resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@pluralistic a much better example of #Visa & #Mastercard abusing their power is when they teamed up with #PayPal in a blockade against #Wikileaks donations. It perfectly foreshadows what it'll be like after the #WarOnCash wins and we lose our freedom & independence from banks.

@plathoar It turns out using #FDM to delete old email from the server is a mess: https://github.com/nicm/fdm/issues/73 & it's impossible with #fetchmail. So #Getmail it is.

@plathoar POP is a protocol. It's the tool that I need to come up with. Apparently #fdm & getmail can delete old msgs (POP or IMAP). I think POP3 can only reach the inbox, so ATM I'm thinking fdm with IMAP is best.

@eff Reminder: #PayPal shares your data with 600 companies (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/the_600_compani.html) & has a nasty habit of controling who you may pay money to (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-mastercard-move-to-choke-wikileaks/).

@eff the /group of passionate supporters/ should not be matching #PayPal donations -- it supports one of our #privacy abusing adversaries. PayPal should not even be accepted.

@Tutanota @joaopinheiro It's a reasonable stance for justifying the existence of your #Facebook page, but it does not justify having a link going from the public web into FB's #walledGarden. It's the wrong direction. The link should be one-way (from FB to the free world). See https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html

@tek @dlovell there are many reasons to avoid the #Gitlab.com service: https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/30312/comment/2239

@Tutanota #Tutanota- you have a #Facebook link on the landing page (& every page) of your public website. Remove that link if you want to be taken seriously on this.

@phryk it would be interesting to see how that plays out with #Payoneer, just to document how they treat homeless ppl. But if you want to try something else, you could get a gratis (or nearly gratis) address at UKPostbox.com. You wouldn't have proof of address, but you could see what they do w/a homeless person who has a mailing address.

@phryk on the upside, the EU declared that #cryptocurrency is legally "currency", which exempts it from VAT when exchanging it. But even though it's quite legal, try getting paid in it. Most employers are scared shitless of it.

@phryk the fact that EU countries *require* a bank acct makes that really fucked up. It's so wrong to force citizens into the marketplace to patronize a private business. I'm really baffled about the EU banks that require smartphones for access, b/c that implies you're required to get GSM svc and trust Google.

@phryk i know of one EU bank where if you ask them: do you want my correct address, or the address I can prove with documents but no longer use-- the bank wants latter & cares not about the former.

@phryk ah, europe. Well I understand a bit better now. I'm guessing France or Italy, where the banking fees are extortionate. In the states you have to prove the address you open the acct with, but can easily change the mailing address w/out proof. EU banks practically want your realtime position.

@phryk I'm not sure why you need a bank card to do checks, but when my bank stopped auto-renewing my card i was able to walk into a branch and get one in person. They shouldn't need an address for that.

@phryk I'm locked out of many of my bank accounts b/c they're either #Tor-hostile or they force GSM 2FA, or they only work w/a Google app. Yet I can still operate the old-fashioned way (paper checks).

@phryk US-based entities can post a mailing address for paper checks to cut out all the #privacy abusing control freak MitMs, & European entities can post SEPA IBANs. For cross-border payments there's #cryptocurrency (which is still hard to get, but #Patreon/#OpenCollective/#Liberapay are a bad trade-off)

@phryk yeah they're all shit really: https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141 #Patreon is a #CloudFlare site which makes it a non-option AFAIC

@phryk Banks essentially are law enforcement agencies now: https://web.archive.org/web/20201207152256/https://thenextweb.com/future-of-finance/2020/12/07/how-banks-use-ai-to-catch-criminals-and-detect-bias/