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The gov't can take your physical gold just as easily as they can take the computer with your wallet. Nothing is yours if the state says it's not.

Seems that the bitcoin was conveniently stored in a wallet on a computer in Northern California. https://duo.com/decipher/u-s-seizes-usd2-3-million-from-dark...

How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government involved?

Who leaves sticky keys on?

There was a time that I thought that Twitter should do what Parler is doing; let the original author approve replies before making them visible. Now that I've seen Parler demonstra…

I tried Parler, and everyone is missing the point. Parler doesn't censor content because replies aren't linked to "Parleys" by default. All replies must be "approved" by the author…

Parler doesn't deal with this problem at all.

Depends how lazy you are!

How do you store photos there? Do they make an Android client that syncs your phone's photos to the cloud?

That's my cue to start self-hosting again!

I had to stop at "few negatives" because my eyes wouldn't stop rolling.

Gmail can also ban you

> Yes, some users really do migrate there to avoid censorship or bullying Literally

Mastodon doesn't prevent censorship. If anything it makes it worse. Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some…

The criteria was that everyone needs to have access to the messaging platform. SMS checks that box. SMS does not do literally everything , but that's not the most important quality…

You managed to pique my interest more in 4 sentences than that entire article did. Thanks!

There are techniques? I gave up after the fourth or fifth paragraph of hype. I suppose there are enough Javascript haters here to take the bait, but I've learned that when someone …

Is this a joke? Are you just trolling? This article is just hype.

Everyone has SMS

Seems rather trivial to simply not go on Facebook. I haven't in years and my life has only gotten better because of it.

On Android I've been using an Open Source app called Feeder I installed from the F-Droid app store. It's refreshingly basic.

Pigs aren't cute either.

If this happened with Red Vines I'd be dead already

Do microorganisms spend their entire lives in Earth's atmosphere, or are they simply found there? It doesn't seem surprising that some would find their way up there, but I have a h…

We shouldn't go to Venus because it's like Africa?