Yeah, that feels like a really weird choice.

There is one “inherent use” (if I’m understanding that term correctly) of bitcoin, and that’s to pay for space in blocks. Again, that only gives bitcoin value if people want to use bitcoin, so take that as you will.

So… That isn’t exactly true. You’re correct that there’s a limit to the total and circulating number of coins, but if the world suddenly decides 1 BTC = US$0, it doesn’t matter if there are less coins tomorrow than today. Both days, each coin is still worth zero.

All that to say, there’s no guarantee that a bitcoin’s value will increase over time.

A penny saved is still a penny saved. I’m not saying it would amount to much, but it is non-zero.

Depends on how much traffic you’re talking about. Encrypting/decrypting isn’t free.

That’s “Chemical X” which is fine.

Cocaine. Jesus fuck. I’m not particularly angry with you, OP, just at the trend of advertiser friendly self-censoring that’s making its way into the fediverse.

Avoiding shorts is a feature IMO

I’m not claiming that it was “intuitive”, just that the browser did tell the user exactly what the add-on was allowed to do. Sure, Chrome and Firefox deserve some blame for not making the warning more explicit/dire, but they did make an attempt. Overwriting cookies and rewriting affiliate links are subsets of “access your data”.

Also, I’m not claiming that I knew exactly what Honey was doing, just that I suspected it was shady and recommended no one use it.

It wasn’t “uncovered” though. This is their business model. I’ve told every person I know using Honey for years that it’s a shady extension and they should stop using it. Unfortunately I don’t have a huge following to offset Honey’s massive ad spend.

I’m not calling anyone stupid, but stop treating this like it’s new information. Your browser warned you this might happen when you installed the extension:

I think you’ve got arch and debian reversed, and I’m personally hurt by the lack of Gentoo representation 💔

Now do all the Linux distros.

I think you meant to reply to the parent comment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Persons_from_Concealing_Their_Identity_during_Riots_and_Unlawful_Assemblies_Act

No kidding. While on the surface the bans are about medical masks, I’m sure there’s a surveillance motive as well.

Vaccines protect the workforce and allow individuals to produce more. People being against vaccines cannot be good for capitalism, can it?

You are allowed to say “fucked” 🤣

Jesus fuck, you censor the word “motherfucker” but leave the author’s name intact?

I don’t know how, but I would still manage to lose this day one.

Fucking.