ansuz @ansuz@social.privacytools.io

@dansup The limit on data purchase or sale seems like it would be easily bypassed as well if you just share data freely between companies. Treat it as a gift and maybe you're fine?

Of course I'm not a lawyer and this interpretation is probably wrong, but most of the bills I've seen seem pretty toothless.

@dansup while I get that they probably included those thresholds to protect smaller businesses who aren't responsible for the majority of privacy violations, but it seems like it wouldn't be hard for a big business to bypass them.

All they need to do is restructure their business into multiple entities with revenue below 25M or with data sales accounting for 49% of their revenue.

Happy Republic day #india

@portpupper porque no los dos ?

2020 year of the linux desktop

@dansup at this point my main use-case for it is to get a notification when one of my websites breaks (along with its proof).

I'm pretty sure the number of follows I've gotten on Keybase has grown 2-3x since they launched their cryptocoin airdrop. I'm also fairly sure that indicates a botnet looking to fool whatever social graph metric they have for proving that accounts are owned by real people.

Still, I bet they could get another few rounds of funding before VCs realize how inflated the user counts are.

So, botnet scammers trying to take advantage of their free money might get leveraged into an exit scam.

Smart.

@paragwei at least we can all agree that banks are also terrible.

@paragwei I don't think I've seen any coins that reduce power consumption without relying on centralization or handwaving.

Feel free to disagree, but if you really want to drag me into a debate this consider that I write crypto for a living.

99ish% of the time I think cryptocurrencies are a stupid waste of electricity.

...that said, every now and then I need to make a large payment which is both legal and well within my budget, but is almost invariably declined due to a decision made by a completely unaccountable algorithm.

Getting a response from my bank seems to take at least 48 hours, if they respond at all.

Imagine setting the bar so low that a bunch of libertarians could trip over it. wow.