could help combat our blatant consumerism as well? Seems like a win to me

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, but that is just a blatant misunderstanding of how economics work. It wouldn't combat blatant consumerism, it would literally destroy the economy. Not to be replaced by something better, but just destroy it. There would be no reason to invest in literally anything, including people, no reason to repair your house or feed the poor, because the money it would cost, would be worth more tomorrow.

Why would I buy a car, or bike, or proper nutritional food, if I could save that money for tomorrow, and buy more? Only tomorrow it's the same thing, so I'll live like shit until the next day, then the next day, and then the next....

The only people who would have any quality of life, would be the rich cunts. They'd live like the do now, because they don't actually need more money.

Deflation is never a good thing, I'm saying this as a socialist.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They're not misunderstanding; you're using Keynesian economics. "The economy" as described today is rich people's wealth, not the wellbeing of the poor.

If people saved instead of building up credit scores, it would be much easier to strike. We don't need to be forced to invest somehow or become even poorer (which is what actually happened). You'll repair your house because you need a house and buy food because you need food. You're more likely to participate in mutual aid with savings than with credit.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

if we're talking one-off transactions, this is no problem. You simply get enough crypto for your purchase and spend it. You don't invest all of your money in it and you can circumvent the Visa/Mastercard garbage.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Which one. Is there a valid one? BTC is not has high fees slow and to volatile.

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 3 points 3 days ago

I would be for a state owned chain, does not have to be completely decentralized, it's just good tech that can make the payment processors of today obselete.

Basically require each bank to run nodes, while letting the central bank of the country hold the keys to mint new coins.

I mean one could also have verifying nodes run independent.

The tech is there, doesn't have to mean use anarchy moneys, it just means an overhaul of our ways of transferring value around.

[–] Arondeus@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep definitely, it is amazing. It is what BTC should have been.